Round 78 Changes

Gameplay

• Expedition land gains now reduced by deity multiplier even during submission period (the 48 ticks before devotion kicks in).
• For anyone following along in GitHub, the name of round branches have changed from ODA-r# to just r# (ODA-r77 to r78).

Advancements 2.0

• Advancements were just reskinned Technological Advancements. This new system is a proper 2.0-ification.
• The system is largely the same. The changes are:
  • Easier to maintain and manage.
  • Support for faction exclusion or exclusivity.
  • No level caps. This could be a future use case where highly advanced factions can go beyond level 10, or some factions can only go to lower levels.
  • The higher the level, the higher the base perk value (shown below here) becomes.
    • Levels up to and including 6: [Base Perk] * [Level
    • Levels 7 through 10: [Base Perk] * ( ( ( 6 - [Level] ) / 2 ) + 6 )
• New UI.
• New bugs.
• Advancements largely intact (see minor changes below).

Factions

Snow Elf

• Gryphons get 10% attrition (see Building changes below for remediations).

Advancements

• Agents renamed Undercover.
• New — Foundations: decreases construction time.
• New — Molluscs (Glimjir only): increases pearl production.
• Quarries renamed Mining Equipment.
• New — Stoneworks: increases ore improvement points.
• New — Woodworks: increases lumber improvement points.

Buildings

• Gryphon Nests: now keeps two Gryphons from attrition (increased by Gryphonry).

Decrees

Advanced Research

• Enabled for Black Orc, Dark Elf, Gnome, Orc, and Vampires.
• Disabled for Nomad.

Culture

• Artistic changed from +20% morale and +10% improvements to +15% morale.
• Community gets +2.5% population (was missing due to a misconfiguration/bug).
• New — Engineering: +10% improvements.
• Religious changed from +2.5% deity perks to +7.5%.

Military Tradition

• Brutal gains +2.5% own and enemy casualties.
• Defensive gains -5% defensive casualties.
• New — Strategic: +1% offensive power, -2% enemy defensive modifiers, +2% unit gold, ore, lumber, mana, and food costs.

Deities

• No changes.

Improvements

• No changes.

Quickstarts

• Quickstarts migrated from techs to Advancements.

Resources

• No changes.

Spells and Sorcery

• New — Lesser Pestilence: same as Pestilence but only kills 0.05% of peasants and duration is 96 ticks.
• Pestilence: now spreads Lesser Pestilence if a Pestilence-ridden dominion invades or is invaded by a dominion which is not an Afflicted and which does not currently have Pestilence or Lesser Pestilence.

Sabotage

• No changes.

Theft

• No changes.

Titles

• Healer changed from -10% to -12.50% casualties.
• Pathfinder changed to +20% land discovery on expeditions and +20% expedition prestige gains.