6 May 2024 Experimental Release

It's our one-hundredth experimental release! And it's another bumper one:

Events:

• Idle courtiers may go adventuring or raiding
• Physician-missionary removed
• Eladrin may sometimes switch to follow the Seldarine

Decisions:

• Decision to turn a commonwealth vassal into a merchant republic
• Mass sacrifice option introduced

Councillors:

• Default chaplain activity is now encouraging vocations, not hunting heretics. Hopefully an end to inappropriate burning at the stake!

Titles:

• Scarlet Scourge orcish holy order added

History tweaks:

• Vassal rework in Mulhorand
• Namshita now becomes landed as the only non-dragonborn Thymari leader
• Eltab and Soneillon both have bloodlines
• Ugewood changes to Uzbeg when appropriate

Wonders

• Menzoberranzan and Airspur now have wonder-cities

Graphics:

• Several new event pictures

Optimisation:

• Combat tactics tidied up
• More casus belli brought into line with CleanSlate
• New scripted trigger for flying
• More scripted triggers for character classes
• Several complex sections refactored
• Old Gods adventurers reworked
• More recursive events use 'repeat event'
• Some buildings brought into line with CleanSlate
• Definitions of 'True Outsider' and 'Native Outsider' adjusted

Gameplay:

• Raiding will give XP more consistently
• Newly spawned commanders are likely to have relevant character classes
• Heads of faith will no longer demand you dismiss heathen councillors
• Elven liches will not retreat unless they are baelnorns
• Non-mammals will not suffer most negative effects of pregnancy
• Mercenaries may only employ engineers if landed
• Enatic mercenary companies should get female courtiers

Bugfixes:

• Granular congential traits included properly in lots of places that used to skip them
• Ziss'thiss will not mysteriously vanish
• Booga's children are of her dynasty
• Imbrar Heltharn will remain young forever (but as he's undead, he's not a pretty sight)
• Zealot voting corrected
• Viking invasions adjusted to correct pathfinding bug
• Scopes tightened up in a few places
• Kraken Society malenti invaders won't pretend to be aboleths
• Missing loc added
• Many others