Hello everyone,

In this article I just want to inform you about the changes I made for the upcoming version.
Remember when installing the new version and a previous version is installed you need to load a new land so that changes take effect.
Changes labeled with [EXE] need an optional .dll file to be installed.

So what's new in version 1.0?

ADDITIONS

• Added land 8, land 9 and land 10
• [EXE] Holding shift while drawing streets or walls enters a special draw mode that makes it easier to draw certain shapes
• AI epics now fire as player epics do
• Added a new music system to land 7
  

• It is more likely now that AI platoons attack player platoons first before capturing the town
• The enemy creature will now more actively attack the player if the town is under takeover
• Changed how siege weapons search for gate-houses to attack, they now pick a random one instead of the nearest
• Land7: The AI will give the player a bit more time before the first attack
• Disabled AI responding to nearby platoon attacks, it sometimes makes the AI pulling all platoons on the map to attack
  

• Walls now reduce happiness
• Villagers can carry more food and wood now
• Changed house-capacities of norse/japanese/aztec buildings to the same as greek houses
• Old villagers now die a bit earlier
• Adjusted some values for sacrifices (The older the less mana you gain)
• Land6: Increased needed impressiveness by roughly 2500
• Land7: Increased impressiveness needed for the second and third town by roughly 3000
• Platoons initial level now rises depending on the amount of armories the player has (Maximum level 5)
• Reduced wood needed for an armory or workshop
• Increased altar mana production slightly
• Set starting villagers for most lands to 70
• The pour-out duration of fire wonders has been heavily increased
• The pour-out duration of storm wonders has been heavily decreased
• The recharge rates of epic wonders have been changed; each takes 25 minutes to charge with 100 people without bonuses
• Increased meteor wonder cost to 10.500
• Increased aoe of meteor wonder by 100%
• Decreased buildings impressiveness slightly due to other changes
• Trees now give more impressiveness
• Decreased the influence extension of epics
• Connecting streets will now give more impressiveness bonus
• Impressiveness will now change a bit more based on security
• Town population gives now more impressiveness
• Doubled negative impressiveness from homelessness
• Increased influence given by granaries
• All wonders, especially meteor wonder, have been reduced in tribute cost
• Decreased radius for happiness modifier for abodes
• [EXE] Population impressiveness is now based on adult population instead of town capacity
• [EXE] Town happiness now acts as a bonus or malus to the town population impressiveness
  

• Fixed player hurricane
• In land 7 the AI won't instantly build the hurricane wonder now if your alignment is around +100%
• Fixed a bug where AI platoons were stopping actions every few seconds if a hometown was under attack
• Fixed a bug where AI platoons would stop doing anything if the target town is taken
• If a town migrates or gets captured once, it doesn't migrate any longer except the enemy capital town is taken
• Improved scripts for better performance
• Reduced villagers in many AI towns for improved performance
• Fixed departure portal showing up too late in land 8
• [EXE] Fixed a bug where impressiveness decay actually started with the third building of a type, even though other parts of the game displayed it starting at the second
  

• Land4: Changed some texture colors
• Land4: Added another mountain to the landscape
  

• Changed some values for minor objectives
• The Advisors remind you much less of your ressources
• When building a granary/lumbermill it now shows the fertility map
  

• Add some new scripts which get activated on a second playthrough to increase replayability (For example a norse with an epic)
• 3 Skirmish maps with opponent gods (2 player, 3 player and a 4 player map)
• Gods playground: From it you'll load skirmish maps and it will feature some minigames and fun-stuff
• 4 "Mini Epics" (Inferno, Regrowth, Vortex, Meteor-Storm). They'll be fired from the altar. If a volcano wonder is built next to it, it will activate the inferno wonder (50.000ish mana)