V0.9.4 – UI Improvements, Bugfixes, Resources

Time for a new build. The UI for moving armies around has been improved a lot with a little path now showing the shortest route between the army and the destination hex, the part which it can traverse this turn being colored green and the rest red. Right-clicking on a destination which is not adjacent will move the army as far as it can along the shortest route. This should make it a lot less painful and obtuse to move around armies.

Also fixed a ton of crashes and UI display bugs, some related to combat, some to the new resource stuff, and few in the generators.

Added “resource specials” to the world generation. These are stuff like mineral deposits, ancient trees, giant insect hives and fertile soil. At the moment they just modify the production of mines/farms/quarries in the hex, but events will be added for the more involved ones like the bug hives and volcanoes. The UI for managing workers has had a lot of improvements, but still needs to be more powerful and easy to use. Remember you need to manually assign workers to farms, quarries, etc. once they have been built. The workers tasked with building them will not automatically be assigned. Also if you have no free workers, the right-click menu will not allow you build new sites. So free up a worker if you want to build a new site (you’ll need it anyway to progress the construction).

Also added a few more regiment types for various races and wizards, including some lesser angels, that are neither sentient nor winged yet. Sort of little proto-angels embodying a virtue or emotion.

Installer: ClickOnce windows installer

V0.9.2 – Resources and Economy, Workers, Thief Event

Latest update is here with some economy improvements. You can now construct various resource extraction/production sites, such as farms, lumber mills and quarries. When workers are assigned to these they produce the relevant resource. You can manage the assignment of workers from the “Workers” menu item. Building new sites is done by selecting the workers in the strategic view and right-clicking a hex. This will open a dialog where you can assign workers and a follower to oversee the construction. I have also added a UI for inspecting the total resource stores of your realm. There is still some UI work to be done to make this more user friendly: Better UI for selecting and assigning workers, better UI for constructing new sites, and (most needed of all) a UI for inspecting progress of site construction, but the basics are in place.

As usual, I also fixed a number of crash bugs. The military and wizard tower UI is also slightly improved.

An event chain dealing with a thief breaking into the wizard’s tower has been added. There are number of different outcomes to this little chain, and if you fail to properly guard your tower, you could face a rather annoying repeat of the heist once you have accumulated some wealth to steal. I have turned up chance of it occuring quite a lot for this build, but it’s already tuned to normal occurence for the next one.

Installer: ClickOnce windows installer