V0.9.12 – Spells, Magic UI, Bug Fixes, Auto-Resolve

Auto-resolve for battles is back in, as promised last time. I have also been adding quite a few spells and units for the schools of magic that lacked content. Descriptions for a lot of spells, units and research items have been added. Behind the scenes the trade and market system is ready, and just needs a UI now – it allows buying and selling resources and creating permanent trade routes with various factions. A spell book UI has been added under the ‘Magic’ menu. It lists all spells you have researched and their effects. Non-tactical spells can also be cast from this dialog. And some crashes, freezes and generic bugs have been fixed as usual. Some work on reworking unit stats slightly to separate melee attacks from the base stats has also been done – melee damage should go away as a stat soon, and be replaced by individual attacks for each relevant weapon. This was also allow units with mixed weaponry and multiple attacks.

The next patch should have the trade/market UI and the attack stat changes, which will be the first change to tactical combat in a while. Tactical spell usage will hopefully follow soon after that.

Installer Link: ClickOnce windows installer

V0.9.11 – Random Events, Marauders and Early Game

This build has a whole bunch of new random events designed to make the early game more interesting. Marauders, bandits, pirates, faeries, undead and many more can now appear to threaten your realm. Dealing with them will yield resources relevant to the defeated foes. This will be expanded upon in a future patches, so that leaving these marauding beasts and miscreants to their devices for too long will result in them attacking your holdings or them building forts and hideouts, whatever is relevant to the foes.

I have also fixed some bugs, and improved a bit on usability here and there. A random name will be generated when selecting a wizard type, which can be changed, of course, but when testing it’s nice not to have to enter a name every time. The worker assignment screen also has some improvements, where after you have assigned a worker it will cycle to the next in the list, and defaults will be selected when you open the dialog. Research mechanics have had a bit of balancing done as well.

Next up is some work on the tactical combat and putting back auto-resolve. The main goal at the moment is to make the early game flow and give approriate challenge, exploration options, etc. Balancing the early game resource income and expenditure is also part of this.

Installer Link: ClickOnce windows installer