Folk Emerging Demo - Update, March 30th

This is a larger update that includes the following changes:

Design

• Watchtowers now extend visibility in 3-tile radius when adjacent to Band

• Watchtowers now provide Morale only when defending (both campsite and structures)

• Caves and Standing Guard now provide Morale only when defending campsite, not structures

• Morale boost from Standing Guard increased to +2 from +1

• Enabled equipping Items in combat Units, and now such Items only affect the Unit they're equipped in

• Added critical hit system, where some units have a chance of dealing double damage when attacking

• Obsidian now grants +0.2 critical hit probability instead of an Attack Strength bonus

• Sages clan now gives +0.05 critical hit probability

• Added Tactician trait for Warmaster and Chief, which boosts critical hit probabilities

• Ferocity bonus to Attack Strength lowered to +1 from +2

• Risk from Wildlife, Risk from Exposure, and negative Happiness levels now trigger states (Pressured by Wildlife/Exposure/Discontent, respectively), which lowers Production by -30%

  • Maximum 1 of these per turn will trigger an Event instead of a Pressured state, making these events less repetitive and more of an opportunity to avoid the default Production malus

• Production modifier from population now split into adults (age 15+, 0.1/person) and children (age 5-14, 0.05/person)

• Production cost of most producibles is decreased to account for overall lower Production

• Increased baseline Food Forageable from all species to account for overall lower Production

• Reworked many foraging bonuses from various species, converting most multiplicative bonuses to be additive, and making them smaller overall

• Production bonus from Soapstone Item reduced to +0.5 from +1

• Risk of Disease now increases with Population once it is 30+, at 0.005/person

• Urban Dwellings now increase Risk of Disease by +20% instead of +0.1

• Maker's Courage now decreases Risk of Disease instead of Risk from Wildlife

• Health bonus from Healing Ceremonies increased to +10 from +5

• Happiness levels now affect Fertility as well

• Happiness level effect on Production and Culture increased (1=20%, 2=40%)

• Ice Ages now increase Risk From Exposure more (+0.2 --> +0.4) in Cold Climates, and no longer decrease it in Warm Climates, vice versa for Heat Waves

• Ice Ages and Heat Waves no longer affect Food Huntable (from clusters), only Food Forageable (from foodweb)

• Ice Ages and Heat Waves now both lower Food per Production from Farming

• Clan Influence bonus per band led increased to +7 from +5

• Post-hunt clan dispute events now slightly more rare

Programming

• Improved AI military development, consistency, and unit composition

• AI will not attack if their fighters are below a certain number

• Lowered fertility handicap for AI

UI

• Tile tooltips now more compact by not listing all climate/feature/state effects (that info is still available via nested tooltips)

• Combined Band-level notifications into 1 Tribe-level summary notification for each notification type

• Population breakdown by age group now shown on Band Population tooltip

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed various Chief traits only getting aplied to their assigned Band instead of all Bands

• Fixed modifier conditions not getting checked correctly for Tribe, Tribe Relationship, Clan, and Clan Relationship attributes

• Fixed Band XP for foraging, domestication, and climate not getting copied to offshoot band when splitting

• Fixed Band XP for climate not accumulating when staying on one tile

• Fixed bug where foraging/domestication point assignment buttons remained active after switching production away from Foraging/Domestication

• Fixed sorting of specialist candidates by role-specific strengths

• Fixed crash when saving with a file name that is too long, now has a character limit

• Fixed crash when quickly clicking on the 'Forage' status button when foraging is automated

Known Issues

• Sometimes number of assignable fighters shows a negative number in the numerator

• Sometimes raid events grant Items that are not yet unlocked