Folk Emerging Demo - Climate Adaptations Update

NOTE: This is a larger update that may break older demo saves!

It includes the following changes:

Design

• Removed Band-level Climate XP, added Tribe-level Climate XP. Each turn, if a Tribe has a Band in a Climate, the Tribe gains 1 XP for that Climate

• Added 'Climate Adaptations' as Tribe states obtained via events which trigger when a Tribe's Climate XP reaches certain levels.

  • This allows extensive specialization in different Climates.

• Food Forageable maluses from Foodweb Stability, Ice Age, and Heat Wave are now second-order modifiers, applied together with species local population size modifier.

  • This increases the impact of foodweb stability and climate change and makes Food yields from Foraging more volatile.

• Removed dynamic scarcity modifier of Trade Value, so value of Resources now remains static during a trade

• Rebalanced Trade Value of Food so it becomes cheaper with every Food-boosting tech, becoming very cheap by the end of the demo

• Ice Age and Heat Wave now increase the Trade Value of Food

• Doubled Trade Value of Items so they are even more expensive relative to Food and other Resources

• Traders Clan bonus to Happiness from Trade Cooldown now only triggers when a Band has traded with another Tribe that turn. Internal trade no longer triggers it

• Restricted initiation of trade deals to only be possible if Tribe Opinion is minimum -10

• Exploration norm now gives +1 Band Science to all Bands, instead of +20% Tribe Science

• Tradition norm now gives +20% Tribe Culture, instead of +2 Band Culture to all Bands

• Training production focus increased to use baseline +0.25 Training Points per Production, instead of +0.2

• Hunters Clan bonus to Training Points is no longer a flat +0.5 Training Points/turn, but +0.25 Training Points per Production while Training

• Diligence norm bonus is no longer a flat +1 Training Points/turn, but +0.25 Training Points per Production while Training

• Warriors Clan bonus to Attack strength increased to +1 from +0.5

• Rebalanced domestication XP upgrade event outcomes to offer bigger Food bonus and smaller Production bonus

• Decreased production cost of non-wonder structures to 10 from 15

• Decreased bonus to Risk from Exposure from foraging Wild Sheep to -20% from -30%

• Increased bonus to Risk from Exposure from domesticated Sheep to -40% from -30%

Programming

• Reworked AI decision-making to use a more sophisticated and extensible system of prioritization

• Used new AI prioritization to improve AI choices around production and movement (which should also mean less frequent cornering of the player). More such improvements in upcoming updates

• Reworked AI logic regarding territory

• Improved AI choice of person to assign to specialist roles

• Enabled AI to handle events and enabled certain event types for AI tribes

• AI bands will not trade away Food below a certain limit, to avoid a Food Deficit

• Clamped Fertility value to minimum 0 so it cannot become negative

UI

• Visibility of terrain and climate-dependent modifiers to Attack Strength and Morale now depends on whether military is viewed in context of a specific battle or outside battle

• Renamed "Role Specific Strengths" column to "Relevant Traits" in Specialist assignment view

• Tribe tooltips no longer show which technologies a Tribe has, only the total number of technologies they've mastered

• Tribe tooltips now show Climate XP for each climate

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bug where Raid events would sometimes give Items that were not yet unlocked technologically

• Fixed missing acknowledgements when discovering new Spiritual Sites or meeting new Tribes via increased vision range or from a Watchtower bonus

Known Issues

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

• Occasionally prey cluster 'hunt' action isn't available when it should be (its button remains grayed out). Haven't been able to recreate the issue, please reach out if you encounter it