🔧 Update v0.2.45 Off-Thread Saving, Terrain-Weighted Pathfinding & Okun's Law

🔧 Update v0.2.45 — Off-Thread Autosaving, Terrain-Weighted Pathfinding & Okun's Law

Hello Commanders!

This update introduces asynchronous background autosaving and dynamic army movement speeds. It also delivers Economy Deluxe 3.0 upgrades, multiplayer desync fixes, and pathfinding performance optimizations.

💾 Performance: Asynchronous Background Autosaving

• Freeze-Free Saving: Autosaving has been re-engineered to run on background worker tasks off the main thread. This completely eliminates the ~2-second frame freeze/stutter when the game autosaves, keeping your gameplay seamless.

🥾 Terrain & Infrastructure-Weighted Pathfinding

• Burst-Compiled Pathfinding: Upgraded the land pathfinder to a weighted A* system.

• Dynamic Speed Multipliers: Army movement speeds now scale realistically based on local terrain (mountains and deserts slow troops down) and province infrastructure development (constructing roads and highways speeds up movement up to +100%).

• Speed Segment Indicators: Path routes and hover-previews are now dynamically colored by travel speed (lighter segments indicate faster traversal).

• Zero-Stutter Performance: Fully optimized pathing calculations to be completely garbage-collection-free (GC-free) to prevent micro-stutters during troop movements.

📊 Economy Deluxe 3.0

• Okun's Law Unemployment: Overhauled national unemployment. Replaced the flat universal target with country-specific structural NAIRU rates. Unemployment fluctuations are now driven by GDP changes relative to trend growth using Okun's Law.

• Global Trade Clearing: Implemented international trade clearing. World import totals now scale dynamically to match global exports, preventing infinite cash generation from international trade data discrepancies.

• Deficit-Inflation Saturation: Bounded the fiscal-deficit inflation channel. Deficit ratios are clamped to 30% of national GDP to stabilize micro-state economies and prevent hyperinflation spirals.

• Sovereign Debt Realism: Curated realistic real starting Debt-to-GDP percentages for 30 major global economies.

🌐 Multiplayer & Transit Fixes

• FixedAuto-Transport Marker FixResolved a visual bug where auto-transport army markers would snap back to their source province during sea transit.
• AdjustedDesync HardeningHardened lockstep state-hashing for army entities, resolved stable unit ID backfill bugs, and improved resync stall recovery.

⚡ Game Performance

• Pathing Memory Optimizations: Cached configuring accessibility queries, reducing path-finding overhead on large-scale maps to maintain high frame rates on lower-spec and low-RAM devices.