World update

With this development update, Konkwest is now almost ready for release. A release, which unfortunately won't be coming as soon as I hoped it would. I had a multiplayer playtest session yesterday and there are still a number of relevant bugs to be fixed. I have therefore moved the expected release time for the game to May 2024. When Konkwest comes out I want every player to have a great time building their empire!

World

• Corrected elevation data for Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania so these continents now appear with more correct elevation in the game.

• The more a place's industry is developed, the more of a city appears there visually.

• AddedArabiaAdded one additional place each to Yemen and Oman.

• China: Split Hebei into Northern, Southern, and Western Hebei, so it won't be as easy to defeat China by surrounding Beijing.

• AddedPakistanSplit Pakistan's former two places into four new ones: Eastern Balochistan, Sindh, Western Punjab, and Northern Pakistan.
• AddedUzbekistanCreated Karakalpakstan as a new place in western Uzbekistan.

• Sudan: Created the place Northern Sudan by splitting it off from Port Sudan.

• Tibet: Split Tibet into the places Tibetan Plateau, Himalayas (East, Center, and West), and Kunlun.

• AddedXinjiangCreated, in addition to the places Dzungaria and Tarim Basin, a new place for the Tian Shan.

Map modes

• New: Power per Country: This map mode colors the countries based on how powerful they are.

• New: Players: Only countries played by players in multiplayer are highlighted.

• Updated colors for neutral countries and places without country in the diplomatic map mode.

Music

• Added a new piece to the soundtrack: "A Palace for Spies" by Leon Richter.

NPC AI

• There are now difficulty options for the AI: easy, hard, and mixed. With the mixed settings some countries will use the easy AI settings, and some will use the hard ones.

• NPCs use the mechanics to change the region of places and to unite regions to expand their main region.

• NPCs unite their regions sometimes.

• NPCs send and answer truce requests more reasonably.

• NPCs typically target smaller countries when deciding who to attack.

• NPCs use regional specializations.

Game Mechanics

• There is now a button to develop industry in a specific region.

• Improved automatic naming for new regions.

• There is now a victory screen when only one country remains in the world, with a celebratory popup and fireworks.

• Added a filter for inappropriate words when naming things.

• Regional specializations now default to appropriate ones.

Netcode

• You can now choose "Automatic" as your server region (which is also the new default option).

• Improved player list synchronization.

• Improved player ready status synchronization.

• Improved player country synchronization.

• If plan submission in multiplayer fails for over 10 seconds the plans of players who didn't submit (due to a network issue) will be ignored.

• De jure country IDs are now synchronized when new countries spawn.

Keyboard shortcuts

• You can use Esc to open or close the main menu.

• You can use Enter to accept popups.

• You can use Backspace to decline popups.

• You can use the keys shown in tooltips to access specific functions in the game, when the respective buttons are visible, such as space to ready up and c to conquer.

Localization

• Place names on the globe now support Arabic characters.

• Added more translation content.

Android

• Reduced the size of the adaptive app icon foreground