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[Wastelander]

Hey guys so just a little fun update, 10 features per patron since the launch last night! Thanks to the people who signed up for it my day/week/month is made

TITLE CHANGE (2 features)

Good suggestion from the GamingDictator to be able to change your lordly titles in the laws screen!

* Added ability to change your lordly title in other laws (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added ability to change your royal title in other laws (credit u/TheGamingDictator)

HUNTER'S REST FIXED (7 features)

Had a look through hunters rest and found a number of issues and stuff that needs improvement so it's all done now!

* Added screen to recruiting from Huntsmans rest
* Added screen to trying to speak to guards in huntsmans rest
* Added screen to no one joins you huntsmans rest
* Added screen to population too low to recruit in huntsmans rest
* Updated hunters hall intro text
* Fixed text bug in huntsmans rest chief text
* Fixed broken huntsmans rest tribute cancel button

LEAFBURNER'S GUILDHALL (6 features)

Found some issues here and thought I'd add a little bit of extra content while I was fixing it!

* Fixed 6 typos with Klethus the guildmaster of the goblinwood leafburner's guild
* Fixed 2 line split bugs for Klethus' dialogues
* Added 'tell me about the districts of goblinwood' question for Klethus
* Added 'life as a non-goblin' question for Klethus
* Added 'what do you do here' question for Klethus
* Added new intro screen for room of hilarity leafburners guild

THE TALL GREEN MAN (2 features)

Tall green man? or two goblins on eachothers shoulders under a tall cloak... only time will tell!

* Made new sound effect for 2 goblins laughing
* Added tall green man throne room encounter (credit XxMeMe StormxX)

RACE EFFECT ADDITIONS (3 features)

As you guys are aware there are 94+ million possible races that can be generated in the game, thanks to 1000s of different prefixes and race types. The vast majority of the procedurally generated races have effects and stats and abilities that make them all vastly unique from eachother but a smaller number of them don't have any unique differences, for example Faceless races. Faceless Men sound cool but in reality in game they are just normal men... No more! Now they will get a blank face, same for unborn. I'm always happy to add new tweaks that further add diversity to the millions of races you are unlikely to ever see!

* Added 'Faceless' races will now have blank faces
* Added 'Unborn' races will now also have blank faces
* Added new racial trait '45' for blank faces (can be used for any new prefixes)

EVEN MORE LOOT (10 features)

Another batch of possible random items found while exploring!

* Added new 'Tapestry depicting the stars' Loot item (worth 160 gold)
* Added new 'Ancient talisman' Loot item (worth 95 gold)
* Added new 'fragment of an ancient talisman' Loot item (worth 15 gold)
* Added new 'a shard of an ancient coin' Loot item (worth 5 gold)
* Added new 'a magical jar of lava' Loot item (worth 199 gold)
* Added new 'two ancient coins stuck together' Loot item (worth 75 gold)
* Added new 'statue of a three headed vampire' Loot item (worth 80 gold)
* Added new 'a petrified dragon scale' Loot item (worth 55 gold)
* Added new 'a petrified harpy wing' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'a frozen wizards finger' Loot item (worth 20 gold)

GOT ENOUGH GIANT'S FACES? NO! (1 feature)

That's more than 5 giants per living human!

* Added 7,363,584,000 new giant faces (was 36 billion now 44 billion)

NEW NAME SUFFIXES (7 features)

Patreon themed name suffixes, though I still think these will merge in well with the 1000s of others.

* Added new name suffix 'the Patron' (+5 battlescore) (can be modified by random additional parts)
* Added new name suffix 'the Friend' (+5 battlescore) (can be modified by random additional parts)
* Added new name suffix 'the Benefactor' (+6 battlescore) (can be modified by random additional parts)
* Added new name suffix 'the Advocate' (+7 battlescore) (can be modified by random additional parts)
* Added new name suffix 'the Backer' (+6 battlescore) (can be modified by random additional parts)
* Added new name suffix 'the Blood-Patron' (+25 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Well-Wisher' (+3 battlescore)

NEW NAMES (4 features)

Can never do with too many character names, the mermen ones are based on latin words for water and sea related stuff.

* Added 5 new gnome names (Rumploo, Rumpledoop, Boopy, Boopydoo, Boopydoopy)
* Added 3 new ghoul names (Corpserash, Rotrash, Bonerash)
* Added 3 new fiend names (Bal-Bisnac, Eur-Dumabi, Aktaliddon)
* Added 5 new mermen names (Testa, Litore, Natare, Naqua, Atesta)

BUGFIXES (33 features)

A ton of bugs fixed including the Grand tournament bug! Thanks for all who reported it

* Fixed grand tournament bet void bug (thanks to everyone who let me know about this)
* Fixed grand champion last letter of name removed bug (credit u/videovillain)
* Fixed tavern talk file line blank bug
* Fixed blue tree in Darkmarsh graphic bug
* Fixed smugglers camp exit making you exit the entire west bug
* Fixed smugglers cache darkmarsh explore event triggering a follow up event
* Fixed knight not being removed during drunk encounter where you murder one of your knights
* Fixed darkmarsh not showing as name of area when exploring
* Fixed goblins burst into court at Jamboree missing line and colour issue
* Fixed slave soldier and slaver purchase screens not showing cost in slavers fort (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed layout of the slave fort hire text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed bookrage shop text bug in Blackmarket (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug in necromancers hall in Blackmarket (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 5 text and grammar bugs in Fighter's district intro texts (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed fighter's pit intro text not showing if ascii disabled
* Fixed text bug in fighter's pit intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug in fighter's pit champion intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 3 text bugs in pitside tavern into texts (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 4 text bugs in Rass the pitside tavern keep intro texts (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 2 text bugs in Nezale's Nose screen (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug in swordsmans companion clerk intro (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 6 text bugs in gwyn shop clerks dialogues (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 2 line split bugs in gwyn shop clerks dialogues (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug in Axe bucket intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 2 text bugs in Spear Centre intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug in sharpest dagger intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 2 text bugs in Nezales hut intro text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 4 text bugs in Nezale dialogue text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 3 line split bugs in Nezale dialogue text (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed grammar bug on intro text to strongths hut (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed text bug with garralds city tours intro (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 5 text bugs in Strongths dialogues (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed 13 text bugs in central district intro texts (credit u/TheGamingDictator)

EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)

* Updated Gro'lok's stump to include the new patreon supporters
* Added +5 goblinwood soldiers from goblins burst into court encounter at Jamboree
* Added new kingdom time 'Tempire' ruled by a 'Temperor' with 'Temperators' as lords (credit Tempheror)
* Added 2 sound effects to midas the dog encounter
* Added screen for tour operator not available in central district

[Wastelander]

THE VAMPIRE UPDATE (67 features)

So while working through my long planlist for Warsim as I prepare the roadmap to getting the game released, I found a small list of various plans for the Vampire city of Baiaa and it's respective features. I then searched the list for the rest of the vampire related ideas and read through all of them before deciding to clear them all in a little update.

GENERAL BAIAA STUFF (25 features)

For this update I decided to go through the vampire city code and fix and upgrade anything I could find that needed improving, leaving what I am convinced is now a full and complete vampire city!

* Added 4 dynamic new screens for paying slaves and peasants to watch Baiaa pit fights
* Added new screen for defeating Baiaa (with peasant gain indicators and graphic)
* Reworked vampire council diplomacy screen to be much better
* Added 2 new screens for pre-Baiaa attack with sfx
* Added hiss sound to hiss text when speaking to bartender in Baiaa
* Added swipe sound to playing thralls finger in shades bloom tavern
* Added hiss sound to Baiaa pit master dialogue
* Fixed vampire hunter faction recruiting people during times devoid of vampires
* Fixed Baiaa entry infinite loop bug (credit Crishpy)
* Fixed tribute cancellation with Baiaa showing blocked option
* Fixed 4 text bugs in Biaa pit master dialogues
* Fixed incorrect report of troop deaths from wild vampires
* Fixed unneeded line break in Baiaa bartender intro
* Fixed grammar issue in upper district of Baiaa text
* Fixed 4 issues with text intro for Baiaa clan houses
* Fixed 5 text and grammar issues with Bartender of shades bloom tavern
* Fixed 2 grammar bugs with thralls finger game in shades bloom tavern
* Fixed 5 bugs in Thundil tavern in Baiaa
* Fixed 2 text bugs with Blacktower skeleton speak text
* Fixed text bug in room X in Blacktower
* Fixed 2 text bugs in crypt of the ancients in Baiaa
* Fixed 2 grammar bugs in blood pit payment screens
* Fixed Baiaa ruined council building text bug
* Fixed 3 bugs in ruined shadow district Baiaa text
* Fixed 2 bugs in ruined lower district of Baiaa text

VAMPIRES EXPANDED (2 features, or 1.16 billion... up to you really)

To fit with the Vampire update I've expanded vampire names and faces so there's even more variation.

* Added 1.16 Billion new vampire faces (was 1,089,234,432, now 2,244,483,072)
* Added 20 new vampire names

VAMPIRE HUNTER DIPLOMACY (6 features)

Vampire hunters were an unreachable background faction that arise to fight the wild vampire threat, well now while they're active you can interact with them diplomatically!

* Added screen for vampire hunters in diplomacy
* Added ability to ask random vampire hunters about the vampire threat (10 dialogues)
* Added ability to try and recruit vamp hunters
* Added ability to ask about vampire hunters
* Added ability to speak to random vampire hunters (25 dialogues)
* Added ability to provide troops to vampire hunters with custom screen

KNIGHTS VS VAMPIRES (and demons) (3 features)

Want to start your own knightly order dedicated soley to destroying Vampires! well now you can. Also demons!

* Added ability to make knightly order a demon hunting order
* Added ability to make knightly order a vampire hunting order
* Added battle event for Knightly order vs Wild Vampires

BAIAA COUNCIL IMPROVED (18 features)

The Baiaa council made up of the 6 vampire clans was pretty boring before, now you can actually speak to them and navigate the council a lot easier.

* Added new screens with sfx to selling peasants to Baiaa
* Added ability to speak to Lamour (7 dialogues)
* Added ability to speak to Nasarak (7 dialogues)
* Added ability to speak to Thundil (7 dialogues)
* Added ability to speak to Damar (7 dialogues)
* Added ability to speak to Dengeir (7 dialogues)
* Added ability to speak to Nemak (7 dialogues)
* Fixed 2 missing word bugs in Baiaa council intro text
* Fixed 6 text bugs with Baiaa law view
* Fixed text bug with selling peasants to Baiaa
* Fixed incorrect figure shown when selling troops to Baiaa (credit Defender)
* Fixed 6 grammar bugs in selling troops to Baiaa
* Fixed linesplit bug in selling troops to Baiaa
* Fixed text bug with selling slaves to Baiaa
* Fixed incorrect figure shown when selling slaves troops to Baiaa (credit Defender)
* Fixed 6 grammar bugs in selling slaves to Baiaa
* Fixed linesplit bug in selling slaves to Baiaa
* Added new screens with sfx to selling slaves for Baiaa

THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS (8 features)

For some the throne room is the heart of your kingdom, well now when there are wild vampires ravaging your countryside you will hear about it through the throne room in many different ways!

* Added new throne room encounter 'Vampires everywhere!' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Pale beasts' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Please send the army' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Collecting wood' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'I killed a vampire' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Guard has been bitten' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'I killed a vampire (but it's really a gnome)' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Soldier joining vamp hunters' (dynamic and more likely if more vampires)

VAMPIRE END OF TURN EVENTS (5 features)

At the moment the actions of the wild vampires are pretty subtle and can only be seen in the end of turn report lightly. Now for relevant enough events there are pop ups informing you better of what's going on.

* Added new end of turn pop up screen for vampire hunter group forming to face wild vampires
* Added new end of turn pop up screen for rare vampire sunburn event
* Fixed vampire sunburn event didn't actually take effect
* Added dynamic detection of if sunburn death destroys vampires for good if Baiaa is already gone
* Added new turn report indicators of individual types of new joiners to vampire hunting groups each turn (ie militamen, rebels, and bandits)

EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE VAMPIRE UPDATE (67 features)

The second time this has happened with one of my split updates and totally not planned which is really tripping me out, but again there are exactly as many features in the non-vampire update as are in the vampire update.

ZEEF'S MYSTERY BOXES (6 features)

Now the last hut on the right in Uktak has a function, it's Zeefs mystery box hut. Here for 100 gold you can buy a mystery box containing a randomly generated artifact that could worth more or less than 100 gold. Beware though Zeef might be open for conversation but don't ask about his name!

* Added new location to Uktak village hut marked 'Z'
* Added new character 'Zeef' with 5 dialogues
* Added Zeef sells myster boxes containing random artifacts (2-15 per year) for 100 gold each
* Added special Zeef destroys boxes event
* Added various sound effects for Zeef
* Added destroying Uktak village means you gain some of the remaining boxes from Zeefs hut for free

SATYR UPDATE (2 features)

So we had a competition across reddit, steam, and discord to see who could make the best Ascii Satyr faces as Satyrs were the last race to not have a face, thanks to u/Aethyrsix it's done! With the concept face from Aethyrsix I've managed to make over 16 billion of them!

* Added Satyr face generation to the game (16,866,210,816 total)
* Added Satyr face generator to the extras generator menu

NEW LOOT (22 features)

With yet again more in-game systems using loot items I've added another 20!

* Fixed mummified text bug in random loot
* Modified some of the random loot prices
* Added new 'silk tapestry depicting a battle' Loot item (worth 150 gold)
* Added new 'rusty crown piece' Loot item (worth 45 gold)
* Added new 'large diamond' Loot item (worth 750 gold)
* Added new 'ancient rusty fork' Loot item (worth 45 gold)
* Added new 'shrunken gnome's head' Loot item (worth 70 gold)
* Added new 'silver goblet' Loot item (worth 25 gold)
* Added new 'battle of the two pits trophy' Loot item (worth 40 gold)
* Added new 'necklace made of human fingers' Loot item (worth 45 gold)
* Added new 'glowing green potion' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'glowing red potion' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'glowing blue potion' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'glowing purple potion' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'black sapphire' Loot item (worth 500 gold)
* Added new 'ornate silver mirror covered in gems' Loot item (worth 455 gold)
* Added new 'malachite skull' Loot item (worth 125 gold)
* Added new 'diamond encased human eye' Loot item (worth 650 gold)
* Added new 'statue of a four armed orc' Loot item (worth 75 gold)
* Added new 'statue of two gnomes fighting' Loot item (worth 55 gold)
* Added new 'statue of a headless knight' Loot item (worth 50 gold)
* Added new 'pile of blank scrolls' Loot item (worth 15 gold)

IMPASSIONED SPEECHES (3 features)

Just a little something I thought about adding to the throne room, a rare encounter where a random local will come to give you an impassioned speech about something!

* Added new throne room encounter 'Impassioned speech about the throne'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Impassioned speech about War'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Impassioned speech about the love of the people'

BANKING TWEAKS (3 features)

A little bit of work on the bank, the 10% interest rate has been reduced to 5x less and some other issues have been dealt with!

* Added new loan system (2% payback per year instead of 10% to stop crazy snowballed owed numbers in short periods of time)
* Added new text explaining dynamic bank interest rate (credit Crisphy)
* Added new text 'enter 0 if you no longer wish to take a loan out' in bank

GRO'LOK'S STUMP (2 features)

Thanks to everyone who is supporting Warsim at the moment on Patreon, the extra support is mindblowing and really helpful so thank you!

* Added new patron names to Gro'loks stump
* Rebuilt Gro'lok's stump into 4 sections

BUGFIXES (16 features)

Lots of bugs fixed across a variety of areas, mostly found from playtesting.

* Fixed throne room signs not functioning at all
* Fixed 2 giant canyon text bugs
* Fixed 11 text bugs in canyon intro screens
* Fixed 6 line spacing bugs in canyon intro screens
* Fixed rumours of your friendliness spread missing line
* Fixed missing line with innocent man arrested in court
* Fixed new ore found not having indicators
* Fixed throne room upgrades not indicating hosting a celeration
* Fixed asking advice in throne room changes the advisors face to another random one
* Fixed sudden death gamemaster in thickblood tavern text colour issue
* Fixed sudden death gamemaster in thickblood tavern exit pause bug
* Fixed artifact discovery text bug when exploring
* Fixed loan screen appearing showing you +0 gold in loans if you enter 0
* Fixed wagon man explore encounter auto spawned a second random explore encounter once done
* Fixed minus figure for years remaining being shown once you continue playing beyond a timed game
* Fixed hosting a tournament but not having the gold causes inf freeze (credit Dootmaster64)

EVERYTHING ELSE (13 features)

Quite a lot of stuff here, new features and a much cheaper trap door!

* Added new alternate version of bookrage and bookrages shop if market calm/chaos orb effect is in place (credit XxMeMe StormxX)
* Added new book 'notes of a formerly angry man' in bookrages calm effect bookshop (credit XxMeMe StormxX)
* Added public opinion 1 in 3 chance of dropping when sacrificing peasants (credit Bookrage)
* Rewrote upgrade text for road upgrades
* Added road upgrades increase throne room visitors (with gold roads increasing them by 25%) (credit Toasty)
* Added 'Moohmin' imp name (credit Nikiforos)
* Added 'Fitzroy' human name (credit Nikiforos)
* Added -20 gold indicator when losing in sudden death dice game
* Added missing kingdom defeated music for paying off the rebels to disband
* Added missing screen for trying to hire mercs for an attack when no attacks left
* Added short march sound effect to gaining group of demon fighting warriors throne room encounter
* Reduced cost of trap door to 1k instead of 20k
* Added gold figure shown when asking about buying the arena

[Wastelander]

Hey Everyone, so this update is part of my attempt to cut down my 500+ feature list of Warsim to-dos. The list is made up of around 100 loose feature ideas and then 20-30 large feature updates such as Rpgification (The addition of more first person elements to the game), Expansion on Adventurers, Noble Houses, Demon Improvements, The Ancient Isle, And so on.

I am aiming to completely clear this list in the run up to full release on steam and hope to get there within this year if possible. This update is made up mostly of small things cleared from that list as I move on to my next update... Diplomacy!

DIFFICULTY CHOICE SCREEN UPDATE (4 features)

After a suggestion by DarkMark the Difficulty choice screen now has a few more options! You can also now see the debug modes available.

* Added new ability to ask about difficulties on difficulty choice (credit u/DarkMark8910)
* Added ability to show debug modes on main difficulty choice menu
* Updated debug modes intro text
* Added bank gold increase to cheat debug mode

IN-GAME WIKI REWORKED (3 features)

The Gaming Dictator pointed out that the in-game wiki was in a bad state, I've reworked it to be just a unit and battlescore wiki now and have brought it up to the same standard as the rest of the game. While writing this new battlescore Wiki I also got a little curious and ended up doing some research to find the strongest possible units generated in game, the winner was the 'Behemoth Arch-Demigod King' with a whopping 108000 Battlescore...

* Reworked in-game wiki to be a battlescore wiki (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new section of in-game wiki for strongest unit ever (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new formatting for unit and battlescore wiki pages in game (credit u/TheGamingDictator)

THICKBLOOD TAVERN IMPROVEMENTS (5 features)

Found a few issues with the Thickblood tavern not being to the same standard as the rest of the game!

* Fixed thickblood upgrade screen kicking you out after each upgrade
* Added current gold shown when trying to upgrade thickblood
* Added new standard upgrade graphics for upgrading thickblood
* Added 69 testcode entered in owned thickblood tavern which strips all upgrades from it
* Added new dynamic hire screen for Thickblood tavern

THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS (15 features)

After getting a duplicate throne room encounter a couple of times I decided to make it more varied, now the gold gift encounters are far more varied and some of them can be bad for public opinion if you take the gold. There's also now a super rare encounter where someone finds a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and shares it with you and it can be a lot of gold!

* Added new bad gold taken encounter type where accepting gold is bad (credit Cat)
* Added new throne room encounter 'Burning Orphanage gold' very bad gold
* Added new throne room encounter 'Undeserving people' bad gold
* Added new throne room encounter 'Gambling scam profit' bad gold
* Added new throne room encounter 'Retired warriors fund' bad gold
* Added new throne room encounter 'Parents gold' bad gold
* Added new throne room encounter 'Found loot in a basket floating down river'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Found Loot buried under a loose tree stump'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Was handed loot by a cloaked figure in a busy market'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Collected 1 gold from each friend'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Gold but cant say where its from'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Wealthy son sends gifts'
* Added new throne room encounter 'Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow' (Rarer event) (credit Cat)
* Added new throne room encounter 'found on floor'
* Reduced required public opinion for gold gift encounter slightly

THE WORLDHEART EXPANDED (5 features)

This secret location has been expanded a lot more thanks to suggestion by u/CanadianWolverine

* Added new earthquake sound effect for the worldheart
* Added new intro screen to entering code on ancient door correctly
* Added new intro to the worldheart screen
* Added new event before stabbing the heart of the world (credit u/CanadianWolverine)
* Added new indicators at worldheart stabbed screen

NEW NAMES (2 features)

Some of my real life friends Cole and Darren's names backwards sounded very fantasy-esque!

* Added new vampire name 'Nerrad'
* Added new magi name 'Eloc'

BUGFIXES (14 features)

Lots of bugs fixed again in this update, the biggest being the duplication of champions in the Arena, no more clones!

* Fixed killed vampire throne room dungeons and trap door options broken
* Fixed grammar issue with diplomat wage increase throne encounter
* Fixed missing +4 prisoners indicator when jailing best beard encounter people
* Fixed grammar issue with item recieved in throne room
* Fixed 16 text bugs with crime encounters in throne room
* Fixed 15 grammar bugs with crime encounter in throne room
* Fixed Humpleburt gnome text bug (credit Steve Killbane)
* Fixed broken spacing on indicator for flip gold
* Fixed missing gold indicator in prisoner freedom bribe throne room encounter
* Fixed text bug with knight adventure story in throne room
* Fixed tax tax law on bank tax broken (credit Steve Killbane)
* Fixed personal champions grand tournament duplication bug (credit Dootmaster64)
* Fixed owned thickblood tavern doesn't disable hire bandits option if no bandits left
* Fixed champion training working even if you don't have a champion

EVERYTHING ELSE (3 features)

Just a few tweaks and a new screen for grand champion challenges.

* Added new wage change indicators for wage increase encounters in throne room
* Added new prompt for questing knights accepted in throne room
* Added new screen for grand champion challenge

[Wastelander]

Recently did an article exploring the proc gen race system in Warsim where I go through 40+ of the 94 million possible races in game!

Check it out here

https://medium.com/@huw2k8/exploring-the-depths-of-procedurally-generated-fantasy-races-in-warsim-the-realm-of-aslona-a000954227c5

[Wastelander]

THE DIPLOMACY UPDATE - Coming soon!

Hey everyone,

So just letting you guys know that the Diplomacy update which I've been working on since the last Warsim release 9 days ago, will probably be released sometime near the end of next week.

The work that's been done already has in my opinion massively improved the experience of diplomacy, especially in trying to make peace with other kingdoms which was built to function similar to the vassal system but more in-depth and bigger.

So far the update is sizing up to be a huge one, with 214 features in at the moment but surely many more to come before it is complete.

**THE STORY SO FAR**

The update as it currently stands includes:

* A completely reworked peace process that includes an emissary system identical to the vassalisation process, as well as dynamic reactions for 30+ independent race prefixes, such as Light races being much more inclined to make peace with you if you're a good ruler, and Death races completely rejecting peace permanently, or pacifist races guarenteed to accept. The system also includes 49 different reactions to peace that range from asking you to pay a single coin, or accepting but murdering your emissary, to someone asking you to sacrfice 1 peasant per -1 relation, or asking you to answer a riddle... for peace!
* Improvments to hiring independent kingdom units including kingdoms friendly to you offering 10-20% discount
* Improvements and screens given to setting up and closing trade route with other kingdoms
* New pop up events at the end of turn including one that stops you from reaching the highest limit of number that can be stored in the games gold counter which is 2 billion (or more specifically 2,147,483,647) so if anyone reaches 1 billion they will be met by hyperinflation... sorry comrades but there be no billionaires in the realm of Aslona.
* Tournaments have been improved with lots of new screens, as well as a guarenteed public opinion boost depending on the size of the tournament, taking a hint from ancient rome on that one.
* Also following a player suggestion I've made it so the sorry old fields of Rihhm Village in the East can now be terraformed if you have the terraformers guild which greatly improves the village's economic output
* Also 98 billion more demigod faces after a few experiments
* 38 bugfixes and misc improvements
* And perhaps my favourite of all, the Arena now has a screen showing your lost gold when paying to watch an arena fight (if you don't own the arena and the arena owner charges you to watch fights). You can also get random events such as being let in for free or accidentally being only charged half... but that's not it... You can now still try and enter and watch and arena fight even if you don't have the gold, if it's your first time Gordeth the Ticket Attendant will happily let you through... but do it more and he might have to get the manager... or you know, you could let out your inner Karen and do it yourself!

**SCREENSHOTS**

* Instant peace when requested with Pacifist Fungus Orcs - https://i.imgur.com/nTwVJQd.png
* Gordeth is a good guy really - https://i.imgur.com/HQPcc3F.png
* Release the Karen! - https://i.imgur.com/HtzRXil.png
* The new peace emissary system - https://i.imgur.com/ZATcLYD.png
* Chances look good - https://i.imgur.com/pqxY2YX.png
* Oh no... what does he want? - https://i.imgur.com/n8VNHkp.png
* Publicly... Ugh - https://i.imgur.com/T9jyy4w.png
* Ok... how are we going to word this - https://i.imgur.com/vwcmjzF.png
* There were good people on both sides - https://i.imgur.com/Gh1zrnA.png
* Well... better than nothing - https://i.imgur.com/5pZxZ7Q.png

**WHAT'S LEFT TO DO**

I still have a number of systems I still want to work on before I release this diplomacy update and call it a day. They are as follows:

* Rework of the gifting gold system to adjust the gold gift amount from 500 gold to proportionally 100th, 10th, and a quarter of the kingdom in questions income as well as dynamic reactions
* The chance for diplomatic actions from other kingdoms such as gifting you gold and offering you peace
* The ability to declare war on a neutral or friendly faction with varied reaction
* An updated system for requesting military or financial aid
* A rework of the alliance system following on from the peace and vassal systems with emissaries and tons of varied reactions
* And several other things that are probably but not definitely going in to the update depending on time

I'm already happy with what's been done and feel like it's going to breathe life into the diplomacy system and make it much more interesting.

So that's it for now, looking forward to releasing this update!

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone, so this is a little something I worked on, on the weekend. This update includes a new questline where you can dismantle and profit from the Titan's Skull to the south; Improvements to the brawl pit and it's owner; A bit of a change to the end of turn battle screen which you will all notice once you play... hopefully it's an improvement! And a few tweaks, changes, and bugfixes everywhere else!

THE QUEST FOR THE TITAN'S SKULL (10 features)

It's possible to find a valuable fragment of a titan's skull as an item of random loot in game, there's also a giant titan's skull... some of you probably see where this is going. There's now a new quest that can be found in the Artifact market. If you succeed you'll notice the fragments finding there way everywhere!

* Added new character Hyruk the Moneygrubber to The three blades inn
* Added 5 dialogues with Hyruk
* Added 'Titan's Fragments' Quest to Hyruk
* Added ability to break Titan's skull down to fragments
* Added new reaction from Koova when asking about Titans skull if destroyed
* Added refreshing each year ability to get a free drink from Hyruk if quest complete
* Added Genuine titan bone soup to Mag's soup kitchen if quest completed
* Added Titan's skull fragment pedestal to History guild if quest completed
* Added Titan's skull fragment to Karald's trophy room if quest completed
* Added Titan's skull replica made out of fragments in Silver staff tavern if quest completed

BRAWL PIT AND FIGHTER'S PIT IMPROVEMENTS (13 features)

Was checking an old bug report by 71 and found a few things in need of improvement including a bug that has been there for a while where the fighter's pit didn't charge you to watch a fight ever!

* Fixed 2 text bugs with unowned brawl pit
* Removed redundant text colour code from brawl pit unowned
* Fixed non blocked options for betting on or watching a fight when you don't have the gold in unowned brawl pit
* Added ability to ask brawl pit owner about Battle of the two pits
* Added ability to ask brawl pit owner for betting advice
* Added new sound effect when buying brawl pit
* Added new additional screen when taking over brawl pit
* Improved formatting of bet screen for brawl pit and fighters pit
* Fixed Fighters pit not charging when entering or betting on a fight
* Fixed bet option not blocked if brawl pit doesn't have any bet money (credit 71)
* Fixed bet option not blocked if fighter's pit doesn't have any bet money (credit 71)
* Removed redundant text colour code in fighters pit
* Fixed non blocked options for betting or watching a fight in fighter's pit with no gold

WAGON MAN'S POST IMPROVEMENTS (4 features)

The wagon man's post now has more screens when interacting with it!

* Added new screen when destroying wagon mans post
* Fixed text bug in wagon mans post intro
* Added screen for cancelling trade with wagon man
* Added screen for starting trade with wagon man

BATTLE PHASE IMPROVEMENTS (5 features)

The previous battle phase screen was a bit of a mess, now it's been fixed up, I've also removed the end of turn event system that gives occasional rare random events on the screen you choose who you want to attack, these encounter will later be moved to the turn report like all other game events.

* Scrapped the random end of turn event system
* Added general face for end of turn battle phase screen
* Added special screen for end of turn battle phase if no general
* Added new war drum effects to end of turn battle phase
* Fixed battle phase loop discolouration bug

SAVE GAME SCREENS (2 features)

Don't know why these weren't a thing before!

* Added new screen for saving game
* Added new screen for successfully saved game

SLAVERS FORT IMPROVEMENTS (4 features)

Hiring slaves from the slavers fort was a single line of text, now it's been brought up to the level of the rest of the games hire screens!

* Removed defunct warnings of no slaves or slave soldiers available in slave fort
* Added new screen for not enough gold to buy slaves/slave soldiers
* Added new screen for not that many slaves to buy
* Added new screen for buying slaves/slave soldiers

BUGFIXES (18 features)

A number of bugs fixed here ranging from text bugs to issues with the diplomacy system recently released, thanks everyone who reported stuff here!

* Fixed issue with rihhm tribute
* Fixed entering the arena owned by someone who won't charge you entry gives you the entry fee gold for free
* Fixed 12 text bugs in Shaian
* Fixed executing 10% of your soldiers for peace encounter missing a line
* Fixed bugs with Koova titan's skull dialogue
* Fixed bugs with Koova southern cave dialogue
* Fixed 2 text bugs in Mags soup kitchen
* Fixed no entry fee charged for Karald's trophy room
* Fixed bug in silver staff tavern text
* Fixed text bug with Titan's Skull
* Fixed text bug in intro bandit king gamestart (credit psi_overtake)
* Fixed changed the laws as suits you bug (credit psi_overtake)
* Fixed sound not restarting after brawl pit fight as owner of brawl pit
* Fixed extra splitline in chelobs well prize screen
* Fixed able to return more gold than you took out when paying back loan
* Fixed Erak diplomacy blocker says Krut (credit Omer)
* Fixed you are a ant text bug in war declaration
* Fixed reduced wergild not showing (credit Omer)

EVERYTHING ELSE (4 features)

Arena betting has a new sound effect, now your kingdom symbol will always be the first letter of your kingdoms name which makes a ton more sense than the previous random symbol system. Shaian's birth rate is now a little higher, and there's a new screen when entering Karald's trophy room showing you pay for it (you previously didn't even get charged!)

* Made the kingdom flag symbol always be based on the first character of your kingdom name at game start (can still be changed manually)
* Added new coin sound effect when placing a bet in the arena
* Increased Shaian Birth rate
* Added screen for entering Karald's trophy room

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone,

for anyone checking us out right now Warsim is currently 35% off on Steam and Itch.io

If you're curious about the game it is updated constantly and has a 96% positive rating on steam. It's a game where you're put at the helm of a kingdom in a massively random world where you can get involved in almost every aspect of the kingdom and rule how you want!

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/659540/Warsim_The_Realm_of_Aslona/?beta=0

Itch.io page: https://itch.io/s/29091/35-pandemic-discount-stay-inside

[Wastelander]

**DARKDALE**

So it's finally here! I've been working relentlessly on the Darkdale update for almost two weeks and I'm very happy with it. Darkdale is a city found in the second region of the west 'Songwood'. Darkdale is ruled by a king and is filled with all kinds of interesting characters and factions. There are three taverns, six buyable properties, and a ton of things to discover.

* Added dynamic text based on Darkdale's leader
* Added dynamic darkdale tax income
* Added chance Darkdale king is mercantile (extra tax)
* Added chance Darkdale king is Isolationist (can't see him)
* Added chance Darkdale king is normal
* Added chance Darkdale king is a vassal of yours (lots of respect, can collapse the city, earn all tax income)
* Added chance Darkdale king is a cultist
* Added ability to attack and capture Darkdale
* Added ability to destroy darkdale post capture
* Added ability to choose a champion to rule Darkdale
* Added ability to make a random local your vassal ruler of Darkdale

**MARKET DISTRICT (27 features)**

The market district is the hub of business for Darkdale, here you will find a brewery, two buyable properties, a pay-to-slap goblin, a bookwriter, a tavern, a market for buying stronger champions, and hireable foreign mercenaries.

* Added Darkdale Brewery
* Added ability to speak to Brewmaster
* Added ability to look at the brewing barrles
* Added ability to ask brewer for a free drink (you get one unless you are darkdales ruler in which case you can have as many as you want)
* Added Narmald the bookwriters house
* Added ability to speak to Narmald
* Added ability to read 'Tales of Grolok' book
* Added ability to read unfinished book of Narmalds
* Added foreign mercenary post
* Added ability to hire foreign merc group
* Added screen for empty foreign merc post
* Added leafburner's guild
* Added ability to speak to leafburner's officer
* Added ability to speak to leafburner's guildsman (random dialogues)
* Added room of hilarity to the guild (listen to jokes)
* Added Darkdale tavern
* Added ability to speak to Darkdale tavern's owner
* Added ability to speak to Darkdale tavern's patrons
* Added ability to play western sudden death in the tavern
* Added buyable tavernside houses for 3500 gold
* Added champion market (buy strong champions)
* Added screen for empty champion market
* Added ability to speak to the champion market seller
* Added goblin slapping stall
* Added ability to speak to goblin slap merchant
* Added ability to speak to goblin at slap stall
* Added buyable markets end estates for 20000 gold

**NOBLE DISTRICT (23 features)**

The noble district is the seat of the rich and powerful of Darkdale, here you will find the guards post, 2 buyable properties, an upperclass tavern, the treasury, the census office, the main fortress of Darkdale, and an order of noble knights.

* Added dynamic noble district introduction with guard commander
* Added noble district guard post
* Added ability to speak to commander of guards
* Added ability to speak to a random guard (20 dialogues)
* Added ability to ask about Darkdales garrison
* Added buyable evernoble estates for 25000 gold
* Added Darkdale city census office
* Added ability to speak to office captain
* Added ability to look at previous years tax income
* Added ability to look at the darkdale population stats
* Added ability to ask about the military
* Added ability to check population growth stats
* Added ability to check guard recruitment stats
* Added buyable bronze shield estates for 12000 gold
* Added lootable darkdale treasury
* Added the gilded crescent tavern
* Added the ability to buy ale in a gold mug brough on a red pillow
* Added ability to speak to gilded crescent bartender
* Added ability to speak to random locals (20 dialogues)
* Added viewable gold plate to the tavern
* Added knights of darkdale (an order who will join you if you have 100 public opinion)
* Added Darkdale fortress (Dynamic based on darkdales king)
* Added ability to speak to Darkdales king

**FOLK DISTRICT (26 features)**

The least lavish district but the one with the most hidden under the surface, the Folk district is home to number of interesting locations, a cat tavern, a society of jesters, and a number of colourful characters.

* Added ability to recruit peasants
* Added temple to Ha'Hah that can occur if cult rules Darkdale
* Added Jesters society
* Added ability to speak to society master
* Added ability to speak to a random member (15 dialogues)
* Added laughing door
* Added counting goblin
* Added jester's class
* Added chance of getting into secret society
* Added secret society meeting event
* Added Darkdale brawl hole
* Added Darkdale brawl hole for Cultist ruled town
* Added Darkdale brawl hole winners hireable if you rule the town
* Added buyable Negon's hovels for 1500 gold
* Added Darkdale Cat Tavern
* Added ability to speak to Cat Tavern Owner
* Added ability to speak to random patron at cat tavern
* Added silver cat statue to Cat tavern
* Added ability to pet a random cat in cat tavern (4 different cats)
* Added ability to look at cat wall of fame
* Added buyable Marketview estates for 15000 gold
* Added Mystic Myck's hut
* Added ability to speak to Mystic Myck (loads of dialogues)
* Added Nairolfs den
* Added ability to speak to Nairolf
* Added ability to speak to Flobert

**NAIRO'S PARTY (89 features)**

One of the hardest parts of the update by far, Nairolf is a semi-wealthy man who lives in the folk district and ever so often throws giant parties for the locals. Tons of random events and encounters keep this one interesting and a must see!

* Added invite to Nairo's party encounter if you've met Nairo and a party is formed
* Added entering Nairo's party without knowing them event
* Added entering Nairo's party while knowing them event
* Added random chance of party happening each year (1/3)
* Added random size of ale cellar (350-1850 mugs of ale)
* Added option to mingle with guests at party
* Added option to look around at party
* Added option to check the ale cellar
* Added Nairo offers a drink encounter (2 outcomes)
* Added Flobert mopping up some sick encounter
* Added Nairo leaf tube encounter
* Added Doodieman encounter
* Added Flobert Gemshorn encounter
* Added Myck response to Gemshorn if they're present at the party
* Added wet sock encounter
* Added Nairo and you have a drink together (2 outcomes)
* Added Flobert is let off work encounter
* Added Nairo how are you enjoying the party encounter (8 outcomes)
* Added ability for Nairo to smash his window (permanently broken in game)
* Added Nairo pass out event (if his drunk level is above 7)
* Added Flobert pass out event (if his drunk level is above 4)
* Added draft from the smashed window event
* Added Nairo draws on Floberts passed out body event
* Added followup on drawn on flobert
* Added spilt drink encounter
* Added second spilt drink encounter
* Added third spilt drink encounter
* Added fourth spilt drink encounter
* Added flobert brings you a drink encounter (3 outcomes)
* Added flobert sweeping smashed glass encounter
* Added call for a toast encounter (3 outcomes)
* Added ANOTHER TOAST encounter (3 outcomes)
* Added smuggled lich dust encounter
* Added flobert puke encounter
* Added Myck arrival event
* Added Myck talk with Flobert if flobert is working
* Added Myck talk with Flobert if Flobert is off work
* Added Myck ale refusal encounter
* Added seeing stars drunk encounter
* Added secret noble drunk encounter
* Added one too many drunk encounter
* Added You're not gerald drunk encounter
* Added It is home time drunk encounter
* Added Cure for hiccups drunk encounter
* Added covered in vomit drunk encounter
* Added spinning room drunk encounter
* Added very drunk, drunk encounter
* Added can't see anything drunk encounter
* Added time for a drink encounter
* Added backs away encounter
* Added lich dust recomendation encounter
* Added hangover report encounter
* Added local mason encounter
* Added drunk plans encounter
* Added good people good life encounter
* Added love the hosts encounter
* Added local wood-carver encounter
* Added nothing like a nairo party encounter
* Added Myck and Flobert Halfling talk encounter
* Added Myck house flood encounter
* Added Myck roof elf encounter
* Added Myck stolen crown encounter
* Added Myck pirate queen encounter
* Added Myck talking book encounter
* Added Nairo invites you to try and extra strong ale (2 outcomes)
* Added Nairo's favourite vase encounter
* Added broken vase encounter
* Added booze cellar leak encounter
* Added spilage drinker encounter
* Added Icewatch bard encounter
* Added Cellar damage encounter
* Added Flobert chugs 3 ales encounter
* Added comedian encounter
* Added Guard raid encounter (dynamic outcomes)
* Added chance that Nerrad the commander and his guards join the party
* Added Nerrad guard post robber encounter
* Added Nerrad poop smearer encounter
* Added Nerrad bush encounter
* Added Nerrad living hay bale encounter
* Added Nerrad Arm wrestle encounter
* Added Nerrad and his guard brothers encounter
* Added Nerrad chugs 5 ales encounter
* Added Nerrad passes out encounter
* Added Angry men fighting broken up by Nerrad encounter
* Added Angry men fighting broken up by Nairo encounter
* Added extra booze delivery encounter
* Added invite to flo and nairo drink (2 outcomes)
* Added Mushrooms with Nairo encounter (dynamic)
* Added Stargazing encounter

**BUGFIXES (8 features)**

* Fixed 6 text bugs with cat throne room encounter
* Fixed ability to access songwood graveyard once you've discovered darkdale bug
* Fixed bandit peace rejection text bug
* Fixed undead horde summon event text
* Fixed issue with gamebreaking save file names
* Fixed issue with gamebreaking title and kingdom names and gamestart
* Fixed destroying love cult camp missing line and text bug
* Fixed mad king face visible past ascii filter (credit mechaskyguardian)

**EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)**

* Added scorpion pit is slightly cheaper if they are broke (credit Xenoyaut)
* Gave burn cat in furnace a unique graphic
* Made feeding cat always give +1 public opinion
* Updated Gro'lok's stump with new patron (thanks a bunch!)
* Made mad kings dead face have x's for eyes

**SCREENSHOTS**

* The Folk District - https://i.imgur.com/AnXIP92.png
* The Market District - https://i.imgur.com/lXvCTBZ.png
* The Noble District - https://i.imgur.com/0fLt6Pt.png
* Darkdale Cat Tavern - https://i.imgur.com/T7WdN20.png
* Nerrad, Commander of the city guard - https://i.imgur.com/vZfzoXI.png
* How is the party? - https://i.imgur.com/hbcnDbM.png
* A drink for me? - https://i.imgur.com/nNb1CWs.png
* Party Problems - https://i.imgur.com/9WZdZPR.png
* Oh my... - https://i.imgur.com/vCkomHW.png
* A purring goblin!?! - https://i.imgur.com/G1vHFLE.png

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone,

So I tested the Darkdale update this morning but found a few bugs including a game-breaking one, I did try to test it throughout the week but I guess I missed some. This patch fixes those but I thought I'd better also code some new content cause an update of just bugfixes is boring!

SELF-FUNDED NAIRO PARTY (5 features)

So Nairo's parties are great but they happen rarely, now if you're so inclined you can fund them yourself and have them happen whenever!

* Added ability to ask Nairo about hosting a party if one isn't already being hosted
* Added ability to buy 500 mugs of ale for the party
* Added ability to buy 1000 mugs of ale for the party
* Added ability to buy 1500 mugs of ale for the party
* Added special party event thanking you for paying for the event

KAFF'S LEGITIMATE GOODS (5 features)

Keep your eye on your coinpurse because there's a new merchant in town and her goods are questionable at best!

* Added new location in the Darkdale market district 'Kaff's legitimate goods'
* Added ability to buy 'genuine lich dust' for 10 gold
* Added ability to buy a fools gold coin for 1 gold
* Added ability to buy an immortality potion for 25 gold
* Added 8 dialogues with Kaff

NEW DARKDALE DIALOGUES (4 features)

Beefed up each area of the city with a few more things people say!

* Added 5 new Darkdale guard dialogues
* Added 5 new Darkdale tavern dialogues
* Added 5 new cat tavern dialogues
* Added 5 new gilded crescent dialogues

BUGFIXES (12 features)

Quite a few bugs here including one game-breaking issue with the temple of Ha'Hah, all fixed now!

* Fixed Flobert Myck encounter despite Flobert being passed out
* Fixed 'could have said it better myself' text bug
* Fixed 'these a strong' text bug
* Fixed Krut peace payment gold bug
* Fixed Erak peace payment gold bug
* Fixed gold shown as removed instead of added when paying goblin kingdoms for peace
* Fixed text bug in peace event 'coin of fate'
* Fixed duplicate intro text for Ha'Hah darkdale noble district
* Fixed duplicate intro text for Bandit darkdale noble district
* Fixed temple of Ha'Hah not allowing you to leave if it's already over
* Fixed temple of Ha'Hah freezing upon entry
* Fixed Nairo's den unenterable bug

**SCREENSHOTS**

* Kaff's fools gold - https://i.imgur.com/cy6GmnD.png
* Setting up your own party - https://i.imgur.com/NIlGrQS.png

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone,

So as we approach Warsim 0.8 I've been finishing up fixed and adding stuff to Darkdale and the rest of the game. Next two updates will take me a bit more time but I'm excited!

DARKDALE THE VASSAL STATE (6 features)

When a new game starts Darkdales leadership is randomly generated, there's a 1 in 6 chance they will spawn as your vassal and the city will be loyal to you, in this eventuality there is now a screen explaining that and automatically unlocking the region leading up to darkdale and the region Darkdale is in so that you can instantly access it.

* Fixed chance of darkdale loading up as vassal state
* Added special screen for Darkdale becomming your vassal at game start (credit VineFynn)
* Added Darkdale vassal start unlocks Denland and Songwood in exploration
* Added alt vassal screen for if you have started game with full unlocked exploration
* Made it twice as rare to get Darkdale as a vassal immediately in normal mode (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Made it impossible to get Darkdale as a vassal in hard mode and beyond (credit u/TheGamingDictator)

EXTRA PARTY EVENTS (9 features)

Another pack of events that can happen at Nairo's parties to make it feel like repetetive!

* Added ability to intervine in guard breakup of party if you are king of darkdale (3 responses)
* Added guards scarper away then partygoer cheers outcome
* Added guards nod and leave outcome
* Added guards close party outcome
* Added Kaff pickpocketing random party event
* Added Nerrad stops Kaff pickpocketing random party event
* Added hiccuping drunk are you the ruler of YOURKINGDOM party event
* Added you look like the ruler of YOURKINGDOM party event
* Added man recognises you and bows party event

MUSHROOMS (8 features)

The mushroom trip screens were pretty lacking now they're fixed up and there's a few more of them!

* Fixed all mushroom trip text spacing bugs
* Fixed all mushroom trip text colour bugs
* Fixed pause bug with animated face trip screen
* Added word vibrations trip event
* Added imaginary riches trip event
* Added rolling floor trip event
* Added prebirth existence trip event
* Added what am I trip event

BUGFIXES (25 features)

A lot of bugs fixed from both reports and playtesting, thanks for the help guys!

* Fixed Kaff shop options bug (Credit Germpot and u/thebestroll)
* Fixed Kaff gives hands you text bug
* Fixed issue with asking for troop support from ally/vassal typo
* Fixed no indicator of relation loss when requesting troops from ally/vassal
* Fixed 3 text errors in head diplomat what I do question
* Fixed deserter joining screen text showing your current soldier and knight figures instead of how many are joining you
* Fixed no gold taken from slapping goblin
* Fixed no gold loss indicator of slapping goblin
* Fixed nerrad party story text bug
* Fixed Nairo draws on Flobert even if Nairo is passed out
* Fixed Nerrad passing out event freezes game
* Fixed myck eye question text bug (credit Steve Killbane)
* Fixed oldest tree goblin stone text bug (credit Steve Killbane)
* Fixed goblin stone text bug (credit Steve Killbane)
* Fixed Eloc text bug
* Fixed hireable prisoners removed from game bug
* Fixed not able to see your current gold when speaking to silver tongue in throne room
* Fixed text bug with silver tongue in throne room
* Fixed troop non-direct troop screen only shown if there are troops relevant to it
* Fixed missing linesplit when destroying musicians guild
* Fixed Darkdale ruled by you only shows your flag on their walls on main screen but not in any district
* Fixed Nairos intro text hair miscolouration
* Fixed Blackbank 1 gold deposit duplication bug (credit Snaith)
* Fixed incorrect text when getting error screen with kingdom name
* Fixed names with sir title appearing when rolling a random name for your character

EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)

A couple of things I couldn't fit in the other categories!

* Added new screens for setting up trade and cancelling trade with Smallhaven
* Reworked diplomats what I do section of dialogue
* Added text showing how many chances to ask people to join you in the blackmarket you have
* Added tags next to owned real estate in Darkdale now
* Updated Darkdale blocked from entering screen to mention their king

[Wastelander]

Hello everyone,

Just announcing that after 4 years of development and the 100+ updates on steam early access I am going to be increasing the price of Warsim on steam from $4.99 to $7.99 as of next month.

I'm always weary of pricing it to the point where it will exclude people who might genuinely want to play but I'm surviving almost entirely on a mix of Warsim and some savings at the moment and the difference in price really will make a difference for me.

I think when I first put the game on steam I didn't think much of it and wasn't sure if people would give it a chance but now after all this time and effort I know the game is worth it!

But regardless it will still be in seasonal steam sales and things so it will be possible to find it for less and it is still currently on 35% sale at it's current lower price

Happy to answer any questions and hear your thoughts!

Cheers

Huw

[Wastelander]

CHOOSE YOUR ORIGIN SYSTEM (12 features)

So for the longest time unless you played a custom game your origin was completely random. Random is fun, but sometimes you don't want to be shoehorned into being a demonic servant, or a bandit overlord right out of the gate. Now the system has been expanded and you can still choose randomness in the way of the new FATE option, but otherwise you're welcome to choose an origin that suits you and your desired playthrough a little better. I've also added a few differences in some of the options so even choosing the same origin twice might give you variation.

* Added new screen when starting a new game where you can choose your game origin
* Added ability to choose fate (get a random origin)
* Added new origin 'pulled sword from stone' (+5 public opinion)
* Added new origin 'Village elder last in line gets the throne after the rest died in disaster' (Arena is destroyed, -public op)
* Added rare chance that the disaster kills off old croll and gives you a random new diplomat
* Added rare chance that the disaster kills off ghoryn pikener and gives you a random new general
* Added new origin 'Slave army conquest' (-public opinion, start with slaver fort, start with slave army, mass desertion of normal army)
* Added rare chance that the slaver fort is destroyed during the conquest and you don't start with it
* Added new origin 'Winner of a tournament of strength' (+opinion, start with two strong champions)
* Added new origin 'It's a long story' (+public opinion, +new item in throne room, +some gold)
* Added rare chance the the 'long story' has an extra part where you gain a strong champion called 'Omer the Friend'
* Removed origin select screen from custom games

MERMEN MADNESS (4.3 Billion features)

Was messing around with the mermen faces and added a new eye type with a lot of variants, combined with all other possible parts of mermen faces there are now twice as many possible which has added over 4 billion new faces that can be generated... you know for all the folk who got bored of the first 4 billion of them.

* Added new eye type to Mermen/Triton faces
* Created a total of 4346939520 (4.3 Billion) new Mermen/Triton faces (8.6 billion total faces now)

MAGIC FARM IMPROVEMENTS (6 features)

Thanks to a suggestion by u/TimSEsq the magic farm has been reworked to make more sense!

* Reworked Magic farm to give barrels worth of Bluetrii instead of singles (credit u/TimSEsq)
* Reduced barrels to 25 fruit per barrel
* Fixed Magic farm gramamr bug
* Added new screen for looking at buying fruit
* Added new screen for successfully buying fruit
* Added new screen for failing to buy fruit

BUGFIXES (13 features)

Pretty much all of these bugs were reported by you guys so thanks!

* Fixed the land is your text bug (credit u/DrakoGFX)
* Fixed issue with showing -25 gold charge for entering owned scorpion pit (credit u/Mr_Choke)
* Fixed Scorpion betting max being increased when you enter owned pit (credit u/Mr_Choke)
* Fixed adventuers quarter tavern mages quarter dialogue (credit u/Mr_Choke)
* Fixed paying for mystery slaver cuts of theme music bug (credit u/theGamingDictator)
* Fixed incorrect text saying cost of fight in owned arena will need to be paid by you too (credit u/OddAndQuirkyUserName)
* Fixed Darkdale champion market not refreshing with any new champions (credit Walker)
* Fixed you you text bug in refugee kingdom screen (credit u/DrakoGFX)
* Fixed missing space bug in refugee kingdom menu (credit u/DrakoGFX)
* Fixed taxes and subsidies title error (credit VineFynn)
* Fixed grammar bugs in rebellion text
* Fixed 6 text bugs in Skull sign building in Artifact market (credit Mata)
* Fixed metallic text bug in skull sign building in Artifact market (credit Mata)

EVERYTHING ELSE (7 features)

A few uncatagorisable features added including my favourite, the ability to capture those Oooh snakes you find while exploring the south!

* Added yearly tribute indicator to mystery slaver
* Added the ability to capture wild Oooh snakes found in the south for your monster pit if you have available slot (credit Xenoyaut)
* Added dead kingdom music to Ancient plague game over screen
* Added new graphic to ancient plague game over screen
* Reworked text and formatting for ancient plague game over screen
* Added new patron to Gro'Loks stump (thank you so much!)
* Added rent text showing up in scorp pit when you own scorpion pit (credit Dark)

SCREENSHOTS

The new origin choice screen - https://i.imgur.com/fCDaLnM.png
Some new mermen - https://i.imgur.com/gJSpvIm.png

[Wastelander]

Hey guys so Warsim 0.8 the gigantic community update is here, I'm uploading the changelog here because it's too big but you can see it across these three steam announcements!

It's so big it had to be split across 3 steam update posts and it has over 1000 total features!

Part 1 - https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/659540/view/2194885323209872468
Part 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/659540/view/2194885323209879441
Part 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/659540/view/2194885323209884204

Hope everyone is staying safe in the lockdown!

[Wastelander]

ADVENTURER'S QUARTER EXPANDED (7 features)

The adventurer's quarter of the artifact market only had two locations inside it and was very much unfinished. I've added 3 new locations within the district to liven it up a bit. Now you've got a musician, a champion for hire, and a discount artifact shop selling mysterious crates for 'cheap'

* Added champion post to the artifact market adventurer's guild (hire a 180+ battlescore champion for 10x cost)
* Added Bladesinger to Artifact market (special song for 5 gold)
* Added screen with sfx for Bladesinger rejecting you if you don't have the gold
* Added new shop 'Gohran's Discount Artifacts' to the adventurer's district
* Added ability to speak to Gohran (7 dialogues)
* Added random number of artifact boxes each year between 5-20 available in Gohrans for 250 gold
* Added dynamic response to the value of the mystery artifact from Gohran

CULT CONSEQUENCE (4 features)

This was suggested by someone but I didn't note their username at the time so sorry to you! The person suggested that discovering the evil cult in Darkdale didn't offer any way to deal with them which is pretty bad for player choice, well now you can report the cult to everyones favourite guard commander, commander Nerrad!

* Added ability to report the cult of Ha'Hah in Darkdale to Commander Nerrad
* Added if town is ruled by cult Nerrad will shrug your report off
* Added if you rule Darkdale Nerrad will react more speedily to your report
* Added ability for Nerrad to destroy the cult of Ha'Hah following you report

SLAVE TRAINING (2 features)

Do you have a massive slave horde but none of them can fight? Need to quickly turn your slave farmers into an army? Look no further, for just 12000 gold you can train slaves into slave soldiers!

* Added new upgrade 'Slave Training Pen' (12k) found in military upgrades (Allows slaves to be trained into slave soldiers for 3 gold each) (credit Dark)
* Added slave training to the convert and disarm menu (if you have the upgrade)

THE BLUE HOUSE OF THE ARTIFACT MARKET (6 features)

Noticed a note for a location called 'Blue house' in the artifact market so decided to add it in and made up a small storyline for the location and a new sound effect I made.

* Added new location to the mage district called 'Blue House'
* Added ability to go inside and encounter with character
* Added ability to take ownership of blue house
* Added ability to enlist improvement service for blue house
* Added ability to rent blue house out for modest yearly income
* Added ability to destroy blue house

HOLY ORDER OF THE ROSES EXPANDED (14 features)

Was playtesting and saw the Holy order in game and wasn't too impressed so I've added a lot more you can do with it now and improved the old stuff.

* Added ability to destroy the holy order citadel
* Added ability to close the holy order citadel down and take it's 20 last knights
* Added ability to reclaim closed holy order by installing 20 knights inside it
* Added new screen for taking over holy order citadel initially
* Added new screen for destroyed holy order citadel
* Added new screen for abandoned holy order citadel
* Added ability to ask about forts history and view statue in owned citadel
* Added ability to view statue in owned but abandoned citadel
* Added ability to ask for more specific information about Holy order's garrison
* Fixed text for holy roses owned citadel
* Fixed holy order intro text bugs
* Rewrote holy order of the roses about section
* Added text showing how many troops holy citadel provides if you own it
* Added new songwood exploration screen tags for the various states of the citadel

BUGFIXES (17 features)

Lots of bugfixes mostly suggested by you guys! thanks as always for the reports.

* Fixed knights of Darkdale not giving you 50 knights (credit mithc)
* Fixed several text bugs in the long story player intro
* Fixed Negon's hovels listed twice in Darkdale (credit u/thebestroll)
* Fixed drum loop music not ending if music disabled (credit Mata)
* Fixed Blackrow text bugs for certain intro texts (credit Niklas)
* Fixed monument of kings viewing not working for ascii free version of game (credit Niklas)
* Fixed Prisoner trade with Baiaa still happens after they are destroyed  (credit u/binkow)
* Fixed robbing monster trader doesn't give you a new monster
* Fixed incorrectly shown options for larger pit when fighting arena champion with monster
* Fixed monster vs champion crash if arena doesn't have champion
* Fixed text bugs in artifact market intros
* Fixed text bug in 4th stump of gro'lok's
* Fixed tribal goblins instead of bandits used to check how many you can afford to train in barracks
* Fixed training bandits not enough bandits text bug   
* Fixed theme music not starting after leaving darkdale
* Fixed Zeef's mystery boxes text shows you can afford it with more than 5 gold instead of more than 100
* Fixed Zeef's mystery boxes not taking any gold from you when you buy a mystery box
   
EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

* Renamed Gro'lok's stump location to Gro'lok's stumps (as there are now 4 instead of 1)

SCREENSHOTS

* https://i.imgur.com/aP15vAx.png
* https://i.imgur.com/oJQitXo.png
* https://i.imgur.com/WQjNVW6.png
* https://i.imgur.com/FrZfhGi.png
* https://i.imgur.com/abCaBjV.png

[Wastelander]

So this update is focused primarily on overhauling staff meetings as I was reviewing some notes I had for staff in my development plans. There's also the ability to tell jokes and get paid, and a couple of bugfixes and other misc stuff!

STAFF MEETING OVERHAUL (17 features)

Staff meetings can be held in your throne room where you can ask your current staff any of a number of questions. The system had some good information in it but there weren't many questions and they were laid out and designed poorly. The system has now had a reboot with lots of new questions split into categories, a new layout, and new systems such as the random arrival of staff, the ability to dismiss staff from meetings, and more answers that vary depending on the state of the world. This was a mountain of work as over 400 dialogues were written or revised but I'm glad to be able to finally present it!

* Added new council arrival for meeting system with sound effect and random entry text
* Added new category system for questions
* Added new introductory screen for your first meeting explaining some things
* Added jester's quirks such as Honk honk/wonk wonk/nervousness, will be displayed when they are asked questions
* Added ability to dismiss staff from meetings
* Reworked all questions layouts to better split text
* Rewrote 100+ dialogues from staff meetings to fit and make more sense
* Added 50+ new variants of old answers to be more dynamic
* Reworked all questions layouts for staff names
* Fixed all typos and grammar issues in meetings
* Added 'What sources of income should I look at next' question (25 replies)
* Added 'Are there any ways to reduce expenditure' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about the rebels' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about demons' question (25 replies)
* Added 'What do you know about demons' VARIANT FOR DEMONIC RULE (25 replies)
* Added 'how can I make my army more effective' question (25 replies)
* Added 'Are there any points of interest in this realm?' question (30 replies)

ARE YOU JOKING? (4 features)

Now once you've taken the jester's society class you will gain the ability to tell jokes for laughter and tips. You'll be better off in the higher class taverns but you can do what you want!

* Added ability to tell jokes in Darkdale taverns once you've taken the jesters society class
* Added 3 reactions to jokes being told
* Added higher gold reward for good jokes for Gilded Cresent tavern
* Added low level gold reward for good jokes for other taverns

NEW SOUNDS (4 features)

Can never have too much variation in sounds!

* Added new dragged wood sound effect
* Added new random sound used for looting boxes from smuggles den
* Added new random sound used for buying discount artifacts
* Added new random sound used for buying zeefs mystery boxes

BUGFIXES (8 features)

Thanks everyone for the bug reports here, always happy to get more bugs fixed!

* Fixed receiving rents from arena even if it's destroyed (credit Mata)
* Fixed text bug in Nairo's party
* Added +5 public opinion for defeating undead horde
* Fixed undead horde victory text
* Fixed missing screen for refusing to pay gold to view other kingdoms crown
* Fixed gift refusal text bug
* Fixed slaves to slave soldier's not upgrading properly (credit u/SpeaksDwarren)
* Fixed text bug with slime bard (credit generalbison)

EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

This misc thing from my staff plans, now staff options are laid out better. Cheers for suggesting it Liosalpha!

* Sorted the options of staff to all have the fire option at the bottom instead of different for each staff member (credit Liosalpha)

[Wastelander]

TROOP HIRE AND TRAINING CHANGES (8 features)

Videovillain suggested that when you have a Barracks or Grand Barracks you should be able to do the troop training the upgrade offers outside of the location itself and in the main troop menu, this makes perfect sense and should have been done way earlier so It's now in the game. While working on it I noticed several other things that needed changes and fixes so several other improvements have been made.

* Added having barracks or grand barracks also allows the training to happen directly from the hire menus disarm and convert submenu (credit u/videovillain)
* Reworked Barracks and training ground intro texts
* Added new indicator inside Barracks and training ground showing how many troops are trained each year
* Added upgrade screen with sfx when upgrading barracks/training ground from within the other buildings screen
* Added slave training pen indicator in disarm and convert menu
* Added new text introduction to disarm and convert menu
* Added new text introduction to hire troop menu
* Added new text introduction to sell troop menu

FIXING THE NEAR NORTH (15 features)

After doing a Playthrough and exploring the near north I noticed a few issues with area descriptions among some other bugs, I've tried to fix as many of these as possible!

* Rewrote slaver's fort intro text
* Reworked slaver's fort title on near north menu
* Reworked Near north intro text
* Reworked fort northwatch text and grammar
* Fixed brawlers pit grammar issue
* Fixed brawlers pit intro text blocked for ascii free version of warsim
* Fixed shallowrock mine intro grammar issue
* Added new screen for buying Shallowrock mine
* Fixed option to buy shallowrock not being blocked when you can't afford it
* Fixed text bugs in ruined cartographers guildhall
* Reworked cartographers guild main menu
* Reworked thickblood tavern main text
* Reworked thickblood tavern owned main text
* Fixed text bug in phase 1 of fort ruin restoration
* Fixed grammar bug in ruined fort

NEW NAME SUFFIXES (2 features)

These were mentioned in Charkiboi's awesome new Warsim youtube video so I had to put them in, check it out here if you haven't seen it yet (

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* Added new name suffix 'the Rat-Squeezer' (-2 battlescore) (credit Charkiboi)
* Added new name suffix 'the Horse-Jerker' (-3 battlescore) (credit Charkiboi)

LOTS'O'AMULETS (5 features)

Was fixing a bug with the dwarvern amulet artifact and thought of 5 variants!

* Added 'fake dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'broken dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 10 gold)
* Added 'ancient dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 155 gold)
* Added 'royal dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 160 gold)
* Added 'ancient royal dwarvern amulet' random loot artifact (worth 320 gold)

BUGFIXES (10 features)

A couple of fixes here, thanks VineFynn for the bug report I had this one noted from a while ago but finally got on top of it.

* Fixed Fort Kullak troops not appearing in troop count report (credit VineFynn)
* Fixed broken character used for a hero name prefix causing buggy character
* Fixed artifact market text bug
* Fixed ability to remove and invite non-existant staff to your staff meetings
* Fixed text bug with mystery box seller in artifact market
* Fixed dwarvern amulet artifact name bug
* Fixed scorpion pit intro text
* Fixed text split bug when arresting mystery slaver
* Fixed fort Gorthmek grammar bugs
* Fixed artifact market champion post taking 20% more gold than advertised

EVERYTHING ELSE (2 features)

Some changes made here and a change to the mystery slaver as 75 gold seems too steep.

* Temporarily removed ancient lands and ancient map from the game (as it's unfinished)
* Reduced mystery slaver cost to 50 gold

[Wastelander]

BETTER FORTS (24 features)

DazaKiwi pointed out a very good thing that was totally missing from fortresses and that's the ability to install and remove troops! Now that and much more has been fixed. There's also a new outcome for buying Fort Kullak, if the bandit horde is active then the bandit garrison of the fort will head off and join them.

* Added ability to add troops to garrisons of forts (tethered to max based on commander skill and fort level)
* Added ability to remove troops for owned forts
* Fixed all 4 forts unupgrading if you demote the leaders
* Added demoting leader gives you all troops from the fort
* Added new screen for demoting leader from all forts
* Fixed upgraded fort graphic not showing for all screens
* Fixed option to buy fort Kullak still visible if you don't have the gold
* Added new screen for capturing fort Kullak from Gor the bastard
* Added Fort Kullak estimate of garrison
* Added new screen for buying fort Kullak
* Added garrison of Fort Kullak will join the bandit horde if active if you buy Kullak
* Fixed line split issue in setting rules of the fort (all forts)
* Fixed grammar issue in fort rules (some forts)
* Fixed troop report for fort sending you only one soldier text
* Fixed troop recruitment for forts able to go over max capacity one time
* Fixed typo in rules of fort text
* Added indicator of gold gained when capturing fort Gorthmek
* Fixed gorthmek unupgrading when bought from Yurik the oppresor if upgraded
* Added new screen for buying fort gorthmek for Yurik the oppresor
* Fixed option to buy fort gorthmek visible even if you don't have 50000 gold
* Fixed fort aslona new commander screen showing unupgraded fort
* Fixed fort aslona graphic heigh changing on different screens
* Fixed installing new leader of fort shows benefits of unupgraded fort even if fort upgraded
* Fixed option to upgrade fort not blocked out if you don't have the gold

QUEST ITEM GALORE (17 features)

Can never have too many quest items, now we've got another batch!

* Added 'red dragon crested gold shield' random loot artifact (worth 350 gold)
* Added 'a crude drawing of a goblin on some hide' random loot artifact (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'tankard made of demon bone' random loot artifact (worth 320 gold)
* Added 'chipped obsidian pot' random loot artifact (worth 120 gold)
* Added 'finely decorated obsidian pot' random loot artifact (worth 199 gold)
* Added 'gold lined obsidian pot' random loot artifact (worth 290 gold)
* Added 'hat made of rat pelt' random loot artifact (worth 10 gold)
* Added 'golden toe' random loot artifact (worth 110 gold)
* Added 'bottle of purple mist' random loot artifact (worth 145 gold)
* Added 'bottle of red mist' random loot artifact (worth 125 gold)
* Added 'bottle of green mist' random loot artifact (worth 120 gold)
* Added 'bottle of cyan mist' random loot artifact (worth 145 gold)
* Added 'bottle of old elven wine' random loot artifact (worth 30 gold)
* Added 'jar of sand' random loot artifact (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'set of dice made of diamond' random loot artifact (worth 400 gold)
* Added 'set of dice made of gold' random loot artifact (worth 160 gold)
* Added 'set of dice made of gold and encrusted with gems' random loot artifact (worth 360 gold)

CHAOTIC MONSTERS (6 features)

While thinking about extra uses for chaos orbs recently I thought it would be great if you could feed them to your monster pit monsters, now if you've got a chaos orb you have a new option when feeding your monsters to feed them an orb, be warned there's a 1/6 chance it will kill your pet beast but if it doesn't the orb will grant a +10 strength bonus (normal feeding gives +1) the orbs bonuses will also ignore the max strength cap of 20 meaning you can abuse the chaos orb system to create some seriously overpowered monsters!

* Added ability to feed chaos orb to monsters
* Added 5/6 chance of +10 strength for monster
* Added 1/6 chance of monster death
* Added special new sound effect for monster eating orb
* Added special new sound effect for monster eating orb and dying
* Fixed typo in monster pit feeding screen

BUGFIXES (4 features)

Couple of loose bugfixes, cheers Mithc for the reports!

* Fixed Akall fortress text bug (credit Mithc)
* Fixed text and grammar issues in the south coast
* Fixed mad king execution typo (credit Mithc)
* Fixed blackmarket troop indicator bug when installing troops

EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

* Rewrote destroyed blackmarket text

SCREENSHOTS

* New Northwatch menu - https://i.imgur.com/khENN8Q.png
* New Troop screen in Northwatch - https://i.imgur.com/eqCFzC6.png
* New option in the monster feed screen - https://i.imgur.com/boPZYEm.png
* Monster Stronk now! - https://i.imgur.com/tWyiCLp.png

WHAT'S NEXT

Hey everyone, I'm doing a bit of spring cleaning of my Warsim to-do list recently clearing loose ideas collected over the years. My next update will be looking into Bandit gangs and the potential of new groups rising where others fall.

I hope everyone is doing good and staying as safe as they can!

[Wastelander]

Hello everyone,

So I've been working on this update for the past week or so after having something similar on my to-do list and having had the general idea suggested a few times by players.

The idea is that new minor bandit gangs should spring up as other falls, while still allowing players to completely wipe bandits out and prevent respawning. This idea gave birth to the general bandit level system.

The idea of a background general level of banditry is that a world with a big bandit problem would have plenty of groups quickly fill any power vacuums when older groups died off, however a world where bandits have been repeatedly killed off and given little chance to recover would only rarely see new groups rise up. And of course for those mass-murderin' completionists you can eradicate the bandit threat for good if you push hard enough.

Read more about the general bandit level below, or scroll further down to see a fully documented playtest in action (with screenshots) showing how I took a test world from completely infested with bandits to bandits being completely extinct.

-The General Bandit Level

The general bandit level is a number that represents the level of banditry in the realm. there are 10 different tiers it can be at;

* Completely Infested (90+)
* Infested (80+)
* Endemic (70+)
* Many-Hordes (60+)
* Horde-Like (50+)
* Emergent (40+)
* Minor (30+)
* Very Minor (20+)
* Petty (10+)
* Near-Extinct (1+)
* Extinct (0)

These levels effect several things in game, firstly they affect the number of troops bandit groups recruit each year. In realms where the bandit level is extremely high minor bandit gangs and Phenor's Bandit horde will get up to an extra 3x bonus in number of recruits, and at extremely low levels of banditry they get half of their average recruits.

The level also effects the odds of both the bandit level increasing each year and the likelihood of new bandit gangs popping up to fill the void of old dead bandit gangs. If a realm is infested you will see new gangs spring up almost instantly to take their place, but with each group of bandits killed and certain laws passed the bandit level will drop.

It is possible to play with this feature in a number of ways, you can take a hardline stance against the bandits and wipe out any minor gang the moment they rise, capture all bandit forts and put anti-bandit laws in place such as the Bandit Scourge. Over time you will see this bandit level drop with the ability to push them to extinction. You may also just keep the bandits level at bay, crushing disobedient hostile bandit groups but ignoring other more compliant ones. You may also wish to leave the bandits to their own devices, this is especially effective if rival factions have more hatrid for bandits as this will thin them out with the constant fighting.

-New Bandit Gangs

New bandit gangs don't just come out of thin air, there are 20 possible origins for these gangs, many of them only possible in certain scenarios. One bandit gang may be formed out of your own Bandit units, but this would only happen if you were a popular and kind ruler, if you were an evil and unpopular one the bandits wouldn't abandon you.

Another bandit gang could be formed of breakaways pulling directly from the Bandit Horde, the Blackmarket, the North Merc Post, Fort Northwatch, or any number of other bandit filled regions. Of course if those locations were destroyed or owned by you and missing their bandit garrisons, this wouldn't happen.

It's even possible for a mercenary group (as long as not under contract with you) turning to banditry, meaning they have the same leader and the same number of men, so keep an eye on those tough mercenary groups, and if you fill a mercenary group with 10'000 of your own soldiers and then fire the group, you'll bet there's a possibility that those 10'000 men could become nasty raiding bandits so be mindful.

-A Tale of a Playtest

https://i.imgur.com/er351Gt.png

I playtested setting the bandit level near it's max of 100 which is 'completely infested', from here I set out to completely wipe out the bandit population and reduce the bandit level to 0.

https://i.imgur.com/vYh0GVd.png

There were five minor bandit gangs at game start, two of them starting with a truce with me (that won't last). I went out and hired a tough mercenary group which had four attacks per year and very tough warriors with 120 battlescore each. I hired them and filled their ranks with all of my soldiers and then sent them to fight against the weakest minor bandits and invade their lands.

https://i.imgur.com/WJQIALt.png

One of the groups fell pretty early and the bandit level was dropped by 3. Not long afterwards that same turn a second group fell knocking the bandit level down by another 3.

https://i.imgur.com/LFLXCqr.png

At the end of that turn the bandit level rose by 1 naturally, and a new group arose in the place of one of the dead ones. This group was called the Burgling Sons and was made of old deserters and runaways. Meanwhile one of the kingdoms in my game defeated a third minor bandit gang knocking the level down by another -3.

https://i.imgur.com/o3lpr9c.png

Next turn I focused my efforts on crushing this new bandit group first, with their defeat and another -3 bandit level this took the total to 87, and dropped it from Completely Infested to Infested.

https://i.imgur.com/nei8q5h.png

With these many bandit gangs cut down I decided to focus my effort on the bandit horde and other bandit owned locations to reduce the total bandit level further.

https://i.imgur.com/bYb1WL8.png

After a lot of mercenary effort the bandit horde was on it's knees, with them gone the bandit level dropped a whopping 10 points as the bandit horde was a big and important part of bandit influence in the realm.

https://i.imgur.com/QJLOtM9.png

Now the problem has dropped down to being endemic, ended now are the times of huge recruitment bonuses for bandit factions, but the realm is still pretty bandit-filled, much more work to do.

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The next turn the bandit level rose by 1, and two new bandit groups arose; one made up of hireable bandits from the Northern Merc Post (called the Unabashed Lobster Pillagers LOL), and the other a group of disgruntled peasants. I quickly set my sights on these newly spawned groups and looked to put them down.

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With them both dead there were no active bandit gangs and the bandit level was reduced to 66, or 'Many Hordes'. We're getting somewhere but there's still work to be done.

https://i.imgur.com/0cjUKKp.png

I captured the Blackmarket knocking 3 more levels of banditry down, and captured Fort Northwatch for another 3 pointer.

https://i.imgur.com/07qvjaF.png

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At the end of that turn the bandit level rose by 1, and two more bandit groups sprang up. They were a group of robbers and outlaws called 'Green Scouts', and a mutiny of every bandit in my whole army who formed a new group called the 'Tall Association' the Bastards. I prepared to attack, hitting the mutineers first.

https://i.imgur.com/OFgLoUb.png

Now the bandit level was at 55, Horde-Like. Finally the bandit problem was falling under control and no active group bar the garrison of Fort Kullak were filling the power vacuum... But of course more came.

https://i.imgur.com/EviwCRc.png

Opportunists from Fort Kullak split off and formed a new gang, weakening the garrison of the fort at the same time. There were only 115 of them and they were quickly cut down.

https://i.imgur.com/BoCJOcx.png

The next turn the bandit level rose again, and three new groups popped up to fill the void. One of these was a mercenary group called the Daylight Eagles who I'd contracted with in the past to fight against these bandit gangs... I trusted you.

https://i.imgur.com/9DDTmkP.png

These three new groups were quick to fall at the hands of my bulked up mercenary companies and soon the bandit level was looking even better at 45, now banditry was an emergent threat rather than a looming horde in the background.

https://i.imgur.com/eIphi2b.png

Waiting 2 years a new bandit group made up of sea raiders landed, they were the United Sons. I crushed them, but now will slower appearing bandit groups due to the lower level I set to new ways to reduce their number, Laws.

https://i.imgur.com/lwPMUdz.png

I declared a bandit scourge and offered 5 gold per head for any bandit captured, this instantly lowered the bandit level by 2 and will further drop it by 1 each turn from now on. I also enacted the rehabilitation law costing me 1k per turn but helping reform those who may have chosen the way of the bandit. This also dropped the bandit level by 2 and would further drop it by 1 each year. Now with these expensive laws I could help bleed the bandit level down as time goes on.

https://i.imgur.com/5PnrGpB.png

After a few years and one or two pop up gangs being crushed the bandit level was now 'Very Minor' at 28, the end is near!

https://i.imgur.com/Q9qO8Ja.png

Another 10 years and three new groups and the bandit level was down to 14, or 'Petty'. Once the bandit level goes below 10 no new bandit groups can spawn and the bandit level can't naturally increase so unless you cancel some anti-bandit laws and close down your prison once it goes beyond that point the bandits aren't likely to return.

https://i.imgur.com/tOzf32n.png

After another 5 years, one the year my anti-bandit laws dropped the bandit level to 9, 'Near-Extinct' would you believe it, two bandit gangs arise in the final moments. I put them down with my superior merc army and dropped the bandit level to

https://i.imgur.com/DOr2hcU.png

Now with all the groups dead and no chance of any new ones spawning I'm left with only one option to root out the very final remnants of the bandit scourge on my realm. Using my spymaster I gain a new option to 'Attempt to root out the last remnants of banditry'

https://i.imgur.com/0EyUKhO.png

It was a success and my spymaster was able to find the last vestage of banditry, a small hidden group called the Nightfall Virgil, 339 bandits strong... They were short work for my men!

https://i.imgur.com/8jFDuhy.png

And that's it, bandits Extinct. There's still a group of bandits up in Fort Kullak but they are isolated, banditry in the realm in general is over.

-121.5 Million New Bandit Graphics


https://i.imgur.com/UH0aRr1.png

While this is a fun little extra for the update, it's nothing game-changing. Now each bandit group will have their own troop image, a unique style for their troops. There are 121.5 million of these graphics in total so you'll never see the same one twice!

You can also play around with this in the extras and generators screen with a brand new random generation tool.

-What's Left?

So it's very close to being finished but I still have a number of things I need to test and a couple of other features to look at, hopefully this update will be released some time this week.

Thank you all and hope you're all doing good and staying safe

Cheers

Huw

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your patience on this one, I'm proud to announce the 'Bandits of the Realm' update. This update completely reworks how minor bandits work and adds a sort of background population of bandits. It's now possible that a realm can become infested with bandits, where all bandit factions gain huge recruitment bonuses, and any defeated minor bandit gangs are quickly replaced with new ones. Of course the bandit level can be reduced by defeating these gangs and putting down any bandit influence in the realm as well as enacting policy.

My recent post about this update with a fully documented infested bandit playthrough can be seen here - https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/659540/view/2209525206376708977

BANDITS OF THE REALM (19 features)

I've tried to split the update into a few categories but most of the major stuff is here!

* Added new general bandit level system tracking the level of banditry in the realm
* Added randomisation for starting general bandit level based on current existing factions (ie if Bandit Horde exists)
* Added new bandits of the realm screen with 11 dynamic graphics and tiers
* Added tracker showing all active bandit groups in the realm
* Added ability to ask how you can reduce the bandit level
* Added ability to ask how you can increase the bandit level
* Added ability for new bandit groups to arise at the end of a turn if there are free slots (depending on how high the bandit level is)
* Added the ability to disable notifications of new bandit groups popping up
* Added ability to view the current effects of the bandit level
* Added 'secret' code 69 which if entered on bandits of the realm screen sets the bandit level to something random
* Removed diplomacy skill requirement to see minor bandit groups
* Renamed minor bandit groups section of diplomacy to bandit groups
* if game start with no minor bandit groups then bandit groups section is renamed to bandits of the realm and takes you directly to bandits of the realm assessment screen
* Added all minor bandit gangs get a custom and unique graphic for what their troops look like (121.5 million total)
* All newly spawned bandit groups get completely random relations with all factions in the game
* Added ability to choose a custom bandit level when playing a custom game (in the bandit scenario settings)
* Added new cheat code 450 (allows bandit level to be set to anything you wish)
* Reworked view minor bandit stats to show proper unit breakdown now
* Added if loading a save from pre-bandit update, bandit level will be randomised upon load

NEW BANDIT GANG FORMATION ORIGINS (21 features)

As the game progresses and some gangs fall, new ones will rise to take their place (if the bandit level isn't below 9). With each gang destroyed the bandit level will drop, keep chopping these gangs down and eventually your bandit problems will permanently disappear.

* Added outlaws and robbers bandit gang spawn origin
* Added landless marauders bandit gang spawn origin
* Added road robbers bandit gang spawn origin
* Added ravers bandit gang spawn origin
* Added landed sea raiders bandit gang spawn origin
* Added looters bandit gang spawn origin
* Added mountain bandits bandit gang spawn origin
* Added disgruntled villagers bandit gang spawn origin
* Added old deserters bandit gang spawn origin
* Added backwater village militia bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Blackmarket Garrison offshoot (which takes troops from the Blackmarket garrison) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Merc band turning bandit (only if group is not hired by the player) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Blackmarket Mercenaries (which takes troops from the Blackmarket mercs) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Northern Merc Post Offshot (which takes troops from the northern merc post) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Northern Merc Post Entire garrison (which takes all hireable bandits from northern merc post) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Fort Kullak Offshoot (which takes troops from Fort Kullak's garrison) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Bandit Horde units offshoot (which takes troops from the Bandit Horde faction) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Fort Northwatch Offshoot (which takes troops from the Fort Northwatch garrison) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added Your bandits offshoot (only if you have a decent number of bandit units and your public opinion is above 0) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added All of Your bandits offshoot (only if you have a decent number of bandit units and your public opinion is above 50) bandit gang spawn origin
* Added ability to request not to see bandit group formation notifications on the pop up windows at the end of turn

ROOTING OUT THE LAST REMNANTS OF BANDITRY (5 features)

Have you reduced banditry to the brink? struggling to find those final pesky bandit groups? Fear not, send your spymaster to root out the remnant bandits, if successful you'll find a new bandit group made up of the last remnants which if destroyed will push that tiny bandit level even lower, keep it up and they'll be extinct.

* Added ability to send spymaster to find last remnants of banditry (only if bandit level above 0 but below 9, and all minor bandit gangs are dead, and you have a spymaster)
* Added if spymaster skill under 50 then 1 in 5 odds of finding remnant bandits
* Added if spymaster skill under 100 then 1 in 3 odds of finding remnant bandits
* Added if spymaster skill under 150 then 1 in 2 odds of finding remnant bandits
* Added if spymaster skill higher than 150 then always find remnant bandits

BANDIT LEVEL MODIFIERS (23 features)

As you and other groups exist and interact with bandits in your world the bandit level will rise and fall, if big bandit groups die off then overall banditry goes down, but a prison break? some pro-bandit laws? maybe you free 3000 of your bandit units and let them loose, then you'll see the bandit level skyrocket, helpful if you've got some rivals who are always picking fights with bandits.

* Added bandit level drops by 2 if a minor bandit gang is assimilated by you as bandit king
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if a minor bandit gang is destroyed by you or someone else
* Added bandit level drops by 10 if the bandit horde is destroyed by you or someone else, or bribed by you
* Added bandit level drops by 2 if you enact bandit scourge law (and -2 each year)
* Added bandit level drops by 2 if you enact the rehab law (and -1 each year)
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if you capture the Blackmarket
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if the (unowned) Blackmarket is destroyed in world events
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if you capture fort Northwatch
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if you capture fort Kullak
* Added bandit level drops by 2 if you re-enforce unenforced laws
* Added bandit level drops by 2 if you re-open your closed prison
* Added bandit level drops by 3 if you cancel the evil pillaging law
* Added bandit level raises by 3 if you enact the evil pillaging law
* Added bandit level raises by 1 if there is a prison break
* Added bandit level raises by 3 if Phenor successfully pulls off a bandit truce between the horde and minor gangs
* Added bandit level raises by 3 if you close your prison
* Added bandit level raises by 1 for every 150 prisoners freed when closing your prison
* Added bandit level raises by 2 if you allow outlaws back into society
* Added bandit level raises by 3 if you lose Blackmarket to bandit rebels
* Added bandit level raises by 2 if you cancel or can't pay the rehab law
* Added bandit level raises by 2 if you cancel or can't pay the bandit scourge
* Added bandit level raises by 1 for every 150 of your bandit units that you disband from your army
* Added code to prevent bandit level increasing beyond 100 and below 0

BANDIT LEVEL EFFECTS (19 features)

The bandit level of the realm effects many things, mainly how quickly new gangs arise, how quickly the bandit level continues to grow, and the recruitment bonuses for bandit factions.

* Bandit level of 90+ gives bandit horde, bandit gangs, and player if bandit king origin 3x recruitment bonus
* Bandit level of 90+ allows new minor bandit groups to instantly replace dead ones at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 90+ grants 5/6 chance of bandit level increasing by +1 at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 80+ gives 50/50 chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 70+ grants 4/6 chance of bandit level increasing by +1 at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 70+ gives bandit horde, bandit gangs, and player if bandit king origin 2.5x recruitment bonus
* Bandit level of 60+ gives 25% chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 50+ grants 3/6 chance of bandit level increasing by +1 at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 50+ gives bandit horde, bandit gangs, and player if bandit king origin 2x recruitment bonus
* Bandit level of 40+ gives 1/6 chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 30+ gives 1/7 chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 20+ gives 1/8 chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 10+ gives 1/9 chance any empty bandit gang slot will have a replacement gang take over at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 25+ grants 2/6 chance of bandit level increasing by +1 at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 25+ gives bandit horde, bandit gangs, and player if bandit king origin 1.5x recruitment bonus
* Bandit level of 10+ grants 1/6 chance of bandit level increasing by +1 at the end of turn
* Bandit level of 9 or less theres no chance of bandit level naturally increasing
* Bandit level of 9 or less theres no chance of new bandit gangs spawning
* Bandit level of 9 or less gives bandit horde, bandit gangs, and player if bandit king origin half their normal bandit recruits

REWORKING BANDIT ASSIMILATION (7 features)

Bandit assimilation was a feature available to players who chose/or got the Bandit King origin story, with it players with under 20 public opinion are able to attempt to assimilate minor bandit gangs into their kingdom, previously this had a 100% success rate but has now been reworked and given a cooldown as well as several issues with it fixed.

* Made bandit king assimilating minor bandit gangs not 1 in 3 odds of success instead of 100% of the time
* Limited player to one attempt per year of assimilating each gang
* Removed irrelevant text from successful assimilation screen
* Fixed 0 gold gained being shown in assimilation screen
* Fixed 0 bandits gained being shown in assimilation screen
* Fixed 0 warlords gained being shown in assimilation screen
* Added new screen for failed assimilating attempt with 3 different dialogues

DEAD GANGS (4 features)

It's always been possible that bandit gangs end up with no men but still hold land, in that event visiting said gang in diplomacy will now show a different menu where the desperate gang leader will always be willing to buy new troops at an inflated rate.

* Added new minor bandit gang diplomacy screen variant if gang has no troops
* Added ability to sell troops to desperate troopless bandit for twice normal sell value (20 gold)
* Added new dialogue and sfx when trying to talk to bandit leader of troopless gang
* Added indicator on troop sell screen showing exactly how many they can afford to buy from you

CHEAT UPDATES (8 features)

Added a new cheat for the bandit system and ended up reworking several other cheat related features!

* Added new cheat code 450 (allows bandit level to be set to anything you wish)
* Reworked 111 cheat code list to include all cheat codes
* Reworked layout of 111 cheat code list
* Reworked order of cheats to be in numerical order on cheatlist
* Added text blurb for each cheat code to 111 cheat code list
* Reworked layout of 211 Debug code list
* Updated set your origin cheat to include new origins
* Reworked layout of set your origin cheat

NEW BANDIT GRAPHICS (5 features)

A new system built on a whim that has over 121.5 million possible unique bandit troop graphics!

* Added new proc gen bandit graphic system capable of producing 121.5 million unique troop images
* Added bandit troop graphic generator to extras and generators
* Added text section to the graphic generator explaining it's origin
* Added bandit troop graphic concept notes to Warsim extras folder
* Added if loading a save from pre-bandit update, bandit gangs with receive random troop graphics

INTEREST-ING (1 feature)

Quite a neat idea by NotFox, now you'll be able to see your expected interest when you have money in the bank.

* Added indication of expected bank interest (credit NotFox)

HUNGRY MONSTERS (1 feature)

A good point made by Odieman, you couldn't feed prisoners to your monsters, now you can!

* Added the ability to feed monsters your prisoners (Credit odieman222)

VICTORY SCREENS REWORKED (17 features)

The screens for defeating factions are a little outdated, now they've all been updated with a slightly new layout. Also defeating mercenaries and kingdoms grants new different rewards than before!

* Added new small group of imprisoned soldiers victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new reserves and hopefuls victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new peasant rally victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new famed knights army victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new outlaw group victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new peasant prisoner group victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Added new treasury looted victory screen reward for defeating a kingdom
* Made reward for defeating merc groups varied between 100-4100 instead of always 1000 gold
* Made new screen for Minor goblin tribe joining you event after Krut Defeat
* Reworked minor bandit defeat screen and merged it into one
* Reworked rebels victory screens and fixed layout and grammar bugs
* Reworked bandit horde victory screens and fixed layout and grammar bugs
* Reworked Krut Victory screens and fixed grammar and layout bugs
* Reworked Erak Victory screens and fixed grammar and layout bugs
* Reworked Mercenary victory screens and fixed grammar and layout bugs
* Reworked independent kingdom victory screens and fixed grammar and layout bugs
* Reworked sentinel kingdom victory screens

BUGFIXES (18 features)

Lots of bugfixes in this, thanks to everyone who reported their issues!

* Fixed necromancer kingdoms raising the undead still happening even if the kingdom is dead
* Fixed space kingdoms blasting off event happening even if they are dead
* Fixed space kingdoms blasting off event happening even if they've already blasted off
* Fixed grammar issue in vassal independence text
* Fixed gold incorrectly shown as deducted from you when merc attack cancelled and refunded
* Fixed Nario asking how the party has been so far repeatedly
* Fixed slave revolt diplomacy unskilled diplomat warning missing
* Fixed deserters diplomacy unskilled diplomat warning missing
* Fixed theme music choice at new game improperly/not showing (active) indicator if no music selected
* Fixed getting rid of a champion in training at combat academy invalidates the training slot (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Fixed buy fort gorthmek option appearing twice (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Fixed issues with layout and false option number for ancient scythe in artifact market (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Fixed impassioned speech throne room text bug (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Fixed closing the prison text split issue
* Fixed bug with scrawny race prefix having spacing issues
* Fixed layout and text bug for love cultist throne room encounter
* Fixed what are you orders text bug issuing orders to knightly order
* Fixed extra line appearing on battle screen if not playing a timed game

CLEAR CODE (7 features)

Been clearing out some areas of the game with unused code from systesm I've worked on historically, pretty much all of this has literally no bearing on the game at all but I'm putting it here anyway.

* Removed bandit fort unused code
* Removed irrelevant code from monster fighting grand champion
* Removed uneeded code in independent messenger encounter
* Removed useless code from vampire bard guessing game
* Removed old useless remnant of custom game start code
* Removed loose useless code in game refresh phase
* Removed useless code for bards face colour

EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)

Noticed capturing fort northwatch didn't have it's own screen, now it does!

* Made new screen for capturing fort northwatch

SCREENSHOTS

* Infested realm - https://i.imgur.com/SpaIKGV.png
* Defeating the horde - https://i.imgur.com/Vr6h3qF.png
* New gang popping up - https://i.imgur.com/mNctuTY.png
* Almost all bandits gone - https://i.imgur.com/JDq1nY2.png
* Bandits gone - https://i.imgur.com/DtmOuoS.png
* New Bandit graphics - https://i.imgur.com/W5ziKAW.png

WHAT'S NEXT

I'm having a little break after this update and then I'm going to try and work through my backlog of bug reports and suggestions and look at some mercenary ideas from my to-do list.

Thank you for reading and hope you are all safe and well wherever you are!

Cheers

Huw

[Wastelander]

Hey everyone,

This update is me catching up on player reports and the result of some playtesting. We've got better village champion battles, slight tweaks to tournaments, tweaks to the stones of the realm, more loot, better fort demotion, a new system for kingdom names, improvements on a special event, a fix for some combat issues, and tons of other bugfixes and improvements.

VILLAGE CHAMPIONS IMPROVED (14 features)

The challenging village champions system was an afterthought, you send a champion to fight and kill the village champions if they win cool, if they lose you lose a champion... Boring. Now when you win you'll be shown the rival champion being burried and then will be awared a random item of loot from the village. While adding this in I also reworked and fixed several things in these villages champion challenge system and beyond.

* Added defeating village champion gives you a random item reward from the village
* Added new screen and sfx for defeated Rihhm champion being buried
* Reworked who shall challenge village champion screen and blocked empty champion slots
* Added 3 new random screens at start of smallhaven champion challenge
* Added new screen and sfx for defeated Smallhaven champion being buried
* Added new screen for Smallhaven new champion announcement
* Fixed Rihhm village champion doesn't want to talk to you text bug
* Fixed ransacked Smallhaven screen text bugs
* Fixed abandoned Smallhaven screen text bugs
* Fixed burned Smallhaven screen text bugs
* Fixed ransacked rihhm screen text bugs
* Fixed abandoned rihhm screen text bugs
* Fixed burned rihhm screen text bugs
* Fixed text bugs in Rihhms pre-champion challenge text

TOURNEY TWEAKS (5 features)

NotFox on steam noticed that his grand champions strength was changing after tournaments, this was due to bonus strength rewards granted to the champions but they weren't visibly shown, now there are indicators showing the change as well as a few other tweaks!

* Fixed grammar issues in many tournament screens
* Added indicator at end of 8 man tournament of +1 strength reward for winner
* Added indicator at end of 16 man tournament of +2 strength reward for winner
* Added indicator at end of 32 man tournament of +3 strength reward for winner
* Added indicator at end of grand tournament of +3 strength reward for winner

THE STONES OF THE REALM (15 features)

There are many (mainly northern) stones that can be touched and rubbed for various effects, in a playtest I realised some parts of these were lacking, now they've all been reworked!

* Added new sound effect for rubbing a stone
* Added new screen for rubbing the doomstone
* Added new screen for rubbing the explorers stone (with indicator of gained explore chance)
* Added new screen for rubbing the old stone
* Added new screen for ancient northern stone
* Added new screen with sfx for destroying ancient north stone
* Added destroying ancient north stone gives -2 public opinion
* Reworked ancient north stone secret screen
* Added new sound effect to ancient north stone secret screen
* Added new screen to rubbing the goblinstone
* Added new screen to rubbing the strengthstone
* Added new screen to rubbing the harveststone
* Fixed missing line in destroying strength stone screen
* Fixed ancient north stone secret skipping
* Fixed old stone undead horde event missing line

MOAR LOOT (20 features)

As always, seeing as a new loot reward system has been added I thought I'd broaded the loot list again!

* Added 'rare mispressed gold coin with two kissing heads' random loot artifact (worth 100 gold)
* Added 'shield made of troll hide' random loot artifact (worth 110 gold)
* Added 'statue of a peasant man' random loot artifact (worth 40 gold)
* Added 'demonic lute' random loot artifact (worth 120 gold)
* Added 'rusty old spear' random loot artifact (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'broken orcish talisman' random loot artifact (worth 6 gold)
* Added 'fake orcish talisman' random loot artifact (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'ancient orcish talisman' random loot artifact (worth 125 gold)
* Added 'mysterious rainbow coloured coin' random loot artifact (worth 150 gold)
* Added 'crown of interlaced severed fingers' random loot artifact (worth 70 gold)
* Added 'statue of a goblin head made of goblin dung' random loot artifact (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'jar of gnome poo' random loot artifact (worth 4 gold)
* Added 'diamond claw' random loot artifact (worth 350 gold)
* Added 'green emerald claw' random loot artifact (worth 150 gold)
* Added 'blue sapphire claw' random loot artifact (worth 140 gold)
* Added 'topaz claw' random loot artifact (worth 130 gold)
* Added 'yellow amber claw' random loot artifact (worth 120 gold)
* Added 'green malachite claw' random loot artifact (worth 100 gold)
* Added 'red opal claw' random loot artifact (worth 90 gold)
* Added 'fire opal claw' random loot artifact (worth 115 gold)

CHAMPIONS RETURNED (4 features)

When you demoted champions from their positions running your fortresses for you they were gone forever, now if there is room for them they return as a champion and if not you are asked if you are sure you want to demote them as they'll be removed forever!

* Added demoting leader of Northwatch allows for them to be returned as a champion (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Added demoting leader of Restored North fort allows for them to be returned as champion (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Added demoting leader of Gorthmek allows for them to be returned as a champion (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Added demoting leader of Kullak allows for them to be returned as a champion (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)

KINGDOM NAMES (2 features)

When asking for a random kingdom name I felt most of the random ones weren't satisfactory, now there's a huge mix of cool names for your kingdom if you don't fancy Aslona!

* Added new system when asking for a random kingdom name at game start with 2/3 chance to pool from new list of kingdom names
* Added 512 new kingdom names

INCREASED CIVILITY EVENT (4 features)

It's rare but theres always been 1 in 100 chance that a group with less than 3 civilisation level could gain 1 civ level in a special event, this event previously was a line of text in the end of turn report screen but now it has it's own pop up event so if it happens you don't miss it!

* Added new screen for when independent kingdom increases it's civility in random end of turn event
* Added special notification showing if they have increased to diplomatic and trade level
* Added special notification showing their strength bonus
* Made new sound effect for independent kingdom gaining civility (modelled a little after the monolith scene from 2001: a space odyssey)

MAJOR COMBAT FLAW (5 features)

Bay12 forum member EuchreJack pointed out that attacking minor bandits with mercenaries, even if the mercs lost any of the surviving minor bandits from the battle wouldn't return home. I checked this and found that it went way deeper and effected all factions and sometimes even non-merc attacks. The code involved would have been the same for years so this bug has existed for almost all of Warsims development and gone unnoticed. I always remember seeing situations where factions lost a bunch of troops post battle but I just assumed I'd not been paying attention and they'd been attacked by someone else in the meantime. Thanks EuchreJack for reporting it!

* Fixed minor bandit troop issue (credit EuchreJack)
* Fixed krut and erak troop issue (credit EuchreJack)
* Fixed bandit horde troop issue (credit EuchreJack)
* Fixed rebel troop issue (credit EuchreJack)
* Fixed independent kingdom issue (credit EuchreJack)

BUGFIXES (20 features)

* Fixed destroyed bandit group showing random troop graphic instead of their actual troop graphic
* Fixed darkdale kings having the sir title resulting in king sir whatever
* Fixed orc name 'Kashthullurtz' having broken character inside the name
* Fixed Darkdale fort graphic extra space breaking the graphic
* Fixed missing indicator you can tell jokes in Darkdale tavern
* Fixed two bandit spawn chance texts showing up by mistake
* Fixed sounds not resetting when paying fee to look at Karalds Trophy room in smallhaven
* Fixed sounds not resetting after laughing man of smallhaven
* Fixed demon summoning in Blackmarket has no screen
* Fixed songwood and wildwood partially explored not showing option to return to previous region
* Fixed bandit assimilation system cooldown not working
* Fixed 'yoi want us to be lapdogs' bandit rejection text bug
* Fixed mercs from north merc post forming gang even if north merc post is ruined (credit NotFox)
* Fixed extra line in capturing fort gorthmek gold
* Fixed no gold check when paying for peace with krut or erak (takes you to minus gold if you don't have it)
* Fixed fix up and lands text bug (credit TuGun Jr)
* Fixed peasants shown instead of soldiers on soldiers to knight training screen (credit u/YetiRoadBurger)
* Fixed mine sounds playing if you have sounds disabled (credit u/internetfunnyman1000)
* Fixed rubbing doomstone doesn't give gameover screen, just closes game (credit u/Dalajnikon)
* Fixed game starting with no minor bandits but new ones spawning blocking you from seeing them (credit Omer)

EVERYTHING ELSE (7 features)

* Added new indicator of how many jokes attempts you have left in Darkdale taverns
* Added sound effect to smallhaven recruitment screen
* Added new indicators of gold lost for demon house in Blackmarket
* Reworked capturing fort gorthmek text
* Reworked game stats screen a bit
* Removed irrelevant bandit id code
* Reworked game over screen with missing line and colour

SCREENSHOTS

* Village champion reward - https://i.imgur.com/3boTXya.png
* Tournament winner - https://i.imgur.com/dZKqy9z.png
* Civilised - https://i.imgur.com/5mjpl0S.png
* Returned Commander - https://i.imgur.com/hFZJzI9.png

WHAT'S NEXT

I'm aiming to take a look at mercenaries and identify some possible improvements and changes as well as still clearing through a small backlog of bugreports and issues from players.

Cheers

Huw