Patrician IV Update Released

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Updates to Patrician IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Patrician IV 1.2

 

Missions

 

• Harbours in an entire region are now besieged by the local sovereign
  
• Two new events for the Elderman to react to: Harbour siege and bad food supply
  
• New town hall mission: City seeks help after a desastrous event
  
• Two new guild missions: Supply food, hunt down pirates in a region
  
• New tavern missions: Hunt down pirate, provoke uprising, transport evacueesRevised some missions
  

Gameplay

 

• Plagues now cause fatalities on advanced difficulty settings
  
• Treasuries of AI-controlled cities increase more slowly (AI construction slowed down)
  
• Buildings under construction by the player can now be canceled
  
• Reduced volume of money jingle and added options.cfg setting
  
• Underproduction of goods in a city is now displayed in the trade window of the market hall
  
• Fire event revised and new event video added
  
• Revised display of guild options
  
• Revised construction and layout of streetsDecreased duration of sieges
  

Sea battles

 

• Matched camera zoom levels with cannon ranges
  
• Player-controlled vessels now stick to their last command until a new one is issued
  
• Revised gunfire sound and line of fireWind speed and direction is now displayed by moving clouds
  

Interface

 

• If a trade convoy is being attacked, a battle icon with tooltip is being displayed for two days on the sea map
  
• In construction mode, buildings under construction are now indicated with a tooltip
  
• The currently selected convoy is now marked in the convoy list
  
• The convoy options window can now be accessed from the convoy list
  
• Transferring goods between convoys is now possible by selecting a convoy and right-clicking on the target convoy
  
• The convoy list now displays single, unorganized ships
  
• Tooltips for the counting house administrator now display the production price of goods
  
• Amount of goods for auto trade routes can now be adjusted in +/
  
• 10 percent steps
  
• Revised keyboard shortcuts and added a new options dialogue in pause menu
  
• Convoys can now be saved on number keys (1...0)Added new video events for rank promotion
  

Info displays

 

• City info: Current amount of beggars and influx of beggars is now displayed
  
• City info: If living space for individual types of citizens is filled by 90% or more, the amount of tenants is displayed
  
• Negative values for city reputation is now displayed instead of 0%Effects of fountains, hospital and chapel are now displayed
  

Bugfixes

 

• Resolved issues with administrator and trade routes due to rounding errors
  
• Revised city promotion
  
• Fixed some rare crashes
  
• Fixed AI building construction outside city walls
  
• Fixed issues with sieging player convoys
  
• Fixed issues with town discovery and city founding
  
• Fixed issues with high desktop resolution (DPI) settings in WindowsImproved support for USB sound devices (e.g. Logitech G35)
  

 

 

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