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:

 

Gameplay

• Pirate activity can now be set via options in three levels
  
• Mass gatherings of pirates have been fixed
  
• Pirates off the town are shown on the nautical chart for cities where the player has an office
  
• Pirate ships out of the player's visual range can now be attacked
  
• When a convoy is attacked on a trading route, there will be an entry in your chronicle
  
• Added option to skip cities (frozen harbor, full convoy or empty convoy and none of the commodities served)
  
• Added notification for interrupted trade route
  
• Redesigned development of Mediterranean cities, expansion to five stars is now calculated properly
  
• Before sending an expedition, the return harbor of the expedition convoy can now be chosen
  
• Rebalanced calculation of population to make it more dependable on quality of life
  
• Adjusted sabotage carried out by the AI
  
• The state of a city now has an effect on wage costs
  
• 'Pause' is added as a new game speed
  
• Savegames now show extended information of game type, difficulty and in-game date
  
• In-game date is added to the file name of the savegameAbbreviations of the first and the last town of a route are added to the file name of the trading route files
  

New Missions

• Share trading with the Prince added (ability for players to acquire shares in the region of the Prince and thus to achieve a permanent increase in satisfaction)
  
• Loan mission added for the Town Hall (the player borrows gold from the town)Loan mission added for the Tavern (the AI borrows gold from the player)
  

Interface

• Added percentage of occupied dwellings in a town
  
• Added display of harbor fees to the town information and nautical chart
  
• Redesigned the trading route interface
  
• New ordering options added to convoys ship list and convoy transfer dialogue (escort/size/number of guns)
  
• A gun icon is added to every ship in the ship list to mark them as escort ships.
  
• Third tab for an overview of the Prince's shares added
  
• Added a "Brick" icon to display lack of building materials. Missing materials are displayed in a tooltipGold transfer in the city treasury can now be set using the mouse
  

Graphics

• Added new effect during construction or demolition of a building
  
• Added a hit effect for tower projectilesAdded effect for destroyed towers
  

Sound

• Added new sounds for shots, hits (melee and distance shots), death, victory, destroyed tower and destroyed business
  
• Added sound for the construction and demolition of a buildingAdded gold jingle sound for every button with a buy/sell function
  

 

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