CaesarIA
Update #18 (Build 67)
This update focuses on fixing bugs in Construction Mode of the game and does not offer any new content this time. Here's the list of what's done:
- Fixed aqueduct and road tiles overlay in construction mode;
- Fixed roadblocks display in construction mode;
- Fixed a crash after calling entertainment advisor;
- Fixed changes processing in the city properties window;
- Fixed open layer display in construction mode;
- Fixed tiles rendering order in construction mode;
- Fixed language selection dialog if no language files are present;
- Fixed buildings construction on tiles if they already have other objects;
- Fields/Meadows tiles now can get on file as well if a farm is on fire;
+ Added a layer to display market availability for houses;
+ Added extended sound settings for game objects.
The next update will come with more fixes and new content as well. It will be out pretty soon.
Thanks for waiting and thank you for all of your support. :)
Hotfix #12
This quick hotfix adresses several severe bugs and adds a new soundtrack.
- Lowered fire spreading level;
- Fixed Mac version crash while loading a map;
- Fixed PDFs opening from "Ave Caesar" DLC on Linux and Mac;
- Fixed boats animation;
- Fixed tiles generation on random maps;
- Fixed a crash when Venus was unable to find houses to lower happiness level;
- Fixed mission briefings display;
- Fixed innacurate work force calculation;
+ Added new soundtrack by Kevin MacLeod - "Pyre";
+ Added farm and factory info window;
+ Added full screen confirmantion window.
More fixes and new content are comming. Stay tuned.
And, as always, thank you for your support.
Update #17 (build 66)
This is another huge update for all you Caesaria fans. Let's go straight to the subject. First of all, what was fixed:
- Fixed sound processing while scrolling through the city;
- Fixed a rare bug with mini map becoming green on some maps;
- Fixed "Green Piece" crash after you tried removing some trees on selected maps;
- Fixed household mood calculation;
- Fixed "All Hail Windows" crash when Mac version was crashing randomly on some maps;
- Fixed freezing prefects bug when they would freeze when unable to locate fire;
- Fixed disappearing tooltips on Construction menu buttons;
- Fixed fire spreading algorithm, now it considers surrounding objects' state;
- Fixed crashing when you would try to build any big building near the border of a map;
- Fixed freezing settlers bug when they would freeze near a house w/o available rooms;
- Fixed inability to build an aqueduct near roads;
- Fixed freezing servicemen bug when they froze if the building they had been going to service had became not available;
- Fixed sounds mashup when far sounds would be louder than sounds from nearer objects;
- Fixed prefect's behavior when finding rioters or arsonists;
- Fixed tax collectors behavior, they will not collect tax twice from the same building now;
- Fixed procurement algorithm for goods from the warehouses if requested products have been blocked by the player or other trader;
- Fixed inability to build a clay pit near the water;
- Fixed incorrect servicemen path information storing while saving the game;
- Fixed gathering of various information about the city for the monthly statistics report;
- Fixed rendering of objects in the deconstruction mode;
- Fixed calculation of Venus' anger / blessings;
- Fixed display of citizens mood on the governor approval layer;
- Fixes in German, Spanish, Romanian and French localizations.
Next we go for more additional content:
+ Added buildings sounds when you open the building information window;
+ Added textures and animation for docks and fisherman boats;
+ Added alarm sound (fire, collapse, enemies);
+ Added an experiental feature - fire growth with time and trees growth;
+ Added sounds for Construction menu;
+ Added a layer to display unemployment rate in the city;
+ Added 20 news sounds for different buildings;
+ Added new achivement icons and texts;
+ Added Russian briefings narrations.
All this and more is packed in update 17. As usual, more exciting stuff is coming with next updates which we are working on, so stay tuned for more news from Team Caesaria.
Another big announcement is coming this week. ːsteamhappyː
Update #16 (Build 65)
Summer heat is killing us, but do not worry - Caesaria lives. Here's an important update. It may still hold '65' build number, but don't be mistaken by it - there's a plenty of deep fixes. No new content this time, we had to concentrate on fixing bugs this time.
Here's what we've got:
+ Added a layer to display the mood in the city;
+ Added religion state descriptions to the main adviser window;
+ Added dock info-window which displays the current status of the warehouse;
+ Added an option to set automatic demolition of the houses near an infected building;
+ Healthcare buildings now keep records on the number of patients, relevant statistics is displayed in the adviser on healthcare window;
+ Improved Romanian translation;
- Fixed city treasury balance calculation routine;
- Fixed trade routes data loading, traders will not disappear near cities anymore;
- Fixed the drawing order of columns on the information layers, they will no longer cover buildings and people;
- Fixed parameters reading from the last year of a city's history;
- Fixed tiles display in the water resources layer;
- Fixed that bug with tax when calculating mood in the house;
- Fixed recruiters behavior, they no longer get stuck near buildings if there are no people available for hire in the district;
- Fixed calculation of the current state of healthcare in the city;
- Fixed Roman calendar to correctly display names of the months;
- Senate info-window no longer comes off screen;
- Corrected adviser on healthcare tips;
* Re-worked trader's info-window, now it shows what was bought/sold by a trader;
* Buildings removal mode is now disabled by Esc.
Stay tuned for more summer updates. New content is comming soon. :)
And, as always, thank you for your support.
Update #15 (Build 65)
This update comes with new textures, animations and bug-fixes of course. Currently we are busy updating map renderer, after the update the game will be able to handle more animations/actions for map objects, because at the moment we are still using Caesar-3-like renderer.
Now for the changes:
+ Added textures for barber;
+ Added textures and animation for oil workshop;
+ Redesigned zoom logic, added a limit for a minimal zoom - now you can as well see a may full city map;
+ Redesigned renderer logic - zooming is much smoother now;
- Fixed process of hiring workers from houses if a house is being upgraded;
- Fixed services configs loading for houses;
- Fixed offsets for barber/oil workshop textures;
- Fixed offsets for warehouse textures.
Also we're working on new music and some additional materials about game.
Thanks! Stay tuned.
- Team Caesaria
Caesaria is #1 RTS on Source Forge
Well, this is nothing but a quick show off if you will, but we just couldn't miss an opportunity to thank you all again for your constant support.
With your help, Caesaria is the most popular RTS game on Source Forge. And we are 'number one' with much bigger download numbers than others.
Thank you!
Update #14 (build 64)
In this update we've fixed a lot of minimap bugs, some other minor issues and added new content. Check this out:
+ Added textures for narrow and wide walls;
+ Added textures and animation for marble quarry;
+ Added textures of the Forum;
+ Added possibility to display Roman measurement units and time format;
+ Added support for Asian characters / fonts;
+ Added possibility to turn off buildings highlights for more C3 compatibility;
- Fixed a bug with invisible cities on the map of the Empire;
- Fixed wrong minimap rotation bug;
- Fixed a bug with coast and rivers tiles dissapearing after map rotation;
- Fixed buildings shifting after map rotation;
- Fixed temple fires animation freezing;
- Fixed incorrect display of the amphitheater without workers;
- Fixed shifting of land tiles in the layers mode;
- Fixed saving / loading of city's economy reports for the current year;
- Fixed saving / loading of welfare state of the city;
- Sound settings are now correctly saved / loaded;
- Fixed dissapearence of land tiles under the entrance / exit points of the city;
- Fixed religion level calculation in NPC-cities;
* Added protesters for low mood cities;
* Improved support for .sav / .map formats of C3 (all buildings are now loaded correctly except for bridges and walls);
* Immigrants are now visible on the minimap.
Have fun with this patch. Now improvements are on the way. And new textures and animations will be present in June. See you soon.
Update #13 (build 63)
Probably the last update of May consists of several fixes for severe bugs and some new textures and animations.
- Fixed a crash when trying to build a plaza;
- Fixed a crash when trying to build a road block;
- Fixed Emperor's relations worsening if a city does not pay to the Emperor;
- Fixed the influence of the Ceres temple on the surrounding buildings, now in case of favorable attitude of the goddess - farms productivity will accelerate, this works backwards as well;
- Fixed Senate flags rendering, now they correctly indicate the life parameters of the city;
+ Added sawmill textures;
+ Added a hot key for your city's Health layer;
+ Added textures for wealth (taxes) layer;
+ Added temples animations, fire bowls are now animated near working temples;
+ Added ability to display the number of goods in the metric system of the ancient Rome;
* Mercury's temple now affects stores / shopping centers located near by.
June is going to have more new content and of course we won't stop fixing bugs you are reporting. Thank you all!
Update #12 (build 62)
Today we have a bunch of fixes for those annoying bugs you've been reporting. And some new content of course. Check this out:
* Rewritten mini-map rendering, now it consumes less CPU time;
- Fixed annoying crash when displaying sound settings window;
- Fixed batch mode when working with C3 textures;
- Fixed several memory leaks while creating/deleting textures;
- Fixed text lists rendering, the edges of textures are now displayed properly;
- Fixed mini-map colors: homes, farms and factories are now of different colors;
- Fixed a crash when a porter could not find the way to his base;
- Warnings are now rendered correctly - without gaps between textures;
- Map of the city no longer disappears while zooming;
- Textures are now correctly drawn even if the game couldn't form a rendering list;
- Buildings which are located near the fountains or wells are now less likely to burn;
+ Some interface textures updates;
+ Added Legionnaires Fort textures;
+ Added Spearmen Fort textures;
+ Added Riders Fort textures;
+ Added Fort site textures;
+ Added trigger-tiles for different events;
+ Added a basic AI logic for a city which is managed by CPU (calculated: food consumption, population growth, migration and production).
The more bugs you find, the better. :) Keep reporting.
Thank you!
Update #11 (build 61)
This update is huge, but don't get too excited - it's much more on the back-end than on the front-end. Massive work was done to the game code:
* Game graphics engine were rewritten, textures batching is now used to lower GPU usage;
* Compiled with SDL2/mixer libs, thus 3rd-party modules dependency is avoided and the size of other used libs is reduced;
* Appended OpenGLES2 (mobile devices/Android) renderer for textures batching mode.
After that, of course, fixes and new textures:
- Fixed a crash while displaying routes on the global map;
- Fixed Library/Academy construction process;
- Fixed soundtrack playback on Linux;
- Fixed rendering of tiles, which are placed on the edges of the map;
- Fixed a crash during a briefing between missions, when there is no available missions to continue;
- Fixed special orders window for barn/warehouse, free space is now used properly;
- Fixed city services initialization at the start of every mission, all services start with the correct parameters;
- Fixed buildings settings reading for C3 resouces;
- Fixed audio settings saving when there is no (not defined) audio output device;
- Now you see a placeholder while trying to play a missing video;
+ Forum is now available for construction in missions;
+ Added German localization for training missions;
+ Added Library textures;
+ Added Iron mines textures and animations;
+ Added Cattle-breeding farm textures.
This update was needed a lot because now mobile gameplay will be much smoother and less resource consuming. New updates to come soon, we have a lot of nice stuff for you. :)