Changelog EA4

FOCUS

• New Visual Style: Experience “wusel” mode with detailed, compact estates and a closer camera. Each estate has a distinct strategic role. Choose wisely and unlock new areas through bridges and tunnels.

• Revamped Progression: Research now drives advancement. Forest tiles and estate space are more valuable than ever, influencing your strategy. New worker abilities and reworked building upgrades bring fresh dynamics to the economy. Adapt your strategy!

• NPC Pirates Have Arrived: Battle through a light single-player scenario and join forces with others to clear pirates from key trading towns.

• Co-op & Guilds: Join guilds to chat, co-research, bid for auctioned personalities, and climb the tech tree together. Guilds now play a crucial role in boosting your town’s success!

DETAILS

• Worker abilities: Some workers are super intelligent (learn 50% faster), super strong (can carry 6 instead of 4 goods and can have a super dexterity (construct 50% faster)

• Smarter workers: Workers calculate the amount of goods in relation to walking time. They prefer production buildings, but may choose the harbor storage if this is much more efficient.

• Worker Names: You can give each worker a unique name

• Idle Worker boost: To make the game less time consuming, your workers gain an idle boost when they can’t continue their work. After that they are 50% faster for the duration of the idle time in the following fields:

  • Production Speed

  • Construction Speed

  • Repair Speed

  • Selling Speed

  • Learning and Researching

• Production time per unit is now calculated in milliseconds, so even small upgrade steps improve production time

• Production input efficiency: Can be improved for each input good seperately and in smaller steps

• Lumberyard: Each building has to reserve forest tiles to produce wood there

• Flexible land demand: When more workers are employed in a building, more tiles are required for maximum efficiency.

• Techtree

  • Requires research points

  • Unlock new features and improve things

• Guilds

  • Up to 10 players of a town can join a guild

  • Research Points can be produced together

  • Historical Personalities can be hired in a Dutch auction to give time limited boni for all guild members

• Chat

  • Groupchats for the world, town and guilds

  • Private chats

  • Subthreads and reactions

• Pirates

  • Blocks other towns on the Worldmap and can disturb trading

  • Players of a town can chase them away together

  • Pirates Story Quests (Single Player)

• Royal Fleet:

  • Demands one additional good type each chapter

  • No more taxes, but one blocked town for each unfullfilled good

• Harbour Storage:

  • The storage size is much smaller at the beginning and can be upgraded over the entire playing time

• Estates:

  • All estates have been redesigned

  • Some estates can be extended via tunnel or bridge

  • There is a fourth estate type available (Farm Estate)

• Bridges/Tunnels: New building types that connect two parts of one estate and need a lot of goods to be constructed

• Statue of Liberty: Get additional power points by building the Statue of Liberty together in Chapter 4. All goods will be needed to build it. 

Balancing changes

• Dedicated input/output ratio for each input good

• Increased estate building time and construction time for upgrades

• Reworked goods chains and prices