New trade system, economy balancing and more

This update introduces the new trade system, updates military and logistics mechanics, and includes various UI improvements and bug fixes.

Key Highlights:

• Trade System: Implemented trading mechanics with random trade offers from neutral players
• Horse Logistics and Warfare: Added horse transport, horse butchering, and grain consumption for army horses. Horses on the map now double movement speed (2 instead of 1) and increase combat stats (agility, offense, defense).
• Military and Combat: Training higher-tier units now requires base units in the capital (Militia for Men-at-arms/Archers, Men-at-arms for Knights). Added arrow and iron ball ammunition consumption, combat overviews, and upgraded town defenses.
• UI and Accessibility: Added detailed upkeep breakdowns in tooltips, notifications for combat results, dynamic tooltip scaling, and siege requirement hints.

Full Patch Notes (v0.14.0)

UI Changes

• Upkeep updates while paused
• Implemented breakdown for upkeep in tooltips (resources and materials)
• Added title to construction queue
• Added tooltips to construction queue headers
• Added info about max available workers to construction queue tooltip
• Increased text size for transport sliders
• Colorized material costs in construction queue
• Added tooltips to mountain resources on the map
• Implemented dynamic tooltip size
• Added tooltip with required materials to siege equipment
• Added warehouse hint to town view
• Added notifications for new combat results
• Added tooltip for reputation

Help / Tutorial Changes

• Changed map seed
• Extended exploration steps
• Added tutorial objective for starting a siege
• Added help entry for starting a siege

Map Changes

• Disabled organic map creation
• Changed region IDs
• Reworked map generation
• Changed starting positions for enemy towns

Economy Changes

• Implemented trading
• Implemented horse butchering
• Goods supply for citizens can now be deactivated
• Reduced amount of produced resources and materials
• Increased build time

Military Changes

• Training Men-at-arms and Archers now requires Militia in the capital
• Training Knights now requires Men-at-arms in the capital
• Implemented grain consumption for horses assigned to armies
• Added horses to soldiers on the map
• Horses increase movement speed on map (2 instead of 1)
• Horses increase agility, offense, and defense in combat
• Implemented arrow and iron ball consumption
• Implemented combat overview
• Prevented sieges if another kingdom is already besieging the town
• Towns can now be upgraded for improved defense and local storage

Transport Changes

• Implemented transport via horses
• Implemented transport checks to prevent production exceeding transport capacity

Research Changes

• Adjusted research order
• All research items are now visible with prerequisite hints

Population Changes

• Clerics can now be trained from the start
• Removed paper cost from Cleric training
• Increased time before starvation based on estate/rank

Fixes

• Fixed missing translation for "complete in" in construction queue
• Starved military units now correctly disappear from town view
• Fixed region positions after conquering
• Clerics ended their lent and consume food again
• Hidden windows no longer capture drag inputs
• Archers and Knights can now be selected in town view
• Fixed army selection view
• Capital Army no longer disappears after loading a savegame
• Storming towns now works correctly
• Fixed goods consumption issues by citizens
• Fixed issue with war and peace declarations
• Fixed translation for reputation
• Improved color display of help videos

As always, if you run into bugs or have feedback regarding the new trade system, feel free to leave a comment or drop a message on Discord.