I am happy to announce a huge patch to Imperial Ambitions demo and playtest in this update! Here are some of the changes;
Players now can consume Book and Art to research techs in the Tecnology Tab on the left page. They can also view the current technological status on the right page.
Tech tree contains over 180 techs and the names of some techs may change between game sessions. This design choice was introduced to make players to rely on the name and the definition to draw their own research path. Just like real science, you'll have to break a few eggs to make an GM omelette.
The upgrades view had an overhaul, visualizing the skilltree and the dependencies of each upgrade. Also, players can choose to skip their upgrade for art or book (given that they have relevant traits).
Now players can recruit agents and units at non-capital towns as well. The recruitments are bound to buildings, which can be built by the Builder agent.
These buildings are Barracks, Stables, Cathedral, Opera House, Grand Salon and Academy.
We have started adding audio for the Tutorial Lady. Currently, only the "Supply and Demand" tutorial has vocals, but soon all of them will be vocalized.
Unclaimed tiles are automatically added to neighbouring factions if at least 3 neighbouring tiles belong to a faction.
Now ledger can be accessed using keys. Key bindings are shown in the tooltips.
ESC button is available to close/open menu or close the Ledger.
Now Shadowmaster can provoke a riot successfully.
Traits now get tooltips, explaining reasons and/or effects of the trait.
Now plundering has a low chance to drop logistic level. Plundering enemy routes is now even more destructive.
Spearman, Fusilier, and Gentleman are added to the game.
Now Military Engineer (Builder upgrade) can build Fort and Starfort. General can build Palisade.
Shadowmaster can now blow up buildings, given the order is low.
General can now increase the order by introducing martial law. It is useful to calm down small scale protests, but can cause protests to escalate into riots faster. Lenient Occupation has opposite effect.
Now FOW gradually increases instead of sharp increase at the edge of the range distance, giving a more soft transition and shading.
Page flip animations now work properly.