This update improves heir education and family fleet management, adds more meaningful sponsor rewards for favored discoveries, and addresses a sailing hitch and several terrain and visual issues.
Heir Education and the Estate
- Set each child's main field and education budget to continue lessons automatically. Children can also learn outside their main field, and introductory lessons do not require a teacher. Deposit up to 10,000; the budget does not refill automatically.
- Adult children can study abroad for three years at a cost of 20,000, once per child. Graduation grants 6 growth points to spend on skills of your choice.
- Succession grants 2 additional growth points and a modest introductory skill inheritance from the previous family head. Unspent growth points are retained.
- The education screen now includes portraits, field icons, a budget slider and progress indicators. Paid courses already underway in existing saves are preserved.
- Reorganized the estate around overview, family, companions and facilities. Facility details show previews matching the home port's architectural culture and building level, including construction and completion states.
Unified Merchant Fleets
- The separate family caravan system has been merged into regional merchant fleets. Existing caravan ships move to fleets in their destination regions; ships that cannot be placed are compensated at the fleet sale value. Operating funds, unsettled profits and caravan treasury balances return to family funds.
- Assign expedition companions directly to fleets at trading posts. On release, they rejoin the expedition if space is available, or return to the estate.
- Each estate trading-office level increases all family fleets' trade strength by 10%, up to 50%. This is separate from the stock and defensive benefits of city trading houses.
- Family fleets now appear on the sailing map, represented by a ship traveling between trading ports in their region.
- Respond to fleet raids by paying for protection, escorting the fleet yourself, or accepting a loss. Accepting the loss or missing the deadline reduces trade and combat strength until the quarterly settlement rather than removing ships.
Sponsor Rewards and Sailing Fixes
- Sponsors now offer additional support for discoveries in their fields of interest while retaining minimum expedition funding. This makes early contract rewards more distinct. Existing signed contracts keep their agreed amounts.
- When tracking a destination, departure now selects a safe starting position closer to the target. Ports with explicitly assigned departure coordinates retain their existing positions.
- Fixed distorted islands in part of the Strait of Malacca that could trap ships, and updated the associated navigation data.
- Reduced a large hitch when preparing a notification portrait for the first time at sea. Required portraits are now prepared during departure loading and reused, without reducing graphics quality.
- Fixed flickering where Antillia's trading-office and chart-storage lots overlapped roads.
Thank you for your feedback! We will continue reviewing sailing performance and usability.