🔧 Update v0.1.98 — RTS Control Groups, Smooth Camera Edge Panning & Diplomacy B

🔧 Update v0.1.98 — RTS Control Groups, Smooth Camera Edge Panning & Diplomacy Bug Fixes

Hello Commanders!

This update introduces RTS-style control groups for seamless unit management, heavily refined screen edge panning, balance adjustments for random events, and key bug fixes driven directly by our playtesters!

Here is what's new in v0.1.98:

🎮 RTS-Style Control Groups & Hotkey Tweaks

• Custom Unit Selections: You can now group your armies and fleets using standard RTS controls! Simply select your units and press [Ctrl + 0-9] to assign them to a group. Pressing [0-9] instantly re-selects that group, and double-tapping centers the camera on them.

• Camera Focus: Focused selection tracking has been optimized to keep your most important task forces front and center during fast-paced global deployments.

• Hotkey Polish: Removed conflicting speed adjustments from keyboard hotkeys to ensure your custom groups bind flawlessly across all systems.

🎥 Adaptive Camera Edge Panning

• Enhanced Responsiveness: Re-tuned screen boundary detection for mouse edge-panning. Edge-panning is now dynamically adjusted based on camera zoom levels, offering an incredibly smooth and highly responsive scroll across borders.

🕊️ Major Diplomatic Bug Fixes

• Alliance Invitation Spam: Fixed a critical bug where AI nations under high threat would ignore diplomacy cooldowns and spam players with alliance invitations every tick. AI will now strictly respect diplomatic cooldowns.

• Correct Toast Names: Fixed a UI bug where independence guarantee popups would occasionally list the wrong country name if you selected a new country mid-transition.

• Rivalry Notification Spam: Resolved an issue where the game would re-notify you daily about the same AI country designating you as a rival. Duplicate alerts are now completely blocked.

• Stable Game Loading: Fixed a loading issue to ensure TargetISO3 diplomatic relationships are fully and correctly restored when resuming a saved campaign.

⚖️ Event Balancing & Interface Adjustments

• Random Event Tuning: Adjusted weights and penalties for random events to keep gameplay fair, challenging, and rewarding.

• UI Panel Polish: Corrected the sidebar behavior to ensure left panel sub-tabs close and reopen predictably when clicking on countries or changing selection modes.