Civilization IV Patch Changelog

What's new in Civilization IV Patch 1.74

• Cossack gets only 25% bonus versus mounted
• Can no longer upgrade Marines and SAM Infantry to Mech Infantry
• Fixed MP Retire crash
• MP - Can no longer bypass the delay timer
• Pitboss fix for the bug where you would not get the free tech from the Oracle if you were not online
• Fixed forced specialist bug
• Fixed bug preventing AI from building ICBMs
• Fixed exploit allowing you to build unique unit of a different civ by saving it in your build queue from a different game
• Game no longer crashes when you load a save with the diplomacy screen open
• First strike combat bug fix
• Fixed transported unit gifting bug
• Fixed pop-rush rounding bug
• Widescreen Laptop video resolution 1280x720 is supported
• Fixed multiple missions exploit from the same Great Person
• Changes
• randomized processing order when multiple players try to move on the same turn slice...
• only the host can set the admin password...
• Horseback Riding now a classical tech...
• Kremlin now gives -33% hurry production cost...
• can't airlift from foreign cities...
• expanded subject for PitBoss e-mail...
• lightened the color of some civs' text...
• mp retire fix...
• less hammers from chops the farther away from a city...
• reduced hammer yield from forest chops to 20…
• Mathematics increases forest chop yields by +50%...
• SDI cannot be built before the Manhattan Project...
• increased SDI cost...
• marines and SAM Infantry now upgrade to Mech Infantry...
• better AI-to-human diplo in team games...
• no more diplo penalty for helping to end wars...
• city production popups stay on city when entering/exiting...
• can now set units to Sleep and Intercept in wbs...
• Continents map script now produces large continents
• game options and victory conditions now saved in ini file...
• invalid buildings now removed from city queues...
• Free Trade: Medium Upkeep
• State Property: Low Upkeep
• Representation: +2 happy in X biggest cities
• Hereditary Rule: Low Upkeep
• Representation: Medium Upkeep
• Slaver: Low Upkeep
• Nationhood: No Upkeep
• firepower is now average of curr and max strength...
• Gunships now move faster over rails...
• No Cheating option renamed to Lock Modified Assets...
• city management no longer uses "forced" specialist states when not automated...
• Expansive: +3 Health
• Financial: No longer give production bonus for Banks
• Prompt for admin password when loading a game containing one in LAN, Internet, or Pitboss play
• Don't allow players to play non-playable civs in Pitboss
• Do not display SP only mods in Pitboss
• Allow hotseat/PBEM scenario host to select which civ s/he will play
• Force non-playable civs to be AI in Hotseat/PBEM games
• Allowing for AI slots in player defined scenarios for Hot Seat, PBEM, and Pitboss games
• Do not display duplicate buddy request popups from the same guy
• Peer address handling improvements
• Number keys perform leaderhead actions on Civilopedia leader screen.
• Custom game SP screen remembers difficulty level last played
• Reduced rounding error for population and land victory condition test
• Loading a multiplayer game as a PBEM/hotseat converts it to non-simultaneous turns
• When the city names of your civ are all taken, choose a default name from a random civ
• Timelines more uniform across game speeds
• Military Advisor shows Barbarians
• Tech chooser screen now observes CvGameInterface.cannotResearch() and shows the tech in a red pane if the function returns true
• Fixed American Revolution scenario to work with Pitboss
• PBEM password reminder popup no longer disappears when the game starts
• Wonder description on Wonder Movie screen more legible
• Top Civs screen no longer appears in online multiplayer
• Civilopedia main page sorted in columns rather than in rows
• Pressing escape when selecting goto points now cancels the goto waypoints
• Military advisor now works like foreign advisor: clicking on leader buttons clears previous leader selections unless you hold down the shift key.
• Teams in multiplayer once again share all the players' starting techs, not just the last player's
• Great person point generation from Wonders continues after Wonder has become obsolete
• quicksave doesn't prompt for overwrite
• Fixes
• exploit fix that allowed multiple players to extract the same gold/resources from the AI...
• Don't set localhost address as public addr for peers on same computer
• fixed gunships capturing cities bug...
• game doesn't end on ties...
• fixed mp UN voting bug...
• Leaderheads on a radeon 9000 64mb - fix for strange skin shading.
• Fixed crash that happened when a spy sabotaged an improvement outside cultural borders.
• The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder.
• Double-clicking on a save of a mod now loads the proper DLL.
• fixed Out-of-Sync from exiting to main menu...
• fixed anarchy/specialist resetting bug...
• fixed bug where environmentalism doesn't affect new cities...
• fix for missing head mission crash...
• fixed stack attack bug with groups of units with more than one move...
• fixed premature end-turn unit cycle bug...
• fixed State Porperty cumulative effect in team game...
• fixed plot list button scrolling for multiple resolutions...
• fixed some AI attitude issues for team games...
• Strip chat messages of color tags before displaying in Pitboss
• Fixed logic bug that determines the number of open slots in a Pitboss game
• Improving how the host determines if the game is full - number of connections rather than number of players - before, the host wasn't considering joining players when determining if the game was full
• Set status to CLOSED when a computer player dies in the game
• The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder.
• Load proper DLL when a mod is specified in the ini file
• fix for tech chooser showing known techs as unknown
• Clear map data (like latitudes) when you exit to main menu
• Fixed error in combat calculations when a zero-strength unit was involved.
• Fixed bug in Info screen "rival worst" calculation
• End of game sequence plays correctly for hotseat/pbem
• Diplomacy screen no longer allows end-turn events to go through
• Diplomacy screen gold popups respond to ESCAPE and RETURN
• Right-click select-all no longer causes large stacks to slide off the screen
• No longer possible to attempt to take over unplayable civs in multiplayer scenarios
• Fixed PBEM infinite movement exploit
• Fixed rush production per population for game speeds other than normal
• GNP graph is now consistent with demographics table
• Fix Gunship being almost invisibile in Frozen mode
• fix mod name in progress bar
• New DX9 code takes screenshot without requiring lockable back buffer
• Fixed the vertically launching torpedo for the submarine unit
• Movie playback optimized
• Significant reduction in video and system memory usage
• Fixed some memory leaks
• Fixed crashes with modified SDK
• Fixed XML failures with non-default locale
• Many translation fixes
• Memory related crash fixes
• Fixed diplomacy crash fix (when expanding an empty tree control with space bar)
• Internet lobby -> LAN fix
• fixed pedia and menu buttons disappearing after leaving tech chooser
• PitBoss no longer crashes on victory
• can no longer see number of units in darkened tiles by moving the flag
• No more Archers holding all their weapons and Workers holding all their tools
• No more fog of war missing from the southern ice and from trees/jungle on the dateline
• Pushing "go back" while joining a mp game, no longer causes background music to disappear
• Wonder movie effect and zoom no longer happens when you have disabled Wonder movies
• City billboards no longer choke on text formatting
• Many tutorial issues fixed…
• Fixed checksum folder order difference between NTFS and FAT32 filesystems
• Many worldbuilder issues fixed…
• Fix: Black eye shadows
• Fix: Some leaderheads appear to have white eyes when the low-res textures option is on
• fixing crack in huge globe view maps
• fixes the problem where animals were not animating in the fog
• Prevent Terrain crash when reloading EarthMap twice
• fixed crash on too quick quickload
• fixed city yields being revealed in FOW
• fixed ability to see cities in FOW via defense modifiers
• ICBM no longer flips upside-down when fortified/awaken
• Fix for combat bug across a map seam
• Additions
• PitBossSleep ini setting...
• unit cycling optimization...
• Africa, Europe, East Asia, Eastern U.S., and South America maps
• Fantasy_Realm, Fractal, and Shuffle map scripts
• unit health bar for plot list buttons...
• Require Complete Kills game option
• No Movies is now a graphical option (instead of an ini option)...
• Warn all users when a player with a different version of files joins the game
• Display a popup warning the host when a joining player has different versions of XML/Python files so he can make sure this guy can be trusted
• Indicate which players have an active turn in the Pitboss admin screen
• Synch Logging now an .ini option
• Able to load mods from the Pitboss
• Hotseat and PBEM scenarios
• Display name of peer you are contacting in join screen if available
• Saving DirectIP join address
• Added culture rate popup help to culture bar in city screen
• Added Admin password field in PBEM/Hotseat staging screens
• Added HideMovieBackground ini option for further movie speedup
• Added HideOutOfVRamWarning ini option
• Exposed many more functions to Python
• Hooked up modern whaling boats
• support for movies in customAssets folder