After a few years of improvement and a mess of beta builds, the newest open supply colonization “FreeCol” 1.0 is now out there for obtain. Primarily based on Sid Meier’s Colonization (Microprose) by which the participant manages the cross-Atlantic growth of a longtime nation within the service of the Crown, that is an open supply model which can also be similar to Civilization. Beginning off with only a few colonists and in search of new lands, will you succeed for a brand new nation or be worn out by the natives.
Here’s what the web site says about this model new launch : “On this very day, 20 years in the past, we made the primary public launch of FreeCol. Our releases have till now been marked as alpha/beta despite the fact that the variety of downloads for our recreation has lengthy been counted within the tens of millions. We’re extraordinarily proud to lastly announce FreeCol 1.0.0!”. In mild of this information we have now all of the adjustments and bug fixes listed under, which makes this the very best launch of FreeCol to date.
Graphics
- New nation particular colony graphics.
- New forest graphics
- New graphics for deserts.
- New transitions between the bottom tiles.
- Minor adjustments to different graphics.
Rule adjustments
- Main adjustments to the tile items manufacturing in order that the precise values matches the unique recreation.
Mod improvement
- It is now potential to outline nation particular unit sorts that may be recruited and bought in Europe.
- Added instruments for simply making new base tiles from a single tiling texture.
- A bug that prevented sure photographs from being overridden by mods has been mounted.
AI/laptop gamers
- The AI now chooses higher areas when developing colonies, and likewise keep away from putting the colonies too shut to at least one one other.
- The AI colony improvement and growth have been improved.
- The AI can now assemble docks.
- Extra environment friendly transportation of products.
- The AI can now purchase models from Europe with out dishonest.
- The pc gamers will now use extra superior ways when defending and attacking.
- The AI now not defends its colonies with scouts.
- Including a brand new escort mission for safeguarding models. This mission is used for dragoons which are escorting artillery when attacking.
- Nationwide benefits will now change how the AI makes use of its army models. For instance, the conquest benefit (spanish) will make the participant deal with destroying the natives.
- The AI will now not equip specialists (like Elder Statemen) with muskets.
- AI ships ought to now not get caught outdoors native settlements.
Bug fixes
- A number of bugs which may trigger the sport to crash have been mounted (for instance when all settlements of a local participant was destroyed).
- Fastened a number of points with goto-orders that made the sport cling after finish of flip.
- Fastened a number of points that compelled a server reconnect.
- Fastened leaking file descriptors that crashed the sport on Home windows.
- Reduces the quantity of leaping round on the map whereas animating the strikes of enemy models.
- Accelerator keys can now be modified, saved and loaded within the preferences.
- It is now potential so as to add the identical items a number of occasions to the identical cease within the commerce route panel.
- Fixes the scaling of a number of completely different panels (preferences).
- Scrolling on the map ought to now be smoother.
- Models ought to now not have their graphics clipped on the map.
- Smoother playback of audio.
- The colony panel is now correctly up to date when clearing the speciality of a employee.
- Recursive autosave directories ought to now not be created.
- A number of textual content template fixes.
- A number of different minor bugfixes.
Different adjustments
- The escape key can now be used to shut most panels.
- There at the moment are separate quantity sliders for music and sound results.
- Added a mod the place primary buildings (degree 1) must be constructed (besides City Corridor and Carpenter’s home).
- Added a mod for having nineteenth century nations.
- Treasure trains at the moment are displayed within the cargo report panel.
- A malfunctional AI ought to now not cease the sport.
- Higher dealing with of extreme errors like out-of-memory and stack-overflow.
- Translation updates (a complete of 5191 translation strings up to date in 53 completely different languages).
