### Black & White 2: Redux Version 1.0 Changelog ###
REMEMBER: The game needs to load a new land so that most of the changes take effect.
Changes labeled with [EXE] need the optional installation files. Further information in readme.

# ADDITIONS

- Added land 8, land 9 and land 10

- [EXE] Holding shift while drawing streets or walls enters a special draw mode that makes it easier to draw certain shapes
	- pressing 4 will switch between the following modes: straight line, V shape, U shape, half circle
	- pressing 2 and 3 will move the tip of the V or U shape up and down
	- pressing 1 will flip the shape or mirror it

- AI epics now fire as player epics do

- Added a new music system to land 7

# AI CHANGES

- It is more likely now that AI platoons attack player platoons first before capturing the town

- The enemy creature will now more actively attack the player if the town is under takeover

- Changed how siege weapons search for gate-houses to attack, they now pick a random one instead of the nearest

- Land7: The AI will give the player a bit more time before the first attack

- Disabled AI responding to nearby platoon attacks, it sometimes makes the AI pulling all platoons on the map to attack

# BALANCE

- Walls now reduce happiness

- Villagers can carry more food and wood now

- Changed house-capacities of norse/japanese/aztec buildings to the same as greek houses

- Old villagers now die a bit earlier

- Adjusted some values for sacrifices (The older the less mana you gain)

- Land6: Increased needed impressiveness by roughly 2500

- Land7: Increased impressiveness needed for the second and third town by roughly 3000

- Platoons initial level now rises depending on the amount of armories the player has (Maximum level 5)

- Reduced wood needed for an armory or workshop

- Increased altar mana production slightly

- Set starting villagers for most lands to 70

- The pour-out duration of fire wonders has been heavily increased

- The pour-out duration of storm wonders has been heavily decreased

- The recharge rates of epic wonders have been changed; each takes 25 minutes to charge with 100 people without bonuses

- Increased meteor wonder cost to 10.500

- Increased aoe of meteor wonder by 100%

- Decreased buildings impressiveness slightly due to other changes

- Trees now give more impressiveness

- Decreased the influence extension of epics

- Connecting streets will now give more impressiveness bonus

- Impressiveness will now change a bit more based on security

- Town population gives now more impressiveness

- Doubled negative impressiveness from homelessness

- Increased influence given by granaries

- All wonders, especially meteor wonder, have been reduced in tribute cost

- Decreased radius for happiness modifier for abodes

- [EXE] Population impressiveness is now based on adult population instead of town capacity

- [EXE] Town happiness now acts as a bonus or malus to the town population impressiveness

# FIXES

- Fixed player hurricane

- In land 7 the AI won't instantly build the hurricane wonder now if your alignment is around +100%

- Fixed a bug where AI platoons were stopping actions every few seconds if a hometown was under attack

- Fixed a bug where AI platoons would stop doing anything if the target town is taken

- If a town migrates or gets captured once, it doesn't migrate any longer except the enemy capital town is taken

- Improved scripts for better performance

- Reduced villagers in many AI towns for improved performance

- Fixed departure portal showing up too late in land 8

- [EXE] Fixed a bug where impressiveness decay actually started with the third building of a type, even though other parts of the game displayed it starting at the second

# MAPS

- Land4: Changed some texture colors

- Land4: Added another mountain to the landscape

# OTHER

- Changed some values for minor objectives

- The Advisors remind you much less of your ressources

- When building a granary/lumbermill it now shows the fertility map


### What's planned? ###

- Add some new scripts which get activated on a second playthrough to increase replayability (For example a norse with an epic)

- 3 Skirmish maps with opponent gods (2 player, 3 player and a 4 player map)

- Gods playground: From it you'll load skirmish maps and it will feature some minigames and fun-stuff

- 4 "Mini Epics" (Inferno, Regrowth, Vortex, Meteor-Storm). They'll be fired from the altar. If a volcano wonder is built next to it, it will activate the inferno wonder (50.000ish mana)




### Black & White 2: Redux Version 0.9.1 Changelog ###
REMEMBER: The game needs to load a new land so that most of the changes take effect.
If you want the new creatures you have to start a new game for creature selection.

# ADDITIONS

- Added Tiger as playable creature

- Added Gorilla as playable creature

- Added new loading screens (probably want to add better loading screens at some point)

- Land 3 influence will now also extend with villagers

# AI CHANGES

- AI now has less defenders in their hometowns

- Changed how the AI decides to build defenders

- Increased time between attacks slightly

- Increased the radius where AI siege weapons will search for a enemy wall/gatehouse from 300 to 750

# BALANCE

- AI epics now need more time to charge up each time they use it

- Increased AI epics delay roughly by 10%

- Increased productivity of prayers, altars and epics charge up a bit faster

- Last-land artefacts can now be purchased as often as you want, but they'll get more expensive each time you buy it

- Reduced siege weapons movement speed to something similar like platoons

- Set artefact cost for last-land hundred soldiers to 240.000

- Set artefact cost for last-land hundred archers to 280.000

- Set artefact cost for last-land siege engine to 140.000

# FIXES

- Bearfights in the theatre now only play if the theatre has 100% health, also they don't play all the time now

- Fixed a bug where the AI wouldn't attack in the second phase of land 7

- Fixed a bug where the AI was able to recruit too many armies

- Fixed a bug where the player got twice as much tribute for completing the land

- Fixed wind sound during loading screen

- Fixed some dialogues playing twice

- Fixed AI villagers cheering nearby AI armies endlessly, causing them to get stucked (Might have fixed a number of issues related to villagers)

- Fixed some navigation issues on the 6th land

- Enemy generals now comment player actions less

- Improved in which direction AI earthquakes will head

- In land 7 the hurricane won't trigger now if the greek town is controlled by the AI

# MAP CHANGES

- Added symbols on maps which indicate the possible targets of an AI Epic (Applies only for earthquakes and volcanos)

- Flattened the landscapes around the player town in land 4, land 5 and land 6.

- Land 4: Removed some static objects like fences which cause navigation issues

# OTHER

- Increased the size of sheeps required for the "Lost Sheeps" quests by 75%

- Reduced atmosphere volume by 35%




### Black & White 2: Redux Version 0.9 ###
Full changelog

# MAIN FEATURES

- From Land 4 up to Land 7 completely revised

- Enhanced Difficulty

- Revised AI

- Town Influence now extends with villagers

- And many more surprises ;)

# QUESTS

- Added new quests
	- Some from Black & White 1, rescripted for Black & White 2
	- Also some quests which didn't made it into the final release of Black & White 2

- New Quests List
	- Land 4: Lost Sheeps
	- Land 4: Missionaries
	- Land 5: Kidnapper
	- Land 7: Chicken-Wolf-Grain

# BALANCE CHANGES

- Increased amount of ore a wall needs

- Fields produce less food

- Reduced praying multiplier when placing for example a temple next to a worship building like an altar

- Changed how many villagers can live in several houses

- Hand forcing now requires Mana
	- Player needs at least 1000 Mana
	- While using god's forcing, it costs around 100-200 mana/second

- Altar Miracles Mana costs increased drastically
	- Water from 750 to 2.500
	- Heal from 1.500 to 3.000
	- Shield from 1.750 to 4.500
	- Fireball from 2.000 to 4.750
	- Lightning-Storm from 5.000 to 5.500

- Siege Weapons are now stronger
	- Doubled HP from 120 to 240, they are more resistent against fire-damage
	- Increased damage slightly
	- Increased movement speed

- Doubled Epic Wonders Mana cost, they now need more time to charge up

- Removed Heal miracle from player creature

- Removed Fortified Walls to be purchaseable