Hi everybody, where i can get the 2.5.6 s3 mode version?

Version 2.5.6 is a beta version that is only available in the beta-testing channel of the discord.

It's been a while, but a new version of ELCP is finally here! Remember to join my [Discord Channel], if you want to have a chat. Further information for newcomers can be found on [page 1].

As we enter the third year of ELCPs existence, I still find myself being drawn back to the game from time to time. This patch has been brewing for a while now, and it brings some interesting changes. First and foremost there are - once more - many bugfixes, some to issues which were show stoppers. Most importantly Urkans should now finally no longer able to die or "disappear", which typically lead to broken saves. The whole buggy security and mod-checking complex has been reworked aswell. Mod load order is now preserved correctly when loading a save/joining a multiplayer lobby, leading to less bugs. Using the steam-invite function no longer ignores hash checks. If you suddenly are unable to join multiplayer lobbies via steam invite, chances are your installation has some issues, a complete reinstall could help in this case. Last but not least, older savegames now remain functional in multiplayer, even when ELCP or other mods get updated. All in all these changes should lead to a more stable multiplayer experience.

Featurewise the biggest newcomer is probably the custom scaling UI. This feature (programmed by community member whateverelse) is highly experimental and may have some quirks, but it should finally allow HighRes users to adjust the UI more to their liking.

As a final note: I know there is now also a version of EL that comes with the XBox Game Pass. I have no clue if ELCP is compatible with this version, and I have no way of testing it. If you are a Game Pass user, try it at your own risk ;).

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Changelog for v2.6.0:

General

• Fixed an issue where Heros of eliminated Empires wouldnt get released from prison properly
• Entering Peace, Alliance or Truce now automatically cancels all ongoing Fungal Bloom dismantling actions with the other Empire
• Fixed custom Ardent Mages that have no spells causing never ending AI battles
• Fixed the reworked version of the "Body and Blood" Quest not working correctly (thx Iceberg)
• Fixed a bug introduced by Symbiosis, that caused Tower of Truth and Tower of Fidelity not to do any retaliation damage
• Performance: As a Mykara, clicking on a city or a bloom when many blooms have been grown will no longer freeze the screen for a moment
• Performance: Spread out the computation load for AI diplomacy a bit, which should lessen the amount of hitching at the start of the turn somewhat (mainly during lategame)
• Performance: Introduced a new pregame Setting: "Visibility-Update-Speed"
  • Controls how often the Fog of War is recalculated, can be used to improve performance in CPU limited (lategame-)scenarios slightly
  • Will have minor game play impact, where sometimes it takes a few frames for the fog to update correctly
• Fixed a Bug where the upgrade notification for Fungal Bloom Towers would bug out if the blooms where destroyed at the same time the popup happens
• Fixed a Bug where the Mykara Symbiosis feature would not work at all when the Player doesnt use the "Shadows"-DLC
• Spectators can no longer raze Cities overgrown by Mykara
• Fixed a few bugs with the price calculation on the Market
• Urkans can now longer "drown" (they will untame and relocate instead)
• Urkans can no longer settle on ice shelves
• Embarked Urkans that get untamed and burrow away now lose their "embarked" status properly
• There is now a "last resort" relocate function when no free regions are found. In this case the Urkans will teleport to a random location, but will not settle
  • This is only of relevance when an Urkan is untamed during the lategame on a fully settled map.
• Fixed a long standing bug where certain quests couldnt progress even though they should because the game didnt create proper deep copies of certain objects
  • This bug affected many quests, for example a common occurance was the Vaulter Main quest Chapter 3 not progressing after the Winter Shelter has been built
  • This bugfix is not retroactive, it wont fix broken quests affected by the bug in your ongoing game
• Fixed a whole bunch of bugs/security issues when it comes to joining multiplayer lobbies
  • When using the steam invite feature, mods, hash checks and version checks are no longer ignored
  • When the game detects missing mods, it will now try to respect the mod loading order the host has chosen instead of ignoring it completely (which can lead to all sorts of bugs and Desnycs)
  • Multiplayer savegames now remain playable if EL/ELCP or any of the attached mods get updated
• Improved the ELCP World Generator Setting "Volcanize Kapaku Regions"
  • The Spawning algorithm now prefers volcanizing a selected Region where a Kapaku spawns instead of trying to move Kapaku to already present volcanic regions. This helps to better spread Kapaku empires out according to the world generator settings
  • Volcanized Regions now correctly spawn bonus resources and lava rivers

UI

• When selling stacks of units, the correct tooltip for that transaction is now shown on the market
• When loading a multiplayer game, the background size of the player status display now scales correctly with the number of players
• Holding down the "Shift"-Key while enqueueing a new technology will now insert this technology at the front of the research queue
• Added custom UI scaling as a new, experimental feature (programmed by community member whateverelse)
  • You can now set custom UI- and Font-Scales for the Big Screen User Interface
  • To do this, you need to use the "--uiScale=" and "--fontScale=" startup parameters (without the quotation marks)
  • If you dont know how to setup startup parameters in steam, see here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947
  • "--uiScale=" typically needs to be about 50% larger than "--fontScale=", you may need to try around a bit (restart EL after changing the numbers)
  • "Big Screen User Interface" needs to be activated for these parameters to work correctly, dont use them without it! Delete the parameters to reset the changes.
  • For example: "--uiScale=3 --fontScale=2" is a good choice for 4k resolution, other resolutions need different values
  • There are some minor quirks and bugs with this feature (some icons dont scale, weird circles on certain buttons), but overall it should work fine

Balance [Core]

• Introduced a new ruleset "Weaker Settlements" that determines, how strong the defenses of newly settled Cities are
  • Newly settled Cities will no longer have any Fortification, Fortification regenerates in the following turns as usual
  • Additionally, Settlers created from razed Cities will transfer 0 Militia to a City settled by them.
  • Milita growth per turn is limited to 1 for the first 3 Turns after settling.
  • Via Setseke resettled Cities are not affected by this.
  • This Change is intended to make cities less effective offensive tools and settlers a more risky investment, it should also make the popular (multiplayer-) razing strategies riskier.
  • Is activated by default, can be deactivated in the pregame settings

Balance [XML]

• When a city is conquered, its new Ownership now depends on the size of the city (1 and 2 Population Cities will immediatly have 100% Ownership!)
  • In addition with the new "Weaker Settlements" ruleset this should make attacking small Cities enticing, as they now can be immediatly razed for a free Settler.
• Several changes have been made in order to promote the use of the pillage feature
  • The "PillagePower" of a Unit is now double that of its fortification damage
  • Pillage Recovery has been doubled
  • This effectively makes pillaging twice as fast (for faster rewards) but also halves recovery times (for less impact on the receiving players end)
  • The Fortification Damage bonus confered by the Privateer techs has been reduced by 1 to compensate
  • The Fortification Damage bonus confered by the Forgotten trait "Practiced Pillage" and their Symbiosis trait "Shadows and Dust" has been reduced to 1 to compensate
• Several commonly used Infiltration Actions have been nerfed
  • Reduced the power of "Damage Fortification" 4 to 75%, "Damage Fortification" 5 no longer lasts for several turns
  • Reduced the duration of "Decrease Vision" 4/5 to 4 turns (normal speed)
  • Reduced the duration of "Steal Vision" 4/5 to 6/8 turns (normal speed)
  • Reduced the duration of "Decrease Battle Morale" to 2/4/6 turns (normal speed)
• Fotios' Ward and Skoros' Heal abilities no longer scale with game speed
• The Minor Faction unit "Gauran Minotaur" now has the "Faster Pillage 2" Capacity
• The Minor Faction unit "Nidya Arpuja" now has the "Flying Slayer 2" Capacity
• Tower of Truth and Tower of Fidelity have had their pearl cost reduced by 50% (down to 5/10)
• The Myst Capacity "Faster than shadows" can no longer damage fortified units with its secondary bounces (they can still act as a "conductor" though)
• Mysts have had their production cost increased by about 20%
• Neutral Urkans now prefer sitting next to ruins, in order to give Mykara a slight edge in getting them
• Delayed the Victory Warning Alert for the Diplomatic Victory a bit
• Reduced the base price and the price inflation of non-hero units on the market; additionally the price tendency of all non-hero units is now linked together
  • This should make selling cheap to produce units weaker and incentivize mercenary usage
  • Furthermore you can now drive down the price of mercenaries by selling units (or drive it up by buying them)
• The Competitive Quest "A Cursed Bounty" was slightly reworked
  • Increased the strength and scaling of the Tetike armies
  • Searching the wrong ruin no longer displays an error message (it was never true anyway), it instead spawns another Tetike army that attacks the player
  • Searching the correct ruin still grants the searching player the reward, but all living Tetike quest armies will try to attack that players empire
  • This change should make this quest a bit more interactive, as you can no longer completely ignore the spawned armies and just grab the reward
• The Cooperative Quest "A Plague of Savagery" will occur a bit later in the game

AI

• Fixed AIs not respecting blooms when pursuing Victory Quests
• Slowed down the AIs auto quest solvers on difficulties below hard in order to make low difficulty games a bit more "chill"
• AIs are now able to use Fotios' Ward ability
• AIs will now consider buying the corresponding Luxuries on the market when attempting to tame an Urkan
• AIs will now consider units in production when deciding whether to change minor faction assimilations
• On Turn 1, AIs will now split off their military units and send them exploring immediatly
• Fixed a minor issue that could lead to (neutral) naval armies locking up, stealing each others job assignments
• Adressed some pathing issues for naval and catspawed armies
• When a City is hit by a "decrease production" infiltration action, AIs will no longer try to counteract by assigning workers or stockpiles to that city (thx ThanatoastArigata)
• Some more performance tanking pathing issue fixes
• Improved AI spy usage once more
  • Decrease Population will no longer be used on Cities below 13 Population
  • AIs will no longer use currently active actions (like Decrease Morale or Steal Vision)
  • AIs will no longer try to save influence for different matters when a spy is at infiltration level 5

Modding

• The ELCP change to where units can be sold can now be deactivated via xml editing (UnitSellingInOwnedTerritoryOnly in Public/Registry.xml), this setting is disabled in the Vanilla Balancing mod
• Questtriggers now also work on quests that immediatly finish on start ("Preludes")
• Questvariables can now explicitly saved as Global Variables by setting the "ToGlobal"-Attribute to "true"
• Questarmies can now be spawned with a level according to the highest reached era instead of it depending on the turn number by setting ScaleWithMaxEra="true"

Hi, I've just downloaded the community patch for the first time and started a new game. Out of the first 7 ruins I searched, 6 gave nothing. Is this a feature of the patch? (I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.)

No, thats just unlucky

Okay, thanks.

Thank you for this LeaderEnemyBoss!

Very excited to try this, thanks for your constant work keeping this community awesome :)

What I mean, are these changed drastic or something more welcoming in regards to bug fixes. 

Most of the features in the mod fix bugs, or make the AI less stupid. If you want to exploit problems with the AI, then don't use the mod. The mod does make the game a tiny bit more challenging but you can just play on an easier difficulty if you're struggling.

For example. I like to play relaxed games so I usually play at normal and then up the bonuses that the AI gets by 20% or so.

I dont see sea regions as unvaluable, I take them regularly if my start permits it.

This is a fantastic mod. Are their any recommended mods to accompanythis? Or are known mod conflicts?

There are no recommended mods from my side. Most workshop mods should work fine, but nobody has compiled a compatibility list yet.

Thank you for the patch.

If at some stage you have time for it, I wondered if you could make it that scrolling the map with the mouse (map edge) isn't interrupted by the cursor hitting an interactible such as a city name box and others? I guess I could just scroll with the keyboard instead

Something that is also a tad annoying later in the game is that minor factions run out of quests. Personally I've addressed that by increasing the maximum instances per empire in the file, but maybe worth doing that in ELCP as well?

This probably isn't fixable, but ruins which have quests active cannot be searched if conditions aren't met, even during dust eclipses or if they've never been searched before.

Not sure if its a problem on my end or not, but when playing Allayi, I don't get notified on the turn empire plan is due to set one.AutoSave 3048.zip

Then I yesterday started playing Mykkara and ran into the same issue but also fungal bloom turns get stuck at 8?

I then uninstalled ELPC, verified integrity and installed it again but the issue still happens

I am not interested in adressing small annoyances of your first post, sorry.

As for your savegame: The elcp version you are using is heavily outdated, you are using 2.4.3, current version is 2.6.0. Please start a new game on a current version and see if everything works like it should.