Hello everybody,

As we have just released a beta version for the upcoming Bonny Update, we want to share some notes on the changes, additions, and bugfixes, as well as known issues.

Bonny Update Patch Notes

[Additions]

• Caribbean Pirates culture: Early Modern culture with two emblematic units
• Three new contemporary ship types: Destroyers, Diesel Submarines, Frigates
• Several new infrastructures that boos Resource Deposit yields
• "Poaching" action for armies: Steal strategic and luxury resources from enemy trade routes

[Changes]

• Naval units, air units, and missiles rebalanced: Higher CS, greater range, higher speed, depending on unit
• Naval battle ranged retaliation: naval units return fire when shot at by other ships
• Internal Trade: Resources are now transported to your capital by trade routes
• International trade: All international trade now connects capitals to create clear and valuable trade routes
• Larger resource deposits: Most resource deposits now provide more than 1 copy of the resource
• Rebalanced luxury resource effects: Luxuries now have separate bonuses for the first copy and additional copies
• Strategic Resource Requirements: A single copy of each required resource is now enough, but cost will increase if requirements are not met
• Economic rebalance: Various infrastructures, unit costs, and empire bonuses were rebalanced to account for the new resource system

[Fixes based on Community Feedback]

• Land units no longer retain their special abilities when embarked
• Fixed an issue where international crisis could not be resolved if war had already been declared
• Fixed a pending turn after signing an Intelligence Agreement with the AI
• Fixed a critical error when bombarding a City Center during a siege
• Fixed several missing tooltips in the Civics screen
• Santa Maria del Fiore now receives religious bonuses as stated
• Independent People now build infrastructure in their cities
• DMZ ability tooltip no longer incorrectly refers to Trestpassing status
• Fixed wrong tooltip messages when trying to bombard a target out of range
• Placement preview of Famers Quarters can be wrong, especially when owning the Pyramid of the Sun
• Fixed a wrong effect on the "Process" choice of the event "The Human Cost"

Known Issues

• Trade Route visualization is cut off at the world wrap
• Nuclear test exclusion zones do not match the generated wasteland
• Regular districts cannot be replaced with an embassy
• Resources lost from Poaching are assigned to the wrong empire
• The "Hostile" filter on the trade view does not work properly
• Clicking on resource pins does not open the trade view
• Vassals can trade independently of their liege
• Merchant affinity active ability may not work properly