The Guild 3 0.9.16.5_637514

Привет всем!

Этот патч содержит исправление ошибки, связанной с очень неприятной проблемой краха в мультиплеере, а также исправления ряда текстовых проблем в новых локализованных текстах.

Обратите внимание: сохраненные игры от EA 0.9.15 будут работать с этим патчем.

Исправления ошибок
- исправлена ошибка, приводившая к сбою на стороне клиента в многопользовательской игре, когда транспортник или рабочий отправлялись на лечение
- предмет "ром" не выбирался при настройке торгового маршрута - пожалуйста, обратитесь к "Известной проблеме"!
- исправлено несколько проблем с текстом во всех локализациях - спасибо за большую помощь в этом вопросе :-)

Известная проблема
- в торговых маршрутах можно установить, что перевозчик должен купить "ром" на рынке. Однако "ром" нельзя купить, и его приходится перевозить контрабандой. Мы позаботимся об этом в одном из ближайших патчей.

Hello Guild fans,

The team had a lot to do with the groundworks for the features and the new content of patch EA 0.9.15 and for the coming patch (we will shine some light on what is planned next in the coming dev diaries). Nonetheless, we’ve achieved a lot of cool stuff that you now have the chance to play yourself. As always, we appreciate your feedback and your bug reports.

Please note: The game does not display/load save games from outdated patch versions as they have become incompatible due to the rework of core systems.

Highlights & Overview
New features: We implemented a player party formed of three of your characters, the brand new rogue profession smuggler, a rostrum where you can speak to the people in your city and implemented 16 new actions (including the actions of the smuggler).
Content & Balancing: Besides the translation of all current texts in the game, we continued to work on the AI and on balancing. Customers of service providers like the inn or the herb hut will from now on consume specific items if you have them available in your storage. Diseases have been reworked and they will occur again. And we reworked the structure, pictures and content of the ingame help to make some topics clearer for you.
Bug fixes: We have fixed more than 30 major bugs, including crash bug fixes and issues with the pathfinding, plus more than 50 minor issues.

We value your feedback!
Please support us and take the time to give reviews. Thank you very much!
If you have the time, we would appreciate it if you could fill out a short survey regarding the changes we made in patch EA 0.9.15: Link to the survey
Please note: we do not collect any personal information other than your feedback - you will remain completely anonymous. This survey will end the day we release the next patch.



New features
- with patch EA 0.9.15, we implemented a player party consisting of up to three main characters, mandatorily including the family's leader (your Avatar) and up to two more adult family members (left hand and right hand) of your choice. These three characters are displayed underneath the dynasty panel in the upper left corner of the HUD and you can perform more actions with them than with the rest of your family. The new player party replaces the former Avatar-spouse-heir group.
-- you can dismiss or promote the left and the right hand, but be aware that dismissed characters will be disappointed with your decision
- new rogue profession: the Smuggler. This new profession is a hybrid of a typical rogue profession and a service provider. While on one hand your employees smuggle rum and other valuable goods, other workers try to lure citizens into your business, which officially is a rum den. People drink your rum and while you earn money through that, the main reason for serving rum is because it loosens the tongue of the revellers and there is a chance that you hear some information that makes your smuggling more profitable.
-- three new smuggling actions which target the port and/or the arsenal of the city
-- a new action to lure people into the rum den, plus the chance of getting some information for better smuggling opportunities when people have a drink in the rum den
-- the smuggler has been added as a start profession of the career game mode
- new buildable city decoration: the Rostrum. You will be able to perform a number of actions on your rostrum, like holding speeches, playing music or giving a public banquet to lift the popularity of your dynasty.
- customers of service providers (barber, inn, herb hut, hospital, apothecary and the new rum den) will from now on consume goods out of the building's storage. So if your inn has some beverages and/or food on stock, you will earn more money.
-- the herb hut will no longer be able to treat leprosy and the plague, because only the hospital has the knowledge and the medicine for that
-- we added the new medicine item 'herb bandage' to the herb hut
-- we added the new medicine item 'fever syrup' to the hospital
-- we added a new action that characters with the diseases leprosy or plague can use to visit a hospital
-- especially the barber and the inn should no longer be crowded with customers directly after the game started, so the owner has more time to prepare for customers
-- please note: customers will consume specific items when they use one of the building's services (please see the description of the service action to know which items you should hold in stock). The extra payment for the consumption is currently a fixed price.
- there is a new action with which you can promote your businesses - your character will move in front of the building and praise it, and as long as the character is doing so, the business will get a 'customer satisfaction' buff if it has a front store or the workers get a 'motivation' buff if the business does not have a front store
- added a new action with which you can throw a few coins into a well and pray for a bit of luck. Luck influences your chances (a tiny bit) when playing dice, on far trade trips and journeys or when starting a romance. You can also get a bit of luck when you equip a hares paw or a lucky stone
- many of you asked for a contrary action to the 'Greet someone' action. Now you have the new action 'Laugh at someone' - it's your own fault if you try that one out ;-)
- we added a new action that enables you to tear off pamphlets from one of your buildings that an opponent of yours has placed there
- NPCs can sit on stools and benches and before patch EA 0.9.15 your characters weren't able to do that as well. That has changed now, just click RMB on a bench in case you feel like resting :-)

Content & Balancing
- instead of fading out the landscape in the distance, the horizon is now hidden by thickening fog. We think that this looks much more natural and, above all, more atmospheric. Let us know what you think about it.
- the range of actions the AI can use has been increased greatly - we will continue to enhance and balance the AI with every new update of the game
-- please note: some of our testers gave us the feedback, that the AI seems to be a bit weaker with our latest changes. If you notice the same, then please give us feedback on this. Thank you :-)
- all current texts in the game are fully translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese
- we have balanced the diseases and poisons in the game and from now on diseases happen more often again - however, to not let everyone die in the blink of an eye they are still not an every-day-event.
-- there are two new events for NPCs: one can cause an accident that lowers the HP of the respective character and the other causes the (natural) poison 'Anthony's fire' that needs the character heading for an apothecary to be cured
- for AI characters, distances have more impact on finding valid targets for actions - it can still happen, but in most cases AI characters (and NPCs) should not run very very long ways if they eg want to greet someone or sit on a bench
- with patch EA 0.9.15, we increase the possible number of children per dynasty for a bit again
- we added a new functionality that allows our designers to set storage rules for specific items per building - especially items that are needed for the services of a building have a higher default stock limit now
- we revised the structure of the ingame help to enhance the general readability. We reworked texts, bolded headlines and replaced and added many images in the ingame help to make the topics more understandable. Especially the production should be better explained now
- NPCs should shop in the the front stores and marketplaces in their own village or city district more often than in the ones outside their neighborhood; this also makes your relationship with the NPCs and the customer satisfaction of your business more important if you want people to shop in your front store
- the action to fake evidence against your opponents is now additionally sending out a message to the victim
- more dialogues have been added
- several action icons have been added to the game
- the item 'Cream cake' can now be presented as a gift to someone else - as its description already stated

Bug fixes
- fixed a bug that could lead to a crash of the game when the dynastic trade menu was opened
- fixed a bug that would lead to a crash of the game when an AI controlled character tried to perform a post-combat action (e.g. break bones) on an already dead character
- fixed a bug that could lead to a crash of the game when the player left a running game to the main menu
- fixed a bug in the pathfinding that caused characters to gather in a point on a street, preventing them from walking away until the game was saved and loaded again
- fixed an issue that caused a lot of network traffic in multiplayer games every ingame hour
- fixed a bug that allowed players to hire family members as workers in their storage barns and warehouses
- buildings which were already placed on the map when a new game started got their specific base effects and buffs (like productivity bonus) twice
- fixed a bug that allowed characters to target burning or closed service providers in case they wanted to use a service the building offered
- fixed a bug that prevented the item painkiller to cure leprosy and the item wonder cure to cure the plague; now both items have a chance to cure these diseases
- fixed several bugs in the evaluation process of the AI for targets of actions
- fixed a bug that would cause a change of relationship of the target character of an action to be shown above the source character
- fixed a bug that led workers to inherit the buffs of the building they were sent to, even if that building was not their employing business - so thieves could get the buffs of the building they were breaking in. From now on, the workers always inherit the buffs of the employing building
- fixed a bug in multiplayer where equipped items such as torches could remain on the ground after a character has died
- fixed a bug in multiplayer where the horses of supply transporters could remain standing around at far trade markets after the transporters had finished their route
- a sabotage action against a building that caused a damage over time - e.g. a fire - hadn't sent a notification to the owner
- fixed a bug where members of the players family hired in a business could not be fired when a trial was pending
- several issues with political powers have been fixed
- several issues in the maps have been fixed
- the orchardist hut, preacher hut and city preacher hut lacked fire effects/particles when burning
- fixed a bug that would allow the actions 'ambush' and 'find evidence' to take place outside of usable streets
- fixed a bug where the dice table of an inn was still available when the business had been closed through the 'audit the books' action
- loading screens and the guild logo are now resizing properly and are not being cut off anymore
- the rostrum and the statue can now be seen and filtered by the the “Other Building” category in the area map; rostrum and the statue are now listed in the “Other owned buildings” category in the building quick access list
- the extinguish fire animation displayed the torch and the bucket at the same time
- a number of issues with the displayed texts of trade opportunities have been fixed
- it was possible to enter the statue with a character
- fixed a number of bugs with existing dialogues
- fixed a number of issues with the multiplayer lobby
- fixed a number of issues with models and animations
- fixed a number of issues with localized texts

Known issues
- the economical balancing of especially the windmill, the hospital, the tailor shop and the thieves hideout wasn't finalized for this patch - we are already working on it for the next larger patch
- many diseases do only have a minor impact on your character’s health to avoid entire families being wiped out by diseases. We will step by step tune the disease values for the next patches to avoid mass-dyings.
- the newly localized texts might contain some errors as they still need to go through our localization QA

Hello everyone!

We’ve watched the crash reports after the update EA 0.9.14 closely and made out some major issues that caused crashes and two bugs with storage rules and/or transporters. We decided to investigate and to provide you with the hotfix patch in order to solve the mentioned issues before our next larger patch.

This hotfix patch includes the following bug fixes and changes:
- Fixed a bug where the game crashed on load after the main residence was switched
- Fixed a crash where the game crashed after clicking on a dialogue with an NPC
- Fixed a crash where an AI family without an appointed heir had a new child
- Fixed a couple more errors that could potentially lead to a crash
- Transporters - numbers: added a second transporter to the Herb Hut, Fishing Hut, Potter, Orchardist and Windmill that can be unlocked in the building's add-ons
- Transporters - supply: fixed a flaw where markets or businesses at which only few required items were available were considered more attractive than stops where a full item order was available

Please note: saved games from EA 0.9.14 will work with this patch. The additional transporters will however only be available in newly created saved games.

Known Issue
- Some business buildings might make more money after the recent changes. We will balance this out in one of our future patches.

Build number: 612219

Hello everybody!

Unfortunately, with patch EA 0.9.12.5, a problem with the transporters of thief and robber crept in that could spoil your play fun over the Christmas days. As a "drive-by" fix we were able to fix another bug with transporters.

Saved games from version ES 0.9.12.5 should still be loadable and playable with this hotfix.

See you in 2021 :-)

Bug fixes
- Fixed a problem with the transporters of thieves and robbers - they should sell stolen goods on the market again
- Fixed a bug where all the supply caravans were waiting in front of the markets during nighttime

Язык: English - Русская редакция или Русификатор отсутствуют

Hi all!

With this hotfix we fix a number of urgent issues that were sadly introduced with our latest patch EA 0.9.11:

- Fixed several crashes in Multiplayer with the new user interface
- Fixed a crash when loading the game
- Fixed a bug were unlocking of add-ons was not possible
- Fixed a bug were the player character did not continue working after being in hospital
- Fixed loca in Multiplayer to make the joining process clearer
- Fixed a bug were children could be assigned to work in the businesses
- Fixed a bug were the "Production has been halted" was displayed too frequently
- Fixed a bug were the displayed amount of money spent during the resource provider bidding was incorrect
- Fixed a bug were the neighborhood information of characters was not displayed

Hi all!
With patch EA 0.9.4 we released the new trade routes. The work for this patch was fully focused on making the sovereign gameplay more interesting and overall the game more stable. As you know we didn’t just want to improve what you can do as a sovereign but also improve the gameplay around becoming sovereign. Check-out the details below!

New features
- First, it’s all about how to become sovereign. The previous system was not very exciting and also not very transparent on how it actually works. Instead of just being appointed, dynasty leaders can “apply” to become sovereign. In order to be able to apply you need to unlock the according privilege and also use influence. As soon as the runner is in the race for becoming sovereign, dynasties can invest their influence. At the end of the race the amount of invested influence is further buffed by the popularity of the contestant with the public. The contender with the biggest approval (influence and popularity) wins and becomes sovereign.
- So what’s the benefit from becoming sovereign? As the ruler of the land the sovereign has the power to change any law in every city. This way the sovereign can freely change laws to his or her will.
- A little but sweet thing was added again with our new patch: The trading of evidence. We had to remove that possibility as it was not very stable and caused several issues (eg. AI wasn’t considering trade value of evidence). So from now on you can trade evidence again via the dynasty trade.
- Additionally, we added another option to the storage keeper in order to give you a bit more control on what automated transporters are supposed to procure. From now on you can define for every item if the automated transporter is getting the according item at the market.


Content & Balancing
- Offering lower prices than the market will increase the reputation with your front store customers.
- We continued balancing the citizen needs in order to make the economy more interesting.
- All members of a family that are adopted or descendants of the families original leader can now propose to their romance partners and produce offspring with their spouses.

Art
- We further improved textures and materials.
- The throne room was added with this version and is accessible via castles in all maps.

Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused the “look inside building” button to not show up correctly.
- Fixed several memory leaks in the game.
- Fixed a bug that caused the AI to not stop the “sleep” action when their building has been destroyed.
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from buying from the front store of a spied-on building.
- Fixed some localization issues related to attribute descriptions to properly represent the formula in the background.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not show a warning when the player tries to purchase a business he/she can’t properly operate.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not show the correct message upon trying to attack allies.
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from trading hostages.
- Fixed lots of localization issues.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not deduct coins from the player upon hiring a henchman.
- Fixed a bug that caused a guarding henchman to attack a conquering henchman from the same family.
- Fixed a bug that allowed children to buy and consume alcohol.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not create an evidence upon successfully using the falsifying evidence action.
- Fixed a bug that caused workers to gather resources within the business building directly instead of the resource provider.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to show the wrong information regarding the maximum businesses and henchmen in the new title window.
- Fixed a bug that caused automated warehouse transporters to buy items at the market just to sell them again back to the market.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to apply the dynasties color to certain female character faces.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to hide the face of a character before the actual body is hidden.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not update the market prices in the item transaction window.
- Fixed a few bugs related to characters not showing the correct animation.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to show the “pick from world” option in the destination selection of the far-trade action.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash upon loading a multiplayer game.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to prevent the ESC key from closing the chat window.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not show traded coins correctly on the client.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not remove the visual representation of sicknesses correctly in multiplayer games.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not lock the purchase button correctly while a transaction is processed in multiplayer games.
- Fixed a bug that re-built destroyed building upon re-connecting to a multiplayer game.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not show the correct save game after saving the game as a new host.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to not show the “new quest” notification for all the quests in the tutorial.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to show a black screen during the intro after switching the game to full-screen mode.
- Fixed several bugs related to changing resolutions and changing modes.
- Fixed a bug that caused some ambience sounds to not be triggered correctly.
- Fixed several bugs related to action tooltip descriptions.

Important information
The game does not display/load save games from outdated patch versions as they have become incompatible due to the rework of core systems.
If you are experiencing difficulties with loading and saving the game, you may attempt to delete all files from the folder “c:Users[USERNAME]Saved GamesGuild3” (standard under Windows).
Multiplayer: If you have a restrictive firewall then you may have to manually open the following outgoing ports to be able to play in multiplayer: 61111 TCP & UDP, 36895 TCP & UDP, - 36975 TCP & UDP. You can find this information as well in the FAQs Multiplayer on our webpage!
It is quite possible that some problems that you have in your game are caused by missing or corrupted files. In this case, the following can help: right-click on "The Guild 3" in your Steam library, then Properties - LOCAL FILES - VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES...
If you still have issues afterwards, then we recommend to uninstall the game and then manually delete the folder "C:Users[USERNAME]AppDataLocalGuild3" (or "C:Users[USERNAME]DocumentsGuild3"). Then re-install the game.
Join our official Discord server (link) where you can meet us (that is, when we take a break from developing games) and other players to chat about the game.

What we are planning for the next patch
For the next patch we’ll lay our focus on bugfixing and balancing.

A short outlook...
Goal for the upcoming sprints is to further improve the overall balancing so far and improve MP connectivity. And we will work on the sound and music system in the game.

We implemented a new detection system for all kinds of surveillance actions (eg. guarding). This updated system is used by city guards and lansquenets. The radius shown around a detecting character now reflects the actual area in which the character may perceive illegal or aggressive behavior. Circles are shown when the scanning character is selected or by pressing space on your keyboard. Inside the guard's awareness circle, illegal or aggressive behavior will be detected and, depending on the laws in the city, acted upon.
With the new version important texts (eg. city names, character names, dynasty names, etc.) are highlighted with different colors or font formats, so it’s easier to identify them in bigger text blocks.
New features (under the hood)
Please note: The game does not display/load save games from outdated patch versions as they have become incompatible due to the rework of the employee automation system and other core systems.
Bug fixes
Fixed that not all areas of the brushwood were clickable.
Performance
We improved the way the game checks if an inventory has available space. The function used to do that required a significant portion of CPU time. The function has been reworked which should give you another slight increase of performance.
Known issues
Currently guards are really persistent and will follow your characters until they catch them. They will even wait in front of the buildings. So basically as soon as they discovered illegal behavior they will get you. We will of course change that in the future.
Important information
What we are planning for the next patch
Of course we will continue working on the action system to make it less error prone. As a result we hope that we will have less and less issues with stuck characters in the future.
A short outlook...

As announced, we have taken a look at the issues behind poor performance and inefficient memory usage when loading and playing savegames. We have now improved memory usage patterns which should result in shorter loading times and better performance in general (in particular when playing for extended periods of time and after loading savegames) in EA 0.5.4.
To further improve performance, we have now implemented that only characters which are currently in the field of view of the camera are animated and not as before, every character on the map.
Up until now, the amount of available products in the market hardly had an impact on price development. This has now been changed, so you should check more frequently if prices have shifted and if you need to optimise your supply chains. As part of these changes we have extracted many economy-related parameters from the code so that we can iterate more quickly in the future when it comes to the in-game economy.
The re-work of the visualisation of selected characters is completed as of EA 0.5.4. You will now see a small bluish circle around all your characters. The circle of your dynasty leader will be gold-coloured. When you select one of your characters, the white circle will be highlighted more visibly. It should therefore now be easier to identify and select your own characters, especially within larger crowds.
Character portraits which are displayed above buildings now display the profession and dynasty affiliation of a character. This should make it easier to select the correct character.
The colour of the clothing in character portraits now also correctly reflects the dynasty colours. In order to reinforce this effect, we have replaced the blurry dynasty coat of arms in the background with the dynasty’s colour. Furthermore, we have adjusted the angle and distance from which character portraits are taken.
When losing a game, it is no longer necessary to quit the entire game in order to begin a new one. Instead, you can now load a savegame or simply return to the main menu.
Several maps have been re-worked in order to improve, performance as well as economy, available space for new buildings and arrangement of city districts. The following maps have been revised so far:

• Magdeburg
• Augsburg
• Visby
• Paris

Bug fixes
Employees who are being controlled by the master AI will now immediately resume their activity after a savegame is loaded.
Transporters will now resume their previously defined trade routes after a savegame is loaded.
AI-controlled dynasties previously only reproduced if a marriage partner was already defined at the start of a scenario. Dynasties without marriage partners did not work towards achieving marriages, therefore leading to their eventual extinction. We have now implemented changes which will result in the AI socially interacting with other characters (paying compliments, entering relationships, marrying). The AI is currently not yet acting towards greater strategic plans when doing so, but this fix is merely the first improvement and we aim to continually improve this behaviour with upcoming updates.
Characters should no longer get “stuck” as often when attempting to interrupt another character. The causes of this bug were particular distances and angles between the two characters.
Abilities which interrupted the activity of NPCs will no longer interrupt their other routines. NPCs that just loiter around should therefore appear less frequently.
The building menu of level 2 and 3 businesses should now open with a double-click on the building, as is already the case with level 1 businesses.
Deceased characters will now no longer appear in residential buildings.
Characters watching juggling performances will now no longer stand inside each other.
The shadow calculation was improved so that shadows shouldn’t be cut off very close to the camera anymore.
The white outline of selected characters should now also include their backpacks.
Several texts were corrected, e.g. for henchmen, innkeepers, and news concerning the hospital and far distance travel.
Art
The following buildings have been optimised and were given 3 additional LOD-levels:

• alchemist levels 1 - 3
• barracks levels 1 - 3
• warehouse

Additionally the roof colour of all residential buildings without thatched roofs has been changed, thus making them easier to distinguish.
Known issues
Certain barrels are currently missing textures.
There are some errors in the behaviour of AI-dynasties which can lead to AI characters not finishing certain actions under specific conditions. We will continuing working to fix that system.
In very rare cases you may get a crash related to missing items in a save game. We already found the issue and will fix it.
Important information
It is quite possible that some problems that you have in your game are caused by missing or corrupted files. In this case, the following can help: right-click on "The Guild 3" in your library, then Properties - "More" - Manage Installation - VERIFY/REPAIR
What we are planning for the next patch
A re-work of the HUD, making it easier to understand, navigate and find information.
Based on community feedback, we want to change the rules according to which the player avatar is selected.
We will complete the refactoring of the skills system in order to allow our designers to begin repairing, improving and iterating on character skills.
A short outlook...