General Update 04/17/2022

General Update 04/17/2022

Significant gameplay update to the difficulty curve, several visual improvements, and minor bug and performance changes.

Gameplay Updates

• Difficulty curve reworked - now handtuned for first 15 waves, then simple quadratic formula
• Prevented construction of things outside the map bounds, which would break many orders and most AI behavior
• Resource reward scaling reduced from

  24 * (1.2^minutes) * strength

  to

  24 * (1.1^(minutes / 4)) * strength

• Reward multiplier from wave strength increased from

  0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2

  to

  0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.75, 2.25

  - so when selecting a reward which increases the wave strength by 2x, it now gives 2.25x the reward.
• Zen Garden movement speed increased from 0.0001 to 0.0006 (ultra ultra slow) to avoid animation issues
• Conjuring Circle movement speed increased from 0.0001 to 0.0006 (ultra ultra slow) to avoid animation issues
• Attack area per point in attack range increased from 0.9 to 1.0

Visual updates

• Character level notifications display logic changed
• Fixed selection ring around construction not matching the constructed object
• Zen Garden - Now animated and slightly smaller (7x7 to 5.46x5.86)
• Living laboratory sturdy design icon changed
• Rock troll portrait changed (added color)
• Earth modifier Changed Design icon added
• Enemy guard portrait location changed
• Enemy guard arrow updated to match new character

Bugs

• Fixed crash caused by selecting projectiles

Performance

• Spread out retries more when a lot of contention getting to a building, such as when there are many workers on a single resource