Released 7/10/2015
 

Balance

• New City Improvement "Destiny's Flame" for all cities to reduce the doomsday counter

• Number of monsters the SK can spawn is increased by the # of shards destroyed.

• Varied up the SK monster composition a bit to be less repetitive.

• Monster units get 1 XP per turn.

• SK doesn't get super aggressive about your cities until threat is 3.

• SK focuses a bit more on the shards.

• Sprinkled some of the new (art wise) SK monsters into the SK unit spawns. (provides more visual and strategic variety).

• Rare chance of a powerful and/or unusual creature to be spawned early on (introduce players to scary stuff).

• Some minor balance tweaks on SK units to provide more differentiation.

• Added code so tactical items that cast spells, (such as scrolls), obey the spell's cooldown,

• Spell and scrolls cooldowns

• Lightning Storm spell now has a 2 turn cooldown

• Blizzard now has a 2 turn cooldown

• Fireball now has a 2 turn cooldown

• Flame Wave now has a 2 turn cooldown

• Blizzard Scroll" recipe made more expensive

• Now 1x Papyrus Scroll, 4x Clouded Topaz, 2x Radiant Topaz, 2x Last Breath

• Was 1x Papyrus Scroll, 3x Clouded Topaz, 2x Last Breath

• "Lightning Storm Scroll" recipe made more expensive

• Now 1x Papyrus Scroll, 2x Clouded Amethyst, 1x Radiant Amethyst, 1x Last Breath

• Was 1x Birch Scroll, 2x Clouded Ruby, 1x Mana Berries

• Flamewave and Fireball recipes now require Papyrus Scrolls instead of Birch Scroll

• Removed of master Blacksmith (old improvement that used to unlock Sentinel)

Bugs

• Fixed a bug that made it difficult for the SK to spawn monsters late game.

• After turn 150, tiny Sk armies no longer allowed

• Fixed a major bug that caused the rivals to not be able to spawn units after turn 10! D'Oh!

• Fixed another bug that was preventing rivals from spawning units.

• Rivals will tend to spawn a unit every 8 or so turns.

• Fixed Scout bug, where monsters were hunting down the Scout unit

• Dominion and Escape given icons (you can get these spells via quests)

• Replacing the can't settle tooltip of: "Must build on tiles that provide Food" with "Cities must be settled on Fertile tiles.  Fertile tiles have Food yield icons above them."

• More enchanted icons