We've been developing tonight, and here's what's new.
Random Fixes
* Foxes, Boars, Mouflon, Aurochsen, Bears and Deers should now yield approximately double the amount of meat
* BBBs now give 10 Str FEPs base rather than 8
* Roasting meat is now slightly faster
* Poppy flowers should now drop to the ground when a poppy field is harvested
Siegeing
* Battering ram health increased from 100 to 125 (which, consequently, increases its range by 25%)
* Battering ram repair cooldown reduced from 24h to 8h
* Palisade soak reduced from 30 to 25
* Brick wall corner posts can now be sealed properly
* Brickwalls can no longer be damaged at all without a Battering Ram
* Newly built initial cornerposts should now have a 12h cooldown before they can be extended from
* Village Idols should now have a 24h cooldown after being built until they can be activated.
* It should no longer be possible to wall-jump by (ab)using crossroads
* Destroying a wall section should now seriously damage or destroy adjacent wall sections
* Strongboxes are now immobile constructions. We are aware that this sucks for the wagon-dwellers of the world, but mobile strongboxes cause way too many problems. We will try to consider alternatives for the gypsies out there.
Combat
* All attacks now interrupt ranged weapons' aiming except other ranged attacks that miss.
* Shots fired with the aim-o-meter at less than 10% accuracy always miss.
* Ranger's Bow base damage reduced from 400 to 300.
* Slings' damage is no longer affected by quality. Consider this a stop-gap measure until we have time to implement a more convincing fix.
* Agility now matters in close combat. If you have twice the agility of your opponent, your attack cooldowns will be ~20% shorter, while his will be ~20% longer. The bonus scales continously within that range of agility difference, but not beyond it. More precisely, the cooldown bonus is (AGI / AGI)^¼, where the agility quotient itself is clipped to [0.5, 2.0].
Building
It should now be possible to build essentially anything in both caves and mines. A couple of restrictions apply:
Caves: You can only build on paved ground. Tiles cannot be paved if there are (black) nil-tiles or water tiles anywhere within a 5x5 area around the tile you are trying to pave.
Mines: An area 6x6 tiles in size surrounds the mine ladder entrance. No constructions can be built on these tiles.
Christmas
Cutthroat Knuckles -- Add an extra 15 damage to "Knock His Teeth Out!" and "Punch", scaled as usual for weapons (by square root of the geometric mean of the quality and the wielder's strength)
Soldier's Gauntlets -- Have a bit of armor and add an extra 10 damage to "Knock His Teeth Out!" and "Punch", scaled as usual for weapons
Sledgehammer -- Adds four damage when destroying stuff. Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em.
Ho, ho, ho(pe this doesn't have any unforeseen consequences)!
