Every road, railway and tile work now rises as an economic construction site instead of a queue entry. A site gathers its materials over days from reachable regions, refusing any supplier quoting above the price it was budgeted at (a 1% tolerance); a day that buys nothing stalls the site, raising a red mark and letting the nation raise the budget to current prices or cancel it. The upfront budget covers the build cost plus the market value of its steel and high-tech, energy stays a grid draw, and any money left over stays with the finished work as a maintenance reserve.
That reserve now pays the work's own daily steel and high-tech wear before the treasury is billed, so a well funded work spares the state until it runs dry; the spent money is paid into the nation's regions. Building upgrades run through the same gather-build-maintain machinery, sharing the site's kind flag and target level. The legacy tile-work queue and the market building are gone.
Bundles the in-progress chart sizing for the central bank panel.
- Five resources (energy, steel, food, luxury, high-tech) with per-city stores, a world market, delivery and material upkeep.
- Resource-producing tile works built outside cities; every nation opens with the works its economy needs.
- Real game-icons.net art replacing the dummy icons for the new resources and works, with the credits updated.
GDP per capita had no natural growth, so a nation's economy only moved
when population, buildings or war did. The summary stats also offered
inconsistent hover text: a native browser tooltip for popularity and none
at all for the budget.
- Every land tile now gains a constant 0.01% of the GDP per capita it
opened with, once a day. Because the amount is fixed the relative growth
rate tapers over the years. Each tile's opening figure is snapshotted
once and shipped to the browser, so the tile panel and the GDP-per-capita
map mode stay in step with the server.
- The population, GDP and GDP/capita tooltips show the relative growth:
against 1 January 2000 through the first year, then year on year. The
monthly captures now keep a rolling thirteen months for the baseline.
- Every summary stat explains itself through the same custom bubble.
Popularity's native title moved onto it, and Budget forecasts the next
calendar month at the current hourly net, as a compact figure such as
"+€3.28B/mo" (hoursInNextMonth follows the real calendar).
- The tile GDP breakdown shows gains with a plus sign (natural growth,
ports) rather than the old minus.
Added tests for the constant daily gain, the falling relative rate, the
first-year and year-on-year baselines, the snapshot baseline, the budget
forecast and the calendar month length.
The catalogue had grown a barracks, wartime shelters, an air-defense
battery, a warm-water port and a shipyard, but only as data: infantry
still trained without a barracks, shelters did nothing, and an airport was
just an airbase. Each building now names the rule it grants with a
`mechanic` id, so the simulation and the city panel describe the same
thing without magic strings.
- Barracks and shipyards open one more production line each. A line sticks
to one entry at full rate, so two units build at once rather than the
head absorbing every line; the base behaviour (one queue, overflow
carrying into the next entry) is unchanged.
- Wartime shelters keep 10% of civilians per level safe from bombardment
and are very hard to knock down, and ranged fire can now destroy a
building level outright, with no refund. Each building rolls its own
chance per point of damage, from a generator seeded off the world so a
bombardment replays identically.
- Air defense fires one volley at a hostile aircraft the moment it enters
the city tile, scaled by its level; a plane shot down never drops its
bombs.
- A port adds 1000 GDP per capita per level, per adjacent sea tile, to
every tile in its region.
- An airport draws a daily trickle of people from every other airport city
in the world, scaled by the destination's level.
- Wired the new effects into the city panel and taught the repeatable
Industrial Automation to satisfy other technologies' prerequisites.
Added tests for each mechanic and for the parallel lines.
- The bombardment overlay was rebuilt every animation frame, and each barrage
scanned the whole army to find its target (O(strikes x units)). It now
redraws at most at the renderer's 24 fps, reuses its SVG/DOM nodes, and
resolves garrisons from one per-snapshot tile index, so a high-refresh
display no longer makes a big battle worse.
- Route truncation had the same shape: every step of every route rescanned
every unit. The snapshot now buckets the army by tile once.
- Idle units no longer have identical left/top rewritten every frame, and the
whole-map fog buffer is rebuilt less often.
- Snapshot traffic: cityStats and visible are delta-encoded like territory and
population, city stats carry a content-hash version, tile ethnicity is
memoised, and a city's economy is derived once per broadcast instead of
twice. A per-peer civ change now forces a full snapshot, since the visible
set is per-viewer.
- Tile improvements (fortifications, radar towers, coastal cannons), trenches,
zone of control, support-unit capture and launch transports, with parabolic
barrage arcs drawn between attacker and target.
- Focused research that pours points straight into the chosen technology, with
per-technology progress kept when the focus changes, plus repeatable levels.
- Popularity reworked to integer points, war and pillage effects, minority
policies and month-over-month arrows on the nation summary.
- City progress bars, square improvement buttons, a technology tab of wide
short cards with progress bars, transport cargo readout and double-click to
open a city panel.
- aircraft attack orders fly a sortie to the target, bomb once, return to a
friendly airport and re-arm (two-day cooldown, charged per aircraft); rebasing
is bounded by fuel rather than the 10-tile combat radius
- artillery and warships open a sustained hourly bombardment on a standing
target, drawn as a red dashed line and ring while either endpoint is selected
- a game launched from localhost can enable a testing mode whose train and build
rows offer free, instant orders; the server only honours them for a loopback
admin in a testing game
- an open city panel now unlocks aircraft as soon as an airport finishes