Embassies no longer allow players to see into other capitals
Consider actual unit religion instead of UnitInfo religion when checking whether upgrades to religious units are valid. This means that e.g. Assassins with a non-CoE religion cannot upgrade to Shadow (Assassins without religion still can).
Men o' War can now carry one bird, like Frigates (Report by King Bulrush@civfanatics)
Lumbermill can now be constructed on ancient forests
UI
Allow enabling/disabling avoid angry/unhealthy citizens in new cities via BUG Option
Allow cycling through foreign units on a single plot -- Allows access to unit details for all foreign units on plots with no unit belonging to the active player. Before, details where inaccessible if too many units were on the plot. Cycle while hovering over a plot with Ctrl-Space (forwards) and Ctrl-Shift-Space (backwards).
BUG option to control how many individual units are shown in plot help
Improve display of unit upgrades and building-enabled units in pedia, based on active player (report by Vintage Strategist@civfanatics)
Hide units from the upgrade chart that are unavailable to active player because of PrereqCiv
Added Advanced diplomacy concept page
Show UnitInfo religion (e.g., in build queue tooltip and in pedia)
Civic buttons in tech tree now have a more informative tooltip
Fix some invalid upgrades that were shown in unit upgrade graph
Unit upgrade graph uses buttons with corret artstyle
Small improvements to the defensive fear mechanic: After scared out of attacking, units that are unable to attack again are removed from selection, and the "unit afraid" message is shown immediately after trying to attack
Some text fixes for spanish
Bugfixes
Regenerating the map resets world wonder counts and allows re-founding of religions (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Avatar of Wrath event no longer enrages workers (report by kvaak@civfanatics)
Fixed a frequent error when exploring a lair had one of the outcomes "Depths", "Dwarf vs. Lizardmen" or "Portal".
Real (non-temporary) terrain type now saved correctly by WB (code by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Fixed a possible zero division error
Fixed GFC Error when "Fall from Heaven 2" folder is not present (thanks omegaflames@civfanatics)
Fixed invalid memory access when earthquake spell is checked on unowned plot
Immortal units now properly abandon you or expire from limited duration (report by MagisterCultuum@cf)
Crash when ejecting unit because it loses an invisibility promotion (report by Bickendan@cf)
Defensive fear mechanic now works again (thanks Azhral@cf)
AI
Fixed a bug causing the AI to miscalculate mana value
Scaled back AI valuation of mana when (momentarily) going for a tower victory (Report by Sezren@civfanatics)
Removed erroneous base valuation of resources, even of those with no benefit. In particular, Hyborem will not assign any value to health resources.
Code
Removed trivial assertion errors in PerfectWorld2.py and Totestra.py
Debug build now logs as intended
More AI deal logging
Some Advanced Diplomacy documentation
Added 40 dummy gameoption for mod use
v2.9-beta2u
UI
(Most) advisors are now able to adapt to a screen height of 720 (report by Tielby@civfanatics)
Flag tooltip now shows whether the game is played with an assert/debug build
Player defeat popups can now be disabled via BUG options
Show promotion min level in help (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Some small text fixes
Religion advisor can be made full-screen again
Bugfixes
Scenarios now work with the new mod name.
Cannot found on foundDisabled plots, even in advanced start. (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Advanced combat odds now display correct combat odds for units with special combat types (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Corrected refund when removing a unit with InstanceCostModifier in advanced start (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Can only cast regeneration when a damaged unit is in stack
Fixed array underflow when closing the game (thanks to DuskTreader@civfanatics)
Make Minister Koun properly update his area strategies when he spawns
Upgrades cannot yield gold, even with total iUpgradeDiscount greater than 100% (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
Building <ReligionChange> applies religion in worldbuilder/advanced start, too (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
AI
AI is now less eager to build super forts in unowned territory
Some tweaks to make the AI better at guarding forts (report by Dominus the Mentat@civfanatics)
Tweaks to make the AI less likely to build forts in the city radius
AI tries to not leave it's city undefended if it has only one city (report by Dominus the Mentat@civfanatics)
Code
More logging, especially for AI, but release build log less
Added custom makefile
Small improvements to PyHelpers
v2.9-beta1u
Breaks savegames.
Gameplay
The "sell slave" spell (which was previously not available due to a bug) can only be cast in cities
Fund dissidents resolution can now only be chosen if it actually does something
Removed broken and/or unfitting resolutions, cleaned up the rest
UI
"100% chance of wearing off each turn" now reads "Wears off at the end of turn"
Adjusted size of unit model for currently selected unit so it doesn't overlap with the tooltip
Lanun adept now uses default adept button instead of lanun warrior button (report by swapoer@civfanatics.com)
Vote help text now avaiable as a tooltip in victory advisor and resolution choice and voting dialogs
Improved popup text and messages regarding voting
Spell costs you cannot pay are now indicated in red
Removed irritating "unit defeated" sound when great generals die (report by Bickendan@civfanatics.com)
If own nationality is lower than 50% in a city, show turns until 50% is achieved
Adjusted player colors such that rebels (and Minister Koun) get new ones (report by Devils_Advocate@civfanatics.com)
Bugfixes
Spells whose only positive effect is gaining gold can now be casted (this was preventing "Sell Slave" to work)
Repealing a resolution now correctly undoes its effect on crime rate
Fixed an encoding problem with Dynamic Civ Names
Fixed an invalid memory access occuring in the AI cache
Fixed an invalid memory access when having the mouse over an unowned town improvement
Fixed a typo in the lair exploration code
Code
<bGamblingRing>, <bSmugglingRing>, and <bSlaveTrade> VoteInfo tag removed (superseded)
<bCityRazing> and <bPacificRule> VoteInfo tags removed (didn't work and not fitting for FfH)
<bPrereqSlaveTrade> SpellInfo tag removed
New SpellInfo tag: <VotePrereq>
New VoteInfo tags: <PyRequirement>, <PyAI>. See doc/tags.md for more information
Enabled VoteInfo <Help> tag in Schema
gambling ring, smuggling ring, and slave trade resolutions now use python and the new tags
More documentation for Vote system
Misc formatting, cleanup, and comments.
Removed an invalid assert complaining about the world building limit - this is expected to be too high if we e.g. pick up and drop crown of Akharien.
Misc
The mod folder is now "More Naval AI", it should no longer installed over vanilla FfH.
v2.8.1u
Gameplay
Strong lair bosses now require that barbarians have certain technologies
Mistform event now requires Sorcery
Barbarian Spectres can no longer upgrade to wraiths before barbarians have Sorcery
Stasis now disables production decay (idea by Devils_Advocate@civfanatics)
UI
Spell help and pedia now shows all gameplay-relevant information
Technology, civic, finance, military, and victory screen as well as the sevopedia can now be set to fullscreen in BUG options
Improved victory screen
Rearranged Advisor tab in BUG options, removed espionage options
Now shows a message when a unit is killed due to not being able to withdraw
Trade route yield modifiers from Civics and Traits are now displayed correctly (report by westamastaflash@civfanatics)
Overhauled dynamic civ names. There are now three flavors of DNC that can be chosen in the "Scoreboard" tab of the BUG options window, along with other options:
Off - Always use default name
Minimal - Always use default name, except when two civililzations of the same type exist (in that case, use "Realm of [leader]")
Medium - Similar to Minimal, but with a limited number of additional names based on civ, civics etc.
High - Tholal's original DNC variant
Bugfixes
Pillaging cannot remove plot ownership anymore
Blizzards no longer deal damage to winterborn units on creation (report by Devils_Advocate@civfanatics)
Fixed not being able to change all but government civics if Liberty is enforced by overcouncil (report by westamastaflash@civfanatics)
Barbarian cities are no longer founded on foundDisabled tiles (report by MagisterCultuum@civfanatics)
BUG's "actual" building effects now considers unhappy production (governor's manor, pillar of chains)
Fixes crash when a ship is captured by another ship with boarding, the latter of which appear in MagisterModMod (report by OKSleeper@civfanatics)
BUG production decay calculation (for UI) was off in some cases
Fixed rare crash when a unit loses the Hidden promotion after combat, thus becomes visible, then tries to flee as there are enemy units on the same plot, cannot flee, and is therefore killed. The game continues to do stuff with the killed unit, which lead to the crash. (report by westamastaflash@civfanatics)
Code
Allow Buildings to have empty <MovieDefineTag> (previously, only NONE was allowed) - Fixes Assertion in MagisterModMod
Exposed all relevant CvSpellInfo functions
Added bCreation parameter to CvUnit::setXY() and feature onMove callback, indicating whether the unit was just created on that tile (see Notes for Modders)
Added combatDefenderRetreat BUG event
Added <iMiscastChance> to PromotionInfo, tweaked miscast help and messages
Added <PythonInfoHelp> tag to UnitInfo - This may be used to display help text for UnitInfos (as opposed to actual units), for example in the civilopedia and in the city screen. The tag must contain a single python statement (usually a function call) that may use the following parameters: eUnit, bCivilopediaText, bStrategyText, bTechChooserText, pCity. The code is executed in python/entrypoints/CvSpellInterface.py, like the spell help.
Whenever a unit is killed, a message with the cause is logged
Replaced the earlier item duplication fix with a different one that hopefully causes less problems
Caching parts of AI_unitValue that only depend on InfoTypes for better performance
Removed the unused files RebelTypes.py and LeaderCivNames.py and references to them
Fixed BugUtil swallowing Exceptions and printing misleading messages when loading modules
Some code tweaks/cleanup, fixed some minor bugs
Notes for modders
onMoveFeature() in CvSpellInterface.py now receives the additional parameter bCreation that indicates whether the unit was just created (on the respective plot). You have to merge the change in CvSpellInterface, and you can then use the bCreation variable in FeatureInfo's <PythonOnMove>.
I started adding some documentation in the doc folder. Currently, the FfH-specific VoteInfo tags are documented, but I plan to add more in the future (depending what I work on). The documentation is formatted with markdown. The rendered result can be viewed e.g. on bitbucket (although it doesn't render everything correctly, it is still well readable).