To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "Prerelease6"

• New map option value (B2PR2.6)
• Outside of culture area in independence events is now less prioriticed
• Peace treaties no longer consider lake shores as valid areas to keep
• Added lake shore paint colour
• lakeshore paint colour is now always a brighter version of base paint colour
• border paint colour is now seperated from base paint colour
• shore paint colour is now always a brighter version of border paint colour
• Countries now support more than 1 colour per colour type
• countries now switch between the colours within a country type every 14 days (less for smaller maps)
• Oceans are now darker coloured
• Lakes are now lighter coloured
• Country_xxx.txt now requires both 255RGB data colour and either 255RGB visual colour or name of a pre set colour per country.
• Culture_xxx.txt now requires both 255RGB data colour and either 255RGB visual colour or name of a pre set colour per country.
• war borders is now painted with the "victim" countries border colour
• There is now internal Current painting colour values for each of the 4 country colour types.
• New request country colour code
• Country colours is now saved as a vector3int instead of unity color variables to reduce lag
• Country colours is now saved in RGB255 formats to work as ints / to not use decimals
• using 0-0-0 as country colour now give random colour (accidentally left in code ignoring it and making the country black and white, was used to easly see what countries was still left when making the manual colours)
• Added code that makes a specified country invincible (not anyway to assign it to a country atm)
• Added following Pre set colour

To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "Prerelease5" Currently doing a survey on what the countries colours should be, this goes for base colour, shoreline colour and border colour. you can now change colours of countries by clicking their colours in the select menu and writting in the desired RGB values to see what some colours would look like ingame click here to get to the survey

• Made a randomized chance of peace deal each day that's more rare then normal peace deal but without side advantage limitations
• Changed revolt movement values
• Increased the Max movement difficulty from 100 to 100000 (this is meant to never be reached as it causes issues)
• Revolts can no longer donate equipment to themselves
• Change revolt donation odds
• Change revolt odds from 200 to 75
• New "connected to revolt map" now exists to decide what the revolts desired area is (press f12 to see the mapmode)
• new temporary colour picker menue
• accidentally turned off the space background

To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "Prerelease2"

• Merged Edge colours on heightmap to allow greater contrast withing the more common middle colours on the height map (need to have its visual streangth updated)
• added culture civilwar independence event (currently has around 4x higher odds of happening then planned for testing purposes)
• Added civilwar funding sub event based on event side odds and origin country size
• Added diagonal movement
• Updated invasion pixel prioritization calculations to prioritize non diagonal pixels and more
• Changed load in times
• Changed annex event pixel order to random
• Slowed down annex event
• New constant "independence" value that will be used in civilwar events to stop invasions outside of their wanted area
• Saves now save culture_xxx.txt file
• so far unused faster load in option (once done it will turn off the visual part of the map load in in exchange for faster load in)

To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "Prerelease2" The new events are mostly done but still unfinished and therefore toggled off for this pre release

• New Subcontinent map

To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "Prerelease2" The new events are mostly done but still unfinished and therefore toggled off for this pre release

• New splash texts on mainmenu
• New Text under logo telling you it's a in development version of the game
• Reworked the data collection system for cultures and former countries to match the city data collection system
• Removed old not relevant bug fix code from pre beta 1 code optimization
• A bunch of small code optimizations
• A bunch of small bug fixes
• Countries joining a war now actually makes the victim country weaker (needs more balancing)
• Scenarios now include a new "Culture_Eng.txt" file that includes all cultures names and colour codes (this means beta 1 scenarios is not supported in this version, quick manual fix is to go into files, clone the country_Eng.txt file and rename it to "Culture_Eng.txt as their content should be identical)
• Moved a bunch of code from fixed update to update (this was a old dumb thing i did over a year ago that i now fixed)

To try out the pre release right click on the game in the library left side bar, then click properties, go to the betas tab and choose "PreRelease" This is the same as the planned Beta 1.1 but bumped up to a full beta purely for marketing reasons as there will be a lot of big features in it (devlog for this pre release only)

• Fixed Drain events having 0% chance of happening
• Fixed Big flood having low chance of happening
• Set small flood odds back to 0% (was taken out a long time ago but accidentally got it's odds back in beta 1)
• Fixed many other values that got changed due to a mistake
• Updated MainMenu UI to use the new background sprites
• Fixed bugs relating to miss matched data
• Turned on and updated the former country data collection code
• Turned on and updated the culture data collection code
• Turned on and updated the city data collection code (is turned on but should do nothing for now as there is no cities in game yet)
• Fixed code converting 1v1 wars to 1vall wars mid event

• Pause menu is now hidden when game loads in
• Hover box is no longer visible at start of game
• Fixed SimpleStreangth typo
• Game no longer thinks you don't own the game when going to the main menu from ingame

There is currently a few guides on how to play and how to make your own custom scenarios in the discord server, i will work on adding them to the steam guides page during the day but for now if you need any help either read them in the discord or leave a comment on any of the news post or make a discussions post about it and i will do my best to help ^^, you can join the discord here

TurnEvents

• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Civilwar (War) (15)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Civilwar (Peace) (5)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Independence (War) (17)
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Independence (Peace) (8)

• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Added odds for Claiming bordering wilderness (Value of how many claimed pixels border wilderness pixels)

• Added Workshop Upload menu
• Added Workshop Update menu
• Added Saves menu
• New "AutoSaving" popup in game
• In backup alpha version also Fixed ui scaling issues
• Changed quit button in game to settings button
• Made Settings icon
• Mane Saves icon
• Made Display map icon
• Made Country map icon
• Made former country map icon
• Made culture map icon
• Made subdivision map icon
• Made city map icon
• Made terrain map icon
• Made height map icon
• Made naval invasion map icon
• Made shore protection map icon
• Made Water map icon
• Added Buttons for each map icon in settings menu
• Added map shape button in settings menu
• Added main menu button in settings menu
• Added quit button in settings menu
• Added save button in settings menu
• Added save name text field in settings menu
• F1-F11 changes map modes
• Esc now opens and closes settings
• When hovering above a mapmode button a name pops up

• New "Upload" folder with a guide text file in it
• New "Saves" folder
• Game now autosaves every 10(ish) years as soon as no event is ongoing
• Internal code untested code for creating saves (will be fully implemented at a later date)
• Game can now load in both maps from saves and scenario folders
• In backup alpha version also Game now downloads any subscribed items in the steam workshop
• Map Data Changes
• Countries now keep track of borders with wilderness and keep it separate from other borders
• Renamed all internal mentions of SubDivisions to Subcontinents, real subdivisions still planned and in the works
• Renamed SubDivision.png file to SubContinent.png
• New Class for cultures with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data
• New Class for Former Countries with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data
• New Class for cities with only size, colour, countries, size in countries data, city border, empty border, shore border
• When figuring out if the game should keep a bordering pixel to a newly drained pixel shore or not it will now ignore the curently draining pixel as it's data is not set yet and therefore leaves it as always staying as shore
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for cultures
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for former countries
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Game now collects data for cities
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now keep track of what cultures are within it's borders
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now keep track of what former countries are within it's borders
• Temp turned off, will be back in Beta 1.1 Countries now will keep track of any cities within it's borders if the city map isn't empty
• When a pixel is being invaded it will now recheck if shore data is correct
• Game now keeps track of all data colours ever used for countries within the game
• Game now keeps track of the colour within the data map that lead to a countries creation and connects it with all data colours list
• Game now keeps track of what data type the colour that lead to a coutnries creation is
• Made new UI background image
• Datamaps now get updated if the map is selected
• Added not at all used internal subdivision map
• Made all maps and a lot of other not needed to be public elements private
• Removed Physical Height map

• Screenshots now return smaller images
• Screenshots is now ctrl + F1 instead of just F1
• Changed the 3D model used for flat maps to be a custom made one instead of unity default cube
• Flat map is now readable / can now click to get info while using it
• Added splash screens

• Fully documented list of 2230 cities to be added to the game
• Drawn roughly 60 cities on big city map (most likely too big to be in Beta 1)