Software Update: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword 3.19

Take Two Interactive released a patch for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword on Thursday. Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV, released in the last quarter of 2005. Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy game in which the aim is to take control of a civilization and defeat the other players by military, cultural, technological or diplomatic means. Below are the changes and improvements coming with the 3.19 patch:

Changes:

• Info screen always shows demographics when espionage is disabled
• Players can no longer receive obsolete resources through trade
• Fixed bug where culture obtained through espionage was 100 times lower than intended
• AI player better evaluates his situation before voting for a ban on nuclear weapons
• Fixed a few AI civic evaluation bugs
• AI changes civics during Golden Ages
• Fixed bug with AI not knowing how close its cities are to other players
• Re-enabled Foreign Advisor “Glance” screen
• Fixed Team Battleground map script to distribute hills better and work around team-counting problem
• Civilopedia lists buildings that replace a given building
• Barrage promotions no longer available to units without the ability to already cause collateral damage
• Conquistador ignores walls, to be consistent with Cuirassier
• Fixed AI defender bug for newly captured cities
• Build-specific production modifiers are no longer counted for overflow gold calculations
• Building or destroying a fort now properly refreshes resource connections
• Collateral damage modifiers, collateral damage immunity, and air defense modifiers, multiply instead of add
• Fixed event triggering on a dead unit
• AI uses Warlords to make super-medic units
• Better AI decision-making related to damaged air units
• Better AI use of missiles to disconnect enemy resources
• AI evacuates ships and planes from cities in danger
• AI no longer joins Great People to cities in danger
• Fixed bug where AI Great Engineers would hurry Wonders in other players’ cities
• Spies no longer interrupt their mission when moving next to an enemy unit
• Fixed map generator bug for water starts
• Situations which invalidated Secretary General/AP Resident now force the next vote to be an election
• Fixed team-counting bug that would cause some mapscripts to fail
• Moved some gamecore-specific code into the DLL
• Fixed cheat where you could apply a free tech from one game to another
• Diplomacy summary no longer claims that a civ is the worst enemy of a human team
• Groups on sentry awake based on best unit’s vision rather than head unit’s vision
• Hidden Nationality units can enter friendly rival territory when starting in a city
• Fixed bug where captured cities could give double bonus for the Apostolic Palace
• Fixed a bug in AI war declaration in exchange for technologies
• Sea patrolling ships no longer attack if they have less than 50% chance of winning the battle
• Terrain height no longer affects aerial recon missions
• No Espionage option: no Free Great Spy from Communism, no espionage-related events
• Blockading AI Privateers can no longer sense invisible units
• Colonies no longer assume the name of an eliminated player