Development Notes

Version 0.44 November 2026

Walls, soldiers and new landmarks

Soldiers need home-made equipment, pay and morale, and training at the drill ground makes them stronger.
Warships berth in the harbour, and in “Pericles I” pirates attack and can be fought off with soldiers, watchtowers and the fleet.
Raids against weak cities can be launched from the world map, with or without the fleet.
Palisades, mud-brick and stone walls with gates, plus paving and marble slabs for decoration.
Bathhouse, stoa and necropolis can be built, and the dead are carried to the necropolis in a funeral procession.
Disputes among the nobility go before the noble court and can lead to an ostracism vote in the bouleuterion.

Ctrl+Z takes back the last placed building as long as work has not started.
Marble, gold and iron deposits are visible on the map, and mines can only be built on them.
Many buildings have been redesigned, including harbour, warehouse, bakery, gymnasion and school, and storehouses show how full they are.
Residents look more alive: faces and hair up close, clothing by social class, veils and loads that match their errand.
Residents walk to the nearest fountain themselves and fetch medicine before they fall ill.
The guardhouse is now a watchtower, and guards patrol from post to post.

Residents fetch bread again, so hunger strikes in larger cities no longer occur.
The image no longer brightens briefly every few seconds.
A bright square no longer appears around torches at night.
Scribes staff the trading post and harbour again, so trade works even with a school in the city.
Animals no longer walk through walls and gates.

Pre-alpha October 2026

The mission “Pericles I: The Delian League” is playable.
Day and night alternate, and at night fires and the windows of occupied houses glow.
Grain, grapes and olives are harvested twice a year, and farmers head out to the fields at dawn.
Envoys from other cities ask for goods, and each request can be accepted, declined or fulfilled from storage.
Merchants from distant lands sell luxury goods for the nobility at the agora for a one-time fee.
An advisor guides players step by step through “The Founding” and helps when the city stalls.

The pace is calmer: a month now lasts 150 seconds instead of 50.
Construction sites visibly grow into the finished building, and residents put up simple buildings themselves.
A house’s info panel shows the family in round portraits, and a click jumps to that person.
Residents walk with a spring in their step or a stoop depending on their wellbeing, and their faces show their mood.
Theatre, stadium and agora have been redesigned, and the seats fill according to the month’s visits.
The game is fully playable in English, with Romanian and Greek available as beta.

Buildings no longer rotate when roads or paths are built next to them later.
Oikos construction sites no longer get stuck at 0 %.
A priest only appears at a shrine when one is actually there, and residents really go to pray.
Dikasterion and bouleuterion no longer report “waiting for masons” after completion.
Workers’ huts are occupied again.
Clicking a city on the world map no longer sends the camera off the map.

Pre-alpha September 2026

Save games can be saved and loaded.
First production chains: olives become oil, wool becomes cloth.
A world map with neighbouring cities and caravan trade through the trading post.
Harbour, fisherman’s hut and sea trade with merchant ships.
Vineyard, winery and apiary bring wine and honey to the city as luxuries.
A ledger with an adjustable tax rate.