v1.61 is a major upgrade to Civ IV and includes number of new and exciting features including new scenarios and map scripts, unit adjustments and enhancements and more!

Changes:

• randomized processing order when multiple players try to move on the same turn slice


• only the host can set the admin password


• Horseback Riding now a classical tech


• Kremlin now gives -33% hurry production cost


• can't airlift from foreign cities


• expanded subject for PitBoss e-mail


• lightened the color of some civs' text


• mp retire fix


• less hammers from chops the farther away from a city


• reduced hammer yield from forest chops to 20…


• Mathematics increases forest chop yields by +50%


• SDI cannot be built before the Manhattan Project.


• increased SDI cost


• marines and SAM Infantry now upgrade to Mech Infantry


• better AI-to-human diplo in team games


• no more diplo penalty for helping to end wars


• city production popups stay on city when entering/exiting


• can now set units to Sleep and Intercept in wbs


• Continents map script now produces large continents


• game options and victory conditions now saved in ini file


• invalid buildings now removed from city queues


• Free Trade: Medium Upkeep


• State Property: Low Upkeep


• Representation: +2 happy in X biggest cities.


• Hereditary Rule: Low Upkeep.


• Representation: Medium Upkeep.


• Slaver: Low Upkeep


• Nationhood: No Upkeep


• firepower is now average of curr and max strength


• Gunships now move faster over rails


• No Cheating option renamed to Lock Modified Assets


• city management no longer uses "forced" specialist states when not automated


• Expansive: +3 Health


• Financial: No longer give production bonus for Banks


• Prompt for admin password when loading a game containing one in LAN, Internet, or Pitboss play


• Don't allow players to play non-playable civs in Pitboss


• Do not display SP only mods in Pitboss


• Allow hotseat/PBEM scenario host to select which civ s/he will play


• Force non-playable civs to be AI in Hotseat/PBEM games


• Allowing for AI slots in player defined scenarios for Hot Seat, PBEM, and Pitboss games


• Do not display duplicate buddy request popups from the same guy


• Peer address handling improvements


• Number keys perform leaderhead actions on Civilopedia leader screen.


• Custom game SP screen remembers difficulty level last played


• Reduced rounding error for population and land victory condition test


• Loading a multiplayer game as a PBEM/hotseat converts it to non-simultaneous turns


• When the city names of your civ are all taken, choose a default name from a random civ


• Timelines more uniform across game speeds


• Military Advisor shows Barbarians


• Tech chooser screen now observes CvGameInterface.cannotResearch() and shows the tech in a red pane if the function returns true


• Fixed American Revolution scenario to work with Pitboss


• PBEM password reminder popup no longer disappears when the game starts


• Wonder description on Wonder Movie screen more legible


• Top Civs screen no longer appears in online multiplayer


• Civilopedia main page sorted in columns rather than in rows


• Pressing escape when selecting goto points now cancels the goto waypoints


• Military advisor now works like foreign advisor: clicking on leader buttons clears previous leader selections unless you hold down the shift key.


• Teams in multiplayer once again share all the players' starting techs, not just the last player's


• Great person point generation from Wonders continues after Wonder has become obsolete


• quicksave doesn't prompt for overwrite

Fixes:

• exploit fix that allowed multiple players to extract the same gold/resources from the AI...


• Don't set localhost address as public addr for peers on same computer


• fixed gunships capturing cities bug


• game doesn't end on ties


• fixed mp UN voting bug


• Leaderheads on a radeon 9000 64mb - fix for strange skin shading


• Fixed crash that happened when a spy sabotaged an improvement outside cultural borders


• The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder


• Double-clicking on a save of a mod now loads the proper DLL


• fixed Out-of-Sync from exiting to main menu


• fixed anarchy/specialist resetting bug


• fixed bug where environmentalism doesn't affect new cities


• fix for missing head mission crash


• fixed stack attack bug with groups of units with more than one move


• fixed premature end-turn unit cycle bug


• fixed State Porperty cumulative effect in team game


• fixed plot list button scrolling for multiple resolutions


• fixed some AI attitude issues for team games


• Strip chat messages of color tags before displaying in Pitboss


• Fixed logic bug that determines the number of open slots in a Pitboss game


• Improving how the host determines if the game is full - number of connections rather than number of players - before, the host wasn't considering joining players when determining if the game was full


• Set status to CLOSED when a computer player dies in the game


• The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder


• Load proper DLL when a mod is specified in the ini file


• fix for tech chooser showing known techs as unknown


• Clear map data (like latitudes) when you exit to main menu


• Fixed error in combat calculations when a zero-strength unit was involved


• Fixed bug in Info screen "rival worst" calculation


• End of game sequence plays correctly for hotseat/pbem


• Diplomacy screen no longer allows end-turn events to go through


• Diplomacy screen gold popups respond to ESCAPE and RETURN


• Right-click select-all no longer causes large stacks to slide off the screen


• No longer possible to attempt to take over unplayable civs in multiplayer scenarios


• Fixed PBEM infinite movement exploit


• Fixed rush production per population for game speeds other than normal


• GNP graph is now consistent with demographics table


• Fix Gunship being almost invisibile in Frozen mode


• fix mod name in progress bar


• New DX9 code takes screenshot without requiring lockable back buffer


• Fixed the vertically launching torpedo for the submarine unit


• Movie playback optimized


• Significant reduction in video and system memory usage


• Fixed some memory leaks


• Fixed crashes with modified SDK


• Fixed XML failures with non-default locale


• Many translation fixes


• Memory related crash fixes


• Fixed diplomacy crash fix (when expanding an empty tree control with space bar)


• Internet lobby -> LAN fix


• fixed pedia and menu buttons disappearing after leaving tech chooser


• PitBoss no longer crashes on victory


• can no longer see number of units in darkened tiles by moving the flag


• No more Archers holding all their weapons and Workers holding all their tools


• No more fog of war missing from the southern ice and from trees/jungle on the dateline


• Pushing "go back" while joining a mp game, no longer causes background music to disappear


• Wonder movie effect and zoom no longer happens when you have disabled Wonder movies


• City billboards no longer choke on text formatting


• Many tutorial issues fixed…


• Fixed checksum folder order difference between NTFS and FAT32 filesystems


• Many worldbuilder issues fixed…


• Fix: Black eye shadows


• Fix: Some leaderheads appear to have white eyes when the low-res textures option is on


• fixing crack in huge globe view maps


• fixes the problem where animals were not animating in the fog


• Prevent Terrain crash when reloading EarthMap twice


• fixed crash on too quick quickload


• fixed city yields being revealed in FOW


• fixed ability to see cities in FOW via defense modifiers


• ICBM no longer flips upside-down when fortified/awaken


• Fix for combat bug across a map seam

Additions:

• PitBossSleep ini setting


• unit cycling optimization


• Africa, Europe, East Asia, Eastern U.S., and South America maps


• Fantasy_Realm, Fractal, and Shuffle map scripts


• unit health bar for plot list buttons


• Require Complete Kills game option


• No Movies is now a graphical option (instead of an ini option)


• Warn all users when a player with a different version of files joins the game


• Display a popup warning the host when a joining player has different versions of XML/Python files so he can make sure this guy can be trusted


• Indicate which players have an active turn in the Pitboss admin screen


• Synch Logging now an .ini option


• Able to load mods from the Pitboss


• Hotseat and PBEM scenarios


• Display name of peer you are contacting in join screen if available


• Saving DirectIP join address


• Added culture rate popup help to culture bar in city screen


• Added Admin password field in PBEM/Hotseat staging screens


• Added HideMovieBackground ini option for further movie speedup


• Added HideOutOfVRamWarning ini option


• Exposed many more functions to Python


• Hooked up modern whaling boats


• support for movies in customAssets folder