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Enjoy this new installment of Colonialism, 12 months after the first release!

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Rules changes:
-Removed republic, introduce Communism instead. Form of rule now Colonial Imperium.
-Renamed Castle to Fortress and price lowered.
-Fixed Fire Ship bug. Fire Ships now destroyed after they have made their attack.
-Terraforming no longer possible. And now only selected terrains can irrigate/mine.
-Trade from Centre of Trade raised to 20, ocean terrain to 5.
-Barracks removed from scenario. Amsterdam only city to have barracks in their cities from start.
-Ottomans units given ignore city flag.
-Ottomans have the Sun Tzu wonder.
-AI and Heathen units cheaper.
-Asian and Arab warriors more powerful.
-Improvement prices lowered.
-Now 100% penalty on production change.
-Terrain defenses tweaked.
-Musketeers no longer +50 def versus horses flag.
-Musketeers now 60 shields. Improved Pikemen now 70 shields.
-Musketeers now weaker then Improved Pikemen in attack.
-Ship stats changed to represent their roles better.
-Only war ships can spot units two spaces away.
-Caravel now sinks at 'high seas' (exept for the Habsburg/Portuguese one).
-Habsburg and Portuguese wonders now get obsoleted by certain techs.

Units changes:
-Spanish Arquebusiers replaced with new French Knight.
-Spanish Galleon replaced with English Ship of line.
-English Galleon replaced with Native Tribal Capitol instead. Placed around the World for a bonus of 200 gold if destroyed.
-Slaves introduced, given regularly by events.

In game changes:
-Weakened Habsburgs and Portuguese. Strengthened the rest.
-AI defense improved. Most fortresses given veteran status and many new fortresses placed, both AI and human.
-Lots of terrain changes. Most AI cities now on defensive terrain.
-Many cities razed, many new cities created or relocated.
-Removed famine from heathen cities.
-Removed Cape Blanco, Cape Verde, San Jorge and Cape Agostin from the Portuguese. Made them Trade Post instead (airbase).
-More Ottoman units are veteran from start
-Istanbul made virtually impregnable.
-Ottoman units regenerate in Istanbul.

Event changes:
-Lots of new and modified events.

Graphics:
-General face lift.

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Here's the Portuguese world map. They've already found a trade route to India, around Africa. But still there's lots of exploration to do

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Many humble thanks, to all of you!

And you are correct about the #5 trade arrows for ocean. I wanted to represent the importance of coastal colonial cities for trade, and trade is a central tool for your empire to grow, and to emphasize the growth of coastal colonial cities before any premature moves inland. Use colonial cities to produce raw materials, and ship them back to the old world for grand revenues.

As for the white for unexplored terrain; it's just a matter of taste. I thought it was interesting with an alternative to black, it shouldn't matter for the general impression of the scenario though. If you dislike it too much, simply change it back to black.

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SP vs MP:
All scenarios have best playability in MP, but this, as with others, work ok in SP as well. And the best SP scenarios are the ones that play on only one single continent. Therefore I can't promise you that the AI will be smart enough to stack their galleons and cross the atlantic to settle the land though. I even tried with goto events from Europe to America, but they never figured how to load onto the ships. But there's nothing stopping you from going about in the world.

And the AI civs (Ottomans and Europeans) will handle better in this version as well.

Best not start the subject on how stupid the AI is, I get the urge to quit civ2 every time .

Freight payouts:
We havn't gotten that far in the new PBEM yet, so I wouldn't know yet. Many new factors in this version will decide how the revenues will be. For one, the COT terrain produces more trade now, ocean terrain produces more trade, I've removed the Republic etc. All in all they will probably get higher now than before though. If the colonies may develop, cross atlantic revenues may reach 500-1500, and in time maybe more. Patience is a virtue, you know . All depending on the receiver and sending cities, and distance of course.

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