BUILD 2.1 RELEASE
12/23/2013

CHANGELOG
-New Guinea has been modified and is now more true to both a geographical and historical standpoint.
-German New Guinean borders have been redrawn based on aforementioned change.
-The Persian/Iranian capital city of Tehran has been shifted to the southeast to better reflect its real-world location.
-Persian geography has been modified; there are less mountains tiles and more desert tiles (specifically in where the Yazd provincial region would be).
-A new Persian city, Tabriz, has been created at the former location of the capital city of Tehran.
-The Persian military has been toned down in martial strength in all relative respects.
-Russian military advisor units stationed in Ethiopia have had the "regiment" part of their names dropped.
-Greece now possesses naval units.
-Greek naval units now have unique, historically accurate names. Except for the RHN Psara, which should technically be an ironclad but for gameplay reasons is a frigate (considering the relative naval makeup of the surrounding naval powers, ironclads are just too easy to take out without a fight)
-The West African coastline has been changed because I didn't like how it looked. It's a lot more aesthetically pleasing now, I think.
-The Australian coastline has been changed and is now extends only 2 tiles out from shore rather than 3.
-Dutch coastal borders in the East Indies have undergone minor changes, mostly quality of life changes.
-All cities in Alaska save for Anchorage and Juneau have been removed.
-Almost all resources in Alaska have been removed to decrease the fertility rating, as well as Washington's prospenity to settle new cities in the area. Hopefully it works!
-Terrain in Alaska has been modified; a colder climate is now more pronounced (e.g. more snow, tundra, plains replacing what little grasslands there were) in an effort to reduce the land fertility rating.
-Various Canadian Customs Houses have had their positions shifted.
-Salt Lake City has been shifted to the southwest, because the state of Utah is not on the same fucking latitude as Washington. This is why you don't mod drunk, kids. Stay in school.
-More German Infantry units have been added to rectify the shortage of Infantry units. I have no idea how they disappeared in the first place, but suspect that alcohol was involved (as it is in all of my patches - it keeps things interesting both for you and me, especially when you know that I'll contradict myself again in another patch or two)
-The City-State of Denmark has been added to the game.
-Copenhagen serves as the Danish city-state "capital".
-Greenland is now considered to be under Danish control. Because fuck you, Sweden. And also because of historical accuracy. But mostly because Sweden.
-Greenland is no longer entirely snow; now there's some tundra! How very Green of them. GET IT?
-Rivers representing fjords have been added to Greenland.
-A small amount of hills has been added to Greenland to make it look less like its real life barren freezing wasteland counterpart. And also for the production bonuses.
-The Spanish city of "Canary Islands" has been renamed to "Santa Cruz".
-The Requirements section of the description has been updated.
-The FAQ section of the description has been updated.
-True version revision # in SDK set
-"Terrain - Pontoon Bridge" is now required to activate the mod
-Required DLC have been set as references in SDK (e.g. really, really, really recommended you have them) until I get reports that state otherwise to the contrary (i.e. dlc not necessarily required for launch)

BUILD 2.0 RELEASE
12/17/2013

-Barringer Crater moved to the west 1 tile for better geographic accuracy
-Shape of Japan has undergone minor changes
-Vanern Lake re-added to Sweden
-Salt resources have been added to Northern Africa.
-The North African coastline has been changed to better reflect real-world geography.
-Canberra has been deleted (it did not exist until the 1930s).
-Melbourne now serves as the capital of Australia.
-Science has been enabled for a separate version of the map! Rejoice, plebians!
-A passage connecting Italy and Switzerland has been added to the game.
-More units have been added to Switzerland.
-Roads connecting France and Italy have been added.
-Roads connecting Spain and Portugal have been added.
-The road connecting Nicaragua and Panama has been fixed.
-Nicaragua now has a proper military capable of defensive action.
-A road connecting Thailand and Kuala Lampur has been created.
-Thailand now has a strong military presence capable of defending itself from heavy colonial aggression.
-The Persian/Iranian military is now much stronger and now actually stands a chance against India (England) and the Ottomans. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy, though.
-More oil has been added to Iran to compensate for the increased strength of the iranian military - i.e. risk vs. reward modifications for great powers
-The Russian Great Admiral Alexander Kolchak, located in the Ohtosk Sea, has been given unique promotions.
-Improvements have been added to the area surrounding the German city of Metz.
-A much improved road network has been added to Central Africa.
-More troops have been added to Spanish Morocco
-Certain Spanish colonial troops have been given special historically accurate unique names
-Italian colonial troops have been given special historically accurate unique names and a unique ability.
-English Indian colonial troops have been given historically accurate unique names
-French colonial troops have been given historically accurate unique names with unique abilities.
-Ottoman cultural borders have been expanded to reflect proper territorial control of the Balkans in the early 1900s.
-More Ottoman troops have been added.
-Korean Great Prophet now has a unique name.
-Roads in Southeastern Africa added.
-Austria no longer has a negative amount of horse resources.
-Austria no longer has a negative amount of oil resources.
-Austria has now been given a small amount of oil in the southwestern part of the empire.
-ad-Dammam has been nerfed; it is no longer the premier trading site. This change was done to force an increase in trade route diversity.
-The Austrians now no longer start without the railroad technology.
-The Neuchwanstein wonder has had its location changed from Munich to Berlin; the wonder now appears in German territory rather than Swiss territory. Out of all possible resolutions to the issue, this one was determined to be the best one: I know Berlin region != Bavaria. Deal with it.

v1.9b Hotfix
-Removed tile NE of Miami.

v1.8a hotfix
-Added required mods to description.

BUILD 1.9 RELEASE
12/13/2013

Note: Patch notes too long. Check the pastebin.

CHANGELOG:
-Pontoon bridges have been added to the game! The requirements to run the mod have now been updated.
-Starting cultural values have been increased across the board: civilizations with pre-defined ideologies now start with 7,000 culture available, and civilizations without pre-defined ideologies now start with 8,000.
-Switzerland now sucks less.
-The Swiss city of Zurich has been deleted and replaced with Bern.
-Swiss city placement has been altered and is now more true to real-life geography; the alps no longer encircle its city.
-Bern now has a wheat farm supplying food to the city.
-My watch continues to make odd beeping noises at irregular intervals. I want a fucking refund, Tag Heuer.
-Germany has undergone several changes, especially in terms of city placement.
-The German city of Strasbourg has been moved one tile to the northwest.
-The German city of Strasbourg has been renamed to "Metz" to better suit its geographic position.
-The German city of Metz maintains its grandfathered legacy status as the German cultural specialized city.
-German cities in general are now much more suited to production, properly reflecting its industrial status in the early 20th century.
-Germany now starts with more artillery, in part to compensate for the added defensive improvements across Europe.
-The continent, city state, geography, and military of Australia have recieved major overhauls.
-The civilization of Australia has been created; the Celtic represent them. Indonesia was not chosen due to its predefined Asian architecture set, which would not fit well with Australia.
-Various river geographic features added to the Australian continent.
-Marchison River added to Australia.
-Mitchell River added to Australia.
-Gilbert River added to Australia.
-Darling River added to Australia.
-Australian cities now specialize in different things; players are free to change this as they see fit.
-Sydney is now considered as the cultural center of Australia.
-Perth is now the industrial center of Australia.
-Cairns is now the financial center of Australia.
-Adelaide is now the scientific center of Australia.
-The Australian military has been redesigned from the ground up with a relatively smaller emphasis on armor.
-Australian ships have been given unique names. I cannot guarantee 100% historical accuracy this time, because apparently the Australian Navy is really, really bad at keeping records.
-Australia now posseses more fish resources, obstensibly to represent shrimp. Have fun with your stupid fucking "barbies", you backwards barbarians. JK AMERSTRALIA 4 LYFE!
-Numerous more Whale resources have been added to many locations throughout the world.
-The French have received minor changes. Eat shit, baguette munchers.
-French Atlantic coastal borders have been shrunk.
-The French tech tree is now on par with all other civilizations.
-The French Great General now has a unique name and ability.
-French coastal territorial borders near Marseille and Corsica have been redrawn once again.
-Angkor Wat wonder added to the French-Cambodian city of Phnom Penh.
-China has undergone minor changes.
-The Chinese city of Khovd has been added to the approximate west of Ulaanbataar in an attempt to help divvy up Mongolian territorial control assignments (read: capturing Ulaanbataar no longer gives you complete control of Mongolia)
-The Chinese Gobi Desert now has many more hills and mountains near the borders of it, reflecting its true geographic features. Roads leading to neighboring countries have remained unaffected. Pray I do not alter it further, mortals.
-The Porcelain Tower wonder has been relocated from Hanoi to Nanjing.
-More international roads have been added.
-The Italian Peninsula has recieved a major overhaul.
-The Distance between Cuba and Florida has been increased.
-The Italian peninsula has been completely redesigned both in terms of geography and cities.
-The Italian city of Lecce has been added.
-The Italian city of Palermo has been added.
-The Tiber River geographic feature has been added to the Italian peninsula.
-The Po River geographic feature has been added to the Italian peninsula.
-Rome has been moved one tile to the northwest on the Italian peninsula.
-Italain cities have been redesignated into several different roles which are listed below; players are still free to modify and build (or tear down) the cities to their own liking.
-Venice is now the financial center of Italy.
-Rome is now the production, cultural and religious center of Italy.
-Palermo and Lecce are busy containing the Southern Italian population, accounting for their low production. #shotsfired
-The Americas have undergone a light touch-up, mostly concerned with geographic and historical accuracy.
-Canada now owns Lake Ontario.
-Newfoundland is now a city state. THAT guy is going to say something about this, I just know it. If you're reading this (although I doubt anyone does), don't be that guy. I already have to deal with enough of these retards.
-Canada and Australia are now properly considered to be a part of the "Commonwealth of Nations" team.
-Odd out of place tiles in Louisana no longer stick out into the Gulf of Mexico.
-Florida as a whole has been shortened; Miami is now on the far southeastern end (as it is in real life).
-The Canadian city of Yellowknife has been deleted; it did not exist until the 1930s.
-The Canadian city of Whitehorse has been moved to its proper real-world location.
-The Halifax-Boston road has been fixed.
-Roads connecting Nicaragua and Panama have been constructed.
-Excessive truffle resource distribution near pucalpa has been removed.
-Peruvian coastal borders have been expanded by a small amount.
-The Dutch East Indies have received a major overhaul.
-3 new cities have been added to the Dutch East Indies - Manado, Ambon, Samarinda, and Hollandia..
-The city of Papa New Guinea has been deleted.
-The city of Papa New Guinea has been replaced with the city of Hollanida roughly northwest of its former location.
-To cope with the increased amount of cities in the Dutch East Indies, Dutch military presence has been increased.
-City states randomization has been fixed, alebit with minorly location-inappropriate names.
-The Egyptian city-state has had its architecture set properly defined as "middle-eastern" following its new association with Tyre (as there is no Egypt city-state).
-The Panama city-state has had its architecture set properly defined as "central-american" following its new association with the Panama City city-state.
-The Peru city-state has had its architecture set properly defined as "central-american" following its new association with the La Venta city-state.
-The Iceland city-state has had its architecture set properly defined as "european" following its new association with the Riga city state.
-The South Africa city-state has had its architecture set somewhat properly defined as "european" following its new association with the Wellington city state.
-The Finland city-state has had its architecture set somewhat properly defined as "european" following its association with the Sofia city state. I realize this is not 100% accurate, yet am unable to muster up enough fucks to give: my apologies.
-Eastern Africa has undergone major changes.
-Ethiopia now has a new city, Werder, in the eastern part of the country.
-The English now have a new city, Berbera, in what was (at the time) British Somaliland.
-The French now have a new city, Dijibouti, in what was (at the time) French Somaliland.
-The Italians now have a new city, Asmara, in what was (at the time) Italian Eritrea.
-Aforementioned new European cities are categorized as financial focused, representing t

Hotfix 1.8a
12/10/2013

CHANGELOG:
-Enabled policy saving to counteract possible bug while playing as civilizations with predetermined ideologies.

NOTE: Patch notes too long. Check the pastebin.

BUILD 1.8 RELEASE
12/10/2013

CHANGELOG:
-A new Canadian city, Toronto, has been added.
-The CN Tower wonder has been added to Toronto.
-The Belgian city of Brussels has been deleted.
-One tile to the west of Brussels, a new city (Ostend) has been created. The change will serve to facilitate the inclusion of the French city of Metz to the southeast as a byproduct of the transfer of Strasbourg to Germany.
-French caravans in Strasbourg, following its removal, have been deleted.
-The French have recieved an equivalent amount of Cargo Ships to replace Caravans lost during the Strasbourg transfer; these should help compensate for its loss.
-The coastline of France has been expanded by 1 tile to the west.
-The city of Brest has been shifted 1 tile to the west.
-Seine river geographic feature added to France.
-The Rhone river geographic feature has been added to France.
-French cities have been designed in greater detail to fulfill their intended different roles; players are still free and able to modify and improve them to fit their own suiting. This treatment will be applied to most other countries at a later to date. Relative to other Spanish cities,
-Paris now serves as the cultural center of France.
-Marseille now serves as the production center of France.
-Bordeaux now serves as the financial center of France.
-Motbeliard now serves as the scientific center of France.
-Following the expansion of French lands, cultural borders have been redrawn to better suit them.
-French cultural borders near Marseille have been redrawn, and now include greater coastal control.
-The Spanish peninsula has been shifted 1 tile west.
-National colleges and epics, as well as several other national wonders, have been added to civilizations across the map.
-Spanish cities have been designed in greater detail to fulfill different intended roles; players are still free to modify and improve them to their own suiting. This treatment will be applied to most other countries at a later date. Relative to other Spanish cities,
-Madrid serves as the cultural center of Spain.
-Barcelona serves as the production center of Spain (which considering the Spanish work ethic is not much #shotsfired)
-La Caruna now serves as the scientific center of Spain.
-Alicante now serves as the financial center of Spain.
-The Spanish military has been rebuilt from the ground up and now paints a much more accurate picture of the power of the Spanish military at the time.
-More unique ships have been added to the Spanish navy
-More unique ships have been added to the French navy
-Two new cities have been added to the Arabian Peninsula: Medina and ad-Dammam.
-The Lighthouse has been removed from Budapest, considering that it is no longer a coastal city (legacy from early versions)
-French Guiana is now a thing.
-A new city in French Guiana, Cayenne, has been added to the French Empire.
-Russian ships are now able to pass around the Petropavloysk cape.
-German city of Danzig renamed to "Koningsberg"
-New Zealand has been completely redone in terms of geography, improvements, resources, cities, and military.
-Two new unique British ships have been added to the coastal waters of New Zealand.
-British troops are now protecting New Zealand from enemy enroachment.
-3 new cities have been added to New Zealand (England) - Chirstchurch, Auckland, and Dunedin.
-To represent different military focuses, Germany now has less landships and more anti-tank guns whereas British and French forces have more landships but less anti-tank guns.
-More international roads have been added to Europe.
-The Sistine Chapel wonder has been added to Rome.
-Ownership of India has now been transferred to England.
-Gulf of Persia tile ownership has been transferred to the Ottoman Empire following the coastal city of ad-Dammam.
-The city-state of Thailand (capital city Bangkok) has been added to the game.
-Southeast asian international road network improved.
-Tiles in the mediterranean now properly reflect the general climate of the area better.
-The Austrian military has advanced into the 19th century by replacing their renaissance cannons with modern artillery batteries.
-Ottoman cities have been redesigned in greater detail to fulfill different intended roles; players are still free to improve and modify them to their own suiting. This treatment will be applied to most other civilizations in the near future.
-Jersualem is now the religious-specialized center of the Ottoman Empire.
-Ankara is now the production-specialized city of the Ottoman Empire.
-Istanbul has become the culture-specialized city of the Ottoman Empire.
-Baghdad is now the Scientific-specialized city of the Ottoman Empire.
-ad-Dammam is the financial capital of the Ottoman Empire.
-Mediterranean French coastal territory has been expanded.
-The island of Corsica is now controlled by the French.
-The country of Mexico has been redesigned from the ground up.
-El Paso Norte has had its name changed to Ciudad Juarez, properly representing the name at this point in history.
-The Mexican city of Cancun has been shifted to the northeast one tile to better represent its real world physical location.
-The Rio Grande River geographic feature is now represented properly in the American state of Texas and the country of Mexico.
-The Colorado River geographic feature is now properly represented in America.
-The Rio Santigo river is now properly represented in Mexico.
-The San Fernando is now properly represented in Mexico.
-Mexican cities have been redesigned in greater detail to fulfill different intended roles; players are still free to improve and modify them to their own preference. This treatment will be applied to most other civilizations in the near future.
-Mexico City is now the culture-specialized center of Mexico.
-Tampico is now the production-specialized center of Mexico.
-Tijuana is now the financial center of Mexico.
-Puerta Vallarta is now the scientific center of Mexico.
-The Panuco river is now properly represented in Mexico.
-The Usumactina river has been added to Mexico.
-Mexican resources and improvements have been completely redone from the ground up.
-The Mexican military has been completely recreated; it is now much more representative of Mexico's relative military strength at the time.
-The inner portion of the Gulf of Mexico is no longer classified as an ocean.
-Roads have been added between Mexico and Nicaragua.
-Roads have been added between Mexico and America.
-Roads have been added between America and Canada.
-More Russian troops have been added near the Sea of Ohtosk area to assist in the fight against the Japanese.
-Japanese troops have had their positions moved further inland on the land in the Sea of Ohtosk theater.
-Science has been disabled, both because it fits the theme of the map better and because it was causing major problems as well.
-The German city of Hamburg has been renamed to Bremerhaven; Hamburg is not a coastal city and the name change reflects this.
-German cities have been redesigned in greater detail to fulfill different intended roles; players are still free to improve and modify them to their own suiting. This treatment will be applied to most other civilizations in the near future.
-Munich now serves as the cultural center of Germany.
-Berlin now serves as the production center of Germany.
-Bremerhaven now serves as the financial capital of Germany.
-Strasbourg serves as the scientific center of Germany.
-The Alhambra wonder is now present in Alicante.
-Walls and miscellaneous fortifications have been added to various European cities.
-A new set of screenshots has been added to the mod download page that better represents the mod.
-The French island of Corsica has been removed one tile to the west to better match its real-life positioning. The resource tiles and uni

1.71a too-small-to-even-be-a-fucking-hotfix-version
-Enabled tech tree progression again. End in 1918 mod is still recommended for optimal experience.

v1.71
-changed the shape of the italian peninsula
-other things happened, like no more extensive patch notes

BUILD 1.7 RELEASE
12/8/2013

CHANGELOG:
-Patches 1.66, 1.67, and 1.68 have been consolidated into patch 1.7.
-The CTD and "Civ 5 has stopped responding..." bug from patches .66, .67, and .68 have been eliminated.
-Patches 1.66, 1.67, and 1.68 have had their revision histories deleted to ensure no traces of file corruption can be passed on to new builds.
-Athens is now independent from the Ottoman Empire and is considered to be a city-state. The Colossus and Oracle wonders have been removed; their presence was one of the causes of the CTD.
-Custom civilization colors for Greece and Belgium have been removed; their existence was one of the causes of the "Civ 5 has stopped responding..." bug following entry into the game.
-Athens now has a military capable of defending the city-state.
-Greek ships have had their unique names removed; foreign characters serving as naval prefixes were one of the causes of the CTD.
-The Korean Empire is now aware of the existence of New Zealand, and is no longer obscured by the Fog of War.
-German cultural borders have been expanded by a small amount to better represent the overall shape of Germany in the early 20th century.
-Austrian cultural borders have been expanded to better represent Austro-Hungarian territory at the time.
-Control over the Congo has now been handed over to Belgium.
-The Congoloese port city of Matadi is now known as Boma, which historically served as the colonial capital of the Belgian Congo.
-The Palace building from Brussels has been removed; its presence inside a city-state was one of the contributing factors to the CTD.
-Belgium military units in the Congo have had their names using foreign characters removed and instead replaced with the standard English alphabet.
-To better protect against this kind of issue in the future, multiple rollback sources have been created.
-Portugal and England now have Open Borders with China.