
You used to get a mere 60 points, meaning they’d immediately drop out of ally status unless you had been previously friendly or you bribed them.

Still, the patch does improve many things, including the following: Most of my annoyances with the original BNW release are still intact, too: there’s just a pamphlet instead of a real manual, the new culture and trade route systems are hampered by laborious UI, and the computer players are less challenging on King than on Gods & Kings’ Prince level, despite enhanced cheating.

Disappointingly, this still doesn’t fix all issues – in my first test game, I saw that archeologic dig sites were still announced with two icons per site, and the Hermitage theming bonus seems newly broken. The 39.6 MB patch contains nearly 200 listed changes, mostly balance & bug fixes for Brave New World. Firaxis also published the Scrambled Continents Map Pack as a separate purchase, for continents with known outlines but randomized interiors. I’ve updated my own Civ5 Patch Notes accordingly, this time with extensive reordering and reformatting since the official post was somewhat disorganized. Firaxis has just released patch version 1.0.3.142 for Sid Meier’s Civilization V, or rather for Brave New World since most changes are specific to that expansion.
