Julius 1.7.0

General improvements

• Touch devices: added the ability to pause the game using an on-screen button
• The game looks more crisp when using scaling on high DPI screens
• File dialog: when typing a name, the list automatically scrolls to the first matching file
• File dialog: input textbox now only suggests 'My Rome' when saving, not when loading a game
• Added support for new platforms: Haiku and Emscripten
• Population graph on the populator advisor is now usable for populations larger than 51200
• Bridges are now shown on the minimap
• Joystick support for Vita and Switch
• Ships now play the proper phrase when leaving the docks
• Configuration: new option to disable scrolling when the mouse is near the window's edge
• Configuration: hotkey config now gives a warning when you try to assign a hotkey that's already in use

Language improvements

• Better font rendering for Korean and Chinese. This requires new font files for those languages, which are included in the Patches. Please (re-)download the patch file for your language and extract into your Caesar 3 installation.
• Korean: fix money being drawn as "100 Funds" instead of "100 Dn"

Bugfixes

• Fixed possible corruption and linked storages when an earthquake destroys a warehouse
• Fixed the game self-destructing the entire city when a wall/aqueduct blocked the road to Rome
• Fixed build images in the sidebar not showing the correct image when a building was selected for construction
• Fixed being able to construct a building that's been disabled in the menu using the "clone building" hotkey
• Fixed interest on financial advisor showing last year instead of this year
• Fixed incorrect house devolve text related to food types
• Fixed going back in help jumping to random scroll position
• Fixed static in sound from videos played on low sound volume
• Fixed alternative hotkeys for arrow firing on modifiers
• Fixed corrupt dialog text when language fails to load on configuration screen
• Fixed potential crash on Vita and Switch when creating a new file
• Fixed not being able to type text when using SDL 2.0.16 with the Wayland video driver for Linux
• Fixed Android not saving the Julius configuration options when using the home button to exit the game
• Mac: fixed MP3 playback not working due to missing mpg123 framework
• Switch: fixed mouse cursor not being able to move beyond 960x540 when playing on external screen

Technical improvements

• Upgraded SDL to 2.0.16
• Android: upgraded build tools and SDK version
• Vita: updated toolchain

Julius 1.6.0

General improvements

• Minimap of the scenario can be displayed when selecting a map to play
• Bridge cost is shown before building the bridge
• Roads lead into the access ramps to indicate that access ramps are part of the road network
• Undo is disabled after certain houses upgrade to prevent visual corruption
• Granary info window shows cart status when it's getting food from another granary
• Construction: plaza shows as green when over a road with people on it. Previously it was red but the player could still place it
• Construction: fountain shows as red when over a building or other non-clear tile. It still indicates whether that tile has reservoir access
• Android release is available on Google Play

Configuration options

• New option: display scale
• New option: cursor scale
• Note: both options were already available as command-line arguments
• Removed option: "Fix Emperor change and survival time" - the option wasn't in line with the project's goals

Bugfixes

• Fix entertainer corrupting building memory in certain cases
• Fix screen that stayed black after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows
• Fix people on bridges not having a portrait on right-click
• Fix crash on Vita when no music is installed
• Fix being able to place disabled buildings in tutorial missions using their hotkey
• Fix "Disable right click to drag map" also disabling scrolling on touch devices
• Fix some Android devices showing the window with wrong colors
• Fix small bug with visual feedback on delete
• Fix cursor corrupting on certain Windows 10 versions
• Fix intro video playback causing skipped videos and unexpected audio on slow devices
• Fix top menu items overlapping with the city funds for more verbose languages
• Fix press effect not showing for image buttons
• Fix 'right-click to close window' not working when mouse cursor was over a button
• Fix visual bug when undoing deleted houses
• Fix incorrect scaling mode applied when using a custom display scale, which resulted in pixelated graphics
• Fix freeze on Vita and Switch when opening the keyboard input window

Technical improvements

• Upgraded SDL to 2.0.14
• Android: upgraded build tools and SDK version
• Performance improvements for editor and top menu
• Performance improvements related to file handling on Vita and Switch

Julius 1.5.1

Technical fixes

• Android: crash when starting Julius when the Caesar 3 directory had not yet been set has been fixed
• When supplying a display scale on the command line, the correct scaling mode is now applied, resulting in less pixelated graphics

General improvements

• Mission victory and intro videos now scale up to fullscreen

Julius 1.5.0

General improvements

• Julius now runs on Android We found out 1.5.0 is crashing on startup on Android. 1.5.1 fixes this.

UI improvements

• Add right-click image to some enemies which were missing images
• Number of unemployed people has been added to the senate tooltip and Chief advisor
• Setting hotkeys for construction of common buildings is now possible
• Setting a hotkey for quickly selecting the building under cursor for construction
• Changing trade status (import/export) for resources can now be done from the Empire map
• Some more in-game messages have a button to the relevant advisor

Configuration options

• New option: highlight legion on cursor hover
• New option: enable military sidebar
• New option: disable right click to drag the map
• New command-line option: use --windowed to force the game to start in windowed mode

Language improvements

• Use localized filenames for mission saved games. For example, Citizen.sav will now be called Bürger.sav in the German version of the game
• Users running the Korean or Chinese version of the game can now save files using Korean/Chinese characters
• Add Italian, Polish and Swedish translations for the configuration screen
• Add support for the Simplified Chinese version of the game
• Tweaks to make texts in more verbose languages fit in their dialogs

UI/Gameplay fixes

• Fix aqueduct tile turning into gatehouse image on a certain aqueduct configuration
• Fix graphic glitch in road tile caused by plaza
• Fix visual bugs when visual feedback is active
• Fix Religion being shown as Health on chief advisor
• Fix warehouses/granaries getting linked during delete/undo
• Fix combat short and long music being swapped
• Fix population advisor showing the wrong end date for the history graph
• Fix not being able to delete files with non-ascii characters on Windows
• Fix education advisor always saying that people want more libraries
• Fix displayed price for clear land being double the actual amount
• Fix right-clicking the buttons on the sidebar going to the wrong help page
• Fix game speed being way too fast on the higher speed settings on >60Hz monitors
• Fix columns on damage overlay being too tall
• Fix minimap not immediately jumping to the right location when "go to problem" button is used
• Fix minimap not immediately updating when placing a building

Technical fixes

• Vita: fix music-related crash/freeze (#474)
• Fix crash/memory corruption on difficulty dialog
• Slight tweaks to touch support on Vita/Switch

Julius 1.4.1

Improvements

• Price is now shown in localized currency for game languages other than English
• Added Russian translation for the configuration screen

Bugfixes

• Fixed: reservoir range was not displaying properly for orientations other than north
• Fixed: filenames were not displaying properly when using the Chinese version of the game
• Fixed: building ghost flickered after scrolling
• Fixed: aqueduct ghost was showing green on curved roads and plazas
• Fixed: scroll speed calculations were incorrect for monitors not running at 60Hz
• Fixed: the select folder dialog crashed on certain Linux systems
• Fixed: mouse double-click was not working properly
• Fixed: Korean message about missing fonts was not displaying due to missing fonts
• Fixed: escape button was not working in the city when using touch

Julius 1.4.0

General improvements

• New hotkeys:
  • Ctrl+O / Ctrl+S for loading and saving games
  • Alt+Enter for toggling full screen
  • Numeric keypad 0-9 for going to the advisors
• Changed hotkey behavior: Escape now closes dialogs instead of exiting the game
• Configurable hotkeys: you can now assign your own keys for the hotkey actions. This means that existing hotkeys may no longer work if you use a non-US keyboard layout. Go to Options -> Configure hotkeys in the game to set them.
• Support for language packs. If you have multiple language versions of the game you can easily switch between them.
• Support for Korean and Swedish versions of the game
• Configuration option screen has been translated to French, German, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish

Gameplay improvements

• Building a fort no longer triggers a message that the city needs workers
• Right-click info for fountain and mission post now shows workers
• Tooltip on the religion overlay now shows to which gods the house has access
• New config option: fix emperor change events and survival time win criteria - more details

User interface enhancements

• New config option: show reservoir, fountain and well range when constructing
• New config option: show size when constructing draggable buildings
• Right-clicking and dragging when in the city will now move the map
• Double-click can be used to load files
• Make certain elements more color blind friendly
• Tweaks to the interface to fit languages with longer texts

Bugfixes

• Fix graphic artifacts while building draggable reservoirs
• Fix amphitheater right click not playing the corresponding sound file
• Fix walls destroyed by enemies showing "nowhere" when right-clicking the rubble
• Fix map not scrolling properly when using certain custom display scales

Technical improvements

• Screen no longer turns black when resizing the window when a dialog is showing
• Fix bugs when using touch
• Fix missing audio for certain sound driver/OS combinations
• Disable setting windowed mode on platforms that do not support it
• Better support for Wayland in the flatpak image
• Upgrade SDL to 2.0.12
• Add runtime version checks for SDL, allowing the use of older SDL libraries

Julius 1.3.1

Improvements

• Screenshots taken using F12 (current screen) and Ctrl+F12 (full city) are now saved as PNG images instead of BMP
• The file dialog for loading a city or choosing a map can now contain an unlimited number of files. The previous restriction was 200 files
• Music starts immediately when loading a city or starting a map
• Confirmation dialog has been added to the replay map menu option
• Smooth scrolling works a bit faster to match the original scroll speed

Bugfixes

• Fixed: building a wall on top of buildings is no longer possible
• Fixed: building a reservoir on top of a reservoir no longer costs money
• Fixed: construction getting stuck when dragging and letting the mouse go over the sidebar
• Fixed: broken scrolling of the map on Vita and Switch
• Fixed: memory leak on Windows while listing files

Julius 1.3.0

New features:

• "Accept none" button on granaries and warehouses. Hit the "x" button to set all resources (also future resources) to "Not accepting"
• New configuration screen to enable/disable options. Access it using the "Options" button on the main menu. An explanation of the new options can be found on the Wiki.
• New setting: monthly autosave - automatically saves the game to autosave.sav every game month. Enable it in the Options menu
• Editor: requests for denarii are now possible. These also work in Caesar 3
• Full city screenshots: press Ctrl+F12 to save the whole city as one (big!) bmp file in your Caesar 3 folder

User interface improvements:

• New config option: playing intro videos on game start
• New config option: show game speed, employment information and ratings in the control panel (sidebar) in the city, when the height of the window allows
• New config option: smooth scrolling in the city view: scroll by pixel instead of by map tile
• New config option: quickly build temples to each of the gods. Select "all" in the build menu, the temples will then be built in the following order: Ceres, Neptune, Mercury, Mars, Venus.
• New config option: visual feedback when deleting buildings. In the previous release this was on by default, it's now a setting which defaults to off (Caesar 3 behaviour)
• Visual feedback on delete is now also available when using overlays
• Editor: user is now warned about unsaved changes when the map has been edited
• Invalid .sav files will no longer be loaded
• Messages with video show the text in small font if it does not fit the window
• Trade routes show whether it's a land or sea route on the open trade button
• Julius version number is now shown on the main menu
• Right click can now be used to close messages
• New career dialog now has a back button
• Go to problem button has been added to video messages for invasions and disasters
• Some tweaks to make texts fit in different languages
• Game year (123 BC/AD 123) is now shown using the correct order according to the used language
• Screen will no longer go black when showing a dialog and then resizing the game window

Gameplay enhancements:

• New config option: fix immigration bug on very hard
• New config option: fix 100-year-old ghosts when building eternal cities
• Roads will now lead into granaries to indicate where the granary entrance is
• Buttons to the relevant advisor have been added for some more messages
• Prefects now also give feedback about the city's conditions in the right-click information
• Trade caravans now say something when right-clicking them. Previously only the first animal talked
• When you are fired, the Emperor will voice his dissatisfaction with you out loud

Performance improvements:

• Videos skip frames when decoding the video takes longer than frame duration on slower devices
• Game startup is now faster because audio files are now only loaded on demand, not at startup

Bugfixes:

• Fixed: freeze/infinite loop caused by migrating seagulls
• Fixed: gatehouses no longer add roads next to the gatehouse when rotating the map
• Fixed: crash in the editor when using a c3_map_mm.eng which does not contain editor help entries
• Fixed: text scrolling twice as fast in the manual texts when using the mouse wheel
• Fixed: several visual issues when deleting buildings
• Fixed: music no longer resets when canceling the sound options dialog
• Fixed: accented characters in tooltips will no longer be at the wrong height
• Fixed: trade cities not showing with a red flag on some empire maps
• Fixed: houses with partial fountain access not showing blue on the water overlay
• Fixed: rating targets were shown on the ratings advisor for open play scenarios
• Fixed: go to problem button in the sidebar did not work when an invasion has only just started
• Fixed: months remaining banner still showing for time limit / survival time missions after winning the scenario
• Fixed: being able to set a resource to both stockpiling and exporting at the same time
• Fixed: editor: tool selection no longer immediately paints on the map
• Fixed: editor: flags not showing in some cases
• Fixed: editor: request favor not saving
• Fixed: editor: showing the fired/victory screen when editing win criteria
• Fixed: editor: native huts disappeared when building roads

Julius 1.2.0

Gameplay enhancements

• Editor: use the assignment editor directly from within Julius. The editor works the same as the original Caesar 3 editor, with the following enhancements:
  • Painting terrain is easier because a green footprint of the terrain appears
  • Demand changes: a feature supported by Caesar 3 but not available in the original editor: events to change the amount that cities will trade with you, similar to price changes
  • Open play: toggle this option to create an open play scenario, without goals and without Caesar's favor dropping every year
  • The editor is available from the main menu. Note that it requires the editor files to be present in the Caesar 3 installation. Get them here.
• Better visual feedback when clearing land: buildings to be deleted are highlighted in red
• Diagonal scrolling using the keyboard: hold down two arrow keys to scroll diagonally
• Right-click on the City Construction Kit screen to go back to the main menu
• Aqueduct images are updated when sections are deleted
• Intro track is played when returning to the main menu

General improvements

• Upgrade SDL to 2.0.10
  • Note that this SDL version drops support for Windows XP. To play on Windows XP, use the SDL 2.0.9 library instead
• Smacker videos should play smoother
• Support for Linux AppImage
• Support for MP3 files that were available on the official Caesar 3 site
• Support for the Traditional Chinese version of the game
• Show warning when Julius detects an unpatched Caesar 3 installation
• Command-line options meant for HD monitors:
  • --display-scale will scale the display by a factor between 0.5 and 5
  • --cursor-scale will scale the mouse cursor by 1, 1.5 or 2

Gameplay bugfixes

• Fixed: fishing wharf changing orientation upon save/load game
• Fixed: infinite loop/game freeze during large battles, notably in the Carthago campaign mission
• Fixed: corrupt native meeting center graphic when starting custom maps
• Fixed: governor name was not set or carried over properly in campaign missions
• Fixed: visual artifacts on earthquake cracks when deleting buildings
• Fixed: small differences in distant battle behaviour compared to Caesar 3
• Fixed: figure drawing was slightly off compared to Caesar 3

Technical fixes

• Fixed: crash when tooltip is drawn off-screen
• Fixed: crash when a rioter destroys buildings
• Fixed: crashes when screen becomes smaller than 640x480
• Fixed: video sound playing too fast on certain hardware
• Fixed: corrupted video sound for German videos, which use 16-bit audio
• Fixed: set difficulty and gods enabled to sensible defaults when loading a settings file from an unpatched Caesar 3 installation
• Fixed: mouse cursor 'hotspot' not in the proper location on Vita and Switch builds
• Fixed: ok/cancel/scroll buttons reacting to click outside the visible button
• Fixed: multiline text drawing a space before the 2nd and further lines

Julius 1.1.0

General improvements

• Support for non-ascii characters in filenames
• Support for non-ascii keyboards for hotkeys and file input
• Touch support
• Playstation Vita port
• Nintendo Switch port
• Show directory dialog when no valid Caesar 3 installation has been found
• Save chosen directory to preferences
• Support for Russian and Polish versions of the game. Get the required patches here: Russian, Polish.

Gameplay enhancements

• Feedback when clearing land: hovering over a building will now highlight the building
• Window positioning when coming out of fullscreen is handled more smoothly
• Right-click info dialog now shows up at cursor instead of at the other side of the screen
• Long filenames are truncated/ellipsized in the file dialog
• Keyboard ENTER can be used to confirm yes/no dialogs
• Mouse cursor is restricted to the display the game is playing on in fullscreen mode
• Videos now play at the volume settings for "sound effects", rather than at 100% volume
• Reduced audio lag when clicking buttons

Performance enhancements

• Better performance when tooltips are drawn
• Fixed memory leak and crashes when playing videos
• Optimizations to drawing routines

Bugfixes

• Fixed: farm not drawing correctly on overlay in certain orientations
• Fixed: earthquake tiles turning into rocks on map rotate
• Fixed: soldiers not acting properly on enormous maps
• Fixed: crash in manual entry for pottery
• Fixed: strange things happening to fires caused by earthquakes
• Fixed: after deleting a bridge the player could not rebuild a bridge on the same location
• Fixed: random weird things caused by reuse of building memory
• Fixed: some scenarios not loading on Linux because of case-sensitivity
• Fixed: arrow keys not scrolling when hovering over buttons
• Fixed: abandoned houses creating vacant lots at the wrong locations
• Fixed: large insula not merging properly in some locations
• Fixed: super-fast mouse clicks were not handled
• Fixed: corrupt screenshots when taking them with hotkey F12