Knights Province Alpha 8 is finally ready!

Change list is quite big:

Gameplay mechanics:

• Rigged Cottages to spawn Blank units

• Units get trained from Blanks now

• Wool/Cloth/Recruits removed

• Warriors take small time to train now

• Units can be stacked in training queues now

• Stockpiles

• Story messages instantiated from dynamic script

Visual mechanics:

• Rotate houses to face South or West (using spacebar)

• Set default view from South-West

• Revised viewport controls and added Q/E to change heading angle

• Rotate minimap on camera heading change

• Distinct Units/Houses sight radiuses though fog of war

• Fog of war GPU optimizations

Map Editing:

• Automation tools in MapEd (forest, mountains, stone)

• Choice of terrain type when creating a new map

• Terrain painting has area of effect now (ground, mountains, water)

Game content:

• New skirmish 8 players map - “Wheel”

• 2 new campaign maps - “Citizens” and “Army”

• 2 new single-player maps by Petr - “Desert” and “Minicampaign”

• Baker and Carpenter 3D models (not animated yet)

• Placeholder Axefighter model from Militia model

• Placeholder mounted units

• New terrain objects (birch tree, log)

• Minimap alerts (beacon, attacked, hungry troops)

• House notifications with icons (no worker, no road, no fish, no ore, no trees)

• Group orders icons

Other improvements:

• Fixed forms snapping in GUI

• Replay button glyphs

• Large-scale texture variations on terrain

• FadeIn FadeOut effects on hints

• Fixed “unlimited” button in workshops

• Improved Iron/Gold mines wire outlines when placing their plans

• Slightly rotate houses on placement to break the monotony

• Allowed to rename players through dynamic script

• Story missions show description text from libx in menu

• Fixed jittery warriors animations

• Added tips to loading screen

As usual - this is still Alpha, there are likely a lot of bugs, flaws, incomplete features, broken mechanics and such. Please report them and also your thoughts on what should be different and why.