Patch 4.17

4.16 Full Changelog

GAME
    More varied pretender costs and +150/+100 design points
    Pretender cost auto calculation
    Dominion spread chance changed to 50% + dom str*5%
  Shape changing units can die in one strike if it's powerful enough to kill the next shape too.
    Auto kill occurs 20 rounds later to give more time for auto rout.
    Rainbow didn't affect allies, fixed
    New monster pretenders
    Some new pretender titles
    Changed the selection of pretenders for some nations
    New graphics/sounds for some spells
    Adding thrones to .map files automatically adds ascension points too
    Independent wizards got more spells researched
    Can select players with only 1 nation in era
    New throne effect 'Dominion conflict bonus'
    Mercenaries no longer drown when unhired
    Siren's lure didn't work, fixed
    Monolith could blink and use stygian paths
    Wish fix
    Nicer handling of corrupted turn files
    Geoglyph didn't reduce MR properly
    Supaya reanimation changes
    Print 'defence negates' on those weapons
    Void Lord cannot have helmet
    Serpent tailed pretenderws can wear armor
    Battle performance improvement
    Host performance improvement
    uw stat, spells and item fixes
    Dragons did not use ammo for breath weapon in melee
    Slash/Pierce weapons only gets -1 penalty under water
    Underwater non pierce penalty fix
    Stone beings not affected by plague or disease
    New magic item for Nazca
    Crumble was way too effective
    Send horror resulted in one horror too many
    Theft of the Sun now affects resources too
    Don't auto summon units when you have fled the field
    Max number of commanders increased 9990 -> 20000
    Max number of units increased 160000 -> 250000
    New option: --maxunits to limit number of units
    Disease effect on death blessed arrows didn't work
    Ethereal did not offer protection against some non damaging spells
    Xibablba UW defence fix
    Improved gem cheat detection
    Cheat detection fix for mercs
    Random map generation speedup
    Improved dirt generation on random maps
    New switches for random maps: --mapdirt, --mapdirtcol, --mapdirtsize
    Minor memory leak fixed
    Game info says whether story event are enabled or not
    Snow/Rain/Sea graphics performance improvement
    Altered snow and rain fall
    Site power that kills undead & demons only affected undead
    Swamp survival boots didn't help against miasma
    Azi and Drakon have 3 head slots
    Demonic Locusts
    Dementia didn't heal correctly
    Gossamer Cloth etc didn't give properly rounded scout reports
    Bug fix for shape shifting units starting with magic items
    Flying raiders needed 10000 patrollers to get caught
    Xibalba dart throwers in towers has dmg value 12 instead of 0
    Corpse Eater icon
    Pretender discounts can now be set per nation
    Stat fixes
    Site fixes
    Events updated
    Typos fixed

MODDING
    New poptype mod commands: #defunit1, #defmult1, #defcom1, etc.
    New mod commands: #disableoldnations, #clearallevents
    New mod commands: #batstartsum6d6 ... sum9d9
    New mod commands: #req_targitem, #req_gold, #killpop, #removesite
    Event mod command renamed #newsite -> #addsite
    New unlimited always event (rarity 5) for modding
    Rarity 13 events also happens at low population levels
    New nation mod commands: #cheapgod20, #cheapgod40

AI
    AI lab building improvements
    AI Mictlan more likely to blood sacrifice
    AI gem usage fix

4.17 Changelog
Pretender autocalc tweaking
Pretender cost tweaking
National pretender costs
National pretender costs shown in popup
Description fixes
Alchemy cheat detect bug fixed
Deadeater bug fix
Supaya reanimation gave wrong info on numbers reanimated
Man-Eater flick barb
Poptype PD modding fix
Criosphinx no helmet slot
Some start troop fixes
Ghost Riders etc didn't work
Fixed bug in new poptype modding that made many commands useless
Updated history
Some descr fixes
Some stat fixes
LA Man PD fix