Civilization VI: Rise and Fall March 2018 Update

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The March 2018 Update for Civilization VI: Rise and Fall was released on March 8, 2018. The following is a complete list of change notes.

General updates

• Added a new historic moment for being the second or later Civilization to discover a Natural Wonder, + 1 Era Score.
• Clarified Amundsen-Scott Research Station bonus in the text.
• Made the Water Park cheaper to be consistent with the Aerodrome.
• Reworked the way that warmongering is handled between declaration of war capturing cities, and razing cities.
• Unit experience gained from fighting Free Cities and Free City units is now capped at +1 after obtaining the unit's first promotion.
• Removed the Flirtatious and Curmudgeon agendas.
• Ranged units garrisoned in a city are now always considered to be in an elevated position if the city has walls or urban defenses.
• Updated Korean Palace art.
• Fixed situations where players could have Shared Visibility while at war.
• Fixed an issue where Observation Balloons were incorrectly granting the Drone unit's combat strength buff.
• Fixed an issue where the Stadium effects did not match the text.
  • Stadium: +2 Tourism for cities with at least 10 population. +5 tourism to cities with at least 20 population. +2 Entertainment amenities for all cities within 6 tiles. (Now only applies to Stadium and not districts.)
• Increased defenses of early era city states to discourage easy conquest by AI and players.

Balance changes

• Allow the 3 land tiles next to Polder to include Hills.
• Added Loyalty per turn to Emergency target cities so that Emergencies will no longer end in the member's favor without them doing anything.
• Added the Entertainment Complex building effects.
  • Arena: +1 Culture. +1 Tourism once Conservation is unlocked. +1 Entertainment amenity for this city
  • Zoo: +1 Science to all Rainforest and Marsh tiles in this city. +1 Entertainment amenity for all cities within 6 tiles.
  • Stadium: +2 Tourism for cities with at least 10 population. +5 Tourism to cities with at least 20 population. +2 Entertainment amenities for all cities within 6 tiles.
• Made building National Parks much more important to leaders with the Environmentalist and Exploitative agendas.
• Military Alliances now provide a bonus against city states.
• Macedon no longer receives boosts for conquering a Free City.
• Have Twilight Valor apply to Naval Melee units.
• Neutralize Governor turn duration has been adjusted for game speed.
• Gain Sources turn duration has been adjusted for game speed.

AI updates

• Added some improvements in sorting great works into collections.
• Improved AI progress through tech and civic tree.
• Garrisoned ranged units are much less likely to leave City Centers and Encampments.

UI updates

• Historic Moments are now accessible from the End Game Results screen.
• Made sure we displayed the right city details for cities being ceded.
• City States no longer display "At War" tooltip if we aren't at war.
• Former capitals are now properly differentiated from captured capitals.
• City Banner polish and bug fixes.
• Our Leader diplomacy screen now uses the longer, more detailed descriptions for unique units, buildings, etc.
• The diplomacy deal edit box will now fit up to 5 items to fit all 5 Alliance types.
• Zero out points per turn if we're not in an alliance and updated the tooltip to inform the player they need an alliance to gain points.
• Diplomacy portraits in the HUD now indicate alliance type.
• Governor promotion buttons will now use the disabled state properly for promotions we don't have the pre-requisites to earn.
• The religion lens banner fly out will no longer display redundant icons for the first religion when it's about to convert or be tagged as predominate when it's still converting.
• Resolved terrain tooltips displaying over selection panels in certain situations.
• Added tooltips for a variety of loyalty UI.
• Adding alliance icons to tech tree nodes so players know what their Level 3 Research Alliance members are researching.
• Movement paths are now shown on the religion lens.
• Revised Raze City tooltip text for accuracy.
• Emphasized several notification icons indicating negative game events
• Clarified Era score and Age threshold UI while in the last era of the game.
• Added Research Alliance indicator to Research Chooser.
• Added a scroll panel to operative list on the Espionage overview.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing water Natural Wonders from appearing on Huge maps.
• Fixed a bug that was causing embarked units to use their embarked strength instead of their unit strength when conducting an amphibious attack.
• "Amphibious" unit promotion is now correctly removing the attack penalty in an amphibious attack.
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect unit maintenance costs to be incurred.
• Fixed a bug with the Pax Brittania unique ability that was granting a free melee unit when England obtained a city other than through settling.
• Fixed a bug causing the player to be charged an incorrect amount when purchasing a District with Gold.
• Fixed a bug causing units set to "Alert" to be changed to "Fortified", preventing them from waking up when enemies are near.
• Historic Moment for recapturing a city you originally founded can now only trigger once per plot location, to prevent an exploit where it could be farmed for era score.
• Fixed the Holy Righteous Queen achievement and the Metroplex achievement to have proper unlock requirements.
• Preserve proper number of government slots after liberating a city with a Wonder that provides slots.
• Fixed the Space Port, it was being counted as a specialty district.
• Fixed Matterhorn and Zhangye Danxia spawning surrounded by mountains.
• Allowed the Advanced Seminar in Astrophysics achievement to work in more permutations of district placement.
• Made sure a second work of art from the same artists provides some culture/tourism in the Apadana.
• Ensured that city state suzerain bonuses are applied properly after you capture a city.
• Fixed Kilwa Kisiwani bonus to production in other cities when you get another suzerain of that type.

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