Civilization VI September 2020 Update

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The September 2020 Update for Civilization VI was released on September 24th, 2020. The update was released simultaneously with the Byzantium & Gaul Pack. The following is a complete list of change notes.

Gameplay/Balance

• Georgia's abilities are now the same in Gathering Storm and Rise and Fall.
• Resources will now be removed when building Canal connections.
• Entering the in-game options menu now cancels the ranged attack arrow.
• +1 Food to Pastures bonus moved from Exploration civic to Stirrups tech.
• City-State placement has been updated to make invalid positioning less likely to occur.
• Fixed an issue allowing players to build a Secret Society unique buildings and also the equivalent replacement buildings.
• Fixed an issue with the Work Ethic Follower Belief where bonuses to districts were not being re-applied after a pillaged district was repaired.
• Grabbing a Tribal Village by owning the tile it occupies grants Era Score.
• Barbarians now move to valid tiles when converted in closed-border territory instead of disappearing.

UI

• Alliance type is now displayed in the tooltip when the Agreements category is minimized.
• Government menu's list of filters will now scroll when text overlaps the screen.
• Button styles in multi-select window have been unified.
• Unique units and infrastructure on Civilopedia leader pages are now presented more consistently.
• Fixed an issue where quantities for items were not updating after being edited when proposing demands or deals to a human player in the Diplomacy menus.

AI

• Trade AI improvements:
  • For immediate trades, AI will not trade Gold per turn if the value of the trade is less than 1 Gold per turn. AI will accept that as a gift, not offering anything in return.
  • Allow AI to trade more than one copy of a luxury resource at a time.
  • AI will only trade their last copy of a luxury resource if they are in an emergency situation.
• Improved AI's desire for Science and building districts.
• Additional AI improvements

Misc

• Antioch City-State replaced with the Venice City-State.
• Fixed an issue that was causing map selection to break.
• Map visual update now occurs after a player has stopped panning the map to make hitching less likely.
• Fixed an issue where the "Are You Sure" prompt was not appearing when attempting to exit the game while on the Player Turn prompt during a hotseat game.
• Fixed an issue where the game could not be force closed except by the Exit to Desktop button when a player had been defeated during a multiplayer hotseat game.
• Additional text updates.

Crash fixes

• Fixed a crash that would occur when a Builder cleared a Vampire Castle.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when defeating units with a Giant Death Robot.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when slotting policy cards.
• Additional crash fixes.