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Kalypso Media have today released a patch for their classic city building game Grand Ages: Rome.

Patch-notes / improvements:

Difficulty adjustment
• - Houses are now deserted every 60 seconds during unemployment (was 30 seconds)
• - Deserted buildings health degeneration 3x slower than previously (roughly 9 minutes before fire)
• - Fire extinguished by Prefectures twice as quickly
• - Fixed Well and Big Fountain hygiene contribution radii.
• - Increased aqueduct HP.

UI improvements

• - Important notifications now blink
• - New notification sound for important notifications
• - It’s harder to accidentally go to realm overview mode
• - Added explanatory text to trade dialog.

Multiplayer

• - Fixed problems occuring while entering a room
• - Fixed problem with account creation
• - Fixed several desync bugs.
• - Increased starting resources on some multiplayer maps.

Miscellaneous

• - Fixed Thespian, Wine Export and Flax Exports character talents.
• - Reduced bad weather duration and intensity
• - Stability and compatibility improvements

Fixes

• - Fixed autosave mechanism.
• - Fixed two crashes on saving the game.
• - Stability and compatibility improvements
• - Added auto-update-function

All future updates & patches to come will be available via the auto-update-function.
An established internet connection is assumed.

Download Patch  GARPatch101-110 Download Size: 30.3 Mb

Minimum system requirements:

Windows XP or Vista
2.0 GHz Pentium 4 / Athlon processor or better
DirectX 9 compatible 3D graphics card with 128MB Ram
GeForce 6600 (ATI 9600) or better
1 Gb RAM
8 x DVD-ROM Drive
1.5 Gb free hard disk space

Important Notice

Please install the most recent driver versions for your graphic card:
nForce Driver Download
ATI Driver Download