@wastelander: it's cool that witches will come into the game, I mean more of them in the next update. That could fulfill a part of the wish to have more female characters in the game. I think wizards would be great as well, for example some could fight or could be hired as well.

@Niklas, fixed the you the gold hag thing, can't find the word sorounded? definitely spelt surrounded right to my knowledge. Fixed the he is a guide bug, so that's another one

I'm gonna need a bit more info on those two ascii bugs found though, the knight joining your ranks and the greenskin thing cause I've just checked the only greenskin mining company encounter and can't see any issues

Text for goblin dances and changeling face things has been added ready for the next update btw.

@Stainaddict and @Niklas, all updates to the game will be posted directly here too! always

Surely it is surounded, that's correct. Regarding the ASCII bugs, if you talk to the leader of the green Skin mining Company after you discover it the first time, the ASCII code appears. And in the trone room, if a Knight appears and you tell him to join your ranks. If he declines, there's the bug as well.

@Wastelander,  I actually am a bit narked about this stupidity with Itch.io since I want to play the full version damnit!   .

I have sent an email to their support address so we'll see what happens.
If worst comes to worst perhaps I could send some money directly to you with paypal and you could gift me the game on my Itch.io account?

Hopefully we'll not need to do that, but it is really bizarre.

ah, thanks for the correction, I think the typo devil has caught me, lol. Wow, something i will love, i assume you said nothing about it in the sneak Peak? Cool, i am excited about what it will be. I like to be surprised.

@Wastelander, hopefully they'll get back to me soon, though if not I might take you up on that.

@Dan C, good thought, I tried deleting the cookies but unfortunately no go, I still get the same error.

Niklas's comment about female characters gave me an idea.

I was thinking that a cool new policy would be (allow women to enlist in the military).
At first, as a result of changing this rule, you would get an immediate, sizeable hit to popularity, not massive, just noticeable, maybe like -10?
But right away you would start getting more soldiers in the hiring pool, and more recruited per turn by nights, but only a very small amount at first.
Over time, you would get more and more of both, up to a certain point, maybe like half again what you could before (150%), as most women still don't have the ability to serve satisfactorily in general infantry do to physical limitations so you wouldn't get many, but can do particularly well in some niche fields such as ranged combat, infiltration, scouting, and high altitude fighting: hence new units are formed over time as they find their place in the existing structure.
Now I'm assuming you already get a popularity hit when you get a ton of soldiers killed without doing much damage to the enemy, and a popularity increase for rolling right over them, especially a powerful foe, as that would be kind of a no brainer.
But when you make this change, you should get a noticeably bigger popularity decrease than normal, (no change to increases because people are judgemental assholes), at least at first.
However, after a couple decades, the increased popularity loss from defeats should be gone completely as people get used to this new fact of life and come to accept it.
Additionally, you may wish to make the over all military slightly more prone to losses for a time, probably at least a decade, do to mails trying to protect females in front line combat and getting killed because of it, which is a real thing by the way, one of the major (actual) issues with women in dangerous fields with a majority of men.
This could also open up the door to a group similar to the knightly order, but made up of women, probably powerful magic users or maybe expert archers/assassins/spies, as females are historically seen in those roles throughout the mythology of many cultures, and the real world too for the last one.
Same goes for female generals and spymasters.
Also, it could bring in another element to relations with other kingdoms, with many seeing it as strange but not that bad, and a few seeing it as totally unacceptable.

This is cool because it's a real trade off especially at first, and over time it becomes an advantage!

@Niklas, I've added it since the sneak peak!

I also definitely need to look at how to run the course of the game as a king, it'll probably have to be done where the game's turns are split to be 4 per year, player starting a random age and then when you die it's finished and you get a little screen telling you about your legacy.

The alternative is of course, immortality, which perhaps could be earned.

The ship description has definitely been added to the game! will look into the animal ones

@defender, a very interesting idea, I have always overlooked having female roles in my games and I need to sort that out! I plan to work on a female face generator soon and roll women into the game at some point, the female soldier point is very indepth with the consequences! I like it! very well thought out

@Niklas, could you give me an example of something to pop up instead of a musician?

@Niklas, cool, love the idea of travelling acrobats and entertainers, going to note it down! Also the zoology hall now has text for players with disabled ascii so thanks for pointing it out for me!

I've also added an additional option when running a custom game and plan to add a few more if I can, so custom games can get a lot more, well... custom

Another throne room thing were I am unsure if it is a typo or not. There's a man who wants to fight for you and it says "a man who has had vision to fight". Wouldn't "a man who has had visions " or "who has had a vision of" be correct? I am not sure on this.