cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

# 25 March 2023 - prospective patch notes

## Designer's Notes
March Madness has begun! We need YOUR help to test it. Please report crashes, desyncs, and other issues if they appear!

## Limits (c. DarkenedFantasies and Veeq7)
- Unit limit now 4095, from 1700
- Sprite limit now 8875, from 2500
- Order limit now 4080, from 2000
- Image limit now 16385, from 5000
- Thingy limit now 2048, from 500
- Fog of war sprite limit now 2048, from 500

## Gameplay
- Harvest time now to 5.2 seconds, from 3.125 seconds, full saturation ~1.5 workers per patch instead of ~2 (c. Veeq7)
	- This change is meant to reinstate diminishing returns on adding additional workers per patch, adding more value to the initial worker on any given node
	- This also makes expansions more valuable, reduces the impact of distant resource nodes, and slows down the economic pacing - its impact is significant and will be evaluated!

## AI
- Gas-only expansions will no longer request production

## Bugfixes
- Irradiated units which transform into another unit no longer spawn a new Irradiate field (c. Veeq7)
- Watchdogs and Sentinels no longer fail to change target on right-click (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- Tyranny, Worship, and Anodyne Annex now recursively apply to all of a transport's cargo (c. Veeq7)
- Misc abilities and channels now correctly proc decloak (c. Veeq7)
- Vagrant icon has been corrected

## Audiovisuals
- New sprite:
	- Scribe (c. Solstice)

## UI
- **Protoss structure command cards have been reshuffled... again!**
- Transport UI has been updated (c. Veeq7)
- Player APM is now logged in replay and witness mode (c. Veeq7)
- Longer player names in the unit stats panel are now supported (c. Veeq7)
- Maps with "ping all start locations" set now ping all possible player spawns instead of only the spawns that are occupied (c. Veeq7)
- Witnesses now have their start locations centered around the first human player, or first AI player if no humans are present (c. Veeq7)

## Terran
- [Treasury](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/treasury):
	- Time cost now 45, from 40
	- Armor now 3, from 4
	- Sight range now 9, from 8
	- **Now requires nothing, from Atlas**

## Protoss
- [Amaranth](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/amaranth):
	- Eternal Service now always heals shields for 100% of damage dealt, instead of scaling
- [Didact](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/didact):
	- Recall:
		- Channel time now 2.25 seconds, from 5
		- Now establishes a warp rift at the target location, draining 5 energy per second while active
		- Cannot receive orders (other than cancel channel) while warp rift is open

## Zerg
- [Ultrokor](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/ultrokor):
	- Saber Siphon now heals HP for 100% of damage dealt, from 50%