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This Merchant Life Patch Notes: Version 1.1 (Apr 16, 2020)

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Version 1.1

April 16, 2020by inexplicablegames

GamePatchNote Digest

This Merchant Life Patch Notes — April 16, 2020

Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.

What feature is most commonly requested for This Merchant Life? You guessed it, a band management system! So we added one.

Become the band's manager, rename them, get them to compose new songs, rename those too... take to road, go on tour, perform in taverns, earn coins, lead them to musical glory all while taking a cool 20% of all their earnings!

There are also a bunch of new road events and we've added visually distinct seasons as well.

Hope you enjoy!

Full Patch Notes

Systems

- Added a Band system. Recruit and manage a struggling group of musicians!
- Rather than requiring the player buy or sell a set number of resources during various road events, players can now define how many items they wish to buy/sell up to a set shop limit for each road event, as long as they have enough of the resource (for selling) or space in the cart and gold (for buying). Road events involving buying and selling goods have generally been rebalanced to be a lot more lucrative.
- Seasons added, each lasting two months. The world map and travel backgrounds change depending on the season, and the percentage chances of various scenarios occuring vary depending on the season (for example heatwaves will only occur in summer and occasionally spring, severe cold weather does not occur during summer etc)
- Guard number requirements added for various existing and new road events.
- Combat missions are no longer limited to being set to specific roads and can now be set for any road leading from the current settlement.

Balance

- Adjusted the weighting of various combat events as part of introducing some new ones.
- Buying armour from Jack in road event 110 made much cheaper
- Upped the duration of various cart stat bonus effects gained from road events
- Reduced requirements for all 'sell x of a resouce' achievements
- Exotic resource stocks reduced
- Made it slightly easier to get zero wounds from a victory in an autogenerated battle

Content

- 31 new road events
- 9 new band-specific road events
- 5 new Steam achievements

UI

- Fixed text font bug on hero deploy screen during combat