A new patch for Patrician IV is now automatically available via Steam, bringing the historical strategy/management sequel to version 1.2. The fairly extensive list of changes follows.

Missions

• Harbours in an entire region are now besieged by the local sovereign
• Two new events for the Elderman to react to: Harbour siege and bad food supply
• New town hall mission: City seeks help after a desastrous event
• Two new guild missions: Supply food, hunt down pirates in a region
• New tavern missions: Hunt down pirate, provoke uprising, transport evacuees
• Revised some missions

Gameplay

• Plagues now cause fatalities on advanced difficulty settings
• Treasuries of AI-controlled cities increase more slowly (AI construction slowed down)
• Buildings under construction by the player can now be canceled
• Reduced volume of money jingle and added options.cfg setting
• Underproduction of goods in a city is now displayed in the trade window of the market hall
• Fire event revised and new event video added
• Revised display of guild options
• Revised construction and layout of streets
• Decreased duration of sieges

Sea battles

• Matched camera zoom levels with cannon ranges
• Player-controlled vessels now stick to their last command until a new one is issued
• Revised gunfire sound and line of fire
• Wind speed and direction is now displayed by moving clouds

Interface

• If a trade convoy is being attacked, a battle icon with tooltip is being displayed for two days on the sea map
• In construction mode, buildings under construction are now indicated with a tooltip
• The currently selected convoy is now marked in the convoy list
• The convoy options window can now be accessed from the convoy list
• Transferring goods between convoys is now possible by selecting a convoy and right-clicking on the target convoy
• The convoy list now displays single, unorganized ships
• Tooltips for the counting house administrator now display the production price of goods
• Amount of goods for auto trade routes can now be adjusted in +/
• 10 percent steps
• Revised keyboard shortcuts and added a new options dialogue in pause menu
• Convoys can now be saved on number keys (1...0)
• Added new video events for rank promotion

Info displays

• City info: Current amount of beggars and influx of beggars is now displayed
• City info: If living space for individual types of citizens is filled by 90% or more, the amount of tenants is displayed
• Negative values for city reputation is now displayed instead of 0%
• Effects of fountains, hospital and chapel are now displayed

Bugfixes

• Resolved issues with administrator and trade routes due to rounding errors
• Revised city promotion
• Fixed some rare crashes
• Fixed AI building construction outside city walls
• Fixed issues with sieging player convoys
• Fixed issues with town discovery and city founding
• Fixed issues with high desktop resolution (DPI) settings in Windows
• Improved support for USB sound devices (e.g. Logitech G35)