Editing Patch Notes 1.0.3

{{PatchInfo|version=1.0.3|date=2024-10-03|type=Regular Update}}

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=== From the developers: ===
Thank you all so much for your feedback and positive energy – we’ve reached one week from launch and have a bit of a meatier patch available for you featuring a small amount of balance tweaks, various bug fixes around the areas you’ve reported, and a significant number of optimizations and adjustments to improve performance across a wider range of machines.

The team remains hard at work on some larger updates which we’ll have more news on soon™ but are also continuing efforts to provide regular (e.g. weekly) patches/hotfixes for the issues you’re reporting, to respond to your feedback, and to improve your quality of life while playing Ara.

=== Release Notes ===

'''Balance'''
* Academy wealth maintenance changed from 8 to 3
* Air Force Base food maintenance removed
* Armory wealth maintenance removed, materials maintenance reduced from 4 to 3
* Brewery food maintenance changed from 3 to 1, wealth maintenance changed from 5 to 1
* Chemist wealth maintenance changed from 7 to 3
* Community Garden wealth maintenance changed from 20 to 1
* Data Center wealth maintenance changed from 10 to 3
* Distillery food maintenance changed from 5 to 1, wealth maintenance changed from 8 to 1
* Docks wealth maintenance changed from 10 to 1
* Drydock wealth maintenance changed from 15 to 2
* Exhibition Hall wealth maintenance changed from 15 to 5
* Factory (upgrade from Crafting Guild) wealth maintenance changed from 10 to 5, materials maintenance 5, wood maintenance 5
* Fermenting Hut wealth maintenance changed from 2 to 1
* Fishing Nets wood maintenance changed from 5 to 1
* Grocer wealth maintenance changed from 12 to 5
* Crafting Guild wealth maintenance changed from 5 to 2, materials maintenance 2, wood maintenance 2
* Mill wood maintenance changed from 5 to 1
* Artisan Studio wealth maintenance changed from 20 to 5
* Naval Base food maintenance changed from 5, wealth maintenance changed from 15 to 3
* Nuclear Power Plant wealth maintenance changed from 20 to 10
* Oil Well wealth maintenance changed from 15 to 5
* Pharmacist wealth maintenance changed from 10 to 1
* Monastery wealth maintenance changed from 5 to 1
* Stadium wealth maintenance changed from 15 to 5
* University wealth maintenance changed from 7 to 5
* Windmill wood maintenance changed from 7 to 2
* Zoo wealth maintenance changed from 20 to 3
* Cement Plant wealth maintenance changed to 5, materials maintenance unchanged at 5
* Resolved an issue where the SRs8000 was granting bonus Prestige to all improvements instead of just itself.
* We have fixed an issue where in some rare cases, players were unable to demolish improvements without first reloading the game.

'''Settings'''
* Resolved an issue where players would be unable to load into a multiplayer game due to save incompatibility.
* We have updated the default settings (Auto Detect) for the game.
* We have now set the maximum Frame Rate for the game to 60 by default. Users can still adjust this if they choose.

'''Performance'''
* Resolved an issue that could cause a crash for a small number of players, when mousing over the Army panel.
* Graphics Rendering optimizations for higher framerate, particularly when running at higher resolutions
* Default max framerate set to 60 (can be changed by players) for less power consumption on laptops.

'''Stability'''
* Fixed bug causing issues with repairing improvements
* Stability improvements
* Better detection of external/discrete GPUs


And finally, various additional minor bug fixes, stability and performance improvements to address specific reports from the community.
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