Patch Notes 1.0.3

Patch Info
Version:	1.0.3
Date:	2024-10-03
Type:	Regular Update

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.