This is a hotfix for 1.8, primarily to address performance and MP stability issues.



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# Gamebalance

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- Naval battles once again contribute warscore to wars.



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#AI

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- AI: Much less willing to end a war if they are fully occupying the enemy warleader and 5 years have not passed.



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# Interface

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- Compressed autosaves is now turned off by default.



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# Usermodding

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- Modding: fixed bug where supported_version wasn't saved when uploading a mod to the steam workshop.



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# Script

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- Egypt can no longer be formed by Arabia.

- Celestial Empire and Hordes can no longer get the Peasants' War event.



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# Bugfixes

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- Fixed a performance issue caused by AI trying to use certain AoW features when Art of War was not enabled that could cause significant slowdown on some machines.

- Marches can no longer pick rivals or be rivaled.

- Patriots will no longer spawn in nations that would be friendly to them.

- Fixed a bug where you couldn't decrease the amount of light ship in army builder if you didnd’t have access to heavy ships yet.

- Fixed a multiplayer crash caused by host and players differing in whether Art of War was enabled.

- Fixed a bug where forming a nation could cause you to lose cores on provinces you had previously gained as cores from other decisions (Qing from Manchu, for example).

- Fixed an exploit where you could add multiple idea groups at the same time.

- Fixed an issue where certain GUI elements could cause major performance slowdown.

- Fixed checksum not calculated correctly for very large save files.

- Memory optimizations, should be about 100mb less now.

- Fixed OOS related to Papacy.

- Fixed OOS related to building all mercenaries.

- Fixed crash when recalling merchants from end nodes.

- Attacking natives now works correctly in new provinces in new provinces added in 1.8.

- You no longer lose all cardinals as soon as you get 8 cardinals.

- Fixed "distant borders" penalty bug after creating a new country and changing your country tag.

- Fixed naval supply range not being updated when coring a province.

- Fixed a bug where papal actions would not work correctly for non-monarchies due to other actions not being available.

- Fixed problem with saving large saves (fixes Ironman save problems reported on forum).

- Fixed crash sometimes occurring at start of independence wars.

- Fixed an OOS related to automated fleet transport.

- Fixed a bug where 'kill' console command was available in ironman.