A new patch for Haemimont Games' Roman era strategy title Grand Ages: Rome is now available. Version 1.10 fixes a number of issues and tweaks difficulty as detailed below. If you've patched your game to 1.09 already then the games auto patch downlaod system should kick in but you can see the list of mirrors for the 30mb manual download on the official site.

• Difficulty adjustment
- Houses are now deserted every 60 seconds during unemployment (previously 30 seconds)
- Deserted buildings degeneration is now 3x slower than previously (roughly 9 minutes before fire)
- Fire extinguished by Prefectures twice as quickly
- Fixed Well and Large Fountain hygiene contribution radii
- Increased aqueduct HP.

• UI improvements
- Important notifications now blink
- New notification sound for important notifications
- It's harder to accidentally switch to realm overview mode
- Explanatory text added to trade dialog.

• Multiplayer
- Fixed problems occurring while entering a room
- Fixed problem with account creation
- Fixed several desync bugs.
- Increased starting resources on some multiplayer maps.

• Miscellaneous
- Fixed Thespian, Wine Export and Flax Exports character talents.
- Reduced bad weather duration and intensity
- Fixed resource check for house repopulation.

• Fixes
- Fixed autosave mechanism.
- Fixed two crashes on saving the game.
- Stability and compatibility improvements
- Added auto-update-function