Wie had dat ooit gedacht, er is een patch uitgekomen voor Beyond the Sword, 
3.19!
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Info screen always shows demographics when espionage is disabled 
Players can no longer receive obsolete resources through trade 
Fixed bug where culture obtained through espionage was 100 times lower than intended 
AI player better evaluates his situation before voting for a ban on nuclear weapons 
Fixed a few AI civic evaluation bugs 
AI changes civics during Golden Ages 
Fixed bug with AI not knowing how close its cities are to other players 
Re-enabled Foreign Advisor "Glance" screen 
Fixed Team Battleground map script to distribute hills better and work around team-counting problem 
Civilopedia lists buildings that replace a given building 
Barrage promotions no longer available to units without the ability to already cause collateral damage 
Conquistador ignores walls, to be consistent with Cuirassier 
Fixed AI defender bug for newly captured cities 
Build-specific production modifiers are no longer counted for overflow gold calculations 
Building or destroying a fort now properly refreshes resource connections 
Collateral damage modifiers, collateral damage immunity, and air defense modifiers, multiply instead of add 
Fixed event triggering on a dead unit 
AI uses Warlords to make super-medic units 
Better AI decision-making related to damaged air units 
Better AI use of missiles to disconnect enemy resources 
AI evacuates ships and planes from cities in danger 
AI no longer joins Great People to cities in danger 
Fixed bug where AI Great Engineers would hurry Wonders in other players' cities 
Spies no longer interrupt their mission when moving next to an enemy unit 
Fixed map generator bug for water starts 
Situations which invalidated Secretary General/AP Resident now force the next vote to be an election 
Fixed team-counting bug that would cause some mapscripts to fail 
Moved some gamecore-specific code into the DLL 
Fixed cheat where you could apply a free tech from one game to another 
Diplomacy summary no longer claims that a civ is the worst enemy of a human team 
Groups on sentry awake based on best 
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Also, not listed in the 3.19 changes:
- Fixed loophole where you could use a Gamespy emulator to log on as any user
- Fixed rounding error in main interface progress bars (research, food, production, nationality) where the last color was sometimes not drawn
- Increased culture thresholds for no-espionage games, since espionage is converted into culture.
- Hammer decay of build items not currently being worked on correctly scales with game speed
- Fixed save/load issues with RTW mod
- Reduced frequency of city liberation popups
- Fixed spurious war declaration popup when loading a ship in the same tile as a rival ship.
- Fixed strategy text for Jaguar Warrior
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The patch also takes~away the need to put the Beyond the Sword CD or DVD in your computer to launch the game!