5 weeks into the beta we hit the milestone of 300 registered accounts! In the server, two fronts are forming: Empire and River. Let's go over the fresh patch notes to help make warfare even more fun.
Features added
- You can now see the total sum of incoming resources in your marketplace.
- You can now see the sum of incoming traderoutes and the net sum of traderoutes with your village's production and outgoing traderoutes.
- Each unit now shows its image and a description on the army training page.
- The research tree has gotten a much-needed overhaul, including a fullscreen option on larger screens. It's not done yet, but already a big improvement.
The new research tree in fullscreen mode
Balance changed
- Increased the science and culture queue production cost when you have an industrial district. At the old values, these could rival a specialised district. With this change, having a science or culture districts is more appealing.
- The final duration of Native outposts was reduced from 72 to 24 hours.
New overview of traderoutes to and from a village
Improvements made
- Made improvements to the server to prevent processing (accidental or intentional) duplicate requests that led to duplication of army and resources.
- Empire messages lost their trailing . after coordinates.
- Two icons were added to distinguish between village, town and city.
- The traderoute form now no longer fills the village's production, instead showing an empty form.
- The stage of Native Outpost events is now displayed on the map tooltip.
- The duration of Native outposts on their last stage (6 of 6) is shown on the event information and the map tooltip.
- The map tooltips now show the name of the village owning that tile.
Each unit now comes with a description
Bugs squashed
- The message window no longer jumps to the bottom whenever it loads new messages.
- The weekly top 10 no longer stretches when it has fewer rows than its neighbour.
- The weekly top 10 once again shows your own rank if you're outside the top 10, also if your total score is 0 in a category.
- The defense statistics for ranged and cavalry were reversed on the army training screen.
- The medal tooltips on the empire profile no longer go out of bounds.
- When unlocking the Siege movement option for your army, the screen no longer goes out of bounds on mobile.
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