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Update Summary -06/09/2017| ⌚ ~ 11.00-13.00 CEST | ⌛ Downtime ~ 120 mins
ang1243 (GB1)
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Here is our patch notes summary for the upcoming update!
Features:
Increase Equipment Storage [LINK]
Battle Report Improvements [LINK]
Monthly Content Package [LINK]
War of the Bloodcrows Reward Changes
Battle of Berimond Rewards
Appreciation quest
New Research levels
Gem removal costs
Khan's revenge changes [LINK]
Additional Changes:
It is not possible anymore to take advantage of offers that are actually not running anymore. We reworked our offer system to prevent this behavior. From now on you can only combine offers that are really active and not expired.
The ruby loot for robber baron castles in all kingdoms (not including fortresses) and Berimond watchtowers has been reduced by 50%. This decision is based on our thorough analysis and decreasing the outcome is a necessary change, since too much premium currency is pouring into the game. In the past, we introduced too many features where players could grind hard currency for free and we lost control over our own economy - similar to the recent wishing well changes, which were necessary for the game economy as well.
This change of ruby loot will not be an isolated re-balance, and is part of a broader re-balancing plan which we are currently working on and that players will be able to experience soon. With the re-balancing, we want to provide a fairer and more compelling game experience to all our players. It will include (but not exclusively) topics such as the adjustment of prices in all our ruby vendors and provide a more streamlined progression through the game.
As a company, we're behaving similarly to a country, which also needs to gain control over its own economy and currency flow. Changing the outcome is not being done in order to demotivate players, it's necessary in order to gain control over the economy again and not damage the game in the long run. Our goal is a healthier in-game economy that creates a fairer game experience for all our players, and this measure brings us a step closer to achieving this.
We will continue to actively monitor data surrounding this feature change, and we may readjust the feature once the currency flow is under control.
The cooldown duration for the skill reset costs in the Hall of Legends has been increased from 7 to 15 days. Since our last changes (from 30 down to 7 days) in one of our previous updates, we continuously analysed our data, resulting in increasing the time a bit again.
The new nomad castellan Armor of the Eastern Raiders and the new samurai commander Armor of Kiruga Yoshiro will finally make their debut in the game! We already announced it in one of our previous updates but we had to postpone the release of these two types of equipment sets. You can get the set items as TopX rewards. Items from this set will rotate with every event iteration of the appropriate event.
Bugfixes:
Equipment: Fixed a tooltip issue where the percentage sign in hero stats was missing for defense limit on the wall
Berimond: Amount of troops to send is now capped as intended
Events - Nomads: Point conditions for nomad event are now adjusted to the new event mechanic
Technical: "Connection is not secure" warning is not shown in Firefox after opening the castle overview anymore
The plan is to release the update this week on the 31.08.2017 between 10am (CEST) and 2pm (CEST). The Downtime is planned to be around ~60 minutes. But as always, do not take this times as guaranteed, be aware of possible delays due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Two additional construction items will be added:
Research tower build item
maximum level: 10
maximum effect: -18 % research resource costs
Master builder build item
maximum level: 10
maximum effect: +32% XP earned by constructing buildings
There is an issue! With the equipment storage changes... we'll be aiming to have the update released today still, but if we can't arrange a fix for it by the end of today, we will have the update tomorrow. As I say, we are still aiming to have the update rolled out today.
Angus
The update has been delayed for all servers except PL1... we'll have a more detailed explanation for you later... sorry about this....
Angus
The update has to be delayed again, so it will now be on Wednesday... this is so that there is time to find a solution for the equipment progress losses.
Unfortunately this means that the Battle for Berimond and War of the Bloodcrows events are going to be delayed until after the update on Wednesday. They both have reward changes coming in this update, so both of them have to be delayed, the other option would be to have them both last 1 day... and I'm sure at least with berimond nobody would like that....
Angus
The downtime will be at 12 CEST... and will last up to 2 hours. There should not be any desertions during the downtime due to the new feature added in the last update which should prevent this.
Thanks,
Angus
Guess what...... The update has been delayed
There was an issue with the same update on Empire: Four Kingdoms, meaning a server broke on E4K, the team want to make sure the same thing doesn't happen on Empire, and so are fixing the bug in both updates right now.
Unfortunately we're not exactly sure when it will be happening, but it is unlikely to be in the next hour.
Angus
The Bloodcrows will be starting at 12.15 CEST
The Battle of Berimond will start at 12.55 CEST
Thanks,
Angus
In order to start Berimond on Empire today, we have to go into maintenance again at 13:30 CEST for a hotfix!
Angus