Forum: empire-en

Board: [816] News from the world of Empire

Topic: [102049] Easy Alliance Entry!

[-102049] CM Arcanine [None] :: Jan. 23, 2014, 2:10 p.m.

Hey Community! Here's the latest patch notes for the upcoming update!


New Mini alliance chat

• The small alliance chat window has been removed from the bottom left corner of the interface.
• Instead, there is now a new mini - alliance chat near the buttons on the bottom right of the screen.
• The chat now looks better and is easier to read.
• When you click on the mini- alliance chat it will open the large alliance chat.
• The mini - alliance chat can be permanently hidden via the options menu.
• In the context of these changes, the larger alliance chat window has been revised slightly. There is now a better scrollbar and the buttons to switch between chat and the Alliance notice board are now clearly visible tabs.

Faster alliance search

• Players can use an automatic “Alliance Join” function if the are not already in an alliance.
• In this case, a suitable alliance marked as “open” will be automatically chosen near to the player.
• Players who join via the automatic function will be given the new alliance rank "Novice".
• Novices are members on probation and will be automatically removed from the alliance as soon as they turn to ruins. The rank is reserved for the sign-up feature and cannot be set manually.
• If no suitable alliance could be found using the automatic search, one will be created automatically.

"Show me" button

• Our tests have been completed and now each player at the end of the tutorial will find a "Show me" button in their quest log.
• The button will lead you directly to each quest objective. If for example the quest is to upgrade, a woodcutter to level 5, then it button would automatically pick a woodcutter level 4 and open the ring menu.
• There is the "Show me" button for many different types of quests. However some special quests (like event quests) no button will be shown.

Other Improvements

• When the leader of an alliance wants to transfer leadership to another member, there is now an additional message screen to ensure that you do not accidentally click.
• The castle coordinates found in the info panel at the bottom left when a castle is selected on the world map can now be selected and copied, so that they can easily be pasted into messages to other players.
• If a member of the alliance has not logged for more than 7 days, the idle display indicator next to their name in the Alliance's membership list will show as black.
• The achievements for looting equipment now include more equipment levels. So if you, for example, loot an epic piece of equipment, then this would also count against the “ordinary” and “rare” achievements.
• The attack button in the espionage report now works across kingdoms.
• When an alliance gets a new member there is now an automatic message for all members of the alliance to inform them of this.
• All alliances will be able to change their name once for free!

As always, please leave your feedback in the Discussion Thread!

Regards,

Your Empire Team.

[1697268] CM Arcanine [None] :: Jan. 24, 2014, 8:47 a.m.

Hey Community,

Just an additional point that has been added:

Regarding the Messages received when a new member joins an Alliance, there will be Spam Protection. This feature will limit the number of these 'new player' messages received to 10 every 3 hours. This will not be implemented with the update but will follow shortly after.

Regards,

Steve.

[1697342] CM Arcanine [None] :: Jan. 24, 2014, 2:39 p.m.

Hey all!

Just to let you know this update will be taking place on this coming Monday, January 27th between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. CET and should take around 20 minutes.

Regards,

Steve.

[1698962] Unknown :: Jan. 27, 2014, 10:23 a.m.

Hi all,

The servers have been taken offline due to an issue caused by the update that affected some of the servers. The team are working on it right now, but downtime is expected to be around 30 minutes.

Regards,
Ethan

[1699031] Unknown :: Jan. 27, 2014, 11:34 a.m.

Hey,

Well, i've just heard from the team that they are going to pull forward the feature change for the alliance chat window. The feature should be changed tomorrow to allow for swapping between the chat windows. I will confirm the time as soon as it is available.

Regards,
Ethan