Drones echo across the lands, the horns of war are sounding strangely peculiar today! As you prepare yourselves to deal with the oncoming hordes, your strategist presents you with an all new plan, a more efficient method of striking back at the heart of the cowards that dared attack you. In the meantime, the Empire's finest architects have managed to refine materials in ways never seen before...time for some upgrades!
This week's update brings the long awaited build items crafting system! Along with pre-set attacks and an all new attack horn! Read on, lords and ladies!
Crafting has arrived!
Build Item Crafting
Build items can now be crafted!
In order to craft a construction item, you’ll need access to the Construction Yard, and Blueprints
Blueprints are available through a brand new research tree
The majority of common build items will already be unlocked for construction, but for others, you’ll have to research the blueprints
Each item will have its own blueprint research, split into rarity levels. The higher the level of research you do on a specific item, the better the item you can craft will be.
Materials
You’ll need materials in order to craft build items!
The lower level items will only use regular resources, but for further levels, you’ll need the previous level of the item you’re trying to craft as well as some materials
Obtaining materials can be done through material bags, which can be obtained through the Nomads, Samurai and Berimond events for now, in activity rewards and the in-event shops (for the Nomads and Samurai). More methods of obtaining Material Bags will follow in the future
You can also disassemble your old build items, receiving a percentage of the materials used to create them, back. Higher level build items will give you 100% of their costs back.
Materials will have their own inventory, that isn’t capped
Other Important Notes
For this first iteration, only a certain amount of build items will be available for crafting. These include super cool bonuses like up to +5 troops per recruitment slot!
Only Medium sized Material Bags will be available for now, but others will follow
Common Material Bags (containing only common materials) may be purchased in Prime Days, but rarer materials will only be available through playing
Build items will be removed from event rewards and vendors, but Material Bags will make their way in
The Materials for Farmhouse and Bakery build items will only be available through daily Nobility Contests.
The Randomness of the Material Bags will differ, with some bags giving you a higher chance of specific materials
The removed Farmhouse build item will have a higher bonus than it’s craftable successor, meaning players that have purchased this prior to the update, won’t be disadvantaged for spending rubies on the item rather than waiting to craft it.
Pre-set attack configurations
You asked for it, we delivered! You’ll now have the option to set up a series of preset attacks, perfect for dealing with those pesky Robber Barons, or marching through the event kingdoms.
You will now be able to save preset attack configurations
These configurations will save a specific set up of troops/tools, and can be used on all waves, or individual waves
Everyone will get one free preset, which cannot be renamed, and can only be applied to one wave at a time
Other presets can be purchased (up to 5 maximum). Once one is purchased, all of the previous and future presets can be renamed and applied to all waves
All you have to do is set up an attack, choose your preset and click ‘Save Preset’, then you can use it over and over!
New Attack Horn
The attack horn is changing! Instead of separate horns, all horns will now be merged
This new 3-part horn will display how many Alliance, Personal and Alliance City attacks are incoming
We have also made the horn smaller, and moved its location, within the attack window, as to not cover any of the important elements of the interface
Other Changes
The attack screen has received some tweaks, allowing you to access more information before you click to send your attack
The Nomads and Samurai events will now have activity rewards, much like the War of the Realms, allowing you to gain individual rewards for taking part in the event
We've also created another video to show you through some of the features;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSs1Xh8-kWg&feature=youtu.beThis update is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, Wednesday the 3rd of August, between the hours of 10:00 AM and 12 Noon CEST.
All the best,
Steve.
We should be starting with this update about an hour from now, at around 12:15 PM CEST. The downtime could last a little longer than 30 minutes this time around, due to some refactoring.
I'm also aware that this means that Kala's Contest will effectively end slightly earlier than planned, but this is so that we can properly ensure that the Top X reward ranges are properly increased (as part of the resolution).
All the best,
Steve.
Just to give you a little bit of extra information, the Berimond activity rewards will be changed. You will notice a lot of items have gone, and some will have been swapped around. Please do send me any feedback that you have about the changes to the reward pool. The 'Top X' rewards will be the same, but I'd love your input on the others.
Regards,
Steve.
Regards,
Steve.
We'll be rolling out a GGS gift within the next few minutes, containing some materials for our new crafting system, letting you get hands on and try crafting some items for yourself.
All the best,
Steve.