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Topic: [16683] Update: New levels and Rewards!

[-16683] CM Margo [None] :: Oct. 6, 2014, 8:55 a.m.

Hi guys!

We're really excited to announce our latest update for Empire: Four Kingdoms. We have plenty of new features including a new level cap and a new login bonus. Take a deep read and embrace the new changes! Make sure you also let us know your thoughts about everything we've added.

Max level increased to 70 and new upgrade levels!

You can get new quests to reach the new maximum level of 70 and to unlock new upgrade levels
From level 68 to 70 there will be new upgrade levels for the castle wall, gate, towers and your keep
From level 65 you can upgrade your tavern to level 4. this will unlock more agents
From level 43 you can upgrade the encampment to level 4 and unlock more commanders
From level 18 and 28 you can upgrade the hideout to level 2 and 3
The architect gives you the chance to upgrade your woodcutter, stonemason, dwelling, town house and market place

Exchange kingdoms resources with valuable rewards!

The new kingdoms offer you new resources (coal, olive oil and glass)
You can spend the new resources at the native people's village for some nice rewards
The rewards can be valuable units and unique equipment
You can't send the new resources to other castles or in other kingdoms but you can loot them from other players
In every kingdom there will be a production and a further processing building for the new resources

Accomplish missions at the mercenary camp!

Mercenaries have set up a camp in front of your castle!
You can start missions from there and earn rewards
To start the missions you need coins and to get the reward you just have to wait for the time period of the the mission to finish
There are various quality levels for the missions. The higher the level of quality, the better rewards you will receive, at an increased cost and waiting time
There are also free missions, you only have to wait for it to finish to get your reward
Rubies can be used to speed the missions up
6 missions can be done every 6 hours. If you cant finish all of them, the old ones will be replaced with new ones
You can use rubies to change a mission to another random mission. But you can't accomplish more than 6 missions
The rewards of a mission can be units, tools or equipment

New login bonus!

A new login bonus will show up on your very first daily login
You can open 3 of 9 closed chests
In those chests can be various nice rewards, for example units, tools, rubies and equipment
You can get keys with rubies to open more chests
If you login several days in a row, the chests and the rewards will be bigger and more valuable
If you miss one day, you have to start over with small chests

New rewards: mint and ruby mine!

Every now and then the player can get a special offer with these new rewards
If you have bought some rubies you can get the mint as a thank you gift. Every day you can visit the mint to grab coins as long as its supply lasts
You can get the ruby mine for rubies. Here you can grab rubies once a day as long as the supply lasts. That way you will get more rubies out of it as you originally paid for it

Accomplish the daily quests and get a strong reward every day!

The Quest-log offers you a list of daily quests. Every accomplishment gives you 5 activity points
If you reach enough activity points you can grab various rewards
There are rewards for 15, 30, 50, 70 and 80 activity points
A daily quest can be the defeat of a robber baron castle, to collect glory points or taxes
Some of the daily quests require you to unlock other kingdoms, therefore lower level players can't get all of the activity points
The difficulty of the daily quests and the rewards rise with the players level
As a daily reward you can't just get coins but also resources, equipment and strong elite units

Other changes:

In the notification options you can disable/enable forwarded battlelogs from your alliance members
New players will get an extra login bonus for the first 7 days
If you reach a new glory rank, the glory dialogue opens up so new players can easily get used to this function of the game
The resource trader offers you a special package, which stocks your whole storage to max capacity
Players at level 5 will get a time challenge. They have to get to level 10 within a few days and can unlock a reward afterwards
The armourer offers you a new banner which grants you a higher glory points bonus
In the special offers you can now click on the random equipments to obtain information on this feature
The existing 2 upgrade levels of the watch tower were split into 5 upgrade levels. Players who already have a watch tower level 1 will automatically have it upgraded to level 3 and upgrade level 2 will be automatically level 5 in your castle. Therefore you don't receive less of a warning bonus than before
The game has a new soundtrack!
We did some performance optimizations for the scroll lists in-game, they work faster now
We fixed a bug that forced the game to crash due to full memory
You can now select the kings tower in the location list, if you own one or more of them
There are new hint messages each player can get at certain events. For example: If you lose an attack for the first time, you will get a message with the advice to spy on your enemy before you attack

So there you have it! What do you think? Let us know in the Discussion Thread and we'll continue to read your thoughts and discuss with you. We will announce the update time and date soon! Hopefully it won't be long

Best Regards,
Your Empire: Four Kingdom Team

[80479] CM Margo [None] :: Oct. 16, 2014, 8:51 a.m.

Hi guys!

I'm back with more good news... The update is happening today, very shortly! I will let you know when it's available.

Stay tuned

~CM Margo

[80481] CM Margo [None] :: Oct. 16, 2014, 9:25 a.m.

Okay everyone, the update will be happening between 12:00 and 14:00 CEST today.

I'll let you know when it's live!

~CM Margo

[80497] CM Margo [None] :: Oct. 16, 2014, 1:09 p.m.

The update is now live everyone.

Get online and check out all the new content! Remember to let us know if you run into any issues over at our Technical Area

~CM Margo

[80768] CM Margo [None] :: Oct. 23, 2014, 3:26 p.m.

Hi guys!

I'm afraid there has been some confusion on our side of things regarding the update announcement. Instead of informing you that the Castle Wall will have a new upgrade, we told you the Moat will instead.

Here is what the update announcement should have said:

From level 68 to 70 there will be new upgrade levels for the castle wall, gate, towers and your keep

Thanks and we hope this hasn't caused any issues for you!