Top Ranked Player (TOP-3): in order to foster competition, the TOP-3 players in each ranking (non-team only for now) need to compete in order to preverse their rating. They need to play an official TOP-100 event every so often, otherwise, they will receive a -2.5% rating penalty for failing to participate. Players in question will receive a notification by the system once the enter TOP-3. Please read the ratings guide (by the rankings table).
Gang-Rating & Ranking: category [GANG] added that has ratings & rankings for ganging-type games.
Game Broadcasts (Chat): re-formatted again to be better readable (with proper line breaks).
Game Broadcasts: [LONE] means lone wolf games (no clans), [SOLE] means max. 1/clan and [GANG] is open to everyone.
Game Broadcasts/Icons: please note, until everyone has upgraded to the latest version of the game, icons for game broadcasts can be wrong (even if you have the latest version).
Game Invites: private message game invites streamlined so they match the chat.
Game Setup (Multiplayer): games can now be restricted to ranked players. Including which players with selected min. & max. ranks are allowed to join. Similar to rating restrictions.
Event Setup (Moderators): game events can now be restricted to ranked players. Including which players with selected min. & max. ranks are allowed to join. Similar to rating restrictions.
Quick Join Games: they are now better advertised in chat (with number of current players that joined).
Quick Join Games: after a new quick-join game was just created, the service tries to wait for a little longer initially trying to find a larger pool of players (if possible).
Friends & Clan Server: sets the minimum default to '2' for max. per clan given the assumption is one plays with friends.
Player's Games Listings: show incognito games also once they are over!
Player Listing: player listing for games improved with colors and abbrevations.
Player Listing & AFK & Kicking: game owners and moderators can now remove AFK-players before a game starts if they want to do so.
Player Listing for "Incognito": now visible to moderators also (for moderation).
Copying Links: improved copying of game and user links by already wrapping them into the correct tag.
Game Info Popup: shows the rating and ranking limitations now also.
Ranking System: information popup added that explains how it works.
Ranking System: preventing ELO & award-farming by making sure each game actually has a valid human end condition.
Ranking System: placeholder AI cannot be used for rated games.
Ranking System: the ratings for SOLO/SLOW were scaled too high, so the SOLO/SLOW ratings were scaled by a factor of 85% around 900. If you are above 900, the rating went down, up otherwise.
Reporting Games: reporting games is now possible for all type of games.
Final Game Statistics: lists the initial monetary assets at the beginning of the game under "Income Statistics" (for verification). Will only display for new games, but not already existing games.
Game Manual: artificially farming rating points is now considered illegal and we reserve the right to lower player's ratings and flag the accounts in question.
Game Manual: updated to make it clear that playing with friends (or clan-mates) in incognito games is not acceptable and offending players will be flagged.
Tournaments: dropdown list for tournaments now allows selecting all the numbers between 2-10000.
Downloaded Maps: UI updated so they can now both be searched and sorted.
Translation Center: improved the check & warning when you are trying to translate to a language which you shouldn't.
Asset Loading: there is now a loading indicator at the start of the game in the menu screens. It indicates that assets are still loaded in the background.
Language: latest translations added - Thanks :-D
Language: bugfix for double-spaces in manual (should have been a single space).
Game Manual: explained the chat broadcast tags [LONE], [SOLO] and [GANG].
Maintenance: games restored from backup don't update right away, but are scheduled to update later (after 1x time per turn) to give everyone the chance to properly re-enter their turns.
Maintenance: updated Droid to OS version 12 (API Level 31)
Bugfix Investigation: checked why some translations could not be submitted. No bugs found. Please make sure the line breaks & tags all match. Also, please read the translation guide if you are not sure. Thanks!
Bugfix: game API returns the 1. frame of an animation, if an image is animated (rather than the full BG).
Bugfix: max. turn selection when showing joinable games didn't work anymore.
Bugfix: max./clan selection when showing joinable games didn't work anymore.
Bugfix: misc. fixes for RTF document export (background fill & private characters).
Bugfix: game rankings were wrong by listing some eliminated players ahead of still active players.
Bugfix Crashes: when looking at games list without being properly logged in.
Bugfix Crashes: not being able to properly initialize constructor for room configuration (complex initialization).