Latest Update:
- Version updated to 0.9.*. Some of game-play has been re-designed & re-balanced. Let me know how this all works out?
- Modding Editor: the editor has been preliminary implemented. You can now design new maps with the editor! Please consider the current version in BETA-stage. I'll improve and fix it up as we go.
- Modding: is now FREE. Note however, if you ever decide to upload your map, you need to have "Modding" purchased beforehand.
- Graphics: minified trees etc. as it made sense (some only in new "Mediterranean Sea" map).
- Graphics: re-colored/re-worked for nicer look & feel :-D
- Game Option (multiplayer): There is now an option to lock games for new players after a certain number of turns (defaults to 7 turns). That will prevent late-joiners to take over larger AI nations later in games.
- Balancing: Happiness changes for taxes & commerce updated.
- Balancing: Advancement (ADV) removed (for new maps only).
- League-Play (round-robin tournament): each competitor competes against each other competitor. 2 points will be awarded for victories, 1 point for draws.
- Tourneys/League: invite-button to tournaments & leagues!
- Tourneys/League: admin button to start early if desired (owner of tournament/league can decide).
- Emoticons/Smileys: are now displayed in wall posts & private messages as well.
- Gifting: you can now gift products to other players. In your friends list press the cog-icon for the corresponding friend select "Gift...".
- Camera: functionality to add screenshots added (for reporting, e.g. bad language/cheating) :-D
- Reporting Function: now allows sending screenshots/images :-D
- Purchases: there is now a popup that shows all the purchases/invoices for a user (in chat, select the [Cog]-button then go to the "Products" tab!).
- Downloads: throttle reduced (should download faster now).
- Invites: [Invite All...] option added for friends list :)
- Render FPS Limiter: if you are running on a battery powered device, please reduce the FPS to e.g. 30 to increase battery life.
- Cheating: warning popup added for players that use multiple accounts while playing. Please note, if you want to play against family, the game supports hotseat via single player!
- Cheat Investigations: improved tools for the moderators (via user-admin panel).
- Setup Nations & Teams: games can now be customized by nations & teams available in the game. Select the [Customize...] button during setup :-D
- Setup for # of Players: also added additional options such as 24, 28 etc.
- Setup for # of Clan-Players: please use to limit the number of clan players in a game.
- Avatar Right-Click: saves the avatar to the clipboard if desired.
- Engine (Game): updated to libGDX 1.9.4
- Manual: FAQ integrated into manual.
- Manual/FAQ: Section added "Stalking Players". Please read!
- Manual/FAQ: Section added "Clan Spamming & Ganging Up". Please read!
- Manual/FAQ: Section added "Rating Inflation (by only playing against the AI)".
- Manual/FAQ: ELO volatility expained (number next to rating).
- Admin: right-clicking on a user's username in the profile popup will allow copying it to the clipboard!
- Client: internal changes (backwards & forward compatibility). This should prevent crashes in older clients.
- Server: auto-deletion updated to 6x the turn duration.
- Servers: logging updated.
- Servers: reboot stability improved. Cleaning broken records to provide stable restart functionality.
- Language RU: updated - Thanks :-D
- Bugfix Images: making sure only valid images can be selected (various modding functions) so they are now crashes from strange image formats.
- Bugfix Invite Panel: when no friends were found, rendering was off.
- Bugfix League and Tournaments /w Team-Play: randomization option is internally turned off (messes up groups/teams otherwise).
- Bugfix Reports: if images were too large, they could not be added to the DB resulting in an error (fixed to reduce images in colors to allow for better compression).
- Bugfix Server: team-league had a bug preventing games from being setup (assignment of teams was broken).
- Bugfix Crashes: showing the nation options dialog (taxes etc.)
- Bugfix Crashes: when music couldn't properly be retained (now defaults to silent rather than a crash).
- Bugfix Crashes: "Auto-init shouldn't fail.". Will ignore error and continue (as game is already started & should work fine!?)
- Bugfix Crashes: sending game invites (when there are no friends in the list).
- Bugfix Crashes: retaining images (unsupported formats).
- Bugfix Crashes: reading mail messages.
- Bugfix Crashes: opening the nation's finance popup.
- Bugfix Crashes: during game update.
- Bugfix Crashes: while Steam was not connected (but assumed to be connected).
- Bugfix Crashes: pasting text from clipboard while there was nothing.
- Bugfix Crashes: when opening user information but information was not available.
- Bugfix Crashes: when looking at a user's games list when not logged in.