GENERAL UPDATE (190221)

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Today's release addresses several issues that have been reported by the community, such as disproportional damage dealt to disembarking units, wrong unit names being displayed in notifications, and more. From a balancing perspective, Nationalization and Officers are in the spotlight today. The times to nationalize a city and relocate Headquarters have been increased with the primary goal of restoring their strategic value. For Officers, hit-points have received some love and mobilization costs have been reduced. Finally, we've added some quality of life changes: We've updated the descriptions of units with radar capabilities, detailing which units they can detect, and recolored notifications to make it easier to spot positive/negative events.

As always, thank you for your continued feedback and support!

Changes

• Added radar detection types in the description and info panels for units with radar/stealth detection capabilities
• Added a notification when you lose your Headquarters
• Added new background for the Market Panel
• Changed red font color to a lighter shade for better readability
• Removed Embargo relation
• Economic buildings are now automatically destroyed upon owner-change
• Elite Challenge games no longer grant individual rank points, but contribute to ELO of the Alliance
• Disabled Building Speedup button if combat is presently occurring in a city
• Important: Gold rewards are now only given out to players who are Active at the end of a game

Balancing

• Annexation
  • Decreased build time from 24 hours to 18 hours

• Nationalization
  • Increased build time from 9 hours to 36 hours

• Headquarters
  • Increased relocation time from 12 hours to 36 hours

• Airborne Infantry
  • Increased Air Base requirement to level 2

• Artillery
  • Towed Artillery
    • Decreased ATK Rating against Infantry from 4/4.5/5/6/7/8/9 to 3.5/4/4.5/5/5.5/6.5/8.5

  • Mobile Artillery
    • Adjusted ATK Rating against Infantry from 4/4/4/4.5/4.5/5 to 3/3.5/4/4.5/5/5.5
    • Decreased ATK Rating against Armored from 4/5/5/6.5/7/9 to 4/4.5/5/6/7/9

• Ballistic Missiles / ICBM
  • Added ATK Rating against ships  - this will affect ships that are within the splash radius of a missile

• Frigates
  • Removed ATK Rating against Helicopters

• Officers
  • Increased Hitpoints across the board
    • Infantry Officer
      • Increased HP from 30/35/40/45/50/55/60 to 35/40/46/52/58/63/70

    • Rotary Wing Officer
      • Increased HP from 32/35/37/40/45/50/55 to 35/40/43/46/52/58/65

    • Tank Commander
      • Increased HP from 65/68/70/75/78/80/85 to 70/75/77/83/86/88/95

    • Fighter Ace
      • Increased HP from 30/32/35/40/42/45/50 to 35/37/40/45/50/55/60

    • Naval Officer
      • Increased HP from 50/55/60/75/85/90/100 to 55/60/65/75/85/95/110

    • Submarine Commander
      • Increased HP from 35/37/40/45/50/55/60 to 40/45/50/60/65/70/75

    • Airborne Officer
      • Increased HP from 25/28/30/35/38/40/45 to 30/35/40/45/50/55/60

  • Reduced Officer prices
    • Rotary Wing Officer
      • Decreased Electronics from 3400/3850/4500/5150/5950/6800/7750 to 2400/2850/3500/4150/4950/5800/6750
      • Decreased Money from 8750/10200/12400/13100/14750/16800/18000 to 6750/7700/10400/12100/14750/16800/18000

    • Tank Commander
      • Decreased Components from 5950/6800/7950/10400/12075/15200/17375 to 4950/5800/6950/9400/11075/14200/16375
      • Decreased Electronics from 2900/3100/3700/5100/5600/7700/8900 to 2500/3000/3500/4150/4950/5800/6750
      • Decreased Money from 7900/8500/9700/13400/14800/19000/22000 to 6900/7500/8700/11400/13800/16000/19000

    • Fighter Ace
      • Decreased Electronics from 3550/4600/5550/6400/7300/8250/9000 to 2850/3900/4950/5850/6900/7950/8700
      • Decreased Money from 9750/12400/15250/19200/22150/26500/30000 to 7750/9800/12250/15200/19150/24500/30000

    • Naval Officer
      • Decreased Components from 6750/8100/9600/11400/13350/14700/16200 to 5750/7100/8600/10400/12350/13700/15200

    • Submarine Commander
      • Decreased Components from 4100/5250/6300/7500/8550/9600/10750 to 3600/4750/5800/7000/8050/9100/10250
      • Decreased Electronics from 3500/3925/4500/5100/5950/6800/7750 to 2750/3175/3750/4350/5200/6050/7000

• Radar Changes
  • General
    • Only Mobile Radar can detect Rotary Wing Aircraft now

  • Naval Patrol Aircraft
    • Added radar detection of Fixed Wing Aircraft

  • ASW Helicopter
    • Added radar detection of Fixed Wing Aircraft

  • Mobile SAM Launcher
    • Added radar detection of stealth Fixed Wing Aircraft on Level 6
    • Removed radar detection of ground units

  • Theater Defense System
    • Removed radar detection of ground units

  • Destroyer
    • Removed radar detection of stealth Ships

  • Cruiser
    • Added radar detection of stealth Ships

Fixes

• Added range circles for grounded Aircraft (when you hover your mouse over the unit)
• Added missing picture for final level of Eastern Aircraft Carrier
• Fixed issue where an event notification displays the wrong unit name
• Fixed issue which was causing players to go to war against a neutral nation when they are in the same province
• Fixed issue which was causing unintentional war when air assaulting with Special Forces
• Fixed issue where units would suffer disproportional damage while embarking/disembarking in some cases

Maps

• New & Improved: Flashpoint Europe 30 Player Map
  • New background that includes Canada and better positions the American continent.
  • Modified the provinces borders of USA to fit real-life state borders, and background topography.
  • Modified the provinces borders of France to fit real-life region borders, and background topography.
  • Modified the provinces borders of Germany to fit real-life region borders, and background topography.
  • Added Canada and Iran as playable nations, allowing for tutorial play with these nations
  • New starting unit set-up for players and AI nations.
  • A few other minor fixes related to researches, connections and province borders.

• World War 3
  • Modified the provinces borders of USA to fit real-life state borders, and background topography.
  • Modified the provinces borders of France to fit real-life region borders, and background topography.
  • Modified the provinces borders of Germany to fit real-life region borders, and background topography.
  • Modified the provinces borders of Spain to fit real-life region borders, and background topography.

• Overkill
  • Change Iran province Armen Sarkisian to Ardabil.
  • "Arkhangelsk" city is mis-spelled.
  • Modified the provinces borders of USA to fit real-life state borders, and background topography.
  • Updated background to fit the Colorado river correctly.

• Reduced resource production bonus by 50% on Elite & Alliance Challenge maps 
• Updated map selection for Elite and Standard challenges
• Internal Challenges have been disabled to encourage players to actively play together

//Your CoN Team