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Today we launched Alpha Test Stage 8. This new version of the game
features the addition of a new Culture Victory, a whole new Information Age, totally new world map exploration mechanic, new minigame and a lot of smaller additions. Let's go into detail about everything step by step.
Culture Victory
Up until this Alpha only War Victory and Wealth Victory had been implemented - only two victories out of a total of six. Now we are presenting a third victory type - Culture Victory. In order to achieve this you will need to build the Pantheon (unlocked in Medieval Age) and then fulfill special tasks that will increase your country cultural prominence. When you do so, special characters will begin to appear in your town. These characters are of cultural professions and have their own troubles and doubts which you will need to dispose of so they could join your country in Pantheon to boost it's culural greatness - and eventually reach the Victory.
Information Age
As always, the new Age adds a whole lot of new buildings, units, technologies, upgrades, and so on. We had previewed some of the stuff earlier, but I will describe the key ones: - Energy! Information Age adds a sixth and final basic resource - energy. Energy is required by a number of things in Information Age. Oil still plays a significant role in this age, but energy is taking over as well. It also requires a power grid to transfer it between towns.
- Atom bombs and Nukes! Now it's time for some serious destruction if you can reach this far. Beware though - your own people won't be too happy about it. You will also need a global resource Uranium, which is extremely rare.
- Helicopters - better delivery and exploration.
- Stealth Fighters and Bombers - now you can deliver some powerful ambush attacks!
- Aircraft Carriers - allow your planes to reach further.
- Highways - even better than railroads!
Places of Interest on the World Map
Apart from regular quest locations, global resources, and towns of other players now you will find some new places of interest on the world map. These places of interest do not require your hero, but do require some action on your side in order to claim a reward. For example, there is a desloate mine where you can send traders and they will salvage some resources. Furthermore, you can find multiple places of interest of the same kind so they are basically endless - you will be finding more and more of them as long as you keep exploring, unlike the quest locations which are limited. Land places of interest: - Desolate Farm
- Desolate Felling
- Desolate Quarry
- Desolate Mine
- Country Fair
- Auction House
- General Store
- Climber Camp
- Plague Village
- Kung Fu Master
- Black Widow
- Thieves Guild
- Blacksmith Guild
- Razed Village
- Druid Drove
- Caravan
- Desecrated Temple
- Artisan Workshop
- Jail
- Old Graveyard
- Precursors Lab
Naval places of interest: - Fish Market
- Shipwreck
- Survivors
- Message in a Bottle
- Treasure Island
- Pirate Ship
- Lighthouse
- Tornado
- Savage Island
- Kraken
New Minigame
Three previous minigames were popular enough among players to warrant the addition of a fourth minigames - about Billy Bonkas and his Candy Factory. Will you be able to help him find an apprentice?
World Map Changed
This time the world map was slightly redesigned to separate regions from each other by sea, so naval travel from one part of the region to another will be faster. Also this time you are playing in Jungle climate.
The wipe of progress and Enkord Cash refund
Just like it was announced in previous news post - all Enkord Cash spent since the 1st of June will be refunded. Needless to
say, any unspent Enkord Cash will not be lost and you will be able to
spend them during Alpha 8 without problems. Additionally, here are some other things worth mentioning: - All items purchased with Enkord Cash (those which have E sign) were transferred from Alpha 7, so you will be able to start a new hero with these items from the old Age.
- You can take up to 3 equipment items from the old hero to the new one, so your best artifacts can be kept! Heroes who have completed the game with Victory before can take more items.
- Last but not least - there are different bonus packages - second wind and loyalist packages - so you will have a better start at Alpha 8.
- Appearance items were removed from Cash Shop, so now you can only use previously purchased items or get a unique appearance by inviting new players to the game.
All
existing heroes and countries are wiped, because the changes in Alpha 8
are too complicated to allow us keep your progress. We apologize if it
causes you inconvenience, but don't forget that this game is still in an
early stage of development. Such progress losses were expected and
announced in advance. The rankings are wiped for everyone as well - but achievements are kept and can be continued in Alpha 8.
What's Next?
We will start the deployment right away. But as always, the early
version of the new Alpha stage might be extremely buggy. Critical bugs
might even require us to reset the progress again. Plus, it will be extremely crowded at launch. If you want
a relatively smooth experience you might decide to wait a few days or
even a week. If you can't wait - welcome, but expect bugs, crashes, and a tight map. In
the comments below, let's reminisce about Alpha 7 - which is over - and
also post impressions about your early dive into Alpha 8.
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Below are the top lists of players and alliances at the end of Alpha 7 as seen in the game. I have recorded the stats almost before the wipe after all final major battles ended so it shows everyone who was stuck till the end. Congratulations to those who made it to this another historical record :) Alpha 7 Hall of Fame: top countries/players/heroes: Population: - Tuey
- Bababandos
- Keirra
- JayLow
- Desert
- Hezekiah
- Queen Arya
- Sprite
- Pesky Blinder
- Aurora
Domain - Keirra
- Brim
- Sprite
- savipats
- Jack
- JayLow
- Hezekiah
- Pesky Blinder
- Babd Catha
- savi
Science - Neso
- Hezekiah
- savipats
- Ondine
- Bababandos
- GreatGram
- cavemanjack
- dbarns
- Sprite
- jehelenna
Experience - Desert
- Queen Arya
- Tuey
- Keirra
- savipats
- Brim
- Bababandos
- Pesky Blinder
- JayLow
- Jack
Attack - Desert
- Tuey
- Queen Arya
- Keirra
- savipats
- dbarns
- GreatGram
- Red Eagle
- Jack
- Sprite
Defense - Brim
- Bababandos
- Pesky Blinder
- Mr H
- Akaterine
- Horacio
- Dragonseeker
- Fungi
- Alibaba
- JODYB
Plunder - Tuey
- Queen Arya
- Desert
- Keirra
- Myleneliah
- savipats
- GreatGram
- Brim
- savi
- Red Eagle
Profit - Brim
- Heimie
- GreatGram
- Shalala
- Aurora
- Coolit
- Azhriaz
- Alkis
- Migail
- Nchama
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Alliances: Population - Dragonriders
- Black Flag
- Blackhawk
- Aya da Storm
- Firefly
- Volunteers
- Raging Chariots
- Fleur De Lys
- Nomads
- Mylenian Dominion
Domain - Dragonriders
- Black Flag
- Aya da Storm
- Blackhawk
- Firefly
- Volunteers
- Raging Chariots
- Fleur De Lys
- Pleiades
- Nomads
Science - Dragonriders
- Black Flag
- Blackhawk
- Aya da Storm
- Firefly
- Volunteers
- Fleur De Lys
- Raging Chariots
- Pleiades
- Nomads
Experience - Black Flag
- Dragonriders
- Aya da Storm
- Blackhawk
- Firefly
- Volunteers
- Fleur De Lys
- Raging Chariots
- Nomads
- Pleiades
Attack - Black Flag
- Dragonriders
- Firefly
- Aya da Storm
- Volunteers
- Raging Chariots
- Nomads
- Mylenian Dominion
- Memento Mori
- Blackhawk
Defense - Aya da Storm
- Nomads
- Pleiades
- Dragonriders
- Blackhawk
- Volunteers
- Koh I Noor
- Firefly
- Black Flag
- Raging Chariots
Plunder - Black Flag
- Dragonriders
- Firefly
- Aya da Storm
- Mylenian Dominion
- Raging Chariots
- Volunteers
- Blackhawk
- Nomads
- Memento Mori
Profit - Black Flag
- Dragonriders
- Pleiades
- Blackhawk
- Aya da Storm
- Firefly
- Volunteers
- Raging Chariots
- Nomads
- Koh I Noor
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Woo Hoo cannot wait to see new things :) thank you
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Loyalist packages ? Second wind packages ? I can only laugh about that! I started today with them, but had to leave the game for some hours soon thereafter. When I came back, another player already knocked at my door and (at least) asked me friendly to leave the place, where I was just starting, and gone were the packages. It's the ridiculous "war-game-aspect" once again.
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All excited about this new alpha. Also very happy where we ended as a small new alliance :)
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Loyalist packages ? Second wind packages ? I can only laugh about that! I started today with them, but had to leave the game for some hours soon thereafter. When I came back, another player already knocked at my door and (at least) asked me friendly to leave the place, where I was just starting, and gone were the packages. It's the ridiculous "war-game-aspect" once again.
Instead of deleting, let your hero auto delete, then you will get your packages again.
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Loyalist packages ? Second wind packages ? I can only laugh about that! I started today with them, but had to leave the game for some hours soon thereafter. When I came back, another player already knocked at my door and (at least) asked me friendly to leave the place, where I was just starting, and gone were the packages. It's the ridiculous "war-game-aspect" once again.
Instead of deleting, let your hero auto delete, then you will get your packages again.
It would be nice to have an option in the first 12 or 24 hrs of a brand new hero, to be able to delete and keep everything. That way we would not have to wait like 3 days for it to disappear to start again.
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Concur with SandySue. (Love the current hat!)
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Inviting friends as it was before? 1 invitation for a special link? Or whether it is possible to make a single reference to all
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There is a button "Invite Players" on donate tab - it explains everything.
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Yes, sorry, I saw, I thought that something will change. And it would be possible to post one link and on it everyone could register and play, but ok, will try invite this way
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Yes, it requires personal approach. I get what you are talking about - you want a single link to post on some forum or somewhere else so everyone who got into the game through it would count as your referrer. No, currently it's not possible but it makes sense to implement it some time. Invites system originates from the time when game access was limited...
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Hi! Please check my account I purchase like one month ago Enkord cash which I use all ,at the finish of the game I have very small amount now I have a lot . I did know were to post this so I did it here. Thank you!
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Hi! Please check my account I purchase like one month ago Enkord cash which I use all ,at the finish of the game I have very small amount now I have a lot . I did know were to post this so I did it here. Thank you!
Cash spent in the last month and a half was refunded. No need to worry :)
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Really nice addition those new locations: Desolate farms, Kung Fu Master, Black Widow, Country Fair = already investigated . Found also Old Graveyard and Kraken... Well done !!!
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Kung Fu Master : upgrading units is very useful - my favorite location so far :) Black Widow : i have 6 or 7 now, I'll wait a lil bit to send my guys there lol, the reward is not enough ineteresting atm. Caravan is useful when nothing else to do better with your army :-) Druid dove: perfect for extra animals, at some point I prefere to send them to the druid than killing them .. Plague village: good way to get exp when no other way ..same for the Razed village ( quite expensive tho that one ) Jail : cool to get some extra units ! Precursor lab : absolutely great !!! Desolate farm, mine....: not very big amounts atm, maybe later will be more interesting Blacksmith guild : nice, I hope later I will get level 3 upgrades . Didnt taste yet Artisan guild .. Thieves guild has a cool interest lol I like it a lot Country fair is good too, having double for what you send it's nice ( only if you have to spare tho the required ressource) General store :dissapointing and expensive, the ores or crystalS must be higher level since the begining imo, considering that the location is quite rare Graveyard : i dont have skeletons yet, and not sure i would like to have more, except if they count for the quest for the necromancer Didnt found Desecrated Temple, nor Climber camp Found only the Kraken so far for the naval locations I like those locations a lot, and the idea of better rewards as you're exploring further is very interesting :)) I cant wait to explore the naval ones as well! Well done team ( again !!!! )
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I love the new places but hate losing my scouts lol. I haven't found all of them of course but I like the jails, the kung fu master and the auction house if you have spare resources. :-) The plague towns are okay as a last resort for experience. I've not been to any others yet.
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I love the new places, everytime I send my scouts I wonder what will appear. The Kung Fu Master I really like and hoping I will find a couple of him. I never collected animals but now I do to send them to Druid Dove. The rest of the places I need to visit but will wait untill I have more stuff to send. Overall I like the places and it is een very nice addition.
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How much resources I have to bring to General Store to get anything from it?
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