Network Improvements, Better Reconnects, Balance Changes

This update caused a few visual glitchs, I will post a report in the next hours. Also to even post this reply I had to refresh the page a few times because I got an error message.

And even when I posted that message, I had to reclick on the "reply" button because I got an internal error 500.

let's see, all I'm doing is posting this message:

test

yeah unable to reproduce myself, all I did was trying to post the message.

Reported https://www.totemtribe.com/bugs/visual-glitches-since-update/last/ .

Lost VIP speedup..was up to 6 minutes. I only mention it because it is a big motivator for donating.

VIP speedups were working fine until the update.

Wow, I have a huge disappointment about this update on mobile: when i put my computer in sleep mode and come back much later, now it doesn't even need to reconnect so that's a little plus, but on mobile when i press the home button or switch off my iphone that is in wifi, then come back even just 10 seconds later it still needs to reconnect.

And by the way on mobile too, a few updates ago the following problem was fixed: I needed to login everytime I was opening the game with the icon from home screen to have it fullscreen, so I was opening the game in safari directly instead which have some annoying issues, but after an update this was fixed, but after the update a few weeks ago this got broken again and today's update didn't fix that.

Lost VIP speedup..was up to 6 minutes. I only mention it because it is a big motivator for donating.

Fixed with a redownload.

So what specifically are you reducing, is this for future bonuses, or are you also reducing things already given, like stat and perk bonuses?  I know it says 2 each stat and perk, but it is 2 stat and 1 perk point.

No it's something else that you probably didn't know in https://www.totemtribe.com/talk/call-for-ideas-rewards-for-reaching-victory/ , ""what would motivate me? okay i am not sure you could do this, but how about giving me more room when i start a new hero. say a bigger square at the start or just making sure a new neighbor does not end up right on my border."

we will consider this."

This mean that from now on, people who reached a victory with previous hero will still be a bit further from other players but less than before.

For me, on PWA version when i re-open even after a short time, game goes in to flashing dots for a long time. i find it quicker to close game and relaunch as idk if it ever ends flashing dots.  Before update, mobile version seemed to try and "play forward" all events since last connection.  So in the morning, i see the game try and reproduce 1000's of events, rss increase, buildings complete, chats come through, etc etc, and generally it would time out or give up forcing a relaunch. idk if this changed in update too.  So for me, i find the PWA version less stable now than before update as I must force close and relaunch each time i open it.

Along with eliminating disarm perk, have you changed attack of other units, possibly even by accident? Ability to fight monsters increasingly difficult with increased losses, that did not occur in past with higher level units (medieval units and higher) Losing cavalry against low level monsters :(

Along with eliminating disarm perk, have you changed attack of other units, possibly even by accident? Ability to fight monsters increasingly difficult with increased losses, that did not occur in past with higher level units (medieval units and higher) Losing cavalry against low level monsters :(

I'm confirming that this is a new phenomenon.  Have any units had their health, hitpoints and strength reduced or have non-humanoid mobs been made stronger?

As for the battles being harder now even when disarming wasn't used before, I'll try to check that a bit but it's a bit hard since we only see bars instead of actual health in replay since years. Since this update broke some visuals while not even touching them it's possible that the same happened with battles afterall.