Monsters will Attack! (from Creature Habitats)

Had the first round of monsters attack me today. Questions:

1) Why do they show as anonymous? I cannot tell they are from the Monster Town, or another player using guerilla.  If I had more than one monster town, how would I know which town is the active one that I should go reduce?

2) Do the monsters only attack while you are logged on? Or can they attack while you are offline?  I dont think remembering to store my valuable troops, or move them to a den, or otherwise, is something I want to add to my bedtime list of chores every day.

I am being attacked by 14 snowmen.  1 Large, 2 Medium and 11 small.  My hero is 41 days old.

3) Can you explain the mechanics of how the target town the monsters will attack is selected?  Is it the closest town?  Is it random?  Is there any way we could predict where the monsters might go?

1) The monsters were attacking as "Anonym".  I could not trace the trail back to monster den.  The monster den was origonally under fog when they attacked and I could not see it previously.  After attack, the Den was visible in the fog.

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I tried to submint image, but it does not seem to work.

I destroyed a Breathing Glacier, but it did not add to my "Scorched Earth" (destroy enemy towns) tally.  It did add to my destruction of military building levels achievement score.

"If you are regularily fighting other players, chances are monsters won't attack you at all. Attackers in PVP receive bigger "grace periods" from monsters than defenders."

Do spying, plundering and onslaught all count, as PvP, for this?

But if you don't care about fighting other players and would like to enjoy steady expansion, trading, quests, or puzzles, you will feel right at home too. You can choose different sets of starting bonuses and drawbacks with one of them bringing beginner players a very serious defense bonus for the sacrifice of attack power. And you will keep that protection until you feel ready to interact with others, not after a small amount of time like one week.

So, the above direct quote is a lie then? False advertising to get people in? And what about the "six possible victories" claim? Will that ever eventuate, or will that go the way of Acts II and III?

I had noticed that when an attack hits a monster town, it is over "instantly" regardless of how many rounds are fought.

Today I tried to link 2 attacking groups, only for the attacks to arrive seperately.

I sent hero with siege, to make use of hero boosts and sent a "meat shield" of other troops, from another town.

https://i.imgur.com/M3V3R4B.png    

And what about the "six possible victories" claim? Will that ever eventuate, or will that go the way of Acts II and III?

Science victory can be implemented after we add Space Age. I was planning to add Space Age, half of the art for it is done, but artist that was working on remaining art went to war fight against russia so it is currently on hold.

So what do you plan to do now ? You could start working on something else, but you could still finish everything else about space age so once the artist is back there will be just that left to do. It would also avoid something that happened with information age: some units not released at first and released a few weeks/months later, here everything could be there immediately. It sure is about time that we wait for space age, other ages were released every 6 months/1 year while information age is there since many years. Also, it might be just me, but really if it's just that, I would absolutely not care if instead of the normal space age artworks we had medieval buildings as long as they work, and it would allow testing them before they get their final look, after all this game is technically still in beta, a lot of descriptions have the word "todo", some "NOT WORKING", we are on "Debug" server and there are a lot of typos.

Well to avoid confusing anyone you can add the text "TEMPORARY ARTWORK" on the space age buildings, I actually saw that on cards in hearthstone even though we weren't supposed to see it.

I am not a fan of such solution. When there is "TODO" on icons ti's tolerable, but when your town full of that and you looking at it all the time... eeew... not good.

We will work on something smaller next week we are releasing German translation finally. I was also thinking about translating the game to one of the other languages like French using automated translation program. Would still be better than having it in English? or not?

Also I was thinking about improving item crafting a bit - add some rare "legendary" modifiers that are more regular than usual, but can have only 1 per artifact. Also we have a number of equipment drawn, but not yet used in the game - those could be "legendary" artifacts that can be crafted using special kind of ores.

Another thing that can be done is work on Secret Library, but that's more complicated and will require significantly more time and effort.

Not to mention there is a lot of work on refactoring server side of things which I have been busy with since the beginning of Spring.

Well, when I was in the not normally available space age, the roads were the ones of stone age, so with the floor of information age buildings it looked weird and ugly, but personally, I completely stopped paying attention about it the next day if not even before, so I wouldn't mind medieval buildings everywhere. Conversely, I found a lot of artworks in the game very nice, but stopped paying attention about them very quickly, now I'm even almost always playing the game with maximum zoom out so I don't even have on my screen the artworks in full quality and I don't care.

About french translation: automated software make a lot of mistakes, so if you decide to do that you should seriously add a warning about it. It also doesn't "translate" things that don't make sense in other languages, like "Why hello there !" makes no sense when directly translated in french.

The special kind of ore you are talking about: is it the black one you get when upgrading a godly crystal ? It's currently useless.

What would refactoring the sever do, make it faster ?