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By Tribalwars Developer Typhi

We’re wrapping up 7.3 Production here at the office – you can expect localized announcements about the content and update times in the various forums in a few days. For now though, here are some of the most relevant bug fixes:

• Forwarding reports: we adjusted the auto-deletion trigger for forwarded reports to reset when they are received by a new user. We also fixed a problem with forwarding not working for a number of players.
• Reports: fixed problems where the forward and backward arrows (>>) didn’t display.
• War stats: Tribes should now only be reported as disbanded when they really have been disbanded, and all actions should now be shown properly in the Tribal Events feed.
• Address book: fixed problem with recipients disappearing from mailing lists.

Keep an eye out for the full 7.3 Change log.

Concept Art by Tribalwars Artist Andrei

Concept Art for some new Unit Info on the Unit Info pages

By Seven Lands Developers Team

We have had exploration in the game code for a while but it has taken until now before we could finalise this feature. Over the coming weeks we will unveil it for you on the beta first. We struggled with this aspect of the game mainly because we were not sure how to fit it into the game. It is very simple to put a new feature into a game but it is another matter entirely to have that feature fit seamlessly in. We didn’t want exploration to simply be something that you could pass a few minutes with while wandering from location to location. We wanted it to be something enticing and that our players would be eager to do.

The map you see to your above is blank and boring now. Once the feature is ready we will populate the map with icons that you can click on to explore. This will involve fights, discoveries and effects. The fights will be like a standard monster fight. The monsters we populate the exploration feature with you will in the most part at least hae met already. Be warned though that once you are out exploring in the wilds you will hae a good possibility of meeting monsters above your characters level that you won’t be able to deal with easily. Some of the monsters here will be different and unique however and the only place to encounter them is during exploration. The map represents a small area, in this case in Pinnath’Carag, around your characters current position. They can select from a number of locations to explore and the further they progress the more locations open. If the character can get through the entire map before it expires they will get a special reward!

So I am not going to reveal our entire feature now… you will have to wait a little longer for that! However I will tell you that we have added about two quests per land that depend entirely on exploration. Some of these we hae termed hunts where you will be going to tackle a specific monster that is marauding in the landscape. Others are more light in nature such as the “search for the seven dwarves“

Update

Above you can see another of our background maps. We have the artwork for these finalised now. Each of the lands will have their own map.

The icons on them will be unique too. A common set for each land wouldn’t be distinctive enough.

While you will see the same or similar forests all over the seven different lands each area will most definitely have its own areas to explore..

This is a pool from Lorach. Who knows what lies within it depths! We should be ready to test the feature today or tomorrow depending on getting everything correct. One of the bigger difficulties is having everything configurable and making sure that the combinations all work together. We are tying a lot of features into exploration, a lot of which you won’t have heard of yet. So making sure that these fit seamlessly together is a priority. One of the things being introduced is character effects. These will confer a lasting status onto the character.

Here is a sneak preview of one of our first Land Six Monsters.

This guy is going to be tough… we haven’t worked up his statistics at all yet but you had better be prepared if you venture out into the deserts of Erulith.

Currently the developers team is preparing the monsters for this land but they are not doing quests yet.

The developers team has some features that they now have graphics for and we want to get them fully implemented in the game.

I will have these previewed for you over the coming weeks! They are going to be great.

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By TribalWars Developer Robert

7.3 production is proceeding well, though a bit more slowly than originally planned.

The majority of our effort so far has gone into improving some backend items, so there won’t be as much “ooh shiny and new!” stuff for you to fiddle with as usual, but we’re pretty sure you’ll like the few simple things we managed to include.

Our current notification system.

Fade out notification

Above, you can see our in-progress replacement for some of the popups that you need to click away before you can do other things that some players find inconvenient. (I personally agree completely).

Instead, we have developed a fade-out popup that gives the information you may want or need to know, but then leaves your screen after a second or so without you needing to do anything about it.

We’ve already replaced a few of the more obvious ones that came to mind, but would love to hear from you guys about which of the other numerous popups we should work on eliminating.

A new monster got introduced at Seven Lands, here is our wonderful new monster, the Automaton.

Things are not as they seem in he deepest deserts of Erulith.

Strange creations from a forgotten era still lie undisturbed for millenia awaiting some long forgotten thing that shall reawaken them!

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This game takes you on an incredible journey filled with adventure, danger, and many surprises. Immerse yourself in the history of Seven Lands and experience the legend directly in your browser.

Seven Lands is a free to play browser-based gamein which you roam through the depths of a troubled country, perform tricky quests, rage in the arenas and gather items.

In Seven Lands you begin your adventure in a torn and tortured land of mystical rituals – on an adventurous journey.

This dark and fantastic world awaits militant challenges, but you must also show commercial skills and keep a cool head when solving the puzzle.

In Seven Lands, you have the choice between four nations, each blessed with powerful skills. Whether you are a human, dwarf, elf or orc, your character progresses in Seven Lands, formerly Dunwich, and you experience epic battles with monsters and other players.

Each character has his own fighting style and the choices are yours. Depending on how you you settle your combat strategy and tactics, and adapt to your opponents, you can totally qualify yourself in the battles and fightings. If you are PVE fans, you can resort to explore the unknown enviroment, and slay monsters using different skills you learned, while if you are declinded to play in an Arena, then you can go to battle against other players who want to compete with you.

The German beta is live, while the English version or global version is not yet confirmed.

Adventurers frequenting taverns in Tolira will not take long to hear stories about the Tempest Wraiths, the ghosts of mariners lost in storms.

Even hardened seamen will flee, rather than fight when confronted with these spectral horrors.

Not only does the Tempest Wraith represent their darkest fear, there is, indeed, very little a hapless traveler can do to oppose these creatures.

Practically impervious to physical attacks and driven by a maddening hatred for the living, Tempest Wraiths attack with an intensity unmatched even by much mightier foes.

Adventurers hoping to arm themselves against these threats of the ocean can glean some scant wisdom from the tavern stories:

Fire is said to be especially harmful against the wraiths and the best defence seems to be a good offense, ending the fight before the icy fingers of these spirits drain too much life from your soul.

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By Anwar

Wow. This took a long time coming. In fact, I’ve been bugging the team about item balance a whole year now and finally, a few weeks ago, they broke in and let me redo the items. Let me take you on a tour of what has changed and why I felt it needed changing.

The thing most players will notice first is that damage levels have increased across the board, especially at higher levels. The reason for this is pretty simple: When reviewing PvP fights, I noticed a lot of them ended after 42 rounds, often with both characters still having half of their hit points. That’s a very anti-climactic way to end a fight, so it was quite obvious that this needed changing.

Next up are item enchantments. While magic weapons looked good from day one, other items, shoes, helmets, even shields, kind of got the short stick when it came to magical properties and the results were often underwhelming. Looking at these items, I also realized that we were a bit restrictive in what kind of bonuses they can give. I resolved to fix this by adding new enchantments and generally increasing the strength of the existing ones. Look out for a whole lot of new toys to play with here!

The final thing that needed addressing were armor resistances. When we put this feature in the game, we were very reluctant because it had the potential to become to dominant in a fight. That’s why almost all of theses items had very low resistances. Now, with some development time dedicated to the item, I finally changed that too. You’ll now be able to find very powerful armors and shields of various resistance types. This gave me some headaches, because, unlike other stats, resistances have a natural ceiling – not much sense to increase resistance beyond 100%, after all. Sharing these few points among armors, shields and rings meant having very low values on each, so this is where I made the greatest change: Rings now give damage absorption, instead of resistance. I’m curious to see what effect this will have on the various tactics out there.

When I was all done and finished with that, there was only one thing to do for me: Bug my colleagues a bit more about item graphics. Believe it or not, I had the lists for all items up to level 77 already finished a year ago, all that was missing were the graphics and I really felt it was “now or never” to request new graphics. I’m happy and a bit proud, too, to be able to tell you that we finally got those graphics as well.

If you’ve made it all the way through this post, I think it’s high time that you GO AND PLAY THE GAME!

Note: Seven Lands is currently only available in the German Language

By SevenLands Dev Team

Seven Lands Team are currently making some changes to the crafting system. It seems to be popular at InnoGames at the moment as the West team are doing the same. You can read about that here. The system we have simply isn’t used enough and we think thats a waste of the nice artwork we had made. So firstly we are changing the time requirements. At the moment it takes eight hours to complete a crafting session fully. This is divided into eight one hour sections that you can cancel your work after and gain a reward for those hours done. We are going to reduce this to only two hours of work as a total with each of the eight sections divided into fifteen minute ones. This should make it easier to complete and more attractive as we are not changing the awards for this.

Secondly we are implementing a bonus award. If you come back within two hours of having completed the crafting the reward you will earn is doubled. So this feature is really going to pay out if you start using it regularly! If you consider this combined with the shortened time we are increasing the reward by a factor of eight. However the fun doesn’t end there… We are also making the rewards level dependent. So a craft that paid out well when you were level three will still be attractive when you are level ten.

Another complaint I had and one I know the players agreed with is that crafting was tied to a location. This was done initially because we considered crafting as somethiny a player would do when logging off. So while you slept your character was busy working away… no rest for the wicked. Now we have it so that you can do crafting anywhere at anytime. We think this represents a character picking up odd jobs around the seven lands as he wanders or hangs around the towns.

So I hope that you will like these changes and that we see crafting being used more often. We have much more planned for this feature still but those changes will come a little bit later. For some of the crafts we want items to drop. These items can then be used elsewhere in the game. However until that ‘elsewhere‘ is ready I don’t want to reveal too much!

By Developr Rayni

After releasing the patch 1.31 on german markets we figured out that we have to make some changes to the crafting system.

1. The cooldown of all useable products will be reduced to 10 minutes (written before)

2. We will reduce the difficult of the starting recipes that means you will need less products to craft the start items until a skill value of 100

3. We want to add some more start recipes which will build an own chain for example: You do a job to get leather after you found one leather you will be able to craft it to “better” leather. This “better” leather can be used to create “much better” leather with “much better” leather you will be able to create an item to use. As you can see with that chain you will be able to find just one leather and craft 4 times. (These chains are planned for every profession until a skill value of 25 or something like that).

Changes in crafting frontend:

 

I have made some changes to crafting frontend. First i converted it to the new screen layout. Second you will have a better overview about what products you need and which you already have.

Rayni, Innogames The West Developer

The Closed Beta Test has come to an end!

by InnoGames

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who participated!

We are currently developing a stable and improved beta version of the game, which everyone can experience on August 02, 2011!

All existing accounts will be eligible for the open beta. If you do not have a game account yet, you can create one here!

By InnoGames Beta Testers

The Closed Beta of Bounty Hounds Online has come to an end. And even though Open Beta will start on August 2, with so many new players and all the updates that were considered beneficial by us, the beta testers, I cannot help but feel a little sentimental…

A little jump back in time: Dennis, Sarah and I have slayed countless enemies, crossed dystopian environments, visited magnificent cities and bravely climbed down to the deepest, most alien-infested sewers. We fought giant boss monsters and teamed up with groups of other players. Our characters have grown stronger and learned new abilities. When we walk down the streets of Sunshine City, people can admire our shiny armor and our impressive weaponry.

Now that the Closed Beta is almost over, Dennis and I decide to leave the world of BHO the “manliest” way possible. Sarah thinks we are pathetic and exaggerate our one-month absence a bit – she is actually very excited about starting with a new character, getting new features and seeing tons of new players in the game world. But we are bound and determined! We will finish BHO with a series of duels that bring eternal glory to the winner and utter shame to the loser…until Open Beta starts at least  We choose the center of the Shadow Canals as our final battleground. As I step out of the teleporter, Dennis is already waiting for me – and makes full use of the advantages of a ranged class. In other words, he throws a rocket in my face. Wretched Heavy Gunner! I try to make up for it and close in on him, but the sneaky bastard runs away and attempts to hide in the tunnels. He even uses his AntiGrav Board to escape (Yes, we finally got some of those. And they are awe-some!!).

Luckily, my Shock Trooper’s speed is unmatched. My favourite move, the light-guided charger, catapults me right in front of Dennis. With a few slices, I inflict heavy damage and force him to retreat again…but there is no escape. As his character sinks down, Dennis shouts and curses behind his computer and instantly seeks revenge. Seconds after his resurrection, he resumes firing at me. But this time, he cleverly uses the wide space and the boulders in the middle to keep his distance from me. Nuke after nuke rains down on me, and after a dramatic chase, Dennis finishes me with his twin glaive exactly the moment I finally reach him. Our office becomes a madhouse! Dennis jumps up and taunts me cheerfully, I call him a coward. Sarah, who is super busy (with real work stuff) gets visibly irritated, but keeps her cool. Both Dennis and I are eager for the third round. But as we storm towards each other, our connection breaks off and the Closed Beta finally comes to an end – the duel will have to wait until Open Beta. For now, we reminisce about our time in the world of BHO. And one thing remains clear to us: We will be back on August 2!

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Dear players,

We are currently looking for players interested in beta testing our Tribal Wars application for iOS devices.

Unfortunately due to limitations enforced by Apple we have a limited number of beta tester slots and so cannot run a full public beta. However, if you meet the below requirements we would really appreciate your help!

In order to beta test, you must:

• Have an account on beta.tribalwars.net
• Have a forum account on forum.beta.tribalwars.net
• Own either an iPod touch, iPhone 3/4 or iPad 1/2, running a minimum firmware version of 4.0
• Be able to spend 1-2 hours in the next month testing

We’d just like to reiterate that the final point is very important. We have a limited number of spots, and once we allow your device access to our testing we cannot revoke your spot for a year.

Please do not volunteer if you just want to try the app for a few minutes and then forget about it.

If you meet all the requirements, please email the following information to removed – all slots filled.

• Your account name on beta.tribalwars.net
• Your forum account name on forum.beta.tribalwars.net
• The type of device(s) you own (e.g. iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPod touch 2nd gen)
• The firmware version installed on your device
• The UDID of your device (instructions on how to find this here)

Thanks everyone,

Jon Dawson
Developer

• Name: The Engineer
• Class: Engineer

The Engineer! On the battlefield the Engineer is a highly acclaimed supporter.

Not only does he provide reliable micromachinery, he is also capable of curing his fellow mercenaries due to his extraordinary medical education.

As an Engineer you can also cause a lot of damage using an accurate crossbow, whereas in close combat you will slice and dice your enemies with sharpened dual blades. The Engineer is an irreplaceable asset for every mission.

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Bounty Hounds Online is a free to play mmorpg published by InnoGames.

Start of World 57

It’s been a couple of months since our last world so it’s now time for World 57 to start. After our ‘no hauls’ experiment on World 56 we will of course be reverting back to allowing looting on this world.

World 57 is provisionally scheduled to start on Wednesday the 8th of June at around 17:00 server time (CET).

If you have any feedback or questions please click here for the discussion thread.

The settings

Not sure what some of the settings mean? Click here for more information.

• Speed: 1.25
• Unit speed: 1.0
• Paladin: Yes, with weapons
• Archers: No
• Church enabled: No
• Noble system: Gold coins
• Morale: Points and time based
• Bonus villages: Yes
• Barbarian villages: Grow to 2500 points
• Tech system: Simple
• Beginner protection: 3 days
• Tribe limit: 150 (ranking based on top 20)
• Other info: Players can choose their starting direction. There will be an attack and support gap of 100ms. This world has a fake limit.

Tribalwars is a free browsergame by Innogames.

By Developer Zet

I stated sometimes that the there are logs of all battles that have been fought and that the players could analyse them themselves if they know how to use javascript.

So what this is about is:

Explaining the battle logs so that you can (maybe) build your own statistics tool.

If you are not a programming nerd, you probably can skip this post as boring and useless for your gameplay, but if you are one, you’ll most likely find this interesting unless you haven’t figured this stuff already out yourself. So here we go.

The data format

If a battle is opened on the cemetary (you know, on the forts), all the required data is transferred. It contains really everything. For example, this is a battle of only 2 players being involved:

{
“attackerlist”:[
{"westid":60,"name":"foo124663470921","flagholdcount":1,"hitcount":2,
"totalcauseddamage":131,"takendamage":260,"takenhits":4,"killedby":1,
"finishedhp":0,"starthp":260,"maxhp":260,"townid":3,"townname":"cccc",
"weaponid":100,"weaponname":"Stein","weaponmindmg":50,"weaponmaxdmg":110,
"posidx":356,"diedwhen":0,"targetidx":356}
],
“defenderlist”:[
{"westid":1,"name":"testxx","flagholdcount":0,"hitcount":4,
"totalcauseddamage":260,"takendamage":131,"takenhits":2,"killedby":-1,
"finishedhp":1389,"starthp":1520,"maxhp":1520,"townid":5,
"townname":"attackers of doommmm","weaponid":100,"weaponname":"Stein",
"weaponmindmg":50,"weaponmaxdmg":110,"posidx":396,"diedwhen":8,"targetidx":396}
],
“log”:[0,2, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1520, 4,1, 1,60, 2,356, 3,260, 4,0, 8,594, 0,3, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1520,
4,1, 5,60, 7,62, 1,60, 2,356, 3,198, 4,0, 5,1, 7,67, 8,560, 0,4, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1453, 4,1,
5,60, 7,62, 1,60, 2,356, 3,136, 4,0, 5,1, 8,492, 0,5, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1453, 4,1, 5,60, 1,60,
2,356, 3,136, 4,0, 5,1, 8,424, 0,6, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1453, 4,1, 5,60, 1,60, 2,356, 3,136, 4,0,
5,1, 7,64, 8,390, 0,7, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1389, 4,1, 5,60, 7,85, 1,60, 2,356, 3,51, 4,0, 5,1,
8,356, 0,8, 1,1, 2,396, 3,1389, 4,1, 5,60, 6,51],
“map”:{
“tiles”:[[3,5,2,1,11,9],[8,4,1,2,18,7],[6,6,3,1,11,15],[0,11,3,4,11,11],[3,11,3,4,21,6],
[6,11,3,4,21,11],[20,0,4,3,10,6],[128,0,2,2,16,9],[0,0,4,4,6,2],[8,0,5,4,24,2],[8,6,5,5,24,14],
[0,6,4,5,6,14],[1,4,2,2,7,6],[1,4,2,2,7,8],[1,4,2,2,7,10],[1,4,2,2,7,12],[1,4,2,2,26,6],
[1,4,2,2,26,8],[1,4,2,2,26,10],[1,4,2,2,26,12],[4,1,4,2,10,3],[4,1,4,2,14,3],[4,1,4,2,18,3],
[4,1,2,2,22,3],[4,1,4,2,10,16],[4,1,2,2,14,16],[4,1,2,2,18,16],[4,1,4,2,20,16],[5,8,2,2,16,16]],
“cells”:[0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,1,1,5,5,5,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,
6,6,6,3,3,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,1,1,5,5,5,7,7,7,7,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9,9,6,6,6,3,3,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,1,
1,5,5,5,10,10,11,11,11,11,12,12,12,12,13,13,13,13,14,14,6,6,6,3,3,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,15,15,15,16,10,
10,10,11,11,11,11,12,12,12,12,13,13,13,13,14,14,14,17,18,18,18,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,15,15,15,16,10,10,
19,19,19,11,11,20,20,20,20,13,13,21,21,14,14,14,17,18,18,18,4,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,15,15,15,16,22,22,19,
19,19,23,23,20,20,20,20,24,24,21,21,25,25,25,17,18,18,18,4,4,4,4,26,26,26,26,15,15,15,16,22,22,22,
27,27,23,23,28,28,29,29,24,24,21,21,25,25,25,17,18,18,18,30,30,30,30,26,26,26,26,15,15,15,16,22,
22,22,27,27,23,23,28,31,31,29,24,24,32,32,25,25,25,17,18,18,18,30,30,30,30,26,26,26,26,33,33,33,
34,35,35,35,27,27,36,36,37,31,31,38,39,39,32,32,40,40,40,41,42,42,42,30,30,30,30,26,26,26,26,33,
33,33,34,35,35,35,43,43,36,36,37,37,38,38,39,39,44,44,40,40,40,41,42,42,42,30,30,30,30,26,26,26,
26,33,33,33,34,35,35,35,43,43,36,36,45,45,45,45,39,39,44,44,40,40,40,41,42,42,42,30,30,30,30,26,
26,26,26,33,33,33,34,46,46,46,43,43,47,47,45,45,45,45,48,48,44,44,49,49,49,41,42,42,42,30,30,30,
30,26,26,26,26,33,33,33,34,46,46,46,47,47,47,47,50,50,50,50,48,48,48,48,49,49,49,41,42,42,42,30,
30,30,30,26,26,26,26,51,51,52,52,52,46,46,47,47,47,47,50,50,50,50,48,48,48,48,49,49,53,53,53,54,
54,30,30,30,30,26,26,26,26,51,51,52,52,52,55,55,55,55,55,55,55,56,56,57,57,57,57,57,57,57,53,53,
53,54,54,30,30,30,30,58,58,58,58,51,51,52,52,52,51,51,59,59,59,59,59,59,60,60,60,60,60,60,54,54,
53,53,53,54,54,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,51,51,51,51,51,51,51,59,59,59,59,59,59,60,60,60,60,60,60,
54,54,54,54,54,54,54,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,51,51,51,51,51,51,51,59,59,59,59,59,59,60,60,60,60,
60,60,54,54,54,54,54,54,54,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,63,63,63,63,63,63,
63,63,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,63,63,63,63,
63,63,63,63,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,63,63,
63,63,63,63,63,63,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,61,61,61,61,58,58,58,58,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,62,
63,63,63,63,63,63,63,63,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,64,61,61,61,61],
“height”:24,
“sectors”:[{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},
{"height":0},{"height":0},{"height":0},{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},
{"height":6,"attackerBonus":6,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":7},
{"height":6,"attackerBonus":6,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":7},
{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":4,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0},
{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":0},{"height":3,"attackerBonus":1.25,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":1.25},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":3,"attackerBonus":1.25,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":1.25},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"attackerBonus":-5,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":-5},
{"height":0,"attackerBonus":-5,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":-5},
{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},{"flag":true,"height":0,"attackerBonus":-10,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":-10},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0},{"height":4,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"attackerBonus":-5,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":-5},
{"height":0,"attackerBonus":-5,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":-5},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":4,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0},
{"height":3,"attackerBonus":1.25,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":1.25},
{"height":3,"attackerBonus":1.25,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":1.25},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},{"height":0,"defenderSpawn":true},
{"height":0},{"height":6,"attackerBonus":6,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":7},
{"height":6,"attackerBonus":6,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":7},{"height":0},
{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":0,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":4,"attackerBonus":3,"defenderSpawn":true,"defenderBonus":4},
{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},{"height":0},{"height":0},{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},
{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true},{"height":0,"attackerSpawn":true}],
“mapname”:”Test”,
“width”:34},
“logtypes”:["ROUNDSTART","CHARTURN","CHARTARGET","CHARHEALTH","CHARONLINE","SHOOTAT","KILLED","HIT","MOVED"],
“roundsplayed”:8,”maxrounds”:50,”battleid”:81,”outcome”:”ATTACKER_WIPED”,”fortname”:”abcfort”,
“declarerid”:6,”declarername”:”foo12464580102″,”attackertownid”:3,”defendertownid”:5,”defendertownname”:”attackers of doommmm”,
“attackertownname”:”cccc”}

That’s quite a chunk, so let’s rip it apart and look at it one by one.

Attacker- and Defenderlist

Both arrays contain identical descriptions of all the involved players. Each player has following descriptions:

• westid: the id of the player in this world. Identical to the id used in ranking etc.
• name: the name of the player
• flagholdcount: number of rounds that the player was holding the flag
• hitcount: number of hits the player made
• totalcauseddamage: the total amount of damage caused by this player
• takendamage: how much damage the player got
• takenhits: how often the player was hit
• killedby: a player id (westid) of the player who knocked the player out
• finishedhp: how much hitpoints that have been left at the end of the battle
• starthp: hitpoints on start of the battle
• maxhp: the maximum amount of hitpoints the player may have
• townid: the id of the town the player belonged to
• townname: the name of that town at the moment when the battle started
• weaponid: the id of the used weapon
• weaponmaxdmg: the maximum damage the weapon can cause
• weaponmindmg: the minimum damage that the weapon is causing
• posidx: The starting position of the player
• diedwhen: The round the player was knocked out (bugged, fixed with 1.23)
• targetidx: The target of the player when the game started

A lot of data is already supplied in these arrays, but there’s far more.

The log

Each battleresult contains a complete log of the whole battle. This is most likely the most interesting thing for you, as this contains a lot of data (as a side note, this data might be bugged as it has never been used yet anywhere). A part of the log looks like this:

“log”:[0,2, 1,1, 2,396,(...)

I inserted whitespaces at each second comma, because each pair of numbers describes what happened. The first number tells us what operation this was, the second number describes the operation. The mere numbers are useless unless we know the codes for the numbers. The codes are supplied with the log. The values are represented in an array called "logtypes":

"logtypes":["ROUNDSTART","CHARTURN","CHARTARGET","CHARHEALTH","CHARONLINE","SHOOTAT","KILLED","HIT","MOVED"]

The array tells us that 0 means “ROUNDSTART”, 1 means “CHARTURN” and so on. The order can change anytime when we change some implementations on our sides, so in case of developing a tool in javascript, I would suggest to figure out the right numbers before analyzing the log.

This codebook tells us now following information:

“logtypes”:

“log”:[ROUNDSTART,2, CHARTURN,1, CHARTARGET,396, CHARHEALTH,1520, CHARONLINE,1,
CHARTURN,60, CHARTARGET,356, CHARHEALTH,260, CHARONLINE,0, MOVED,594,
ROUNDSTART,3, …

So this is more meaningful now and with a bit of description, this is the log, encoded in these number pairs:

1. ROUNDSTART,2: The game begins with round 2 (1 is the first round where everyone is choosing their starting position and target position.
2. CHARTURN,1: The character with west id 1 is now active
3. CHARTARGET,396: The character 1 is trying to go to the cell 396 (which is his starting position, so we’re there already)
4. CHARHEALTH,1520: The character 1 has a health of 1520 hitpoints
5. CHARONLINE,1: The player for character 1 was online during this round
6. CHARTURN,60: It is now the turn of player with id 60
7. CHARTARGET,356: The character 60 wants to go to cell 356
8. CHARHEALTH,260: The character 60 has 260 hitpoints
9. CHARONLINE,0: The player of character 60 was not online
10. MOVED,594: Character 60 moves to cell 594
11. ROUNDSTART,3: Round 2 has ended, round 3 begins

This pattern repeats all over the place and we can reconstruct the whole battle for each player. We do even know who was online and who was not online! The keys “SHOOTAT”,”KILLED” and “HIT” describe further actions:

• SHOOTAT: the id of the player that this character is shooting at
• KILLED: if the shot was knocking the player out, this key is used. The value represents the damage that was caused the player to be knocked out. Can be larger than the player’s hitpoints
• HIT: if the shot was a hit, the damage is described with the value

If no hit was made, the SHOOTAT value exists but without a following HIT / KILLED actions.

The map description

The map description is also supplied here. It could be used for replaying the whole map visually. The first thing to know is how a x,y coordinate is represented in the map – since we know the width and height of the map, we can recalculate a pair of numbers to a single number and back with this small function:

// javascript code
function toxy(idx,mapwidth) {
return {x:idx%mapwidth,y:Math.floor(idx/mapwidth)};
}
function toidx(x,y,mapwidth) {
return x+y*mapwidth;
}

Both functions can be used to do the required calculations. The width and height of the map is supplied by the map description as well with the keys “width” and “height”.

Furthermore, we have various arrays now: “tiles”, “cells” and “sectors”. The “mapname” parameter is currently not really used, it still has the name “test” on the productive worlds, something that I didn’t know about yet – as it’s nowhere used right now.

The tiles

The tiles are simple arrays of arrays containing each 6 numbers, describing the visual layout with out tileobject:

• The x coordinate on the tile texture
• The y coordinate on the tile texture
• The x size of the tile
• The y size of the tile
• The x coordinate on the map where the tile is being drawn (left side of the tile)
• The y coordinate on the map where the tile is being drawn (top side of the tile)
  • height: The height of this sector
  • attackerbonus / defenderbonus: What bonus the sector provides
  • defenderspawn / attackerspawn: A boolean value that tells us if players can spawn here
  • flag: True if this is a flag sector

This information allows us to draw the hole map using the tile texture. It contains only eyecandy information – nothing else.

The sectors

That array describes the attributes of each sector that is present on the map. Following attributes are available:

There will be further values if there’s a bonus for a certain playerclass, but I think that the whole sector description is pretty self explanatory.

The cells

The most important description for the game is the layout of the sectors. The sectors can have any kind of form, so what we do is, we define for each cell on the map what sector it belongs – it refers here to an index in the sector array. The array called “cells” describes now for each cell, starting from top left the sector for each cell, left to right, top to bottom (just like reading letters in a book). For example:

“cells”:[0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2 …

What we see here is, that the cell located at x=0 and y=0 is described with the attributes given by the sector description at index 0 of the sector array. The same attributes are used for x=1,y=0 and x=2,y=0 and x=3,y=0. The next sector starts at x=4,y=0. Every cell that refers to the same sector id belongs to the same sector (of course…). From the game logic we know that if a sector is taken by a team, the other team can’t enter that sector. So in theory, there could be sectors that are disjunct – which means that a sector could be split. However, this should not be the case.

That’s it!

So that’s everything that is needed to know if you really want to analyze the logs of a battle yourself. How can you get now the data? Well, there are several ways – for example taking the text from the ajax call using firebug. Or by overwriting the FortBattle.makeStats function:

javascript:(function() {
var orig = FortBattle.makeStats;
FortBattle.makeStats = function (data,element,fortx,forty,bool) {
alert(Json.toString(data));
return orig(data,element,fortx,forty,bool);
}
})(); void(0);

If you execute this code in your browser’s address bar, you’ll get an alert message the next time when you look at a fort battle result.

Copy & paste the result and you’ll have the data anywhere you want it to have.

From The West Developer legedric

Good Morning!

I’ve noticed that players aren’t excited about the amount of containing features with updates.

That’s because we do not only implementing features for the game and i show you what is  my current main focus:

The Quest Editor is one of many tools that we are owning now for improving or adding content to the game.

Currently it is hard for our Designer to implement them so we need an editor which gives them a good overview about the current quest dependencies and requirements and it shall reduce error’s, too.

In the future we want to add several new quests and this tool allows us to let people work with which aren’t programmers.

I’ll drop an screenshot of it here (click to expand):

The Editor is written in Java and it also required refactoring the backend of the quests, to avoid duplicates when more than one is using it.

On the left you’ll see several quest groups and quests for a quick overview/access and on the center you see a graph which displays the association between the quests. At least there are the quest properties on the right side to modify it.

So you’ll see that we have a lot of things to do and its quite not easy to manage them at all.

Of course we have a lot of ideas and want to introduce them or improving existing features, but often we have to maintain the backend so that we are able to provide capacity to implement them.

 

Halfway May Rainy and Zet both developers of The West where giving out hints what would come in version 1.32

From Developer Rainy

After releasing the patch 1.31 on german markets we figured out that we have to make some changes to the crafting system.

1. The cooldown of all useable products will be reduced to 10 minutes (written before)

2. We will reduce the difficult of the starting recipes that means you will need less products to craft the start items until a skill value of 100

3. We want to add some more start recipes which will build an own chain for example: You do a job to get leather after you found one leather you will be able to craft it to “better” leather. This “better” leather can be used to create “much better” leather with “much better” leather you will be able to create an item to use. As you can see with that chain you will be able to find just one leather and craft 4 times. (These chains are planned for every profession until a skill value of 25 or something like that).

Changes in crafting frontend:

I have made some changes to crafting frontend. First i converted it to the new screen layout. Second you will have a better overview about what products you need and which you already have.

From developer Zet

Here’s an example for 60 different avatars that’ll be available when changing to the new system (click on the picture for a larger version).

There are of course many more combinations (there are over 70.000 combinations possible already and there’ll be even more!) available, so there’ll be plenty of possibilities to customize your character the way you want.

And once Again from Developer Rainy

After successful release of the patch 1.31 on some german worlds we started to work with 1.32 (of course we also doing bug fixes in 1.31  ). With 1.32 we want to convert as many screens as possible to the new screen layout and window manager, some of them will just converted others will be completely reworked in order of that i have two screenshots for you.

For your information about the updates we started to translate 1.31 for all languages. We will finish the updates on german worlds this week. After that we will update other markets when their translations done.

Speed World Championship 2011

Speed World Championship 2011, celebrating Tribalwars.net’s 1000th Speed round. We have more than 5000 premium points up for grabs in this tournament, which will be played over the course of 12 weekends – starting this Saturday, on May 28th. We also have five Tribal Wars T-shirts to give away as prizes, too.

How does this work?
Every weekend, one championship round will be played, where you can collect “championship points” for a variety of different objectives during the round.

At the end of each championship round, your championship points will be added to your total score for the tournament.

Once all of the rounds have been played, prizes will be given to the winners of the tournament, and the overall champion will also receive the special forum title of “Speed Champion 2011” to show off their achievement.

Objectives

During the tournament, you gain championship points for achieving a variety of objectives, which will go towards your overall championship score. Some objectives are easier to achieve than others.

You can gain championship points by simply surviving the round and ending it with a single village no matter how small.

Or you can aim for the top and gain points for being a highly-ranked player at the end of the round.

Prizes

In addition to the regular round prizes, at the end of the championship tournament the following prizes will be given to the overall tournament winners:

• 1st place – 2000 premium points AND a Tribal Wars T-shirt AND forum title “Speed Champion 2011″.
• 2nd place – 1200 premium points AND a Tribal Wars T-shirt.
• 3rd place – 600 premium points AND a Tribal Wars T-shirt.
• 4th place – 400 premium points AND a Tribal Wars T-shirt.
• 5th place – 200 premium points AND a Tribal Wars T-shirt.
• PLUS! All players who participated in at least 6 of the 12 rounds will be entered into a prize draw, where five further lucky winners will receive 200 premium points each.

* Anyone caught breaking the rules during any tournament round may be disqualified from the entire tournament. Additional rules apply to the speed world, so please ensure you are familiar with them. Speed rules

How do I join?

Every player who joins a championship round will automatically be entered into the Speed Championship. The first 100 players to join each round can play for free; after that, you will need an active premium account in order to join a round.

Further information

Every tournament round will be announced in a new post in this thread, so check back for upcoming championship rounds.

You can view all forthcoming speed rounds by visiting the Speed World round planner here.

Championship leaderboard

Visit this link to keep track of how the tournament is progressing.

Features/Changes:

• Players now have the possibility to open the alliance forum in a separate browser tab
• The time and resource values for offers in farming villages were adjusted
• Players can now disable a town group from the city list
• Expanded click areas on the farm spaces
• New layout for daily activity bonus
• When attacking someone with beginners protection, the attacker now sees how long the protection lasts
• Town names in command popups now have a small mouseover showing their full name
• The Phoenician trader illustration was updated
• Windows are displayed in light grey when new content is loading

Bugfixes:

• Player sometimes were able to conquer a farm town without having sufficient troops
• The map sometimes remained blue in the IE
• The island info page in the IE 7 browser sometimes had some layout issues
• Players on vacation should no longer receive reminder mails
• Some untranslated lines were fixed (hope you all learned some German )
• The entries in the alliance pact log were shown when relating players no longer existed
• Minor layout issues with the farm village window title
• The published reports in mails had layout issues
• The town overview had minor layout issues
• The number of notifications in the title bar will now be updated correctly
• Some BBCode font sizes were not visible in Chrome
• The slider in the settings page is now fixed
• The reports had some minor layout issues
• The command info window had some minor layout issues
• The javascript error that occurred when clicking on the hammer icon in the town overview twice is resolved
• Mousover popups which sometimes did not disappear were fixed
• The town info could not be opened if a revolt was occurring

Grepolis is a free to play browsergame by InnoGames.

Are you sick of roaming the Wild West as an outlaw? Are you tired and ready to finally settle down?

Update 1.31 makes it possible!

Learn one of four professions and craft useful items for yourself and your friends.

• Work as a smith, master saddler, cook, or elixir peddler.

• Become an expert in your field and receive lots of advantages.

• Whip out your hammer or ladle and help your friends.

The new crafting system offers you countless opportunities.

What is your special talent? Decide now!

InnoGames designed 2 new desktop wallpapers for their upcoming release of Bounty Hounds Online (BHO).

Desktop Wallpapers

Shock Trooper

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WasteLands

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To join the closed beta of Bounty Hounds online check here.

New updates for Tribal Wars are always on the horizon – we’re hope you’re looking forward to the improvements and fixes as much as we are.

If you’re interested in taking a more active role in the direction of the game we all know and love, we would welcome your presence on our Beta worlds. The Beta is where we first roll out the intended changes to get the community’s help with bug finding as well as your feedback on any and all changes. We hand out 14 days of free premium on a monthly basis (non-premium needs to get tested too!), and you can earn additional premium points with good bug finding.

What we look for in Beta testers:

• Game knowledge. Do you know Tribal Wars’ ins and outs?
• Motivation. We’ve currently got a great forum community on Beta; everyone is there to help us make an even better game. Can you put your pillaging and destroying instincts aside and work constructively towards a common goal?
• English. All communication on Beta is done in English – it’s the language everyone has good reason to know, so that’s what we use. Your English certainly doesn’t have to be perfect – as long as you can understand what is going on and you can make yourself be understood you’ll be fine.

Are you what we’re looking for? TribalWars is looking forward to meeting you!

InnoGames has announced the starting date for the Closed Beta of the upcoming free-to-play Sci-Fi game Bounty Hounds Online (BHO).

From May 25 on, 1,000 users will get the chance to be the first players of the MMORPG and conquer the extraterrestrial world on the Clear Sky Planet. Amongst other places, the keys are given away in lotteries on the BHO homepage and its fan page on facebook.

Bounty Hounds Online Concept Art

Bounty Hounds Online Concept Art

You can sign up for the closed beta here.

And InnoGames should know better as they got their tribalwars engine stolen …

Anyway, the free to play with premium options to not buy yourself to the top is finished at InnoGames games. It’s now cold hard cash needed and players respect doesn’t count anymore. And even having staff members compete vs paying customers so they spend more cash (see mass exodus on grepolis topic).

Here is a recent complaint about their game WestWars, taken from their forums (before it gets deleted)

I think it is time to be discussed at a critical point in the game … Skills / gold!
The price is quite a joke … example to purchase 10 skills, increase the price of 1 gold
Today I bought 30 skills, my price was high, starting at 10 gold for a skills .. results were as follows: 30 skills = 10×11 + 10×12 + 10×13 = 360 gold

At lvl 1420, 30 skills are of no help, if I want to raise my Intelligence 1% will cost 66 skills …
Who want to play, if your skills are getting worse, even if you use a crazy amount of money on the game..??

Consider this example:
If I want to maintain my Intelligence of xx% will cost me 1000 skills to move from lvl lvl 1400 to 2000 ….. Who will do it, I will not, nor Bjarne .. We are good customers in your store, but we are not idiots !!

We pay YOUR SALARY, and without mine, Bjarne’s and certainly others players pleasure to buy gold, you get problems … The game will die slowly but surely!!

It is obvious that I have no strategy and common sense .. people without such skills will be kicked out of my company!
Come straight into battle Inno Games, doing something about the problem, otherwise the players disappear… no players, no money and no West Wars!

Yours Jakob aka Gun Jake

I have a copy of Bjarne’s email to Peter here, which shows that I am not alone on this:

Bjarne Tidemand
2010-08-31 23:54:19
Peter, i have two take this question up again!

I just talked with my friend Jacob Nielsen (gun Jake, no two in the world)
He told me that now, the price on skills, raise one gold for each 10 buy …

Have you considered, that it is not good business for Inno Games, for one simple reason.

When things get to expensive, people dont want to use gold, and they stop buying it!

Jacob just told me, that he bought skills, 10 for 12 gold 10 for 13 gold and 10 to 14 gold.
Calculate that, its allmost 400 gold for 30 skills!

So he will not buy gold anymore, and he has also being a big spender.

Continue like this, and the gold players will stop.
I have seen it before.

Set the parameter’s two half of it, that will be better.

Just my five cents.

Yours Bjarne aka El Bismarco

The original forum post can be found at http://forum.westwars.com/showthread.php?617-WestWars-Problems-SKILLS-GOLD-not-a-BUG!!!!!!

We need your help! We have had a small number of problems occuringafter our last update. As we hold the quality of our games to a very high standard we have decided to enact a number of measures that will improve the quality for our players.

As one of a number of these measures we are going to need testers on our Beta Server. All updates go through on this server well in advance of the actual game servers. We need you to sign up and play there. For this we will be paying each tester on the server 300 gold per month. The server is limited to five thousand players. We are advertising this on all language versions so we expect the numbers to fill up pretty soon.

In addition to this the players that put the most effort into reporting bugs on the forum and to the game administrators will receive a bonus payment of 50 gold. This is at the discretion of the Community Manager.

As this server is subject to reset we have decided to add a really great reward. When we reset we will be giving prizes to the winners! So please go and sign up. The first payments of gold will go through tomorrow so don’t miss out…

Sign up here

http://www.grepostats.com/world/en1/index

http://en1.grepolismaps.org/

http://grepolis.gamestats.org/?lang=en

http://www.grepotools.co.uk/

http://www.grepo-world.com/index.php

Hello,

Teamplaying and working together has just become even more important in this new version of Tribal Wars, and today is the big day: Tribal Wars 6.0 is online now!

With this huge update, we have plenty of great new features for you. By introducing army camps into the game, we make teamplay even more important for your tribe. As a tribe, you can create army camps in any empty space on the map to use as a base camp near your enemies for upcoming attacks. When the camp is attacked, you will automatically defend it side by side with your tribemates. So as a team you can use these mighty forts to bring victory to your tribe.

Besides this, you can gain achievements on your own. From now on, we will give you awards for several different achievements, which you can show off to other players in your personal profile. This may be a certain number of points or a great battle victory. Sometimes, you may even get an award if you were extremely lucky – or unlucky. It does not matter in which period of the game you play, you will always have the chance to gain awards.

Furthermore, we have a special addition for premium account users: You can now play Tribal Wars on your mobile phone with an improved user interface. This works on iPhones and mobile phones running Android. All you have to do is to start your mobile browser and visit the Tribal Wars page – as you will see, the whole design has been adjusted for mobile browsing. It works just like a special Tribal Wars app. But since you can run it with your browser, there is no need to buy special software.

This is not all: There are several other updates and new features being introduced in this exciting new version. You can see details of these on your Tribal Wars forum.

All these features can be tested on our new worlds that have started today. We hope to see you there!

Your Tribal Wars team

www.tribalwars.net

Here for players.json file:

sed -i 's/"id":\|"name":\|"alliance_id":\|"points":\|"rank":\|"towns"://g' players.json

SQL syntax to load the data into a mySQL database

LOAD DATA INFILE 'players2.json' INTO TABLE players FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES STARTING BY '{' TERMINATED BY '}';

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Note: Please use the compressed world data whenever possible.
Player data
- players.json
- players.json.gz

The player data contains the following information:

* id – The internal ID of the player
* name – The player’s name
* alliance_id – The player’s internal alliance ID (see alliances.json)
* points – The player’s current amount of points
* rank – The player’s current rank
* towns – The player’s current amount of cities

Alliance data
- alliances.json
- alliances.json.gz

The alliance data contains the following information:

* id – The internal ID of the alliance
* name – The alliances’s name
* points – The alliance’s current amount of points
* rank – The alliance’s current rank
* towns – The alliances’s current amount of cities
* members – The alliances’s current member count

Town data
- towns.json
- towns.json.gz

The town data contains the following information:

* id – The internal ID of the town
* player_id – The owner of the town. NULL if no owner
* name – The town’s name
* island_x – The X coordinate of the island the town is on
* island_y – The Y coordinate of the island the town is on
* number_on_island – The position of the town on it’s island
* points – The town’s points

Island data *large file*
- islands.json
- islands.json.gz

The islands data file contains the information for the world’s islands. Please note that this is a large file and that once a world has started, it’s contents will not change. Therefore, you do not need to keep downloading this file!
The island data contains the following information:

* id – The internal ID of the island
* x – The X position of the island
* y – The Y position of the island
* island_id – The internal number of the island, or, what ‘type/size/shape’ of island this is. 1-10 = player islands with farm towns, 11-16 = uninhabited islands, 17-21 = rocks

Player kill data
- player_kills.json
- player_kills.json.gz

The player kill data contains information about the player ‘kill’ ranking. There is a record for each player who is ranked. Each record is an array of objects, with the keys ‘all’, ‘att’, ‘def’. These keys mean: ‘Overall’, ‘As attacker’, ‘As defender’.
Each of the aforementioned objects contain the following data:

* rank – The rank for the specific type
* player_id – The internal ID of the player
* points – The points/score

Alliance kill data
- alliance_kills.json
- alliance_kills.json.gz

The alliance kill data contains information about the alliance ‘kill’ ranking. There is a record for each alliance that is ranked. Each record is an array of objects, with the keys ‘all’, ‘att’, ‘def’. These keys mean: ‘Overall’, ‘As attacker’, ‘As defender’.
Each of the aforementioned objects contain the following data:

* rank – The rank for the specific type
* alliance_id – The internal ID of the alliance
* points – The points/score

Colonisation data
- conquers.json
- conquers.json.gz

The colonisation data contains the following information:

* town_id – The town’s internal ID
* time – The UNIX timestamp of the conquer
* new_player_id – The player who colonised the town
* old_player_id – If involved, the player who lost the town. Otherwise, NULL
* new_ally_id – If in an alliance, the alliance ID of the player who colonised the town. Otherwise, NULL
* old_ally_id – If in an alliance, the alliance ID of the player who lost the town. Otherwise, NULL
* town_points – The town’s points at the time of the colonisation

Building, unit and research information
- units.json
- units.json.gz
- buildings.json
- buildings.json.gz
- researches.json
- researches.json.gz

All links point to http://de1.grepolis.de

however http://en1.grepolis.net works so for example http://en1.grepolis.net/data/units.json

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PART 1: UNIT OVERVIEW

SWORDSMAN
Blunt Weapons 5
Speed 8
Booty 16
Defense Blunt 14
Defense Sharp 8
Defense Distance 30
Overall Defense 52
Defense per farm space 52
Offense per farm space 5
Unit costs: 190, 0, 170
Build time: 0:17:10 (at Barracks lvl 5)

SLINGER
Distance Weapons 19
Speed 14
Booty 8
Defense Blunt 7
Defense Sharp 8
Defense Distance 2
Overall Defense 17
Defense per farm space 17
Offense per farm space 19
Unit costs:55/100/40
Build time: 0:19:04

ARCHER
Distance Weapons 8
Speed 12
Booty 24
Defense Blunt 6
Defense Sharp 25
Defense Distance 12
Overall Defense 42
Defense per farm space 42
Offense per farm space 8
Unit costs: 120/0/75
Build time: 0:18:07

HOPLITE
Sharp Weapons 16
Speed 6
Booty 8
Defense Blunt 18
Defense Sharp 12
Defense Distance 7
Overall Defense 37
Defense per farm space 37
Offense per farm space 16
Unit costs: 0/75/150
Build time: 0:21:56

HORSEMAN
Blunt Weapons 60
Speed 22
Booty 72
Defense Blunt 18
Defense Sharp 0
Defense Distance 24
Overall Defense 42
Defense per farm space 14
Offense per farm space 20
Unit costs: 240/120/360
Build time: 0:21:56

CHARIOT
Sharp Weapons 56
Speed 18
Booty 64
Defense Blunt 76
Defense Sharp 16
Defense Distance 56
Overall Defense 148
Defense per farm space 37
Offense per farm space 14
Unit costs: 200/440/320
Build time: 1:31:35

CATAPULT
Distance Weapons 100
Speed 1
Booty 400
Defense Blunt 30
Defense Sharp 30
Defense Distance 30
Overall Defense 90
Defense per farm space 6
Offense per farm space 6

BEST OVERALL DEFENSE

As we can see, Swordsman has the highest defense per farm space of 52, so defensive force of only Swordsmen would have highest overall value. However, it would certainly be weak against sharp weapons (hoplites)

Second best defensive unit is Archer, with 42 defensive points per farm space. With Sharp Defense value of Archer being the highest, we can see that it combines well with Swordsman. Their combined defense would be 20/33/42 (Blunt/Sharp/Distance) per 2 farm spaces. As we can see, it would be weak against Blunt Weapons.

Chariot is the third best defensive units if we look at defense per farm space (37 in this case). It also has the best defense against Blunt weapons, and is perfect in combination with Swords/Archers. It’s good to notice that instead of 1 Chariot you can have 4 Hoplites with combined Defense Blunt of 72, which is just little short of Chariot’s 76.

This part needs re-evaluation, see Snowman8′s post:
Combined defense of Sword/Archer/Chariot mix would be 39/37/56 per 3 farm spaces, or 108/99/122 (total of 329) for 1 Sword/3 Archer/1 Chariot. This can be replaced with a build of 1 Sword/3 Archer/4 Hoplites which would give 104/131/94 (total of 329) defense distribution.

Possible corrections would have to be made for different kinds of opponent’s offensive builds.

Still, it is clear that possible defensive builds will consist of either Swords, Archers, Hoplites or Swords, Archers, Chariots. It is important to notice that Chariots move 3 times faster than Hoplites, so will be suited for fast support. This is in many ways similar to TW defensive builds where usually Swords are replaced by Heavy Cavalry.

Let’s compare the mentioned builds in terms of resources used, and time to build. Again, this is done for lvl 5 barracks. Higher lvls will just scale the time, but the ratio will remain the same.

1) 1 Sword/3 Archers/1 Chariot

Time to build: 0:17:10/0:54:21/1:31:35, in total 2:43:06
Resources to build: 655/440/630

2) 1 Sword/3 Archers/4 Hoplites

Time to build: 0:17:10/0:54:21/1:27:44, in total 2:39:15
Resource to build: 455/300/910

As we can see, 2) builds faster, but has (very) uneven resources.

If you have other possible builds that you would like to see presented here, just post them in the thread, and I’ll check build times, and resources needed to train them, and possible their defensive values.

BEST OVERALL OFFENSE

When talking about possible offensive force, we can see that that Horseman has highest offense per farm space of 20 (Blunt), followed by Slinger (Distance) with offense per farm space of 19, and Hoplite (Sharp) with offense of 16.
Obviously, army consisting of only Horseman would have highest possible overall offense, but could be easily countered with Chariot. A mix of these 3 units presents the best overall offensive force. The overall offensive power of this army would be 20/19/16 per 3 farm spaces. If we were to aim for best all round attacking force, we see that the desired ratio would be 1.25/1.2/1 (Horseman/Slinger/Hoplite) per 3 farm spaces, or speaking in terms on how many units we need to build, ratio would be 1,25 Horsemen/3,6 Slingers/3 Hoplites. Or 13/36/30, so we don’t cut our horses into little parts

Obviously catapults will be integral part of any decent offensive force, the only question is how many catapults will be needed to tear down walls from its max value to 0. Once we know that number we can start integrating the catapult numbers in our troops ratio.

Things to do:
- evaluate contribution of mythical units to these forces
- evaluate naval forces

1% = 9 Booty
2% = 24 Booty
3% = 43 Booty
4% = 64 Booty
5% = 88 Booty
6% = 113 Booty
7% = 141 Booty
8% = 170 Booty
9% = 201 Booty
10% = 233 Booty
11% = 267 Booty
12% = 302 Booty
13% = 338 Booty
14% = 376 Booty
15% = 414 Booty
16% = 454 Booty
17% = 494 Booty
18% = 536 Booty
19% = 579 Booty
20% = 622 Booty
21% = 667 Booty
22% = 712 Booty
23% = 758 Booty
24% = 805 Booty
25% = 853 Booty
26% = 902 Booty
27% = 951 Booty
28% = 1001 Booty
29% = 1052 Booty
30% = 1104 Booty
31% = 1156 Booty
32% = 1209 Booty
33% = 1263 Booty
34% = 1318 Booty
35% = 1373 Booty
36% = 1428 Booty
37% = 1485 Booty
38% = 1542 Booty
39% = 1600 Booty
40% = 1658 Booty
41% = 1717 Booty
42% = 1776 Booty
43% = 1836 Booty
44% = 1897 Booty
45% = 1958 Booty
46% = 2020 Booty
47% = 2083 Booty
48% = 2145 Booty
49% = 2209 Booty
50% = 2273 Booty
51% = 2337 Booty
52% = 2403 Booty
53% = 2468 Booty
54% = 2534 Booty
55% = 2601 Booty
56% = 2668 Booty
57% = 2736 Booty
58% = 2804 Booty
59% = 2872 Booty
60% = 2941 Booty
61% = 3011 Booty
62% = 3081 Booty
63% = 3151 Booty
64% = 3222 Booty
65% = 3294 Booty
66% = 3366 Booty
67% = 3438 Booty
68% = 3511 Booty
69% = 3584 Booty
70% = 3658 Booty
71% = 3732 Booty
72% = 3806 Booty
73% = 3881 Booty
74% = 3957 Booty
75% = 4033 Booty
76% = 4109 Booty
77% = 4185 Booty
78% = 4262 Booty
79% = 4340 Booty
80% = 4418 Booty
81% = 4496 Booty
82% = 4575 Booty
83% = 4654 Booty
84% = 4733 Booty
85% = 4813 Booty
86% = 4894 Booty
87% = 4974 Booty
88% = 5055 Booty
89% = 5137 Booty
90% = 5218 Booty
91% = 5301 Booty
92% = 5383 Booty
93% = 5466 Booty
94% = 5549 Booty
95% = 5633 Booty
96% = 5717 Booty
97% = 5801 Booty
98% = 5886 Booty
99% = 5971 Booty
100% = 6057 Booty

This is a Beginners guide i tried to create and help share some of my knowledge of the game and hope there will be more better guide to help us all make a better gaming experience out of this one.
Enjoy and please help with comments and productive criticism to enable us all to understand better…
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Basic Beginners Guide to building your settlement
okay, this is from my point of view when you start even though i haven’t had much to read in the beginning from wiki but i basically used my previous gaming instinct and so far so good, talking about the building side here.

Beginning your settlement
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you start up with 6 swords and a no clue what to do or what to build but of you have played before similar games you will get the hint of it, but again every game has its requirements for building materials.
here in the beginning you need to focus on
-Wood
-Farm
-Warehouse
-Senate
-silver
-Rock
-Barrack
-Wall

I have placed them in accordance of priority, with some players it will vary but for a beginning that is what you need. Your settlement will require wood heavily in the first stages after that you will need to upgrade your farm to have more settlers to fill in gaps. You will notice that each island has a (+) and (-) for resource bonuses, which you can easily find when you hover your mouse over each resource symbol you will find it there, this indicates what you should expect to get more when farming Neutral villages or (NPC) and also it indicates to you which resource level you should upgrade more than the other.
Right now you need to level up your village to a state where you get least a not too bad income from resources, so this is how your village suggested to look like when you reach;

Up to 500 points
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Wood = level 10
Rock = level 8
Silver = level 9
Farm = level 5
Senate = level 7
Barrack = level 2
City wall = level 1

Farming and Expanding your settlement
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By now you should have a basic income of resources as well as a stage one settlement which upon you will be able to upgrade further and expand more buildings. Now comes the important issue you will face which is (Farming).
Apparently in the beginning you have no clue who to farm and you think you will find barbs and abandoned villas to farm, but here no. Inno games have developed a new approach towards the farming system to attempt and give a more or less realistic War sim game from which you will need to adapt yourself.
Now back to farming, as you see that you have few villas around you that I will call it (Neutral) because they do not belong to anyone and second you can not occupy it, they are there only to be farmed and Trade with when needed also it gives a possible offensive form if the Mood here changes, and that is another subject we will talk about later.

You start with your few swords and in the beginning you need more resources so you have to spend your resources on getting troops so you could do few important things here with troops.
1-maintaining the strength of the farming villas you are farming because the lower the strength the less resources you are likely to get depending on how many troops you send but an average 20 swords will lower the strength by (-4%) every time you attack, also the mood will change which you need to be careful never to attack if it is lower than 50% unless you have good offensive force because the neutral villas will attack back as defence.
2-Obtaining resources to upgrade your buildings further and build nor troops

Once you have gained 20 swords, you have 2 options
1-to split your forces into 2 groups of 10 each one will attack to strength the villa and the second one will attack to obtain resources so you are not wasting time on sending all of them to raise then back again to loot. The bugger part here is that another player might be already looting while you are raising strength so it is a 50:50 chance it happens, but you have to take risks if you need to get higher. or? but of course the more troops the better the percentage you will raise the strength with and also the more loot you will get but beware of the MOOD. keep an eye on it not to drop below a lower level like 50% or you face a greater chance to be attacked by the villagers.
2-Second option is to send your whole force and loot then send again and power up but it is also not always good depending on other players farming with you the same one.
A good hint here is to let your opponent if he is a Noob to loot till it is low and he will eventually loose troops and you have him trapped between he is low on troops and the farm belongs back to you to farm

500 to 600 points settlement
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Wood = level 12
Rock = level 10
Silver = level 12
Farm = level 8
Senate = level 9
Barrack = level 3
City wall = level 2
warehouse = level 5

continue to build troops and farm as much as you can just remember that silver is needed heavily to buy troops.

600 to 700 points settlement
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Wood = level 13
Rock = level 11
Silver = level 13
Farm = level 8
Senate = level 9
Barrack = level 5
City wall = level 2
warehouse = level 5
Academy = level 1

once you reach to that level you will have started to get a hint of the game and how to build and farm effectively but of course this is not all, there will be more to come once you reach 1000 points you will start to encounter more options and research options… but until then this guide should be a good basic to get you starting .

Hope this guide helps a bit and the more i get from this game the more i will share, so far there are loads of questions but we will get the hang of it sooner or later… trial by errors )

One more thing to add… like all war games you will get to choose a path
1-defensive with a mixed starting villa of both defensive and offensive with more def than off
2-offensive with more off than def for those who want blood shed

each of them choices will have a certain approach towards building and upgrades as well as research
whatever you choose it all depends on your position on the island and neighbouring islands
some players will say no wall before this or that before this, well like i said it depends on your position, if you are in the middle of the hot zone then you need to be ready to at least show them that you are not an easy target and if they get once resources from you they will always come back for you and it might cause you sleepless nights
Troops and more Troops is your survival guide )
Happy hunting everyone

In the browser based online game, it is your task to build up a small Polis (Greek for town) to a huge metropolis, establish a powerful army and navy and finally conquer islands far away. On your trip to glory and honour, you should also take care of the gods of the Greek mythology: Zeus’, Heras, Athenes and Poseidons grace will decide about your victory or defeat.

The English version is currently in the open beta phase. You can sign up at beta.grepolis.net and help to find the perfect balance for the game. The official start is supposed to happen in January 2010.

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You would most likely also want a free domain name reflecting your alliance this can be done at co.cc

Follow the steps in the FAQ of your hosting account how to point your domain to your new free hosting account.

Once done read on how to upload files and to publish them.

Creating your own chat channel is the easiest part, go to http://ipocalypse.net/flash-chat-web-embed/ and create your channel.

Copy and paste the provided code into notepad and save as chat.html and upload to your hosting account.

If all works fine you will now have a yourdomain.co.cc/chat.html where you can direct your members to.

In part 2 we will look deeper into setting it up lets say a more in depth tutorial for beginners as the above is understandable for people with basic website knowledge.

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