2018 App Changelogs

Version 2.160 & 2.161

During the week of March 25, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.160 & 2.161.

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New Features and Changes

• Battle point calculations were adjusted to make it less attractive to farm friendly units. Defeating own units generates 0 battle points while defeating alliance members' units generates 20% of the total possible battle points.
• All events with a Wheel of Fortune now display the probabilities of winning a specific reward.
• Medea's and Telemacho's bonus effect values were adjusted to each increase by +1.5% per hero level gained (was: 1%).
• It is now possible to disable warnings about attacking your own alliance members from the game options.

Bugfixes

• Translation - A too long string has been fixed in the Russian version.
• Recruitment - Fixed a rare error which could get caused when instantly finishing a recruitment of colony ships, resulting in no ship to be granted.
• Ranking - The search filter for alliance ocean ranking did not work properly and displayed the wrong ranking.

Version 2.159

During the week of March 25, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.159.

New Features and Changes

• It is now possible to share your own live conquest reports directly in alliance forums or messages. This way it becomes much easier to inform your fellow players about the conquest situation.

Bugfixes

• City List - The city list did not show which cities had incoming or outgoing movements.
• Resources - The resource display did not update automatically and only showed updated numbers after performing some game actions.
• Screen display - Scaling issues with select screen resolutions and devices could occur, e.g. the phone's navigation bar overlapping the game. These issues have been fixed.

Version 2.158

During the week of March 11, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.158.

New Features and Changes

• Added a new icon to be displayed next to general attack notification during ongoing conquests on a city:
• Implemented parsing and display of live conquest reports created by other players in private messages and/or on alliance forums (sharing of own reports will be implemented in an upcoming version).

Bugfixes

• Founding city - In the preview of the building levels of the newly founded city, the agora was incorrectly displayed as level 2, although it will be only level 1 after founding a new city.
• Thessalonike, the Mermaid - Thessalonike could appear before and after the event was active if she had unfinished business (last reward not claimed). She will now only appear during the event.
• Island quests - The exclamation mark indicator for new island quests was shown incorrectly even for quests that were already acknowledged.
• Effects - Fixed several issues causing event effects and other bonuses to be applied multiple times albeit being unique.

Version 2.157

During the week of February 27, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.157.

New Features and Changes

• The live siege report, known from the browser version, is now also available in the app.
  • Instead of displaying a generic message about your city being conquered, you can now see a lot more information about the ongoing siege on your city.
  • The live siege report cannot be shared as of now. This additional feature is subject to future implementation.

Bugfixes

• Tutorial - When confirming the quest to collect the reward from the Bandit Camp, the shade highlighting the reward button was positioned wrongly.

Version 2.156

During the week of February 9, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.156.

New Features and Changes

• Thessalonike, the Mermaid can now also appear in the mobile version of Grepolis.
• The following heroes lose their exclusive status and appear in our regular hero rotation: Medea, Daidalos & Telemachos

Bugfixes

• Push Notifications - Both sound and vibration should work properly again on Android devices.
• Push notifications - Notification settings should again always take effect and no sound should be played if push notifications are disabled on either game or device side.

Version 2.155

During the week of February 1, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.155.

New Features and Changes

• All screens involving the Bandit Camp were reworked in order to provide more information on the strengths and weaknesses of units involved in combat.

Bugfixes

• Events - The mobile app could not handle events while others were already scheduled for a later point in time, causing no event to be shown at all. We now taught it to plan in advance and not freak out if new events are already scheduled for the future

Version 2.154.2

During the week of January 17, 2017, the mobile app hotfix was created updated to version 2.154.2 for Android users.

Hotfix Comment

Today we published a new app version (2.154.2) for all Android app users. This version aims to fix recent issues we encountered with playing the custom Grepolis notification sounds. Please check for this new app version in the PlayStore and download it as soon as it becomes available to you in order to recover full notification functionality.

Seeing as we have been informed by several players contacting support, as well as the player council, that some users have trouble getting push notifications to be shown reliably and in all situations on their phones, we would also like to forward the following troubleshooting steps to ensure reliable notifications on your specific device:

There are certain scenarios under which app notifications can cease to work, most of which we unfortunately cannot influence directly.

As the reasons for missing notifications can vary greatly between devices, operating systems and player behavior, please find some tipps and tricks below to re-enable your app notifications:

Check if push notifications are enabled in the app (Settings → Push notifications) The app can only display notifications if they are enabled in the settings. Please make sure to select all actions you would like to receive notifications for.

Check the notification settings of your phone. They are usually located in the App- or Notification Settings section of your device. If notifications are disabled on device side, Grepolis cannot receive any notifications, even if they are enabled within the app.

Choose your preferred game world and make sure to log in regularly to the account you would like to receive notifications for. Signals (heartbeats) from the game are required in regular intervals to confirm that notifications shall be sent. If you do not log in during a certain time, there is a chance the notifications will not go through. While notifications can be triggered for multiple worlds, they become less reliable the more worlds are played and the more time has passed since the last login to those worlds. We recommend choosing a main world to receive notifications for and logging in at least once every 24 hours to maintain reliable notifications.

Check power savings/notification options of your device and see if exceptions/adjustments can be made for apps running in the background. Most recent mobile operating systems provide extensive power savings and performance options. Unfortunately they tend close or limit apps and processes running in the background by default, in order to improve battery life or the device's performance. The Grepolis app requires background services and notification permissions in order to receive and display push notifications in a timely and reliable manner. Since these notification and power saving settings vary greatly between different device manufacturers, please refer to official documentation on how to set exceptions to ensure that all notifications will come through.

Make sure that your device is connected to Google Play or Game Center services. On Android devices, please make sure that Google Play services are up to date. You need to have an active connection to the services of your device's store provider in order to receive notifications.

If neither of the above works, please uninstall and reinstall the app and clear the app cache. Also make sure to update your device's operating system whenever there is an update available. We hope these tips and tricks will help you set up notifications in the very way you like them and that you will never miss a single attack again. ;)

Version 2.154

During the week of January 10, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.154.

New Features and Changes

• City names can now be adjusted from the info menu of the respective city.
• Additional notifications about events starting in the browser version of Grepolis have been added.

Bugfixes

• Battle reports - When attacking sieges, the defending troops were not visible.