Changelogs

You can find all changelogs from version 2.40 onwards here. :)

Version 2.45

On Wednesday September 11th, Grepolis was updated to version 2.45. This update includes a few game feature changes and fixes several bugs. Below is a list of the changes to be implemented in the update.

Game

Features/Changes:

• Farm villages are now lost when the player get his last town conquered on an island;
• The default order for sorting towns in the recruitment overview has been changed from descending to ascending;
• Community requests:
  • Added filter options for reports (Italian suggestion from eman1991);
  • Added the name of the town being attacked in incoming attack notification (German suggestion from KrachBummEnte).

Bugfixes:

It was not possible to cast more than two units production effects on the same town after refresh.

• The effect icon for units production in the recruitment overview was not correct;
• The progress bar displaying the maximum amount of resources per day when demanding or looting more resources than the maximum amount of resources per day is not working correctly;
• In some rare cases, the tutorial was asking players to loot a farm town even if the player didn't have any farm towns;
• The text of the tooltip over the gold button in the demolition queue was wrong;
• There was a response error when switching between towns very fast;
• The units withdrawn were appearing again in the troops outside overview when changing towns order;
• A space was missing between "Silver coins" and the values "(x/y)";
• Looted favour was not shown in the booty in command overview and command info;
• There were some synchronisation issues with the Heroic Tactician award;
• The description of the notification "Jinxed" was cut off;
• Two different pictures were used to represent spies in the game;
• Founding city reports showed wrong duration when playing on a world with foundation time other than 24h;
• Effect icons were duplicated in the city list when scrolling;
• City overview was coming to the foreground when switching towns;
• Button to summon Phoenician trader was too big with long town names;
• The progress bar of the world wonders screen was broken;
• The quest helper for farm villages trade was misplaces;
• The trigger for the "A sinister hideout" quest was wrong;
• Gold was needed to complete the Resource supplies;
• In the trade overview, the order of trade movements was not correct and the order was changing after arrival of each order;
• In the trade overview, the order of towns was not correct when sorting by names;
• In the trade overview, the trade capacity was not shown;
• It was not possible to jump to pages in the ocean alliances ranking;
• In the quest to confirm email address, one step was missing;
• A few localisation bugs have been fixed:
  • The description for "Olympic sword" was confusing;
  • Text in the help window for the recruiting overview was displayed partially and a comma was missing;
  • There was a spelling mistake in rewarded effect for skipping the tutorial (relevant for Germany only);
  • There was a spelling mistake in premium window, advantages tab (relevant for Germany only);
  • Some effects rewarded from the island quest have a wrong description;
  • The window "Settings" was triggered by the button "Options" in the menu bar which is not consistent.
• The close button in the takeover window had no function;
• The delete all notifications tooltip was not fully displayed;
• It was not possible to delete notifications with the "x" button;
• Changing thread properties was leading to endless loading;
• (De)selecting the option "check for new posts" in the alliance forum was leading to endless loading.

Version 2.44

On Tuesday August 20th, Grepolis was updated to version 2.44. This update included a few game feature changes and fixes several bugs. Below is a list of the changes to be implemented in the update.

Game

Features/Changes:

• The top bar on the startpages have been exchanged with the InnoGames.com portal bar;
• The Facebook like button is now available in the login box on startpages;
• Community request: the travel and arrival time are now displayed when returning units partially in the new supporting units town info window.

Bugfixes:

• A few Grepolympia bugs have been fixed:
  • The format of the effect duration for rewards was wrong;
  • The title and the description of the Athletic Hoplite Racer award was wrong;
  • Grepolympia was not accessible and not working properly on Internet Explorer.

• There were some synchronization issues with awards;
• While on the demolition tab, the senate was going back to the upgrade tab when activating the curator;
• Players were not correctly registered to the game when joining the game via invite feature;
• In some cases, the farm village was over someone's town on the map;
• Login via Facebook was not available;
• An attack from Island Quest could validate two open Island Quests at once;
• The algorithm picking random islands for Island Quests was not working correctly;
• There was a typo for demanding units in the farm villages;
• There was a typo in the Chariot Reinforcement reward for Island Quests;
• The error message displayed when a player tries to activate the same effect twice was wrong;
• In some cases the Island Quests window was not completely displayed;
• The farm village icon on the map was getting smaller when expanded instead of getting bigger;
• Failed town foundation was leading to wrong image in the command info screen, and details about units were missing;
• Closed worlds were still displayed in the worlds list;
• The option "Visible to everyone" for awards was not working;
• The state of the tutorial quests was not always correctly updated;
• The ocean ranking was not correct from time to time;
• The recruit time for units was turning negative after using gold;
• Alliances were sometimes missing in the alliance ranking;
• It was not possible to close the map via ESC after using the jump to coordinates function;
• The description of the effect "Accelerated recruitment" was wrong;
• The alliance tabs were not working properly;
• Some data were not updated correctly after switching towns really fast;
• The improved favor and resource production were not calculated correctly.

Version 2.43

On Tuesday July 30th, Grepolis was updated to version 2.43. This update includes a few game feature changes and fixes several bugs.

Below is a list of the changes to be implemented in the update.

Game

Features/Changes:

• Changed the description of two effects you get in the island quests (recruit time and build time boosts);
• Community request: there is now an option to recall support from selected city in the town info window.

Bugfixes:

• Bot users were sometimes banned twice in a row for the same bot usage;
• Maximum amount of resources per day for the farm villages were not reset;
• It was possible to erect a building in demolish window;
• The Quest "Troop transporter" was not validating;
• Heightened Senses was not shown in all cities;
• Values were not fitting into the button in the spy window;
• Fixed issue where awards for one player are shown in another's profile;
• Fixed double global awards;
• Fixed massive amount of requests after unit order finished and quest satisfied;
• Fixed issues with invited players.

Mobile:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed iPad scrolling issues in alliance forum and alliance list.

Version 2.42

On Tuesday July 9th, Grepolis was updated to version 2.42. This update includes a few game feature changes and fixes several bugs.

Below is a list of the changes to be implemented in the update.

Game

Features/Changes:

• When sending an attack for an island quest, the report title now shows Quest town instead of Ghost town;
• When losing against an island quest attack the units only plunder resources now (it was plundering resources plus halving the storage before);
• It is no longer required to write a comment when sending feedback answers in the game;
• Added a new category of awards, Global Awards, displayed apart from World Awards. This category will be used for the Heroic Tactician award as well as new upcoming awards.

Bugfixes:

• In the conquest window, the five-digit numbers were not correctly displayed;
• Some popups were sometimes broken in the island quests;
• It was necessary to relogin in order to get island quests;
• In the recruitment overview, NaN building times and "No gold, no harbor" message was displayed even if the requirements were met;
• The performance of the game was reduced after sending many spies;
• The go to page button disappeared from the alliance forums;
• Town owner of ghost town were linked in reservation report;
• There was a map error stopping island quest creation on the islands;
• In some reports, the town owner name was missing;
• Wrong effect icons were sometimes displayed in the god overview;
• It was possible to cast spell on attacks from island quests;
• Spells and effects were sometimes not displayed anymore in the city list;
• The tooltips for effects were incorrect in the city list;
• Scrolling in the city list was not working properly;
• A wrong tooltip text was displayed in the menu when all sounds were disabled;
• In the command overview, only three-digit numbers could be displayed;
• The wrong message was displayed when trying to send a message to leader/founder for alliances with only one players;
• There was no quest hints for the "Recruiting" quest;
• The new spoiler BBCode was not supporting published reports;
• The new spoiler BBCode was not supporting tables;
• In some cases, multiple radial menu were open and it was not possible to get rid of them;
• The island quest icons was showing the "Tasks finished" text;
• The certificate for finishing the 4/7 world wonders was not sent out;
• There was a line break in the award notification "Heroic death";
• It was not possible to change pages in the city list when a group was selected;
• It was not always possible to open the farm when the barracks or harbor were open;
• The attack window was getting oversized in some cases.

Mobile:

Bugfixes:

• Tooltips were not displayed anymore;
• It was not possible to rename towns;
• It was not possible to select towns in the town list.

Version 2.41

On Tuesday June 18th, Grepolis will update to version 2.41. This update includes a few game feature changes and fixes several bugs.

Below is a list of the changes to be implemented in the update.

Game

Features/Changes:

• The wall levels of the eighth farm village are now removed once the village has been conquered;
• A few changes have been made to the Island Quests :
  • The spawn timers of the quests have been modified from 2, 3, 4 hours to 2, 4, 8 hours;
  • The attack and defense boost rewards have been adjusted from 30% to 10% (attack) and from 30% to 5% (defense);
  • The brothel has been replaced with a tavern in the corresponding quest;
• The spawn probability of storyline quests have been slightly adjusted to the spawn timers.
• Community request: added a spoiler bbcode for messages and alliance forums.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some JS errors: 'Object' is undefined;
• It was not possible to move an alliance forum to the lowest position;
• Fixed several award synchronization issues;
• Fixed an issue where the cancel button was covered by the units list in the command overview;
• Option for resetting researches was disappearing upon research time reduction;
• Queue did not get updated automatically in the barracks;
• Sometimes the effects on a city were not displayed;
• Fixed a bug where an error message,"island quest expired", was appearing during rotating;
• The icon of the survey type was sometimes wrong;
• There was an error upon validating e-mail;
• Chose location check field was slightly misplaced when starting or restarting the game;
• The wrong icon was shown when hovering over mythical units in temple;
• The wrong world wonders were displayed in the hall of fame sometimes;
• The farming village overview was not considering forced loyalty;
• Improved favor production was not properly shown in premium overview on all towns;
• There was a graphical issue in the survey window;
• Island quest icon was missing and leading to an empty window during takeover;
• Fixed inconsistency between tooltips if quest requirements fulfilled;
• Attack Planner did not update when units were removed;
• Fixed deadlocks during nightly cron;
• Directional arrow was not updating correctly when changing towns;
• Fixed an error in the distribution of the award "Great Power of the Day";
• Filter for attacks in command overview did not work;
• The menu was unresponsive on iPad;
• There were duplicated lines in the player invite window;
• A space was missing between renamed command and the cancel button;
• The performances of the game were reduced a lot after sending many spies to the same town;
• The Phoenician merchant was not visiting all towns owned;
• Fixed some layout issues in the simulator;
• Fixed a case where towns should have been conquered, but weren't;
• Fixed a wrong calculation of resources during happenings;
• Fixed wrong information in reports when withdrawing units;
• A German survey was sent out to all players instead of the German market only;
• You could get negative research points by demolishing academy.

Mobile:

Bugfixes:

• Research images were not correctly displayed in the academy;
• Spells enacted on an attack could be seen in the mobile versions;
• Some translations were missing.

Version 2.40

On Tuesday May 28th, Grepolis was updated to version 2.40. This update brought us several bug fixes and a few minor feature changes. You can find a discussion thread for the update here for .EN and here for .US.

Below is a full list of changes included in 2.40.

Game:

New Features/Changes:

• To make sure that updates of game state will reach the players browser correctly, only one tab per game account is allowed. If a second tabs gets opened the first one will be logged out.
  • This only applies for one world. I.e. You could be logged into Alpha and Beta in two different tabs, but not Alpha in two different tabs.
• The beginners protection is showed as a power under the town name.
  • You can now see a BP icon under your city name, just like you do when spells have been cast on your city.
• Players can now send mass-mails only after reaching more than 800 points in order to prevent server spam.
• Community request: ability to rename commands.

Bugfixes:

• When a player gets a new town, spells like favor boost or acumen were not applied to the new town.
• Command overview was showing commands that are not from current town group.
• Corrected some layout issues in the global settings of the landing page.
• The tabs in buildings were reset after switching towns.
• Alliance Conquests and Pact Events were in German.
• When using the mass recruit if current town didn't have a harbor, there was an error
• There was a bug with plural and singular form of the chariot reward in island quests.
• Special building data were wrong in the building overview.
• Cancelling building demolition was sending wrong response message.
• Trojan defense applied to militia twice, it is now decreased correctly again after spell ends.
• The inventory was not reset after player restart.
• The In-Game announcements were not sorted correctly.
• Attack boost was not working on all units.
• Forced Loyalty was setting the mood to 100 before.
• When sending multiple colonization commands to found towns on multiple spots with only one free culture level left, the last command was starting the process instead of the first one.