Changelogs

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

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.