2010 Changelogs

Version 1.26.1

The 1.26.1 Grepolis update will add some small improvements to the game! The update will be implemented on Wednesday (December 8th, 2010). During the update there may be some server downtime. The change log is listed below:

Features/Changes:

If you scroll over the academy, The upgrade completion time will now be displayed
If you scroll over a divine power, the next time you can cast this spell will be displayed.
Flying units will now be visible next to the ship in the city overview
The demolition tab has been improved

Version 1.26

We are proud to present the new 1.26 Grepolis patch! The patch will be implemented on Wednesday (Nov 24th, 2010). During the update there may be some server downtime. The changes are listed below.

Features/Changes:

info about the alliance will be displayed next to the player name in the alliance forum
the premium advantages page was updated
now the arrival time to another town will be refreshed in real-time
if a power is activated on an order(attack, support), the generated report will be listed on the command tab
some tooltips on commands can display arrival times now

Bugfixes:

show revolt filter in command overview only on worlds with new combat system, takeover otherwise
timers don't run down in command overview
cannot delete alliance profile image
logging into banned accounts by using the toolbar is no longer possible
Vacation mode calculation has been modified

Version 1.25

The following changes will be implemented on the 3rd of November 2010. This is likely to result in some downtime. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Features/Changes:

It is now possible to block alliance pact requests
Building requirements are now displayed for unit researches in the academy
Changed recruit overview to a table layout (this has gone live on all worlds between 1.24 and 1.25)
Players can insert the maximum number of build-able units of one type in recruit overview by clicking on the green number
Players can cast Population Growth and Call of the Ocean on their towns directly in recruit overview

Bugfixes:

Fixed some text errors
Fixed layout issues with the alliance pact page
Fixed some layout issues of the town overview sidebar
Changed the text of the PA feature Merchant and Heras Happiness power to make the calculation for increased resources clearer
Players can no longer see naval units of the defender when attacking with ground units only
Fixed security issues in alliance forum

Version 1.24

This will take place Wednesday, October 20. Expect some downtimes.

Features/Changes:

A mouseover menu allows for easier access to overviews.
The Unit overview default page is now the recruitment page.
A tab has been added to the command overview page which contains all commands. There is now a filter function for commands.
Banned players will now get a warning if they choose to restart the game instead of waiting for a ban to expire.
Added information about the restrictions for profile emblems.
Mouse popups were added in the barracks and message views.

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where an in-game message was still marked as unread after being read.
Page count for alliance conquest log should be set correctly now.
Fixed a bug where players could not send units via town info popup while they were in the barracks or harbour.
Fixed a bug where players with more then 60 cities could not see their cities in the recruit troops overview.
Fixed some style issues in recruit overview.
Fixed performance issues in the recruit overview.
Fixed a bug where sometimes a sender in a report was not set.
Fixed a bug where after building units the unit orders were not refreshed correctly
Fixed a bug where deleting a player caused an error because his mailing list was not deleted correctly.

Version 1.23

Grepolis will be updating to version 1.23 Wednesday, October 6. Expect some slight downtimes while this is happening.

Features/Changes:

Faster troop recruitment. Players can now recruit units in unit overview with a new troop recruitment tab.
Players will now get a pop up notice that new towns will not be found in overviews when adding all towns to one town group.

Bugfixes:

Deleting a recipient from a mailing list should no longer cause an internal error.
Ghost towns are now linked correctly in the subject field of published reports.
Sliders in the cave overview should now be set correctly.
Fixed wrong town rank in ranking list. This could occur in some cases when a town is on the border of two oceans.
Fixed a bug in forum whereby special characters were not accepted in a search.
Minor bugfixes with reports.
Fixed an error that could sometimes occur when retrieving played worlds.
Fixed some layout bugs with message lists.
Fixed a bug where in some cases players could get a ranking award twice.
Fixed a bug where moving reports from custom folders to the main folder could cause an error.
Fixed an error when changing town after failed to start a celebration.
Fixed a bug where an ally pact / enmity could not be canceled in Internet Explorer 8.

Version 1.22

This should be coming through Wednesday, Sept. 22. And, as usual, there may be some slight disruption to your game play.

Features/Changes:

New Administrator feature: Players can now manage their caves in the overview section.
Contact list for messages: Player can now define up to three contact lists and add the players from the list with one click as recipients for a new message
Attacks in command overview are now grouped by their types
Added a facebook "like" button to the start page
Minor design changes of the team page

Bugfixes:

Fixed an error that could occur during the revoking of an account deletion request
Players can now see all mythical units in the town overview instead of only those from the god of the specific town
Fixed a layout bug in the wall overview that occurred when a lot of units were killed
Banned accounts will no longer receive email from Grepolis
Fixed a bug where in some cases colors on the minimap were not displayed correctly
Fixed a bug where the awarding of point-awards could prevent the update of battle points
Fixed a layout bug in the preview of private messages
Polls should no longer disappear in an alliance forum when answering a post containing a poll
Added a scrollbar to the shared connection box
The "new report / new message" icon should no longer blink when there are no new reports/messages

Version 1.21

Features/Changes:

Changed the way players can report messages. They can now report single message posts instead of the complete message chain.
Changed team page design
Changed position of tutorial popup

Bugfixes:

Unit Overview now shows the correct units when supporting multiple towns
If vacation mode is active it is not possible to register on a new world
Fixed a layout bug in the internal alliance announcement box
Fixed a bug where god favor was displayed wrong with Internet Explorer
E-Mail "Town is missing you" will no longer be sent when a player is in vacation mode
Fixed a bug that could occur when clicking on a flag at the map where a new city can be founded
Trade activities in trade overview can now be closed in Chrome browsers
Fixed an error that could occur when opening town info popup on ghost towns
Fixed a layout problem in the new culture overview
Fixed a bug where the player of an attacked town could return attacking troops
Performance optimization in town overview
Fixed the disappearance of towns on mini-map with custom color black
Minor layout improvements in gods overview
Fixed a bug with awards not showing the date
Fixed a bug where resources are looted when conquering a town and units do not return to their home town

Version 1.20

This update will take place Wednesday, August 25.

Features/Changes:

Players and alliances can now be marked with individual colors. Players and alliances marked in that way are shown with a different color on the map
Alliances can now be marked as enemies. Alliances marked in that way are shown with a different color on the map
Changed the way a user connects Grepolis with Facebook
Revised the tutorial

Bugfixes:

Fixed a problem where in some cases mythical units from different gods could be in the same town
Accepting an offer in the market place will not change the current page any longer
Active trades window can now be closed again
Player logout when connected with Facebook will no longer logout also from Facebook
Fixed the alliance links in alliance point search
Fixed the width of quickbar dropdown with long entries
Fixed some problems in alliance forum when creating new forums
Scrollbar in ranking results no longer covers the cancel button
Fixed some minor layout problems with alliance pacts
Fixed some layout problems in trade overview
Buttons for blocked players will no longer be covered by the scroll bar
Fixed some layout problems with tabs
Button for leaving an alliance is now at the correct place

Version 1.19

Update 1.19 should (maybe) come through tomorrow. Tuesday, August 10.

Features/Changes:

Alliance pacts (possibility to assign individual colors to partner- and enemy alliances will come in the next version).
Trade office now increases the trade capacity from 500 to 750 for each market level.
Players can change the gods of their towns in god's overview.
Players can change the default visibility for new awards.
New button in fight simulator for inserting remaining defender units as new defender
New button to sort towns by free population in town group overview
Post edit information is now shown in alliance forums
Attacking strategy is now shown in fight reports
Grepolis registration from a Facebook wall message is now possible
Free trade capacity instead of blocked capacity is now shown in trade overview

Bugfixes:

Conqueror units are not destroyed any longer when conquering a ghost town
Autologin is possible again
Fixed wrong trade capacity shown in trade overview
It is now possible to copy text out of the chat window

Version 1.17

Features/Changes:

awards: show world name at awards banner
added a new bb-code to show own awards to other player
academy: small hint in the academy about the maximum of research points
market: save criteria after searching an offer
settings: added an option to enable/disable the map arrow
trade overview: update trade movement list after sending resources immediately
town info popup: show a notice if the target player is still in beginners protection mode

Bugfixes:

update gods and favor correctly after casting an power
market: resource offers of players in vacation mode are not shown in market anymore
trade overview: fixed wrong resources, because some spells were not included in the calculation of the resources
units beyond - fixed a bug where transporter are required for returning troops on the same island
culture overview: some timers were shown wrong
fixed broken login caused from facebook-connect
captain PA bonus didn't work for some fights
small layout bugs

Version 1.16

Next update is scheduled to take place Tuesday, June 29 (maybe)

Features and Changes:

Farm trades are located in the Trade tab.
An improved design in unit overview > outside troops.

Bug fixes:

On the map, the slowest unit speed will be used to display a duration and the speed bonuses from researches and lighthouse will be displayed.
On the city overview, resources will be properly displayed, depending on spells cast.
Players will no longer be attacked during vacation mode.
Some players were unable to send resources from one city to another.
The current city was not always marked as selected on the map.
In the unit overview, researches and spells cast will be considered now.
Cryptography bug is fixed.
It was possible to use destructive god powers on towns twice within one hour. Fixed.
You will no longer get an error message when searching for an alliance through the battle points ranking page.
Some cities were not shown on a player's city list. Fixed.

Version 1.15

Grepolis will be updating to version 1.15 on Wednesday, June 16.

Features/Changes:

in a map overview a direction to own town will be shown by an arrow
after trade was accepted by another player, both players get report
now it is possible to publish reports for fight supporters
incoming attacks and own returning attacks have different images now
an error message will now appear when a player has more silver coins in the cave than the cave level allows
new Administrator feature was added: gods overview
negative reports are highlighted now
in a command overview attack commands are highlighted now
ally forum administration: hidden forum in a list was shown as a hidden forum
in a world map it is now possible to see a duration to another town with selected ships

Bugfixes:

in published reports like spying / power casting subjects were missing
in trade overview resources was not updated after trade
sometimes a counter for spying didn't worked properly
it was possible to transfer silver coins from the cave back into a town
research 'democracy' was removed on world with a new revolt system
search for alliances returned no entry
in a command info incorrect images was shown
own troops in other towns and troops from another player will be considered in a units overview

Version 1.14

Features/Changes:

BBCode input boxes can be closed now by pessing the ESC key.
on special worlds it is not longer possible to send colonize ship as support. This is currently only relevant to the german Hyperborean World.
published reports will be displayed with the date now.
last spy reports in hide will be sorted by the date now.
player will receive an e-mail a few days before their holiday mode expires.
a count of running attacks on a town will be displayed on the attack-tab in town information.
player and town names in the subject of published reports are now linked.
spying can be canceled within 5 min of being started.
in command overview all commands are sorted by arrival time now.
all trade actions generate reports that can be seen in separate trade-report tab.
all revolts are now visible in a command overview.
every player can restart the game on the same world now
now its possible to cast powers on currently viewed town from town overview.
units from espionage report, remaining units from fight report can be inserted into simulator now.
god tab in a town info are always enabled now.
detailed information about premium account available.
animation in fight reports can be disabled.
powers cast on a town are visible in units overview tab.
it was not possible to go into town overview when a player have only one town

Gameplay:

Poseidons power 'earthquake' costs 350 favour instead of 500;.
costs of 'architecture', 'meteorology', 'conscription', 'plow', 'trireme' and 'breakthrough' have been changed.
trireme needs less research points and less time to be build.

Bugfixes:

celebrations are cancelled now when a town was taken over by another player.
free population will be calculated fully now when units die in a ghost town
on worlds with the revolt system the research 'diplomacy' are removed now
published reports are now usable in IE6

Version 1.13

Features/Changes:

now its possible to cancel town-takeover if a town has changed owner in the meantime
farm attacks reports display max booty now
linked towns, players and allainces with bb-codes get icons
the titles in the overviews have been changed
new icons for skipping/pausing/rewinding reports
in the cave (building) last 10 espionage reports are shown
with the Administrator active a player can create their own notes
in a trade overview the free population is shown on each town
building-overview has new design
now its possible to publish battle reports
cities can be grouped now

Gameplay:

morale has not been altered yet. It is now a setting that can be activated / deactivated, depending on the world settings
units left in a ghost town will slowly desert (die) as the town degrades

Bugfixes:

the population needed for certain buildings was calculated wrong
now its possible to see when divine power cast on town ends
towns were not always properly linked in a town-dropdown-list
town-names have been added to the cast reports
defender can't see attackers plan to do revolt anymore
its no longer possible to support a town with mythologocal units from another god
town names on revolt-attack will be now cut if it is too long
god favor was sometimes reset after a god change in newly conquered town
destination town was not shown at running spies in a command overview
when a player tried to colonize an uninhabited place, a wrong capacity bonus for transporters was shown
its no longer possible to spy on players in vacation mode
report animations show militia now
divine powers can be enacted on revolt attacks also
divine power cast on commands was not shown in commads info window
new report indicator works now on farm attack

Implemented May 18th, 2010

Version 1.12

Features/Changes:

casting powers from command info
providing more essential information about towns in buildings overview
generate building orders from town overview
better facebook news feed integration
Morale now active
- when player signs up for another world
- when player conquers a town
- when player joins an alliance
reports of farm town attacks (without troop losses) are now seperated from other reports
activity status of alliance members for alliance admins (also shows vacation status)
when using partial unit recall a report will be generated
alliance forum: increased post display from 10 to 20
command-overview - now shows own running spies in command list
town name in game layout now indicates a casted power

Gameplay:

new revolt based conquest system
new worlds will be set up with the new system right away
existent worlds may adopt the changes in a couple of months.

Bugfixes:

fixed break down of ghost towns
conquest - after a successful town takeover mythological units should not be sent back
improved behavior of dropdown town list: links now keep url parameters
fixed favor calculation when favor is decreased
uninhabited place info now shows missing cultural point to colonize that place
fixed support link for banned players
now support commands containing mythological units will return if target town god has changed to an incompatible god
a besieged player could still use the late game overviews to build troops etc
fixed pagination when searching ranking list
on 'no conquest worlds' it was possible to conquer another player's town under a certain circumstance
Autocomplete result limit was too low especially for highly frequent town names e.g. 'Athens'
Fixed IE bug: in sea ranking list the ocean number could not be specified

Implemented May 2010

Version 1.11

Features/Changes:

some of the divine powers description have been changed to make it more clear exactly what they do
two new timezones have been added (Newfoundland Standard Time and Northern Territories Time)
now its possible to see inactive players in an alliance
each player can decide what forums should be observed for new messages now
in alliance forum player can jump to the last post directly

Bugfixes:

banned players can't be attacked by divine powers anymore
players are able to join or leave the alliance now
button in simulator popup are clickable in opera now
player can repeat his last action like trade or power cast after error message was shown

Implemented April 20th, 2010.

Version 1.10

Features/Changes:

Town overviews: sort towns by name
Trade tab: order trades by arrival time
After creating an offer in market, update current resources in town
Show expire dates of administrator on the premium page
Map: calculate coordinate of middle from screen instead of top-left corner

Gameplay:

start colonisation only if attacker won ground and naval fight:
you must send at least one attak ships and troops with the colonize ship to win the naval fight
players can no longer can support a banned player
implemented max duration for colonistation ships (48 h)

Bugfixes:

fixed login problems caused from incorrect facebook data and vacation mode
command overview: don't show defender the returning units of attacker and foreign returning
Wrong member count in alliance was shown (caused by deleted players)
townlist does not work when being conquered
alliance forum: now you stay in current town after clicking the profile link.
town info popup: show nightbonus information correctly in attacker screen
building overview: tear down was not working correctly
now show all incomming commands while beeing conquerd
numbers were hidden below the slider-toggle-button
layout fix for building and trade overviews in IE7/FF3.0/Opera

Version 1.09

Unknown date

Features/Changes:

new lategame overviews:
unit overview: recruit of new units is possible
building overview + possibility to upgrade/tear down with one click
culture overview
map: visualize resource bonus/loss on every island
night bonus displayed when a player starts his attack
display more information on how to use militia on the farm overview

Gameplay:

increase militia fighting strength and number of milita per farm level
City Founding: increase default building levels to reach ~700 points
attacker win, if all attacker & defender units were killed -> conqueror will abort in this case now
partial unit recal: allow to recall transporters with ground units if capacity of remaining transporters is sufficient.

Bugfixes:

alliance forum: These use ajax now to avoid some exceptions and for better usability

calculate time limit of destructive powers with game speed of world.

Version 1.08

On March 2nd 2010, Grepolis was updated to version 1.08.

Features/Changes:

partial unit recall
Captain improves trader speed to other islands
available trade capacity is shown on create-offer-page
mentoring system: players can earn gold if they invite other players that achieve at least 1000 points
late game overview for attacks
late game overview for trades and resources
english grepo trailer on non-german markets
report filter
culture: lacking resources will be colored red
light units will not be killed in an attack, when transporters sink
ban restart: added confirmation dialog
restart, culture points will be reduced to 3 and killpoints wont be lost (but triumph will not be enabled)

Bug Fixes:

statue graphic error when no god was worshipped
fixed some translation problems
attacking with strategy breach now cuts naval attacker power in half
fixed white screen in spy tab when hitting enter
increased width of marketplace-demand/offer-table-cells
naval fights - in rare cases the casualties were negative
wrong tear down time was displayed in popup
fixed minor bug in BBCodes
conquest - decrease temple sum of old polis owner if a god was worshipped in seized town
fight simulator: max-value of luck-slider was 25 instead of 30
if a player was logged in at facebook and has NOT connected to grepolis, creation of forum account was not possible
increase villages of alliance when a colonialization is finished
fixed browser hangup when entering out of range coordinate values to jump to in map
fixed bug in favor production when changing a god (having multiple cities and gods)

Version 1.07

On February 16th, 2010, Grepolis was updated to version 1.07.

Features/Changes:

Show a question mark for units in reports, if the player is not allowed to see the units of the defender.
Use slider for input boxes in sending units tab
Link existing game accounts with facebook connect
Display sum of all incoming attacks for all towns instead of count for current town
Use more AjaxRequest in player settings
Alliance invitations are sorted by date now
Disable powers tab in town info tab for ghost towns.

Gameplay Changes:

Cyclop: Defense against sharp 0 -> 10 | Population 42 -> 40
Pegasus: Defense against sharp 175 -> 200 | Defense against ranged 200 -> 300 | Defense against blunt 850 -> 900
Horseman: Defense against sharp 0 -> 1 | attack decreased to 55
Harpy: defense against ranged increased from 0 to 1

improvement against walls

Lightship: population from 10 to 8, build-time reduction 8100 seconds => 4000 seconds Reducing silver shortage and wood excess:
Fast Transport: wood: 375 => 500, iron: 600 => 400
Lightship: wood: 800 => 1300, iron: 1300 => 800
Fireship: wood: 150 => 500, iron: 750 => 150
bold and earthquake can only be casted every 4 hours on a town.
sending support: it should be possible to send only transporters or colonize ship without other troups.
now its not longer possible to send support if the recipient player in in vacation mode
spying a banned players does not work now

Bug Fixes:

casting of "transformation" and "sea storm" was not possible.
bb-code buttons in player profile had not worked.
some threads in alliance forum could not be deleted.
info page of thermal was empty
after changing god, update times of following unit orders in barracks correctly.
if trader or priest is expired, calculate right resources and favor.
some small layout fixes

Version 1.06

On February 3rd 2010, Grepolis was updated to version 1.06.

Features/Changes:

Pico-Map display only the current ocean
Ban: respect ban option 'restart'
Added autocompletion for towns bb-code

Bug Fixes:

No resources production in vacation mode
Trading with farm towns - corrected available capacity
Some layout fixes for international versions
Fixed "autocomplete"
Fixed world select for safari
Fixed storage description
Order news by creation date
Facebook connect js created error when facebook is blacklisted/blocked by players network and normal login would not work

Version 1.05

On January 26th 2010, Grepolis was updated to version 1.05.

Features/Changes:

Construction workers are show in town overview while a new building level is in progress
Auto-resizing world select in login box
Added autocomplete for text inputs for player and alliances names
Docks graphics in town overview were
All language versions are running on subdomains of grepolis.com now
Alliance: flag list visible to all alliance members
Demolishing special buildings is now possible

Gameplay Changes:

When academy reaches level 22 or temple reached level 1 an extra information is shown
Added vacation mode

Bug Fixes

In fight simulator the amounts of mythical units are now unset automatically when another god has been selected
Incorrect translation ... button broke for languages other than german
Height of game_footer on premium pages was too low for languages other than german
Units did vanish if they were sent to an abandoned town
Facebook Connect (diverse fixes)
Alliance forum right are granted to new founder if old founder was deleted
Some IE6 fixes