2017 App Changelogs

Version 2.143

During the week of July 30, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.143.

Bugfixes

Barracks/Harbor - Moving Aristotle (or other heroes affecting unit recruitment) out of your city before cancelling unit recruitments no longer results in the wrong amount of resources to be refunded.
Friend invite - No more messages to collect friend invite gold are being sent if the limit of 10 players has already been reached. All rewards need to have been accepted for this limitation to be in place.
Tutorial Quests - Conflicting quests for colonization were shown, given that both the old and new tutorial quests were active at the same time.

Version 2.142

During the week of July 16, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.142.

New Features and Changes

The city foundation screen was reworked completely to receive a different design and more useful information, especially for new players:
- Requirements for a city foundation are listed if they are not met yet
- The screen provides additional information on the island (e.g. about farming villages being available) as well as the premade buildings in the city you are about to found.
New unit icons were added to classify them.
- Each unit is classified as regular land unit, mythical land unit, regular naval unit or mythical naval unit

- The unit type is also specified for offensive, defensive and hybrid units

- Units with special abilities received additional indicators. This applies for flying units, catapults (wall destruction), fire ships (self destruction) and colony ships (colonization)

Existing icons for unit abilities were reworked to become more intuitive
- New icons were added for damage types blunt weapon, sharp weapon, distance weapon & ship...

- ... as well as defense attributes defense against blunt weapons, sharp weapons, distance weapons and ships

Bugfixes

City foundation screen - Text for required culture points was misleading especially for the first colonization. Amount of required culture points was replaced by available city slots instead.

Version 2.141

During the week of July 2, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.141.

New Features and Changes

Rewards on the island quests "The Desperate Village" were adjusted. Slinger Reinforcement replaces Improved Attack (rare/epic) for the aggressive option of this quest.

Bugfixes

Senate - Removed an error that could prevent certain buildings from be demolishable if requirements for upgrading the same building could not be met (button greyed out in upgrade screen).

Version 2.140

During the week of June 18, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.140.

Bugfixes

Heroes - Fixed an error that could occur when heroes returning from outside movements were involved in combat against another player besieging the originating town.
Deletion - No prompt was shown asking players if they would like to abort their deletion when logging in during the 7 day grace period.
World Wonders - Fixed an error that could cause two world wonders to be started on the same spot.

Version 2.139

During the week of June 8, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.139.

Bugfixes

Alliance forum - Moderators and leads can now properly delete posts. The button is no longer greyed out.
Island Quests - Corrected wrong information about Improved Resource Production bonus effects being shown for island quest rewards.
Items - Replaced outdated icons for some effects to align them with the browser version of the game.

Version 2.138

During the week of May 22, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.138.

New Features and Changes

The island quest rebalancing is activated on all live worlds. Quest difficulty, objectives, mechanics and rewards have been reworked to provide a better experience for players in all game stages.
- Island quests become more challenging, but also more rewarding through a significant increase in reward value especially for later game stages.
- General changes: Several reward effects were adjusted for better scaling.
- Quest difficulty calculations were adjusted to work better in late game stages.
- Island Quest rewards were adjusted to remain equally valuable across all game stages. Forced Loyalty is no longer available.
- Quest objectives were adjusted to remove blockers and make available choices equally attractive and challenging.
- Further adjustments:
  - Attack quests now give equal loot to all players attacking the same quest target.
  - Quest limits have been adjusted to a maximum of 6 available quests (previously 10) and 3 quests that can be accepted at the same time (previously 4).
  - After a longer absence there will be at least one new quest available soon after starting a new game session (previously you had to wait up to 8 hours).
  - Quests asking you to wait for a certain amount of time are now starting their timers immediately after you made your decision.
- The changes are extensive. Therefore we prepared a wiki page, providing a more detailed list of all changes.
The marketplace for the mobile version now also supports the option "All, but enemies".
Auto-completion has been added to the recipient field for messages.
Additional information is provided if you received a report that can only be viewed in the browser version.
Texts in the settings for notification popups about dropped ingredients for our crafting events (e.g. Demeter) have been changed to be more clear.
Looted favor is now displayed in returning movements.

Version 2.137

During the week of May 10, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.137.

New Features and Changes

Following a wish of the community we changed the logic of how farming villages are generated on an island.
- Previously farming villages were randomly generated so there could be 6 farming villages with identical trade options on an island.
- Now the number of identical farming villages per island is limited to 2. This will ensure that no more than 2 farming villages on an island can trade the same ressources.

Version 2.136

During the week of April 23, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.136.

New Features and Changes

Certain effects become non-stackable so they cannot be actived in parallel. However, more powerful versions of the same effect can still overwrite existing effects:
- Accelerated construction < Efficient architects (rare) < Efficient architects (epic)
- Accelerated recruitment < Reduced recruitment times (rare) < Reduced recruitment times (epic)
- Improved attack < Improved attack (rare) < Improved attack (epic)
- Improved defense < Improved defense (rare) < Improved defense (epic)
- Improved favor production < Increased favor production (rare) < Increased favor production (epic)
- Improved wood production < Increased resource production (rare) < Increased resource production (epic)
- Heightened Senses < Divine senses
The quest texts of island quests have been adjusted in preparation of interface changes for the browser version of the game.
Markers for incoming attack and support movements have been added to the city overview in both game versions. For the app, this functionality was previously only available while the administrator was active.

Bugfixes

Alliance forum - As a moderator or leader you can again edit other members posts in the alliance forum.

Version 2.135

During the week of April 8, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.135.

New Features and Changes

Notifications about the start of the era of world wonders now appear instantly after all conditions are met and world wonder spots are opened.
The goddess Artemis is available on all game worlds. Awards for her units, as well as potential rewards for upcoming events, were added.

Bugfixes

Farming villages - In some screens, trade resources were displayed in the wrong order, hence indicating wrong trade ratios. The order has been restored.
Inventory - Icons for some inventory items were missing, showing "?" instead.

Version 2.134

During the week of March 26, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.134.

New Features and Changes

Artemis, our 6th Goddess will be activated on all game worlds in a little less than 2 weeks time, with game version 2.135.

Bugfixes

Buttons - Dutch language - Error dialog descriptions don't fit the buttons.
Awards - Fixed an issue that caused global awards (e.g. "Last man standing") to not be synchronized properly across all game worlds.

Version 2.133

During the week of March 12, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.133.

New Features and Changes

The following 3 heroes are no longer event exclusive and join the regular recruitment rotation:
- Aristotle (Winter 2016)
- Agamemnon (Sparta vs. Hades)
- Christopholus (Nature's Wheel of Time)
The following preparation for Island Quest changes have already become active on live worlds:
- Mythical units can be sent to Island Quests asking to dispatch troops.
- For island quest objectives involving the dispatching of troops, population is now taken into account to determine how many troops need to be sent.
- Island quest difficulty is now determined by a combination of game progression and the amount of points accumulated with each player's biggest city on the respective island.
- The amount of Coins of War and Wisdom handed out as island quest rewards now scale with world speed.
- The scaling of unit reinforcement effects for Hoplites, Swordsmen, Slingers and Archers has been adjusted. This only applies for effects earned through in-game events and daily login bonus.

Bugfixes

No mobile specific bugs have been reported or fixed in this version.

Version 2.132

During the week of March 3, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.132.

New Features and Changes

Resource storage texts were adjusted for more clarity, stating that your warehouse will be full earliest at a certain point in the future.

Bugfixes

Alliance - Leaders of an alliance could see the button to dissolve an alliance although that right is exclusive to founders. Using the button resulted in an error message.
Conquest/Revolt - Some adjustments were made to ensure that processing delays have less of an impact on starting times of conquests and revolts.
Favor - Reduced favor production triggered by Island Quests now only affects the town the quest was started from.
Hall of Fame - Fixed an error that could cause Hall of Fame and award data to be inconsistent, consequently leading to errors in the Hall of Fame.

Version 2.131

During the week of February 9, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.131.

New Features and Changes

Technical preparations for upcoming changes in Island Quest system

Bugfixes

Login - Fixed a potential issue with player registrations and subsequent logins to new worlds.
Grepolisscore - Some awards for recurring events were displayed twice.

Version 2.130

During the week of January 19, 2017, the mobile app was updated to version 2.130.

New Features and Changes

Limited app support for the event "In Demeter's Name!"
- While being active in the mobile app, you are now informed that the Demeter event has started in the browser version of the game.
- Whenever provisions are gathered by performing actions in the mobile app, a new popup informs you about the amount and type of provisions found. They can then be used in the browser version.

Bugfixes

Login - The highlight for recommended worlds was improperly shown for recently active worlds as well. Now only worlds that we really recommend are highlighted.
World wonders - Information about the required amount of points to achieve in order for the era of world wonders to start is now updated properly to reflect exactly how many points need to be reached.