2011 Changelogs

Version 2.07

Grepolis was updated to version 2.07 on July 20, 2011.

Features/Changes:

• Players have the possibility to block alliance invitations. This otion can be turned on and off in the settings menu
• Sea borders are now shown on the minimap and picomap to differentiate between the seas more easily
• It is now possible to center text in Forum posts and player profiles, with BBCodes, within the ingame messages
• Players can now insert units from public reports into the simulator.
• The needed transport-ship capacity for the “beyond units” is now displayed in the agora.
• From now on players will only receive a notification on the bottom right and not an additional report, when they cast a long lasting power on their own town.

Bugfixes:

• The issues where support commands did not arrive before a conquest was finished is now resolved.
• The first tab in the alliance forum was sometimes hidden. (we managed to find it)
• A bug occurred when Players posted their awards in their profiles.
• A display bug showed the build time of units in the recruit overview inaccurately.
• Sometimes the planned arrival time, in the attack planner, was not accepted. This issue was fixed.
• Scrollbars on map which were displayed when the circle menu was partially not in the browser window were removed.
• An error where defenders couldn't cast a spell on incoming attacks from a banned player was fixed.
• Though the player lost their last town on an island, they were still in control of the Island’s farm villages.
• An issue was resolved where the message "Group selected" was shown after players selected a town which did not belong to a group.
• A bug was fixed where only one daily-award was displayed in player’s profiles, although they received them multiple times.
• A bug was fixed where under certain circumstances units disappeared after returning.
• The layout of the circle menu of cities and farms was improved.
• The layout of the premium benefits of the curator and the captain were improved.
• A bug in Opera was fixed, in which centering the map did not work as intended.
• In IE9 the first tab of the settings window was hidden and is now visible.
• Avoided an internal error in IE7 which occurred after player saved their settings and had no premium features active.
• A missing scrollbar in the units beyond tab was added in the agora.
• The Resource ticker in the premium overviews did not work properly in IE7 and IE8.
• An error where creating offers in IE7 was not possible, was fixed.
• The font-color of the "Create"-offer button in the market was changed.
• A bug with the email validation layout was fixed.
• Some unapplied translations were fixed.
• Some minor style issues were fixed.

Version 2.06

Grepolis was updated to version 2.06 on July 6, 2011.

Features/Changes:

• Players with 2 or more cities get the curator free for one day
• A new curator tutorial was added which describes the benefits of this premium feature
• Building notifications now show the new level after expansion/destruction is finished
• Players will now receive a report with the resurrected units for the hades power "Return of the Underworld"
• It is now possible to forward messages to alliances and/or to create mailing lists
• The Curator overviews and attack planer are now shown as benefits in premium window
• Players can see the summed amount of killed and defeated units in their cities walls(yahooo, no more counting)
• If players change their current folder in reports they now return to that display after reading a report

Bugfixes

• Cases occurred were two towns were located on the same island spot.
• Sometimes the losses in the simulator did not match to the actual losses displayed in the reports
• The amount of needed resources for researches were not displayed in red
• The daily reward window did not refresh when switching from town to town if one city had a god and the other one did not(and vise versa).
• The issue where players could insert themselves into mailing lists was fixed
• Players always received resources although favor was selected in daily reward window
• The alliance pact notifications now match the reports in version 1.x
• Fixed an error on IE7 where under certain circumstances the game was not loaded
• players could not cancel their color assignments
• Switching from a conquered to an unconquered town did not close the conquer window
• The issue where players in vacation mode got inactivity emails was fixed
• Fixed a bug where notifications were in the wrong order
• Resolved a style problem on the new worlds selection page with IE7
• Some style issues where luck was not properly displayed in reports were fixed
• Casted spells on towns display the correct duration now
• Fixed some style issues in the attack planer and the forum with IE7
• Under certain circumstances, one favor too many was displayed in the favor popup on the top
• Some wrong translations were fixed

Version 2.05

Grepolis was updated to version 2.05 on June 22, 2011.

Features/Changes

• Automatically sent e-mails now contain a link where players can directly jump to the ingame settings if they want to change their e-mail-settings
• Players will now receive 300 resources when validating their e-mail address
• Players are now able to buy extra vacation days for gold (now live)
• Changed the way vacation mode works: Player get 42 days per year as usual, but they will receive new vacation days exactly one year after registration or one year after receiving their last new vacation days (this does not count for vacation days they bought) (now live)
• Players will see a hint if the phoenician salesman arrives for the first time in their town
• Redesigned premium window: Player will now see the benefit of each feature without having to read all the popup texts
• Added an indicator for resurrection in command overview

Bugfixes

• Fixed an error occuring when trying to see details of an occupation while the player is not in this town
• Fixed a bug where players can still place silver in caves of their conquered towns
• Helmet of invisibility should now hide attacking troups properly for the first 10% of their way
• Fixed some minor layout bugs
• Nightly bonus will now show the correct time
• Awards in player profile and profile settings should now show the correct tooltips
• Player can now scroll through all pages of their reports in subfolders correctly
• Player restarting on a world will no longer get logged out. Instead they will be redirected to the direction selection page
• Fixed a bug in resource ticker
• Fixed the wonder tooltip, it sometimes showed wrong info
• Fixed a bug in agora where somtimes the defense tab was shown but another tab should be active
• Buildings in town overview should no longer have a border in IE9 when beeing clicked

Version 2.04

Grepolis was updated to version 2.04 on June 1, 2011.

Features/Changes

• Players now have the possibility to open the alliance forum in a separate browser tab
• The time and resource values for offers in farming villages were adjusted
• Players can now disable a town group from the city list
• Expanded click areas on the farm spaces
• New layout for daily activity bonus
• When attacking someone with beginners protection, the attacker now sees how long the protection lasts
• Town names in command popups now have a small mouseover showing their full name
• The Phoenician trader illustration was updated
• Windows are displayed in light grey when new content is loading

Bugfixes

• Player sometimes were able to conquer a farm town without having sufficient troops
• The map sometimes remained blue in the IE
• The island info page in the IE 7 browser sometimes had some layout issues
• Players on vacation should no longer receive reminder mails
• Some untranslated lines were fixed (hope you all learned some German )
• The entries in the alliance pact log were shown when relating players no longer existed
• Minor layout issues with the farm village window title
• The published reports in mails had layout issues
• The town overview had minor layout issues
• The number of notifications in the title bar will now be updated correctly
• Some BBCode font sizes were not visible in Chrome
• The slider in the settings page is now fixed
• The reports had some minor layout issues
• The command info window had some minor layout issues
• The javascript error that occurred when clicking on the hammer icon in the town overview twice is resolved
• Mousover popups which sometimes did not disappear were fixed
• The town info could not be opened if a revolt was occurring

Version 1.26.7

All non 2.0 worlds were updated to version 1.26.7 on April 20, 2011.

Bugfixes

• New registered users only see a white screen
• The Colony ship was immortal when he was sent with a Fire-ship
• Some players got a wrong e-mail activation code
• If empty transport ships return to their city, and this city is being colonized, minute-loop peacetime reports would occur.
• The arrival time in the units tab on a map displayed the wrong time
• Blocked users got a message when they try to send a message
• Player names with two spaces wouldn't displayed properly with BBCode
• Building-finished-emails were sent if a player was logged in
• "Town is missing you"-mail is sent to banned players
• Some ghost towns had militia
• Wrong population count in premium overview
• Facebook connect works with IE8 now
• Attack message was shown on a support command
• Trading time was missing in premium overview
• Mood inconsistencies in farm-village-reports
• It was possible to recruit all 8 myth. units in one town.
• Switching to another result page in "best attacker" search ranking didn't worked
• In premium recruit overview there were negative values after recruiting orders
• Drag&drop problem in premium overviews with IE9 was solved
• Changing the award visibility did not worked

Version 2.03

Grepolis was updated to version 2.03 on May 18, 2011.

Features/Changes:

• A new island info window was added which provides players with useful information regarding: free spaces, farm towns and currently settled towns on the island. The window can be accessed by clicking on the bonus/malus icon.
• Players can now also link islands with BBCodes.
• Morale is now displayed in the attack window (if morale is active on world).
• The God power "plague" of hades is not longer extendable(blame it on the new Greek health-care system).
• Improved command info window design.
• Maximizing windows is now also possible by clicking on the titlebar of a minimized window.

Bugfixes

• Casting powers on commands was not possible if town name was extremely long, as the name covered the tab to add a spell.
• God powers were not available in every city
• Improved loot display in commands overview
• Fixed endless scrolling for reports in different browsers
• The helmet of invisibility locked commands for the attacker as well
• The quickbar sub-menus were displayed under windows
• Quickbar icons were not shown after the players edited a menu entry
• Quickbar submenus disappeared if the players moved the mouse too slowly
• Resources now update after celebrating city festival
• The trade menu bubbles did not get updated after trading in the market or using the premium overview
• Improved performance of map in IE
• In some cases flags for founding new towns were missing
• Improved visibility of banned players in alliance member list
• Message preview was broken is published reports were contained in the message
• Command arrivals and the actual fight were different
• Night bonus was displayed although command arrival was not in the night bonus
• Sometimes the wrong divine power was extended
• Sometimes window switched to the first tab without interaction
• Battle animations in reports did not display units of hades
• the sea borders where different for some islands
• The unix timestamps were shown on revolts
• When registering through an external partner, a part of the background screen was missing.
• Demolition mousepopups refresh now (happy demolishing)
• It was impossible to reach the info window from conquest commands
• Fixed update ranking which was in some cases not working
• Pagination in the public reports tab did not work
• Players did not see an icon for the town info if it was a ghost town
• In some cases Opera displayed a useless scrollbar on the reply message page
• The trade reports table was too large and endless scrolling didn't work
• Clarified description of the power "resurrection" - only land units are affected
• Some whitespace was added between maximum trade capacity and the resources
• Invite button was shown although a player was already member of the their own alliance
• The farm village expansion graphics were in wrong order
• The spell icons in the commands overview were missing
• Town and player links did not work in IE 7
• Captcha caused errors in mass mails
• Buttons for building were active in the senate although player had not enough population for construction
• A useless scrollbar from the phoenician trader, which appeared in some cases, was removed
• BBCodes font size list was not visible in Chrome
• In some cases the compass layout was broken
• A new font for Korea was added

Version 2.02

Grepolis was updated to version 2.02 on May 3, 2011.

Features/Changes:

• Player now receive a daily reward when logging in. Each day in a row they log into the game, the reward is raised a little. At the 5th step, player will get the maximum reward. It stays at the 5th step until the player misses a day. Then the reward is set back to the 1st step.
• The layout of the market has been revamped.
• If a player has researched booty, he can now choose among normal and doubled values when requesting resources from a farming village.
• The layout of the world selection page has been changed.
• Alliance leader and founder can now see in alliance members overview, if a player from their alliance is banned.
• Ghost towns now have frazzled flags.
• Added a morale calculator to the simulator. By clicking on the morale picture, a player name can be entered. The simulator will calculate the moral for attacking this player and fill up the respective field in simulator.
• Added a pop-up to the server time showing the server time without considering the timezone the player has configured in his settings.
• Town info now shows ocean number and co-ordinates of this town.
• Defender now see the battle points they will receive after an attack in their fight reports.

Bugfixes

• Arrival time of phoenician trader shown in docks now takes custom timezone-setting into consideration.
• Fixed the trading of wood via trade overview for IE8.
• Fixed a bug where fertility improvement could sometimes show a wrong number of units in town and unit order queue.
• Fixed the world selection screen to break sometimes in Korea.
• Fixed some layout issues with the cast tab in town info window.
• Version number in settings window is now shown correctly in IE7.
• Menus that were not clickable in IE7 are now fixed.
• Fixed a bug where no towns were shown on mini map in IE.
• Alliance subforums are no longer shown as unread if opened.
• Map tool tip for farm towns can no longer show floating point numbers.
• Fixed a bug where player could get extra research points in the academy.
• Auto-complete for alliance rankings now works.
• Starting a revolt works with IE now.
• JavaScript optimizations to improve speed especially for IE.
• Farm towns now increase their expansion stage properly in all cases.
• Notifications can no longer rearrange themselves causing new notifications to appear at the bottom.
• Point award is now shown correctly in profile after receiving it.
• Player should no longer log out when pressing enter in message and report window.
• Removed a bug where player get an error message about a stack overflow when using IE.
• When reloading the entire page, the active town is no longer reset to the first town from the player's town list.
• Fixed the time indicator in storage. It was partially shown behind the background for some languages.
• Players can no longer avoid a permanent ban when deleting their accounts.
• Fixed Page numbers in endless scrolling areas. In some cases they showed odd values.
• When a player has lost his last town, he will now be redirected to the login page.
• When casting a power on a command, the success message will now be shown correctly.
• Removed useless scrollbar shown when creating a new message.
• Fixed the confirm revert dialogue in academy.
• Fixed a bug where units from an attack window are reset if a docks or barracks window is open and a unit from docks or barracks is finished.
• Fixed a bug where towns and islands are not displayed in the middle of the minimap when opening the game.
• Fixed a bug where players could not mark alliances and other players in Opera.
• Units are now updated correctly after an incoming attack hits.
• Slider icon is now displayed properly.
• Other minor fixes (I will try to find out more about these)

Version 1.26.6

On April 20th 2011, All Non 2.0 worlds were updated to version 1.26.6.

Bugfixes:

• New registered users only see a white screen
• The Colony ship was immortal when he was sent with a Fire-ship
• Some players got a wrong e-mail activation code
• If empty transport ships return to their city, and this city is being colonized, minute-loop peacetime reports would occur.
• The arrival time in the units tab on a map displayed the wrong time
• Blocked users got a message when they try to send a message
• Player names with two spaces wouldn't displayed properly with BBCode
• Building-finished-emails were sent if a player was logged in
• "Town is missing you"-mail is sent to banned players
• Some ghost towns had militia
• Wrong population count in premium overview
• Facebook connect works with IE8 now
• Attack message was shown on a support command
• Trading time was missing in premium overview
• Mood inconsistencies in farm-village-reports
• It was possible to recruit all 8 myth. units in one town.
• Switching to another result page in "best attacker" search ranking didn't worked
• In premium recruit overview there were negative values after recruiting orders
• Drag&drop problem in premium overviews with IE9 was solved
• Changing the award visibility did not worked

Version 2.01

On April 19th 2011, Grepolis was updated to version 2.01

Features/Changes:

• Premium: Players can get an optional notification when their building queue is completely finished
• New Chat window system
• Redesigned market window

Bugfixes:

• Mood in map-popup refreshes after claiming loads or units from a farm town
• Commands in menu-bubbles did not hide the cancel button after ten minutes
• Tool tips on returning commands in menu-bubbles show correct string now
• Resources were not updated after a trade was finished
• Casted spells under the town name were not removed when they were done
• City foundations were shown on wrong positions
• Quickbar was not updated after editing
• Trying to leave an alliance as last founder removed the window tabs
• Player and town count in alliances mismatched to real values
• Alliance forum names were not displayed correct
• Remove alliances from shared forum was impossible
• Closing windows that overlay the tutorial window was impossible
• When a power was casted, the report-link was not working
• Construction images for storage were not correct
• After using the wrong captcha code it was impossible to send messages (for mass mails)
• Moving messages or reports to folders did not work
• After joining an alliance flags on map did not get refreshed
• An island was missing on the minimap...But we eventually found it ;)
• Problems when clicking several times on "Jump to current city" and "Jump to these coordinates" are resolved
• In some cases a scrollbar appeared in the dialog windows
• Auto-filling units into the simulator did not work if the building window was open
• Trade ratio text was displaced
• Espionage and the hide window buttons were conflicting each other
• Hammer in city-overview was not clickable twice
• If a planned attack is set in the past the attack-planer shows now notifies the player
• Recruiting all mythological units was possible with any god...Sorry that was fix
• Farm tutorial shows a hint if the player has completed the current step already
• If you interacted with the minimap the tutorial was closed automatically
• Some first tabs of windows were missing
• Missing popups were added
• Missing translations were added
• The world-wonders era starts after 6 months (instead of 9 months)

Version 1.26.5

On March 9th 2011, Grepolis was updated to version 1.26.5.

Features/Changes:

• The number of spies that were sent to the same town are know shown
• Only Players with validated email address can send massmails now.
• A Grepolis 2.0 marker was added in "select new world" window. Players will be able to see if the world they join is a 2.0 world or not.

Bugfixes:

• There were some problems with attacks that arrive at the same time.
• In the alliance-forum some threads with a lot of published reports caused JavaScript errors.
• Fake "incoming attacks" were fixed
• Bolted temples now produce favour according to their diminished levels.
• Bolted markets now trade resources according to their diminished levels.

Version 1.26.3

On February 2nd 2011, Grepolis was updated to version 1.26.3.

Features/Changes:

• Players will be able to see their vacation log

Bug Fixes:

• The premium commands overview icon was missing
• The player color in a map can be deleted now, even if a player no longer exist
• You can now see the two last festivals in premium culture overview with IE
• Player can now receive the "early game over" award at any time in the game.
• Attackable bans don't work when vacation mode is active
• Clock times in the alliance forum should now show the correct time.
• The "best X of the day" awards were shown in the forum and in messages
• Divine units now work correctly in the simulator
• Small building time divergences with the units were fixed.
• In premium overview -> on town info, the research was taken from the current town, not from town where the units originated
• In premium overview -> town groups -> towns were occasionally sorted in the wrong order
• In premium overview -> Recruitment overview -> table was broke