2016 Changelogs

Version 2.119

On August 24th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.119.

Features/Changes:

• We added reservation icons to the player's profile next to the city names. So from now on, conquering many cities from one player will be a lot easier. (community suggestions)
• We moved 18 tutorial quests to an earlier or later point in the quest lines.
• We adjusted some more windows (Premium Advisors and Quest log) to match our minimum resolution.
• We have implemented new quests "Army Specialization" and "Maximize Buildings".

Bugfixes:

• The pact invitation button in the alliance profile did not work.
• The scrollbar in the agora outside window was broken.
• Clicking the alliance invitation notification didn't lead to the invitations tab.
• When clicking on the "new application" tab in the Alliance finder there was a green success message saying the alliance doesn't exist any more, while this was not the case.
• Incoming attacks weren't displayed correctly when casting purification on an attack with helmet of invisibility active.
• Finishing some quests led to an internal error.
• Opening some windows led to an empty screen or error message.

Version 2.118

On August 10th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.118.

Features/Changes:

• Community request - We implemented a confirmation dialog in case you want to activate a unit generating effect but don't have enough free population.
• Now you can enable or extend premium advisors while your current town is under conquest.
• BPV - We changed the quest logic for attacking Bandits' Camp quests. From now on these quests will be completed as soon as you won the fight and not after you accepted the reward in the camp.
• [Grepolisscore] We have added 36 new combat awards:
  • "Intercepted Colony Ships"
    • You have destroyed x colony ships while supporting another player's city.
  • "Stopping Colony Ships"
    • You have destroyed x colony ships while defending an own city.
• Tutorial arrows should not overlap any texts anymore. We checked around 80 quests in the browser and changed the positioning of the yellow help arrow.
• Closing special offer windows (sale or package offers) will not open another window afterwards anymore.
• We have decreased the size of the following windows to fit to our minimum screen resolution:
  • New farming villages
  • Grepolisscore
  • Marketplace
  • Premium overviews
  • Messages
  • Heroes
  • Alliance profile
  • Island overview
  • Within one of the next updates we will also adjust the size of the questlog and the advisors / advantages windows.
• Furthermore we increased the base speed of all heroes to a minimum of 35, because we don't want heroes to have a negative influence on the unit speed. Only Atalanta keeps her speed of 40.

Bugfixes:

• In the past we had cases where players founded a town on an island with world wonder but without a legal foundation spot. We added another check in the code to prevent these cases in the future.
• The alliance finder displayed wrong alliances as recommended. Now it is always the alliance with the highest rank from the list that has also an open application state.
• Some tutorial arrows were displayed although the quest has already been fulfilled

Version 2.117

On July 27th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.117.

Features/Changes:

• City foundations are displayed on the map with corresponding new icons.
• The quest introduction of heroes got reordered and put into a better questflow.
• The quests to rename the town name and to validate the e-mail address, got moved to a later point in the game.
• Looting the Bandits' Camp will give you fixed resources in the first attack stages.
• The first player on a world who completes an award with level 4 will see a golden Grepolisscore icon for this award.
• BB-Codes for town reservations will be displayed in the app now (with app version 2.117).
• In case you have an active bundle/package offer, now it will be displayed in the bottom right together with a new duration timer.

Bugfixes:

• Global happenings that influence the resource production are considered in the resource production value now.
• Towns on the map should be better clickable now, in case fire, smoke or the beginners protection overlaps other town images.
• Grepolisscore BB-codes cannot be styled (changing font style, size, underlined and more).
• The town tooltip on the map revealed incoming attacks hidden by Helmet of Invisibility.
• Grepolisscore - The list with the Grepolisscore of your other worlds is sorted by world age now. Newest worlds on the top.
• The slider for spending hero coins is now limited to either the max. required coins for a level or the max. available coins of the player.
• Island quests - Attacking certain quests or the Bandits' Camp fulfilled quests which require sending an attack.
• For the recent Hades Portal we fixed the issue where players gained all awards twice. We will remove the duplicate award.
• Fixed additional bugs connected to the recent Hades Portal (Population costs problem, broken scrollbar and more).
• Alliance profile - The "Join" button was not grayed out in case a player is already member of an alliance.
• While being on the island view and changing the alliance, the map was empty when hovering over a town.

Version 2.116

On July 13th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.116.

Features/Changes:

• New alliance invitation system:
  • If you apply for an alliance the leader gets a message that includes two buttons now: Reject and Accept. If you receive an alliance invite, you get a message with a similar format.
  • You can easily visit player profiles and the inviting alliance.
  • We implemented a list of all open applications for your alliance and all open player invitations in the alliance tab "Recruitment".
  • The new system allows you to apply directly from the alliance profile.
• The recruitment time displayed in the premium troop overview considers running spells or effects now.
• We have added icons to the single events in the alliance overview in order to let you faster visualize what happened in your alliance. These are events like "Player conquered a new town." or "Player joined or left the alliance."
• Market place: The trade details window automatically checks for restrictions now and presets the correct number. Either it is the max. offer value, your free capacity or your available resources.
• Tutorial arrow improvement: Now the tutorial arrow points on the cool down time in case the player is not able to demand resources.
• Grepolisscore: After the first player feedback we changed how daily awards credit to your Grepolisscore. From now on you get 250 Grepolisscore every time you get a daily award, no matter if you got the same award before.

Bugfixes:

• City switch arrows were not disabled (grey) if you were in a group with just one city.
• Tutorial arrow improvement: Arrow was still pointing to the farming village even after the upgrade already started.

Version 2.115

On June 29th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.115.

Features/Changes:

New Awardsystem "Grepolisscore"

• We finished the implementation of the new Awardsystem "Grepolisscore" and added plenty of new awards to the game.
• All old awards you earned will be counted for the Grepolisscore.
• We implemented 86 new awards for you and have plenty of more in preparation.
• All new awards provide a new challenge for you that you can complete now.
  • New awards will provide a new challenge for you that you can complete now. This means they are not granted automatically to you although you already achieved the required goals in the past.
  • Only new awards that are connected to your heroes will be automatically granted to you, otherwise you would not have a chance to gain these awards.
• After our testing phase on the beta we changed the way daily awards will be counted in the Grepolisscore. Gaining the daily awards is accompanied by a lot of effort and this should be credited. Therefore you will get the points for your Grepolisscore every time you gain a new daily award.
• You can find a detailed description of the new Grepolisscore in our game wiki.

• Quests you have read in the browser are also displayed as read in the app now and vice versa.
• Quests in the questlog are sorted now. The oldest quest is shown on the top.
• From now on the alliance setting "Show your fellow pact members in the profile" is set "off" by default.
• For "build"-quests the yellow tutorial arrow will be hidden as long as the construction time is higher than 5 minutes.
• When leveling up heroes the required hero coins are filled in the input box automatically now.
• In terms of our planned changes on the alliance finder, we changed the look of the alliance profile in a first step to be ready for more elements to be displayed there.

Bugfixes:

• When you get daily awards, the date is now dependent on the server time and not on the time zone the player has selected.
• When deleting all mass mails, the tab switched to "messages". Now you stay in the "mass mail" tab.
• For "build"-quests the progress bar displayed sometimes a wrong progress when having more than one town.
• Now Herakles also generates favor for you after destroying an ongoing conquest.
• The status icon for farming villages on the map change again when claiming resources via the premium overview and when claiming units.
• When you want to start a new city foundation, but have no colonize-ship added to the command, you will get a red system message instead of the new confirmation message.
• For completing quests where you have to attack a city, now you need to attack real player cities or ghost towns. Attacking the bandits camp or island quests will not work anymore.
• When having the senate window open and leveling up Christopholus, the construction times were not updated automatically.

Version 2.114

On June 15th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.114.

Features/Changes:

• Technical improvement for faster town switching
• Since foundation commands cannot be canceled, we implemented a confirmation dialog when starting the command.
• If you minimize the "Highlight Options" window and switch between the map views, the window stays minimized now.
• We reduced the starting volume of all Grepolis sounds. If you want to increase the volume, you can do so in the sound settings.

Bugfixes:

• Using the "Delete all reports" function caused errors from time to time.
• Some animations (e.g. festival celebrations) were not shown in the city overview automatically.
• Newly colonized cities were not displayed automatically in the city drop-down menu.
• When switching the alliance, the alliance forum was not updated correctly.

=Version 2.113

On June 1st 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.113.

Features/Changes:

• Improved city tooltips on the map. When hovering over cities you will see own troops, ongoing attacks or support commands as well as ongoing revolts or conquests.
• We added the new exclusive hero "Christopholus" to our hero collection. You will be able to earn this hero by playing the next event "Natures' Wheel of Time" very actively. Christopholus reduces the construction time of buildings by 11%.

Bugfixes:

• Hovering over the "Delete all notifications" button, on the right bottom side, caused a vertical scroll-bar to appear and therefore, made the button hard to click. There should not be a scroll-bar anymore.
• From time to time after cycling through many towns, the building orders from a different town were displayed.
• We fixed the quest progress for quests where you have to research certain technologies, for example biremes or colony ship.
• On conquest worlds attacks on ghost towns with an ongoing conquest were not handled correctly.
• Furthermore we fixed some bugs around the "Highlight Options" feature on the strategic map.

Version 2.112

On May 18th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.112.

Features/Changes:

• The award "Victim" will be deactivated with this version. The award will stay in the game, but it will not be possible to gain this award any longer.
• Your player name will be displayed above the world selection.0
• The "Profile" menu item in the UI will open your profile now. If you want to edit your profile, you can select the tab "Edit profile".
• Game Design decided to allow founding cities only with your colony ship without the need to send additional units. This counts only for founding cities as there is no attack happening.

Bugfixes:

• After joining an alliance the players flag color will automatically be changed to the color of the alliance.
• Fixed some quest guidance arrow problems.
• Fixed the display problem that new towns (especially founded ones) were not displayed on the map. This problem occurred only in our App and is fixed with this browser update.
• There was a malfunction after trying to enter special chars to resources input boxes in the market place or in the trade screen. Now the value gets automatically set to 0.
• The quest log button did not disappear after completing the last quest.
• While having multiple town info windows open for different players, changing the flag color for one of them changed also the color of the other player. Same problem occurred for alliances.
• Now you can again edit your own created sub-menus in your premium "quick bar".
• While manually creating a new reservation for a player by typing the player name, the player id was filled automatically into the input box instead of the name.
• When choosing the "breakthrough" attack mode naval units fight 50% weaker but you should loose less land units compared to the normal attack mode. There was a bug in the calculation of how many units can break through. We fixed this now.
• It is possible again to change the text color in messages and forum posts.
• You can change again the colors for enemies and pact members although you have no pacts or enemies.

Version 2.111

On May 3rd 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.111.

Features/Changes:

• The red/green system messages will disappear immediately when you hover it or click somewhere else.
• The following awards will be deactivated with this update: "Double Agent", "Jinxed", "Watery Grave". These awards will stay in the game, but from now on you will not be able to earn them anymore.
• We added a tooltip to the "Trade" button in farming villages for cases when the mood of the villagers is below 80%. The tooltip will explain why you cannot trade with the farming village.

Bugfixes:

• In the premium recruitment overview the input fields were not cleared after pressing the "Recruit" button.
• We fixed a problem caused by the effect "Luxury Residence".
• In the quest to confirm your email address, we exchanged the small graphic for the gold reward with a bigger one.
• Quests where you need to recruit units to a certain number did not take units into account that are currently outside of your town.

Version 2.110

On April 20th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.110.

Features/Changes:

• Ongoing revolts and conquests are indicated by a smoke / fire graphic above the city image on the map. We only display these graphics if either you get conquered or you start a revolt or conquest in another city. Conquests or attacks of other players are not shown to you.

*Smoke and fire above city images on the map can be deactivated in the settings.

• We changed the way system messages are displayed. These are green and red confirmation messages in the top middle of the screen that appear for some seconds to confirm your action (green) or to inform you that an error occurred (red).
• We extended the description of the beginners protection effect by clarifying that casting powers on you also doesn't work. New text is: You are currently under beginner's protection. You cannot be attacked or spied on by other players, nor can they cast divine powers on you.
• On the "Strategic Map" you now have the possibility to easily highlight alliances and players by setting a color. This will give you a better overview about your neighborhood and the position of your friends and enemies.

Bugfixes:

• Quests where you need to fulfill only one of multiple conditions are now displayed in the quest list with the corresponding fulfilled task text.
• For a few players the Agora showed a wrong number of battle points. Some players had even around minus 30k battle points for a short amount of time. This issue was hard to reproduce but we are confident that we found and fixed the problem in this version. Anyway if you recognize this issue again, please let us know.
• Removed a white pixel that was displayed above the Agora image during night.
• In the command overview commands towards ghost towns were not displayed correctly. Behind the town name there were sometimes only brackets displayed.
• Dissolving a pact did not change the flag color for the members. Players of this alliance were still displayed as pact members. Now the color changes to the default one.
• The effect luxury resistance
• We fixed a problem that got caused by the effect "Luxury Residence".
• We fixed display problems of ghost town reservations in the town info window.

Version 2.109

On April 6th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version

Bugfixes:

• Quests where you need to fulfill only one of multiple conditions are now displayed in the questlist with the corresponding fulfilled task text.
• Removed a white pixel that was displayed above the Agora image during night.
• A few players reported a negative number of battle points in their Agora for a short time. Some had even around minus 30k battle points for some minutes. This issue was hard to reproduce but we are confident that we found and fixed the problem with v.2.109. But anyway if you recognize this issue again, please let us know.
• Fixed display problems with the Facebook button on the new world selection page.
• The "Great Arming" effect description got extended by the info that the effect affects all cities.
• The warning for casting "Helmet of invisibility" got displayed in the first 10% of the travel time.
• In the premium overview for gods, the tooltip for the temple and the statue was broken.

Version 2.108

On March 23rd 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.108.

Features/Changes:

• The implementation of this years Easter event "Trial of the Slingers" has been finished. This year you will be a master slinger, teaching young Greeks the art of wielding the slingshot. Please visit our wiki for a detailed documentation about the event.

Bugfixes:

• You were sometimes told you did not have enough resources although they were shown in the top right of the UI. This problem occurred while having resource boost effects and the militia activated in your city. Now the resource value should be correct and you should not get the error again.
• Under certain circumstances the link for the settings on the world selecting page was displayed multiple times.
• The sound effect for completing a quest was missing, but has been added now.
• In the command overview the word "Ghost town" was not displayed behind the city name when attacking a ghost town. There were only two brackets shown before.
• The new tooltip for the small catapult icon in the fight report was not in the Grepo style.
• In the Starting booster info screen the timer was not displayed on the blue banner.
• We fixed a problem in our invitation system. The invitation link did not bring the players to the world they were invited to.
• In the heroes window and the island quests the arrow below the scroll-bar was shown upwards when scrolling to the very end of the page/text.
• BB-codes for alliances that don't exist any more were still clickable and lead to an empty alliance profile. Now the alliance name is not clickable any more and will be displayed with a new icon.

Version 2.107

On March 9th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.107.

Features/Changes:

• In the past players were confused about the functionality of the spell "Helmet of Invisibility". We changed the description text to "Your troops are invisible for the first 10% of their journey." and implemented a warning dialog that will pop up, as soon as you try to cast this spell after the 10% are over.
• We added a progress bar to quests where you can make progress.
• Cities from players under beginners' protection will be displayed with a shield on top of the city image on the map.

Bugfixes:

• The trade ratio filter setting in the marketplace changed to 1:2 after each city switch. In case the player changes the filter setting for the trade ratio, now this value will stay also after a city switch.
• It was possible to get negative research points in the academy. It happened when players started researching and demolished the academy in the same time. From now on demolishing is not possible any more as long as you would get into negative research points afterwards.
• Grey spells that can not be cast on farming village attacks were clickable, although they can not be used. These grey spells are not clickable any more.
• The problem, that the mermaid "Thessalonike" caused shortly before she left around midnight has been fixed. Players were not able to collect her reward within the last 15 minutes of the event.
• The alliance finder did not show alliances with one player.
• For players that have been kicked from an alliance, the button for the alliance forum was still clickable and opened an empty screen. Now we disable this button after a player has been kicked.

Version 2.106

Feb 24, 2016. On February 21th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.106.

Features/Changes:

• To receive the awards "Defender of the day" and "Attacker of the day", you now have to gain the most battle points during the day and not defeat the most units.
• The tooltip text for resetting a research was misleading and got exchanged.
• We reduced the height of the simulator window, so it fits again to our minimum screen resolution.
• With this browser update the reservation icons in our app return to the map. We had to turn them of several weeks ago because of technical problems.
• Farming villages will not revolt anymore when the effect "Forced Loyalty" is running.
• We adapted the design of our world selection page according to our latest design of the game landing page.
• Damage inflicted on the wall by catapults and bonus damage inflicted by stone hail are now displayed with new icons in reports.

Bugfixes:

• After being conquered, it was not possible to accept invitations to the same world.
• In the marketplace the city list with own offers was not sorted. Now we sort alphabetically.
• Some quests in the new Quest Log had no button to collect the reward.
• We fixed a display bug in the settings for the vacation mode.
• Some players had problems collecting the 50 gold reward of the daily bonus via an iPad.
• The missing quest icon for the quest "Victorious" has been fixed and will be displayed again.

Version 2.105

On February 10th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.105.

Features/Changes:

• With this update we implemented a Quest Log. This new feature should improve the quest handling and give you a better overview about your available tasks.
  • Within the Quest Log window we display all available quests in a list on the left side.
  • New quests are automatically accepted to save some clicks. You only need to collect your reward whenever you completed a quest.
  • The content of the selected quest will be displayed on the right side of the Quest Log window.
  • We removed the animation for completing a quest and removed the possibility to skip the quest-system for experienced players.
  • A new Quest Log icon in the UI replaces all other existing quest icons.
  • We increased the scrolling speed for windows with a scroll bar.
  • The premium overview "Farming villages" now updates automatically as soon as a village is ready. The time when a village will be ready also contains seconds now.
• In addition to the new Quest Log we finished the integration of the upcoming event.

Bugfixes:

• The culture progress bar in the Agora was inconsistent to the progress bar in the premium culture overview.
• Marketplace: When you create an offer and don't have enough free capacity afterwards, the button becomes disabled (grey). Unfortunately the button stayed disabled after you switched the city.
• Marketplace: After closing the "Accept offer" window, the other tabs in the marketplace were still disabled and not clickable.
• It was possible to close the Welcome window via the "close all windows" button.
• In certain situations we displayed wrong info in published reports (e.g. the temple lost some levels, which was not correct).
• The description text for the effect "Reduced favor production" was misleading and has been changed.

Version 2.104

Jan 27, 2016. On January 23rd 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.104.

Features/Changes:

• The new travel time simulator is ready for you. You can access it from the attack and support screens via the small button next to the attack/support button. In this simulator you can easily compare travel time of all possible units to a selected target.

Bugfixes:

• Sometimes farming village fights could not take place because the required unit strength of the player decreased or another farming village has been conquered in the meantime. We created a new report for this case, telling the player why the fight didn't happen and the units return.
• Players who lost all towns on a world, couldn't accept alliance invitations afterwards, now they can do it.
• When having more than 9999 new messages, reports or forum entries, the corresponding menu item got overlapped by the number. We adjusted that and will display 999+, if you have more than 999 entires.
• Hall of Fame. Some alliances with the award "Master of the world" were not listed in the Hall of Fame.
• Combining several negative effects affecting the resource production, caused a display bug in the tooltips.

Besides these issues we also fixed several bugs that were connected to our questsystem. For example players couldn't complete certain quests, help arrows were not shown at the right places, island quests behave not like intended sometimes and more. This update also contains several bugfixes for our Battle Points Villages feature, we are currently testing on our beta servers. Thanks for all your feedback about this feature, it helped to increase the quality and solve a lot of bugs.

Version 2.103

On January 13th 2016, Grepolis was updated to version 2.103.

Bugfixes:

• Town population value of some cities was sometimes wrong.
• New construction or unit orders were sometimes not added to the construction queue.
• Daily Login Bonus window didn't refresh at midnight.
• Fixed an issue with a hero who remained in the town after conquest.
• Changed positions of action choices in island quest "A question of math" as they were interchanged.
• Creating a new offer in the Marketplace took longer with every created offer.
• Ratio in farming village tooltips wasn't properly updated on town switch.
• Levels weren't shown on the reward icons in the tutorial quest windows.
• "New resources" time in farming villages overview wasn't correct after upgrading all farming villages.