2018 Changelogs

Version 2.178

Grepolis was updated to 2.178 on November 28th, 2018

Version 2.177

Grepolis was updated to 2.177 on November 28th, 2018

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2.177

New Features and Changes

• In this version, we introduce a more advanced online status for use by your alliance. The status can be configured to only be accessible by leaders, or it can be publicized to your whole alliance. We hope this will add an element of strategy to your game, with players able to see at a glance who is around to help. With this feature, you can see the status of your alliance members:
  • Bright green indicates the player has been active within the last ten minutes, or is currently active
  • Green means active within the last two days, but not within the last ten minutes
  • Yellow means inactive for between 2 days and 1 week
  • Red indicates the player has been inactive for 1 week or more
  • Blue means the player is currently on Vacation
• We have added icons in the World Selection screen to help you see at a glance the kind of world it is. As you can see you below, there is an icon which indicates the endgame (Domination or World Wonder) type of a world, as well as if the world is a Casual world or not.
• We also made a change to the Domination Ranking screen. Now you can click directly on an alliance's name to access their Alliance profile.

Bugfixes

• There was an issue where resources in the top left weren't correctly synchronized with the values in the warehouse. This should no longer be an issue!

Version 2.176

Grepolis was updated to 2.176 on November 14th, 2018

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2.176

New Features and Changes

• World Wonders - We have added a timer to the World Wonder construction site screen, and the World Wonder alliance screen. This timer will count down to the beginning of the Age of World Wonders, once the world has reached the requirements for World Wonders to begin.
• Hero - A new hero was added to the game - Perseus.
  • Perseus is a new exclusive hero that becomes available with the next in-game event.
  • Effect: When Perseus fights against all mythical units, their attacking and defensive values are decreased by 5%.
  • Cost: 105 Coins of War (after losing exclusive status)

Bugfixes

• Awards - "Stopping Colony Ships" and "Intercepted Colony Ships" awards will now have a red banner in the background, to keep the award consistent with other similar rewards.
• Beginners protection - Beginners protection shield should always be removed when sending an attack.
• Agora - Using "Return all units" button will now refresh the units list.

Version 2.175

Grepolis was updated to 2.175 on October 30th, 2018

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2.175

New Features and Changes

• Domination - In the Domination window Swords of Domination tooltip was improved.
• Domination - New certificates for winning the Domination world were created. We also updated the World Wonder world winners certificates.
• Domination - In the ranking the result of a search will be highlighted.
• Domination - Alliance names on status pop up windows will be linked.

Bugfixes

• Invitation spots - Clicking on mixed invitation/foundation spot sometimes only opened the invite players screen
• Overviews - Loading the Troops outside of the city overview if there was no active town group for the player sometimes resulted in an error.
• Researches - All units research names should be now singular.
• Vacation mode - Vacation mode description has been changed to mention that only players in alliances with an active Last Stand on Domination worlds will be unprotected during vacation mode.
• Spells - Casting destructive spells on own or alliance member's units will no longer give full battle points
• Divine powers - Purification's (Artemis' spell) description has been adjusted to mention that it doesn't apply to City Protection (Athena's spell).
• Domination - Domination status tab was empty when creating new alliance.*
• Ghost cities - Troops should be now broken down in ghost towns when colony ships are present in an attack.

Version 2.174

Grepolis was updated to 2.174 on October 17th, 2018

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2.174

New Features and Changes

• The Data Usage Window has been simplified.
• Large icon - Timers on the large icons visible in the bottom left corner (e.g. during the event) of the screen were standardized.
• Academy - Tooltip text on reset research button in the Academy will now display the available culture points instead of the total amount
• Units - An option not to show confirmation window again when sending back troops was added. It is also possible to change it in the settings.
• Domination - In the strategic map view islands valid for Domination will be now marked with a star. this marker will only show once the Domination era has started.
• Dominations - All players will get a notification window, when:
  • Any alliance reached Domination objective and can start Last Stand.
  • Any alliance starts Last Stand.
  • Any alliance fails Last Stand.
  • Any alliance manages to finish the Last Stand and win the world.

Those windows will look different if a player is a part of the alliance, which started Last Stand.

• Domination - A tooltip was added to the banners in the ranking tab of the Domination window.
• Domination - Ranking update timer was added to the ranking tab of the Domination window.
• Domination - When world with Domination ending enters Peace time, the valid island icons will change to a new peace time icon:

Bugfixes

• Command info window showed town name instead of "Bandits' Camp" for attacks returning from the bandits' camp.
• Map Movements - When attack on Bandits' Camp is cancelled, the animation will be stopped.
• Conquest live report - Commands send in the same second should be now ordered correctly.
• Domination - 'Start Last Stand' button layout was broken in languages different from English.*
• Domination - Timers in the Domination window should be now synchronized and show the same time on browser and on mobile.
• Reservation - Reservation tab in the alliance window should now update correctly, if the town was taken over by a different player.
• Hall of Fame - Hall of Fame will now not update correctly also for the worlds without world wonders.
• Messages - Tool tips in opened messages were not always shown.

Version 2.173

Grepolis was updated to 2.173 on October 10th, 2018

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2.173

New Features and Changes

• Hero - Hero descriptions were slightly improved.
• Domination - Alliances in last stand mode will be marked in the Domination Ranking screen.
• Travel time for attacking bandits camp for the first 10 times was adjusted. This change is supposed to help new players understand, that those times change while they progress.
• Domination - A more detailed tooltip was added to Athena's Cornucopia icon in the main Domination screen

Bugfixes

• Domination - Text of Dominations rules was slightly updated to mention that the rewards will be granted up to a few hours after the world has been won.
• Hall of Fame - Hall of Fame for Domination worlds was not always working as intended.*
• Awards - Grepolisscore was sometimes inconsistent between different worlds.

* Found on beta, might not have occurred on live worlds.

Important information

• Account deletion - We made some changes to our deletion system:
  • Inactive accounts will be deleted after 3 years of inactivity in the game and on the forum. That means activity on the forum is enough to count the account as active.
  • Every account will be notified well in advance about upcoming deletion. Both on the forum and via an e-mail message, which will be send to the address connected to the game account.
  • To ensure that of all the data connected to the account will be deleted, deletion of an in-game account will also result in deleting corresponding the forum account.
  • If you created a forum account a long time ago, it is possible that your in-game and forum names are different - in such case please contact the support to ensure the names are the same so that our system can correctly see the connection between both accounts.

Version 2.172

Grepolis was updated to 2.172 on September 19th, 2018

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2.172

New Features and Changes

• Agora - Following feedback from our players, we added two more small improvements to the Simulator:
  • Alliance reductions, which reflect the number of battle points you get if the player you attack is in the same alliance.
  • Battle experience research, which gives battle points for 10% of your lost units.

Bugfixes

• Administrator's overview - The button 'Return all units' will be now taking into account only the towns from the filtered group.
• [Simulator] In the Simulator, only the worshiped god will be automatically selected.

Version 2.171

Grepolis was updated to 2.171 on September 5th, 2018

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2.171

New Features and Changes

• Agora - The number of culture points in progress was added to the Culture Bar in the Agora.
• Agora - The display of festival duration in tooltips was unified.
• Temple - We added a new tab to the Temple window. In this window Artifacts (powerful rewards which you can get for winning the world) will be shown.

Bugfixes

• Reports - Some fight-related reports did not show the original command arrival time as report creation time.
• Mobile - Espionage report did not display 20% silver bonus.

Version 2.170

Grepolis was updated to 2.170 on August 22nd, 2018

Version Link

{https://us.forum.grepolis.com/index.php?threads/update-to-2-170.12107/Version 2.170]

New Features and Changes

• Drop down menu - New icons were added in the city drop down menu:
  • Blue icon appears when a city has been attacked and a revolt is being stirred. (Revolt worlds only)
  • Red icon appears when a city has been attacked and a revolt has already started and is ongoing. (Revolt worlds only)
  • Orange icon appears when a city has been attacked and is being conquered. (Conquest worlds only)
• Simulator - We implemented some improvements to the Simulator window*
  • Battle Points estimations will now be visible on the right side of the window.
  • Powers which influence the battle points generated during the battle (Heightened senses, Divine Senses, Olympic Senses, Pandora's Revenge) were added to the Battle bonuses list.
• Resources - The plus and minus resource icons were added to the resources tooltip.
• Command lists - Incoming attacks will be now highlighted on the command list, so it will be easier to distinguish them from other commands.

Bugfixes

• Trade reports - After city takeover the wrong player's profile was linked in the trade report.
• Alliance forum - If you are not a part of alliance, alliance forum menu item will be disabled.
• Special offers - Premium offer window should not longer keep coming back after closing it.
• Attack - Trying to edit a planned attack that was already deleted resulted in an internal error.
• Agora - 'Own troops in this city' window did not always load correctly.

* The changes to the Simulator may be affecting some of the 3rd party user scripts. In case you encounter any issues with the Simulator window, please make sure to turn off all user scripts before reporting bugs.

Version 2.169

Grepolis was updated to 2.169 on August 8th, 2018

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2.169

New Features and Changes

• A new hero was added to the game - Alexandrios.
  • Alexandrios is a new exclusive hero that becomes available with the next in-game event.
  • Effect: Archers have 15% increased offensive and defensive values while fighting at Alexandrios side.
  • Cost: 40 Coins of War (after losing exclusive status)
• Right now it is possible to use arrow keys on the keyboard to switch cities. In the island view we added also a possibility to use space key to jump to current city on the map
• If all founders have been inactive for 14 days, founder rights will be given to another player:
  • If there is another player with leader rights who has been active during the last 3 days, they will be given the founder rights.
  • If there is more than one active leader, the one who has been playing on the world the longest will be given the founder rights.
  • if no player with leader rights has been active, the player that was active during the last 3 days and who has been playing on the world the longest will be given the founder rights.
  • The new founder will be notified about the change.
  • The old, inactive founders will not lose their rights.

Bugfixes

• On screens with smaller resolution sale icon was overlapping the spell menu.
• Sorting by units in the attack planner should now always work properly.
• It is now possible to send attacks to Bandit's Camp with hero.
• In very rare cases after completing a construction level the same level had to be completed again.

Version 2.168

Grepolis was updated to 2.168 on July 25th, 2018

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2.168

New Features and Changes

• Bandit's Camp - When a player lost all of their cities on the first large island and the Bandit's Camp was not level 100, he was unable to send attacks to the Bandit's Camp anymore. Now, when a player loses all the cities on their first large island, the Bandit's Camp will be moved:
  • To a new area on a different large island where player has a city.
  • If player has no cities on a different large islands, the Bandit's Camp will show up on the next large island where player will found a city in the future.

Bugfixes

• Tutorial - Tutorial arrow was not always pointing correct buttons in the Temple window.
• Player Invite - Sometimes when inviting a player to the game, the link between two accounts was not created correctly. This should no longer be an issue.
• Units - Some of the small unit images were blurred.

Version 2.167

Grepolis was updated to 2.167 on July 11th, 2018

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2.167

New Features and Changes

• With this update we added to the game the first animation marking movements on the map as well as few bug fixes.

New Features and Changes

• For a while players were asking us to add some animation marking movements on the map. As a first attempt to bring a feature like that to the game we will add animation showing movement of the troops between cities and Bandits Camp. Depending on the feedback, we plan on expanding it to other actions on the map.

Bugfixes

• Cave - Cave window was in some cases overlapping user interface at the bottom part of the game window.
• Advisors - Double-clicking on the 'Show all troops' button in the 'Troop overview' window led to an internal error.
• Login page - In very rare cases, trying to log in to an account which was in the process of being deleted, resulted in a misleading error.

Version 2.166

Grepolis was updated to 2.166 on June 27th, 2018

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2.166

Summary

• With this update we added to the game a few confirmation windows which will provide a warning before sending back all the supporting units and canceling all market offers.

New Features and Changes

• Quests - 'The Desecrated Shrine" quest reward has been changed.
  • Instead of Improved Attack (rare/epic) or Improved Favor Production players will now be rewarded with Reduced Recruitment Times (rare/epic) or Efficient Architects (rare/epic).
• Agora - Confirmation prompt has been added to Defense tab in Agora. Now, if you want all the supporting units to return to your town, it has to be confirmed with one more click.
• Marketplace - It might happen that while deleting multiple offers on the marketplace, you won't have enough storage capacity in one or more of your cities to get all the resources back. In such case, a window with a warning will show up before deleting the offers.

Bugfixes

• Settings - Some translated texts in the Settings window didn't fit in the allotted space.
• Cave - It was not possible to store silver in any town with a cave capacity lower than the silver used for the ongoing spies.

Version 2.165

Grepolis was updated to 2.165 on June 13th, 2018

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2.165

Summary

• With this update we bring to the game a new version of city sorting in the island overview as well as some visibility improvements to the alliance rights window.

New Features and Changes

• Alliance rights - The visualization of the alliance rights has been improved. You will see now on the list green check-marks instead of just green squares. This change was introduced mainly to improve gaming experience for colorblind players.
• City sorting - We added a possibility to sort cities in the island overview by player name.

Bugfixes

• Ranking - In the ranking window after switching the cities and selecting a different tab, the ranking was not always updated properly. Now, after switching the city, the ranking window will always open on the 'Players' tab.
• Report - Wall level was not displayed in published reports.
• Senate - Attempt to open temple from senate resulted in an error message.
• Reports - In the Reports window "Publish" button was not translated.
• Heroes - Graphics of Heroes in the Council of Heroes window were a bit blurry.

Version 2.164

Grepolis was updated to 2.164 on May 30th, 2018

Version Link

2.164

Summary

• This update adds to the game a possibility to delete multiple market offers at once as well as publish multiple reports.
• We are also already doing some background work in preparation for the next big event.

New Features and Changes

• Market - Mass delete function was added to the market. You can now delete all the market offers visible on one page.
• Reports - It is now possible to publish several reports at the same time. You can publish up to 20 reports at once.

Bugfixes

• Reservations - After taking over a reserved ghost town, wrong name was displayed in the "Previous Owner" column in the Reservation Tool.
• Units - If mythical units were the only land units used to start a siege on a town and god was changed in the besieged town, siege was not broken.
• Battle Points - While defending the city Heightened/Divine senses were not applied on battle experience.

Version 2.163

Grepolis was updated to 2.163 on May 16th, 2018

Version Link

2.163

Summary

• This update includes a lot of technical improvements which are not directly visible on the players' side.
• We worked on improving the notification about the upcoming ending of a world.

New Features and Changes

• Notification about world ending has been improved to show in a more timely manner. It will no longer be needed to reload the page or start a new session to see the notification window. It will show up after a game action.
• Battle reports will now always indicate that the Stone Hail was used during the attack, even if no building levels were

Bugfixes

• Island Quests - Island Quests which require destroying npc units were not always marked as completed correctly.
• Mythical Hen - Fixed an issue that could cause the recipe book and the database behind it to be out of sync, causing wrong ingredients to be added to the crafting area.
• Report - Wall level was not displayed in the reports.*

• Found on beta, might not have occurred on live worlds.

Version 2.162

Grepolis was updated to 2.162 on May 2nd, 2018

Version Link

Version 2.162

Summary

• This update contains a new hero in preparation of upcoming events, as well as some technical adjustments.
• The council of heroes received sorting functionality, advisors show the exact time they're ending their services and it is now visible which units will vanish when changing Gods.

New Features and Changes

• Advisors now not only display the date, but also the time their services end so that extensions and actions involving advisors can be planned even more conveniently.
• The confirmation prompt about changing a god in a city now also contains a list of all the mythical units that will be lost in the process.
• Sorting functionality has been added to the council of heroes. Heroes can be sorted by name, type, level and the city they are assigned to.
• A new hero was added to the game - Ajax.
  • Ajax is an new exclusive hero that becomes available with the next in-game event.
  • Effect: Hoplites have 16.5% (+1.5% per level) increased offensive and defensive values while fighting at Ajax's side.
  • Cost: 35 Coins of War (after losing exclusive status)

Bugfixes

• Mythical Hen - If several recipes of the same item type were available, it was possible that the wrong ingredients were placed in the crafting space when selected from the recipe book.
• Effects - Bonus effects specific to the event Pandora's Box did not display the proper texts in the inventory.

Version 2.161

Grepolis was updated to 2.161 on April 18th, 2018

Summary

• Animations were added for any spells cast in the game, highlighting the results of the spell especially for new players.
• Furthermore, we changed the way candidates are shown for the upcoming player council elections, to have a randomized order of candidates in the windows to not distort the election results.

New Features and Changes

• Parts of the tutorial can now be skipped by more experienced players.
  • Players with a Grepolisscore >250 or who unlocked a hero on the respective world can now choose to "skip" the tutorial.
  • Skipping the tutorial will not remove the quests altogether, so that you can grab all rewards. However, all guided steps will be deactivated so that you can tackle the quests whenever you feel like it.
  • The option to skip is only available for the first 20 quests, which constitute for the most guided part of our quest lines.
• Any spell cast by a God now comes with a highlight animation, showing the area targeted by the spell.
  • The highlight surrounds the interface portion that is affected by the spell. This is an example of the spell highlight for "Nature's Gift":
  • These animations can be turned off in the options.
• The candidate lists within the player council election window now show the candidates in a randomized order whenever the window is (re-)loaded. This should not give any of the candidates an advantage by being most visible in the first list position(s).

Bugfixes

• Notifications - Admin notifications and world wonder notifications had the same icons. World wonder notifications now sport their own distinctive icon again:
• Reports - The hint regarding new battle point calculations was not always displayed if no battle points were gained. It will now always be shown.
• Events - With an event sale ending, the event icon could also disappear until the game was reloaded. This should no longer happen.
• Mythical Hen - One of the daily rankings did not reset properly due to time change to CEST.
• Login screen/Team overview - An internal error occurred when loading the page. Content was not displayed.

Version 2.160

Grepolis was updated to 2.160 on April 4th, 2018

Summary

• Battle point calculations were adjusted in order to reduce battle points granted for defeating units of alliance members and removing battle points for killing owned units altogether.
• Wheel of fortune events now show the chances of winning items directly on the wheel.
• The game options were expanded to be able to disable warnings about attacking members of your own alliance.
• Medea and Telemachos were rebalanced slightly and now get a higher increase for their bonus effects with each level-up.

New Features and Changes

• Battle point calculations for both defending and attacking were adjusted to make attacks on friendly units less attractive to farm battle points.
  • Successful defeat of units in the players posession generates 0 battle points.
  • Defeated alliance or pact members' units generate 20% of the total possible battle points for all units killed. In case of this resulting in decimal numbers, battle points get rounded.
  • Battle reports will display an info icon with more information on the specifics:

• Tired of confirming that you would like to engage in an attack on your fellow alliance members? It is now possible to disable confirmation prompts about attacking your own alliance members from the game options.

• All events with a Wheel of Fortune now show probabilities of winning a specific reward directly in the user interface, so you can easily tell how high your chances are of getting the most valuable rewards.
• Medea's and Telemacho's bonus effect values were adjusted. They now each increase by +1.5% per hero level gained (was: 1%).

Bugfixes

• Recruitment - Fixed a rare error which could get caused when instantly finishing a recruitment of colony ships, resulting in no ship to be granted.
• Agora - Removed an extra space between the current city count, the separator and the overall possible city count in the agora.

Event/Sale icons - The timer was displayed with gaps and the glow around the icon was off.

• Mythical Hen - A java script error could lead to the event window not loading.
• Mythical Hen - A discrepancy between population values of effects in the recipe book and crafted ones has been fixed.

Version 2.159

Grepolis was updated to 2.159 on March 15th, 2018

Summary

• This update does not contain a lot of visual changes, but it contains several changes in regards to our upcoming Easter themed event, as well as some technical changes, adding some things to look forward to. ;)
• We also spent some more time on implementing the functionality required to share live conquest reports on the mobile app. For more details on this, please check the app changelog for this version as soon as it gets released.
• The most visible of changes improves the readability of the city list within the farming village overview. Furthermore we made some code adjustments to improve the situation with 3rd party scripts a bit and fixed some bugs along the way.

New Features and Changes

• The background color of islands in the city list within the farming village overview was adjusted to make it easier to find your way around with long city lists.
• Some changes were introduced to the way the positioning of the user interface is determined.
  • This change should ensure that less issues arise with 3rd party scripts whenever we make smaller interface adjustments.
  • Disclaimer: Albeit us making some adjustments for your convenience, custom user scripts remain an unsupported, unofficial addition to the game and therefore continue to be used at own risk!

Bugfixes

• Militia - The popup warning about an incoming attack and prompting to enlist militia was shown on next login of previously attacked player, even if the attack was already over. A check is now in place to prevent this from happening.
• Grepolisscore - Fixed some issues causing Grepolisscore to not be synced across markets. Should discrepancies get noticed, please contact support for a manual resync to fix any issues which were existing before this bugfix.
• Units - Under certain circumstances it was possible that unit numbers displayed for the same city could differ between Agora, city tooltip on the world map and the user interface.
• Spartan Assassins - Fixed an error that could randomly cause players to miss out on select community goal bonuses in case of a rare combination of events.
• Effects - If a siege was broken while a player was on vacation mode or had low population, it was possible that certain bonus effects were not restored after the siege was ended.
• Commands - Resolved a problem that could cause conquest information in the command list to not update properly in case the besieging player lost the original city the colony ship was sent from.
• Profiles - The grepolisscore image and tooltips were missing on some player profiles due to a JavaScript error.

Version 2.158

Grepolis was updated to 2.158 on March 7th, 2018

Summary

• Notifications had 3 small changes done to improve the information given. There are now two more distinctive icons for attack planner and admin notifications and notifications about incoming supporting units also provide more information on their destination.
• The in-game chat has been fully deactivated and removed from the user interface. Significant changes would have been required to restore functionality but only few players tried to access since its temporary deactivation. We decided to part ways with the outdated chat system.
• At the same time, our developers spent some time on improving the display of live conquest reports shared by other players on the app. Please refer to upcoming mobile changelog to learn more.

New Features and Changes

• Notifications informing you about incoming supporting units sent to one of your cities now also contain their destination city.
• Two notifications received new unique icons in order to avoid confusion with other notification types.
  • Attack planner notifications no longer look like support actions, but have their own style:
  • Notifications issued by game admins no longer look like in-game reports. If you see this icon, check for important news:
• The alliance chat has been removed from the user interface
  • Due to technical difficulties with the old implementation of the alliance chat (Flash), it was previously deactivated and would have required extensive rework for it to be usable again.
  • Seen as less than 5% of our active players tried to access the chat during the temporary deactivation phase, we have decided to move on and remove the alliance chat altogether to focus the resources in other areas.
• Event and sale icons, as well as unit tooltips now scale in accordance to screen resolution, in order to prevent inconveniences on small screens.
• Adjusted the handling of Captchas for more convenience in case there are any service interruptions of the Captcha service.

Bugfixes

• Tutorial - Quest arrows can no longer overlap and block the quest log. In case of overlap, the arrow can now be clicked through.
• Recruitment overview - Numbers shown for the current ongoing recruitment in the recruitment overview sometimes did not match actual recruitment numbers.
• Effects - Returning units from a besieged town led to effects being put into effect during the sieged that should only be re-triggered upon fending off/cancelling the siege.
• Effects - Fixed several issues causing event effects and other bonuses to be applied multiple times albeit being unique.
• Inventory - The mouse cursor did not switch to indicate that items can be interacted with (used). The right cursor is now shown again.
• Localization - Fixed overlapping text on the gold shop button in several languages.
• Incantation Circle/In Demeter's Name - Upon closing and reopening the event window after an item has been created but not collected, the window will keep its collection background to indicate that the item needs to be used or stored.
• Conquest - Using the BBCode to share a live conquest report on a ghost town returned the error "[Invalid BBCode]". These reports can be shared again.

Important Information

• This update contains minor changes to the user interface, which may break third party scripts. Please confirm that these scripts have been updated to reflect all changes before reporting interface issues.

Version 2.157

Grepolis was updated to 2.157 on February 21st, 2018

Summary

• The postponed change for the crowns on player profiles is getting implemented with this version. Brace yourselves for gold, platinum, diamond and divine crowns!
• For mobile only players, we worked on a quality of life improvement, which is going to be released with the next mobile update: live conquest information for the siege on your city!
• In preparation for the planned new endgame, some tracking and tools were implemented to provide for additional analyses in regards to the status of worlds (especially in regards to city counts and posession).

New Features and Changes

• There are now several crowns to accomplish for reaching 7 wonders in more than just one world.
  • You became "Master of [World]" on several worlds but you always just had this one crown in your profile and the awards to prove it. Well, we have good news for you: There are now 4 different crown types (gold, platinum, diamond, divine) to achieve that can be used to show just how much a master of worlds you really are!
  • The handling of crowns on players' profiles was adjusted. There is now a new image for each of the following stages: Finished all 7 world wonders in 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 different worlds.
• Code handling of reward collection buttons has been adjusted in order to give the same functionality and appearance in all areas.
• A new hero was added to the game - Eurybia.
  • Eurybia is a new exclusive hero that becomes available with the next event.
  • Effect: While Eurybia is assigned to a city, she will reduce the costs and construction time of Triremes by 10% (+1% per level).
  • Cost: 105 Coins of Wisdom (after losing exclusive status)

Bugfixes

• Thessalonike the Mermaid - Incorrect language shown because strings were not parsed correctly.
• Quest Log/Island Quests - The counter for the remaining time until a new island quest appears did not update properly under certain conditions.
• Menus - After reworking the reward buttons, some of them did not appear properly on Firefox.
• Command overview - Arrow indicators for sent and incoming movements were interchanged for movements you sent yourself.
• Command overview - Attacks did not trigger sound or the sword item to appear if the currently viewed city was not the city getting attacked.

Version 2.156

Grepolis was updated to 2.156 on February 7th, 2018

Summary

• Rejoice, 3 heroes are no longer exclusive: Medea, Daidalos and Telemachos!
• You can now show off your world mastery with 4 different crown types earned for finishing 7 wonders in several worlds.

New Features and Changes

• There are now several crowns to accomplish for reaching 7 wonders in more than just one world.
  • You became "Master of [World]" on several worlds but you always just had this one crown in your profile and the awards to prove it. Well, we have good news for you: There are now 4 different crown types to achieve that can be used to show just how much a master of worlds you really are!
  • The handling of crowns on players' profiles was adjusted. There is now a new image for each of the following stages: Finished all 7 world wonders in 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 different worlds.
• The following heroes lose their exclusive status and appear in the regular hero recruitment rotation:
  • Medea
  • Daidalos
  • Telemachos

Bugfixes

• Gods - When changing Gods, the disclaimer warning about mythical units returning to their original city was displayed twice. Removed one, kept the other.
• Awards/Notes - The awards "Turning Back time" displayed an incomplete tooltip when added to notes.
• Tutorial Quests - The objective for "A Monumental Task" was not formulated in a clear manner. The quest now states that both special buildings need to be built in the same city.
• Winter Grepolympia - When reaching 2350 points in the Biathlon discipline, the wrong amount of laurels was credited. Point thresholds for disciplines were off by 1 pts/m respectively.
• Alliance - While editing member rights, the current custom user titles of alliance members were only displayed as "..." (Firefox only).
• Command overview - Switching towns could cause the command list to be returned as empty, although movements were underway.

Version 2.155

Grepolis was updated to 2.155 on January 24th, 2018

Summary

• The sprint for version 2.155 was used for research and concept work, thus not generating too many visual changes.
• As requested by the community often over the past years, we now changed the way bonus effects are stored in order to recover them after a siege.
• Furthermore some bugs were fixed and technical updates were performed in the background.

New Features and Changes

• Bonus effects are now stored differently, enabling them to be restored under certain conditions.
  • Upon the start of a siege, all bonus effects on the besieged city are now saved and will be restored if the siege is not successful.
    • Effects that affect this city only are taken off during the siege and restored with their previous remaining time once the siege was ended. This means the initial duration gets extended by the siege duration.
    • Global effects, like alliance rewards (e.g. from Grepolympia) or effects that are active on every player city (e.g. Rituals) will keep running as usual, albeit not being active during the siege, meaning that they will not be extended once the siege was broken successfully.
  • Event-specific effects which last for the full event duration (Witch's Wisdom & Devoted Priests) are now restored upon restarting, both for voluntary restarts on a game world and after losing the last city and subsequently taking a fresh start on the same game world.

Bugfixes

• City Foundation - Travel times were not updated when switching city while the foundation screen is opened.
• Trades - Under certain conditions, trades were not cancelled after the destination town was deleted.
• Grepolisscore - Fixed several cases of inconsistencies with the Grepolisscore between different game worlds in the same language version.
• Winter Grepolympia - The reminder about the end of the event lacked a graphic on beta. Nike will now properly inform you about the end of the event as soon as the update has taken place.
• Events - The information window providing information about the start of an event displayed some styling issues when two events of any kind were active at the same time.
• Bonus effects - After breaking a siege, the game tried to restore alliance rewards multiple times, causing higher load on the game world.

Important Information

• This update contains minor changes to the user interface, which may break third party scripts. Please confirm that these scripts have been updated to reflect all changes before reporting interface issues.

Version 2.154

Grepolis was updated to 2.154 on January 10th, 2018

Summary

• This sprint was focused mostly on technical improvements and mobile features, thus there are not a lot of visible changes. Feel free to check our mobile changelog, however, as soon as it's published. We have some good news for those looking to rename their cities from the app. ;)
• Of course we also fixed a lot of bugs as you can see below.

Bugfixes

• Awards - Daily awards were displayed incorrectly in notes, with the year covering most of the graphic due to incorrect text formatting.

Island view - Fixed a city positioning error which caused the harbor to face the beach rather than the sea. We hope affected players' ships did not strand. ;)

• Heroes - Descriptive unit icons in hero training dialog were outdated. Replaced with new icons.
• City overview - City names with more than 20 characters were cut off in the city overview. This is no longer the case.
• Effects - Tooltip of "Side by side with..." unit effect items stated NaN as population info. The right values are now displayed.
• Offers - If two offers get triggered at the same time, only the most recent one could be accessed and display issues could occur.
• Map - After updating own city names while viewing far-away map areas, the map would not update the city name correctly.
• Quest log - Check Mark and exclamation mark indicators for new and finished quests were not shown properly for island quests.
• Tutorial - Arrow for tutorial step "enact divine power" was not displayed properly.
• Pandora's Box - Mission report window was docked to the left of the parent window by default although it should have been centered.
• Pandora's Box - Fixed an issue that could cause entries of the daily event ranking to not be saved correctly in very specific edge cases.