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Reference Changelog for Version 1.109

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Greetings Beta,

This is for reference on update 1.109
For the detailed description of the changes, please see the details below:
Changes


A new Great Building contribution window will be introduced on both mobile and browser.
This change will be introduced up to two days after the update.

Summary



    • We're making it easier to spend Forge Points from packages and Diamonds on the Great Building level up screen. The most significant improvements will take place on the mobile apps.
    • There's an "empty my Forge Points bar" button, and a "1" and "10" buttons, which will use Forge Points from packages in your inventory if you don't have enough in your bar. You'll be able to see if that's the case. Extras from packages being used will go into your bar.
    • You can see your total amount of available Forge Points on the new screen (both on the bar as well as in the FPs packages).
Why
There were two main areas that we thought had the most potential for improvement: general awareness of the Great Building feature (for new players) and ease of investing Forge Points in Great Buildings (for everyone).
We started by defining which aspects of the current Great Building contribution screen were most in need of improvement and came up with this list:



    • Spending from Forge Point packages was a long process. On browser, spending multiple Forge Point packages requires several clicks per package. On mobile, there wasn't even a button on the screen to spend Forge Point packages.
    • Similarly inconvenient situation if you were trying to use Diamonds.
    • Generally spending larger amounts of Forge Points is a bit inconvenient in the old window, because you only have the "1", or "empty my bar", or packages buttons.
    • The information about what benefits the next level of the Great Building has was among the most difficult to process on the screen. You should be able to easily answer the question of "do I want to spend my Forge Points here?"
    • Lot of information was crammed into a small amount of space. This is generally not great for ease of use or quickly understanding what's going on on a screen.
What
So, we've made the following changes:



    • Using Forge Points packages on mobile is now possible directly from the GB window.
    • It's easier to spend Forge Points from packages on browser (less clicks). The "10" number was chosen to make it easier to invest larger amounts at a time, like 30 or 50. We also figured it was a convenient amount to have easily available for passing around Forge Points in guilds.
    • The new screen basically treats your Forge Point packages as an inventory pool to draw from, and it will draw from them depending on your spending. The different sizes of packages aren't nearly as important as they used to be.
    • More emphasis was put on the bonus that the next level of the Great Building will provide. You won't usually want to see this screen when you enter a Great Building, so the window will remember what the last screen was that you visited a Great Building and default you to that one.
Please see the comparison of the old and the new window, side by side:

The level up window for browser:
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The new overview explaining the levels for browser:
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The level up window for mobile:
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The new overview explaining the levels for mobile:
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Please note that the there is a "complete instantly" Diamonds button, but it is only available for your own Great Buildings.

There were quite a few improvement ideas posted on the Beta forum during the testing phase. Some of them were implemented and some were not. There were also some very nice ease-of-use ideas that we initially considered, but then decided against for technical reasons. We also fixed bugs that were reported by the Beta community, so you're getting a fully stable version.

All in all, we believe that the new screen offers quite some improvements over the old one :).




    • If you were playing on multiple worlds, you could only use special offers (buildings, event currency etc.) on one of those worlds. Thanks to your feedback, it's now possible to use sales on every single world you're playing on.
    • In anticipation of Oceanic Future Part IV, two new expansions (victory and Diamond ones) will become available.
Bug Fixes




    • Sometimes it could happen, that the Great Building icon wasn't displayed for friends in the social bar, even though they had Great Buildings. Now, the social bar should display the icon for all Great Building owners.
    • We fixed two internal errors that could occur while donating medals to the guild treasury and while switching between Map Ranking pages in GvG.
    • While viewing crew members the tooltip wasn't updated when moving from one crew member to another.
    • The Monumental Graveyard has now gotten its sounds back, so you can hear the wolves howl again.
    • It could sometimes happen that building images were overlapping in a wrong way. We fixed this, so it should not occur anymore.
In the meantime, our development team is working on a new historical questline as well as on the next part of the Oceanic Future.

Thank you for playing Forge of Empires, and for all the help you give us here on Beta !

Sincerely,
Your Forge of Empires Team - Team Beta
 
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