Announcements and Patch Notes page 5 (locked)

Update September 10, 2012

The “War of Heroes” tournament minimum rounds requirements for winning prizes has been reduced to 20/10/5 for 1v1/2v2/3v3 respectively. Please note that we will be more actively revoking/suspending players who collude with alts/friends to boost their wins/ranking.

The next expansion is currently slotted for roughly around 10/31, and will be a content focused expansion (tentatively will includes new story chapters, possibly bonus WoH chapters, new gem bosses, new raid bosses, new WoH cards, new building/hero/tech levels, feature improvements, etc). I will post a better approximate release date and more details regarding the expansion next month when they become available.

Update October 30, 2012

“Cursed Destiny” Expansion

• Expanded Storyline
  • Added 2 new exciting chapters (no additional map unlocks required for players who finished chapter 11)
  • Unlock the 6th planet by completing chapter 13 (starts with lv 20 control center & emplacement)
  • Added Metal World Gem Boss (fragment drops for chapter 12+ players, select boss from the second page of the “Gems” tab in raid team creation flow)
  • Added New Royal hero equipment set – purchasable with coupons in the Mall.

• Expanded War of Heroes
  • Added 3 New WoH Skills Cards: Heal, Repel (damage + pushback), Laser (AoE damage)
  • Added a New WoH Boss
  • Added 3 WoH bonus chapters (unlocked after main story chapter 3, 7, 10. use map screen to access)
  • Added new main character equipment set
  • All snipers have both Attack and HP increased by 1
  • Card rating location moved to the top where it’s more visable
  • Maximum deck size set to 40 (previously was limited to 39 naturally)

• Increase Level Caps
  • Maximum Hero Level increased to 70
  • Maximum Building Level increased to 35
  • Maximum Tech Level increased to 35

• Pillar Changes
  • Added pillage damage ranking in the galaxy setting’s rank screen (damage counting starting from expansion, resets if change galaxy)
  • Pillar maximum health increased to 200M.
  • Newly claimed pillar will have higher starting life value.

• Special Event
  • Limited time Halloween Boss (fragments drop until 11/4, boss available until next event)
  • Bonus event chest given out every day until 11/4.
  • Added limited time Halloween hero equipments purchasable via coupons in the mall. (to be removed in couple weeks)

• Misc Improvements and Changes
  • Switching equipments to a different “build” attribute bonus now automatically adjust task time (no long preventing switching to lower build value).
  • Switching equipments to a different “command” attribute bonus now automatically can now automatically adjust ships assigned (increases only if previous fully assigned, decreases if accept prompt to change)
  • The 1 attack per hour limit applied to both victory defeat when attack another player’s planet (previous only applied when attacker wins)
  • When bidding Auction items in the Mall, galaxy member’s bids will appear in gold italics.
  • Increased resource generation for building lvl26-30
  • Minor bug fixes

Known Issues:

• If you remove command gear and have the game automatically reduce the assigned ship amount to 0 (more likely to happen with T6 ships), then the hero is still assigned a T6 fleet with 0 ships, even the game doesn’t show it that way. If you try to assign ships to another hero it will say you can only have 5 heros with assigned ship even game only shows 4 hero with ships assigned. To fix this, assign ships to the hero whose ship assigned dropped to 0. We will release a proper fix for this bug in the next update.

Update November 5, 2012

• Added “Decompose” context menu option for Avatar Equipments that will destroy the equipment and give player crystals (WoH skill crafting). S1 armor will return better/more crystals than other armors since they are harder to obtain.
• Setting effects to lower setting (Good/None) will now also affect the ship hoovering animation in ship battles.
• Fixed a DST bug causing WoH Arena timer to spin between 1 and 0 seconds until next session.
• Fixed a possible display bug that might cause avatar equip slots to appear empty and the avatar to appear without equipments.
• Fixed a bug where equipping item to reduce ship assigned to 0 does not remove the fleet.

Update November 22, 2012

• Thanksgiving Event: Bonus Daily Chests will drop when clicking on your adviser. (until end of server day 11/25)
• Special Black Friday Sale: Gold purchase during the event will contain extra bonuses (same bonus as First Purchase).
• Halloween coupon gears and Gem removed from the mall.
• Misc bug fixes.

Update December 20, 2012

• Holiday Event: December 20 2012 – January 2nd, 2013
  • Mr. Snowman is back, and a little stronger than before
  • Added brand new Christmas Gears in Coupon section of the mall
  • Get Bonus Chests Daily during the event
  • Extra bonus Gold on purchases during the event

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Gem Raid boss was giving 2X base coupons to Gem owners none to team member who hasn’t attacked
  • Fixed a bug where using Auto during WoH fight can cause cards to be “stuck”
  • Misc minor bug fixes

Update January 9, 2013

• Galaxies who currently owns a pillar can no longer merge into another galaxy.
• Snowman Gem removed
• Christmas Coupon gears is scheduled to be removed 1 week from today.

Update January 16, 2013

• Added a guarantee limit for hero skill upgrade books similar to tavern refreshes.
  • The “100/odds”th book used on a hero skill will have 100% success chance.
  • Eg: The 16th book will have 100% success when odds is 6%, 33th book will have 100% success when odds is 3%, and the 50th book will be 100% success when odd is 2%.
• To encourage new players, all new accounts are given a lv3 hero refresh card and a magic book at the beginning of the game.
• Increased dialy spinner item odds (not credits/energy/ore) from 10% to “15% + 1% for each 10 days of consecutive login, capped at 40%”.
• Christmas coupon gears will be removed tomorrow.

Update March 8, 2013

“The Hourglass” Expansion

• Chapter 14: Ferme Mountain
  • Fight the elite army of the Professor and obtain “The Hourglass” from Master Heddon.
  • Use tactics and reinforcements battle the most challenging mission chapter so far.

• War of Hero Bonus Chapter 4 – Lost Planet: Elys
  • Unlocked after defeating chapter 12 of the main missions.
  • Discover the secret behind the the Lost Planet.
  • Rewards a purple War of Hero gear.

• Added War of Heroes Achievements
  • 13 new achievements have been added.
  • New achievements will reward crystal fragments.

• New Temporary Boosts
  • Slightly increases ship battle attributes for a duration.
  • Shorter duration boosts can also drop from daily spinner and mission/visit chests.
  • Longer duration version can be purchased for gold.
  • Shorter duration boosts can be purchased for coupons.

• Level cap increased
  • All heroes can be increased to level 75.
  • No building/tech level cap increase this time.

• Your FB/Kong friends can now reduce your upgrade/production/research time!
  • You can now post a help request to your FB/Kong profile (new option in the speed up menu).
  • If your friend clicks on it while it’s being built, they can save you some time!
  • Time saved is between 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the total duration of the task. (5% of total time, with minimum of 15 minutes and max of 2 hours).
  • Each task can only be helped by 5 different friends, once each, for the life time of the task.
  • When a friend clicks no the help link to enter the game, they will receive a “free” visit to your planet if the task is still available, even if it’s reached help limit.
  • Each player is limited to 10 free visits (up to 10 successful helps) per day. Players below chapter 2 will not be able to help.
  • Please use this new feature to help get more players into (or back into) the game!
  • The helping player does not have to be an in-game friend (but they need to click on your profile post).

• New Friends bar/ranking (Pending Kongregate admin to increase game frame height)
  • Your in-game friends are shown and ranked at the bottom of the game.
  • You can now click on their picture to go directly to their solar system.

• “Insane” level for War of Hero bosses.
  • Expect to be only beatable by full groups high ranking players.
  • May drops purple grade War of Hero gears from chest drawing.

• New War of Hero item set for Arena tournaments.
  • Each equipment contains additional attribute bonus.
  • New set’s set bonus and extraction reward is same as old set’s.

• New lv55 and lv60 purple grade hero gears
  • Have a chance to show up in the auction tab of the mall.
  • Have a chance to show up in the lottery. Each lottery only contains 2 items.
  • Can be drawn from the royal chest, item range changed to 35-60.

• Pillar War changes
  • Maximum pillar health has been tripled. Initial pillar health also increased for new pillars. (Eg. pillar last longer and gives out more damage based coupons because they have more health)
  • Owner Galaxy’s galaxy board will receive an alert when their pillar health falls below 20% of current HP.
  • Fix an issue where pillar bosses where assigned different ship class numbers (between 13 and 19), which caused some bosses to be easier than others because the 4% war reduction when smaller ship class attacks bigger ones. They are now using same class (15), so couple pillar bosses will become slightly harder and others will become easier.

• Major improvements and fixes.
  • Resetting hero stats can now be done with coupons in addition to gold.
  • Battle report mails will now show whether it’s a assault or defensive report. (for reports after this expansion)
  • War of Hero is now available starting chapter 2. However, arena entrance will now require chapter 4+.
  • Vice leaders can now send mass emails to galaxy members.
  • Alloy Raid boss difficulty significantly increased, coupon payout for alloy raid boss also increased.
  • Changing hero stats will now automatically adjust the remaining task time hero is currently performing.
  • Fixed a bug there T6 ships where assigned ship class num too high (23), causing them to be way overpowered against smaller ships due to the the 4% war reduction per class tier rule. They now are properly set (to 15) and ships attacking T6 will receive 32% less war penalty.
  • Fixed an issue where a few players who completed chapter 11 before previous expansion was released had no main missions. Their mission has now been set to start at end of 13 and have been credited sum of all mission reward resources.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Update March 11, 2013

• Added building level 36-40. (no image changes until we can add them later)
• Added tech level 36-40.
• First time defeating chapter 14 final boss should reward a random lv35-60 purple equipment. Those already beat it have been manually credited 310 to purchase an royal box.
• Slightly weakened the insane level for General Staudt by reduce his HP and initial card pool.
• Fixed progress display issue.
• Fixed display issue for synthesize purple card.
• Friends bar for Kongregate version will be removed once Kongregate staff gets around to it.

Update March 14, 2013

• Based on the feedback, all new pillars now will start with only 25% of maximum HP, at 210M.

[Edit] this is now set to 210M after responses against lowered HP when we initially lowered back to 150M. We will leave the starting HP at this value for few days to see how things are before making further adjustments.

Update March 29, 2013

• Added Easter Event. 3/29-4/08
  • 2 new sets of Easter Coupon Gears
  • The bunny boss is back, slightly stronger than last year.
  • Get a bonus chest daily during the event.
  • Bonus chests and fragments ends on 4/08. Coupon gears to end 2 weeks afterwards.

• Maximum hero slots increased to 40. (note: WoH hand maximum is still unchanged at 40)
• Increased resource reward prizes for insane level WoH bosses.
• Totem warning now only send when it falls below 60M. (10% instead of 20% max hp)
• Fixed a bug that prevented vice leaders from properly sending mass mails.
• Minor bug fixes.

Update May 9, 2013

• You can now click no a players name in chat (when not in battle) to “view” their solar system.
• Fixed a bug that might cause a debuff to disappear in team based War of Heroes when multiple player throw debuff skills at the same target at the same time.
• Minor bug fixes.
• Minor UI improvements.

Next Expansion is currently planned for early July. We will post more details about the expansion later this month.