8.20 changelog

[dabookman]

8.20 changelog

Dear players,
We've got a new update for you that will be released on the 18th of March. Our work on this update was focused on improving existing features to make them more useful. Let us know if we succeeded!
Here is the list of changes:

Competitions
- Rewards will now be given out to the winning team in each measured category: world, language version and overall.
- You'll be able to see how much you have contributed to your team's score in a world and compare it against the average.

The next competition starts soon!

Market
- Added a graph to show the recent price trend to help create successful market offers. The graph will show up after you've selected which resources you want to exchange when creating an offer. The price graphs will become available on the 19th of March.

- Made some tweaks to the Market screens to make them easier to use.

Premium Account
- Claimed villages can be seen on a player's profile

- Incoming attacks that have been renamed to contain a unit name will have the corresponding unit icon placed in front of them as a visual reference.

Simulator
- If the first simulated attack does not wipe out the defenders, the simulator will let you know how many more attacks you'd need.

- Added option to attack the wall with catapults

Other changes
- Added a page to the rankings showing the dominance of tribes in worlds that have the "Dominance" win condition.

- Added minimaps showing the range of church influence to the church screen

- Added a progress bar for ongoing constructions. It will also show you how quickly each percentage of the order was completed, which can change depending on premium usage or buffs. Buffs to construction and recruitment speed will now also affect buildings and unit orders that are already in progress when the buff is activated and deactivated.

- Simplified and fixed showing achievements from other worlds: achievements configured to be visible in World A will be visible in other worlds as "an achievement earned in World A".
- If you have blocked invitation emails, an option to undo this will show up on your email page in the settings.
- The Premium Account reward that is given when a player you invited to the game reached their points milestone will now be given as an item instead of being activated on your account directly.
- Removed "edit groups" link from all overviews. The functionality previously accessible under "edit groups" can now be accessed on the Groups Overview screen at the top of the page.
- Text and minor visual improvements
- Fixes for various bugs​

Discussion thread here

 

[Deleted User - 419875]

In the 8.20 update we changed all the places where you see the edit icon to easily rename something to all use the same standard system in an accessible way. Prior to this, each location was implemented differently and had a lot of problems. For example, if your session had expired or your internet connection / server had problems the renaming would just silently failing without telling you. While this will likely have broken some existing scripts, in the future it will be much easier for scripts to hook into renaming things because everything is done in the same way, so it shouldn't take long for script authors to update their scripts.

As a reminder, we do bring updates onto our Beta server before normal worlds, and even have a Sandbox world there to which scripters can apply to join and be granted some free villages and so on for testing. It is the responsibility of script authors to keep their scripts compatible with the game.

 

[Deleted User - 419875]

Market graphs

contrary to what we announced in the changelog, we decided to wait a some days longer with activating the market graphs. This is for a couple reasons:

-so we can gather more data for trend creation before activation

-it'll give us some time to iron out a couple of remaining issues

 

[Deleted User - 419875]

Dear players,

We prepared a video talking about the 8.20 update, what our thoughts were behind some features and what happened with the update. You can check it out here!


We hope it will help you understand some of our decisions.

Your Tribal Wars Team