Patch Notes: 17/1/25

We've been pretty ambitious and squeezed in a lot of major gameplay reforms so please bear with us if anything misbehaves in game, we'll be watching feedback carefully for bug reports and also listening in on the general consensus for how the game feels with all of the new systems. The faster paced Flurry World will start 4 days ago at January 17, 2025 7:00 PM.

Gameplay

New Army Overview Overlay

This handy little collapsible overlay is a mirrored counterpart to the active mission list. It will display all units currently stationed at the settlement that are not currently on a mission. In addition, this new overlay has tabs that will let you see units that have been transferred or even garrisoned from external locations.

Initial Settlement Protection

• Your initial settlement cannot be captured until you've acquired four additional settlements of your own (5 total).
• Does not protect from raids or siege damage, however colonise units will always fail.
• There is a new graphic to show protected settlements on the World Map.
• You will be given a notice that the protection will end if you successfully take your fifth settlement.
• Beware - once the protection ends it will not come back, making you vulnerable to being defeated!
• We've added an additional graphic to show our previously implemented 'Beginner Protection' which will still automatically be removed after 12 hours.

Combat Score

The leaderboard has been updated so that you can now hover over a player's score to see the breakdown. We want the combat score to be more supplementary towards the overall score instead of the primary driver. Destroying (not wounding) enemy units in combat will grant points to the defender or attacker. Siege damage will also grant a small number of points, but this is going to be a much lower ratio in relation to the building's diminished point value. We don't want to encourage people to feel like they are being forced to wantonly destroy buildings in order to be competitive on the leaderboard, nor risk people exploiting the mechanic. Combat score is not awarded for faction infighting.

Duality by Default

As part of the experimental settings being used for the Flurry World, the Barracks will now start with the ability to recruit two unit types at once and unlock all four at level 30. We want to see how this affects gameplay in conjunction with the slower settlement scaling. If this change is positively received, we will explore making this baseline for all future World types.

Global Coloniser Recruitment Queue

Coloniser units now can only be trained once at a time at the global level. For the Flurry World each subsequent order will increase the increment by 30 mins (we expect this to be around 12 hours for the next Classic World). This increment will be refunded if one of your settlements is captured. The team are very excited to see the results of all of these changes combined as we expect them to dramatically change the scaling and general chemistry of the game for the better. We will continue to watch closely, building on top of these systems and tuning accordingly.