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I try to record all updates to the game here. Each changelog post should have a relevant forum post, so head there for discussion: Announcements
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03/02/2025 - New City Cost Formula & Test Server Tournament
City Formula
TL;DR The cost of cities is now more expensive for the largest nations and cheaper for the smallest.
The game is now using a new formula to calculate the cost of cities. This new formula considers the average number of cities per nation in the top 20% of the game. Using this average the formula will dynamically make cities for those significantly ahead of the curve more expensive, and conversely the costs for new players significantly cheaper. You can check the current cost for you in the City Cost Calculator. The goal of this change is to condense the majority of the player base into a tighter range then currently and allow newer players to enter economic and military relevance in a reasonable period of time.
Additionally as part of this change the 3 projects that reduced city costs have been removed. Those who already owned these projects were refunded their purchase cost as a discount on future cities until the cost is recouped. This discount is spent first when buying cities and will rollover to further cities until expended. (There are other sources, mostly events, that also give these discounts and they are additive.)
Project Values
The refund value of the effected projects are listed below.
UP = $173,118,000 AUP = $346,236,000 MP = $519,354,000
These stack together so if you had all three you'll have received just over 1 billion in refunds. Plus any other discounts you might have already had.
Technical
The rest of this will be the technical details, Most people wont need to understand this. The new city cost will be calculated by the polynomial.
The bottom max clause will almost never be used, it's more of an insurance policy for massive outliers. The $top20Average will be calculated on the first of every month and is calculated as the mean average top 20% of all nations in alliances and also not in VM. The value will be available in the API and is currently ???
Test Server Tournament
TL;DR Test tournament is happening now, testing military changes.
We are running a test server tournament to test out some proposed changes to the military system and a new UI layout. The test server is a completely separate game server, you are allowed to have nations on both the main server and test server. On the test server the game runs at 2x speed, you start with 5 cities and significantly increased resources. There are prizes for participating in the test server round. You can review the changes in the Proposal thread on the forum by the Design Team. Or provide commentary in the feedback thread. Please report any bugs by opening a ticket on the official Discord. (Bug reporters may qualify for Bug Bounties on the main server.) Please remember that during tournaments, the game rules are fully enforced and violations will result in disqualification and banning from this round and all future tournaments.
End Date: The tournament will run until the standard DC of March 22nd.
Prizes
1. #1 alliance by score will be allowed to permanently add a flag of their choice to the default flag dropdown on the live server (provided the flag does not violate the game rules).
2. The alliance with the most treasures will be allowed to permanently add a flag of their choice to the default flag dropdown on the live server (provided the flag does not violate the game rules).
3. The top 10 players by score will receive an achievement and cash award in the live server.
4. The top 10 players with the most wars won will receive an achievement and cash award on the live server.
5. Any player that declares a war on the test server will receive an achievement on the live server for doing so (to earn this, you must use the same email for your test server account that you did for your main server account).
Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $1,000,000,000 directly in-game each month.
As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 20 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $50,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for a set amount of Resources, 1 Credit for 100 Infrastructure, 3 Credits to reset your New City timer, and 1 Credit to reset your National Project timer. You can spend an unlimited number of Credits per month on cosmetic bonuses, like VIP, Player Ads, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.
Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $1,000,000,000 directly in-game each month.
As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 20 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $50,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for a set amount of Resources, 1 Credit for 100 Infrastructure, 3 Credits to reset your New City timer, and 1 Credit to reset your National Project timer. You can spend an unlimited number of Credits per month on cosmetic bonuses, like VIP, Player Ads, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.
Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $1,000,000,000 directly in-game each month.
As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 20 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $50,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for a set amount of Resources, 1 Credit for 100 Infrastructure, 3 Credits to reset your New City timer, and 1 Credit to reset your National Project timer. You can spend an unlimited number of Credits per month on cosmetic bonuses, like VIP, Player Ads, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.
We wish you a merry Halloween? Apologizes for how late these are being passed out. I rather severely underestimated how long it can take for stuff to get done with multiple team members involved and then had some RL stuff that kept me busy. In the future I should be much more on the ball with these things.
Everyone should get their participation achievements over the next couple of hours. Because there is a global war happening I'm going to request the contest winners make a ticket to claim their prizes. Also noting that money from achievements goes into escrow if your blockaded.
Edit: Do to a technical issue some people (read nearly everyone) wrongly received an extra notification for getting the Carve Em' Up award.
