A new update has hit the live server! This update consists of five significant changes, outlined below:
2 New National Projects
Two new national projects have been added to the game: City Planning, and Advanced City Planning. City Planning is a resource-expensive project that nations can build once they have at least 11 cities that will reduce the cost of all future cities by $50,000,000 each. This is a significant markdown in cash cost, and will help speed up the growth of younger nations that choose to invest in this project.
Similarly, Advanced City Planning is a follow-up project to City Planning. Advanced City Planning requires that the City Planning project first be built, and the nation must have at least 16 cities. It is another resource-expensive project that reduces the cost of future cities by another $100,000,000 each, stacking for a total of $150,000,000 less per city for all future cities for nations that have both projects.
Flat reductions in cost (as opposed to % reductions) prevent the projects from being overpowered or disproportionately benefiting already large, developed nations. The high resource costs to build them should also increase the demand for resources on the market.
Improved City Growth Formula (as a function of City Age)
The old formula that was a linearly increasing (as a function of city age) modifier to each city's population has been replaced by a function of decreasing returns to scale. As a result, the bonus from city age is not longer capped at 4 years, and the way the formula is set up, all nations will have been positively affected (by seeing increased populations in their cities) by this change. For more information, you can read the suggestion proposal thread here:
Increased Daily Login Bonus
The minimum daily login bonus increased from $100,000 to $200,000. This change also increased the rate at which the bonus increases daily to $50,000 / day from $20,000 / day. The regular maximum for the bonus increased from $300,000 to $500,000 and increased the new player maximum (less than 60 days old) from $600,000 to $1,000,000.
It's a 66.6% increase in daily login bonus income for the average active player ($300K->500K).
For new players who login every day for 60 days, they go from getting a cumulative $29,500,000 in the status quo to $53,200,000.
Since it's a flat-income bonus, it primarily helps smaller nations growing, and not larger nations.
Ability to Self-Regenerate API Key
On the Account page, down at the bottom in the API key section, you now have the ability to destroy your old API key and generate a new one for 1 Credit. This is something that was becoming more frequently asked of me to do manually. This sets up an automated process to reduce my workload, as well as raises money for the game in a non pay-to-win fashion.
I am also beginning work on API version 1.1 which will be better documented and a huge improvement from the current API.
Leader Titles No Longer Required
Previously, there was a 2 character minimum for your leader's title (King, President, etc.) This has been removed, and you no longer need to give your leader name a title.
Create City Page Improvement
This page (which probably hasn't been updated in about 5 years) got a minor makeover/improvement.
