Update: New Nobility Contests

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/forum_lp_trade_650x12jbxtx.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Community,</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week, we'll introduce some little additions and changes for you:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br /> <div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: mediumblue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/ggempire-iconxtaak.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /> <b>New Nobility Contests</b></span> </span><br /> <ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will be new Nobility Contests for the following tasks:<br /><ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Looting resources</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reviving units</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Producing and obtaining tools</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Earning points in the Marauders event</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: mediumblue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: mediumblue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/ggempire-iconxtaak.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /> <b>Other changes</b></span> </span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: mediumblue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div> <ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Event decorations will now also have might points</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You can now choose the destination castle/outpost for every event deco reward</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alliance construction help can only be requested once per construction process</li> </ul> </div>

Update: New Nobility Contests

Dear Community, This week, we'll introduce some little additions and changes for you:   New Nobility Contests   There will be ne...

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Update: Tutorial Changes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey Community,</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On Monday the 24th of August, the next update will hit the servers. This update will not have any major late-game content, but a brand new tutorial will be introduced into the game!</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The new tutorial is designed to be a much shorter and more enjoyable starting experience, giving new players a compact and pleasurable way to gain basic knowledge of the game and it’s features from the get go.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Improvements like this are always triggered by feedback from you guys, and data gathered from new players. Although there aren’t any new higher level features with this update, we still feel it’s important to optimize every aspect of the game for all our players of different levels and experience.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We should also be able to fix the recent 'offer bug' with this </span><img alt="" border="0" class="inlineimg" src="http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/empire/images/smilies/smile.png" style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" title="Smile" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Best regards,</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your CM Team</span></div>

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Update: Alliance Coat of Arms

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://i61.tinypic.com/11lodxj.png" style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; max-width: 100%;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Community,</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week, we'll introduce a big new feature and some little additions and changes to you:</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br /> <div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <br style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/ggempire-iconxtaak.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /> <b>Alliance - Coat of Arms</b></span> </span><br /> <ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You can now create an Alliance Coat of Arms and proudly bare your allegiance to the world!</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How to get an Alliance Coat of Arms<br /><ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be in an alliance</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Look for the “noble house“ - shown as a stone block - outside your castle (similar to the Wishing Well)</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If the alliance fulfills the requirements (alliance level & amount of might points), the Noble House can be founded.</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Alliance leader needs to found the Noble House using resources, coins and rubies from the Alliance Funds</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Alliance leader can choose their Alliance Coat of Arms once for free</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are a lot more options for the Alliance Coat of Arms as compared to the regular player one! (up to three different colors, up to three different symbols, new layouts, new symbols)</li> </ul> </li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Alliance Coat of Arms is shown in the following places:<br /><ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alliance symbol replaces the vip level symbol of every player (only colors visible)</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Player Info dialogue</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Other alliance info dialogue</li> </ul> </li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the future, coming with a later update, the Alliance Coat of Arms will have upgradable levels.</li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br /> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/ggempire-iconxtaak.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /> <b>More activity rewards for the Alliance version of War of Realms</b></span> </span><br /> <ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will now be activity rewards for the Alliance version of the War of the Realms event This will show various reward steps with a progress bar, similar to the one seen in the Alliance version of the Nomads event.</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rewards will range from currency (gold and rubies) to event troops and tools.</li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/ggempire-iconxtaak.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /> <b>Other changes</b></span> </span><br /> <ul style="margin: 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When you are not yet in an alliance, the Alliance Tasks (2) in the daily activities will be hidden</li> <li style="list-style: disc outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will be two new elite units (Veteran Flame Bearer & Veteran Composite Bowman) that can be purchased in Prime Days</li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br /> <div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://abload.de/img/580x30_pagebreak_02qaxbr.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

Update: Alliance Coat of Arms

Dear Community, This week, we'll introduce a big new feature and some little additions and changes to you:   Alliance - Coat of Arms...

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