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Dear Community,<br />
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We would like to present to you our final update for 2016;<br />
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After thorough testing and a number of iterations upon community feedback, we would finally like to introduce to you the Automatic Recruitment and Tool Production feature.<br />
The demand for a more efficient and comfortable way to recruit units in a consistent manner became very clear for us through your feedback, pairing this with the necessity to reduce the use of third-party software within our game we believe this is a great step in providing our players with a safe and fair playing environment.<br />
<b>Our overall goal in redesigning this feature was to:</b><br />
<ul>
<li>Allow players to recruit/produce more units/tools with far less clicks</li>
<li>Reduce the requirement of returning to the barracks/workshop interfaces to restart recruitment and production processes</li>
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<b>We made two major changes to the dialog:</b><br />
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<li>We added new mechanics to the slots that can be filled with units/tools</li>
<li>We updated the interface for selecting units/tools</li>
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The new recruitment dialog<br />
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<b>New recruitment and production system</b><br />
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One production-slot; five queue-slots<br />
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<b>Recruitment and production lines</b><br />
The basic recruitment/production mechanics have not changed.<br />
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<li>Up to five slots in the barracks/workshops can be filled with a stack of units/tools. Recruitment/production of these stacks will begin automatically after the current process is complete</li>
<li>The capacity of recruitment and production slots have been greatly increased! Instead of a maximum of five, you can now place up to 80 units/tools in a single slot!</li>
<li>This means you can place a huge number of units/tools into recruitment/production lines, without having to frequently return to your barracks/workshop!</li>
<li>The capacity of a recruitment slot depends on the level of the barracks. The higher a barracks’ level, the larger the slot-capacity and the number of units you can recruit overall</li>
<li>Workshops have a fixed production slot capacity of 80 tools per slot, so don’t hesitate to produce lots of tools!</li>
<li>The new interface is available in all barracks, workshops for producing offensive and defensive tools, and in the Berimond auxiliaries training ground.</li>
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<i>Slot-capacity counter in the barrack’s info card</i></div>
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<li>The recruitment/production process itself has not changed:</li>
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<li>A stack of up to five units/tools is taken from the first slot in line and moved to the process slot to the left. A timer will appear below the slot and the process will begin automatically</li>
<li>Once the process has been completed, the newly acquired units/tools are available, and the next stack of units/tools is automatically moved to the process slot. This process continues until all recruitment/production slots in the line have been completed</li>
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<li>There are two new buttons which allow you to change the order of your recruitment/production line:</li>
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<li>Complete slot: Recruit/produce all units/tools from the first slot in line before starting on the next slot.<img alt="" class="post-float-right" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/9lNaULkSIKIRpdZz6kvuegmxJEj5v8GviX0trqqZUZDXjrVNjZ3U8Xy1y_8XZ5icQQYEMOjIa4E4kFa5nlmb20kS28yietOtbuDfHVoCNsM1Z7BTAkpsXmURH7V6-pQnXKYAZxn8" /><br />Select this option if you want to complete many units/tools of the same type quickly.</li>
<li>Slot after slot: Recruit/produce units/tools from each slot in the line in turn.<br />This allows you to recruit or produce five of each unit/tool type in rotation.<img alt="" class="post-float-right" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JViQOVG-y9mWjstnoFhelyftcME0lllaYbz7XblTbAepw0w7Aus3uFVTNtr5Ly0Ch2mdYo8FqKA8MRLBCErpyTt5TNa5gHXVZyJywW6WB5As1e1H4G1F5rseCpwh0uEndios0l4T" /> Select this option to get a balanced mix of different units/tools.</li>
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<li>At the top of the overview you will also find counters showing the total amount of units/tools in your current recruitment/production line, as well as the total amount of time required to complete the entire line.<br />Keep an eye on the timer to know when you have to return and refill the line with more units/tools.</li>
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<i>Total units in line; total recruitment time for queue</i></div>
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<b>Cancel recruitment/production</b><br />
We moved the cancel-button, but its functionality is still the same.<br />
<ul>
<li>Click on a recruitment/production slot, then confirm the warning-popup to delete the selected slot.</li>
<li>Keep in mind that you can now cancel the recruitment/production of a very large number of units/tools at once!</li>
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<b>Doubling units/tools</b><br />
You can still double units and tools.<br />
<ul>
<li>Click on a recruitment/production slot and then click the doubling button</li>
<li>A new confirmation dialog has been added to clearly display the costs of doubling units/tools and help prevent any miss-clicks.</li>
<li>You can still double a stack up to three times</li>
<li>Doubling also increases the amount of unit/tools that are automatically moved from stack to the process slot</li>
<li>Alliance-help now applies to doubled units as well, so you can get even more units from your alliance-mates now!</li>
<li>Doubled slots are marked with a doubling-icon</li>
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<i>Confirmation for doubling units recruitment</i></div>
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<b>Alliance-help for recruitment</b><br />
The alliance-help is also still available, albeit with some changes. Of course with all great power comes great responsibility (according to Uncle Ben), and this is why we have considered the parameters of this new feature carefully. We understand that the 1+1 was a very effective way to recruit troops, but it was also easily exploitable and for that reason we have chosen to rework the functionality of it.<br />
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<li>One convenience is that now you only have to click the button once to send out help requests for all the slots in your barracks! This will help you save time and effort!</li>
<li>If your alliance members have answered your requests, you will receive one additional unit for each five units you have in a recruitment!<br /><br />For example, if you have 50 units in a recruitment slot, the alliance-help will add ten bonus units to that slot.</li>
<li>Alliance-help does not work for slots containing less than five units.</li>
<li>This means that there will be reduction in recruitment speed in the short term, but you will be able to recruit more units in the long run.</li>
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<b>New unit & tool-selection interface</b><br />
Selecting units or tools for the slot was rather cumbersome and required too many clicks. The new system makes this process more comfortable for players.<br />
<ul>
<li>Click on a unit/tool to select it</li>
<li>Instead of a popup, all information and interfaces will now appear directly below the selected item</li>
<li>Here you can find the buttons and sliders for selecting the quantity, while a max-button is also available</li>
<li>The display also features a counter for recruitment/production time and costs, as well as other requirements.</li>
<li>Additionally, there is the confirmation-button. Click it to start the recruitment/production of the selected unit/tool. Now you can quickly click to fill your line with a large number of units and tools!</li>
<li>The interface works the same way for units and tools, and also for buying premium tools</li>
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<i>Recruitment interface - all controls are directly accessible</i></div>
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<b>Troop Recruitment Build Item improved</b><br />
The troops-recruitment build item, which increases the maximum amount of units per recruitment slot, has been reworked.<br />
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<li>The first level of the item now grants a bonus of 16 additional troops per recruitment slot in line, the highest level grants a bonus of 80 units.</li>
<li>These values mirror the bonus values granted by the previous version of this build item. The item still grants the same relative increase in slot capacity as the old system. For example, the first level of the build-item increases the slot-capacity by 20%, the highest level doubles the slot-capacity.</li>
<li>The capacity of the active process slot is not affected.</li>
<li>The full bonus of the build item will apply, no matter the level of the barracks-building it has been placed in.</li>
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<b>Other changes</b><br />
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<li>The recruitment and production overview panel in the HUD has been modified. A click on the units/tools tabs now opens the barracks/workshop window.<br />This change was necessary due to technical complexities and performance issues.</li>
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="57" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/2nn1bg0TvkmfigJO00uItP3QzRgWxKXiXbtPliQ7elN_w57w8Jv51P8pc3o6JPXIxX_2InhPtEJijygG2rIPOnJEPodQhZgoYDMWE_zLc6A145Fo_0Ee6iLN11uEpE9KAMlma_Kl" width="57" /><b>Even more minute-skip storage!</b><br />
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<li>The storage capacity for any minute skips above 5 minutes has been increased to 180</li>
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Update: Auto-Recruitment & Tool Production!

Dear Community, We would like to present to you our final update for 2016; Automatic Recruitment & Tool Production! After thoroug...

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Dear Community,<i><br /></i>Here are the upcoming changes included in our next update;<br />
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="43" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek1gpE2PyPlaCBvGKFJlsHGzS-PUyuvAtBCbJUDjXxRanuiPQFTz802j38B15XF9l2E7Blo7FbuFPB5A6z1fczXacduzM6MDibWvc-6Jd4LV5-EKJ-dc-jZGLzLHHr70s7ay7Oos" width="43" /><b>Open Test Server is live! (01.12.16)</b><br />
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<li><a href="https://community.goodgamestudios.com/empire/en/discussion/324366/the-open-test-server-is-now-available" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here</a> you can find more details regarding the Open Test Server.</li>
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="43" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek1gpE2PyPlaCBvGKFJlsHGzS-PUyuvAtBCbJUDjXxRanuiPQFTz802j38B15XF9l2E7Blo7FbuFPB5A6z1fczXacduzM6MDibWvc-6Jd4LV5-EKJ-dc-jZGLzLHHr70s7ay7Oos" width="43" /><b>Adjusted Special Offers</b><br />
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<li>The special offers have been reworked. (updated rewards, better fit to your needs, fair payout for all players)</li>
<li>The switch to the new special offers will be implemented over the course of the week when we are sure that everything works as it should.</li>
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="43" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek1gpE2PyPlaCBvGKFJlsHGzS-PUyuvAtBCbJUDjXxRanuiPQFTz802j38B15XF9l2E7Blo7FbuFPB5A6z1fczXacduzM6MDibWvc-6Jd4LV5-EKJ-dc-jZGLzLHHr70s7ay7Oos" width="43" /><b>Performance improvements</b><br />
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<li>The second part of the performance monitoring system will come with this update and will help us keep track of future issues.</li>
<li>We also reworked our movement manager to improve the overall performance of the game.</li>
<li>Another way to improve server performance specifically is by reducing the load from the battle logs tables. You will definitely notice the performance boost after this update!</li>
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="43" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek1gpE2PyPlaCBvGKFJlsHGzS-PUyuvAtBCbJUDjXxRanuiPQFTz802j38B15XF9l2E7Blo7FbuFPB5A6z1fczXacduzM6MDibWvc-6Jd4LV5-EKJ-dc-jZGLzLHHr70s7ay7Oos" width="43" /><b>Optimizations</b><br />
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<li>In the resource transport dialogue, there will now be a dropdown menu containing a list of each castle so that you can choose which castle you send resources from, and which castle you would like to send resources to.</li>
<li>Tax rates will be reduced while sending resources between kingdoms, the new rates will be 25% to the Great Empire (Green Kingdom) and 20% to all other kingdoms.</li>
<li>There will be some graphical improvements to the environment surrounding your castle.</li>
<li>Some offers have been removed because they were outdated. This will result in a more fluent control with less popups for you.</li>
<li>The upcoming Winter event will have an additional 100 activity rewards to collect, rather than the previous 80, making that 180 in total!</li>
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<img alt="ggempire-iconxtaakpng" height="43" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek1gpE2PyPlaCBvGKFJlsHGzS-PUyuvAtBCbJUDjXxRanuiPQFTz802j38B15XF9l2E7Blo7FbuFPB5A6z1fczXacduzM6MDibWvc-6Jd4LV5-EKJ-dc-jZGLzLHHr70s7ay7Oos" width="43" /><b>Alchemist retirement</b><br />
As previously mentioned;<br />
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We won't beat around the bush - the old man is retiring! That is to say, we won't be running this event anymore. This was clear to some already due to the alchemist's long absence.  But what will happen to all the ingredients from the event now? We will compensate you for your investments through two packs.<br />
1. Players who purchased ingredients for rubies during the last 3 times the event has run will be refunded the value in rubies!<br />
2. Players who still possess ingredients (e.g. from farming) will receive appropriate compensation, but not in the form of rubies. Our balancing team is still working on a formula for this calculation.<br />
An in-game message will also ensure that you receive relevant information about this. In order to avoid confusion, this message will also contain your storehouse inventory of ingredients which were identified in our database. The whole process will most likely be carried out in <i>December</i>.<br />
You will be able to keep all achievements that were gained through playing the alchemist event. We do not want to make you lose the achievement points that you need for rewards. However we will be implementing new achievements in the next year that will make rewards available to everyone without achievements from the alchemist (or others).</div>
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As you can see we have many performance improvements and optimizations in this update but that’s not all for this year, the auto recruitment feature should finally come as part of our last update in mid December.<br />
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Update: Performance improvements and more optimizations!

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