This is what happened since the last community update:
Grepolympia 2013
Grepolympia is now over and we hope you had fun during our summer event. Don’t forget to spend your spared laurels in the shop before Monday!
Grepolis App
On Monday we released our new Grepolis App for iOS devices in America, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands! Despite a small game related issue reported and fixed within the first 24 hours, the launch was a success and we already reached the Top 10 Strategy Games on the iTunes Store in most of the countries mentioned above. Thanks a lot for your support and your positive feedback! We have already taken a look at your first comments and will be working on the missing features you have mentioned.
If you haven’t checked the app yet, feel free to download it here:
EN: http://bit.ly/14dIBJv
US: http://bit.ly/17zqz1h
DE: http://bit.ly/17jovbt
FR: http://bit.ly/14lag5Z
The app release for the other markets is coming soon. The Android version of the app will be released after.
Beta Update 2.45
The development of the new Grepolis Update 2.45 has been finished on Friday. The latest changes have already been deployed on our beta environment (http://beta.grepolis.com). Unfortunately, we were not able to finish the implementation of the new interface: this will be postponed to the next version.
The current update schedule is the following:
- September, 10th: SE and SK markets;
- September, 11th: international roll-out.
Changes in Development Cycle
As you might have noticed with the update schedule mentioned above, there have been some recent changes in the development and update cycle of the game. With our current development sprint we have shortened the cycle from three weeks to a two-week cycle. With this change we hope to achieve more accuracy in reaching set sprint goals as well as agility in our development cycles. Shorter sprints means less content with each upcoming update, yes; on the other hand however, we will be able to react faster and focus on sprint goals that are defined more clearly.
Current Progress
On Monday, our team has started working on the development of version 2.46. The focus for this version is to finalize the new UI and prepare the upcoming full screen town overview.
Weekly Stats
The following stats are for activity between August 29th and September 4th:
Bugs
- 24 bug reports have been created this week
- 9 bugs have been resolved this week
- 2 bug reports have either been a duplicate or invalid
- 15 bug reports are currently unresolved
Bugs hot-fixed during the week
- Fixed an exploit in the Grepolis App, allowing players to see the amount of silver stored in the cave of other players.
Support activity
- 5645 tickets opened
- 6009 tickets answered
- 6.79 hours average first response time
- 180 tickets rated
- 3.63 rate average (of 5)
and when the heroes will be lauched ???
Our development team is currently occupied by other topics, like the new UI. Hence, there is currently no date set. We hope to release the heroes way before christmas though.
Due to community feedback, we cannot just fix hero-related bugs and release the feature. Some changes have to be made to the concept and afterwards, the developers have to adjust the feature as well.
Sorry if this disappoints you. :-/
When are the heroes coming?
Allo!
Why with the mobile app, it has a sound function which warned us
it receives an attack, but this script(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/162017) it is not allowed?
Why avatanger those who are mobile, to those who are not mobile.
I just ask that this script(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/162017) is allowed, and it does exactly the same thing and just that, nothing else.
Thank you.
What are you talking about? This script is allowed – at least on the german market. See here for more information:
http://forum.de.grepolis.com/showthread.php?25986
http://wiki.de.grepolis.com/wiki/Community-Projekte (the bottom list provides information about every script which is allowed in Germany)
Why Sweden and Slovakia? Why here. Was better on EN, FR and DE markets. People understand this languages(english, french, deutsch), but slovensko and sverige…. 🙁
Do you have an estimated release date for the Android client? Do you also have a list of bug fixes and new features for the Android client?
There is no estimation available, sorry. :/
I hope never..the heroes are the largest scrap that this company has ever let come.
MDGeist74
german player
Any prediction when the app will be available to Android users, will it be a ported app or reconstructed
There is no date for the android release, yet. Sorry!
Seems rather unfair Apple users now have a sizeable advantage over android users.
Is there even a time frame we can expect it within, say before 2014 or before the end of September. Quite frustrated by this
We really have no date available, but it is very likely that the android app will be available in 2013 still.
What happened with the rebalancing?
I’m really looking forward to that!
The changes are prepared. We are waiting for a suitable time frame in which our developers can implement the changes for beta testing. 🙂
Why is Apple version released earlier than Android version?Android devices are much more!
When we can play in the new beta?
And what about other countries?
Where I can write my ideas about Oktoberfest 2013 if it will exists.
There will probably be no Oktoberfest event this year, sorry.
I really loved that event. Oktoberfest was the best event!
I’m sorry, I meant the other systems such as Android
Is there ever going to be an ipad app or is the only iOS app going to be for iPhones?
The iOS app which got released already works fine on iPads. 😉
Ok thanks
Is it possible to access the inventory via the app because I can’t find it
The inventory is not available in the App yet but we will work on it!
It is currently not possible right now but we are working on it already 🙂