Community Update: Week 39

This is what happened since the last community update:

Happy Birthday Grepolis!

On Sunday, September 22nd, Grepolis turned 4 years old! Yes, it already has been four years since the first beta version of Grepolis came out in Germany.

Beta Focus Group

Today we announced the creation of a beta focus group as new Grepolis United project. The beta focus group will consist of 2 selected, very active players from each of our game markets. The players’ activity is measured by in-game experience as well as their involvement in the community forums.
Beta focus group members will aid us in beta testing new features, updates and game changes on our public beta environment. As members you will be asked to help improving the general quality of Grepolis by reporting bugs and providing feedback in direct exchange with our development team.

Monthly Feature Voting

Last week we had another monthly feature voting. The results are the following:

  • Simplified Reports 4.26/5
  • Spell During Attack Preparation 4.17/5
  • List of Daily Awards 3.69/5

As we can see, the Simplified Reports was the most popular feature. We will take it into account and work on it but we would like to let you know in advance that we most likely won’t be able to integrate it in 2.48. However we will aim its implementation for 2.49 and try to implement the second feature (Spell During Attack Preparation) in 2.48 as it got also over 4 of 5 marks in average.

Current Progress

On Monday, our team has started working on the development of version 2.47. This sprint is a technical sprint. That means the team is mainly working on refactoring some parts of the game to either improve the performances or enlarging are possibilities in the future.

Weekly Stats

The following stats are for activity between September 19th and September 25th:

Bugs

  • 27 bug reports have been created this week
  • 17 bugs have been resolved this week
  • 8 bug reports have either been a duplicate or invalid
  • 15 bug reports are currently unresolved

Bugs hot-fixed during the week

  • N/A

Support activity

  • 5434 tickets opened
  • 5766 tickets answered
  • 4.73 hours average first response time
  • 183 tickets rated
  • 4.23 rate average (of 5)
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10 comments on “Community Update: Week 39
  1. Tzivallion says:

    So, I’m waiting for the Grepolis app since the roadmap is announced and I can’t wait till it comes. Two weeks ago I heared it wasn’t far away anymore. 14 days ago you guys said that and since that I’ve not heared anything from the app. Can I hear anything from the progress? Will it come to android within 1 week or will it take way more information.

    I don’t understand that you guys know a lot of guys are waiting for this app, since you said we were waiting for it all summer when you announced it was open at the iOS, and don’t let us know anything. Come one Grepolis, you can do better.

    • Jordan Coutout says:

      There is not much we can say about the Android App because the release is depending on too many internal and external factors. However, we are almost there!

  2. abc says:

    Is this year will be the Oktoberfest? Last year was already information about this evencie.

  3. JellyBean says:

    And what about release new Grepolis App for Android? I mean that week you do not done anything work about it, it is true?

    • Jordan Coutout says:

      We are always working on the release of the Android app. But as long as it is not out, there is not much to say about it. It is just a matter of days now! 🙂

  4. A gamer RO says:

    Where is Community Update 40?

  5. gunslinger67 says:

    Hello,i enjoy these community updates to keep up with whats happening,is there any progress towards the new UI and heroes being introduced yet?
    best wishes

    • Jordan Coutout says:

      The new UI is almost ready. The Heroes still need to be reworked after beta feedback 😉