Dear Community,
Welcome to our bi-weekly community update. Here is everything you need to know for calendar weeks 29 and 30.
Antiquity ending, Battle point weekends & extension of player council candidacy
Antiquity is slowly coming to an end with less than a week to secure a good spot in the rankings. While we are sad to part with this special event world, we’re also looking forward to welcoming all classic players back to our regular worlds.
To celebrate the fun times we had with this anniversary world, we will have 2 event dates coming up for the next two weekends:
On Sunday, July 30th and Saturday, August 5th we will give every Grepolis player a 20% bonus on all acquired battle points. The bonus lasts from midnight until 23:59 server time and increases battle points earned through offensive and defensive battle actions in the game. Make sure to make the most of this bonus and defeat as many enemy units as you can!
While you are busy gathering as many battle points as you can, don’t forget to consider your candidacy for the Grepolis Player Council! Due to the summer holidays and the big amount of questions we have received from some language versions, we have decided to extend the period for candidacy by another 2 weeks. Please let us know if there is still anything you would like to know and don’t forget to apply until August 13th if you are interested! We’re looking forward to working with you!
v2.143
This Tuesday and Wednesday we updated to browser version 2.143 for all live worlds and published the update of the app as well.
Version 2.143 includes several changes based on community suggestions, from a button to mark all messages/reports read at once, over the abililty to change color assignments after the respective target stopped existing, to a new hero in preparation for the next event – Medea – who is boosting Slingers.
Additionally we improved the look of the Grepolisscore event category and made sure that overlapping texts can no longer happen in offer and information popups.
Last but not least we activated the balancing changes for colonization (earlier colony ship research, lower required harbor level) on select language versions, looking for additional feedback before targeting a global release with 2.145. If you got the changes already, let us know what you think!
Next version preview
For version 2.144 we worked on further convenience improvements. First of all we implemented a dropdown list that will enable you to select any eligible city for an island quest easily from within the quest log. Then we implemented a button to quickly and easily swap your configuration in the simulator to exchange the selected units for attackers and defenders with just one click.
Last but not least we tackled several smaller issues, including an error that could appear if you attempted to start the challenge of an island quest in the mobile app and fixing the scroll bar within the Grepolisscore window to not skip several lines of content.
The current update schedule for v2.144 is as follows:
Tuesday, August 8th: NL, SE and SK market
Wednesday, August 9th: international roll-out
You can already test the upcoming changes on all our public beta worlds on zz.grepolis.com. Follow the daily changelogs to see when each change becomes available and share your feedback!
Weekly stats
The following statistics represent activity between June 29th and July 12th:
| New tickets | Answered tickets | Av. resp. time | Rated tickets | Av. rating | |
| Week #29 | 2151 | 2020 | 3.33 | 442 | 4.11 |
| Week #30 | 2096 | 1877 | 3.54 | 464 | 4.17 |
Bugs
| Status | Browser | Mobile | All |
| Open | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| Reported | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| Solved | 12 | 1 | 13 |
See you!
As Lead Community Manager and passionate gamer, Steffi knows of the importance of transparent information sharing while keeping an eye on the needs of both players & development team. She takes community feedback and makes your voice heard at InnoGames!