Changelog Version 0.4.4

BabyFirefly

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Friday, July 29th 2011, 8:16pm

Greetings community!

Feature: - Forms of government

From now on you can select a form of government via the palace as soon as the new research topic Government Formation has been researched. There are eight different forms of government in total, which will bestow different bonuses but also different disadvantages on your island kingdom. The form of government can be changed as often as you like, although anarchy rules after each change. During anarchy, corruption in all towns is increased by 25% and no troop actions are possible. Completed research topics must precede the forms of government, whereby existing research topics have been extended and three new research topics have been added, Government Formation, Legislation and State Religion.

Feature: - Alliance Chat

Every alliance has its own chat room, in which members can talk amongst one another. This can be entered via a button on the main page.

Feature: - Alliance Forum

Every alliance receives its own forum in the Diplomacy Advisor. This means there are also new alliance rights, with which each alliance can determine who is allowed to administrate the up to 5 subforums with a maximum of 15 different threads and which members of the alliance can read and write in them.

Feature: - The information screen about the Premium account has been revised.
For optimum loot distribution when pillaging, a player's individual waves are now summarised.
Feature: - Different dummy packages can be bought for Ambrosia, which enable you to fool opposing spies about the real troop strength of a town.
Bugfix: Various errors in the alliance rank rights system fixed.

We have no date yet for when this will be released, but we do hope that you enjoy the changes.

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BabyFirefly

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Friday, July 29th 2011, 8:18pm

Please feel free to discuss the changes and add feedback in this thread: V 0.4.4

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BabyFirefly

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Tuesday, August 2nd 2011, 12:18am

General Information:

The government forms get activated with a bunch of new researches at all levels and may be chosen in palace.
Each government form provides a set of advantages and a set of Disadvantages, so each player has to decide which one is best for him/her.
Players can change government forms as often as they like as soon as they get the research “Government” BUT each government form change leads to a revolution.

Revolution:

Costs 5000 Gold per city the player owns (that is for 10 towns you'll have to pay 50.000 ones)
Leads to (30 * city amount) minutes of anarchy (that is for 10 towns there will be 5 hours of anarchy)

Researches for government forms:

Already available: Experiments (Science)
- Allows government form: Technocracy
Already available: Code of Honour (Military)
- Allows government form: Aristocracy
Already available: Market (Seafaring)
- Allows government form: Democracy
New: Government forming (Science)
- Allows: Change of government forms
- Allows government form: Dictatorship
- Allows government form: Oligarchy
- Pre-condition: Ink
- Research Points: 2836
New: LAW (Economy)
- Allows: Nomocracy
- Pre-conditions: Relaxation Holiday, Ink
- Research Points: 8242
New: State Religion (Science)
- Allows: Theocracy
- Pre-condition: Letter Chute
- Research Points: 202074

Government forms:

Ikacracy (King of the Island)
- Pre-condition: None
- Advantages: None
- Disadvantages: None
Aristocracy (Nobility)
- Pre-condition: Code of Honour (Military)
- Advantages:
  - 20% reduction of building times
  - +20% espionage defense
- Disadvantages:
  - +3% corruption in all cities (except capital)
Democracy (People)
- Pre-condition: Market (Seafaring)
- Advantages:
  - +75 Satisfaction in all Cities
  - +1 research point each hour for each displayed cultural good
- Disadvantages:
  - -20% spy defense
  - 5% longer building times for troops (NOT ships)
Dictatorship
- Pre-condition: Government forming (Science)
- Advantages:
  - 2% reduced upkeep costs for troops and war ships
  - 2% faster building times for troops and war ships
  - +2 trade ships
- Disadvantages:
  - -75 Satisfaction in all Cities
Nomocracy (ruled by laws)
- Pre-condition: Law (Science)
- Advantages:
  - -5% Corruption in all cities
  - 20% espionage defense
- Disadvantages:
  - 5% longer times to produce troops and war ships
  - 150% longer times for loading things in your own ports
Oligarchy (power rests with small number of people)
- Pre-condition: Government forming (Science)
- Advantages:
  - +5 Range of trade posts
  - +10% trade ships speed
  - +2 trade ships
  - 2% less upkeep for war ships
- Disadvantages:
  - 20% longer construction time for all buildings
  - +3% corruption in all cities
Technocracy (Experts/Scientists)
- Pre-condition: Experiments (Science)
- Advantages:
  - +5% research points
  - +20% productivity of assistant workers
- Disadvantages:
  - +1 gold per hour for each scientist
Theocracy (Priests)
- Pre-condition: State religion (Science)
- Advantages:
  - -20% cooldown for all wonders
  - +100 satisfaction in all cities with temple
  - + Satisfaction bonus (Conversion rate of own population * 2, capped at +150 satisfaction)
  - +1 gold per priest (citizens normally generate 3 gold per hour, priests 0 per hour. In Theocracy, priests will now generate 1 gold per hour)
- Disadvantages:
  - 5% less research points per hour
  - -20 satisfaction in all cities without temple
Anarchy
- Pre-condition: Revolution
- Advantages: None
- Disadvantages:
  - 25% additional corruption in all cities
  - It should be possible to lessen that additional corruption with higher levels of palace/governors residence.
  - All troops and war ships return home if they are stationned in foreign cities or on their way to foreign cities
  - All troops and war ships scatter automatically if they fight in foreign towns or ports
  - NO impact on fights taking place in own cities
  - You cannot move units during anarchy
  - You cannot train units during anarchy
  - You cannot send anyone on a spy mission or order one

Special case:

Occupation of your capital causes Xenocracy (Ruled by someone else): ALL boni and mali of your government form will be halfed, for example for nomocracy this means:

Advantages:
- -2.5% corruption in all cities
- 10% espionage defense
Disadvantages:
- 2.5% longer times to produce troops and war ships
- 75% longer times for loading things in your own ports

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BabyFirefly

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Friday, August 12th 2011, 9:30pm

A few changes made to the Government options (shown above in red font)

Dictatorship and Oligarchy both now include an added advantage of +2 tradeships.

Theocracy advantage of +100 satisfaction in all cities with temple was removed. Instead there are two added advantages of:

+ Satisfaction bongus (Conversion rate of own population * 2, capped at +150 satisfaction)
+1 gold per priest (citizens normally generate 3 gold per hour, priests 0 per hour. In theocracy, priests will now generate 1 gold per hour.)

We don't have a release date for Ikariam.com servers yet, but the update is live on the Test server (at test.en.ikariam.com) where you are more than welcome to come play around with us

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BrianC

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Friday, August 19th 2011, 1:53pm

Hello Ikariam.com,

We are pleased to announce that we will be getting this update on Monday, August 22. It is slated to hit our servers between 4-5 AM Eastern US time or 10-11 AM servertime. It should only take a few minutes to complete the update.

- Your Ikariam.com Team