Dev's Diary 4/30/2013

Dear Settlers,

This is the first part of this Dev Diary. The second part of this Dev Diary will arrive in approximately two weeks so expect more info on some exciting features coming soon.

We are happy to present this update with information related to changes that will be implemented to The Settlers Online in the (near) future. In the past, you suggested we provide more specific dates – that’s why this developer’s diary update is quite brief, but exact dates are included. If anything mentioned below is delayed, we will immediately let you know.

NEW MINI ADVENTURE

Approx. Thursday, May 9th, 2013

A new mini adventure called “Tropical Sun” will be implemented to the game. Your explorers will be able to find it during short and medium adventure searches.

http://static2.ubi.com/AGM/TSO/2013-...ical_Sun_t.png

A short summary of this mini adventure can be found below.

• Level 26 is required to start the adventure
• The adventure has a brand new map with its own challenges and tactical requirements
• “Tropical Sun” has a special in-adventure quest chain that allows player to have a lot of fun while progressing toward the last camp
• It is a step-by-step adventure, where player needs to take out bandit camps in a given order because they are blocking the way: every step has its own funny little quest
• A new daily quest will be added to the game, it will challenge player to complete the mini adventure “Tropical Sun”

IMPROVEMENTS

Approx. Thursday, May 9th, 2013

We will implement a few bug-fixes and improvements during the maintenance.

For example:

• It will be possible to cancel Daily Guild Quests again.
• The trade window will no longer redirect you to the first page after clicking the “Accept offer” button.
• Several improvements related to zone changing processes.

A LOT OF NEW DAILY GUILD QUESTS

Approx. Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

In the past you stressed out that some of the Daily Guild Quests are being assigned to you too often and that doing the same sub-tasks over and over again is quite boring. We summed up your feedback and forwarded it to the developers.

In order to improve your playing experience, we decided to extend the overall amount of available Daily Guild Quests. This means that we will add a lot of new Daily Guild Quests to the game to make this guild feature even more interesting for you. In total, we will add more than 200 new Daily Guild Quests for different level ranges.

A NEW CRISIS QUEST

Approx. Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

http://static2.ubi.com/AGM/TSO/2013-...sis_quests.png

We are glad to inform you that Crisis Quests will be back!

After our first CQ “Four winds,” we collected your feedback and forwarded it directly to developers.
Thanks to your comments and opinions, several aspects of Crisis Quests have been improved.
For example: The difficulty of the tasks has been decreased, so it will be easier for you to complete each one of them.

The second branch of Crisis Quests will be called "The Fallen Army." This will be activated once the maintenance is over on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 and will end 2 weeks later.

Main points of “The Fallen Army” are:

• To receive the Crisis Quest, you need to be at least level 16
• Crisis Quests will be split into the following level ranges: 16-25, 26-35, 36-45 and 46-50
• You will receive rewards for finishing sub-tasks
• Completing the main task will give you an extra reward
• The remaining time will be presented on the website (days) and in-game

GUILD MARKET – VOTING

Approx. in May

As communicated in the past, items offered in the Guild Market category (shop) will be changed from time to time. This time we will not only exchange some items there, but we will also let you choose one item you want us to put inside this special shop category!

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More information about choosing cool items will be published in the near future.

NEW BUILDINGS

In 2013

Just in case you missed a few graphics of brand new buildings that we published on Facebook, they can be found below. These buildings will be implemented to the game within this year.

http://static2.ubi.com/AGM/TSO/2013-...implepaper.png http://static2.ubi.com/AGM/TSO/2013-.../Finesmith.png

Awesome !!!! BB_Effiluna, Thank you for this; wow u are an asset and a half to our game!!! Thanks!!!
Link to my guide: http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/t...-(New-Version)

The new buildings, one looks like armor, but the other one I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is... and its been one of those things you just gotta know!!! I did Facebook for it a while ago...

I have to add this as well (hope I don't get in trouble for this too, but oh well will face consequences for my actions)! Over the weekend reading my news on mmo's, n stuff - someone showed me this about http://i.imgur.com/AEgbDON.png !!! This news is such a great thing, is something I've been looking forward too, has actually happened!

Blue Byte is synchronizing its international operations from offices in the USA and Germany, with a development program that is both advancing the development of online and networks gaming and broadening the audience for computer games Taking advantage of the United States’ more advanced Internet culture.

Thanks for the update and previews. New buildings are always exciting and we greatly apprciate a larger variety to the guild quests!

the one on the right is the tip of a fountain pen (roof)
the one on the left is paper (scroll as the side of the building)

[thanks for posting them in the forum]

Awesome. This is all great work. What about PvP and over level 50 content? Inquiring minds want to know.... Thanks

I'm with WhiteKite. All that new stuff is fine and dandy. However, I want to know what's in store for Level 50 players? What are you going to do for all of us that put in the time and effort to Level up and are now left with seemingly no in-game goals? You can only do so many quests, upgrade so many buildings and run so many adventures withOUT getting skillpoints...

Great News! and its great to have an improved plan for how often these Dev's Diaries come.

T_D

The new buildings look interesting. I think one may be a printer's shop and the other maybe an inventor's shop but I can't for the life of me see how that would benifit the goals of past workyards. I too would like to see what you offer to the level 50's and the types of things that would free up some of the daily maintinence would really be nice for us upper level players.

New crisis quest, new guild quests, when are we going to see REAL new content. Like the PvP spoken about at the end of last year? When are these new buildings going to be added to teh game? May,June, December??? Crisis quest and end of teh world quests are all good and dandy, but the community wants timelines, we want new content. Please stop dangling pictures in front of us (like the BB Meesher pvp post back in december) and then no word or update or even projected timeline when we are going to get such things. PLEASE!

So disappointing, no real content added just more bandaid work to hide the fact you guys are not adding anything new that WE WANT. You guys see the countless post of people who are furious with the game and yet continue to do nothing about it. Playing this game must feel the same as a hamster in a wheel, doing the same thing over and over and over.

I'm excited to try the new adventure.

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Originally Posted by Leahea

The new buildings look interesting. I think one may be a printer's shop and the other maybe an inventor's shop but I can't for the life of me see how that would benefit the goals of past work yards. I too would like to see what you offer to the level 50's and the types of things that would free up some of the daily maintenance would really be nice for us upper level players.

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I think its a News production. i am thinking its for the planed tech points...

WOW, WOW, WOW!!!! A New building. OMG, definitely a game changer. zzzzzzzzz.
More meaningless Daily Guild Quests I can't take it anymore.
You guys forgot about the thing that really mattered. PVP?

you want PvP so bad go play Evony this game is fine without PvP that's actually why i play this game to get away from pvp

Ugh. another crisis quest. god I hope it's not another RNG based questline. "Search for X stones". "Get X granites". Those are the worst aspects of the crisis quest line designs.

The 2 new buildings are for research for post 50 content!

Guild quest what are they? ooh yea we used to get them, but have not in about 6 or 7 weeks. Maybe you could fix that first.

well hopefully BB gonna realease part 2 for PvP, or else there is nothing but just a false promise

Why do we have to wait another 2 weeks for more info? why not just tell us unless you arent sure if your new additions dont work?

All well and good but we was promised levels in excess of 50 would be started by jan this year. when are you going to honour your word

i would just like to know when they are going to fix the lower lvl quests like find more sectors and going to the first adventures and other low lvl quest that we high players can not unlock because we have already exceeded that lvl requirements also the new buildings rock to bad i got no more room on my island for them maybe you guys can add like little islands that connect to the main island or just increase the main island to have more room to add more things and Sangaril i also agree with you no pvp i too also play this game to get away from all the pvp-based games too competitive and a LOT of whiners and complainers if there were more games like tso i would also support them yes i pay money to play this game because it is worth it this is probably the only game that does not have that many bugs in it and when you submit a ticket you actually get a response that is not always a computer generated answer but an actual person responding to you via e-mail of course and when here are bugs in this game i known that at least they are actually trying to get rid of them sometimes they may not get to them right away like the low lvl quests but i am sure they have a decent reason why they have not yet fixed them ohh and there is one other thing i would like to say maybe they should be a monthly bonus for gems it does not have to be a lot but i am sure alot of us gem buyers would like to see a minimum of 30% bonus at least every month i would be GREATLY appreciated and thank you for spending a little time reading all of this :)

Are some of our guilds actually going to be getting our guild quests? We haven't gotten ours in weeks. Would actually love to have a chance to be getting them and be getting the guild coins that go along with them. Or at least be compensated for all the lost guild coins that we would have gotten for the weeks we haven't gotten our guild quests.

Just want to say, have sent in many tickets to support about guild quests. All with same reply. The developers know and will work on it. Enjoy the game. Some of my guildies have sent tickets as well. Amazing that just a few minutes ago, we just got our first guild quest in weeks. THANK YOU!

I like the game. just started 2 months ago.

Nice to hear about some new stuff, but any news on:

Fixing broken adventures like Secluded Experiments, Wild Mary, SOTV?
Something for lvl 50's to do..
Nords 2
Training more than 25 units at a time...seriously painful
Adventure and 3x buff stacking

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Originally Posted by Karae

I like the game. just started 2 months ago.

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Just wait another 5 months or so then I think your view will change greatly

okay so started in Dec, but spent a week in hospital, and a few weeks

recovering.

I've been playing a while and am in the upper 30's levels. I like the game and appreciate the new things you are bringing to the table. I thought I say that to help balance the kvetching going on in the thread.

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Originally Posted by Leahea

The new buildings look interesting. I think one may be a printer's shop and the other maybe an inventor's shop but I can't for the life of me see how that would benifit the goals of past workyards. I too would like to see what you offer to the level 50's and the types of things that would free up some of the daily maintinence would really be nice for us upper level players.

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The first one looks like a paper mill probably uses logs and water for sources the other building looks like it might be an ink producer resources would probably be water and iron ore.

all very good

I was thinking a tinker or inventor shop, and a book/paper maker.

as long as pvp stays a completely optional part of the game (including the ability to develop at nearly the same pace) and "farming" other players isn't the norm I don't mind it but am not thrilled for it (more granite means lower cost for upgrades and pvpers will want the weapons we produce so greater profits so it might not all be bad).

I really want the tech trees though.

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Originally Posted by Sangaril

you want PvP so bad go play Evony this game is fine without PvP that's actually why i play this game to get away from pvp

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Actually you have it wrong The Settlers has always been a war game in the past (Check out ANY other version, there are ALOT). The promise of PVP is why I played this game until recently when I practically quit after more than a year and am waiting to hear more about PVP so I can come back to rejoin others that seem to feel the same way I do. That is if it's any good when and IF it happens. Feels like I've been lied to to get my business. And there is DEFINITELY proof that I was so far.

Now if it were the new Simcity then i wouldn't expect war but that got boring for me after only 2 or 3 plays and that you could build and build until your heart desires.

I really don't want to start from scratch on an old game like Evony, although I hear it's not bad. I would rather just see this game get what was promised and from there I will decide on CE or no game until I'm ready to jump into something new.

this game has become extremely boring, sign in rebuild fields and wells, do adventure and repeat. nothing new. same boring repetitive cycle. Players are leaving daily due to lack of new content and those who still sign in who do for chat with friends.

There is no mention of fixing guild quests for guilds who haven't received them in 2 months. Genesis has reported it several times, and instead of fixing the issue you guys report on a new roll out of quests. Awesome so we keep getting pushed further and further back. D: *ANGRY*

Actually really upset over this. Good job rolling out new quest lines when a great portion of your customers can't even get them. How stupid!

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Originally Posted by Bishop21

Just wait another 5 months or so then I think your view will change greatly

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and then wait 2 years, like us

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Originally Posted by canaryfudo

and then wait 2 years, like us

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They are toying with us canary. They will not give us what we want so I ask all level 50's not to spend any money until we get what we the players were promised!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Bishop21

They are toying with us canary. They will not give us what we want so I ask all level 50's not to spend any money until we get what we the players were promised!!!!!

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well no more money for 50 level player : 2 vote

Really, people actually still spend money here? Why?

I have no reason to buy any more gems.

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