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09-04-13 04:38 am
RonEmpire

Patch Notes for 9/5/2013

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CHANGE LOG - 5/9/2013

NEW MINI ADVENTURES
3 new mini adventures were implemented into the game: Sleepy Reef,
The Sleeping Volcano and Pirate Life.

NEW FEATURE: PREMIUM ACCOUNT
This feature provides you following advantages:• 50% more experience points (loot)
• 50% more loot from adventures
• Additional building queue slot
• Increase of buffs' time on friend zones
• One additional (regular) daily quest per day
Additional details can be found here!

Feel free to visit the official forums to find out more details.

NEWS AND MODIFICATIONS: SHOP• New category related to Premium Account feature.
• The Invasion of the Nords adventure has been added to the Shop.
• The limit of Gem pits has been increased to 10 (in total).
• Two new buffs: Enhanced gold pickaxe and Enhanced iron pickaxe.
• It is now possible to send Gems to friends as gifts.
• Limited offers in the shops will be removed! Make your last purchases!

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS• Using keyboard shortcuts will no longer lead to visual issues.
• Sometimes the icon indicating new messages was not showing up
properly.
• Several improvements related to various quests.
• The text in the Archive window is not editable anymore.
• A few interface improvements.
• The process related to switching between zones has been improved.

Please feel free to leave feedback in the Changelog Feedback Thread here!

Happy settling!

From the .com news
09-04-13 05:01 am
Wimpy

So far I have seen nothing that would convince me to go premium. The extra building slot is nice, but not enough.
09-04-13 05:17 am
The_Director

Ron, those updates are from 9/4/2013 but good job posting it!
09-04-13 12:04 pm
AetiusWMD

I think the increased buff time on friend zone ONLY is a major flaw, it messes up your timings if you have a regular buffing partner and he does not have premium.
09-04-13 01:55 pm
ZBest

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Originally Posted by RonEmpire

• It is now possible to send Gems to friends as gifts.

I'm still not sure how they're going to stop people from creating 100s of multi-accounts and sending gems to their main.
09-04-13 02:49 pm
Asiastrings

i love to find little surprises on my island n turn em into special buffs, i find stuff like this - http://i.imgur.com/Gpj0TcE.png http://i.imgur.com/5hLF8yN.png http://i.imgur.com/QhlhvJZ.png http://i.imgur.com/Kjb0K7n.png http://i.imgur.com/u7cauaa.png
Lookie what i find on my island, seem like only takes some hours n i get all kinds of new ones, n since I'm not a good tester of these things, i just keep collecting em n some quest tell me to make a buff, so i go into my mayors house, n there is some new category, to the far right, i open it and it allow me to turn those into some fancy buffs.
http://i.imgur.com/kuQiNQY.png http://i.imgur.com/5YFE3Vd.png
hey the rainbow hat thing- it produces for 4 days, and 4xs production! the harvest one does like 3xs for 12 hrs i think... lol i dont no geeesh..

oh ya and there is this- http://i.imgur.com/4isCX6O.png it is some kind of quest thing.... lol its all funfunfun..

BY the Way- i'm only showing a bit of what there is... there's more... just not showing anymore :o
09-04-13 03:32 pm
Asiastrings

Here have a Peek at Mini Adventures - http://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/...ni-Guide-Links
09-04-13 03:47 pm
RonEmpire

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Originally Posted by ZBest

I'm still not sure how they're going to stop people from creating 100s of multi-accounts and sending gems to their main.

Maybe that is the plan. Its a trap to track those who do multi push. Imean. How many friends are going tto send you gems? You can only give 200 at a time. If a guy gets gems from a dozen people. It will show up for red flag. Easier to see gem pushes. Than resource pushes.

I believe level 25 or 22 is required for gifting gems. Forgot from the test server. Getting 100s of accounts up to 25 is going to take a while and tedious. You might as well spend that time leveling up your account and just earn the gems per level.
09-04-13 05:57 pm
RonEmpire

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Originally Posted by The_Director

Ron, those updates are from 9/4/2013 but good job posting it!

I just copied and pasted it from the .com website.

For some reason the EU folks like to put their days (slash) / before months.

It's confusing. 5/9/2013 versus 9/5/2013

Sooooo confusing!!!
09-05-13 12:56 am
Ezequiel_Sarkar

Hm... the cost vs what it supplies is not worth it but I think I have to get the 7 day to close that quest log at least.
09-05-13 02:24 am
RonEmpire

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Two new buffs: Enhanced gold pickaxe and Enhanced iron pickaxe.

I have to say this isn't very new or much of an interesting item at all.

The problem here is those items aren't cheaper in large quantity.

They are exactly the same in terms of cost as the "Iron Divinder" and "Golden Parrot" (just cost x10 more and provides x10 more deposit).

The only 'slight' benefit is you're buying it in a lot of x10 for the same cost practically (x10).

It's a shame they couldn't offer you a discount like Premiums. The bigger you buy the cheaper it is.
09-05-13 02:25 am
RonEmpire

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Originally Posted by Ezequiel_Sarkar

Hm... the cost vs what it supplies is not worth it but I think I have to get the 7 day to close that quest log at least.

What are you talking about?
09-05-13 05:39 am
Wujcio

yeah...there's not quest that requires 7 day premium...on the other hand.... not getting premium account is like not getting a 250 general.... everything you do just got more expensive, relative to these who have it
09-05-13 06:35 am
Wimpy

Of all the things that TSO needs the last thing on the list is premium accounts.
09-05-13 06:46 am
The_Director

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Originally Posted by Wimpy

Of all the things that TSO needs the last thing on the list is premium accounts.

Too late
09-05-13 07:00 am
ZBest

They went out of their way to increase demand for gems ... they increased supply with more gem pits, but this will likely cause a ton of pressure on gem sellers and cause gem prices to skyrocket.
09-05-13 08:08 am
DigitalDawn

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Originally Posted by ZBest

I'm still not sure how they're going to stop people from creating 100s of multi-accounts and sending gems to their main.

However not everyone wants to cheat using this feature. My husband and I both play. Its not fair that when we buy 50.00 worth of gems we have to pay 25.00 and 25.00 and are getting less gems purchased then if we had paid for 50.00 worth. Now we can buy 50.00 and share them between ourselves. So you can flip that coin however you want however cheaters will cheat no matter what measures are put in place to not allow it. Not everyone wants to cheat.
09-05-13 08:19 am
DigitalDawn

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Originally Posted by RonEmpire

Maybe that is the plan. Its a trap to track those who do multi push. Imean. How many friends are going tto send you gems? You can only give 200 at a time. If a guy gets gems from a dozen people. It will show up for red flag. Easier to see gem pushes. Than resource pushes.

I believe level 25 or 22 is required for gifting gems. Forgot from the test server. Getting 100s of accounts up to 25 is going to take a while and tedious. You might as well spend that time leveling up your account and just earn the gems per level.

If its a trap my husband and I are screwed because we will be using this feature between us, but in the end seeing how we spend money, Settlers would be cutting their own throat by removing us from the game for no reason. We aren't trying to cheat, we just dont feel like we should have to spend 25.00 and 25.00 each and the end result being less gems then had we made a 50.00 purchase.
09-05-13 09:11 am
Pegomine

I have never bought a premium account in any game I've played and don't plan to start now! I have never seen one where you get what you pay for. Too bad that BB doesn't spend their time trying to fix things that we need instead of adding stuff we don't need. New adventures are nice but the rest??? I am still surviving without a gem pit or endless copper mine and don't expect to live long enough to get a gold tower. Still love the game, but......
09-05-13 09:13 am
The_Director

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Originally Posted by DigitalDawn

If its a trap my husband and I are screwed because we will be using this feature between us, but in the end seeing how we spend money, Settlers would be cutting their own throat by removing us from the game for no reason. We aren't trying to cheat, we just don't feel like we should have to spend 25.00 and 25.00 each and the end result being less gems then had we made a 50.00 purchase.

Firstly Pushing is illegal, no matter how you cut it. However Trading isn't.

The Goal of the 220 gems transferred to 200 is to limit pushers. Blue Byte would cut their own throat if they didn't.

So your answer Digital is simply don't push. Trade gem buildings instead. (nice name btw)
09-06-13 04:41 am
DigitalDawn

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Originally Posted by The_Director

Firstly Pushing is illegal, no matter how you cut it. However Trading isn't.
The Goal of the 220 gems transferred to 200 is to limit pushers. Blue Byte would cut their own throat if they didn't.
So your answer Digital is simply don't push. Trade gem buildings instead. (nice name btw)

Ummm sorry dumb question "what is pushing"?
He trades to me things and I trade to him and we buff each others stuff.
We thus far haven't known of a way to share our Gems.
Share Gem Buildings? Do you mean the Gem Pit Building?

Sorry not real family with the terminology, we just play, LOL!!
Thanks in advance!
09-06-13 04:45 am
RonEmpire

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Originally Posted by The_Director

Firstly Pushing is illegal, no matter how you cut it. However Trading isn't.

Pushing requires trading doesn't it??

How do you push without trading?

I'm kind of wondering what pushing means too. I'm guessing its when somebody makes an account and just sends everything over to another player with nothing in return back to the dummy account. (1fish?)?

At least that is what it is in Travian.
09-06-13 10:42 am
morz

well pushing isn't illegal. Its against the rules and they can ban you for for doing it. Its having multiple accounts and sending supplies you make on one account to another.
09-07-13 11:42 pm
DigitalDawn

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Originally Posted by morz

well pushing isn't illegal. Its against the rules and they can ban you for for doing it. Its having multiple accounts and sending supplies you make on one account to another.

Well that would be easy to detect, trades would only be going one way. In our case the trades go back and forth until of course we start buying more gems and now can share them, those will be one way trades.
09-10-13 10:07 am
Carcator

I, for one, am glad that the option to have a premium account is available. I level at a turtles pace, and with the premium option I can choose to level much faster at some point.

As for the ability to trade gems. Yes the price of gems will skyrocket, and I have always thought that gems were underpriced anyway. In any case the option to do it needed to be in place for a long time.