Release notes Wednesday, the 5th of August

[Aernout]

Dear Torpians,

Hereby the release notes for tomorrow mornings release.


New features (T2)
Footerlinks for social bookmarking.
Renewed user profile layout.
New Trading system.
New Tooltips that provide you with better information if something goes 'wrong'.
New page feature to switch between pages at your inbox and at the Brotherhood forum.
New order en tasks at the tutorial.


Improvements


Improved design at the building catalog for Safari.
Various text updates and minor bugfixes.


Best regards,
Aernout

[Charkh]

Are the new features the ones listed in the bullet points, or is there other things?

[Fallenone]

what time can we expect the update

[Charkh]

I'm not sure if this is the place to log a bit of a complaint, but I've gotten used to having all of all towns' resources in the trade window. This let me send goods from one town when there was an excess compared to the others. With this being removed, it makes trading much harder. Could you please add that back?

edit: It also no longer saves the coordinates of the place that you've just sent goods to. This means I have to type in the coordinates or click the drop down menu every time, instead of only when I change destinations. I like the new buy/sell stuff, but if its at the cost of the other options I'd rather have the old options back.

[Rusty]

There are also many Text glitches throughout the different pages, or is that only for me?

My troops screen now says DictTroops.commandyourtroops on the title, and similar things throughout that screen, as well as all of my troop production sites are mislabeled now.

[zippyzap]

There is no message to all brothers button any more!!! I hope that is going to be fixed. This is a very important tool for the leadership of active brotherhoods.

Hobelars are now known as pikemen among other things (they still work though).

I wish you'd done the market (for buying/selling) as a seperate button at the top and left the trade screen as it was. It's certianly much more inconvient to trade between towns now... But I like that you're trying to add a market feature.

Army returning shows up under the trade screen as 0 carts returning the food amount from the pillage.

[Charkh]

I also just noticed that neither I nor my masters have the ability to "send a message to all members." In addition to no longer having a discussion board, I have no way to communicate with my 100+ members. I don't have the time to message each one individually. We have an external forum, but are you really wanting to force us to use another website to communicate?

I apologize if I'm being sensational on patch day, but this update has caused more harm to my gaming experience than its added. I can understand taking stuff away when its unbalancing the game, but the old trade features and the brotherhood communications were conveniences and nothing more. Why would conveniences be taken out of the game?

[Rusty]

The Discussion Board has been renamed as Forum. It is still there, they also added a sticky option to it for important threads, which I do like.

[Aegis]

I'm also a bit disappointed with losing the coordinates/amount while trading with my towns. I do love that there's a trading system now, though.

Anyway, it got me to thinking. Since I trade a fairly constant amount to the same town over and over, how about a trade route setting to ship that same amount each time?

Also, it would probably be easier to set up trades just like the new troop transfer screen. Have a list of the goods instead of troops. Make the 'What Mission' button switch to a list of trade routes you've set up. Then just add in a display to show how many trade carts will be used (like the estimated travel time), and a button to save the current selection as a trade route.

Of course, if it's all set like the troop transfer screen, it would probably be easy enough not to need the trade route setting (since you can get it all done at once). It wouldn't hurt to have it, though :).

[LadyOrchid]

There are also many Text glitches throughout the different pages, or is that only for me?

My troops screen now says DictTroops.commandyourtroops on the title, and similar things throughout that screen, as well as all of my troop production sites are mislabeled now.


Please report all 'bugs/glitches' or anything that is "weird" to the SUPPORT (http://forum.torpia.com/sendmessage.php)Section of the forum. This will let the devTeam get right on it. ;)

As far as anyone's 'complaints', please go to the GENERAL (http://forum.torpia.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10) section of the forum. Post your thread there. Announcements are for everyone to be notified of the new updates. :)

Wishing everyone best of luck when W1 starts up again!!! :D