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Genre: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie

Demise of Nations

Update 0.9.1 - Road Building, Land Takeover, Balancing, Bugfixes
Latest Update:

  • Mediterranean Sea: updated/balanced & 1 extra scenario added. Please join the new test-game! Thanks :-D
  • Ruler Elimination: the player eliminating the ruler will receive that player's nation (cities & land!).
  • Ruler Bonus (Combat): +100% attack bonus and a +30% defense bonus.
  • City Estates: build/information dialog improved (shows all that are available!).
  • City Estates: icons displayed above each city to show what's built inside.
  • Road Building: roads can now be built by the player on the map :)
  • Undo-ALL Button added (during action input :-D)
  • AI: updated to handle commando-units (attacking others & defending one's self).
  • Revolts: all revolting provinces will become neutral if "Random Incidents" is turned off (default for multiplayer). Revolting provinces will not be assigned to other nations anymore.
  • ESC-key can be used to exit fullscreen mode.
  • Username Generator for new logins (server): random numbers added to make them more unique. Please contact the moderators team to have your display name changed as needed!
  • Happiness Display: calculates the average happiness based on the population size (rather than a province average).
  • Translation Tool "Apropy": the translation section contains a link now to "Apropy" a translation tool developed by Andris, a player of the game :-D (in case you are not too happy about Attesoro!).
  • Graphics/GUI optimized (smaller in size).
  • Graphics updated: re-coloring incl. snowy graphics.
  • Bugfix/Fire Animation: should now render correctly.
  • Bugfix Houses: should not render above mountains anymore.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when image was not retained/already released but rendered.
  • Bugfix Crashes: for invalid movement locations (logging added to track error!).

Demise of Nations: Trading Cards :)
Trading Cards for Demise of Nations are now LIVE :)



Please note, in order to receive card drops, you will need to have made/make purchases. That's not my (developer's) restriction, it's simply how the trading cards system works. I cannot change it. Sorry for that.

Experimental Map: "Mediterranean Sea" (FREE)
Except for graphical changes, the latest update has no effect on existing maps and games. Please download the new map "Mediterranean Sea". This map is experimental and is very unbalanced! Please join the "Mediterranean DEV-Game" I have setup for testing & feedback. Thanks :-D



Here is what makes the map special:

  • Troops: can travel up to 2x the distance (faster play)
  • Troops: rather than 1 single troop-image, they now show the approximate strength represented by number of soldiers.
  • Troops: Pagan Priest added (can make it rain or snow).
  • Troops: Egyptian Chariot added.
  • Blocking tiles converted to non-blocking: lumberyard, Pyramids etc.
  • Roads added: allows faster travel!
  • Research & City-Building improved (some removed/streamlined). Only the most essential are left.
  • Commando-Unit added: you lose your king you lose the game! It's the one with the rotating sword!

Update 0.9.0 - Editor, Graphics, Balancing/Mediterranean Sea Map (FREE)
Latest Update:

  • Version updated to 0.9.*. Some of game-play has been re-designed & re-balanced. Let me know how this all works out?
  • Modding Editor: the editor has been preliminary implemented. You can now design new maps with the editor! Please consider the current version in BETA-stage. I'll improve and fix it up as we go.
  • Modding: is now FREE. Note however, if you ever decide to upload your map, you need to have "Modding" purchased beforehand.
  • Graphics: minified trees etc. as it made sense (some only in new "Mediterranean Sea" map).
  • Graphics: re-colored/re-worked for nicer look & feel :-D
  • Game Option (multiplayer): There is now an option to lock games for new players after a certain number of turns (defaults to 7 turns). That will prevent late-joiners to take over larger AI nations later in games.
  • Balancing: Happiness changes for taxes & commerce updated.
  • Balancing: Advancement (ADV) removed (for new maps only).
  • League-Play (round-robin tournament): each competitor competes against each other competitor. 2 points will be awarded for victories, 1 point for draws.
  • Tourneys/League: invite-button to tournaments & leagues!
  • Tourneys/League: admin button to start early if desired (owner of tournament/league can decide).
  • Emoticons/Smileys: are now displayed in wall posts & private messages as well.
  • Gifting: you can now gift products to other players. In your friends list press the cog-icon for the corresponding friend select "Gift...".
  • Camera: functionality to add screenshots added (for reporting, e.g. bad language/cheating) :-D
  • Reporting Function: now allows sending screenshots/images :-D
  • Purchases: there is now a popup that shows all the purchases/invoices for a user (in chat, select the [Cog]-button then go to the "Products" tab!).
  • Downloads: throttle reduced (should download faster now).
  • Invites: [Invite All...] option added for friends list :)
  • Render FPS Limiter: if you are running on a battery powered device, please reduce the FPS to e.g. 30 to increase battery life.
  • Cheating: warning popup added for players that use multiple accounts while playing. Please note, if you want to play against family, the game supports hotseat via single player!
  • Cheat Investigations: improved tools for the moderators (via user-admin panel).
  • Setup Nations & Teams: games can now be customized by nations & teams available in the game. Select the [Customize...] button during setup :-D
  • Setup for # of Players: also added additional options such as 24, 28 etc.
  • Setup for # of Clan-Players: please use to limit the number of clan players in a game.
  • Avatar Right-Click: saves the avatar to the clipboard if desired.
  • Engine (Game): updated to libGDX 1.9.4
  • Manual: FAQ integrated into manual.
  • Manual/FAQ: Section added "Stalking Players". Please read!
  • Manual/FAQ: Section added "Clan Spamming & Ganging Up". Please read!
  • Manual/FAQ: Section added "Rating Inflation (by only playing against the AI)".
  • Manual/FAQ: ELO volatility expained (number next to rating).
  • Admin: right-clicking on a user's username in the profile popup will allow copying it to the clipboard!
  • Client: internal changes (backwards & forward compatibility). This should prevent crashes in older clients.
  • Server: auto-deletion updated to 6x the turn duration.
  • Servers: logging updated.
  • Servers: reboot stability improved. Cleaning broken records to provide stable restart functionality.
  • Language RU: updated - Thanks :-D
  • Bugfix Images: making sure only valid images can be selected (various modding functions) so they are now crashes from strange image formats.
  • Bugfix Invite Panel: when no friends were found, rendering was off.
  • Bugfix League and Tournaments /w Team-Play: randomization option is internally turned off (messes up groups/teams otherwise).
  • Bugfix Reports: if images were too large, they could not be added to the DB resulting in an error (fixed to reduce images in colors to allow for better compression).
  • Bugfix Server: team-league had a bug preventing games from being setup (assignment of teams was broken).
  • Bugfix Crashes: showing the nation options dialog (taxes etc.)
  • Bugfix Crashes: when music couldn't properly be retained (now defaults to silent rather than a crash).
  • Bugfix Crashes: "Auto-init shouldn't fail.". Will ignore error and continue (as game is already started & should work fine!?)
  • Bugfix Crashes: sending game invites (when there are no friends in the list).
  • Bugfix Crashes: retaining images (unsupported formats).
  • Bugfix Crashes: reading mail messages.
  • Bugfix Crashes: opening the nation's finance popup.
  • Bugfix Crashes: during game update.
  • Bugfix Crashes: while Steam was not connected (but assumed to be connected).
  • Bugfix Crashes: pasting text from clipboard while there was nothing.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when opening user information but information was not available.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when looking at a user's games list when not logged in.

Update 0.8.202 - Balancing & Update for Troops
Latest Update:

  • Balancing: Population Growth increased 5x for (very) small villages (larger villages about the same).
  • Balancing: Research Tree updated/rewired including removing "pre-step"-only research.
  • Balancing: Settlement Structures updated and all "pre-steps" removed. Some re-wiring.
  • Balancing: Settlement Structure costs reduced by about 50%
  • Balancing/Troops: re-wired required research and required settlement structures.
  • Balancing/Troops: War Elephants & other troops reduced in strength.
  • Troops: Hippeis corrected --> they are now mounted units!
  • Troops: Armored Hoplites added (Greek)
  • Statistics Happiness: via the "People" tab & Happiness there is now a [Details...] button that shows all the modifiers.
  • Statistics Population: via the "People" tab & Inhabitants there is now a [Details...] button that shows all the modifiers.
  • Game Details: the owner is now listed an a game's details as well (when you go into the game).
  • Cheating: additional checks added on server-side.
  • Censor: updated.
  • Bugfix: randomizing starting positions didn't consider non-open nations.

Update 0.8.601 - Bugfixes, Especially for Starter Bundle
Latest Update:

  • Multiplayer Fees (Creating new Games): Reduced to 2 coins for public games. Private games cost 10 coins to setup. All realms now have the option for both public & private games!
  • User Profile Popup: shows team-members for clans & team memberships for users.
  • User Profile Popup: has a [Games] button which shows all the games a player has joined :-D
  • User Profile Popup: shows the average rating for clans.
  • Chat "/list": lists all the users that are ONLINE in the chat.
  • Chat "/list admins": lists all the moderators that are ONLINE in the chat.
  • Chat "/ping ": to show if a user is ONLINE/offline.
  • Mailbox: search function for clans added.
  • AI Updater: option "Fast AI Updates" in settings allowing faster (but less exact) AI updates for single player games.
  • Cheating/Betting: you cannot disjoin a betting-game anymore after it started.
  • Cheating: Password protected games cannot be sponsored, with betting or rated (unless they are created by an administrator).
  • Cheating the System: Minimum Turns for Capture the Flag is 7 turns (was 1 turn).
  • Cheating the System: "Guest-*" users cannot participate in betting games.
  • Server/Cheating Bugfix: submitting an in-game support request with a negative amount of gold (using a cheat engine) would make it possible for one player to gain large amounts of gold.
  • Server Backend: performance update.
  • Bugfix Revolts: no revolts if at least 1 unit is in a settlement (code was removed by mistake before).
  • Bugfix: Sound FX not playing anymore when volume was set to 0.
  • Bugfix Starter Bundle: bogus bridge spot removed.
  • Bugfix Starter Bundle: Sparta fixed (had no ship/was removed).
  • Bugfix Starter Bundle: removed the wet soil (doesn't have corresponding crops/etc. that can be built).
  • Bugfix Buildings: "Swordsmen" --> "Advanced Ground Troops" (not all nations had swordsmen).
  • Bugfix: spelling (clan center stuff)!
  • Bugfix Crashes: opening other user profiles without being logged in.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when input listener was 'null'.
  • Bugfix Freezes/Chat: when text wasn't properly formatted.

Update 0.8.600 - Private Messaging & Clan Center
Latest Update:

  • Private Messaging added :-D
  • Friends list added :-D
  • Game Invites implemented for in-game friends :-D
  • Clan Center added :-D
  • User Profiles: additional options added. :)
  • Chat "/list": lists all the users that are ONLINE in the chat.
  • Chat "/list admins": lists all the moderators that are ONLINE in the chat.
  • Look & Feel streamlined (should start slightly faster too).
  • Notification system added (in-game only). Will notify for map approvals/rejections, if you got banned/flagged etc.
  • Functionality: searching users (so they can be contacted/added to personal friends list).
  • Functionality: mail button to contact moderators.
  • Balancing: A protectorate's protector points now only count 10% (previously 29%) towards victory.
  • Balancing: -40% happiness penalty if you accept another nations protectorate request (or send a request to another nation).
  • Reporting Functionality added for cheating/bad language/spamming. Messages will show up in the moderators inbox.
  • Spectator Mode: to view games from a 3rd-party perspective. This is designed for (a) streamers and (b) moderators of the game. Please contact me if you want to stream games where you are not playing.
  • Update for Team-Games (multiplayer ONLY): player count cannot be reduced (to prevent unfair advantages).
  • In-Game Messages: they can be translated as well now (ditto chat & wall). Use the right-mouse button :-D
  • Notifications (background daemon): also reports the unread message count.
  • Moderator Tools: tools to directly update (ban, disable etc.) user accounts.
  • Private Messaging & Wall: improved post-time formatting :)
  • Steam notifications: moved to bottom/left (doesn't block as many buttons).
  • Bugfix Linux: the game should now run also on newer versions of Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 64bits, Debian Sid 64bit etc).
  • Bugfix (Black Screen): error when music could not be instantiated prevented the game from running (OpenAL error).
  • Bugfix Joining (non-random/client): the dropdown list will now show the nations that are fully alive and are not dead (extra checks added).
  • Bugfix Random Join (Server): joining a nation that is already dead!
  • Bugfix Analysis Table: should now show the correct values & also not crash anymore!
  • Bugfix Game Loader: game list forever loading in single player (e.g. due to previous crash/corrupted files)
  • Bugfix Crashes: when the next screen was faded in twice (double-click?).
  • Bugfix Crashes: while deleting in-game messages.

Update 0.8.599 - Chat/Wall Translation, AFK & many Bugfixes
Latest Update:

  • Chat & Wall Translation: right-click on the chat or wall to copy the text to the clipboard or have it translated via browser :-D
  • AFK (Away from Keyboard): detection added to ignore inactive players during multiplayer.
  • Map Downloads: map previews included. Only for maps that have preview images defined.
  • Modding: map screenshots in the format 600x400 need to be provided for all future maps & updates thereof :)
  • Bugfix Map Generator: stopped working.
  • Bugfix Auto-Submit: making sure sub-dialogs/popups are closed properly also.
  • Bugfix Crashes: calculating revolts during game-update crashed.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when music player was already disposed.
  • Bugfix Crashes: giving out awards.
  • Bugfix Crashes: saving achievements.
  • Bugfix Crashes: saving user configuration.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when multiplayer game got deleted.
  • Bugfix Crashes: while loading corrupted image data.
  • Bugfix Crashes: multiplayer/loading the latest game data.
  • Bugfix Crashes: starting a new map download (when one is active already).
  • Bugfix Crashes: joining or disjoining a game.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when a GUI popup was closed and a button pressed at the very same instant.
  • Bugfix Crashes: text arguments are 'null'
  • Bugfix Crashes: division by 0 while layouting scroll panel.
  • Bugfix Crashes: adding months to current time object (invalid days).
  • Bugfix Crashes: when music object was already disposed & requested play.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when music object was 'null' & volume was adjusted.
  • Bugfix Crashes: dropdown list.
  • Bugfix Crashes: handling files.
  • Bugfix Crashes: while setting up a new game.
  • Bugfix Crashes: parsing account information.
  • Bugfix Crashes: showing the analysis tab (in-game).
  • Bugfix Crashes: rendering overview map while input not available.
  • Bugfix Crashes: rendering animations.
  • Bugfix Crashes: when marking info as read right when the game updates (multiplayer).
  • Bugfix Crashes: while unable to load achievements (will continue normally now).
  • Bugfix Crashes: in music & sound player.
  • Bugfix Crashes: showing latest ranking changes (in-game).
  • Bugfix Crashes: opening the "Analysis" tab.
  • Bugfix Crashes: while updating tax settings (data was null).
  • Bugfix Crashes: removing unused nations for offense/defense objective would remove the defender as well.

Update 0.8.595 - Steam Invites, Menu GUI & Bugfixes
Latest Update:

  • Steam Invites: added :-D
  • Menu GUI: updated/streamlined.
  • Lots of bugfixes incl. networking & crashes.
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