Today we wanted to talk about one of the updates that we are preparing.
The "Investments" department will receive an additional function. Your employees will be able to issue grants for the development of the country.
With the issuance of such a grant, some regions of the country will receive a significant increase in the property available to purchase, in addition, the figures for Agriculture, Roskoshi and others will also increase in different regions of this country. And the growth of these indicators will increase the profit of your property of this type and their price.
This is an important tool in the later stages of the game and will help strengthen the country that is important to you.
Update: Achivments is already in game!
Today was an update. What have we added new?
- New luxury resources. Now, at your request, in five regions you can find silver.
- Replaced the icons in the buildings (open the building, improve, manage managers). Past were not intuitive. New one is more classic.
- Replaced political skill icons
- Corrected localization in several places
Also did not write about the important update, which was done yesterday. We finally added Steam achievements)
We continue to work on updates. I hope that tomorrow we will be able to please you with one big update, and somewhere on Tuesday we will be implementing the first major update you have chosen (Revolutions). So soon the second vote of the players will be closed and summed up. If you have not had time to vote, then go to https://steamcommunity.com/app/896160/discussions/0/3374780959395526098/
Most likely at the weekend will start voting for the final (third) major update that you would like to see in the game. As promised before the release will be implemented 3 large updates that you choose
Thank you for supporting us - and as you see, we try our best to make the game that we want to see together;)
New big update! Now you can provoke wars!
Today we have introduced a new update - we added 7 political decisions that you can impose on a country with which you have good relations.
The better your relationship, the more types of decisions you can impose and the more often you will be able to do it.
Types of solutions:
1. You can increase the most important parameter of any region - agriculture, industry and real estate. This is a key parameter in determining the price of your property of this type and profitability. For example, if the "Agriculture" in the region is equal to "1", then your farm in the region generates 3.5% of the profit from its value. If the "Agriculture" in the region is equal to "20", then your farm brings more than 10% of the profit from its value. In addition, increasing these parameters increases the cost of ownership.
This parameter is always high in the capital, but if the country is large, then it can often turn out to be especially poor county districts.
2. Finally added the ability to provoke a country to war. When you use this solution, the king decides to launch an attack on one of the neighboring regions.
3. Nationalization of a part of the property of a competitor. When using this solution, country officials are very biased against a particular competitor, they are checking and take part of the property as a fine. What could be nicer than the grief of a neighbor, right?)
4. Freeze a competitor's license. A competitor license in your country temporarily stops working. He cannot buy property and cannot sell it. So, if a competitor enters a country - you can always stop his purchases until you buy back the remaining property.
Now the update is not well translated into languages other than English - but by the end of the week we will fix the localization of other languages. Just decided that it is more important to release the update now and give you the opportunity to play it right away - because everyone loves the update, right?)
Choose the second big Update yourself.
Select the second big update.
So, you have already chosen one big update that we will make. As you can see, we will add even more than it was in version you voted. It will be the same with each option that you choose - we will add something interesting to it)
It is very easy to vote - write a comment on this topic (or on forum) with the number of the update that is most interesting to you. Options:
1. Add negotiations with governments. Now you have to go to the exchange each time and sell the resources that are accumulating. And what if you could sometimes negotiate with governments about selling out the resources you produce? Each country would have a priority on one or another group of resources, for which they are willing to pay more. And you could plan with whom to negotiate for you is more important and what kind of deal you want to conclude.
2. Add more factions to play for. Now only the largest 8 fractions are represented in the game. It is clear that it is always more pleasant to play for your fraction of your country. Therefore, we can add more factions from Europe and Asia.
3. Add Guard additional use case. And what if your guards could be used as mercenaries? Want to improve your relationship with the king of France? Send your guards to the execution of dark orders, up to the murder of the claimant to the throne - and improve the relationship up to the maximum. Become a non-replaceable assistant to the rulers and get the maximum trust from their side. In addition, add the ability to use the Bank's Guard to fight competitors - up to the liquidation of the bank owner and, as a consequence, the competitor’s bankruptcy.
4. Add to the game of difficulty, records and scoring system, plus turn game to 300 turns mode. It is always nice to win, but one victory can be greater than another. And sometimes the round ends in defeat, but you were incredible and played one of the best matches against very strong competitors. But if this site is already done - you need to do it well. Add a serious scoring system, setting the difficulty. Plus there are some players that asked us about longer game. So in this update we will add changing game to 300 moves.
These are the options that I now see and that you offered. Options that scored the least last time - removed as the least interesting. We’ll add multiplayer in the next ballot - because it’s too early to do it) If you have additional ideas for future polls, write in the relevant topic in the discussions. And now I ask you to vote and choose what the game lacks the most)
Info about update you choose before
We continue to work on your chosen update.
Revolutions are gaining strength) And now I will tell you a little more about what we do.
Your Diplomacy department gets an extra feature. You will be able to hold congresses of underground workers of a certain region (for example, the Balkans). On it you will receive offers from different groups of conspirators to prepare a revolution in various groups of regions. You can support them or search for new options.
The conspirators will be different segments of the population - from peasants to wealthy citizens. From which group you support, the cost will change, but also the chance of success.
If the revolution is successful, then you, as the main sponsor, automatically gain access to this country, and all property of your competitors in these regions will be confiscated into state ownership. So it is a very powerful tool to combat competitors)
The update is being prepared very actively, so we hope that soon we will be able to enjoy it;)
Asian capital is now in the game!
The Asian capital of the player is now available when playing for one of the four factions of Asia. Music for this region has also been added, so now there are 8 full-fledged factions in the game (4 Western Europe and 4 Asian).
On Monday or Tuesday, we will add 7 functions by which you can manage the country, if your relations with them good enough. There will also be a variant of provoking the country to the beginning of the war, nationalizing part of the property of competitors, improving one of the spheres of development of the selected regions, and so on.
This will give a certain freedom of action and really controllability of the country on which you have a high influence.
After that, immediately proceed to work on your chosen update.
Also recall that early next week we will launch the second of the three polls to select another major update.
We are very grateful to you for your support and I think it’s not a bad show;) Let's make a game like we want to see it together!)
The results of your First Vote for the update!
Tomorrow we will begin work on the update that you have chosen - so it's time to take stock.
You voted in two places:
- Forum thread
https://steamcommunity.com/app/896160/discussions/0/1752358461533818682/
- Theme in the news
https://steamcommunity.com/games/896160/announcements/detail/1696062831226438190
With a large margin won the option "2" - "The ability to start a Revolution." 56% of the votes cast it in the first place (18 out of 32).
Thus, tomorrow we will launch our big updates that we originally planned (a full-fledged game for 4 Asian factions will now include an Asian city and Asian music). Also, either tomorrow or Monday, we will launch the opportunity to influence the country's policy and provoke it to start a war.
And immediately proceed to the update that you have chosen - the opportunity to provoke a revolution!
I talked with you a lot and of course I listened to all your ideas, came up with my own - and I prepared a final list of the top4 most interesting updates that would fit perfectly into the Evil Bank Manager. On Monday or Tuesday, we will launch a new vote for your second major update - which you will determine again! So follow the EBM news and thank you for being with us!)
Asian capital will be added tomorrow!
As you see we already added capital in test build. Right now we test it and finishing prepares.
Tomorrow we will add it in game with several more updates
So you just need to wait until tomorrow ;)
Added Asian music +7 changes|fixes
Finally, we started adding updates) Today we include the first piece of our first big update:
- Added: Now when you play for factions from Asia - new music is playing (China / Japan).
In addition, we made a number of minor edits and improvements:
1. Added: When buying a property that your department cannot manage because of its level - a warning alert now pops up.
2. Added: Now if you participate in a war, the background color on the top panel of the "Wars" icon changes its color.
3. Fixed: optimization of the game in the later stages. Now both loading / saving and the game itself on late moves are much faster.
4. Fixed: the behavior of NPCs and their statistics. Tomorrow the NPS balance will be finalized to complete with this item.
5. Fixed: a number of localizations (settings window, events about the end of the war, 12 other places and 300 keys in French)
6. Fixed: bug with list of investment offers from previous game
7. Fixed: bug with bad relations icon in a closed country (when the user gets the property through the war)
By the way, Asian palace is almost ready!)
Thank you guys, for your awsome support!)
Hotfix of remeined bugs
In fact, the main bugs fixed. Some small ones will be corrected tomorrow (including chinese font), but now we have a fully working version. Most likely tomorrow we will continue to work on the update and will try to launch it by the end of the week.
1. Fixed: message about the beginning of the war (added the name of the country to the text of the message)
2. Fixed: lack of manager icon in rare cases
3. Fixed: 3 windows (layout)
4. Fixed: 6 localization points, including the defeat window
5. Fixed: databases with the three sciences studied at the opening of the Fed
6. Fixed: several errors in the IMF.
Thank you for your help! Without you it would not have happened so quickly to correct the mistakes! As you can see, for our part, we are trying to do everything with cruising speed and beyond.
So we hope until the end of the week there will be not only a completely stable version, but also a game with certain updates;)
