Empires and Tribes News

Dear Community,
we are pleased to now publish our roadmap for the upcoming quarter.
In addition to the redesign of some old farms, a completely new building, the farm, will soon be added to the game. We also plan to dedicate the next few months in development to specific topics and align the patches accordingly. We will start with a UI revamp month in April and will take a closer look at the menus. Of course, we are always happy to receive criticism and suggestions. So if you've been annoyed by this menu for a long time, or if you can't find a certain piece of information with the best will in the world... now is the time.
Of course, in addition to the features, we will continue to bugfix and improve the stability of Empires and Tribes.

Your team from Empires and Tribes

This update fixes some bugs - especially in the logic of the AI - and improves the balancing of the AI.
The difficulty level of the AI now determines how effective the distribution of the AI's workers is - for example, how many residents are hired as lumberjacks - and thus ultimately determines the speed of the AI's city development. The most difficult AI opponent continues to challenge even experienced players, whereas the easier AI opponents now require more time to build. Furthermore, the movement speed of workers has been increased, which allows for faster construction of buildings, especially at the beginning of the game.

Your Empires and Tribes Team

Fixed:

- Fixed a bug that caused construction workers to run to the edge of the map when they were assigned to a construction site via the resident menu.
- Fixed a bug that caused the message that indicates that monks or the king's messenger have arrived in the village to be mistakenly triggered multiple times
- Fixed a bug that could cause monks and the king's messenger to run to the starting position at the edge of the map after loading and then return to the city.
- Fixed a bug that could cause workers to freeze at campfire sites
- Fixed a bug that caused the controls in the building menu to not respond when quickly changing the movement keys
- Fixed a bug that caused residents to run off while talking to the player when a new job was being searched for them
- Fixed a bug that caused the camera to move incorrectly when the player performed actions (such as cutting wood) one right after another
- Fixed a bug that caused sleeping to be ended only by pressing Escape twice
- Fixed a bug that caused the AI's building process to be too fast
- Fixed a bug that could cause the AI not to start building at the beginning of the game
- Fixed a bug that could cause the AI not to perform building upgrades and thus develop very slowly or not at all in higher expansion levels
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when AI workers searched for a building that was already destroyed
- Fixed a bug that led to an incorrect calculation of the AI's manpower and thus to an inefficient distribution of the AI's work after loading
- Fixed a bug that resulted in not removing the grass from the AI's marketplace area
- Fixed a bug that caused the AI to produce too little food and thus needed all resources for trading later in the game and could not use them for the further development of their city
- Increased the movement speed of the workers

This patch fixes some bugs and improves the balancing of the consumption of goods by residents. The consumption of goods as well as the generation of taxes is now dependent on the selected working time (adjustable in the city council meeting). This ensures that even with shorter working hours the amount of consumed goods matches the production. Furthermore, some errors, especially those that occurred during house construction, have been fixed.

Your Empires and Tribes Team


Version 1.30

Engine

Added:
- The player can now work on the construction sites of the surrounding farms even if he is only near them and not directly at them
- Added a message that indicates when the player is too far away from the construction sites of the surrounding companies to work on them
- The building materials for construction sites of farms can now be dropped as soon as the player is at the farm and not only when he is standing at the construction site

Fixed:

- Balancing: the consumption of trade goods by residents, as well as the generation of taxes, is now also dependent on working time. This can be changed in the city council meetings through legislation.
- Balancing: Fixed a bug that could lead to minimal miscalculations in production if the player slept during working hours during the day
- Building materials can now be picked up at the town hall or store if a market cart driver is near or above them
- Fixed a bug that could, in rare cases, prevent work from being done at construction sites because the wrong collider was selected
- Fixed a bug that could cause construction workers to run circles in front of the construction site at night
- Fixed a bug that could cause construction workers to play the animation of climbing stairs while running
- Fixed a bug that could cause residents without work to endlessly climb and descend stairs after sleeping
- Fixed a bug that could cause residents to run to the starting position in front of the houses after loading from the farms without paying attention to collisions
- When completing a resident task, three copper tools are now given as a reward instead of one, as promised in the text
- Fixed a bug that could lead to overexposure of the grass
- Fixed a bug that could cause market carts to spawn very close to each other or too close to the building
- The Bloom setting has been lowered a bit by default
- Fixed a bug in the heightmap of the map "Rhine's meadows"
- Fixed a bug that caused the LOD1 and LOD2 levels of the AI's townhouses to not be calculated
- Fixed a bug that could cause the priest to sink into the floor of the church after loading game saves
- Fixed a bug that could cause the height of the terrain to be calculated incorrectly after building or upgrading the church
- Fixed a bug that could cause the priest and monks to leave the map
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when units received a new movement order from an army that was being disbanded
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when archers received a new movement order
- The player now no longer collides with or is pushed aside by the chickens


UI:

Fixed:

- The arrows in the tree menu are now also hidden in screenshot mode
- Fixed a bug that prevented the player's crest from being changed once a campaign was started
- Fixed a bug that caused negative resources to be displayed in the small building menu when the player transported resources to the construction site on his own
- Fixed a bug that caused the building menu to incorrectly show that there were not enough resources for a construction site if a worker picked up the last resources at the same time
- The icons for farms in the building menu are no longer superimposed on the menu, but disappear behind it
- The message that a resident withdraws a task is now only displayed if the player has previously accepted the task
- The messages that the king's messenger has arrived or that monks have arrived in the city are now only displayed when the respective units have arrived at the town hall
- Fixed a bug that caused incorrect resources to be displayed in the tooltip for the expansion to the townhouse

This patch fixes bugs that occurred in the gameplay and UI.

Your team from Empires and Tribes


Version 1.29

Engine

Added:

- In the lumberjacks, trees are now spawned after placement if there are too few in the area
- The resources spawned at the construction sites no longer float in the air, but their position and rotation are adjusted to the surrounding terrain
- The intro video can now be ended with Escape

Fixed:
- Fixed a bug when building ramparts, gates or towers that could cause the buildings to not be completed
- Fixed a bug that caused trees and their colliders to not be cleared at the start of the game, which caused them to be in the town hall for example
- Fixed a bug that could cause the amount of meat and bread in the warehouse to be swapped when researching upgrades that required food
- Fixed a bug in the height calculation that caused flickering or culling of buildings
- Fixed a bug that caused monks, thieves or bandits to spawn in the wrong position and run across the map
- Fixed a bug that could occur after accepting the quest to find the lamp or the villager's crate
- Fixed a bug that caused unnecessary road pieces to be placed when a surrounding farm was built close to an existing road
- Fixed a bug that could cause road connections to be interrupted when a hinterland farm was demolished or destroyed
- The colors of the grass and the bushes in the morning have been adjusted to each other
- Textures of the mountain ranges were adjusted to the environment
- Fixed a bug that caused trees placed for decoration to spawn in the wrong position after loading
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause the player to take 0.5 more units of food from the warehouse than were stored in it
- Items that need to be found as evidence are no longer counted multiple times when the player's inventory is full and they cannot be picked up
- Changed "tree trunk" to "log" for better comprehensibility

UI

Fixed:
- Icon indicating that goods are not picked up from the market carts reworked
- Fixed a bug that caused the compass to show a maximum of 13 positions at once
- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong building maintenance to be displayed in the tooltip in the building interaction menu
- Fixed a bug that could cause the mini-menu of the buildings on the left side of the screen not to be closed anymore
- Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong interaction menu of buildings with expansion sites to be opened
- Fixed a bug that caused the castle interaction menu not to show all construction sites or upgrades
- Fixed a bug that caused the icons of fires on the minimap to be set to the wrong position when the zoom level was changed
- The tooltip in the resource panel in the Main HUD for the balance is now correctly displayed below the panel
- Length of the maximum text input for scores increased to 27 chars

With this version the terrain is revised and the tree models are replaced. Furthermore, the tree engine was reworked to enable a performant rendering and billboarding of the new models. Last but not least, we were able to fix a couple of bugs, including the trader bug.

Your team from Empires and Tribes

Engine

Added:

- Terrain Rework:
- Added 12 new tree models
- Models and textures of bushes reworked
- The AI now depends on the availability of free inhabitants when recruiting soldiers

Fixed:

- Fixed bug that caused trading at the marketplace to be unavailable after loading
- Fixed a bug that caused the AI's siege weapons to be recruited too quickly
- Fixed a bug that caused the AI to continue recruiting soldiers in some cases even when pausing the game
- Fixed the brightness of the lamps in the bakeries and blacksmith shops
- Fixed a bug that could occur in the crafting menu when multiple identical objects were selected, which could lead to incorrect display of the icon or the selected resources, among other things
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when the AI finished building the bow workshop
- Fixed a bug that after loading the progress of the construction site of the apartment building Lv3 was set to the beginning
- It is now possible to assign five workers and construction workers at the same time in the interaction menu of the buildings by shift-clicking them
- Blocking with the shield for Windows placed on the right mouse button and for OSX on Ctrl


UI

Fixed:

- Fixed a bug that caused the buildings mini-panel on the left to close incorrectly. This occurred especially when the player was near construction sites.
- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong construction site to be selected when opening the interaction menu of the buildings.
- The names of the residents are now no longer displayed when a menu is open
- The AI traders' buttons are no longer displayed in the warehouse menu when the player trades at the market or talks to the remote trader
- Improved readability of the progress bar that shows the player's actions (e.g. when cutting trees)
- Tooltip in the main menu enlarged so that the text of the AI opponents is fully displayed
- Fixed a bug that caused the bottom of the scroll rect in the save menu to be unresponsive