Hey Builders,
in today's update small things, meanwhile collecting more serious topics for the big update, as I am currently dismantling the game and want to hit serious bugs more comprehensively. The upcoming festival will also see the same or better promotion than the last one. To all those who dared to try BoE, thank you very much, and I hope they will stay here longer as the dust settles after the drama of the release and concrete plans for improvement emerge from under it.
Regarding this big update. Let me write about it instead of creating a showy graphic with announcements. About the fact that I am improving the UI you know it so there is no need to repeat here, the same about bugs because it is obvious. On the other hand, what is addressed next is the first impressions of the game. A lot of people reject the game after several minutes for various reasons, but also a lot of these reasons are known and I'm focusing on them to change that. In view of this, you can expect simplifications in the interface, changes in some gameplay elements as well as removal of things that simply don't work or are obviously unnecessary.
Over seven years of producing and releasing different versions of the game, various strange ideas have accumulated, which must somehow be broken out of, and the first results will hopefully be seen in the upcoming update. There are several such things but I will leave describing them in detail to a future patch.
Fixed:
- upgrade of houses - the lack of showing the icon of residents and in fact their incomplete number caused a lot of confusion in understanding how the upgrade of houses works. Now if a house can advance and only residents are missing, such an icon will be shown. This is, of course, one of many UI problems that will be fixed in a major update.
- one of the rare bugs causing Trader to get stuck, particularly somewhere in the middle of a route, has been fixed. This probably doesn't solve all possible scenarios of such an error but at least we have one less.
- improved house statistics in the building browser
- fixed the display of some monuments on the minimap
