Today's update of Strategus:
· Pseudonyms are fixed. It took half a day to fix it since it was broken way too deep and required fixed in a lot of places. Feel free to use it!
· We've added additional gear to nations, we're still working on it
· Improved visual part on the map. Now hovering on players on the map uses better colors. Amount of troops is now more obvious and shows the approximate number
no army (1), team (2-9), squad (10-14), troop (15-29), platoon (30-49), scores (50-99), squadron (100-149), company (150-249), cohort (250-449), battalion (450-749), regiment (750-999), legion (1,000-1,499), army (1,500-1,999), horde (2,000+)
. Gold approximate amount is also shown now.
· A dozen of other quality fixes that improve stability of Strategus, these are what you don't usually see but what you can be influenced by
An important side note: This round is a TEST round, some things are getting fixed (including those that were broken for years), the other things are getting tested/added/balanced. The more we test - the better. And we need you, our beloved players, to help us with that. With both tests and your feedback. We will restart Strategus in 2 scenarios:
1) Positive one - when we add all the needed minimal gear to nations (we have a lot of work for item managers now to add and balance out needed items), ideally when we add national fiefs (we got ready fiefs but we still need map managers to adapt them where needed). And what's more important when we add/test/fix/change all the needed functionality. When we fit these simple requirements then we announce a new official Strategus round and start it within week(s) after announcement. As you can expect, no real ETA can be given but I would personally like it to happen in somewhere in March.
2) Negative one - if we face some ugly bug/exploit that ruins the game for everyone (like item dupe for instance), then we fix it and start new official round earlier. Alternatively if that happens really early then we restart the test round and delay things.
Hopefully this removes some confusion that was created lately and such announcement has to be created earlier, but I wasn't really aware that players were confused.