Hi everyone!

I’m beyond excited to announce that as of this post, we are opening the public beta for the new Earth Empires gameplay experience!

Things are still in a semi-polished state but we’re eager to start getting feedback and seeing how some of our initial concepts are received by the community. This is an opt-in model and DOES NOT impact any of the existing work on http://www.earthempires.com but we hope everyone will start moving their play over to the new UI as we continue to near feature parity with our existing site. Here is the information you will need to get started!

Accessing the beta
You can access the beta at: https://alphaui.earthempires.com

Accounts
The UI (user interface) project uses REAL ACCOUNTS and REAL COUNTRIES. You can log in with your existing username/password or sign up for a new account if you don’t have one, however if you play multiple countries on the same server you will (as always) be picked up by our cheating detection tools.

Cooperation Server
We strongly discourage players from using the beta with the Cooperation server.

Logging in with Google
We’ve enabled logging in with your Google account already for the beta. If you already have an account, log into it and visit the “Account preferences” page (User icon in the top right corner -> Preferences) and you can link your account to a Google account instead of needing to log in with a username/password. We’ll add some more options like Facebook when we get a chance.

Mobile vs desktop
The above link is designed to work for both desktop and mobile browsers. Give it a try on your phone and see what you think!

FFA console
This iteration is focused on the single-country playing experience so we haven’t had a chance to explore the FFA console. We’ll look at this in the future (both the API/functionality layer and just making it exist in the new UI)

Providing feedback
There is a button on the top bar called “Feedback” that will launch a Google form to collect your feedback, including screenshots or videos. Please keep the feedback constructive in nature. We’re especially looking for feedback on larger concepts and interactions. We’ll get more into nitty-gritty stuff later. We also have the New UI Project Feedback forum (https://www.earthempires.com/...m/new-ui-project-feedback) where you can have more in depth discussions on features, functionality, etc.
You can also join our #beta-discussion discord channel at: https://discord.gg/3JrEWmX

Possibility of bugs, missing or broken experiences
Because this is a beta, things may break or not work as designed so be careful if you’re playing a country you care about. If you’re worried about this, create a country on a server you don’t normally play on to test things out. Some features (like clan admin, standing orders, country search, etc) are not available yet as they are not complete. Any country abusing loopholes or bugs found on this UI will be subject to deletion and/or account bans.

So a big thanks to everyone who’s helped make this work possible — especially Jabroni1134 and Bug who have helped me move this work to the finish line since joining the team (not that we should be content with a beta being the finish line! :p).

I look forward seeing what everyone thinks and hope you’re all as excited as I am to modernize the game.

Thanks~!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLMIrsEfFo

Where to report bugs?
Using the feedback link as well?

Yea, use the Feedback button on the top right of the UI

I love it. Will do some real testing tomorrow to see if I can spot any bugs or potential improvements! :)

FYI, can play on alpha servers too... which I did. Submitted a couple forms last night.

How? I was trying to do just that and failed.

I can't either get to AlphaFFA with new ui, just gives blank page and since not-ssl portal url gives loading text (didn't bother to wait to see how long that loading would take) I'd guess it has something to do with wonky ssl-cert since removing alphaui on url gets usual not trusted warning and can't even sign on http://alphaui.etc.

as for new ui it looks like its made for mobile.

Most people do not have access to the Alpha servers.

Say what?

I have always been able to access alpha, alphaffa and the ai server since just a couple months after I started playing (as soon as I was made aware of their existance). That is on the old UI. I can still access them on the old UI but not on the new one.

alphaFFA and ai were supposed to be open for all.

I believe access was restricted because of people not following rules, I could be wrong

Hmm, I direct players there all the time and no one has mentioned they were unable to get in there so far.

I know a few who can't, but that could be because haven't ticked a box in options.

I personally don't use it much now, got sick of random people killing random countries

Well that happened to me once or twice too but I don't really get attached to my countries there. :)

I don't see any box to be ticked to be able to get access or reject access to alpha or ai.

it's an admin option to grant folks access to the servers. apparently there's a hole in the auth for them which needs patching.

marshal in option there is a box to display the alpha servers, i don't know if that's just for people who have access or not

it is

well I must be looking at wrong place since can't see it but doesn't matter since I have access to alphaFFA etc.

I approve this message! Seriously, good job Pang & jabroni & Bug & Requiem! Hopefully I'll get bots things going based on the additional API stuff they pushed through =D

Note that it doesn't seem to work to login when using IE Edge

hmmm

I never use Microsoft Edge.

Hate it. Edge and Cortana can both gtfo

(Bonus)

try edge chrome, it's fast.

I use Vivaldi, it doesn't soak up my laptop battery like a sponge. Chrome does.

Damned spammers.

I use Brave. It's a Chromium browser meaning it's built off the Chrome engine (as is Edge these days), but it has the best privacy. It also has some kind of weird coin/reward function that seems scammy so I never enabled it, which you don't have to.

edit: I didn't bump this, the spammer did!

Stryke sighting!

they probably spam here because its the first forum alphabetically in the first forum group then post in the first thread

LOL

Most major browsers except firefox are chromium based, so web browsing is all the same between those browsers.

False

What part? This list isnt even the tip of the ice burg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium

Chromium-based browsers render the same a lot of the time, but each browser has built other stuff on top of Chromium, which can add features and such, which can lead to differences in rendering– which is a big PITA when testing cross-browser.