Hi all,

I just wanted to take a few seconds to discuss a few changes which we're happy to push out now.

The biggest change is on the war page. We've updated the war page to use JavaScript and AJAX to make attacks which allows for faster attacking and decreased bandwidth. We believe this should solve any and all lag problems associated to attacking (*crosses fingers*). We also cleaned up the war page's flow, so it should be somewhat easier to use.

A quick laundry list of other changes include:
- You can override the new attacking on the preferences page
- You can override the mobile template on the preferences page
- Error handling on spy op and war pages should be better
- Updated ALL numerical form fields so that the "k" and "m" qualifiers will multiply your input by 1000 and 1,000,000, respectively. Examples: 2.5k = 2500, 2.5m=2.5kk=2500000

I'm sure there's more in here, but the rest escape me right now. There are a lot of small fixes where you'll go "oh, cool.. they fixed that!"

Thanks everyone,
EE Staff

sweet

awesome :)

thank you!

Thanks ...

I love you guys! <3

oh thats great!
thanks for working on the overides

sounds awesome dude...i like the k and m add-ins to the war page though :)

is it supposed to take 10 minutes to plan the attack and then another 10 minutes to send the attack? because that's what i'm getting on primary.

that's all fields, not just war pages.
market, building, purchases, whatever :p

and Assassin: no, it should take the same amount of time as the previous method or less. And maybe take that to B&S if it persists? :)

thanks

good stuff

good job mod...

I love it!

i'm blaming it on my 3000-year-old home computer for the time being

Cool, Thanks!

assassin i had some issues on ie with the buttons not loading properly and switched to FF and sorted v quick.

and ah cool they fixed that :D

nice :)

thanks!

This confused me so much when I didn't realize it had been changed until the middle of a kill run. Seems like a good change though =D

Please explain, I don't know what you mean with these overrides. Thanks

on the preferences page, there is a radio button to override the defaults for how things are displayed.

2 of the things you can change (among others) are:
- turning off the new AJAX/JS attacking, if it's not working for you or you don't like it or whatever
- making it so you don't get forced to see the mobile template even when on a mobile device (some people like the default template better than the mobile one)

The new attack screen rocks in term of speed and usability :)

Though, I think attack speed is overpowered nowadays.. I've seen under 2 mins KRs with only 7-8 peoples in the alliance server, which makes it rather impossible to wall.

I *think* we should give a maximum amount of hits in a given time frame... say 30 hits per minute.. to actually let wars be more fun?
stonewalling is an art and it is dying :/

In some sense, that is nice diez. It allows players who enjoy warring that can't be online all the time to still count in the war. Limiting to 30 hits per minute honestly wouldn't even help that much if you have 10+ in a KR.

I do admit that walling is a dying art form, though.

ya, as I was working on the war changes I was talking to a bunch of players about some options. We (admins) had some thoughts we were throwing around in the admin channel a while ago which seemed to be received pretty well....

trying to make it more advantageous to attack to attack strategically vs just spamming f5 or mashing the new "send again" button is kind of what we would like to move towards, and the players that I talked to so far seem to agree...

a couple of ideas which were discussed include making the returns better the longer you leave between attacks (with a short cooldown), forcing a short wait in the system (to also help with load), and making it so that combining attacks does more...

i like the combining attacks one, even though it would likely be a major overhaul in the attacking mechanics

does submit to tab still work?

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how do ya do that one the preference page

why does the result of the attack don't show up on my screen???
Before it does, easily. Now, it doesnt, i have to check on the news page to know the result.

I hope this can be fixed. thanks!

what browser/os are you using bluehawk?

it believe it should be working fine :-/

try again btw, i made a few extra changes now to ensure cross-browser display should look fine, unless you're using something as old as IE6

and paulie -> it's on the preferences page... war style, select classic

oh, cool.. they fixed that!

:P

yeah.. i changed it to "classic" already though...

i'm using google chrome.

i'll try to attack later and check out if the java setting works already.

working fine now.. thanks

I like

working fine now. thanks!

working fine now. thanks!

TTT

I added a new design change:
if you want the menus and header to scroll with the page rather than be fixed, you can now select that option under your preferences

this should help people with smaller resolutions

Cool.