May 4th 2021, 17:40:38
It's short notice but that makes it more exciting. Highlights for Express:
* Ghost acre returns are now based on the total number of buildings owned by the attacker and the defender instead of doing a building to building comparison. This means that there should no longer be a reason for countries to build off-strategy buildings to increase their grabbing returns. The "10% rule" is still in effect.
* The update to AB and BR returns as part of change set #19 had the unintended consequence that countries could lose more buildings if they had many different building types. The formula has been changed so returns are approximately the same regardless of the building distribution of the defender. Note that a defender with many different building types may still see slight differences in returns due to rounding.
* The Premium spy chance estimation chance now accounts for spy DR.
* A new server setting was introduced to give countries an initial amount of bonus turns. Restarts will not get any bonus turns. This is intended for use on Express in the future but may also be added to other servers as well. Currently, no servers take advantage of this functionality.
* Military sanctions will be applied to a small number of player accounts. Reference: https://www.earthempires.com/...set-21-50109?t=1620149788
* Harmless spy op (spy, market spy, ally spy, and military spy) eligibility is not impacted by the shrinking humanitarian range during the final 30 turns of a round.
* Countries in GDI can perform harmless spy ops even during the final six hours of the round.
Full details here: https://www.earthempires.com/...set-21-50109?t=1620149788
* Ghost acre returns are now based on the total number of buildings owned by the attacker and the defender instead of doing a building to building comparison. This means that there should no longer be a reason for countries to build off-strategy buildings to increase their grabbing returns. The "10% rule" is still in effect.
* The update to AB and BR returns as part of change set #19 had the unintended consequence that countries could lose more buildings if they had many different building types. The formula has been changed so returns are approximately the same regardless of the building distribution of the defender. Note that a defender with many different building types may still see slight differences in returns due to rounding.
* The Premium spy chance estimation chance now accounts for spy DR.
* A new server setting was introduced to give countries an initial amount of bonus turns. Restarts will not get any bonus turns. This is intended for use on Express in the future but may also be added to other servers as well. Currently, no servers take advantage of this functionality.
* Military sanctions will be applied to a small number of player accounts. Reference: https://www.earthempires.com/...set-21-50109?t=1620149788
* Harmless spy op (spy, market spy, ally spy, and military spy) eligibility is not impacted by the shrinking humanitarian range during the final 30 turns of a round.
* Countries in GDI can perform harmless spy ops even during the final six hours of the round.
Full details here: https://www.earthempires.com/...set-21-50109?t=1620149788