Hello everyone!
Last week we launched our first content update, and it looked like many of you have tried out the new spooky and evil units. This week, there's even more new units, some spooky again, others not so much. There's also a new building for aquatic enthusiasts, and a bunch of balance changes to reduce rushing!
Summary of new units and buildings:
- Acid Worm (2 levels): Goblin leaders
- Forest Ghost (2 levels): Darius the Druid, Arcane Alliance, Nature Nurturists
- Ballista (2 levels): Darkness Dominion, Mermaid leaders, Goblin leaders, Wolfam, Ephius, Barandur, Dominic (replaces Ice Hunters)
- Young Witch (2 levels): Not available to players
- Fishery: available to all leaders
New Units
Acid Worm
Acid Worm > Acid Crawler
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The Acid Worm is a worm, that spits acid. Makes sense, right? They spit so much they should make a soundcloud. Make sure you have a trip sitter when using these creepy fellows. Available to Goblin leaders.
Forest Ghost
Forest Ghost > Wilderness Ghost
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They're spooky, and have nice leaves on their twiggy heads, what's not to love? These spirits are available to Darius the Druid, Arcane Alliance, and the Nature Nurturists.
Ballista
Ballista > Advanced Ballista
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A little lesson in linguistics: the plural of ballista is ballistae. These big bolt-throwing machines replace Ice Hunters for Wolfam, Ephius, Barandur, and Dominic, as well as the Darkness Dominion, Mermaid leaders, and Goblin leaders.
Young Witch
Young Witch > Elder Witch
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These witches can lay the smack down on your units. They're not available to players, so attack all witches on sight like it's the middle ages.
New Building
Fishery
Fishery > Advanced Fishery
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Like a forester, but for fish! The fishery spawns new fish every now and then, though they're obviously only available in circles where you would normally find fish (also known as water). Available to all leaders!
Changes, fixes, and improvements
Circle Defender changed
- Projectiles that are blocked by circle defender deal 10% of the projectile damage to the Circle Defender. Minimum 1 damage per projectile. Attack bonuses to buildings apply. Note that circle defenders can be healed by healers so they can support the shield durability.
- Maximum number of Circle Defenders allowed per circle increased from 2 to 3. Each one gives 50% protection from projectiles. With 2 the protection is 75%. With 3 it's 87.5%.
- Circle Defender hitpoints regeneration rate inceased from 0.5 per second to 2 per second
Defending circles is now easier
- Wall upgrade price changed from 350, 700, 1050 wood to 300, 600, 900 wood
- Tower hp increased from 250 to 300. Armor increased from 3 to 6.
- Poison tower price changed from 300 wood, 600 food to 500 wood, 250 food. Armor increased from 5 to 7.
- Boulder tower price reduced from 1000 wood to 700 wood. Armor increased from 5 to 7 at level 1 and from 7 to 8 at level 2.
- Fire tower price changed from 900 food, 100 gold to 800 wood, 100 gold. Armor increased from 5 to 7.
- Acid tower target armor reduction doubled (exact numbers depend on how long the target stays in the acid splash and how many times they are hit)
- Catapult xp requirement increased from 400 to 500
- Volcano range increased from 5 to 8
Leaders
- Barandur the Builder gets +2 level 2 keeps in each circle (used to be 1 level 1 keep)
- Sentia the Spellbound workspeed bonus increased from +70% to +100%
- Laura the Lifegiver starting healers increased from 3 to 4
- Swifty the Scavenger lord get's 2 towers in each circle (up from 1)
- Wyona the Watery queen starting bonus for wood increased from 500 to 600
- Wyona the Watery queen's water circles get 3 fisheries (used to be 8 fish) and 1 gold-fish.
- Darius the druid get's 1 tower per circle (didn't get any towers before). Can no longer recruit horse archers.
- Dominic the defender get's 2 boulder towers per circle (up from 1)
- Flynn the footman units per new circle reduced from 2 spearmen, 1 archer, 1 barbar worker => 1 spearman, archer and barbar worker
- Demian the Dragon starting circle workers (including all bonuses) reduced from 5 to 4
Cheaper economy upgrades
- Prince xp requirement at level 1 reduced from 340 to 150
- Farm base gather rate increased from 6 to 8. This also makes
- Added rounding up favorably to economy bonuses to make sure that each bonus adds at least additional +1 resource at dropoff.
- drop-off building profit factor, e.g. storehouse level 2
- worker profit, e.g. golem worker
- circle profit, e.g. from having a prince in the circle
- tech type profit, e.g. from harvesting upgrade
- Wood harvesting level 1 price reduced from 250 wood and food to 200 wood and food
- Wood harvesting level 2 price reduced from 1000 wood and food to 500 wood and food
- Food harvesting level 1 price reduced from 400 wood, 200 food to 400 wood, 100 food
- Food harvesting level 2 price reduced from 600 wood, 1000 food to 600 wood, 400 food
- Banking upgrade level 1p rice reduced from 500 wood, 100 gold to 400 wood, 50 gold
- Bank level 1 xp requirement decreased from 300 to 150
- Forester level 1 xp requirement decreased from 10 to 6. Price changed from 200 wood, 600 food to 400 wood, 300 food
- Eco upgrades increase profit of appropriate resource types when deconstructing stuff
- Circle profit improvements from princes and Goblin King increase resources gained from deconstructing
- Deconstructing resource gain is capped at 70% from the original price (when many princes and upgrades are used).
Early game monster changes
A circle being defended by a single strong monster was easy to cheese, and didn't provide enough challenge. Some of these monsters have been toned down in terms of overall strength, but will appear in larger groups to defend their circles.
- Saberhorn Deer strength rating reduced from 250 to 200 (at least 1 deer in first circles)
- Megalodon strength rating reduced from 125 to 100 (at least 2 Megalodons in first circles)
- Ghost strength rating reduced from 150 to 120
- Poison zombie strength rating reduced from 150 to 40
- Pumpkin-man strength rating reduced from 40 to 30
- Pumpkin necromancer strength rating reduced from 50 to 35
- Crossbowman strength rating reduced from 55 to 30
- Necro tower strength rating reduced from 250 to 230 which allows it to spawn near starting circles
- Huge goblin strength rating reduced from 800 to 650
- Baniter monster strength rating reduced from 900 to 650
- Infested Maid strength rating reduced from 300 to 100
- Wizard strength rating reduced from 100 to 55 (the rating was kind of outdated from times when the wizard was very scary even at level 1)
- Dragon strength rating reduced from 500 to 400
- Golem strength rating reduced from 80 to 50
- Dragon lair strength rating reduced from 1800 to 1400 and xp requirement reduced from 3000 to 2000
- Wizard tower strength rating reduced from 2500 to 1500 and xp requirement reduced from 4000 to 2500
- Sunken ruins strength rating reduced from 350 to 230
- Catapult strength rating reduced from 200 to 100 and level 2 from 300 to 150
Biome guard changes for less snowballing
Some biomes now have more defenders ːcer_spiderː
- Foggy plains: increased minimum number of zombies, poison zombies, ghosts. Raised priority of having a necro-tower there instead of only mobs
- Frog swamp: minimum frogmen from 1-4 to 4-6. Usually has frog spawner now.
- Cavalry Horde biome can now spawn in weaker variations, starting from 300 strength (used to start from 1000 strength) (has some cavalry units and berry bushes)
- Zombie swamp minimum number of regular zombies increased from 0 to 6 and minimum number of ghosts increased from 1 to 2 (if total circle strength limit allows)
- Ancient ruins: increased max number of skeleton spearmen and increased likelihood of spawning black knights
Less resource snowballing
Some biomes gave a bit too much bang for their buck, making a game too snowball-ey. That's why we reduced some of these resources.
- Autumn forest: blue-berry bushes number reduced from 1-4 to 1-2: Haunted pumpkins from 0-8 to 3-4. Trees from 6-8 to 5-7. Removed training dummy and monster mushroom appearence chances
- Guard garden, the amazing land with bunch of berry bushes: berries remained at 8-10, blue-berries reduced from 8-10 to 2-3 (average total food from 9x150 + 9x300 = 4050 reduced to 7x150 + 4.5x300 = 2100). Reduced training dummy count from 3-4 to 1-2
- Zombie swamp: switched 2 blueberry pushes to regular berry bushes and increased minimum bush count from 2 to 3. Increased dried tree count from 2-5 to 3-5
- Priest hideout berry bushes reduced from 7-9 to 5-6. Extra life mushrooms reduced from 1-4 to 1-2
- Saberhorn Deer Forest: switched about half of the blueberry bushes to regular berry bushes
- Rune land: reduced max number of monster mushrooms from 3 to 1
- Goblin land: reduced training dummies from 4-8 to 3-4
- Mushroom forest: reduced training dummies from 4-6 to 3-4
- Goblin wasteland: reduced training dummies from 4-8 to 3-4. Reduced min circle strength to spawn in from 800 to 150
- Huge Goblin Council: reduced training dummy count from 4-8 to 3-4. Reduced pumpkins from 5 to 4.
- Crossbow Horde: training dummy count reduced from 4-12 to 3-4
- Magic land: training dummy count reduced from 4-6 to 2
- Training grounds: training dummies remain at 5. Monster mushroom chance removed. Tree count reduced from 5-6 to 2-3
- Crossroads: mystery box spawn chance increased from 50% to 100%
- Ghost forest: tree count reduced fom 8-12 to 8-10
- Infested maid forest: reduced tree count from 8-12 to 8-10
- Red plains: reduced pure gold count from 4-8 to 4-5 and 25% chance for extra gold appearence from 2-5 to 2. Minimum circle strength to spawn in reduced from 1000 to 230.
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