10JUN11 - Blockade Fix, Patchnotes
- Extra HTML Removed
Some mail subject lines contained HTML from the old UI which has hopefully now all been removed
- Notifications Order
Multiple notifications that arrived simultaneously were occasionally being displayed in the wrong order, these have now been put in the correct order.
- Entering X|Y co-ordinates directly on the Unit Orders pages
... was causing some issues on certain browsers. We''ve temporarily disabled entering co-ordinates directly into these pages whilst we work on a fix.
- Blockade Patch
We've just completed patching the "largely broken" Blockade stratagem, and it's now working as intended.
Below, please find details on how Blockade works.
BLOCKADEThis
strategem can only be applied to Enemy or Neutral towns, but definitely not friendlies!
When
you target a town to blockade, you take up position outside the town,
and hold this position - attempting to intercept incoming and outgoing
trade caravans, and divert them to your own city.
The chance of
intercepting a trade caravan is high, but can be reduced by the
caravan's owner if they have researched some of the
Blockade Running skills in the Trade technology tree and have a high level marketplace.
Bear
in mind that your chance to intercept caravans applies to both outbound
caravans leaving the blockaded city as well as any inbound caravans
when they arrive at the blockaded city - including those from neutral
third parties and/or friends. Alliance friendships and confederations
do not apply to caravans in a blockade circumstance, just as they don't
in a resource harvesting/bump situation.
Intercepted caravans are
severely damaged by the experience - they will head to the town of the
intercepting player at a very slow pace, deliver their resources to the
town, and then return back to the original owning town. Once they
return to their original owner's town, they are repaired and back under
the control of the original owner's town.
In order to take up a Blockade
position at an enemy town, you must target the town you wish to Blockade
and you will then be prompted to choose an unoccupied square next to
the town - which is where your blockade will assemble, as well as how
long you wish to blockade for.
Only one army may occupy a Blockade location at any one
time, and in the event of multiple armies blockading the same city, only
the first person to set up the blockade will have a chance to intercept
the caravans.
A long overdue fix, we hope you like it.
Regards,
SC
Edited by GM Stormcrow - 10 Jun 2011 at 21:05