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Points: 1650 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 19:25
I just switched a bunch of food sovereignty over to stone at a max-pop city to deal with a deficit there, and with the reduced sovereignty controls, I can't cancel the ongoing lvl IV construction to switch back to food, or even see when it will finish.  What a pain.

/facepalm

Does this represent a change of heart regarding intended mechanics?  I could swear I checked with devs before starting to use this strategy many months ago, but I can't find such a petition or forum post anymore.  Also, this will make achieving city #10 about 10 times harder and more dangerous, and it was close to infeasible in the first place.  Which is unfortunate, because I'd otherwise consider destroying and building my unbalanced-plot cities.  3-7 splits have become so ridiculously untenable for long-term growth that I'd recommend newer players intentionally destroy their first cities just to be rid of them and never have fewer than 4 of any plot.  It also seriously impacts the value assessment of 7-food plot cities vs 6-food plots.

Tera-forming spells/engineering options cannot come soon enough, no matter how expensive.  And it seems cruel to still push new players onto starting plots with 7-3 resource splits.
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Points: 156 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 19:09
Originally posted by GM ThunderCat GM ThunderCat wrote:

ADVANCE NOTICE OF CHANGES TO ACCOUNT SITTING
We've said in forum posts past that it's going to happen, and so it is.

From 1600 Server Time on August 1st 2011, players will no longer be able to be permanent sitters on another players' account.

The way this will work is as follows:
  • Each player account will be allowed to have up to 90 "sittable days" in any 12 month period.
  • As of 1st August, every players' account management screen will show a 90 day timer.
  • Whilst a sitter is appointed to your account, this timer will decrease daily.
  • When you are within 24hrs of your 12 month limit, your sitters will be notified by ingame mail - and you will be notified by external email.
  • When your 90 days worth of sitting has expired, all sitting arrangements for your account will be automatically cancelled and you will no longer be able to appoint a sitter to your account.
  • As and when your particular sitting period cycles round, you will gain back "sittable days" and your timer will increment back from zero days remaining, at which point you will be able to reappoint a sitter.
  • Having either one sitter or two sitters on your account will not affect the speed at which the timer decreases.
 
This will be harsh on people with an alt account, having to log out and back in everytime they switch accounts.
 
Is it in any way possible to "bind" your two accounts together - as a form of permanent sitter but ONLY for your alt account, and once it's done it can't be un-done?
 
For me, personally, it will be a big issue having to log out of Illy and back in everytime I want to do something on my alt - also because if you log out and in too many times the browser starts acting up.
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Points: 418 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 18:10
Originally posted by GM ThunderCat GM ThunderCat wrote:


If you have negative food production AND you have no food left in your city, then your city taxation rate will automatically adjust itself downwards to return you to a state of zero food balance.





oh really?  was a game abuse? i have like 3 maxed cities that have -10k food production even if i put em at 0% tax.  Have barely no cities on 7 food tiles then... 1 is enough to feed the production of 3-4 maxed cites running with negative food production.

Well , my account can go to garbage :/
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Points: 2157 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 13:46
Hi All,

A few things today!

BUY PRESTIGE ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE
You can now buy Prestige from your mobile phone in 58 countries around the world!

Countries covered right now include:

FI SE NO DK EE LV LT RO BG RS HR HU CZ MY PL TW FR ES PTIE GB DE CH BE NL AU HK RU ID BA BY SK SI UA AT US ZA GRIL VN CL CO VE MX TR TH MK AZ KZ IT ME DO PA EC AR BO CY

Simply go to the "Buy Prestige" page, and it's a very straightforward process from there, simply follow the instructions - Prestige will be credited instantly and charges will appear on your next mobile bill.

ADVANCE NOTICE OF CHANGES TO ACCOUNT SITTING
We've said in forum posts past that it's going to happen, and so it is.

From 1600 Server Time on August 31st 2011, players will no longer be able to be permanent sitters on another players' account.

The way this will work is as follows:
  • Each player account will be allowed to have up to 90 "sittable days" in any 12 month period.
  • As of 31st August, every players' account management screen will show a 90 day timer.
  • Whilst a sitter is appointed to your account, this timer will decrease daily.
  • When you are within 24hrs of your 12 month limit, your sitters will be notified by ingame mail - and you will be notified by external email.
  • When your 90 days worth of sitting has expired, all sitting arrangements for your account will be automatically cancelled and you will no longer be able to appoint a sitter to your account.
  • As and when your particular sitting period cycles round, you will gain back "sittable days" and your timer will increment back from zero days remaining, at which point you will be able to reappoint a sitter.
  • Having either one sitter or two sitters on your account will not affect the speed at which the timer decreases.


ADVANCE NOTICE OF CHANGES TO NEGATIVE FOOD WHEN YOU HAVE NO FOOD STOCKPILED

In order to address a potential exploit, players should be aware of the following game environment change: 

If you have negative food production AND you have no food left in your city, then your city taxation rate will automatically adjust itself downwards to return you to a state of zero food balance.

This rule comes into effect at  12:00 server time, the 31st of August.


OTHER CHANGES AND FIXES:

COMMANDER RESET
Resetting commander skillpoints was providing them with an additional percentage bonus upon reset (on top of their increased maximum level).  This has been rectified.  For the avoidance of doubt, commanders can specialise in their area up to L15, but do not gain the additional 5 levels by default.

FORTUNE TELLER MESSAGE CORRECTION
Sending Assassins to the fortune tellers elicited a response referring to Scouts, which has been fixed to correctly read "Assassins".

TOURNAMENT WINNER STATUES
Have been placed on the world map for those winners who have advised us of their valid statue locations.  Visiting the statues gives a message concerning the Tournament and the Winner.


Best wishes,

TC


Edited by GM ThunderCat - 01 Aug 2011 at 17:08
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