Tournament Square Update!

Normally spies and scouts are the means to discovering what people have in terms of capabilities, diplomats and military.  However they can get caught even though the information is up to date.  The combat stats are probably out of date, but do give an idea of military capability without any risk. I could easily imagine a less scrupulous player selling the information to other players.  We can all argue about the extent of the usefulness of the information, but evidently quite a few people think it IS useful, which means it probably is.  Hence there needs to be user control i.e. an output filter set by user preferences which restricts what is divulged.

Brandmeister wrote: Perhaps those who have resolved not to participate can move their data security concerns to a separate thread? This player-led tournament is overall a positive development, and it seems unnecessary to derail Kodabear's announcement with complaints that are more appropriately directed at the developers than Koda.

Perhaps those who have resolved not to participate can move their data security concerns to a separate thread? This player-led tournament is overall a positive development, and it seems unnecessary to derail Kodabear's announcement with complaints that are more appropriately directed at the developers than Koda.

I am passing on the tech issues that seem to be popping up after this update, and the team is also reading this thread. Keep an eye on that one.

I also found a bug in the combat API.

When you send an army to occupy an empty square it produces a report.
But in this report there are no division names.
Ingame it shows the name of the division but in the API report it only shows the division ID, not the name.
In all other cases (attacks, defenses, ...) it also shows the division name.

Example:
<armies><army><armyname id="577286">Sov</armyname><divisions><division><divisionname id="891940"/><commandername id="259946">Katherina Heilenhorst</commandername><commanderhealth>100</commanderhealth><units><unit><unitname id="89">Mangonels</unitname><unitquantity>1</unitquantity></unit></units></division></divisions></army></armies>

Usually it should look like this to include both the ID and the name.
<divisionname id="923968">Test</divisionname>

And I also have a suggestion which makes using the API easier and will also reduce the load on the server.
Please include the X/Y coordinates of the battle also in the combatreportsapi, not just in the reports. Kodabears King of the Hill tournament happens only on specific squares (the designated tournament squares). Having X/Y in the combatreportsapi would be very helpful because the reports for other squares can be sorted out immediately without the need to check them first.