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  1. Magnifico

    Apparently the UTC clock in the inbox is not official

    According to the announcement in my in-game inbox, the World Traveler event was scheduled to end on 9/19 at 14:00:00 UTC. I wanted to take advantage of the World Traveler event to upgrade my Tank Depot. Since I was going to be away from wifi for the weekend, I even spent 200 crowns on a peace...
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    What's the story with the update I just got?

    I got excited when I saw a game update, but it looks just like the 4.6 update again. As far as I can tell nothing has changed; no sign of expeditions or any other new features. What's the story here?
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    Stolen Goods timed quest is broken

    The Stolen Goods timed quest is not counting trade goods stolen properly. I'm not going to try and post screenshots here, but I have sent them to CS. On an attack where I stole one diamond, three metal, and two leather, I was credited with three goods stolen for quest progress. Now I just did an...
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    National trade goods broke storehouse graphic reflecting number of goods stored

    It used to be that the graphic for the storehouse would change depending on the number of trade goods you had. This seemed to correlate with the number of goods that could be stolen from it if it was destroyed in an attack. So, for example, when only two boxes of goods were shown in front of...
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    [History geekery] What real-life tank is the battle tank art based on?

    I know there's some artistic license going on here, but so far I've been able to identify the real-life models for the tanks in this game. There generic light tank, as the blurb says, looks like the French Renault FT, and the French unique tanks also seem to be what they say on the tin: the St...
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    Why we probably still don't have world war replays yet

    I'm getting so tired of this. The forum isn't letting me upload the photos, but it's nothing people haven't seen many times before. Watching the replay of my most recent defense shows the attacker taking 6 oil, but my log has me losing 3.7k along with twice as many trade goods, including two...
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    An Accelerated Course of Study: Graduating From the University Quickly

    Those of us who aren't cheating or spending thousands of dollars worth of crowns have a long road ahead of us with the new university. There are five Great Leaders (with another one "Coming Soon"), each with 100 levels of upgrades. I'm still waiting for my university to build, so maybe this is...
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    The 8 Types of Recruits You'd Get If You Actually Were To Get Any Recruits Ever

    Some of you who have not been playing long might never have experienced what it was like to be in a large, active alliance that actually got recruits. The rest of you are probably in the grip of nostalgia and don’t remember what it was really like. So let me tell/remind you that even back in the...
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    Customer Service seems to have no problem with my new ally. Should I?

    I finally had a new recruit join my alliance. For those of you following the alliance recruitment debacle, this is a very rare event; a cause for celebration, even. And my new recruit's base looked good: IA in the process of upgrading to Global. Maxed IA offense but Medieval farms and caravans...
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    Guess Which Civilization Just Got Even Worse?

    I am one of the few Empire League players bloody-minded, or just plain stupid, enough to persist in playing Greeks. Their flaws are well-known, so they are a deservedly unpopular choice (except apparently among patriotic real-life Greeks). But rather than try to address these shortcomings...
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    Armory choke point getting ridiculous

    The new update adds coalitions, even yet still another thing to be upgraded in the Armory. It was bad enough before. A second factory is nice and all, but how about some way to research more than one troop/tactic/factory unit/air unit/general/coalition at a time?
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    Elite Donators: Good Troops, Fast

    There are a lot of alliances to join if you want to be a serious world warrior or shoot for the top 100 alliances, but what if you just want to build your base? The Elite Donators are for you! We do war, but it's not our main focus, so you don't have to download a third-party app to coordinate...
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    Matchmaking Unavailable 5/23

    The "Find an Opponent" button is grayed out for me, and when I try to click it it says matchmaking is unavailable due to maintenance. I haven't seen any announcement about maintenance. What's the story here, Seraphine ? Any idea how long it will last?
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    How does level 2 of the Command Technology work?

    One of the new technologies from the Global Age library is Command. Level 2 Command upgrades your general's defensive retinue. My library is upgrading right now, so I can't see what it says, but when I looked ahead from IA it said it would upgrade them to heavy gatling guns. At that point I...
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    The current alliance search algorithm and the Forging Allegiance event

    This event probably has many players looking for a large, active alliance to join. A small alliance, no matter how active, is going to have trouble generating a sufficient volume of requests so that its members can get all the event rewards; similarly for a largely inactive one no matter what...
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    "Volksgrenadier": closer the mark than "Wehrmacht" but still no cigar

    "Volksgrenadier": closer the mark than "Wehrmacht" but still no cigar I get that the veneer of historicity covering this game is pretty thin and that, yes, it's just a game. But history is sort of my thing, so I still have to get this off my chest. If gratuitous historical inaccuracies don't...
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    Generals swapping horses for tanks: beneficial, harmful, or merely cosmetic?

    I have finally hit the point where I don't have much left to do with my armory and oil besides upgrade generals, so I'm starting to wonder about what happens when generals go from level 19 to level 20 and swap their horses for tanks. This changes their graphic and the sound they play, but does...
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    Innocent replay/log discrepancy or are cheaters getting subtle?

    I know discrepancies between replays and the log aren't uncommon, but this attack looks fishy to me. The use of the Demolition war tactic, which is subject to often-reported hacks, sets off alarm bells for me. When I watch the replay I see the attacker taking out my TC fair and square, then...
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    "Wehrmacht"? Really?

    I just noticed that the Industrial Age unique German shock infantry is called "Wehrmacht". That term was only used to refer to the German army during the Nazi period. During WWI, the period ostensibly corresponding to the IA, the German army as a whole was called the "Deutsches Heer". The use...
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    Haven't seen this cheat before

    Look at that -- in addition to the two level 30 generals and all the rest, THREE flammpanzer mercenaries. Must be crowded shoehorning three space 2 troops into a mercenary camp that can hold at most 5 spaces. All three were there in the replay, so it's not just a bug in the summary. Reported to...
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