DomiNations Update v11.8 - New University Leader

Greetings Leaders,

DomiNations Update 11.8 is coming soon and brings a new Drone Age University Leader to bolster your armies! We’ve also taken a second look at Churchill’s Committee Bonus to improve the effectiveness of the Explosive Sniper Shots. There are a few more things we added in the update so without further ado, let's take a look at what you can expect!

Parliament
The team has added another fix to the Parliament Building. Parliamentary Defenses have been falling short in range for far too long. As such, the building’s Defensive Cannon works and will now fire at the noted range of 10!

Winston Churchill’s Committee Bonus Improvements
Based on your feedback we wanted to make some small improvements to this Committee Bonus. In this update, the explosive Sniper Shot will appear even after defeating a target. We also gave a small increase to the radius of the AoE so it would be more effective.

Update to Event Episodes
Going forward, Event Episodes will not have a Global Leaderboard each week. We want to reduce confusion resulting from the frequency and simultaneous nature of these Episodes. Season Passes will still feature a Top 100 Leaderboard.

New University Leader
We promised you that an electrifying new University Leader was on the way! Some of you may have noticed a new face on your mobile device’s Home Screen and perhaps took a few guesses, or honestly very informed guesses, or maybe even someone told you exactly who was on the way.

REGARDLESS, Nikola Tesla is here!

Here are some of the benefits that will be available for research:

• Decreases the cost to upgrade Directives
• Decrease the time to upgrade Directives
• Increases the movement speed of Offensive and Defensive Drones
• Increases the damage of Attack Helicopters
• Increases the deployment speed of APCs
• Increase the amount of G.C.I. Radars you can have by 1
• Reduces the deployment cooldown of Recons
• Increases the attack speed of Generals
• Reduces the cooldown of Reroute
• Increases the hitpoints of the Drone Command
• Capstone: Every 7 days, you can claim a chest containing 1 Charged Directive from the Drone Command.

Nikola Tesla can be unlocked by upgrading your university to level 11, which is available starting in Drone Age.

New Councilors
Update 11.8 will include three new Councilors to add to your chamber! You can look forward to seeing Ching Shih, Joan of Arc, and Shaka Zulu offering their leadership expertise in the near future.

• Ching Shih
  
  War

1. Mercenary Damage +5%
   
   
2. Mercenary Damage +6%
   Mercenary Hitpoints +9%
   
   
3. Mercenary Damage +8%
   Mercenary Hitpoints +11%
   Coalition Troop Damage +10%
   
   
4. Mercenary Damage +11%
   Mercenary Hitpoints +14%
   Coalition Troop Damage +13%
   Enemy Tower Damage -11%
   
   
5. Mercenary Damage +15%
   Mercenary Hitpoints +18%
   Coalition Troop Damage +16%
   Enemy Tower Damage -14%
   Bomber Damage +14%

Primary

1. Mercenary Hitpoints +6%
   
   
2. Mercenary Hitpoints +8%
   Raider Damage +9%
   
   
3. Mercenary Hitpoints +10%
   Raider Damage +11%
   Food, Gold and Oil Generated +5%
   
   
4. Mercenary Hitpoints +13%
   Raider Damage +14%
   Food, Gold and Oil Generated +7%
   Oil Looted +11%
   
   
5. Mercenary Hitpoints +16%
   Raider Damage +18%
   Food, Gold and Oil Generated +10%
   Oil Looted +13%
   All Resources Looted +14%

• Joan of Arc
  
  War

1. Mortar Infantry Damage +5%
   
   
2. Mortar Infantry Damage +8%
   Enemy Wall Hitpoints -7%
   
   
3. Mortar Infantry Damage +10%
   Enemy Wall Hitpoints -9%
   Attack Helicopter Damage and Hitpoints +6%
   
   
4. Mortar Infantry Damage +13%
   Enemy Wall Hitpoints -11%
   Attack Helicopter Damage and Hitpoints +8%
   Generals Hitpoints +11%
   
   
5. Mortar Infantry Damage +16%
   Enemy Wall Hitpoints -14%
   Attack Helicopter Damage and Hitpoints +11%
   Generals Hitpoints +14%
   Paratrooper Hitpoints and Damage +8%

Primary

1. Heavy Infantry Attack Speed +5%
   
   
2. Heavy Infantry Attack Speed +6%
   Heavy Infantry Damage +8%
   
   
3. Heavy Infantry Attack Speed +8%
   Heavy Infantry Damage +10%
   Generals Damage +7%
   
   
4. Heavy Infantry Attack Speed +10%
   Heavy Infantry Damage +13%
   Generals Damage +9%
   Enemy Tower Damage +9%
   
   
5. Heavy Infantry Attack Speed +13%
   Heavy Infantry Damage +16%
   Generals Damage +12%
   Enemy Tower Damage +12%
   Recon Scan Bonus Damage +10%

• Shaka Zulu
  
  War

1. Machine Gun Infantry Damage +4%
   
   
2. Machine Gun Infantry Damage +5%
   Air Defense Damage +4%
   
   
3. Machine Gun Infantry Damage +6%
   Air Defense Damage +5%
   Fighter Damage +5%
   
   
4. Machine Gun Infantry Damage +8%
   Air Defense Damage +7%
   Fighter Damage +7%
   Bazooka Damage +12%
   
   
5. Machine Gun Infantry Damage +11%
   Air Defense Damage +10%
   Fighter Damage +10%
   Bazooka Damage +18%
   Heavy Tank Hitpoints +14%

Primary

1. Defensive Tower Damage +5%
   
   
2. Defensive Tower Damage +8%
   Wall Hitpoints +7%
   
   
3. Defensive Tower Damage +10%
   Wall Hitpoints +9%
   Invading Heavy Tank Hitpoints -5%
   
   
4. Defensive Tower Damage +13%
   Wall Hitpoints +11%
   Invading Heavy Tank Hitpoints -7%
   Invading Generals Damage -10%
   
   
5. Defensive Tower Damage +16%
   Wall Hitpoints +14%
   Invading Heavy Tank Hitpoints -10%
   Invading Generals Damage -14%
   Invading Bomber Damage -14%

At first, these Councilors will only be obtainable in special Councilor Recruitments. These Recruitments will be available at a later date; be sure to check out our Week Ahead posts to be informed on the availability of these Councilors!

Additional Updates

• Multiple UI-related fixes
  • Re-aligned Aztec Calendar and Rosetta Stone Legendary Artifacts in museum displays.
  • Minor tweaks to accommodate for multiple language displays, improving readability.
• Defensive Drone
  • Fixed an issue where Defensive Drone would work incorrectly when placed dead center on the map
    • A rare case in which, if you could manage to set the Defensive Drone perfectly in the center of the map, it wouldn’t move or utilize directives when your base was attacked.

EDIT 4/26/23
Added Councilor information and how to obtain the Councilors in the future.

 

Increase the amount of G.C.I. Radars you can have by 1

 

Update to Event Episodes
Going forward, Event Episodes will not have a Global Leaderboard each week. We want to reduce confusion resulting from the frequency and simultaneous nature of these Episodes. Season Passes will still feature a Top 100 Leaderboard.

Please don’t take excuse for reducing confusion. You are reducing the chance for players to get legendary and asking players to buy more speed up to secure a top 100 place for 30 days.

I doubt this will come out of the result you guys expected. Most of the people will give up the global leaderboard. Good luck.

 

The top 100 leaderboard on 7 days events is already extremely suspicious. You need base math to understand those scores are not even feasible.

I saw several times players with +500k points. u check domistats and see no peak, curve, nothing. where did all those speed ups?

I sent a message to CS with calculations and explaining that even a complete univesity speed up would not be enough to reach such score. Of course nobody replied. Few weeks later, official communication says there was an exploit. (really????)

However the reality is, these scores are still there.

To be very honest. if you want a suggestion from a real player, keep monthly leadeboard only with Multiplayer points. get rid of all this speed up crap and also maintain the weekly leaderboard with this speedy up format That way, you may have more people happy.

Another coin if allowed. It is very nice to have new content for Drone. I'm also pretty sure that these guys are the ones which spent money, however it is needed 2 to 3 years to get there. The lack of content for new players or some shortcut make the game a NO Go for new players; No new players means, your game is flagged to die.

 

The top 100 leaderboard on 7 days events is already extremely suspicious. You need base math to understand those scores are not even feasible.

I saw several times players with +500k points. u check domistats and see no peak, curve, nothing. where did all those speed ups?

I sent a message to CS with calculations and explaining that even a complete univesity speed up would not be enough to reach such score. Of course nobody replied. Few weeks later, official communication says there was an exploit. (really????)

However the reality is, these scores are still there.

To be very honest. if you want a suggestion from a real player, keep monthly leadeboard only with Multiplayer points. get rid of all this speed up crap and also maintain the weekly leaderboard with this speedy up format That way, you may have more people happy.

Another coin if allowed. It is very nice to have new content for Drone. I'm also pretty sure that these guys are the ones which spent money, however it is needed 2 to 3 years to get there. The lack of content for new players or some shortcut make the game a NO Go for new players; No new players means, your game is flagged to die.

I have no doubt that there are exploits out there that some are taking advantage of. However, an increase in leaderboard points without a corresponding increase in xp is easily explained: They are cancelling the upgrade before it finishes.

Let’s assume you have a building that takes 10 days to complete. You start the upgrade and then apply speed ups for 9 days (maybe even 9 day 23 hours), but then you cancel the upgrade. I believe you get half of your resources back. So you are out half your resources, but then you can start the upgrade all over again and continue this process until you are at where you want to be on the leaderboard. No xp gained, but a significant amount of speed ups used.

Not the way I like to play the game, but people do it and I wouldn’t consider that breaking any rules.

 

The summary tidbit (news) related to this forum post, dated April 19, it says "introduces three New Councilors, Ching Shih, Joan of Arc, and Shaka Zulu", yet it's not in the post itself. Perhaps it was decided to not add those? Or, they were added but it missed the main final post?

 

The summary tidbit (news) related to this forum post, dated April 19, it says "introduces three New Councilors, Ching Shih, Joan of Arc, and Shaka Zulu", yet it's not in the post itself. Perhaps it was decided to not add those? Or, they were added but it missed the main final post?

how do tou know this? and is there link or screeshot and what they do?

 

i really want there to be reduced times. i am stuck in enlightment age with university research. do something for the lower ages for advancement... untill global at least

 

i really want there to be reduced times. i am stuck in enlightment age with university research. do something for the lower ages for advancement... untill global at least

It's not ideal to be stuck in Enlightenment doing University; instead, go to Industrial and get planes, good commandos, decoy, a ginormous Alliance Gate via Sally Ride, and so much more. Enlightenment Age is a temporary stop for offense, nothing more, and the bulk of that offense comes from the Library.

 

how do tou know this? and is there link or screeshot and what they do?

NEWS

Welcome to the official forums of DomiNations

xen.bighugegames.com

 

It'll be interesting to see if the defense drone in the middle of the base bug fix will fix my defense drone too. My defense drone hasn't worked for a month and a half and it has never been in the middle of the base. In fact, I've moved it to the edges and it still didn't work.

Is there any timeline for when this update is coming out so we can plan our wars accordingly?

 

It'll be interesting to see if the defense drone in the middle of the base bug fix will fix my defense drone too. My defense drone hasn't worked for a month and a half and it has never been in the middle of the base. In fact, I've moved it to the edges and it still didn't work.

Is there any timeline for when this update is coming out so we can plan our wars accordingly?

The update has begun rolling out today. Some folks will be able to manually install like our usual Update Rollouts.

 

Thanks for fixing that old parliament bug.
Nice update

 

There is something weird going on with the museum... Is it me or when you swap an artifact you don't see which one you have selected? Wasit always like that?

 

I can see 3 new councillors now appear in the collection UI but none of the recruitment cards have them included in the drop rates. Does this mean you can not currently get them?

 

I can see 3 new councillors now appear in the collection UI but none of the recruitment cards have them included in the drop rates. Does this mean you can not currently get them?

glad im not the only one who saw this. id like joan of arc for my council.

 

I can see 3 new councillors now appear in the collection UI but none of the recruitment cards have them included in the drop rates. Does this mean you can not currently get them?

Well spotted. Unless it is a display error, you seem to be spot on.

 

There is something weird going on with the museum... Is it me or when you swap an artifact you don't see which one you have selected? Wasit always like that?

Yeah, I think that has mot changed

 

This is a working theory, but I believe that they intended to add the councilors to the game with this update, but not release them till a later date. Main reasoning I think this is because the collection rewards still max at 160 and not 190. So they haven’t updated the rest of council to include them. I imagine the way the collection screen is coded is it automatically pulls all available councilor forms instead of each added individually, and this is why we can see them there.

 

@Harlems369th what are the university upgrade costs and times?

For the new uni leader, what does each study cost in time, resource, and workers?

It would be a great quality of life change to get detailed update notes that include specific numbers instead of vague statements.