Update Notes for v2.2.x (iOS and Android)

[TheWise]

The v2.2.x update of DomiNations will be available soon in an app store near you!

New Nation Added: Korea

• This nation’s strong traditions refund some of the loot stolen on defense and increases war tactics capacity
• Train the deadly Hwarang light infantry that deals more damage to enemies

Better Army Management

• Tap on a troop’s icon in your current army and you can dismiss them to make room for other troops

DomiNations is expanding!

• The game is now available in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea!

Balance Changes

• Animal blessing duration reduced from ten minutes to five minutes

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Offensive blessings are no longer used when a player times out of a battle without deploying any troops or war tactics
• Temporarily banned players are now shown a message with the time remaining on their ban
• Nation select window displays bonuses for each unique troop
• Greek nation refund now correctly applies when building or upgrading roads
• China’s level 6 library now has the appropriate building art
• Updated description text for Biplanes and Zeppelins

 

[JuDomines]

This animal blessing nerf is terrible. This was really convenient. In 15 min I was able to have a full mercenary squad of ronins, a tower blessing and a building blessing

 

[Denquin]

No window of new building when upgrading?

 

[Redgar]

They even didn't bothered fixing killing your TC with 5 demolitions, while koreans will be able to have 6. Awesome. Still having those attacks quite often. But nerfing something is a must with every update. Poor approach, imo

 

[DestroyerArcher]

So now we have to pay double the diamonds to get the old length of animal blessing. Everything else sounds ok.

 

[yoseque]

There need the change old men from tutorial, or he is Methuselah?

 

[Djinn]

We shall see what happens here. I also agree the animal blessing is ruined. 10 minutes was perfect.

 

[Bodack Scythe]

Okay, here's the deal. Before you add or subtract anything else, please address the cheating players and or adjust the awful algorithm accordingly. I'm a level 114 player with modest defenses. Yet my match ups are almost entirely against accounts level 145-200 and all of my match ups are for 1 -39 medals. Yet I am constantly attacked by cheat accounts for -15, -26, -31, -39 medals. Again, by players who are level 167, 176, 185, 196 etc. Please please please fix this issue. I've only been asking for this specific issue to be addressed for 2 months now! Currently Dominations is owned by cheaters. They rule the game right now at the upper levels. I have been playing since April and watched it go from bad to worse, to being nearly unplayable. Please address the cheater/algorithm issues. Currently there are THOUSANDS of cheat accounts and the algorithm somehow favors them over clean accounts, such as my own.

 

[Lord Adahn]

We shall see what happens here. I also agree the animal blessing is ruined. 10 minutes was perfect.

Agreed. 10 minutes was perfect and even at 10 minutes it was 50-50 whether I'd get enough leather and fur to hire four groups of mercenary soldiers and get a tower blessing. In my opinion if they're reducing the time the blessing lasts they should increase the percentage of the animals to drop leather and fur.

 

[Gogogodzilla]

Why did you remove compatibility for my tablet? This morning I could play, then the new update is uploaded to Google Play... and I can't update my game. For you made the update incompatible. So now I have the old version installed on my tablet with no way to play anymore.

 

[Hiebosch]

I agree! Now you want me to use a diamond to get animals to spawn pretty much at regular rate!? What the...?

The only way the gathering blessing was useful was if you used it with the animal blessing at same time. If I use the gathering blessing - clear out gather my fruit, mine my gold and hunt all the available animals. That takes max of 5 minutes. I have the tech bonus so blessing lasts 15 min, the remaining time is wasted.

If they halved the gathering blessing time that would have made sense to me. That would encourage me to use it more frequently -- couple of bears walking around and I happen to have the workers free - great get the gathering blessing.... but now both blessing are close to useless with that 1 nerf.

Normally I get the nerf tweaks. This one makes no sense to me at all.

 

[Eddie F1]

One thing this game seriously lacks is something to do while your army rebuilds - hunting with the Animal Blessing was about it, alliance features are non-existant, a few chat Thanks for troop donations.

You need more mini-games to stave off boredom not nerf the one and only useful one.

 

[Damascus]

I think you should change the games name to Dominerf! ENOUGH NERFING!!!!!! Really, Im not all that broken up over this nerf. I only use the animal blessing occasionally, but you guys have done so many needs now, its annoying to see even small ones.

 

[Superbuddha]

That's it for me, the animal blessing nerf is the last straw. In the past few months each update has brought some sort of punishment to loyal players. And there again the developper and publisher show their disdain of the fan base and made this game a little more unfair to play. I spent already about £60 on this and retrospectively I think I had little value for money, also I dread what the future updates are going to be. To avoid the aggravation I am signing off right now and deleting Dominations from my iPad. I am also going to ask iTunes for a refund of my last IAP. Bye and thanks for nothing.

Edit:
iTunes just agreed to refund me £14.99
Take that Nexon M!

 

[Ravenlord]

It's all about the coin people .... or is it 'crown'? ... no, wait, .... well, maybe both. In any case these little nerfs - sorry, balances, - only mean one thing - if you want it you'll buy it with coin or crown and the devs know this. Why else would they 'really' do it??!

As for the troop management option: simply brilliant. Most people wouldnt even have considered this a must-have but now that you have it some people will no doubt try it and guess what - just means more food you'll use. Sure it's not a lot but it just further underscores the devs' mindset when making changes. (Yes l know - just go into battle then make changes after some troops are lost)

Good thing I'm only a casual gamer - l could be very disillusioned and cynical!!!

 

[Porcupine]

I don't really care about the animal blessing, I even actually think that nerf is acceptable.
However, I believe, Greeks are not acceptable. That nation remains utterly and completely useless. Refunds are mediocre and free upgrade time doesn't even cover 0.4% of the original time in higher ages. And of course HC nerfed and suicidals, I learned to accept and understand that nerf anyway and I'm over it.
I'm not sure if the Dev intend that nation to be a joke or just a trap for new players.

 

[David Pasquinel]

It's almost funny how they say that nerfing things is a last resort, while the only thing that they do to "balance gameplay" is nerfing the hell out of everything.

 

[forgetthis]

How exactly does nerfing the animal blessing "re-balance" the game? It's not like people who used the blessing gained some massive advantage, so the only reason to make that move is if the designers want to change players' behaviors away from using it.

As others have noted, now that the animal blessing isn't worth as much and takes up half the time, there's even less to do during army rebuilds ... which must mean that BHG wants us to spend more crowns to hurry up our builds. In other words, for people who want to make more than one attack at a time (excluding those players who only fight the civs that they can overrun because of a huge level discrepancy), the game just got more expensive in the name of "re-balancing". Every "re-balance" to this point has been geared towards that end, and while the animal blessing is a smaller impact, its goal is the same - force people to spend money to play.

Also as others have noted: the AI is still broken, there are still a ton of cheaters, and the Greek empire is still largely worthless. But since none of those are costing BHG money right now (and players' eventual discovery of the crappiness of the Greek empire will make BHG money as players pay to change), they're not being addressed, and will never truly be addressed.

If there's one thing that BHG is consistently showing, is that they don't care about their players' opinions, only their money. The designers ignore the problems and focus on taking things away in the hopes that people will open their wallets more. Personally, I open my wallet for games where there is value added, not when value is consistently taken away. This "re-balance" only strengthens my position that spending any money on this game is a waste, and I'm beginning to see any time spent on the game as a waste as well.

 

[Mrcoconut]

The 10-minute Animal Blessing has been part of the game since what, since the day DomiNations was launched? I don't see any problems with it. Personally, I never really used it, not until I reached Gunpowder Age. I can honestly say that Animal Blessing was really helpful in saving up millions worth of food and gold. After I raid and had to train troops for more than 15 minutes I always use the blessing to keep myself occupied.

Now that I'm in Enlightenment Age, looting other nations becomes twice or trice as hard. There was one time I actually depended on Animal Blessing just to reach 3.5m resources. The reason why A LOT of players are complaining is because Nexon just took away the players' second source of income. And frankly, I don't mind it being nerfed as long as the matchmaking and troops are well-balanced. I'm a level 103 Roman and I constantly see level 140-150 Industrial Age nations.

I agree with the posts above that the changes in this patch, let alone the changes in the previous ones, are attempts to force players into buying crowns. Let me tell you this, I have been playing DomiNations since the start of January and never have I spent any money on this game. If this is in fact your way to force players like me to spend money then you are gravely mistaken. I'd rather quit this game than spend hundreds of dollars.

Instead of welcoming new players into this game Nexon is literally driving them away before they even try it. Loyal players are what's keeping a game like this alive. Lose them and you will likely lose your income and eventually the game itself.

Think about this: This game already has a lot of loyal players, players who are WILLING to spend a lot of money. Wouldn't it be better for Nexon to welcome more of them in the future? I understand the need of income, but hey, look at Clash of Clans. They too started out small. I also played that game. So many people play that game that they don't need to nerf everything just to force players to buy gems. Money will eventually flow, and fortunately for them, it did.

Don't break what is already working.

 

[Ravenlord]

Maybe this is just me being picky but l thought I'ld share this observation: all buildings, towers, farms, etc, have the 'finish with crowns' option towards the left. The new troop management addition has the 'finish with crowns' on the right - where the training icon used to be.

A couple of times l found myself touching the new icon out of habit - and it's conceivable someone might accidentally touch the Yes option and use up some crowns. It's not even necessary because the crown option is still available inside the training area.

Why oh why wasn't this icon put on the left like all the others? A simple accidental placement error - or just a coincidence ??
Or some other reason ..... ?