Must be time for a new dev diary?

We havnt had one for ages, this is what i found in the last one i could find!!!

Mercenaries (approx. Oct). Mercenaries will be troops that you can purchase and use on an adventure island. They are “disposable” which means that they will not return to your homeland once used.(hasnt happened by start april 2013)
Economic adventures (approx. Nov)(hasnt happened by start april 2013)
Features for Level 50+: Level cap raise + science system + new buildings (approx. Nov + Dec)(hasnt happened by start april 2013)

Estimated for the end of 2012 / 1st quarter of 2013

PVP (hasnt happened by start april 2013)

so 1) i would like a new diary
2) i would like more accurate dates dont write approx oct. and then not do it 6 months later

It is planned Dorkan, you should get a new dev diary very soon.
The Q&A Backstage video should also be available in the next few days.

Will let you guys know when we have the green light.

Thats great news Dantesama......any chance the dates could be a bit more realistic (id rather it say no date than a date thats going to missed by months)

This is what i asked in a private msg to Dantesama as well some time ago.
As long there is some information, its still better then nothing at all

Although I agree it is time for some new implements as more and more guildmembers are taking time of/stop completely becasue of lack of improvements.

Looking forward to the diary!
keep up the good work

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Originally Posted by BB_Dantesama

It is planned Dorkan, you should get a new dev diary very soon.
The Q&A Backstage video should also be available in the next few days.

Will let you guys know when we have the green light.

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It's about time. I hope we won't have to wait another 5-6 months for changes after that.

Hi all
me was told 10 month ago that pvp shood start around now, so i waited till now. Hope we get it soon

pvp was originally promised for Jan- feb 2012.

The original buildings were equipped with a repair button - it, we assume was ready for pvp, as was the button to send troops to friends (don't know if that one is still lurking anywhere!)

Different tech strands and different types of quests were talked about, would be nice just to hear if they have been shelved are being worked on or what - in fact an update and direction diary would be great as well as a developers diary which just seems to float ideas . . . Perhaps BB could survey, on a regular basis different lvl players and get some ideas from them and see if everything is generally within the same framework.

I know that BB seems to have been very busy rolling out new servers for different countries and now has to please all of us with future developments, but even a scrap of info would be better than nothing

=D anny news is goodnews. Make us go jippeee like geo's with new content news.

Yes I remember the repair button long time ago. I think they gave up that idea, because there will be no fighting on homelands. So if they give up ideas and start working from scratch - would explain the long months with nothing new

disappointing Q&A session tbh.

Non-commital on the PvP release date

Us level 50's being referred to as end-game players suggests no furthers levels to be had.

No news on us being able to who have completed Guild Quests

The science interface sounds interesting, but no real clue as to when that is happening

New adventures/buildings sound good, but again nothing given as to when we can expect them

"end game"? really? another broken promise?

have just watched the video on back stage 12/4/13
the question i have is with all these new buildings that are coming were does a high level player like me put them. at the minute i can not even fit a wheat field in and i have eveything i need running smooth, i could do with more space as i do not have all the expert building as no space or build licences
thanks jason

I liked it, particularly the mention of island recognition for completing difficult tasks. This isn't a substitute for the promised dev diary, just an extra... so not really sure why people are moaning :p

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Originally Posted by Antilochus

I liked it, particularly the mention of island recognition for completing difficult tasks. This isn't a substitute for the promised dev diary, just an extra... so not really sure why people are moaning :p

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I never said it's substitute just said they provided the same information that was in dev. diary.

this is just a video version of the same dev dairy posted a while back. no actual date on when it will be on test server.
no new graphics.

I guess better than nothing. at least we know its still being worked on. thank you.

hi hi!

mm why is no one from bb giving me a serious answer on my questions @ forum?
Shood i buy gem's before they make time?

Donda

its not a case of that DonDa :)

But there is a lack of timescales here :)

let me see, Dantesama posted pictures of his visit to the BB headquerters on 13.03.13 14:06.

Given the trouble he has to squeeze info out of the developers, it suggests he's usually not there to chase them around with a fish or to throw some marbleblocks at them when they dont answer.

so.... could it be it took BB a whole month to post this video?

That would be perfectly fine if there was an awe inspiring 3d animation of a lion in it. Or if there was info they really couldn't reveal earlier. Or if we lived in the middle-ages, then it would have been impressive to spread a message across the world in a month.

Even with the bugs and problems there are, I still think it's a pretty nice game. But the communication... it's like there's a not too smart 6 year old in charge. They always fail to answer even the easiest questions, and it takes a month to post a simple video.

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Even with the bugs and problems there are, I still think it's a pretty nice game. But the communication... it's like there's a not too smart 6 year old in charge. They always fail to answer even the easiest questions, and it takes a month to post a simple video.

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Communication does seem to be a thorny issue, and it doesn't help when there is confusion over simple information. I know it's not necessarily fair to compare online games from small companies/single devs with large companies that are dealing with many servers, but I do feel that I am making comparisons at the moment. A few weeks ago there was a serious server failure in [game]; when the dev got the game back up the data was corrupted and people had lost all sorts of stuff. Obviously he was up to his eyes trying to sort it out, but we were given a message to say that he was working on a solution. This meant that we could communicate with all the other players that turned up in chat wanting to know what was going on. Within 24 hours the game was restored to an earlier stable condition and we knew precisely what that was. We all lost a couple of days of game play, and hardly anyone complained.

Okay, whinge over...

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Originally Posted by BB_Dantesama

It is planned Dorkan, you should get a new dev diary very soon.
The Q&A Backstage video should also be available in the next few days.

Will let you guys know when we have the green light.

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Dantsedama,
Its two weeks ago that you sayd, the new diary will be released soon.
What is soon ?
Can you please give us a date for this ?

And i hope, really hope for BB, they will release some new things, like new level for >50, new adventures, etc.

As all the suggestions from the video were for future plans, could these 7 new buildings be merged into 1 building with expansion possibilities? Then it will be less of a pain demolishing buildings to make room if your island is a bit crowded.
Why should people who spent so many gems and time+resources levelling up have to make sacrifices? Spending money for the developers to improve the game should not have disadvantages.

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Originally Posted by Orca45

Dantsedama,
Its two weeks ago that you sayd, the new diary will be released soon.
What is soon ?
Can you please give us a date for this ?

And i hope, really hope for BB, they will release some new things, like new level for >50, new adventures, etc.

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I hope Dantesama can give an answer to this !

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Really guys, just drop this thread as they obviously not going to answer. They don't care so why should I?

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Not really the best attitude to have there, easy example against this is the Veteran General situation during the Easter Event, player feedback got that changed.

A lot of the bug fixes take time, which is why they often appear on test first, however they have the easy route of resetting everyone's account on test, not so easy to implement them on live, which is likely why it takes far longer for them to appear here

The forum information does get read and the feedback falls into the department best to deal with it

Not going to write the list of issues where the devs are not listening. There's a long history of people repeatedly asking questions which could easily be answered if they were listening.

But back to the topic: Do we get a new dev-diary soon? There is some new content on facebook, but someone had to send me the link because I dont use facebook myself. It's no problem facebook is 1 or 2 days ahead of the forum, but BB should not exclusively post there while they always refer to the forum for official news. So, a papermill and a bookmaker, I'm counting on an update on those within days.

And if the devs could manage to squeese out a few words on some bug fixes (guild-quests, messages quest finished popping up over and over again... ) pretty pretty please....

I agree, we are well overdue a dev diary that lays out a roadmap on where the game is going or not going as may be the case. I am an 'endgame' player who is left field building like many others. Give me a bit of hope that there is a reason coming for me not to quit, worthless mini-adventures and trivial bugfixes do not count. Raise the level cap, it's not reinventing the wheel!! Prove to me that all BBs time is not being spent on Anno...

Questions that need to be answered...

When is PVP due?
When will we be able to accrue more XP after level 50?
Why is the game still labelled as 'Beta' when it clearly is not? If it were truly in beta gems would not be available (as per the Anno online beta) or would be free.
Why can we not have more room on our islands?
When are the science levels due?
Why is the game development so slow??

I hope BB will respond on this topic, they promisse with "SOON", but it takes, weeks, months even a year.