Asterix & Friends Update #5 will be released tomorrow (10:30-12:00)!

Content:

• A Phoenician Ship will arrive after a while.

Features:

• It is now possible to rearrange the buildings in your village. Swapping buildings once costs 400 Sesterce.
• Roman Camps and Patrols are losing strength if the player fights against them and loses. The amount of strength lost depends on the player’s attacking strength. This change makes losing a fight on the village map less of an issue.
• PVP – a first playable version of the player versus player village brawl.Players can pick attacking and defending villagers to find out who has the strongest village in a two week tournament. At the end of the tournament players will be rewarded according to their rank.Currently there are three rank tiers. Gold, Silver and Bronze. A Tournament Leaderboard which updates every 10 minutes shows the current rankings.A matchmaking system tries to find suitable opponents.To brawl players must place a bet, any item from their inventory. We will release more info on this topic tomorrow !
• *Tweaked the attack screen – more roman soldiers are displayed to reflect the correct strength.

Tweaks & Bug Fixes:

• fixed a random bug that occured when attacking legions
• fixed progress bar for upgrade villager achievement
• fixed quest description for quest “economics for beginners”
• fixed a small usability issue for tabs in statistics-screen
• fixed an issue, where pointandclix stood above wood-assets while mining
• several text changes/improvements
• fixed a minor graphical glitch in the world-map

Known issues:

• Internet Explorer users may experience Flash player version issues, especially with IE10
• External buildings may be blocked despite the Roman camps having been defeated
• [Browser] Rarely, error #3672 when playing/loading the game in Chrome
• Game sometimes throws an error when trying to complete the achievement “Gaulish Strongmen” (train all villager to level x) – after a game refresh, the achievement can be completed without an error
• Game sometimes throws an error when leaving it in background/inactive/locked PC for a while
• Using the “restore down” button in Firefox to decrease and then increase the window size may result in an error

Gaelic Grab-a-bargain days! Starting tomorrow until saturday, there will be a different resource offered in the store at different discounts every day.

All offers are only valid while supplies last!

Every offer starts at 10am and lasts 24 hours (meaning 10am until 10am the next day. The first offer will be available tomorrow, tuesday, at 10am.

Content:

• Now flax can be crafted at the tailor. The recipe unlocks at building level 2.
• A new achievement has been added to fight Roman Legions.
• Five new potions (Druid Circle) have been added.

Features:

• New temporary bag feature
  Now players can choose between temporary and permanent inventory upgrades.Temporary upgrades cost Sesterce. These upgrades are now called bags. Players can purchase up to three temporary bags unlocking the additional inventory space for a total of 15 days.In case a temporary bag timer runs out the bag is locked. Items can still be taken out of locked bags but new ones cannot enter the bag unless the player makes another temporary or permanent purchase.The purchase of permanent inventory upgrades remains unchanged.
  The GUI has changed as well to match the new design.
• Druid Circle
  Finally the village druid can craft the most powerful potions at the Druid Circle. By upgrading the Druid Circle new potions can be unlocked. Obviously the respective Roman camp needs to be defeated first.

Tweaks & Bug Fixes:

• Moved a small rock north of the village which blocked the avatar’s path when attempting to reach a bigger rock next to it.
• Statistics categories tweaked. Crafted items are now correctly listed under crafting.
• Fixed issue where unread mail indicator was missing
• Fixed issue where zero attachments were displayed (when picking up all mail attachments at once)
• Removed forest asset (lower right corner) where surprise spawn patrols could spawn outside the browser window and could not be removed
• Fixed quest objective for Òquest_191Ó (“Two birds of a feather” – deliver beetroots and feathers) and for Òquest_209Ó (“Repairs” – deliver nails, iron hammer and leather straps)
• Several smaller text changes
• Instant crafting complete no longer plays the crafting complete sound, previously two sounds played at the same time.

Known issues:

• [Display issue] in rare cases a legion that reaches the player village does not trigger a reset of the resistance bar and does not respawn patrols. This is a client only issue, after a browser refresh everything is working properly again.
• Daily login bonus Sesterce/resistance points drop does not get count to achievement counter.
• Used merchandise timer in merchandise window does not display the actual time remaining.
• Using the “restore down” button in Firefox to decrease and then increase the window size may result in an error.
• Internet Explorer users may experience Flash player version issues, especially with IE10.
• External buildings may be blocked despite the Roman camps having been defeated.
• [Browser] Rarely, error #3672 when playing/loading the game in Chrome.
• Game throws an error when trying to complete the achievement “Gaulish Strongmen” (train all villager to level x) – after a game refresh, the achievement can be completed without an error.

As of right now, boar bones are 65% off and iron ore is 50% off ! Supplies are limited to 1,000 each, so you better hurry!

Not just Gauls got to get some of this: 24 hour discount event in Asterix & Friends: 25% discount on all items in the market!