Hello Kings and Queens,

The update to 1.40 will take place on Wednesday, November 26th. This time we introduce a brand new "Aid" feature that will make it possible to help out your friends and guild mates in a more convenient way - you can now polish or motivate directly from your own city!

Aid
You can now polish or motivate a random (almost) building in the city of another player by simply clicking a button below his portrait on the social bar. This will not require visiting the city. Attack button in the social bar has been moved to a small button and the Aid button is now in place of the previous Attack button:

• Aid button automatically motivates or polishes a building of the respective player without visiting him.

• How exactly the order of aid works? It's very simple system:

• Buildings like “Shrine of Knowledge” or “Tigers’ Den” that trigger an additional effect when motivated/polished (most recent age) are prioritized.

• If there are no such buildings available or all of them are already polished/motivated, the feature will enhance a random building from the most recent age.

• You will also find the Aid button in the Event history - if someone helped you, you can instantly return their kindness.

• It is still possible to visit a player and choose which action to do and which building to polish/motivate. Which way will you choose? This is entirely up to you!

Other changes and improvements

• The "moon" icon is back for goods buildings.

• The registration form has been slightly improved to make the registration process easier and more understandable.

• Tutorial graphical assets have been adjusted, to make sure that new players do not have troubles understanding the tutorial steps.

• The pop-up window for residential buildings has been changed to make it consistent with production buildings.

• Some battle tooltips have been slightly improved.

• Great Building construction info in the Inventory has been improved.

• Animations will be disabled automatically if the game detects that a player is running out of video memory.

• As of this update the new engine will be activated for all players and the old engine deactivated

Bugfixes

UI bugfixes

• Names for some of the GvG sectors were displayed incorrectly.

• It was possible to have negative points on the neighborhood bar.

Other bugfixes

• Registration mails were not sent when player unsubscribed "regular" e-mails from FoE.

• It was sometimes possible to move helicopter to already occupied position.

• In some cases missile artillery was not giving any battle points.

• MIRV couldn't hit the maximum of 4 enemy units.

• A context loss while the game was running in the background could result in a crash.

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Thank you for playing Forge of Empires!

Sincerely,
Your Forge of Empires Team