Version 12.0.0 - 04.12.2024

Dear players,

on 04.12. between 10:00 and 15:00 CET we'll be rolling out version 12.0.0.

This will include the following:

Changes:

• Implemented a feature to rearrange buildings in your towns
• Added a Town Order section in the Game Options and implemented several town sorting options, including custom sorting
• Improved the appearance of the Game Options page
• Improved the appearance of the Highscore page
• Updated the icons of the top up packages in the Get Resources menu
• Changed the top up packages in the Get Resources menu to offer a standard amount of resources after a certain threshold
• Added Gold packages to the Get Resources menu
• Implemented new formatting for displaying larger resource amounts and values

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an error in the display of hourly resource production in the overview
• Fixed research costs being displayed after already having maxed out all fields of research

During this time frame the game servers may be unvailable at least once.

Your Ikariam Team

Dear players,

following up on the release of 12.0.0 (Infinite Horizons Milestone 1), we've gathered your feedback and will continue to do so.

We're happy, that the QoL features (rearranging buildings in your cities and sorting the city dropdown) were perceived so well by you.

We obviously also noticed, that quite a lot of you had a lot less love for the new numeral notation/number formatting, which was also introduced with 12.0.0.

Just to reiterate and explain, why it was done in the first place: with ever growing numbers in Ikariam, brought on by changes such as the raise of the building level cap and with that also the raise of potential building costs etc., we also faced the issue of having more and more data to display and an available space to do so, that doesn't grow along with the numbers. On the long run, keeping in mind that we've always said that we're planning on also doing more with income, bonuses and further development of buildings etc., we will always need some way of formatting numbers in a better way that uses less space. Obviously, we underestimated how inert Ikariam players are and what works just fine in dozens of other games, didn't turn out to work just as well in Ikariam. k, kk, kkk as an expression of thousands, while working well in other games and in maths, is an unknown concept to many Ikariam players and let's face it: it doesn't work here. We expected some discomfort, but not as much as was ultimately voiced now.

As a result, we're evaluating the feedback and discuss internally, how to change this. As said before, we will still need a different way of formatting numbers, for the reasons explained already. To that end, we'll post options in our #polls-and-questions channel, to get a better idea of what would be more accepted by you, the players. However, it is not likely, that a full reversion to full numbers everywhere will be possible. We'll also work on ideas to make better use of the available space in the UI or even change the UI to provide more space in future updates, but like with everything else: we prefer to not edit single views wherever needed but rather try and find a more rounded solution.

Given the time (holiday season, etc.), however, any change to this will very likely be decided and implemented in the beginning of 2025 and therefore no longer this year.

Your Ikariam Team

In our Discord, we have now posted several options to get a better feedback base in the channel #polls-and-questions.

Dear players,

before the beginning of the holiday season last year we had you vote on the available options on how to deal with the k, kk, kkk situation.

Taking your votes into account as well as our plans for the future, we have made changes. The full numbers will, for now, not come back. We still need to shorten them for the same reason we introduced k, kk, kkk in the first place. A full redesign of the UI is not something we completely exclude, but we won't make any hipshot actions there, either. Bigger and more in depth changes to the UI are something we will be looking into for further major updates.

Having said that, the change being implemented now is to use the other units you suggested.

So:

• k stays k
• kk becomes M
• kkk becomes G
• kkkk becomes T

This change will be rolled out on the fly during the afternoon today and does not require a server maintenance. You may have to empty your cache or just wait for it to refresh itself.

Your Ikariam Team