Infinite Horizons - Milestone 3

Dear players,

While we're looking into the feedback we're gathering, we've been authorised to give you a small preview of parts of what Milestone 3 of Infinite Horizons will contain.

We're aware, this addresses only small parts of your current feedback. We'll address your concerns about building costs, resource production and the battle system further along the line in upcoming posts once game design and product manager have finished going through your feedback.

Introducing Chronos' Forge!

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What is Chronos' Forge?

Chronos' Forge is a brand-new building designed to reduce construction times for all your buildings within the city it's built in. As you level it up, the time savings become even more significant.

Applies to all buildings in the same city

Reduces both construction and upgrade times

Does not affect its own construction time

Does not affect resource nodes on the island

How Does It Work?

Every level of Chronos' Forge grants a percentage-based time reduction to building times. That means the more you invest in this building, the quicker you'll be able to level up everything else.

Construction times shown in the building window will reflect the reduced duration

Hovering your mouse over a building’s timer will reveal the original time, the reduction bonus, and the final build time

Requirements

You’ll need a Town Hall Level 5 to build the Chronos' Forge. Construction costs scale with each level.

Not Final – Subject to Change!

While this information gives you a preview of what to expect, please note that all values and effects are still subject to balancing and may change before the full release. We're committed to gathering feedback and fine-tuning this system via our Public Test Server.

Your Ikariam Team

Dear players,

tomorrow, around 10:00 CEST, we will be rolling out version 14.0.0 on the PTS (lobby-test.ikariam.gameforge.com).

This will include:

Changes:

• new Building "Chronos Forge", it reduces the construction time of all town buildings except its own in the town it is built
• removal of the 20d maximum building construction time, CAUTION the ingame help shows the construction time without the effect of the Chronos Forge
• which can result in very big values!
• the bonus granted by the workshop upgrades for Land and Sea units is now 5 times higher than before
• changed interval for price increase of building construction time speedup with Ambrosia to 1h
• changed maximum price of building construction time speedup with Ambrosia
• removal of the cap for Merchant Ships you can buy
• changed the effect that is granted by an active Hephaistos Forge, lowered the damage and raised the defense for each level
• new level caps for all island mines
• new level caps for all buildings, some of them are just for highscore points (see points below)
• the effect of the building cost reduction buildings (Carpenter's Workshop, Wine Press, Architect's Office, Optician, and Firework Test Area) is capped at 50%
• the effect of the resource production increase buildings (Forester's House, Winery, Stonemason, Glassblower and Alchemist's Tower) is capped at 140%
• Palace level 21 and above doesn't raise the maximum amount of cities, the current maximum of 21 cities remains (1 Capital + 20 Colonies), but you can occupy cities of other players even if you have reached the maximum of own cities as long as your Palace is high enough

• Palace and Governor’s Residence level 21 and above can counter the corruption of Government Forms to get 0% Corruption even with Aristocracy or Oligarchy.
• the taxes defined by the Black Market can't go below 1%.
• the minimum training time of units at the Barracks, Shipyard and Hideout is 1 second per unit and 10 seconds per training task.
• the effect of the Sea Chart Archive is capped at 90% travel time reduction.

Bugfixes:

• Trading Post - Accept sale offer - Max input does not adjust automatically when removing selected ships
• Several fixes for the backend

Your Ikariam Team