Version 8.12.0 - 08.08.2023

Dear players,

tomorrow between 10:00 (CEST) and ~13:30 (CEST) we'll be updating to version 8.12.0.

This version comes with a revamp of the favour system:

• The system of daily tasks has been revamped:
  • Daily tasks have been divided into four different categories: Passive, Easy, Difficult and Bonus
  • Every day there are two available from each category, for a total of 8 tasks
  • The tasks are reset daily at 8 AM server time, with the Passive, Easy and Difficult tasks being changed each day
  • Once a task has been completed, you must collect the Favour of the gods manually
  • Favour is no longer reset weekly; instead, there is now a cap of 2,500 Favour to how much you can collect
• Daily Tasks – Tasks:
  • Added new daily tasks
  • The ‘Donate to upgrade of miracle’ and ‘Donate to upgrade of resource deposit’ have been combined into one task
  • ‘Spend Ambrosia’ and ‘Unlock an achievement’ have been removed
  • Passive and Easy tasks can be completed for Ambrosia
• Daily Tasks – Rewards:
  • Each reward can be redeemed 1x every 7 days
  • The costs of the rewards have been adjusted
• Bug Fixes:
  • When founding a colony, Phoenician merchant ships and freighters are no longer displayed in the colonising menu, as these cannot be used for colonising anyway
  • When changing the transport capacity in the transport menu, resources are no longer reset to 0 but changed dynamically according to the new total capacity

  
  

Your Ikariam Team

Dear players,

as there has been some confusion about the reset of the daily tasks, specifically about when and what exactly this "server time" we've been speaking of is, it's about time to be more specific here. Pun intended

First of all, as this was a source of most of the confusion: the clock in the top of the screen in the menu always shows CET/CEST time. This is not your local time. We will in a future update make that more visible, so it's clearer.

Secondly, and we apologise for that, using the term "server time" was confusing for some. "Server time" refers to the timezone the actual physical machine is in, which is always CET/CEST. The reset for the daily tasks however use local time: so 08:00 AM "your time". For countries with more than one time zone, this may only be a somewhat close approximation.

Important information: the language you chose to display the game in does NOT influence this. Relevant is only the so called .tld you play on.

The time zones applied for the specific communities are:

The global servers (Pangaia) are on .en.
So, the reset of the daily tasks happens daily when it is 08:00 AM in the timezones mentioned above and NOT when the ingame clock in the menu shows 08:00 AM. In case, you're not clear about what UTC is, here is a good explanation and overview of timezones: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

We hope, this clears up all the confusion now.

Your Ikariam Team

Dear players,

today between 10:00 (CEST) and ~13:30 (CEST) we'll be updating to version 8.12.1.

This includes just a few smaller bugfixes and does not bring any further changes to the game

Your Ikariam Team

Dear players,

tomorrow (07.09.2023) starting at 13:00 CEST we'll roll out version 8.12.2 to all live servers.

This version fixes a few tiny display issues as well as an error that led to the daily task list sometimes not being generated correctly.

The rollout will likely, as usual, take between 3 and 4 hours until finished everywhere.

Your Ikariam Team