Major feature update

A first (major) update

I find it hard to write about this, and I tend to forget to write about the game's updates as well. Here's an overview of the past few months of updates that went live to the game.

I hope you enjoy and I really look forward to play(test?) with you!

See you at https://www.idlebase.com !

App

Yeah, the game is now a "progressive web app". This means you can add the game to your phone's home screen / menu. On android you will be prompted, on ios you need to do this yourself. The app has full offline support, but in offline mode you cannot buy anything of course.

Missiles

Yes! Missiles are a thing now, and they're awesome! Attacking with them is very powerful without having to lose too much of your army. My recommendation is you have 1 person in the clan build a few missiles so when a mutual war comes you can make a good dent without affecting your own armies.

Bank

Banking is a thing now. We noticed that when getting attacked, especially when saving up money for something, there was no way to protect some of that valuable money. So there's a bank which charges a small fee to deposit your money. Additionally you can choose if your clanmembers are allowed to withdraw that money, or if you want to keep it to yourself.

Research

Several research additions have been added, and more are coming. Including turn-engineering, where you can build more buildings per 1 turn. Completing research items will unlock new research options.

Morale

Another thing we noticed during playtest is that attacking needs to be limited. It's unfair if you have a mutual war, and someone can attack you 10 times in a row without being able to defend yourself. Your army now gains 15% morale per 20 minutes. Attacking cost 25% morale.

Exploring

Exploring land has the added benefit of being able to "find" buildings. These buildings will be added and their effects will be applied. This does not apply to powerplants.

Clan activity

You can now see clanmember activity, this is useful to help pick targets more and to see who's attacking your clanmembers in order to retalliate.

Other fixes

• Clans have a maximum of 5 people
• Max turns at 150
• Max money $10M, does not apply to attacking, just for income generation
• Attack with everything button fixed for continuous attacking
  • This will now also exclude "special" units like hackers
• Bug sending aid to anyone rather than a specific clanmember
• Email notification overview on homepage / dashboard

Plans for additional content

Spy reports

We plan to add some sort of spy mechanism, so you will have the ability to get semi detailed reports of who you're about to attack. These reports will be accessible for clanmembers per enablement. Default will be enabled.

Satellites

You cannot have a war-sim without being in space. Satellites will add passive bonuses to your base and or to your whole clan.

We're open to any suggestions you might have as well!

See you there?

0xffeedd / toaster