Is Beta dying?

[Dhurrin]

It’s proving more difficult to keep up with release notes now that everything official is being posted on discord.
It’s not exactly in the correct order and/or isn’t posted at all.

Ugh. This is so annoying.

That was what I expected would happen. Discord is not as organized as a forum.

 

[Karvest]

Well, that happened before discord times too. Just beta CM is not notified about changes and forced to copypaste live release notes from time to time...

 

[FaunaWillow]

Yeah, I remember Marindor saying that they wouldn’t always post minor changes that come with some release notes but would post release notes for big changes.
Seems like with this recent release, they should have announced it for beta too:
“
# Version 1.185
Dear Humans and Elves,

It will go live on the EN servers from October 10th and on all other servers from October 12th.
On Mobile, the version will be available during that same week.

## Improvements
- Ancient Wonder gives additional Ranking Points for every level of every Ancient Wonder in the city based on the current Main Hall Ranking Points
- The ground is grayed out when the building is disconnected or the building is expired in Building Hide Mode.
- A total of 160 event reward buildings have had a slight production increase (up to at most 5% each) for their respective versions between Chapters 16 and 20, as we found these were cases where upgrading the building did not provide a benefit due to rounding.

## Bug fixes
- We have fixed a quest issue when the quest was not finished after meeting the quest conditions.
- Other minor bugs have been fixed.

## Mobile
- A display issue was fixed for Storm Phoenix.

Do not hesitate to let us know your feedback on the changes by leaving a comment in the discussion thread right here: ⁠https://discord.com/channels/1136205917306753035/1160852759621406720/1160852759621406720

Kind Regards,
*Your Elvenar Team.*”

But really, who knows what’s going on anymore

 

[Karvest]

- A total of 160 event reward buildings have had a slight production increase (up to at most 5% each) for their respective versions between Chapters 16 and 20, as we found these were cases where upgrading the building did not provide a benefit due to rounding.

That was here since https://beta.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/undocumented-changes.14468/page-18#post-119449

 

[TimeMachine]

There is also the possibility to put the forum in English.

Hello Community, Elvenar-Fan-Forum has just been updated!

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I've just "reproduced" it, switching languages is now possible without log in!

You are all welcome to visit us at: https://www.elvenar-fan-forum.de/

 

[TimeMachine]

I've just recognized that among the Top-50 beta fellowships are only 12 fellowships left that are consisting of 25 fellows.
All other Top-50 fellowships do not have a full squad atm.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I've just recognized that among the Top-50 beta fellowships are only 12 fellowships left that are consisting of 25 fellows.
All other Top-50 fellowships do not have a full squad atm.

My Beta fellowship has been less than full for many months, but last week we finally added a 25th member.

 

[Lelanya]

We were short one yesterday but are full today.

 

[Brummbaer]

We are waiting for the next chapter till last year.
More and more players surrender. Nothing to do - login check for news - no new chapter - log-off.
Yes, we have Events by Events, but that does not make the game more atractive.

It's not Beta only which is dying, also the live servers.

 

[Dhurrin]

@Brummbaer, @Enevhar Aldarion
Yes, I checked the top 50 FSs on US Elcysandir a few days ago; 34 out of the top 50 have one or more open spots.
Further down it gets even worse: 77 out of the top 100 FSs have 1 or more open spots
And a lot of them have more than 1 open spot. Not exactly the sign of a thriving game

 

[Lelanya]

Or
Is this just post Covid die back, with a sprinkle of disillusionment.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

@Dhurrin I can't speak for other fellowships on the Live servers, but for my fellowship on Arendyll, we have had an open spot for a while now, but have not filled it yet because we are being picky and not just accepting anyone who sends a join request.

 

[Dhurrin]

@Dhurrin I can't speak for other fellowships on the Live servers, but for my fellowship on Arendyll, we have had an open spot for a while now, but have not filled it yet because we are being picky and not just accepting anyone who sends a join request.

True enough.
Still, if 77% of the top 100 have open spots that means there is a lack of players who qualify for such a spot. Again, not the sign of a thriving game.
Personally I would rather accept a smaller player who is active but doesn't meet our standards yet than have an open spot. I can help out a smaller player by donating goods, which will greatly enhance their performance in Spire and Tourney

(Edit: In fact we did. 19 of our players have a score of over 1.000.000 points. Only 3 have under 500.000 points, but our newest member has 'only' 34.000 points. But she meets our requirements in Tourney and Spire activity. And as I said, it's easy enough for me to 'sponsor' our smaller members with goods, giving them a boost in their ability to build, upgrade or research techs, or their ability to cater.
Active players benefit us way more than open spots as the active players make it easier to achieve certain goals in Spire and Tourney.)

 

[TimeMachine]

Just finished scouting a new province.

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[Dhurrin]

Just finished scouting a new province.

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