Age 80 will again have quite big game-play changes. For the rest of 2016 we expect to make only minimal game-play changes and turn our focus to interface improvements instead (things like visual themes, achievement badges which reward long-time players, possibly improved forums, special events and further concise helpful explanations throughout the game). We will also resume Marketing again at the end of this month, as we had stopped in February whilst we were going through this period of hard change.
Changes for Age 80:
1. Uruk Hai race ability will go from +5% offence bonus to +10%.
2. Walls and Weaponries will change from 1% of either building giving 3% effect and different effects in/out of war to instead 1% of either building gives 1% increased defence/offence at all times with no effect on damage. The bonus is capped at 25% (37.5% total maximum effect for weaps when stacked with maximum combat research).
3. Maximum number of tribes per alliance officially reduces to 8 rather than 12.
4. Spells/Ops/Attacks now are available for standard damage outside of war.
5. War changes to a modified version of how it used to work during the last incarnation of ”Infinity“. Most of the modifications came from Player Suggestions forum and the thread in Game Talk. Scarlet spent many hours reading everything, making lists and compromising between potential options based on the comments so thanks for the feedback. At the bottom of this post is a summary of how war will look from Age 80.
6. The new Wiki (available through The Guide Menu) will be updated with more detail regarding these changes during the ”Between-Ages-Time.
War Age 80:
* Multiple wars are allowed (and alliances with multiple wars will be able to surrender their new wars earlier or receive a defensive bonus).
* Tribes CAN come out of protection during war again (but NOT reset).
* The Thief Operation Diplomacy will return and will now tell you how close you are to war with numbers guidance in addition to the old text that you used to have to look-up.
* When killing a tribe in war, fame gains will be shared amongst the murderer and his/her allies.
We hope you enjoy Age 80!
Feedback/Discussion Thread is here: http://alliancesatwar.com/forums/game/719656/age-80-changes/
[20th July - edited to clarify protection, you can come OOP during war but not reset purposely]