Guild Battlegrounds Update 2021: What Is New With The Update?

We are happy to announce some significant updates to Guild Battlegrounds are now coming to you!

With this update, we have the following new changes:

1. New Map
2. Improved Province Names
3. New Rewards
4. New Display Of Guild Battlegrounds Leagues In The Guild Overview
5. Quality Of Life Improvements

1 - New Map - Waterfall Archipelago

Spawn points	Details
	hexagon 5-8 guilds 61 provinces in total 3-6 province neighbors.

The maps will be alternating and world specific, meaning your world will play the same map at the same time, and once the season is over, you will alternate to the other map with the next season.

Important Note - With the new map, there will also be a different set of personal rewards received after fights and negotiations!

2 - Improved Provinces Names

We have also tweaked the naming system for the map, so that it is now easier to coordinate attacks and know which specific province you would like to take an action against.

Prior to this update, each province was identified by a letter and a number. The letter indicates the direction and sector (i.e D is Southwest sector), and the number of the ring the province is in (i.e 1 is ring 1). With this update, we have implemented the following:

To allow you to be more accurate in finding the province, we have added a letter, to indicate the position of the province within the sector and ring.

3 - New Rewards

Exclusive to the new Waterfall Archipelago map is a new reward set - The Great Elephant!

The Great Elephant is a 4x3 building, upgradeable up to 8 levels. As you upgrade it, you will receive different bonuses including: a coin production bonus, forge points, as well as goods to the Guild treasury and an increase in Guild Power! Lastly, and most importantly, there is also an attacking bonus for your attacking armies!

On its eighth and final level, you will meet a choice. A choice which reflects the variety of roles the elephant has held throughout the ages. Will you choose to employ your Great Elephant in battle, trade, or support? With these three brancheable choices; the decision is very much in your hands!

Elephant's Royalty	The Elephant's Bazaar	The Elephant's Citadel
Unimaginable wealth awaits you with this choice! Receive an improved coin production bonus and increased Forge Points.	You are a trader by nature and also a team player! Receive increased Goods in your Guilds treasury!	Forget the others, it is about the attacking boost! It is time to ride into battle with the increase attacking bonus for your attacking armies. You will not be stopped!

Important Note - The Great Elephant reward set is specific to the new map (Waterfall archipelago), and will not replace the reward set for the previous map (Volcano Archipelago). Therefore, you can still win the Statue of Honor and Road to Victory within the previous map!

Chain Building Addition - Iridescent Garden

Yet, that is not all you can win from a successful campaign! Indeed, diamonds and platinum league Guild participants can also win fragments of the Iridescent garden. With enough fragments, you can construct one of three possible appearances for the building, and bolster the stats of your Great Elephant!

Once connected:

• Happiness Bonus
• Defensive boost for the attacker
• 3 Goods
• 1 Forge Point

Important tip - As this is a chain building, it will need to be connected to the Great Elephant to receive certain bonuses.

4 - New Display Of Guild Battlegrounds Leagues In Guild Overview

To help track your progress in the Guild Battlegrounds, as well as seen your Guild's past successes, we have updated the Guild menu to include a new ranking display! This can be found in the following:

    You will then see the below changes in the Guild Overview screen:

1 - This includes details of how many times your Guild has a won in a Battleground, as well as the amount of Guild league points held. 2 - If you hover over (or tap) on the Guild Battlegrounds display, you can see the pop-up which shows your Guild's participation (how many Battlegrounds your Guild has completed in their respective league).

Important note-  Information within Guild profile menu will only display once your Guild has completed the minimum number of action points (40 total). Action points are granted for completing battles (1 point), and for successful negotiations (2 points).

5 - Quality Of Life Improvements

Quality of life improvements are small, but impactful changes made designed to improve the user's long-term experience with a game. For this update, we have tweaked the HUD giving a new view which shows details about individual sectors, as well as expansion of available logs within Guild Battlegrounds.

HUD Improvement

By toggling the following option, you can see new information regarding provinces on the map:

	Once toggled 'on', you will now have a display which shows the province name (e.g. A5B), as well as the number of total available build spots
	When toggled 'on', this view will also display the Guild Shields, as well as which provinces are 'Targeted', and which are 'Ignored.'

Important Tip - While this view displays Guild Shields, province coordinates, as well as 'Targeted' and 'Ignored' provinces, there are also important relevant information in the other view. Therefore, it is worth toggling 'on' and 'off.'

Improved Logs

We have expanded logs to show in the following situations in Guild Battlegrounds:

1 - When a province is conquered by your Guild, your Guild will receive additional information regarding which player did the last action to conquer. The Guild that the province was taken from will also be displayed (unless it was not held by a Guild, and then, only the name of the province and conquering player will be shown). 2- As a further update to Battlegrounds Logs, we have also implemented an 'Intruded' log, which will show players that have taken an action against an 'Ignored' province. Therefore, letting your Guild know who is disobeying instructions!

Important Info - In terms of the 'Intruded' log, it will only display to own Guild members, and only on an individual Guild member's first attack of the day on an 'Intruded' province. Further attacks during the course of the day will not trigger logs. However, another attack on the next day (on the same province), will trigger a further 'Intruded', log.

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