The
Newbies Universe is now available for you in order to learn how to play.
The Newbies Universe does not operate like the World of Magic and Fight:
- The age in the Newbies Universe never ends (e.g. No one can win)
- New moons occurs every 5 minutes.
- New seasons occurs every 40 minutes.
- You can only play 150 seasons in the newbies universe.
- The mail notifications are not available in the newbies universe.
To play via IRC in the Newbies Universe, send your commands to 'Ak-newb' on the #akeran channel of the Undernet IRC network.
A new version of Akeran (V3.19.0) is available.
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Web interface completed
The last command 'counsellor' is now accessible via 'Your Maps'/'Cities'.
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The counsellor command now enables you to see if you are a good target for the other player.
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The goods needed by in progress buildings/units/rituals now acts as a temporary storage until you explicitly add them by using build/train/ritual or until the next season. Goods using this storage are put in the 'Specific Storage' column but, to avoid confusion, the temporary storage is not added to the built buildings specific storage.
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The 'Pacifist' factor of the city popularity is now relative to the level of the player with whom you have a peace treaty.
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For good targets (see the counsellor), the bonus is the same as before.
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Otherwise, the bonus decrease towards zero. It reaches zero when you are much bigger than the player with whom you have a peace treaty.
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New 'cancel buildings' rules
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During 24 moons after a city takeover, the command 'cancel' is not allowed.
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You must wait at least 8 moons between two 'cancel' commands.
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The spells that previously could only be cast on the caster can now be cast on another magic unit if it has the required minimum magic level (see the
SpellBook for details).
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A mail will now be automatically send to your email address if something happen to your player (eradication, retirement, murder)
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The players event class (for buffered and mail events) has been split into New players events and Player's end events
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Fixed a crashing bug when a magic unit with the 'Shock Wave' spell is killed in combat.
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Fixed a bug in the Faerie Gold spell when multiple caravans are involved.
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Fixed a bug when the defenser was in Ambush and the battle duration was more than 5 rounds.
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Fixed a rare bug in the diplomacy algorithm.
A new version of Akeran (V3.18.1) is available.
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3 new advisors available: Goods Advisor (gadvisor), Production Advisor (padvisor) and Supply Advisor (sadvisor)
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The supply total is now shown at the bottom of the review screen.
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2 new commands has been created to cast (lcast) or recast (lrecast) a spell on a location or city. Currently, only one spell needs those commands: Fortress (Dwarven spell).
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The type of events buffered until you login can now be controlled via the 'Account Options' page or the 'bufferevent' command.
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More events can now be sent to you via email (see 'Account Options' page or 'mailevent' command)
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Scouting event are no longer buffered by default (scouting information are added to your maps). You can turn it back on in the 'Account Options' page or the 'bufferevent' command.
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Akeran IRC bot now replies to 'ctcp userinfo' with the server name where Akeran is logged in
A new version of Akeran (V3.18.0) is available.
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New Magical units available through the 'House of ...' buildings
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1 new spell available per race (2 for the dwarves)
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Easier attacks of winning players during the end of an age
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When attacking a player which score is above 90, the grace won or lost is computed as if the players were of opposite allegiance.
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When attacking a player which score is above 100, your god will award you a grace bonus if you succeed in taking one of his cities.
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Those new rules are taken into account by the counsellor.
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Experience of range units will now reduce friendly fire.
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A minor failure for learning a spell will now cost only 20% of greenstone and herb.
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The mails about 'A player is (or no longer is) the potential winner' will no longer be sent to the akeran mailing list.
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Your god will now only stop you from attacking a much smaller player than you if you attack one of his cities.
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The Replication spell is now fixed, so the spell level of Replication has been lowered to 20.
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Spell level change: Rune of Fury:10, Rune of Quickness:12
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The spell 'Brambles' now slightly increase the hand-to-hand defense of the unit.
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More flexible rune combination: Each spell of the combination must be known by at least one magic unit.
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You now need to build the Marketplace in order to trade goods in one of your cities (The offers are not published at the market if you have not built the Marketplace).
