2023 Summary

Here is the summary of enhancements made to Conquest! in 2023.

One important item left off is finally utilizing Application.persistentDataPath to store the ~3,000 messages utilized throughout the game. In the past, if I wanted to update messages I would have to re-deploy the entire client. Now the client is pulling the messages down when the server tells it to. This has been a tremendous benefit to me and the players as I can quickly fix spelling or grammatical errors (or even add new error messages).

There are Unity packages which allow for dynamic translations but when I implemented the UI circa 2016, I didn't know about them. And when I did learn of them, I was concerned about performance. In hindsight, I may have taken a closer look at those packages vs doing all the translations myself.
 
Major Enhancements

• Launch expeditions to gain goods and discover secrets
• Hire NPC mercenaries to aid your alliance
• NPCs have attacker or defender personas
• Player defined seasons

Alliances

• Alliance levels grant buffs to all members
• View all members in other alliances
• Share kingdom report with alliance
• Alliance logs record major member events

 Classes

• New classes: Alchemist, Druid, Bard
• New class skills: Hijack (Bandit), Ambush (Barbarian), Persistence, Surge (Fighter), Restoration (Ranger), Clone (Vampire)
• Barbarians can loot move, items from cities
• Mages are no longer honor bound
• Vampire level drain changed to life (move) drain
• Vampire masters start with minions based on level

Events

• Random and weather events may occur hourly
• Seasonal events (Winter=Joy, Spring=Love, Summer=Heat, Autumn=Horror)

UI

• New fonts for improved readability
• Support for new languages and character sets
• Support for Emojis
• Email and NPC private messages are language specific

Minor Enhancements

Artifacts

• Dagger protects against bandit skills
• Tree protects against blight skills
• Rod allows players to attack 2 levels down

Heroes

• Alchemist, Barbarian Leader, Diplomat, Ninja, Queen of Spiders allow class skills half-level
• Ninja protects against bandit skills
• Queen protects against blight skills

Misc.

• All classes can buy/sell/quest components
• Per player cooldown for pirate attacks
• Support to delete accounts
• Promote to level 10 after reaching level 9 on all continents
• Level 10 players receive buffs based on class
• Magic shops randomly placed
• Goods received scale with level
• Changing class or troop type preserves siege
• Salvage goods from naval battles
• Honor bound players start with fair honor