I’m really excited to share some more information about something that I’ve been hinting at publicly for quite a while: the launch of a public beta for an updated look and feel for Earth Empires!

When we built this game, it was under immense time pressure. Even after that, doing a UI redesign project was never made a priority. The interface is effectively stuck in the 90s, with a few pieces of early Web 2.0 (War Room, for instance) peppered in here and there. This work marks the first time we’ve made an attempt to build something that is modern, mobile focused and something we can iterate on much more quickly than what we have today. It’s been an effort that’s been in the works off and on for over a year with a big push this summer.

There is still lots to do to get things polished to the point of being able to be made into the default UI for players, but we want to start getting feedback from our players and put it in your hands to see how we can make it better.

To start, we’ll be looking for feedback on conceptual things — is the way we do navigation good? Do the forms perform well? How is the mobile experience? Are some of the new UI concepts improvements? Stuff like that. Some of these topics are already posted on the New UI Project forum.

We’ll move into both the design aspects (colours and general look stuff) and some more of the nitty gritty bug fixing and experience improvements as we move through the beta, but the big conceptual things sort of need to be set before we can move onto other items. I’ll post more about this when we officially open the beta later this week.

This is phase one of a multi-phase project to revitalize the game and community with the goal of an official re-release in December for Earth Empires’ 10 year anniversary.

The tentative schedule of activities is as follows:


- Mid August 2019 - Open beta starting
- Fall 2019 - Content/help documentation improvements
- Fall 2019 - Creation of new quality-of-life improvements, Patron/Premium access and credit system to fund development activities + NPC bot improvements
- December 2019 - Email blast to former players + official re-release of the game
- Winter 2020 - Internationalization and additional marketing efforts
- Later in 2020 - Clan hosting integrations within the game and other new feature work

It's an exciting time -- probably the most exciting time in the last 5 to 8 years -- so I hope all the diehard players are as excited as I am! Look for more information on how to play on the new work we’ve done in the coming days.

Thanks for being a part of this community and a big thankyou to everyone who has helped make this work possible :)

-pang

Would love to see the profiles get done. Maybe a delete handles option as well?

Exciting times

Nice. Cant believe there is a published time framed road map. holy cow!

Now THIS is freaking exciting!

I like the Delete Handles option!

I have some handles I don't want to lose, especially the 1 that illegal alien called mARTIAN tipped me to make (ofc he banned it immediately but still).

Thanks to Pang for getting all this done, and jabroni and Bug & Requiem for helping!

I'm honestly really excited myself to get back into coding EE myself; It's really nice to see this move forward based on the API we've been constructing for a while; I'm hopeful that I'll be able to support the API side, and possibly match pace with bot features that I think will improve the health of the server and overall gameplay.

-qz

with the email blast thing does that mean the email sending to remind you a round has ended and to make a new country thing works again as well?

Hi Pang, great job on the new features. Just a suggestion on the mobile side of the game, since attacks on mobile are slower than PC war attacks maybe incorporate an extra tab when attacking with BR,GS, AB, or missiling that will allow us to send an attack multiple times just like the spy ops tab that allows us to send an op up 10 times per "send attack" button press.. I dont know just a thought, to even things out between mobile and pc users, since phone ppl cant usually participate in warchats effectively by not being able to play turns fast enough in attacks during killruns compared to people playing E.E. from PC and usually get walled or get thier kill stolen with those 10minute kills lol. Please consider your fellow earth players on 📱, thanks.

Any new schedule?
Seems like many things are behind the schedule now?

I was busier than expected after I went back to work and struggled to keep the progress up as I'd hoped, so everything is delayed at least a few months.

Moving some things forward over the break to hopefully accelerate dev a bit more, we'll see how that goes :thumbsup:

Yes, I'm looking into Amazon's email services which have a pricepoint that means I can turn everything back on.

nice

if you get a way to pay to skip some of the captcha and 24h exact login schedule that probably allows you to use that for things like the email

i presume the advertising benefit of being high on the 22/24 bonus is replacable as well if it caused that to drop off

I'm working on that too -- I have a system in place for it, just need to roll it out. It's all dependent on the new UI, though, so you would need to do all the admin through the new UI but the benefits would be back-ported into the existing game core.

Any new timeline on those?
It seems like less and less players playing this game.
And I'm actually starting to feel bored to war with/against the same few clans/players for few sets in a row already.
The game is so small until it's only a matter of time that entire Alliance server only left with bots playing in there. =/

Ttt

Can't wait!!!

hmmm

TTT

how are they coming along

Ttt

sooooo

Soon I hope

LOL

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Still hoping