[2021] Guild Battlegrounds Update 2021

Dear Kings and Queens,
On Wednesday, November 3rd, our Guild Battlegrounds Update will be activated. You will see all the new things with the Battleground starting on the 4th!

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Dear Kings and Queens

We are happy to announce some significant updates to Guild Battlegrounds are now coming to Beta! With this update, it will include a completely new map, new reward buildings, and a new display of Guild Battlegrounds Leagues within the Guild Overview! In addition, we have also included some quality of life improvements, which were implemented based on collected suggestions from our communities. We cannot wait for you to jump in and play!

The update for Guild Battlegrounds will be available on Beta starting November 3rd.

New Map - The Waterfall Archipelago

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

With hexagons, we were able to fit in two more neighbors (rather than 4 previously), ensuring more strategy will be needed in terms of facing off against opposing guilds!

From November 3rd, the maps will be alternating (meaning once you have played one map, that the next will follow). In addition, to being alternating, the map will also be the same for the entire world. Therefore, everyone on Beta will experience the new map at the same time!

Province Names

We have also tweaked the naming system for the map, so 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.

New Reward Building - The Great Elephant

That is not all! If you manage to complete a successful campaign within the Guild Battlegrounds map, you could earn yourself '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 met with 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!

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!

	Chain Building Addition - Iridescent Garden (2x3)

Once connected:

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

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


New Display of Guild Battleground Leagues In the 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:

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. If you hover over with the mouse, you can see your Guild's participation (which shows how many Battlegrounds your Guild has completed in their respective league).​

Important info - 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).


Quality of Life Improvements

In addition, to updates we have already mentioned, we have also included a couple (often requested) quality of life improvements, which we gathered from across our communities.


Firstly, we have updated the HUD to include more details about the individual sectors. You can toggle this information on and off by using the following:

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.'

That is not the only quality of life improvement we have included, in this update, we have improved Battleground logs to include further information:

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). 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,

We hope you very much enjoy our update for Guild Battlegrounds in 2021! What features do you appreciate the most? Please let us know by providing feedback here!

If you haven't already, please also check out our preview video for the feature!

Sincerely,
Your Forge of Empires Team  

BritishBoy said: Nice! BUT! no exact numbers for next 23 hours

I will post the nice tables, as soon as they are available to me. Since the Update will be activated today already, I might have them today.  

BritishBoy said: "From November 3rd, the maps will be alternating (meaning once you have played one map, that the next will follow)" - does it mean that 1 season we gonna have new map than following season will be old one and than again new one? Or if not than how we can get SoH anymore?

Yes, from now on you will get the new map, then the old, then the new again,...
The SoH is only available on the old map  

BritishBoy said: I wonder why in announcement it says about Nov 3rd while in game time counter clearly states new season starts 4th 8 am British time

Because we activate it today. One change you already can see after activation is the feature in the Guild Profile  

Sorry for the delay, here are the current stats:
Spoiler: The Elephant's Bazaar

Age	Provides		Produces
			1d
Bronze Age	60	+8%	1,100	130	3	90
Iron Age	96	+8%	2,500	163	3	90
Early Middle Ages	240	+8%	4,100	196	3	90
High Middle Ages	480	+8%	5,700	229	3	90
Late Middle Ages	720	+8%	7,600	262	3	90
Colonial Age	1,200	+8%	11,500	295	3	90
Industrial Age	2,400	+8%	14,300	328	3	90
Progressive Era	3,600	+8%	17,400	361	3	90
Modern Era	6,000	+8%	21,600	394	3	90
Postmodern Era	9,600	+8%	27,200	427	3	90
Contemporary Era	14,400	+8%	35,400	460	3	90
Tomorrow Era	24,000	+8%	41,000	493	3	90
The Future	38,400	+8%	47,000	526	3	90
Arctic Future	57,600	+8%	53,400	559	3	90
Oceanic Future	72,000	+8%	60,200	592	3	90
Virtual Future	96,000	+8%	67,500	625	3	90
Space Age Mars	156,000	+8%	112,700	658	3	90
Space Age Asteroid Belt	216,000	+8%	124,800	691	3	90
Space Age Venus	252,000	+8%	137,600	724	3	90

Spoiler: The Elephant's Citadel

Age	Provides		Produces
			1d
Bronze Age	60	+12%	1,000	130	3	65
Iron Age	96	+12%	2,200	163	3	65
Early Middle Ages	240	+12%	3,700	196	3	65
High Middle Ages	480	+12%	5,200	229	3	65
Late Middle Ages	720	+12%	6,900	262	3	65
Colonial Age	1,200	+12%	10,500	295	3	65
Industrial Age	2,400	+12%	13,100	328	3	65
Progressive Era	3,600	+12%	15,900	361	3	65
Modern Era	6,000	+12%	19,700	394	3	65
Postmodern Era	9,600	+12%	24,800	427	3	65
Contemporary Era	14,400	+12%	32,300	460	3	65
Tomorrow Era	24,000	+12%	37,400	493	3	65
The Future	38,400	+12%	42,900	526	3	65
Arctic Future	57,600	+12%	48,700	559	3	65
Oceanic Future	72,000	+12%	54,900	592	3	65
Virtual Future	96,000	+12%	61,500	625	3	65
Space Age Mars	156,000	+12%	102,700	658	3	65
Space Age Asteroid Belt	216,000	+12%	113,800	691	3	65
Space Age Venus	252,000	+12%	125,400	724	3	65

Spoiler: The Elephant's Royalty

Age	Provides		Produces
			1d
Bronze Age	60	+10%	1,100	130	6	70
Iron Age	96	+10%	2,800	163	6	70
Early Middle Ages	240	+10%	4,700	196	6	70
High Middle Ages	480	+10%	6,600	229	6	70
Late Middle Ages	720	+10%	8,700	262	6	70
Colonial Age	1,200	+10%	13,200	295	6	70
Industrial Age	2,400	+10%	16,400	328	6	70
Progressive Era	3,600	+10%	19,900	361	6	70
Modern Era	6,000	+10%	24,800	394	6	70
Postmodern Era	9,600	+10%	31,200	427	6	70
Contemporary Era	14,400	+10%	40,600	460	6	70
Tomorrow Era	24,000	+10%	47,000	493	6	70
The Future	38,400	+10%	53,900	526	6	70
Arctic Future	57,600	+10%	61,300	559	6	70
Oceanic Future	72,000	+10%	69,100	592	6	70
Virtual Future	96,000	+10%	77,400	625	6	70
Space Age Mars	156,000	+10%	129,200	658	6	70
Space Age Asteroid Belt	216,000	+10%	143,200	691	6	70
Space Age Venus	252,000	+10%	157,800	724	6	70

Spoiler: Iridescent Garden

Age	Provides		Connection Grants
Bronze Age	210	30	+5%	1	3
Iron Age	300	48	+5%	1	3
Early Middle Ages	360	120	+5%	1	3
High Middle Ages	450	240	+5%	1	3
Late Middle Ages	510	360	+5%	1	3
Colonial Age	600	600	+5%	1	3
Industrial Age	680	1,200	+5%	1	3
Progressive Era	750	1,800	+5%	1	3
Modern Era	850	3,000	+5%	1	3
Postmodern Era	960	4,800	+5%	1	3
Contemporary Era	1,120	7,200	+5%	1	3
Tomorrow Era	1,390	12,000	+5%	1	3
The Future	1,670	19,200	+5%	1	3
Arctic Future	1,890	28,800	+5%	1	3
Oceanic Future	2,130	36,000	+5%	1	3
Virtual Future	2,680	48,000	+5%	1	3
Space Age Mars	4,180	78,000	+5%	1	3
Space Age Asteroid Belt	4,540	108,000	+5%	1	3
Space Age Venus	4,900	126,000	+5%	1	3

 

We changed the personal rewards and chances for the rewards for the Waterfall Archipelago.  

These are the current personal rewards for the Waterfall Archipelago (in no order):
FPs, coins, supplies, 1-2 random units, 5 random unit, rogues, 10 goods, 50 goods, diamonds, 1 Great Elephant Selection Kit Fragment, 10% attack boost, 20% attack boost

Notes: The amount differs between leagues and all rewards have different chances to appear. The coin and supply amounts also differ between every age.