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Hello Kings and Queens,
The update to 1.37 will take place on Tuesday, October 21st. It contains brand new Contemporary Era along with some smaller new features
. As always there are also some bugfixes.There will be a short period of downtime during the update, we apologize for this little inconvenience.
Contemporary Era
The Age of the Internet has begun! The newest update introduces the 'recent' turn-of-the-centuries time into the game. If you were born in eighties or nineties you will for sure feel like a youngster again
.And what else in this new chapter:
- Up to 66 story quests, tailored to your decisions, take you on a journey into the desert
- Deal with Sheik Al-Rais and his two brothers – do you choose a peaceful approach or will you use force?
- 64 new abortable quests: Discover what the internet is for, help Rinbin become a gangsta rappa and find ways of stress relief in a world dominated by hectic business
- Plus 11 recurring quests from the Contemporary Era
- Build new waterfront buildings that allow you to have canals running through your city
- Produce robots, organize transports in your logistics center or make your people happy by placing a floating market into your city
- Hunt for blueprints for the two new Great Buildings: Innovation Tower and Lotus Temple
- Invent globalization, renewable energy and discover the uses of bionics
- Send your strike teams into battle and have them fight even on water fields
- Absorb a huge amount of damage in battle with your assault tanks, thanks to their new skill ‘Reactive Armor’
- Strike fear into the hearts of your opponents when you launch the missiles from your missile artillery and hit multiple enemies in one attack!
- Soar through the skies with the new attack helicopters: In battle, they fly over all terrain types and cannot be attacked by artillery units!
- Even more buildings will now influence the happiness level in your city:
- Some Contemporary Era military buildings now provide defense or attack bonus:
Make sure to have a few military buildings in your city. It's now much more advantageous! 
- Your city will now look even more realistic and nice with brand new waterfront buildings:
Put a couple of waterfront buildings together to create a nice water canal in your city. Almost like Venice!
Changes / Improvements
Chat improvements
- The recent chat entries are now visible after entering the game.
- You can now send friend request to another players directly from the chat context menu.
- Chat has been moved a bit to the left to solve the problem of buff bar being hidden below it:
Other changes
- It is now possible to switch off all buildings animations in the game, including buildings in own city.
- After the update all users will be asked to switch to Hardware Acceleration, however it will not be forced.
- More inhabitants will be displayed in the city at the same time. They will now be also visible during the tutorial.
- It is now possible to use mouse wheel to zoom in Safari browser.
Bugfixes
UI bugfixes
- A missing Mobilith tooltip text was added.
- Cancel button is no longer grayed out when building.
- Buildings sometimes stayed translucent upon swapping.
- Fixed an issue where an unattached rogue was losing its unattached indicator after transformation.
- Fixed an issue where the idle icon was not shown in the buff panel after cancelling production.
- Reward images in the invitation window were sometimes misplaced.
Tutorial bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where reloading while decoration is in progress blocked the game.
- Fixed an issue where reloading the game directly after the hut has been placed blocked the game.
- Fixed an issue where social actions were blocked after playing through tutorial.
- Fixed an issue where player could get stuck in tutorial after clicking on a production building right after reload.
Other bugfixes
- GvG Construction Rebate bonus is now applied correctly to two-lane roads.
- Fixed an issue where the 'Angry' icon was not shown when it would be the only icon in the buff panel.
- Forge Points packs spent on Great Buildings donations via + purchase Forge Points option should now count toward quest progression.
- Fixed an issue where Auto Battle was crashing if a battle was finished without action.
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Thank you for playing Forge of Empires!
Sincerely,
Your Forge of Empires Team