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Pang Game profile

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Aug 20th 2019, 20:34:55

Hi everyone!

I’m beyond excited to announce that as of this post, we are opening the public beta for the new Earth Empires gameplay experience!

Things are still in a semi-polished state but we’re eager to start getting feedback and seeing how some of our initial concepts are received by the community. This is an opt-in model and DOES NOT impact any of the existing work on http://www.earthempires.com but we hope everyone will start moving their play over to the new UI as we continue to near feature parity with our existing site. Here is the information you will need to get started!

Accessing the beta
You can access the beta at: https://alphaui.earthempires.com

Accounts
The UI (user interface) project uses REAL ACCOUNTS and REAL COUNTRIES. You can log in with your existing username/password or sign up for a new account if you don’t have one, however if you play multiple countries on the same server you will (as always) be picked up by our cheating detection tools.

Cooperation Server
We strongly discourage players from using the beta with the Cooperation server.

Logging in with Google
We’ve enabled logging in with your Google account already for the beta. If you already have an account, log into it and visit the “Account preferences” page (User icon in the top right corner -> Preferences) and you can link your account to a Google account instead of needing to log in with a username/password. We’ll add some more options like Facebook when we get a chance.

Mobile vs desktop
The above link is designed to work for both desktop and mobile browsers. Give it a try on your phone and see what you think!

FFA console
This iteration is focused on the single-country playing experience so we haven’t had a chance to explore the FFA console. We’ll look at this in the future (both the API/functionality layer and just making it exist in the new UI)

Providing feedback
There is a button on the top bar called “Feedback” that will launch a Google form to collect your feedback, including screenshots or videos. Please keep the feedback constructive in nature. We’re especially looking for feedback on larger concepts and interactions. We’ll get more into nitty-gritty stuff later. We also have the New UI Project Feedback forum (https://www.earthempires.com/...m/new-ui-project-feedback) where you can have more in depth discussions on features, functionality, etc.
You can also join our #beta-discussion discord channel at: https://discord.gg/3JrEWmX

Possibility of bugs, missing or broken experiences
Because this is a beta, things may break or not work as designed so be careful if you’re playing a country you care about. If you’re worried about this, create a country on a server you don’t normally play on to test things out. Some features (like clan admin, standing orders, country search, etc) are not available yet as they are not complete. Any country abusing loopholes or bugs found on this UI will be subject to deletion and/or account bans.

So a big thanks to everyone who’s helped make this work possible — especially Jabroni1134 and Bug who have helped me move this work to the finish line since joining the team (not that we should be content with a beta being the finish line! :p).

I look forward seeing what everyone thinks and hope you’re all as excited as I am to modernize the game.

Thanks~!
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Edited By: Slagpit on Jun 1st 2024, 4:06:12
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allbymyself87 Game profile

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Aug 21st 2019, 1:01:35

Where to report bugs?
Using the feedback link as well?
All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself anymore

Pang Game profile

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Aug 21st 2019, 1:04:39

Yea, use the Feedback button on the top right of the UI
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Gerdler Game profile

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Aug 21st 2019, 1:06:51

I love it. Will do some real testing tomorrow to see if I can spot any bugs or potential improvements! :)

LittleItaly Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 2:47:47

FYI, can play on alpha servers too... which I did. Submitted a couple forms last night.
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Gerdler Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 3:05:32

Originally posted by LittleItaly:
FYI, can play on alpha servers too... which I did. Submitted a couple forms last night.

How? I was trying to do just that and failed.

Marshal Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 19:31:29

I can't either get to AlphaFFA with new ui, just gives blank page and since not-ssl portal url gives loading text (didn't bother to wait to see how long that loading would take) I'd guess it has something to do with wonky ssl-cert since removing alphaui on url gets usual not trusted warning and can't even sign on http://alphaui.etc.

as for new ui it looks like its made for mobile.
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Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

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Jabroni1134 Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 19:53:29

Most people do not have access to the Alpha servers.

Gerdler Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 20:24:55

Say what?

I have always been able to access alpha, alphaffa and the ai server since just a couple months after I started playing (as soon as I was made aware of their existance). That is on the old UI. I can still access them on the old UI but not on the new one.

Marshal Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 20:25:23

alphaFFA and ai were supposed to be open for all.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Warster Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 22:45:19

I believe access was restricted because of people not following rules, I could be wrong
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Gerdler Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 22:52:52

Hmm, I direct players there all the time and no one has mentioned they were unable to get in there so far.

Warster Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2019, 22:55:12

I know a few who can't, but that could be because haven't ticked a box in options.

I personally don't use it much now, got sick of random people killing random countries
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Gerdler Game profile

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Aug 23rd 2019, 0:02:07

Well that happened to me once or twice too but I don't really get attached to my countries there. :)

Marshal Game profile

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Aug 23rd 2019, 19:28:02

I don't see any box to be ticked to be able to get access or reject access to alpha or ai.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Pang Game profile

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Aug 23rd 2019, 23:47:24

it's an admin option to grant folks access to the servers. apparently there's a hole in the auth for them which needs patching.
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Warster Game profile

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Aug 24th 2019, 0:00:04

marshal in option there is a box to display the alpha servers, i don't know if that's just for people who have access or not
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Pang Game profile

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Aug 24th 2019, 0:18:53

Originally posted by Warster:
marshal in option there is a box to display the alpha servers, i don't know if that's just for people who have access or not


it is
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Marshal Game profile

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Aug 24th 2019, 9:45:06

well I must be looking at wrong place since can't see it but doesn't matter since I have access to alphaFFA etc.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

qzjul Game profile

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Aug 25th 2019, 4:32:39

I approve this message! Seriously, good job Pang & jabroni & Bug & Requiem! Hopefully I'll get bots things going based on the additional API stuff they pushed through =D

Edited By: qzjul on Aug 25th 2019, 4:37:07
Finally did the signature thing.

llaar Game profile

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Sep 1st 2019, 16:19:47

Note that it doesn't seem to work to login when using IE Edge

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Feb 9th 2020, 17:03:49

hmmm
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Stryke Game profile

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Feb 10th 2020, 12:47:54

I never use Microsoft Edge.
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Primeval Game profile

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Feb 10th 2020, 20:25:21

Originally posted by Stryke:
I never use Microsoft Edge.


Hate it. Edge and Cortana can both gtfo

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Marshal Game profile

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Feb 10th 2020, 21:44:01

try edge chrome, it's fast.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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Feb 11th 2020, 0:07:12

I use Vivaldi, it doesn't soak up my laptop battery like a sponge. Chrome does.
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Stryke Game profile

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Feb 16th 2020, 8:47:09

Damned spammers.
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Originally posted by kemo:
this dudes either a great troll or a seriously stupid fluff. the kind that takes the pepsi challenge and chooses jiff

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Sep 13th 2020, 23:24:38

I use Brave. It's a Chromium browser meaning it's built off the Chrome engine (as is Edge these days), but it has the best privacy. It also has some kind of weird coin/reward function that seems scammy so I never enabled it, which you don't have to.

edit: I didn't bump this, the spammer did!

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Sep 14th 2020, 11:50:56

Stryke sighting!

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Sep 14th 2020, 14:06:51

they probably spam here because its the first forum alphabetically in the first forum group then post in the first thread

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Sep 14th 2020, 22:52:44

LOL
Mess with me you better kill me, or I'll just take your pride & joy and jack it up
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LittleItaly Game profile

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Sep 15th 2020, 1:27:15

Most major browsers except firefox are chromium based, so web browsing is all the same between those browsers.
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Requiem Game profile

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May 31st 2024, 13:39:19

Originally posted by LittleItaly:
Most major browsers except firefox are chromium based, so web browsing is all the same between those browsers.


False

LittleItaly Game profile

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May 31st 2024, 15:45:52

Originally posted by Requiem:
Originally posted by LittleItaly:
Most major browsers except firefox are chromium based, so web browsing is all the same between those browsers.


False


What part? This list isnt even the tip of the ice burg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium
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May 31st 2024, 17:10:58

Chromium-based browsers render the same a lot of the time, but each browser has built other stuff on top of Chromium, which can add features and such, which can lead to differences in rendering– which is a big PITA when testing cross-browser.