Hi everyone,

We have worked hard and the team is very proud to release the following big update, the list of changes are active all areas.

Full update notes:

General:
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- Town missions have been somewhat changed, some hard missions have been made more easy to enhance town progress. See more details in the guide.
- Slightly decreased the market prices for resources.

Areas and regional events:
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- Some regional events will be more hard in the Experienced area. Read the new settings for each area in our guide: https://www.the-outbreak.com/guide/areas.php
- New regional event added: Raiders confederation.
- 50% extra cash cost for Army supplies in the Experienced area.

Raiders:
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- Blood of Blackwater will makes its introduction after turn 100, triggering some events. Every town will receive a message with news about there coming.
This does not count for the "Beginner" Area.
- Raider camp icons of Blood of Blackwater will have a red glow on them, the same counts for captured acres by Blood of Blackwater.
- Blood of Blackwater will be more aggressive as other raider gangs.
- New raider gangs, all raiders will now be aligned to one of the following gangs. Giving them certain benefits. The number behind the gang indicates the toughness of the gang.
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1. Blood of Blackwater 5 Raider faction, Holds gov facilities, Assault bikers (Special gang)
2. Red Boars 4 Defensive gang, bunkers, Heavy mortars, Deploys tactics.
3. Black seals 3 Operations focussed, Navy Seals, Deploys tactics.
4. Diamond devils 3 Passive, Marines, Deploys tactics.
5. The vipers 2 Aggressive attack gang, Snipers.
6. The Chargers 2 Aggressive attack gang, Portable mortars
7. Fallen Angels 1 Weakest gang with no special units.
- Tougher gangs will have a higher attack bonus and defense bonus, also against operations. They will also deploy tactics as defense on acres.

Auctions:
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- You can now also auction special operation goods (poison, missile, c4, carbomb) and vehicles.
- Automated auctions will now become randomly available, picking a random resource (from turn 0) or operation good and vehicles (from turn 150). Each tick there is a chance these auctions will be created.

Acres:
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- Will be randomly occupied by the new gangs (except for BoB - gang 1) from the start.
- Infiltrate on acres will now shown the proper special units.
- Deployed tactics at your own acre will not be visibile in the balloon tip on the map.
- "Abondon acres" will now give the acre to a random raider gang.

Attack:
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- Instant travel with bikers now only applies if the location is directly attached to the other location or in your home sector, the sector (for example A-1) where your town is located. Otherwise instant travel is not possible anymore.
- Travelback time, when your forces performed a attack (succesfully or not), your troops will now have to travel back. It will take half the time of moving towards the objective and always takes atleast 1 week. The convoy will be created automatically.
- For travelback time no travel penalties apply for mortar teams.
- Attack simulator defense and attack bonus increased from max 50% to 150%.
- The maximum force readiness an attack can cost is decreased from 100 to 75.

Government
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- Locations owned by the government now have the following special units - Marines, Heavy mortars, Snipers.
- Government troops defending a government location receive a extra 30% defense bonus.
- Starting units for government locations have been increased.
- Request aid: Troops, increased the amount of troops received by using this aid. Top 10 players wont be able to use this feature.
- Government refinery locations now give you 1500 fuel instead of 1000.
- New government location added "Waterworks", Owner and his fellow clan members receive +20% crops gain from farms having improved field irrigation.
- New government location added "Car Depot", Owner can produce one vehicle each tick, owner and clan members receive a 25% cash discount on vehicles.
- Government locations that are "Given back" to the government will now have a larger government force as garrison.

Public order and Tax:
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Tax level feature have been changed, added a new level and tax income on each level reduced.
- No tax: no tax income, +2 public order.
- Low tax: low tax income, -2 public order.
- Normal tax: normal tax income, -4 public order.
- High tax: high tax income, -6 public order.

Combat
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- Increased the effectifness of defensive structures, they will now cause more casaulties on the assaulting troops.
- Increased the effect of boobytraps slightly.
- Mortar units will cause more damage during the mortar phase in a attack or defense.
- Battle score slightly increased when winning a battle.
- Decreased the amount of mortar teams dying in battle.

Fairground news:
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- Raider attack news events will now be displayed orange.
- Raider camps beign destroyed are now displayed orange in the news events.
- Attack on government locations will now be displayed light blue
- Attack on acre locations will now be displayed yellow

Techtree
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- "Special agent" tech 4 changed from 40 to 60 operation energy.
- "State militia" techh 3 changed into "Town guard" giving +1 defense to militia and policemen.
- "Defender" will now also give a cost reduction for towers and bunkers at acres and government locations.

Wildcards:
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- RESPECT AUTHORITY! wildcard now gives you 50 reputation instead of 25.

Clan:
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- Created a clan log page, here are all clan actions logged and can be viewed back on the clan page.
- Clan page interface updated with new government location bonusses.

Notification email:
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- You will now receive a email notification when a ingame mail message is directed at you (only when its personally directed at you).
- You will now receive a email notification when a regional events occurs that affects your town.
- Both notifications can be deactivated at your account settings.

Interface changes:
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- Added battle simulator icon to all attack pages.
- Army inventory no displays the right special unit images.
- General Relations chat channel removed.
- When in a clan, the clan chat channel will be the first to be shown.
- Moved clan message to the top of the "Townhall" page. Also direct link to the chat channels, including clan chat.
- On attack pages changed the order of buttons.
- Many other minor interface changes.

Bug fixes:
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- Correct unit images are now shown in battle reports from government locations and other locations.
- Correct unit images are now shown in infiltration reports from government locations and other locations.
- Convoy info operation now works properly on map, no more point limit warnings.
- "Destroy bunker" operation against acre locations was not working properly, this issue is fixed now.
- Bug with clan chat when creating similar clan in other area is now solved.
- Solved a bug with instant travel, now works as intended. Only locations directly aligned to your location will instant travel be allowed or own home sector.
- When both towns are clanless "Trade resources" appeared on the town info page. Now resolved back to "Negotiate relations".
- Bug fixed where property could be given away to anyone when not in clan. Property can now only be given to clanmembers.
- Reorderd the research military tab. All unit bonusses are now on top.
- Infiltrate bug fixed, flats now show the current number.

We have also reset all chat texts because of the chat changes.

Goodluck to everyone!

Greetings,
The Outbreak Team