Dear Community,

Today we want to announce version 4.0 like it will be updated on our international test server after its reset at the end of this week.


New Content: 'Auctioneer' 'Mystery Box' 'Scrap Merchant' 'Resource Booster' 'Production & Shipyard Boost'
New Views: 'New Merchant Menu' 'New Equipment Overview'
New Possibilities: 'Accelerate Your Development' 'Reorientation Of Your Account'

• New Overview
• Resource Market (Merchant)
• NPCs (Auctioneer, Scrap Merchant, Import / Export)

• Purchase Items by auction
  • bid with resources for new premium items
• every hour between 6am - 11pm
  • duration of every auction between 35 - 45 minutes
• Bid with resource points
  • M-C-D: 1 - 1,5 - 3
  • Honor Points:
    • 1 HP: 100 resource points
• players bid against each other
  • Out bidden? Raise your bid!
• Used resources won't be refunded!

• Sell ships & defense
• 35% of used resources for free!
• Get better ratio up to 75%!
  • increase ratio in steps (5-14%)
  • costs: first increase 2k DM - next try is always +2k DM (max. 10k DM)
  • max. 75% always reachable
• Resources directly added to your account (in the limit of your available storage space)
  
  • incl. Deuterium

• 'Mystery Container'
• new content every day
  • possible to receive every new premium item
• direct purchase for given price
• after purchase content can be changed twice:
  • each 500 Dark Matter
• buy with resource points
  • M-C-D: 1 - 1,5 - 3
  • Honor Points:
    • 1 HP: 100 resource points

• Bonuses can be added per planet
• Boost limited to a special mine level (depends on item level)
• Duration always 7d
• 3 different item level (gold, silver, bronze)
• Gold:
  • + 30% - 25k DM - boosts max. mine lvl 28 (even if your mine is higher)
• Silver:
  • + 20% - 8.5k DM - boosts max. mine lvl 24 (even if your mine is higher)
• Bronze:
  • + 10% - 2.5k DM - boosts max. mine lvl 20 (even if your mine is higher)
• every item available at auctioneer & Import / Export as well
• unlimited inventory
  • only bought items (& bought Dark Matter) secure account from inactivity deletion

• Acceleration will be used on chosen planet
• 3 different item level (gold, silver, bronze)
• Construction Kraken used for upgrade & downgrade of buildings
• Gold:
  • 6h - 26k DM
• Silver:
  • 2h - 10k DM
• Bronze:
  • 30m - 3k DM
• every item available at auctioneer & Import / Export as well
• unlimited inventory
  • only bought items (& bought Dark Matter) secure account from inactivity deletion
• Items have impact on whole queue
  • not used time will be lost!
• The already shown research bot is not part of the update - it is possible that we add this feature later on!

• Shop & Inventory on one screen
• Sorting of items:
  • Special Offers
  • Buddy-Items
  • Resource Items
  • Construction Items
  • All
• Special offers will be tagged

• 2 free Itemslots per planet
  • possible to add an additional slot per planet (permanent)
    • costs: 15k DM
• Equip Items via Drag&Drop or Double click
• Res Booster blocks slot till end of duration
• Accelerators used if you equip them

Testserver:

The international test server 'Origin' on http://pioneers.ogame.org will be restarted for updating version 4.0. Players with existing accounts can use their already given login data again, new players have to register. Every player will start with 50k metal, 40k crystal, 30k deuterium and 100k Dark Matter. The test server speed will be 2x.

Please only use the test server if you are really interested in our update tests and use the ingame feedback system to send us your noticed bugs and suggestions around version 4.0 and later updates as well.

As usual it is possible that we have to reset the test server at anytime or that major crash destroy your development on it. It is possibly to buy and use Dark Matter on the test server, but keep in mind that everything can be lost during a reset or server crash.

discussion here: Version 4.0.0- discussion


Your OGame.Origin team