2.3.3 Custom Land Names

[Mr. D]

Hi all,

Version 2.3.3 has now appeared on the Play Store and App Store.

Focus of this update is to reduce the number of external service providers that we rely on, specifically the reverse geocoding API supplying all captured lands with the associated address details.
Removal of this service makes things more cost-effective for us, but also improves the game's performance and removes a potential point of failure (3rd party software that will sabotage the game if it becomes unavailable for any reason).

However, without it we no longer have the ability to label newly captured lands with the street & city names in your current locale, so a new feature has been introduced to compensate for this:

• Upon capturing a new land it is now possible to provide it with a custom name. This action is free and does not cost any Unobtainium.
• Naming the land upon its creation is optional and can be skipped by either submitting an empty name or just tapping anywhere around the name selection window. If you accidentally skip this step - don't worry, you can use the "Rename Land" context menu option later and assign a new name free of charge.
• All lands that don't have a custom name can now be renamed once free of charge. However, further corrections or renaming of a land with a custom (manually entered) name will cost 1 UBT, same as before.

Please post if you have any questions.

[S Keillan]

On my first capture after the update, I left the name box blank and it resulted in the country being filled in. Does this mean that there is at least some geolocation at work? Also, how would this theoretically affect the national leaderboards?

[Mr. D]

Correct, country codes are still extracted from the supplied coordinates without the use of any external service, it happens offline within the app.

So this should not affect the leaderboards as the Alpha 2 codes that they're based on haven't changed.

Full country name used as a fallback when no custom title is supplied is just another thing performed offline based on the country code; I added this as it's better than having no name at all.

However, as mentioned in the original post, you can always rename these later once free of charge.

[S Keillan]

Since the update, I have noticed that Force of Terror (AI) lands have state or city names, much as before. May I presume that there is some legacy geolocation going on?

[Mr. D]

7 hours ago, S Keillan said:

Since the update, I have noticed that Force of Terror (AI) lands have state or city names, much as before. May I presume that there is some legacy geolocation going on?

Correct, Force of Terror is still using its own free geocoding API for now, but it's possible that it will move away from that one day either.