Recently there's been the BD update on the 20th of July...

Now the reasons for some of the changes remain mystery for me,
and if someone has an answer, please post it!

1) What was it good for to delete the colony names and only keep ruler names?
2) (problem) Why sometimes when I return my squads to an OP of mine/my colony, the squad colour is red (attacking)?
3) What is a camp good for? If I'm not mistaken.... nothing?
4) I was familiar with the ancient power/battle stats... but how does the game calculate your power now? I mean... with 700 workers and no army you can be sergeant? For how much do conquers/crystals count? Do OP's count too?
5)This one is the one that upsets me most:
Why did the vacation rules change!!! Now apparently you can get attacked even when on vacation... so what is the use of putting your colony into vacation mode?? I know it is hateful when a colony goes on vacation because he/she wants to keep him/herself safe from an attack, but for instance: I'm going on holiday for two weeks in two weeks... That means ANYTHING could happen to my colony while being on vacation...

That's disgusting?

An answer please !

-Platina

1. The reason were that new players some times got confused by it.
2. It's just a bug, we're working on fixing it
3. So that units don't crash if they come back to a razed op
4.
25 workers=1 power
10 soldiers (not unit) = 1 power
1 conquer = 1 power
crystals don't give power, just 20 score, and outposts give no power
4. yeah it's because of abuse, they have discussed it ALOT, but they figured this would be the best way. And vacation mode is so that you don't get deleted

Thanks a lot for the explanation Simmen
It was really helpful.

Only I still think the vacation mode option should not have been altered.
I know, I know...abuse... but the way BD is avoiding vacation mode abuse now, is by doing harm to honest players...

Sad.

It's sad I know, but it was being used dishonestly far more than honestly.

ah..we?? are you working too sim on that????