We have some very exciting news to share! Meet Call of War’s newest resource: War Bonds! They will replace almost all functions currently paid for with Gold.This revolutionizes how Call of War is played, so read on to find out all of the details!
War Bonds are a new resource in the game, located in the resource bar at the top of the screen. They accumulate passively over time for free. War Bonds are used for all special actions, such as speed-ups, spy actions, morale boosts, and healing your units. So all players can now enjoy them the same.
Like other resources, War Bonds are tied to each map. So take advantage of your War Bonds to enjoy Call of War to the fullest.
There are some key differences to other resources. War Bonds aren’t produced by provinces. That means they accumulate at the same fixed rate for all players, regardless of how big their nation has grown or what gameday it is. Additionally, War Bonds can not be looted from defeated enemy players. And finally, they are not available on the stock market, or tradeable with other players.
So you might wonder, where does this leave Gold? Going forward Gold is only used to top up resources, including the new War Bonds. And of course you can still use it to unlock premium account features during map creation.
War Bonds are laying a strong foundation for the future of Call of War. They give us opportunities for future iterations and new features.
But most importantly, they level the playing field. War Bonds allow everyone to participate in all functions Call of War offers. This way, everyone experiences the same gameplay.
This also adds a new layer of strategic planning. Will you use them early in the game to keep the pace high and pressure your opponents? Or are you gonna save them for a rainy day, stocking them up for a push later in the game? The choice is yours, and we are excited to see how you’ll use your newly gained options on the battlefield!
War Bonds are going live with the next release on Tuesday, 2024-07-23! They are already available for testing in beta games, so Frontline Pioneers can dust off their entrenching tools and already do some testing.
We have also opened a dedicated channel on our Discord. Head there to discuss the upcoming change or ask any questions that you may have!
That is all for now Generals - we’ll see you on the battlefield!
Your Bytro Team
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Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resourcessure you were the two most useless resources for me personally but you will still live in my heart...
Unless you’re Kim Jong-Un, there’s no reason why you need (large amounts of) Rare Materials.6thDragon wrote:
Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resources
Goods on the other hand... surely you don’t expect to win a (competitive) game without arty and planes?
Easy to win a competitive game against arty and planes, just use AA and rocket arty. Easy peasy.AleksanderZ wrote:
Unless you’re Kim Jong-Un, there’s no reason why you need (large amounts of) Rare Materials.6thDragon wrote:
Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resourcesGoods on the other hand... surely you don’t expect to win a (competitive) game without arty and planes?
So you would use AA and RA (but not arty or planes). AA will fall to my meat shield and my bombers will reign supreme.6thDragon wrote:
Easy to win a competitive game against arty and planes, just use AA and rocket arty. Easy peasy.AleksanderZ wrote:
Unless you’re Kim Jong-Un, there’s no reason why you need (large amounts of) Rare Materials.Goods on the other hand... surely you don’t expect to win a (competitive) game without arty and planes?6thDragon wrote:
Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resources
Easy peasy.
The update is trash.
They won't be forgotten...Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resources
He loves his Pacific Conquest mapsK.Rokossovski wrote:
Lemme guess... you love the navy?Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resources
Is that the scenario the update is live in?
I like to use war bonds
Well, planes take way more rare than goods so that doesn't seem to add up. You need rare for all kinds of units (Planes, RA, SPRA, MT & HT & TD, Commandos & Para's + all secret units) Rare is also needed for industry.AleksanderZ wrote:
Unless you’re Kim Jong-Un, there’s no reason why you need (large amounts of) Rare Materials.6thDragon wrote:
Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resourcesGoods on the other hand... surely you don’t expect to win a (competitive) game without arty and planes?
Everyone needs heaps of rare
Don’t know, I haven't joined oneMichaelis wrote:
Is that the scenario the update is live in?
I don’t like the new update.
Very well.Carking the 6th wrote:
If I had anything useful to add I would have added it lmao
I don’t think many people do...MarioLazzaratti wrote:
I don’t like the new update.
Is this STILL your least favorite Bytro update?vonlettowvorbeck wrote:
Strategy in using WBs: yes and? It is still magic, which reduces the military and economic strategy required before WBs. Hence it is wrong, unless one wasn't playinhg this game for what it used to be: a strategy game!Gold existing before: indeed and any halfwit player like me can gather a stash of gold by winning or at least staying active. Only players who never ever win and/or always go inactive do not have a stash from earlier games. But those can't be helped with WBs either!
Any halfwit like me can have a stash of 100k to 200k (currently at 130k abouts after meeting a moderate golder), unless you spend every game (but why would you?).
I do not spend every game. I keep my gold for the rare game where I meet that rare heavy golder. Heavy golders are mostly not the best players, because (fact) heavy gold use makes lazy and dumb (as do WBs). Any dedicated half-skilled player can do with a 100k where the average heavy golder needs a million.
That gold-magic, however, was a limited annoyance and it occurred only in a few games out of many.
Now - with WBs - any less than mediocre player has the possibility to sit in a corner w/o even 1 city left and still annoy other players with 'gold actions' by using WBs. Or 3 halfwits band together and out-WB any solo player, making solo victories a thing of the past.
Non-spenders have a handicap for sure, but they are not helpless victims. A few years back I was flat on my ass after a huge mishap and couldn't afford premium even. I played 2 years w/o premium and had no issues building a gold stash from winning and/or surviving.
Thus:
-> Before: non spenders could ALSO use gold actions ... unless they were going inactive all the time and/or never won a single game.
-> Now: non spenders and all dimwits always going inactive and/or incapable of surviving any game...let alone capable of winning a single game ever... can use gold actions.
But these players that never were able to build a gold stash will also not be able to use their WBs right nor change their behaviour of starting 20 games and finishing NONE.
What a great change! What an added value! ....not
Non spenders w/o gold simply do not benefit. They just get a taste of gold use, but their chances vs any other players are not increased...unless they start buying gold.
Non spenders with a gold stash (meaning they are at least half skilled and/or dedicated enough to stay active and thus always get some gold) are not benefitting either. They did not need WBs and are now the victim of skillless gold actions from WBs in EVERY game.
Spenders DO benefit however, because their gold actions are more difficult to detect and any action from a non spender with free WBs is easily countered with their WBs and more gold...
THUS the conclusion must be:
WBs exist to get players used to mana and magic, so they will learn to buy gold.
There is nothing wrong with that strategy for the business that Bytro is.
It is however a pity and a great loss for the players who play this game for the once awesome strategy component.
That strategy component is now being diminished by the mana raining from the skies on EVERY map, where it used to be maybe 1 out of 4-5 games in the past.
There simply is no denying any of this.
Hence ... just to sum it up: Liking WBs equals lacking skill and dedication.
Because:
1. Needing WBs means you never had gold from previous games thus that equals lack of skill and dedication.
2. Claiming golders could not be beaten by non spenders means lack of skill and dedication.
3. Claiming non spenders could not use gold actions only signifies the lack of skill and decication of that player.
4. et cetera
5. andsoforth...
Thus WBs are meant to make you spend and the free WBs clearly only make up for lack of skill and dedication by adding magic defenders, magic healing, magic this and magic that...
What an improvement!?
And I find it baffling that players who claim to be pretty good (but whom I do not know) welcome WBs, while these WBs do nothing but disrupt our once fantastic strategy game.....
Luckily Bytro is listening to players and many amends have been made, reducing the early WB rampage.
I pray for more!
MORE as in: more reductions and restrictions; not more free WBs!
Me neither.MarioLazzaratti wrote:
I don’t like the new update.
I know, but only the mass golders do that.SendNubes wrote:
That would cost 140,000 Gold. If someone wants to spend that much they always could, no feature is going to stop that from happening.bosna best wrote:
I don’t think they help that much because I joined a game where a golder bought 280,000 war bonds and spammed them.
lolBandersnatch wrote:
Is this STILL your least favorite Bytro update?vonlettowvorbeck wrote:
Strategy in using WBs: yes and? It is still magic, which reduces the military and economic strategy required before WBs. Hence it is wrong, unless one wasn't playinhg this game for what it used to be: a strategy game!Gold existing before: indeed and any halfwit player like me can gather a stash of gold by winning or at least staying active. Only players who never ever win and/or always go inactive do not have a stash from earlier games. But those can't be helped with WBs either!
Any halfwit like me can have a stash of 100k to 200k (currently at 130k abouts after meeting a moderate golder), unless you spend every game (but why would you?).
I do not spend every game. I keep my gold for the rare game where I meet that rare heavy golder. Heavy golders are mostly not the best players, because (fact) heavy gold use makes lazy and dumb (as do WBs). Any dedicated half-skilled player can do with a 100k where the average heavy golder needs a million.
That gold-magic, however, was a limited annoyance and it occurred only in a few games out of many.
Now - with WBs - any less than mediocre player has the possibility to sit in a corner w/o even 1 city left and still annoy other players with 'gold actions' by using WBs. Or 3 halfwits band together and out-WB any solo player, making solo victories a thing of the past.
Non-spenders have a handicap for sure, but they are not helpless victims. A few years back I was flat on my ass after a huge mishap and couldn't afford premium even. I played 2 years w/o premium and had no issues building a gold stash from winning and/or surviving.
Thus:
-> Before: non spenders could ALSO use gold actions ... unless they were going inactive all the time and/or never won a single game.
-> Now: non spenders and all dimwits always going inactive and/or incapable of surviving any game...let alone capable of winning a single game ever... can use gold actions.
But these players that never were able to build a gold stash will also not be able to use their WBs right nor change their behaviour of starting 20 games and finishing NONE.
What a great change! What an added value! ....not
Non spenders w/o gold simply do not benefit. They just get a taste of gold use, but their chances vs any other players are not increased...unless they start buying gold.
Non spenders with a gold stash (meaning they are at least half skilled and/or dedicated enough to stay active and thus always get some gold) are not benefitting either. They did not need WBs and are now the victim of skillless gold actions from WBs in EVERY game.
Spenders DO benefit however, because their gold actions are more difficult to detect and any action from a non spender with free WBs is easily countered with their WBs and more gold...
THUS the conclusion must be:
WBs exist to get players used to mana and magic, so they will learn to buy gold.
There is nothing wrong with that strategy for the business that Bytro is.
It is however a pity and a great loss for the players who play this game for the once awesome strategy component.
That strategy component is now being diminished by the mana raining from the skies on EVERY map, where it used to be maybe 1 out of 4-5 games in the past.
There simply is no denying any of this.
Hence ... just to sum it up: Liking WBs equals lacking skill and dedication.
Because:
1. Needing WBs means you never had gold from previous games thus that equals lack of skill and dedication.
2. Claiming golders could not be beaten by non spenders means lack of skill and dedication.
3. Claiming non spenders could not use gold actions only signifies the lack of skill and decication of that player.
4. et cetera
5. andsoforth...
Thus WBs are meant to make you spend and the free WBs clearly only make up for lack of skill and dedication by adding magic defenders, magic healing, magic this and magic that...
What an improvement!?
And I find it baffling that players who claim to be pretty good (but whom I do not know) welcome WBs, while these WBs do nothing but disrupt our once fantastic strategy game.....
Luckily Bytro is listening to players and many amends have been made, reducing the early WB rampage.
I pray for more!
MORE as in: more reductions and restrictions; not more free WBs!
Boy, did you ever even try to play competitive?AleksanderZ wrote:
So you would use AA and RA (but not arty or planes). AA will fall to my meat shield and my bombers will reign supreme.6thDragon wrote:
Easy to win a competitive game against arty and planes, just use AA and rocket arty. Easy peasy.AleksanderZ wrote:
Unless you’re Kim Jong-Un, there’s no reason why you need (large amounts of) Rare Materials.Goods on the other hand... surely you don’t expect to win a (competitive) game without arty and planes?6thDragon wrote:
Those were the most valuable resources. I’m not convinced we are talking about the same game.Goliath Coconut wrote:
R.I.P goods and rare resourcesEasy peasy.
Or, save up and splurge in one round.bosna best wrote:
I know, but only the mass golders do that.SendNubes wrote:
That would cost 140,000 Gold. If someone wants to spend that much they always could, no feature is going to stop that from happening.bosna best wrote:
I don’t think they help that much because I joined a game where a golder bought 280,000 war bonds and spammed them.
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