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With the advent of the map editor, pro units and in particular air and naval units have become much more commonly used. The new maps and scenarios show that some units could do with some tweaking. E.g. Battle ships are too powerful and can often dominate games while other units get rarely used.

In order to improve the overall balance between units we have collated a set of changes we’d like you to test on a dedicated test system. We do not expect them to be perfect yet but with your feedback we will be able to improve them until they are ready to be rolled out to the live system.

The exact changes are posted over at tangler, where you also have a chance to discuss them in detail and feed back your findings from the test. You can sign up for the test over on test.weewar.com (please note the test in the domain). Upgrades to pro are free but please do test non pro games as well.

The changes affect a great many things so you might look at the corresponding post on tangler for the nitty gritty details, but broadly they are:

• Decreased anti air abilities for most land units
• Battle ships have reduced abilities against air units and are generally weaker
• Bombers are cheaper and have better attack values against ships
• Destroyers are cheaper and have increased attack values against air units
• Submarines can now do ranged attacks
• Light artillery is cheaper

We are quite exited about these changes and are really looking forward to your feedback.

Following the map editor release we have been invited to do another interview with Galaxy News. Read all about it.

Last weekend we’ve rolled out one of the most exciting updates to date: You can now design and share your own maps! The creative output of the first 2 days alone has been amazing. We have seen hundreds of exciting maps being made and there are more coming in constantly.

Making a map is very easy: Just go to your headquarters, select the new maps-tab and click on “Create a new map” . Once you have set some initial dimensions you simply pick and “paint” terrains and units onto the map. You can use variable brush sizes and use every feature present on the regular maps.

When you are happy with your design you publish your map. This takes about one minute (during which you can already do other things) to create all the required files.

From then on you can use your map just like every other map. And so can every other player as your published maps appear in your profile, too.

You can also always improve or change your own published maps and every other map on the system by creating a new revision - And of course you are free to delete any of your own maps at any time.

While everybody can create and edit maps, publishing is only available to pro players. However, every pro player can still directly invite any player (pro or not) to new games, even on custom maps.

We are really excited about this and are looking forward to see your maps.