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Hi there,

i am happy to tell you that we already started with the development of Version 2.0 and we make good progress. I want to keep you informed about some states of the development in this post. So i try to make weekly updates, but first i have to secure that i am allowed to give out this informations

Before you will get a look into the development progress. Here is a list of all related topics for Version 2.0

New Map

The biggest change in Version 2.0 will be the change of the whole map. We will introduce new graphics and we will scale the new map to fullscreen.

Interface Redesign

The whole Interface of The-West will be changed, but don’t be scared our goals are: Get the interface more clear and more harmonious with the new windows. In the same task we will bring all windows into the new window style with Version 2.0.

Get a better start

With Version 2.0 one of our goals is: Bring new players to the game. In fact of that goal we will introduce some changes to the beginning of the game:

     New Tutorial
    First jobs will take less time
    Movement speed will be buffed until you reached a specific level
    You are not able to use difficult features e.g. market , until a specific level

Jobsystem

There will be some changes in jobsystem. Make things easier to understand like gain expierence, gain money, find items and make stuff more clear for the player. Every job will have a fixed duration in version 2.0 so you don’t have to choose any duration for jobs anymore. We also recalculate formulas for new durations and  modified the hurt formula with version 2.0. So if you hurt yourself by robbing trains it can be possible to lose much live or even die.

Here some words to the upcoming changes from our Game-Designer Ashock

    Jobs
    In The West 2.0 the jobs will be fundamentally reworked in both visual representation and functionality. There will be less job icons on the map as up to five jobs will be grouped under one major job-group.  This job-group will be placed on the map as an interactive icon and opens upon clicking a radial-menu showing the five sub-jobs of this group. All current jobs will be represented by 28 job-groups with varying occurrences. In each county there are four common and two rare job-group occurrences, which accumulate to a total of 90 job-groups per county. Not all job-groups consist of five jobs, which leaves us the space to introduce new jobs in the future.

    This change to the existing job-system was mainly done to improve the visual representation of the map and better blend the jobs into the map environment. Another aspect of the change was a better usability for the player as he will be able to find different jobs much easier due to an improved job screen, which will no longer only be usable for premium players.
    Worktime
    The worktime system of the current version will be totally changed in The West 2.0. Each job will offer a unique worktime and the player will no longer be able to select different worktimes for each job. Also the shortest worktime will be drastically reduced to 15 seconds. This means that some jobs require a worktime of 15 seconds, while for example others require 1 minute, 30 minutes or 2 hours. For each range of job-difficulty there will be different worktimes available, while the majority of the jobs switch from fast to slow jobs for higher jobpoint requirements. For example ‘scare birds from field’ needs 15 seconds and ‘free slaves’ needs 2 hours of worktime. To reward active playing we introduce a bonus for jobs with lesser worktime.

    The reason for this change is that we want to offer a more active play style, which doesn’t force the player to passiveness especially in the beginning. This change is based on some analysis we made that most players quit the game in the beginning after they are forced into a longer waiting time. Nevertheless we still offer jobs for every range with a longer worktime to still support player who prefer a less active play session.

Several other Windows were changed to new design but with no or less modifications:

Fingerboard, Buildingpages of fort, ranking, town overview, sheriff other town, ghosttowns, town invitations, found fort, you have no town window

Technical Development:

We have already completed some parts of the backend implementation of the new map this includes kind of caching systems, distribute systems and data structures. There is still a lot work in progress of course. From the graphical view there are round about 15 people at the moment which generate the map with our given editor. As soon as they finish their work we can bring it all together. I know this will be the most interesting part. Please stay tuned i don’t know when i can show you some preview of the new map.

Next big tasks for our development team: new job window, get new map backend working with new interface and on fullscreen with any resolution, modify backend for the new job system (fixed duration, new formulas), clean up a lot of old code in backend and frontend

I hope to hear from you and stay tuned for the next update from my site next week

P.S. In the next days i will post some more details about the job formula changes with another quote of our Game-Designer

POLSKI

Na oficjalnym blogu zespolu Westa znalazlem wpis ktory mnie batdzo zaciekawil, mianowicie aktualizacjia gry do wersji 2.0 . Zmian zapowiada sie wiele. Zapewne beda obszerne i ciekawe. Przeczytaj artykul, aby dowiedziec sie wiecej.

Mapa:
Tego nie bylo od bardzo dawna. Mapa ma byc calkowicie zmieniona pod katem graficznym oraz ma byc przeskalowana do trybu pelno ekranowego.

Nowy wyglad interfejsu:
Caly interfejs ma zostac zmieniony. Ale autor mowi zeby sie nie martwic gdyz ma byc bardziej przejrzysty i harmoniczny. Interfejs ma pasowac do nowego windowsa, a wszystkie okienka maja byc stylowo przystosowane do "osemki".

Lepszy start:
Zadaniem wersji 2.0 ma byc przyciagniecie nowych graczy. Deweloperzy staraja sie o jak najprostrzy i zachecajacy start. Zatem na starcie zobaczymy: nowy tutorial (ma byc latwiejszy do zrozumienia i zawierac wiecej podstawowych informacji), pierwsze prace beda zabierac mniej czasu, nasza predkosc na mapie wzrosnie do czasu osiagniecia danego poziomu, gracze do momentu osiegniecia danego poziomu nie beda mogli uzywac "trudniejszych" rzeczy typu market.

System prac
Potwierdzono zmiany dotyczace systemu pracy. Deweoperzy chca zrobic latwiejsze do zrozumienia rzeczy typu zbieranie pieniedzy i doswiadczenia. Kazda praca bedzie miala okreslona dlugosc. Nie bedziemy juz wybierac ile czasu chcemy ja wykonywac. Developerzy rowniez pobawili sie w kalkulacjie i zmienia system skaleczen (niebezpieczenstwa) w pracach. Teraz prace niebezpieczne, wezmy dla przykladu okradanie pociagow beda bardziej nie bezpieczne, gracz bedzie mogl stracic duzo punktow zycia badz nawet omdlec.

Wyzej wymienione zmiany sa tymi, ktore maja najwieksze znaczenie. Beda tez niewielkie zmiany w pojedynkach. Lecz nie ma sie co martwic na zapas. Nie jest to juz pierwsza aktualizacjia i osobiscie ufam deweloperom, wierze, ze zrobia cos godnego podziwu. Na koniec kilka obrazkow: