Instead of selecting individual items to use as tools for each activity, your items can now added to equipment slots in multiple sets and the sets can be selected for the activities. The items remain equipped until you remove them or they break/eaten/used etc.

A summary about the equipment slots:

• they replace the tools in activities
• items can be equipped on the inventory page
• slots can be purchased with experience points, up to 5 slots
• up to 5 sets of equipment can be set up each with max 5 slots
• equipment sets can be auto-added to activities
• usage will not be limited to activities

We have created an introduction video for SimRepublic that will be visible on the front page to new users. Check it out!

Please can you post it to your facebook if you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQF1dBtFq4

We’ve made some new additions to the war system which will hopefully make it more interesting.

• A new action and some new items have been added – time to visit your research centre.
• Items placed on plots can be targeted by a spy now. The targeted items appear in the planning room.
• A citizen with spy profession can enter the planning room to view some details about the targets.
• The targets in the planning room expire after a day.
• For now, a country can be attacked only if it has a big parliament or its research level is greater than 5.

I have also added a hidden but powerful item which is limited to only a few instances in the game world, and I let you discover its whereabouts.

After a long wait the Immigration Office has returned, led by an idea posted on our forums by BlaatSchaap. Thank you. Players are now free to join any country under the age of 10 days or for their first time to join. Otherwise the rule set by the leader applies.

Defense towers now need a permit from the parliament to begin construction. Permits can be added by a leader in the Big parliament’s Leader Office and they are used up from there at the start of construction.

The basic war system is ready to use. The parliament’s planning room contains the functionality to start a war and to create the tasks to execute. Here is a short introduction to some new concepts and stuff:

• Actions: war consists mainly of actions. They can describe an attack or something else and have predefined requirements and behaviour. Most actions work only during war.
• Plans: a plan is a piece of paper describing an action. It can be created by leaders by choosing which action to execute on which target. The cost to create a plan is deducted from the country budget. Everyone can execute a plan via the execute activity. A plan disappears after use.
• Targets: they can be any game object, but for now only plots (cities, forests etc) are used.
• Spies: this is a new profession that will be used for targetting certain things. Currently leaders and spies can target countries and plots via the info popups.
• New buildings: light arms factory, produces war related items required for some attacks. Defense towers: their only function is to take damage instead of your valuable buildings.

New actions and items will be added in the following weeks.

We’ve added a lot of new furniture to the game, here are a few highlights that I am especially proud of:

Fussball Table

Fridge:

Fireplace:

Designer table:

This is a great fan video made about SimRepublic. I love the fact that players are putting in this effort into the game. Well done!

Similar fan-created content will also be posted on the blog! But it has to be good quality!

We are extremely happy about the growth of the game so far. Yesterday we say over 60 people online at once, and I hope we will reach 100 in the next few days. It’s terrific!

The feedback about the game has also been pretty good, and we are working hard to fix any bugs as soon as possible.

The brand new version of SimRepublic has just gone live!

It is a new game, new dynamics, new things to do, new goals. It has been in development for half a year and it is well worth the wait!

Starting playing now!