Attacks rework, Bots and more ...
We have reworked Attacks section and added Personal attack planning. We also integrated Slack and Discord bot with Travco and optimised many aspects of the site.
Bots
We wanted to bring faster notification system to our users. Are new attacks starting to pop up on your teammates? You may want to get notified. Is there a new defense call? Hey, you probably want to know. Discord and Slack bots seem like a great solution. You can now integrate Travco directly into your communication channels and be notified about important changes in a matter of seconds.
- Discord bot - get notifications about actions on your Discord channel.
- Slack bot - notifies you in your Slack workspace.
- There are three types of notifications which you can set up:
- New defense call has been made
- New attack report has been added
- Your teammate has reported an incoming attack
Attacks
Attack application has been reworked from the ground up. Instead of kind of unintuitive template system of Targets you now have a signle collection of Targets which you can add into multiple Attack plans. Many long-requested features such as static Targets (defined by coordinates), mass update of attacks, personal attack planning and much more have been implemented.
- Template system of Targets have been removed and you now have a single collection of Targets.
- You can set additional informations to the Targets (such as whether it is main/off village or it's artifacts). You can also check available attack reports on the Target directly from the Target list.
- You can now have two types of Targets:
- Village - A village of some player. When this village is destroyed or conquered by another player, the Target is removed.
- Static - Defined by coordinates, rather than by specific village. This makes it especially useful for big and unique artifact villages, which are usually conquered by the alliance and change users frequently.
- Personal attack planning has been added - You can now define your private set of Targets and plan attacks on your own!
- Attack planning has been optimised so it now can handle even very large numbers of Attackers and Targets, which would previously result in laggy experience.
Other
- Full English support (more languages coming soon)
- New success and error messages
- Custom icons with our brand new logo (we thank Marek for the arts, you can check his other pieces at https://www.deviantart.com/tenmarek)
- smaller design changes
Optimizations
We have made many optimizations throught the app. You can find them mainly in the Defense, Attacks and Artifacts app, where you should be experiencing increased performance and shorter load times.
Bug Fixes
In this update, we shipped mainly bug fixes and a beta English version of the page. As of now, other language support is being worked on. In case you would be willing to help us with translation, don't hesitate to contact us either by email or on our Discord channel (to join, click https://discord.gg/dSGmEJw).
Bug fixes
- Fixed multiple translation bugs (mainly at the switchbox form fields)
- Fixed attack report creating
- Fixed hero images showing properly
Translations (beta)
- We have released an English version of Travco. For now, you can switch language in your profile settings.
Major Travco Overhaul
Beta 1.0.0 version of Travco brings HUGE changes to nearly all functionalities. Most prominently, it brings many changes to Defense, Artifacts and Reports applications. Many UI parts of Travco have been reworked to be friendlier to mobile users.
UI
Travco UI has been improved in many ways.
- UI features have been standardized both in their position on the screen and useability.
- Users can now switch between Groups straight from the view.
- A new dropdown button on the top left side of the screen has been added. It serves for quick navigation between connected functionalities. This is extremely useful mainly for def/off generals, as it allows them to hide the sidebar and have more screen real estate in most situations.
- Mobile users can now hide/show the sidebar with a swipe.
- Profile and Group pictures are finally functional! (this is more of a bug fix, but still ...)
Defence
Defence planning is a function that Travco is most loved for, so we approached its rework with a lot of respect. We tried to keep all its great functionalities while adding awesome new features and fixing some bugs.
- Attack analyser
- Users can now analyse slowest troops in the incoming attacks. This allows you to check whether there is a possibility that the attacker is sending catapults or not.
- The process can be both manual, or automatic (when reporting over the rally point). You just select the last time you checked Travian (and the attack was not coming) and Travco does all the calculations for you, for all the incoming attacks. Pretty neat, right?
- Defence inbetween attacks
- You don't need a calculator to send a def in between attacks anymore. Travco shows you all the possible combinations of troops you can send with a countdown timer and count of attempts you have.
- Many bugs and missing features fixed.
- Request for permanent defence - new feature
- Fixed Hero equipment and experience change reporting.
Attack Reports
Until now, we felt that attack reports have not been used to their full potential. With this update, we made attack reporting and sharing them to the group much more useful.
- The attack report information is presented in a much more concise way, resulting in greatly improved useability, mainly on smaller devices.
- You can check the expected strength of attacker, which is calculated using all your available reports of the attacking village. There are three projections of strength - minimum, average and maximum.
- minimum strength is achieved by training troops in only small barracks and stable - newbie player
- average strength is achieved by training troops in both small and large barracks and stable - normal player
- the same as average, but also with 50% troop training duration artefact - experienced player
- Integration with other Travco applications
- reports have been fully integrated to the Defense part of Travco application - you can check all available reports for an incoming attack with a single click.
- more will be coming with Attacks app rework.
Artefacts
The problem with artefacts on Travco has always been that they were somewhat confusing for the players. With this update, we ship mainly UI changes with some improvements.
- In the artefacts planning, group leaders can now also choose "send all attacks". This is mainly a shortcut to send all attacks from a single village, as previously you would have to choose "hammer", "catapults" and "hero" individually, which sometimes led to confusion.
- Added more checks to help prevent misuse, mainly in the planning of artefact attacks.
- Fixed clunky design of some forms.
- Visual updates.
Groups
Groups come with dual support and some little enhancements
- You can manage your group's memberships inside your profile along with all duals