It's time to open door #9 🥳

Today we're taking a look at the market, a lot of you have seen early versions of this but there's also a nice WIP UI update at the end and since we have so many new eyes on the project we wanted to share a core part of the game with them. 👀

We're also giving away a common Satoshi NFT hero today so make sure to follow the instructions below. 💪

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1601256120810553345

Let's open door number 10 a little earlier than usual because we can't wait 🥳

We're also giving away an uncommon Konrad hero NFT today, check out the tweet for instructions to win 👍

Today we want to show you an early look at the function to garrison your city and raid others! This mode uses auto resolved combat so even when you can't be leading your troops personally on the battlefield, they can still be put to work. 😁

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1601569782666436608

It's time to open door number 11! 👀

Today we're showing off our research center mostly for all the new folks who may have missed it before. Those of you who have been following us for some time may however notice there's now the option to speed up research with HEX 💪

And of course this wouldn't be an advent calendar without some goodies, so today we're giving away a common Niobe hero NFT 😉

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1601925567766532096

Today we're opening door #12 🥳

We're showing off a bit more of our CS:M OST composed by Riccardo Triglia who never fails to impress us with his work.

You can also win a common Freya hero NFT by following e instructions in the tweet below: 😀

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1602354992182136833

It's time to open another door! 🥳

Today we're going to show some of the flavor/lore in CS:M. You may know we have bandit camps who've captured the land surrounding your city 🥵

We've broken these up into 4 factions, each with their own personality, non more foul and devoid of honour than the Jarisi 👀

Read below to find out a little more about them and to win a common Konrad hero NFT! 😉

If you're on a mobile device we have put the text into a thread for easier reading 💪

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1602703928990339072

It's time to open door 14! 🥳

Today you can win a common Freya hero NFT 🤩

We're also showing off some of our weapon models you can expect to see in CS:M, we can't wait to show these off in game soon 💪

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1603070338237177858

We're opening door 15 and giving away an uncommon Gunnar hero NFT! 💪

Remember at the start of the year we talked about squad abilities? Well we're working on these right now. Twohanded squads weren't very meta in our PVP tests back then, but they're looking pretty terrifying with their new passive ability now, and do remember that this is just the passive, not the active. 👀

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1603442734882500608

I missed yesterday's calendar, apologies, so We're going to be giving away two common Satoshi hero NFTs today (to two different people) 💪

We're also revealing our first squad active ability for ranged. Unlike the recent Twohanded passive reveal, active abilities must be charged by meeting certain conditions during battle 👌

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1604544890989420547

It's door opening time again, and today we're giving away 2x common Niobe hero cards! 😄

We're also showing our previously mentioned ranged squad active ability working in game. 👀

To win follow the instructions in the tweet below!

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1605151186289819649

Today we're opening door 21 and giving away a common Magnus Hero so make sure not to miss out! 💪

This one is more for the newer folks, but we just want to let everyone know that you can build your squads with craftable gear in CS:M, this gear will be able to be converted into NFTs and sold to other players. You can also gain gear from winning in PVP. ⚔️

To enter, follow the instructions below:
https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1605633126922801152

We're opening door 22 and giving away another common Magnus 🎁

If you check out the Twitter reveal today you can see why you might want him because we're finally announcing his unique ability. 🙀

This is still being worked on so as always there may be changes after testing, we want to find the sweet spot between making it strong (as it should be, Magnus is after all in a league of his own) but we also don't want to make it unreasonably oppressive. 😁

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1606019713519083520

Opening door 23 and giving away an uncommon Satoshi hero!🎁 🎁 🎁

We've also got another reveal we think many of you have been waiting to see for a while now. The city is still under construction but here's an early view of how the redesign is going. 👌

Through this, we've addressed a number of feedback gathered from testers, maybe you can guess a few of them from the screenshots? 🤔

Enjoy 🎉

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1606304609617600514

It's time to open our final advent door 🥹

🎁 We're also giving away an uncommon Magnus hero🎁

Today we want to share with you an early look at the new UI for CS:M.
Although it's still a work in progress, it's already much sleeker and easier to navigate 💪

Best of luck all, and wishing you a very happy holidays

https://twitter.com/CityStatesM/status/1606734136730714112

During our advent campaign we showcased a lot of new stuff. One of the bigger areas was the global map and that's where we want to start in our latest development update video. 🎉

There's also been a few improvements since our Twitter coverage and this video should explain how our global maps work in more detail. As always, feedback is welcome and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask 😀

https://youtu.be/0pYcSZmHZZo

We're opening CS:M for testing again ⚔️

Some points I'll briefly mention but please check the article below for a more detailed list of expectations. :Looking:

1️⃣ We start on the 16th Jan for Gold VIP Pass Holders
-Community Testers are also eligible to join on the 16th.

2️⃣ Silver and then Bronze Pass Holders will be let in as soon as we're happy to increase numbers.

3️⃣ People with no passes will be able to play, but at a later stage, we will announce a date closer to the time.

https://medium.com/citystates/citystates-medieval-test-event-9a0b2d4a2953

Latest development updates :)

https://medium.com/citystates/general-development-updates-in-cs-m-acabec61e67a

Hey folks. It's time for a development update article again. 💪

There's been a huge amount of work done recently that's far too large to cover in just one article. For now, we want to share some of the work that's been done on the balance and economy level which introduces some fundamental changes as to how players will approach building and maintaining their city as well as the general pacing of the game. 🥳

https://medium.com/citystates/general-balance-updates-in-cs-m-41af6eb59d29

Today we have decided to shut down the CityStates game server. While we could keep it running at low cost, there is not really a point when we are not able to fix bugs and exploits or add stuff that is needed to generate income.

All operations of CityStates/addirktive have been set on hold. If you have any HEX left on the SDEX, please set a sell order at the buy back price of $0.00225. We are going to consolidate remaining funds and fulfill this obligation as soon as possible.
Swaps, deposits and withdrawals on the dashboard have been halted as well and will be opened again in due time while we work on closing custodial account and re-enabling swaps for currencies that were/are not supported for withdrawal.

addirktive Games Development Services, PH (initial issuer of CSM, HEX etc) has been dissolved.
Coming back to Germany last year, I registered a consulting business to continue development. The consulting business will be dissolved by the end of June 2023.

Balances on the dashboard will be made available for swap to one of the currencies supported for withdrawal (XLM, USDC, BNB, WAX). Please swap and withdraw before the end of June 2023.

For assets held on the SDEX, please set sell orders for HEX at $0,00225. For the old yield assets, please set sell orders at 1:1 to the corresponding asset (e.G. yAQUA/AQUA, aBTC/BTC etc).

The addirktive dashboard and CityStates website may go offline by June 30th. A database backup will be made in the (currently unlikely) case that development can continue in the future.

For further questions please join the CityStates Discord server or contact me directly via DM.
https://discord.gg/jb8EMUt8Ne

https://medium.com/citystates/citystates-addirktive-first-steps-for-a-potential-reboot-98d5c181c2
Please join the addirktive server for discussion here if interested:
https://discord.gg/nFUEnZsB2g