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Here are the biggest questions I've been asked regarding the changes for Season IV and their answers. Many of these are already posted in the blog, or the forums, or both.

Question - Where is the attack log?

There are several options that are hidden until you reach a certain upgrade. Most are dependent on covert level or unit level. Get a few upgrades, and they'll be back in no time.

Question - Where is the covert log?

See question #1

Question - Where is the alliances screen?

See question #1

Question - What is the deal with not all the weapons being available at the beginning?

See question #1

Question - I have too many honor strokes! Is there a bug?

No, the number of honor strokes you have is always relative to everyone else in the game. At the beginning of the season, it just doesn't take much to get to the top. If you stop there, eventually everyone else will pass you and you will start losing honor strokes.

Question - How do I quit my alliance without starting a new one?

It's a feature that really should be there, but right now it is not. In the meantime, just start an alliance, then disband it.

Question - Player XXX seems to have vanished! Where did they go?

At the beginning of every season, EVERYONE is set to inactive status. This is so they gain full benefits of a new account when they log in. Otherwise, if they are not there at the beginning of the change they will lose their starting gold to other players. As soon as they log in, they will be back.

Question - Why won't my old alliance go away?

First, read the answer to the previous question. Generally if an alliance leader goes inactive, the alliance is disbanded. Because everyone is inactive at the beginning of the Season, this function is temporarily disabled so that not all alliances are immediately disbanded.

A few days into the new season and I will re-enable the function. As soon as this is done, alliances with inactive leaders go *poof*.

Question - How often do turns happen? What happened to the turn timer?

As I said in the blog, there isn't really a half-hour turn anymore. It is there, but it doesn't do what it used to do. Mainly it just handles activating and unactivating players.

New gold, Attack Turns, and Ninja Turns all come in at different times now.

Yes, you do get more net gold if your fortifications are higher.

For your convenience:
Unit Level 1 gets a new peasant every 17280 seconds
Unit Level 2 gets a new peasant every 8640 seconds
Unit Level 3 gets a new peasant every 4320 seconds
Unit Level 4 gets a new peasant every 2160 seconds
Unit Level 5 gets a new peasant every 1080 seconds
Unit Level 6 gets a new peasant every 540 seconds
Unit Level 7 gets a new peasant every 270 seconds
Unit Level 8 gets a new peasant every 135 seconds
Attack Level 0 gets a turn every 1800.0 seconds
Attack Level 1 gets a turn every 1770.0 seconds
Attack Level 2 gets a turn every 1740.0 seconds
Attack Level 3 gets a turn every 1710.0 seconds
Attack Level 4 gets a turn every 1680.0 seconds
Attack Level 5 gets a turn every 1650.0 seconds
Attack Level 6 gets a turn every 1620.0 seconds
Attack Level 7 gets a turn every 1590.0 seconds
Attack Level 8 gets a turn every 1560.0 seconds
Attack Level 9 gets a turn every 1530.0 seconds
Attack Level 10 gets a turn every 1500.0 seconds
Attack Level 11 gets a turn every 1470.0 seconds
Attack Level 12 gets a turn every 1440.0 seconds
Attack Level 13 gets a turn every 1410.0 seconds
Attack Level 14 gets a turn every 1380.0 seconds
Covert Level 0 gets a ninja turn every 1800.0 seconds
Covert Level 1 gets a ninja turn every 1770.0 seconds
Covert Level 2 gets a ninja turn every 1740.0 seconds
Covert Level 3 gets a ninja turn every 1710.0 seconds
Covert Level 4 gets a ninja turn every 1680.0 seconds
Covert Level 5 gets a ninja turn every 1650.0 seconds
Covert Level 6 gets a ninja turn every 1620.0 seconds
Covert Level 7 gets a ninja turn every 1590.0 seconds
Covert Level 8 gets a ninja turn every 1560.0 seconds
Covert Level 9 gets a ninja turn every 1530.0 seconds
Covert Level 10 gets a ninja turn every 1500.0 seconds
Covert Level 11 gets a ninja turn every 1470.0 seconds
Defense Level 0 gets a gold update every 450.0 seconds
Defense Level 1 gets a gold update every 442.5 seconds
Defense Level 2 gets a gold update every 435.0 seconds
Defense Level 3 gets a gold update every 427.5 seconds
Defense Level 4 gets a gold update every 420.0 seconds
Defense Level 5 gets a gold update every 412.5 seconds
Defense Level 6 gets a gold update every 405.0 seconds
Defense Level 7 gets a gold update every 397.5 seconds
Defense Level 8 gets a gold update every 390.0 seconds
Defense Level 9 gets a gold update every 382.5 seconds
Defense Level 10 gets a gold update every 375.0 seconds
Defense Level 11 gets a gold update every 367.5 seconds
Defense Level 12 gets a gold update every 360.0 seconds
Defense Level 13 gets a gold update every 352.5 seconds
Defense Level 14 gets a gold update every 345.0 seconds
Defense Level 15 gets a gold update every 337.5 seconds
Defense Level 16 gets a gold update every 330.0 seconds

Question - How did I get black honor? My honor log shows only one bad honor act!

It takes a thousand honorable deeds to gain a good reputation. It takes only one to mar honor forever.

The honor colors go blacker, faster. Only follow those whom you trust.

Question - I seem to be getting 4 less gold per half hour than I should.

It's a rounding/data type bug in the accounting department. It will be fixed.

Question - Who won last season? Can't we have like a hall of fame or something?

It's on it's way. I had originally wanted to spend the time to code it after the changeover, but then things got crazy. In any case, the data is still available, I just need things to calm down enough to have time to create it.

Question - Why don't my dojo work?

Dojo are broken at the moment. It will be fixed, but I don't recommend buying them until I announce the fix!

FIXED***

Question - How do we know the game/server time?

Server time is UTC/GMT -6 hours. Central Time Zone, North America. We do have daylight savings.

If that doesn't help go to: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=405

Question - Is everything written in stone at this point? Code-wise, I mean..

No, it is not. I generally try to keep things stable mid-season, only adding to the interface, not mechanics. However I do reserve the final decision on such things. If I decide something needs to change it will be changed.

Right now, I have several "tune-ups" in mind that may change mid-Season, but nothing too drastic.

Question - I sent a message to Xaudius, but never got a reply.

X isn't very active on Shogun Wars these days. He's got a new job and stays pretty busy. If you need something, it's probably better to message Susanoo about it.

Question - about all these changes with Season IV, are you crazy?

:) I think so. I think it is really time to start taking some big steps forward in making Shogun Wars a more unique game with more depth and character. That means change.

We've spent a lot of time making improvements behind the scenes. It's just now that the effects are starting to bubble up to the surface.