Hey! Have you just noticed the new UI of DrugWars? Super exciting right?

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What's up?

Today I spent a bit extra time on it, trying to find any changes, and indeed we have some important balance changes on battles, UI readjustments, lots of webpage performance optimizations and other minor things not really noticeable, but necessary to the overall experience.

Changes?

Top stats of production/resources

This one is not a big one and we kind of had it before on the previous version, but now it looks much nicer and tuned with the rest of the page.

Now each unit has capacity

Previously if you would attack with one unit, it will rob all possible resources, which was kind of unfair.

Now each unit has it's own capacity and the more you bundle in the attack, the more resources you can potentially bring back.

Note that if your total troop capacity is 1000, you will be able to steal up to 1k of drugs, 1k of weapons and 1k of alcohol at the same time. In the example bellow, @fotomindo had no drugs to steal and my troop capacity was 7.55k!

Find Targets (quick attack)

This is a very nice one! Really helps on the overall experience, and its kind of auto-balancing, because big players will have to be looking manually to less powerful ones, and it becomes less common to have those repetitive unbalanced attacks.

Shield

You will now have a cool-down protection (shield) that will depend on the size/power of the attack you suffer. This discourages repetitive attacks and/or abuses against the same player.

The minimum will be 1 hour. And currently (not sure if this will continue like this) if you attack a player that is not with shield and someone either initiated an attack before you or the troops of another player reach the same target as you, activating the shield, you will still attack and steal resources (how much, will depend on how much the other player steals).

What else?

Well, if you just started and you are looking for an amazing guide with the overall of this game and in addition to the above, then I would recommend you to check @timcliff guide, here (super complete).