Behind the scenes
In less than a month, The West will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, which we want to celebrate extensively. To show that it will continue after that, we want to present you the five-year plan, the Roadmap 2023-2027. The following is a short overview of the upcoming projects, sorted by areas. However, please understand that we cannot give exact timelines for the planned changes.
Adventures
We will be bringing in a new map with an additional building:
Jobs
In order to guarantee a good sleeping rhythm with the advancing age of the player community, there will be a curfew between 11pm and 7am. At this time you will be automatically sent to the hotel and will not be able to log into the game.
Duels
Players who are not a town member will also be able to participate in duels. For counterbalance we will reintroduce the working knockout.
In addition, the duel level will be eliminated without replacement. You will be able to duel opponents of your level +-25 levels.
Achievements
Also in the future we want to present you more achievements. We want to tell you a few of the achievements with title and description:
| Name of the achievement | Description |
|---|---|
| Ticket King | Create 100 support tickets. |
| This is not allowed! | Report 1000 messages via the affront system. |
| Who? Me? Never! | Get reported 50 times. |
| Long time no see | Return to the game after a year's absence. |
| Pope | Spend a month at a time praying. |
| Gold Digger | Get 10000 nuggets through the login bonus. |
Events
In addition to the previously known events, there will now be an Ascension event, a Diwali event, and a Ramadan event. There are also community events planned for Channukah and Chinese New Year.
Fort battles
Fort battles have already seen many changes recently, but we still want to continue improving fort battles. The planned changes include the following:
- Fort battles, like duels, will have a soundtrack with real-time gunshot sounds in the future.
- The duration of fort battles will be adjusted to the length of real battles from now on. From now on, a fort battle round will last one week.
- You can now build siege engines (attack) and traps (defense) after calling a fort battle. With siege machines you have the possibility to hit players in the 2nd row. When you step into a trap, you lose up to 20% of your maximum health.
The price system in the game has not been adjusted to the current market conditions for a long time. We are now changing this with two changes:
- The buying and selling prices of all items in the game will be increased by a factor of 2.
- In addition, all players will be stripped of 35% of their current dollar supply, with a minimum of $2,000,000. If players get into debt as a result, they can easily pay it off by selling items and doing jobs.
An expansion to level 300 is planned for the end of the planning period. Two of the new jobs are called: petting cats and remote working . Upon reaching the 300th level, a second character class can be chosen. In addition items can be upgraded to level 10
Towns
For towns, we want to give you more options in the future, both visually and socially. These include:
- City expansions: You can buy additional area for your city and thus rearrange the buildings according to your preferences.
- Mayoral elections: The leaders of a city will soon be determined democratically. On January 01 and June 01, the six-month mayoral terms begin. A mayor is elected on the 15th of the previous month via an internal city polling tool. All city members are eligible to vote. However, a player may not hold office for more than two terms.
- The mortician can be upgraded to level 5, with level 5 there is the possibility to buy duel protection for bonds or nuggets.