[Donations & Custom GIFs - Last Chance]
With the upcoming telegram update, all payments for digital goods and services need to be done in Telegram Stars
(See official @BotNews channel, announcing the changes for bot developers).
That includes tipping developers.

We can sadly not switch our donation system easily (payments would only be accessible via the TON blockchain for us - the developers cannot update everything accordingly as of now).

The background to this are policies by Apple and Google who take a share of any purchase made inside an app downloaded from the App Store / Play Store. Apple forces Telegram to change payments for digital services in this way in order to comply with the App Store guidelines. #BlameApple

Since continuing the donations like they are now might risk getting our bots blocked, and XSolla donations are currently not working anyway, we will soon disable all donations for an undetermined time.

⚠ You can donate until June 8th. Afterwards, donations are disabled.

If you have always dreamed of giving us $10 to help with the server costs, and getting a custom gif pack, now is your chance! Donate through Telegram by sending /donate to @werewolfbot!

[Disclaimer for legal reasons: You may not donate from the Telegram app on iOS devices.]

Invitation to the Mafia Championship Season 10Hello everyone!
It is in our greatest excitement to announce that GreyWolfDev has been once again invited to participate in the Annual Mafia Championship (which is now on it's 10th season)!

If you would like to read more about it and possibly represent GreyWolfDev there, have a look at @WerewolfApplications! Looking forward to see you! ?

The bots are back running now, Happy Wuffing! ?

[Bot Issues]
The werewolf bots suddenly stopped working.
When trying to find the problem, I was greeted with a bunch of 500-errors by telegram, indicating some problem on their side.

We'll keep an eye on this and let you know when the bots are back to normal :)

[Happy End of the year - Topic Updates]

GreyWolfDev wishes all of you a merry christmas, a blessed end of the current year and a happy new year 2023. ✨ We know that many people around the world are going through tough times right now - war, hunger, inflation, governments suppressing people and this neverending pandemic - so we hope we can spark a bit of joy to those who need it. May 2023 be a good year! ??

On another note, @ExecutrixBot now supports topic groups. It should work in such groups as usual, with a few restrictions: Join Messages, Reactions to @admin reports using inline buttons and some other kinds of messages will always be sent to the General topic. Other than that, the bot will treat all topics the same and reply in the correct topic where applicable. All settings and #extra commands work across topics.

Support for topics for Werewolf is yet to come - we're working on it.

We hope you'll enjoy!

Hi everyone! ? (?)

In order to test how bots can work with the new topics feature on telegram, I need to create a topic group.

A group needs at least 200 members to be converted to a topics group, so you can help me out by joining here:

https://t.me/+mXjHyBeqnDcwNTli

For now that will just be some off-topic place I guess, maybe it can be converted into something useful later. Thank you everyone! :D

~ Ludwig

The bots are back to work now! ?

Telegram seems to be facing some datacenter problems at the time being, which also causes our bots to lag.

Werewolf is currently in maintenance mode, we'll bring it back as soon as telegram is working well again!

[Executrix Issues]
In an attempt to find out what's the problem with Executrix (she keeps dying in the last days), we've taken her down for a while (and might do so a couple more times).

Please do not remove Executrix from your groups - we're trying to figure out what it is that makes her die.

Thank you!

Edit: For the time being, she's back... As much as it gets.

[Werewolf Update]

Balancing: To improve balancing, normal (non-chaos) games now have the following additional restrictions:
- There can't be more than 1 revealed role (mayor, gunner, blacksmith, pacifist, sandman, troublemaker) per 3 players.
- There can't be more than 1 kill-stopping role per 4 players. Kill-stopping roles are roles that grant the village 2 lynches in a row without a baddie kill in between, namely troublemaker and sandman, as well as blacksmith (if the only baddies are wolves).

Also, the role weight of the grave digger has been lowered from 8 to 5.

Fixes:
- The /smite command will now work with numeric IDs of any length.
- The bug where the arsonist could act despite being frozen by the snow wolf was fixed.
- The frequent crashes that were recently happening should not occur anymore.

Happy Wuffing! ?