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News from Roisin:

“Hi all, first off, apologies this wasn’t posted last night - I know you were all expecting some news on Genesis. We are going to be restarting Genesis on Monday the 15th of December.

Changes for next round will be a few minimal tweaks, for balance, similar in nature to the changes on Legends this round. We are implementing these changes with a view to possibly migrating then to WoL, next round.

Races
* Elves +40% WPA
* Gnomes +30% TPA
* Dwarves +30% BE

Attacks
* +25% gains on Learn Attacks
* Removed NW based attack times in war

We have not yet determined what to do with Genesis in the future. It will be maintained as an alternative to Legends, and it will remain a server with regular shuffling and no kingdom selection. Other than that, we’re open to input.

A new forum will be been opened soon for discussion of long-term Genesis plans, please contribute your ideas there. Also please comment on the usefulness of having this kind of sub fora for specific issues.

If it is a success, we may choose to repeat it later whenever doing major changes. As always, please be respectful in discussion of proposals and keep an open mind.”

As promised earlier the premium features for Utopia are now live. The cost is $5 for 20 credits and you will be able to spend 1 credit per day to have your account sat.

The way it works is that the credits need to be on the account that is to be sat, not the one taking over.

Then the player being sat just needs to go to the edit province page and enter the sitter’s name under “Sitting Options”

To cancel, the player would need to go back to edit page, and select cancel.

Starting from the evening of the 20th November GMT, unactivated provinces will now be deleted after 2 days instead of a week as previously, so please make sure you activate them within these time scales in future.

The new guide can now be found Here and accessed through the in-game link and the homepage.

Hi all,

As there are are so many changes this age, we have done a  quick round-up for you:

Please note that the age changes posted on the forums here are the full and final changes for the age. The figures in-game do *not* yet match these, but will, before protection begins.

The game will start on Wednesday 12th at 00:00GMT, with 3 days of protection. Protection ends Saturday 15th, 00:00GMT

Logging in

The new login process is explained here

Passwords

If you are having password problems, please check out this post.

Support

We have added a new support form to the game - you can find it here

Monarchs

Monarch options are dealt with here

Activation Codes

If you did not receive your activation code via email verification please re-request your code in game using the appropriate button. It can take up to 15 minutes to issue this but if it fails to work then please use the new support form.

The game is up now, and has been reset - in-game activation emails will be sent out tomorrow. In light of the delays, freeze time is to be extended for another 24 hours.

The changes posted on the forums have not been put live in-game yet - I wanted to minimise possible complications for the switch - so some of the numbers you’ll see are incorrect at the moment - however, these will all be corrected before protection starts. The new guide is floating around, but it hasn’t been finalised yet, so not all information there is accurate - please see my post for the correct numbers - and note, elves don’t have fog!

Also of note, any provinces currently in the game will not be deleted - the game was reset previously, but won’t need to be reset again.

New Login Process

When you login now, you must first create and login to a master account. Once that is created you then migrate your old province (previously referred to as your account) to your new master account. After this, your province is then accessed via the master account. If you are creating a new province, you must also create a master account, and once logged into that, you create from there.

Step by Step

1) Go to Main page
2) Click Account login
3) Click Sign up (top right corner) and fill in all Fields
- Note that the e-mail address used for your master account will also be automatically used for your province, if a different e-mail address was used for your province previously.
4) Activate via the email sent to you
5a) To create a new province (i.e. not transferring), click Add game account
5b) To trade into a kingdom, click Trade-in
5c) To transfer a province from last round, click Migrate
6) Once you’ve acquired a province by either of the above options, click “Login main account”

We are just doing some final testing, now that everything has switched over - the game will be up in 1-2 hours.

The server move has been completed, however the DNS changes are taking longer than usual to propagate. Once the DNS changes take full effect, we will do some final testing on some of the game modifications. It is expected that access to the new round will be available at some point on Saturday.

Today we issued our first Utopia newsletter update, but as I am sure many of you will have changed your emails or the mail may have ended up in spam, I am posting the main points again here:

WoL and Genesis both end on Monday 3rd Nov, WoL will restart on Tuesday 4th Nov wheras Genesis will take a break for 1-2 weeks, and then be restarted. Game ending times for both games will be significantly different. The fact that they’ are both starting so close together is a once-off.

We have added some new features. The first thing you’ll see when you log in on the next round is a new account system and UI.
Let’s get the premium one out of the way first.

1. Province Sitting

This is the official province sitting option. It is the *only* official sitting option. You’ll see the function in your shiny new account section. In short, it costs 25c/day with the following rules:

-Players may only sit one province at a time -The minimum number of sitting days in any one sitting session is 3

-The maximum number of sitting days over the age (per province) is 21

-Only players within your KD may sit your province

-Only the player who is sitting the province may access it during this time, however, the original owner may cancel the sitting, after the initial period (3 days) is over

-Province sitting will end when the player a) runs out of credits, b) runs out of maximum allowable number of days, or c) cancels the province sitting

You will see where you can purchase this in your main account. Currently, it accepts Paypal but we have premium SMS on the way in a few days.

2. Province Moving

Province moving is now official but STRICTLY limited per round:

-The maximum number of moves allowed *per account* is 3
-The maximum number of moves *per KD* is 3

You can physically move your province into another KD with the following conditions in place:

-The moved province will revert to its initial state, with initial resources/cash, and 3 days of protection

-You cannot move province if there is no space in the KD

-The Monarch in the receiving KD must always approve the move

3. Province Trading

Province trading is now official but STRICTLY limited per round. Just to be completely clear, province trading is taking over a province which used to belong to another player. The rules are as follows (all on a per round basis unless otherwise specified):

- You can switch provinces with another person - provinces don’t move, only the player controlling the province changes

-The maximum number of trades allowed per province is 3

-The maximum number of trades allowed per account is 3

-The maximum number of trades allowed per KD is 3

Province trading behaviour is as follows:

- You can take over someone else’s province, and destroy your own in the process

- You can take over someone else’s province, and leave your old province in the Monarch’s control - who can then assign it or let it be destroyed, but not log into it

- KDs can earn bonus trades. Note that this system is experimental.

We want to allow people sufficient freedom to trade, but also prevent abuse of the system, with people creating farm KDs.

This system will be tweaked over time, with player input. Initially, it will work like this:

Every month:

-Each KD will get 1 bonus trade

Every 2 weeks

-The top 50 KDs in terms of NW/Honor will get an additional 1 trade

Every 3 weeks:

-The top 100 KDs in terms of NW/Honor will get an additional 1 trade

Every 4 weeks

-The top 250 KDs in terms of NW/Honor will get an additional 1 trade

Additional Bonus Trade Behavior

- if you rank for both NW and Honor, you will only be allocated *1* bonus trade

- if you qualified for the last round of bonus trades, you will not be selected for the next e.g., if you are in the top 50, you will be automatically disqualified for the next top 100 and top 250 rewards.

Finally, we will be transferring all games across to new servers over the next few days so you might see a little downtime.

Hi all,

For the next rounds of both Earth and Utopia, we’re going to be changing the servers the games run on - this is why, as you may have noticed, all the games are ending on a similar date. Once we have moved, the games will once again be staggered, so you don’t have too many new nations/provinces to look after at any one time!

The exact dates for the games are:

Utopia: WoL - Ending on the 3rd of November. After that, there’ll be a freeze time of 2 days, and protection for 3 days.

Utopia: Gen - Ending on the 3rd of November. Genesis will take a short break for one or two weeks, to let people grow their WoL provinces a little, and then we’ll restart it.

Earth - The earth games council and limited are going to be extended by a week, until the 9th of November, and primary, alliance, and tournament will be extended until the 16th of November.

Apologies for the late notice and any confusion surrounding the dates, please bear with us as we work on moving the games to shiny new servers!

More information about the details of the new account management system will be posted in the coming days.