Game Restarts on Sunday 15th May at 12 GMT

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This age will end on Sunday 15th May @ 12:00 GMT.

The new age will start soon afterwards.

More details will be coming in the following weeks/days.

Thanks

[staff]

This age will end on Sunday 15th May @ 12:00 GMT.

The new age will start soon afterwards.

At the end of this age, we'll take down the system, determine the winners, and publish the official list of winners

Then, the system will be upgraded for the new age.

The game will be reset. Accounts will be preserved, but all game stats (points, military experience, units, gold, food, trade units, techs, buildings, etc) will be reset. This means all players will start again from scratch ... a fantastic opportunity for all players to challenge the top players and become #1!

As part of the reset, all players will have their commander reset, so that every player will be able to choose whatever commander they want.

Guilds will be preserved, but the list of guild members will be reset, so that all guilds will start again from scratch with 1 member (the leader) only.

The new age will start on 16:00 GMT on Sunday 15th May. As the old age ends at 12:00 GMT, four hours should be more than enough to do all the maintenance that it is required.

Before we start the new age we need to reset all the stats, and also we will upgrade the software.

The software upgrade will include:

* the removal of the current 63 tech limit ... we can now have many more techs

* a reshuffled technology tree with all the technologies and dependencies reorganized

* a few new techs and things

* many many small changes and fixes and internal tidyups

* some changes to the game rules and to the balancing. not too many though but
probably enough to suggest different strategies.

* some quite exciting new non-core features

It's probably more fun if I don't tell you exactly what all the changes are.
But I'll have a list of the major changes ready for the new age announcements.

Final note: we didn't get the new hardware in time for the new age. We couldn't wait more though as this age really needs to end now. So we will still be running on the existing hardware. It should be fast enough though

We will get the new hardware in place in the next weeks ... then we might be able to finally run a live game and a test game in parallel. Being able to run a test game means we could make/try out more radical changes to the game if we want, and play them out on the test game. Currently it wasn't possible to make large changes to the game balancing as we couldn't have proper large scale gaming testing of those.

This age will last 2 months.

After the start of the new age, we'll send out a single email to all registered players to inform them of the start of the new age.

Thanks and I hope you will enjoy the reset!