Game Restarts on Sunday 29 January 2006

[staff]

The current game will terminate on Sunday 29th January 2006 @ 12:00 GMT (that's mid-day GMT).

The new game will start 4 hours later, on Sunday 29th January 2006 @ 18:00 GMT.

The Beta game will terminate one day before, on Saturday 28th January 2006 @ 12:00 GMT.

Thanks!


PS: More details will follow in the next days. ... and the in-game count-down counter will appear tomorrow.

*staff edited the restart time to be 18:00 instead of 16:00*

[staff]

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

The winners (top #1 player and the leader of the top #1 guild) will get an X-Kings T-Shirt as a complimentary gift from Staff.

Then, the system will be upgraded for the new age. We will run the same software that is currently being tested on the Beta Game. The new software can run in multiple languages and we have English, Italian and Portuguese ready with a few more languages that will be added once the translations (that take a long time) are finished.

The main difference between the currently running Beta Game and the new Age is that the Tech tree will be reorganized so that nobody will know the new one.

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 29th January. As the old age ends on the same day at 12:00 GMT, we'll have 4 hours to prepare the stats of the winners and to manage the transition.

The software upgrade for the new age will include:

* all the changes that are on the Test Game (check http://beta.x-kings.com/public/news.php for a list of changes!)

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

This age will last 3 months, but we'd like to run a test game in parallel where we can experiment new changes.

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!

[staff]

I have postponed the start of the new age at 19:00 GMT to give me another hour of testing on the tech tree as I feel it wasn't tested enough.

Apologies for the delay

Thanks