War Report: Incarnation vs Lone Ravens
~ By Guran of Incarnation (#35) ~
The Day was Sunday, Time: way too early. I woke up and didn’t feel all too well, I just couldn’t stay in bed, so I got out. I checked on my tribe, to find Photoboy telling me that the Lone Ravens declared war upon us. Well, since those ravens had already killed half (if not more) of the smaller alliances it would only be a matter of time until they came for us.
There had been some changes in my team since the war against the Leaf Clan. Maestro and Vre Dragher decided to go to a more competitive alliance. But my ranks were enforced by an old alliance mate of mine. Enter the Cobra. And someone who made a tribe a few hours before, but I do not know who he is.
The battle begins.
Kaboom! Luck was our ally during their first attack, they both had to retreat before me and Zxzxi. Giving us a nice opportunity to attack. We aimed for M3, I went first with standard attack and took 100 acres. Cobra followed up for 63 acres. Good start. After that Cobra and Photoboy started to famerape M3.
However, they were still ravens and came again. They went for Photoboy and Sosron (the newly created tribe). The hits were effective, luckily Photoboy managed to land a hit inbetween. Luckily Zxzxi woke up as well and started raiding. There were now four of us, but as ravens, they could fight like eight men.
Messing up bigtime
We couldn’t let them swarm over us like this. So Photoboy pulled out his big calculator. He calculated that I had to train 2500 harpies for a successful raid. So I did and attacked…..uh-uh. Retreat. Two hours later I received a PM: 7500 should be enough…uh-uh. Retreat. So while we’re messing around with calculations and irritated harpies M3 killed poor little Sosron, bringing them very close to a victory.
Fighting on the edge.
After the first kill we noticed these guys don’t rest. But that goes for Photoboy and Cobra as well. They hit for a total of 170 acres.
The fight went on into the night, I became targeted by hit n run, while Me and M3 were taking their acres back. Unfortunatly they managed to take enough acres to win the war.
Lol, we lost.
We lost, but we had fun this war. There has been no real harm done, except for a rip from our fame. All tribes survived….one exception of course. And even if we were killed, I could always have changed the alliance name to Re-Incarnation 
Congratulations Lone Ravens, lets do this again.
Orkfia-Portal + Chat = True
Hello there.
I have seen it on various places with various reasons, people that claim that dont want/can use a irc client (mIRC mostly). Now here is the solution. Added to the menu is now a chat button that leads to a ajax irc widget here on the portal.
All you need to do is push it and the enter desired nickname and voila you’ll get connected to #orkfia @ irc.netgamers.org which is the official irc channel for Orkfia.
While trying to sort a good color combination for it there is still some colors to be sorted so if you notice anything that looks bad with it let me know:)
This is another step in bringing the community together and hopefully will this get even more people both on irc and on the portal.
Cheers
~Acwder
AatW War Report: Incarnation vs Leaf Clan
~ Written by Guran from #35 ~
As many may have noticed, Alliance #35 isn’t the biggest fish around. It is mainly built from solo tribes I recruited since my return as a leader in the world of Orkfia. Of course we couldn’t let our newly formed alliance be un-noticed. So I decided to declare a war on the Leaf clan, (Alliance #44). Mainly to test my alliance in war and of course because we wanted to butcher someone!
The plan was simple, I would declare war at 18:45. Everyone should do a hit close to the 19:00 update. Our target was their raven.
I was happy to see my small alliance active, Photoboy, Vre Dragher, Maestro and I were ready to start.
The First Waves
After two or three miscalculations (I hate doing calcs), Photoboy turned out to be a calculation whizzkid. After this calculation part, I attacked the raven with barren grab, he had 131 barren acres and I managed to snatch 113 of them. The others kept raiding on…all night long, brilliant! And throwing fireballs. During the night Zxzxi joined our war ranks and started raiding as well. But it was around that time that our opponent noticed they had been declared upon. They started to hit back. I took some hits, a blasphemy crusade, a raid and some DragonMages. Unfortunatly some people noticed me getting landfat and two out of war tribes went at me for some acres. But it was nothing to worry about, we had a kill to make.
Oh, Nooohwz they be stealin my kill!!!
When I woke up next morning, my faithfull tribes had brought the raven down to 300 Citizens. It was up to me now, I readied my wolfriders, sharpened the wolves teeth and blew that warhorn thingy. But then…..our target just dropped dead.
I asked Maestro to do a fly over, showing us the reason why. It seemed that M3#61 beat us to him in a fraction of some minutes, stealing our kill and the acres we needed for our warvictory.
The Second Waves
A little setback, but both alliances could still pack some punch. I restored quickly and posted up the new target. This time Shumacher was up, and after some raids and fireballs, he was down. We only needed 436 acres to win our war now. Unfortunatly their final member was pretty big for us. Only Maestro could hit with some luck, so it was up to him and his fireballs. But he couldn’t pull it off by himself. We tried of course, but in the end it became an auto truce.
View on the War
From the beginning of our declaration of wardependence I was sure we would win. My alliance friends were active, we did some good hits and we simply had a lot of fun fighting together. I hope that I’ve shown a lot of the solo tribes how fun warring in an alliance could be, and I know I reached that when looking at Vre Dragher. After the war, he decided that he wanted to play more competitive and wanted to move to a bigger alliance. Thats fine by me:p
I think we fought good and so did our enemies, alltough we didn’t give them possibility to do much. So far for this war.
Orkfia Classic in numbers
Hello there, I hope everyone is enjoying the new age.
I felt that it could be fun to post some statistics for classic about pageviews etc etc so here we go.
Up until now there has been 24625 pageviews of www.orkfiaclassic.com. And here is the top10 countries/areas that has visited the site:
United States 8032 Sweden 3562 Netherlands 2359 Great Britain (UK) 1225 Europe 1131 Canada 882 Australia 849 Finland 798 Bulgaria 715 Romania 714
And during the last six months starting since january 18th this is how its been divided per month:
Month Daily average Visits 1 96 1341 2 111 3205 3 193 5981 4 170 5092 5 156 4810 6 156 4196
Now there is also stats on from where the user is directed to www.orkfiaclassic.com. Top5:
orkfiaclassic.com 5024 orkfia.phpsupport.se 1285 google.com 166 google.ca 57 orkfia-portal.com 48
This gives you somewhat an idea of the current activity in Classic, now why do I post this? I want to give you the player or the one becoming a player to have a little more insight and hopefully wanna help us push the playerbase into better growth, first goal, still beat alliances at war in activity and after that keep on growing.
Now there is still more stats in store, this is actually about that toolbar that can be downloaded here on the portal. The toolbar generates money from usage which will be used for promoting the game, currently the money isnt that much but hopefully if you guys are willing to use its functions more it will definatly increase, it generates money depending on usage per total amounts of ppl using it. Here is the stats (taken from the first date it actually generated some money:
Date 06/13/2008
New Users -
Active users 11
Usage 33
Searches 7
Money generated $0.16
06/14/2008 1 11 23 1 - 06/15/2008 1 10 16 - - 06/16/2008 - 13 17 2 - 06/17/2008 - 15 38 9 $0.14 06/18/2008 - 12 34 19 $0.29 06/19/2008 - 12 53 2 - 06/20/2008 2 13 35 3 - 06/21/2008 - 13 20 - - 06/22/2008 - 11 81 1 - 06/23/2008 - 14 55 - - 06/24/2008 1 13 29 1 - 06/25/2008 4 18 76 9 $0.07 06/26/2008 - 19 28 7 $0.05
With a total of 34installations since it got launched the toolbar gives the player several unique functions, for example to acurate gain calculator for attackers, spells and op success calculators, menus with links for everything a orkfian player needs, rss feeds for both the portal and some more blogs and much more cool stuff. If the amount of active users would be 2500 then the estimated cash per month would currently be $845.77 which would be alot of money to advertise for. So please help us help you. Check out the toolbar, if you already have a toolbar the chances is it is from the same company and you can actually have multiple toolbars in the same toolbar and the possibilty to swtich between them. Currently there is two toolbars that you can switch beetween when you dl it, one based in europe and one based in the US.
Don’t forget, if you wanna help Orkfia grow then dont hesitate to contact us.
Cheers
~Acwder
Classic Age 31 – Thoughts
Finaly
Age 31 is finaly live.
Lets start this post with the by now infamous Updatebutton.
As all Classic players already are aware of we are this age using the updatebutton for tribes to oop.
The initial thought was that this would be a quick and interesting way to launch the new age after the unfortunate server downtime. Ofc there was also some negative things with it, for example it would most likely kill Nazgul and Dragons, and some minor abused which was for this age added to the CoC.
Now the real outcome was quite different, The failure of the Updatebutton was Epic, well it still served its purpose but having to reset alliances for an hour before the age start since people refuse to read the worldforum and even pms (some alliances had to be cleared several times..), alliances out there had 66% sci’s, 800k basics waiting, etc. I think we cleared all of them even tho we mistakenly cleared out a few to many, and we are sorry for any damage we did to you innocent ones.
There was also reports about people that got grabbed during the first hour simply reseted to oop again with the previous acres.
While the negative espects of this button has been many I still like some aspects of it, we now got several full alliances racing for the top where all of the tribes had the oppertunity to maximize their strategies. It will certainly be an interesting age with loads of attackers.
If anyone is affraid of another age with the updatebutton as agestart then do not worry, this attempt will not repeat itself, if it ever would return it would be a totaly recoded thing where ALL of the negative stuff would be worked out, like a quick suggestion is to just make the updatebutton work for the first 24 updates which would take away almost all of the negative aspects as market abuse, sci abuse, the initial bash for people that missed training etc. But that is all for the future and nothing like this age will happen for sure.
Now we have to look forward.
After several recent server downtimes Martel had a look at the server and might have fixed the issue that caused some of these downtimes, but fact still remains, the support for the server is really bad since it lack 24/7 support and on weekend its completely supportless. We will look into a solution for this and further news will come.
Keep advertising about Orkfia to your friends irl and on other community networks you might use, We want orkfia to grow, Ive mentioned it several times but it doesnt hurt to mention it again, Orkfia Classic will have a big re-relaunch after this summer to bring up the playerbase, first goal is to outnumber Alliances at War and after that just to keep growing.
Do you want to help Orkfia grow? do NOT let a grumpy admin, a neglecting irc user, etc stop you, it can be everything from helping us post of forums out there, come with game change suggestions to help us actually code this game and/or code things to help players like help programs, we had several programs in the past, I believe that we currently only got the toolbar and the protection strattester that are updated (they can all be found in the guide – tools section). Make a post about it here on the forum or talk to us on irc so we can get the idea you got rolling.
Another note, nick@orkfia-portal.com is still available for free for anyone thats want it, (if several users starts using it a login like for the two games will be added here on the front page) space for the mailbox is still not decided but for example 500mb should be well enough and more can be added if you need more space.
Also if you want to write an article for Orkfia then dont hesitate to contact me or Jamzi, it can be everthing from a poem to a warreport.
Cheers
~Acwder
Classic age 31 – Reset
Hello everyone, last night the game finaly decided to come up again.
Which mean that 50% of the protection period were ruined for Classic players.
So we will have a reset and to spice it up a little bit just because its summer and with the latest screw ups we are gonna be adding the update button for this protection!
This is how its gonna work:
In a few minutes there will be a soft reset in Classic, adding the update button, everyone will have the opportunity to do their perfect oop (ofc some people will not like it cause most likely there wont be as many low def. tribes oop but I personaly feel the positive things with it are more then the negative). The age will then go live 00:00ST between tuesday and wednesday, (first tick as usual 01:00) so until those 00:00 the game will remain paused for everyone to do their oop strats.
So:
Reset now.
Age starts 00:00ST between tuesday and wednesday (This means ppl will be oop at this point!)
The Update button will be added for this protection.
[Update]
Due to the addition of the updatebutton a few CoC rules has been added for this specific age. They can be found here
[End Update]
gl & hf
~Acwder
Orkfia – Down
This downtime couldnt come in a worse situation, was a heavy day yesterday for anyone thats celebrate midsummer, red day today aswell atleast here in sweden so dunno about the hosting company support.
Martel has atleast been notified, age will be delayed so that everyone can have a protection with the game up and running.
(Now Im gonna go and get some water and hope that this hangover will drop soon)
[Update]
For you Classic players where we were roughly 24hours into protection when the game went down. There will be a reset, time and such will be posted when we know more about the downtime etc.
[End Update]
Cheers
~Acwder
Orkfia Classic Age 31 is Live!
I hope you are all prepared for this cause Age 31 is finaly live!
The staff wishes you all a great age to pwn.
Don’t forget to keep checking the forum and this blog for even more information, as you can see from the categories we got several different kind of subjects that gets posted here, Orkfian Times just to mention one.
Do you have a wish to help out with Orkfia Classic? then get in touch on “acwder@hotmail.com”.
Cheers
