IMPORTANT INFORMATION
That should have gotten your attention:)
It is with mixed feelings I have to announce that the Orkfia Classic Relaunch will be postponed ONE week.
The reason of this postponing is very simple, We got some features that we dont want to wait another age for due to timelimitations to show you all.
The new date for Orkfia Relaunch is 00:00ST September 11th.
Registration will be open five days before the game goes live.
Now then we couldnt possible just post about this delay and give no more information now could we?;) Here is a sneak peak on whats taking us longer then first planned:
Into the game we introduce two new building types, Temple and Tent.
Temple: This new building will train a new kind of unit named Priests, these units will walk around in your tribe and help your productivity, introducing a new kind of information to the vision named PPA (Priests Per Acre) and depending on your PPA it will effect your productivity.
Tent: This new building lets citizens travel outside the own tribe and on its travel discover new land. Depending on how much % of tents you got it will affect the chances of you getting acres per each tick.
I wont give any exact numbers on the two building cause where is the fun in that and would be like shooting myself in the foot if we discovers some inbalance in it;)
With the adding of these two buildings two other buildings will be removed, I wont name what buildings but I can say that this got to do with some of the new features/changes in the game that simply put it are Awsome.
Tho to share some more information the magic spell list will have an addition in a spell named Hurricane, and Thievery will have the addition of a op named Assassination, the concept is easy, Hurricanes will destroy tents and Assassinations will kill Priests.
I hope you have enjoyed this sneakpeak and that you can survive the fact that its been decided to wait one week longer for the relaunch so we can make sure that this is the future of Orkfia, a Orkfia with no bugs, a Orkfia with no “No its not a bug its a feature”, a Orkfia that is more then just an idea but a game thats been evolving for so long and we are finally starting to sense the final game. Some people might be confused with the name Orkfia Classic, thinking that Classic is a set old version of the game but let me assure you its not, this is the new, we simply continue to evolve the game just like its always been, this time with less bugs and more game.
This is Orkfia Classic
Ab hinc – “From here on”
Cheers
~Acwder
Orkfia – Server down AGAIN
Once again Im sad to inform you all that the server once again is down, have at this point no idea how long its been down for or when its estimated to be up again.
New update to follow around 23ST
[Update]
Game came back up again at unknown date, hopefully this will be the last downtime for a while
[End Update]
Cheers
Orkfia – Downtime
Hey there.
[Updated @ ~18:10ST August 10th]
To summerize whats happend this weekend.
The server where both Orkfian versions is hosted on has been down now for close to 48hours, and previous to that the game was down during the night before this downtime.
Martel has been notified and as far as we know we are waiting for the hosting company to sort the problem out first thing in the morning.
I hope you all managed okey during this weekend, meanwhile Orkfia is down feel free to drop by the Portal Forum or just hang around on #orkfia at IRC.
[Update 18:35 Aug. 11th]
Like most of you already probably are aware of the server came back online this morning.
We hope that not to many of you had any harm done to your tribes other then ending up in the resource list;)
For me myself it was only a matter of my Classic tribe running out of food:)
Thanks to everyone that dropped by here during the downtime and that took more time then usualy on IRC, I hope you’ll stay around more even now when the game is up and running again
[End Update]
Cheers
Exclusive Interview with “Max”
Q:With the two previous people that got interviewed I asked them about their nicknames.
You are one of the few using their real name, how come?
A: Cause internet is serious buisness.
On a serious note, I dont really know.
Q:What do you do for a living?
A: Kind of unemployed atm 
Q:You’re not new to Orkfia, when did you first start playing it?
A: My first age was the final beta, so its quite a few years ago. Prior to that I played utopia, but orkfias much faster pace was alot more appealing to me.
Q:Tell us a little bit what you’ve been through in your Orkfian career since your start
A: Hmm… is there anything I havent been through!? I’ve seen the rise and fall of all the old alliances, I’ve been killed countless of times, and killed even more myself.
One of the things that had direct impact on the game was my “eagle” age, one of those being “foiled by time”. (Check issue 21 in the orkfian times!:) Its since after that age we have a 25% explore cap 
[Editorial Note: This Article]
Q:What player have done the biggest impact to your Orkfian experience?
A: Thats most likely Wheelie. After I introduced him to the game, and him being my rl friend who played orkfia, We sticked playing together for the most part. If it was not for him I might not have played in alliances like bamse and genesis.
Q:You are the latest addition to the Orkfia Classic Staff, how do you feel about that?
A: I hope its going to be fun.
Q:What would you like to accomplish in your new position?
A: Obviously, I want to help orkfia become a better game (and more fun to play).
Q:Being a coder for Orkfian stuff isnt really totaly new for you is it?
A: I’ve helped Acwder with some of his tools and gadgets for the portal.
Q:With you joining staff as a coder the future of Orkfia Classic suddenly seems more optimistic, do you agree on that?
A: Yes, but dont celebrate just yet. Let me see if I can get something done first 
Q:Earlier there has been a question about what people would like to change in the game IF they could, now you can for sure but what would you like to change first?
A: To make blue the default color again!
Q:There has been discussions about making Orkfia to a game for cellphones now that way better ones keep entering the scene, what is your opinion on that matter?
A: Im fairly sure you can play from cellphones already, but a better/smarter/faster interface for cellphones would be a nice feature.
Q:Is there anything you would like to say to any new members out there?
A: The fun has just begun >:D
Five Quick Questions:
IRL or Internet
IRC or MSN
Attacker or T/M
Download or Buying
Graphical or Textbased
With that Id like to thank Max for taking his time with this Interview
~Acwder
Orkfia AatW Age 16 – Age Changes
~ Age 16 Game changes ~
To further promote community and gameplay “Alliance Merging” is being introduced. This new feature encourages the formation of full alliances while eliminating any penalty of changing established positions of research and resource achievements.
All research, including purchased science, and market stores will be combined in the newly formed alliance. Now it’s easier than ever to position your team as a top rank contender! Alliance elders will find the “request alliance merge” link under Elder Options on the options page.
New Features:
- New option for elders to request a merge between two alliances
- Removed ML requirements from all spells
- New formula for mana cost of advanced spells
(The current formula is kept for self spells, inner sight, poison, cyclops, anthrax, Magical Void fireball, Unresearch, Fountain of Resurrection and the new formula will apply for the rest of the spells.)
Bugs fixed:
- Guide for Poison Water now show “0.8% citizens” instead of 9%.
- Showing leader name instead of tribe name and alliance # when defecting to the graveyard
Other changes:
- Removed spells: DragonApprentice, Juranimosity, Unresearch, Engineered Virus, Stunted Growth
Age 16 will start in 1396 OE and last roughly the normal life span of a ruler (83 orkfian years).
[Update]
More information on the Mystics changes:
Standard cost (current spells cost) should be around 3,5k acres. At 6k acres should give ~25% extra firepower. At 1,75k acres should give 50% lower firepower.
Also notice that your mage level still depends on size in acres. (2,5k acres = max mage level of 25.)
[End Update]
Cheers,
Martel and staff
