Interview – Contest Winner Guran

September 13th, 2008Interviews3 comments

First of I would like to congratulate you on your Contest writing victory.

Q: How does it feel to be the winner?

A: It feels pretty good. Its a good thing to hear that my writing is appreciated. And that I keep getting better at it. I honestly didn’t expect to win because other players had pretty good and sometimes even larger stories.

Q: Most people know you as the war reporter and a great writer, tell us more about you

A: Well, in daily life I am a student, with student meals, student bedtimes and student activities. In my little spare time I am working on a fantasy novel. Furthermore I play badminton, magic the gathering and offcourse Orkfia. All of this takes place in the beautifull province Zeeland in the Netherlands where I’ve lived for a long, long time.

Q: Talking about fantasy novels, your currently working on the Orkfiology aswell, any comments on that?

A: Yes, I’ve been approached to write a refreshing story for the classic relaunch. I’m using loads off the old story, but I’ve given an entire new angle to it and dived even deeper in the murky depts of the mysterious Orkfian history. For example: There will finally be an insight on the nature of the “Comet”.

Q: If you could add anything to the two games what would that be?

A: A larger playerbase offcourse. Although to do that you should actually first give something else. In my view a good marketing strategy that really grabs players.

Q: If you could remove anything from the two games what would that be?

A: This new magic system in infinity. It totally renders pestilence useless and takes some fun away. And I want my signature DA back!

Q: Will we be honoured with more war reports anytime soon?;)

A: Right now there is no one in our war range. A few weeks ago we wanted to butcher #14. I totally worked out a strategy that would make us win. But a lot of people weren’t able to make the first KA, Imogi would die halfway the war, JRE would be gone the entire second day, taking two of my ravens away. But I’m writing an in between ages report about the warhunt for Lepel. That was a short useless classic war, but it was fun nonetheless.

Q: What would you say to someone thats totaly new to this game?

A: Join a bootcamp, have fun, keep smiling and speak soon.

Five Quick Questions:

IRL or Internet

IRC or MSN

Attacker or T/M

Download or Buying

Graphical or Textbased

With that I would like to thank Guran for participating in this interview

~Acwder

Sad but important news!

September 8th, 2008Orkfia Classic0 comments

It’s with sadness in heart that I now announce that the Classic Relaunch will be postponed another week.

The whole idea behind the Classic Relaunch was that we would bring forth a game that worked, that made sense, that would be enjoyable, that would be more, that wouldn’t have the “oh no thats not a bug its a feature”.

During this summer we’ve worked hard to bring you all the most of the orkfian experience, we are far from having the perfect game but we are working on it and we’re working good.

Now due to this priority to focus on the actual game we have lacked on the marketing section, giving that and the sort time the registration has been open we are now forced to postpone the relaunch another week, we cannot afford having the new game die cause we rushed to fast into startign the new age, so we are giving it some more time.

Now I hope you all won’t see this as something bad and decide not to play but instead see this as a oppertunity to recruit more players so we can get some real competition this age.

So the new relaunch date is September 18th.

This game, this community needs your help to not only grow but to in the long run survive so help it out now when it needs it the most, lets bring the players to the game.

Still working on updating everything like the toolbar, orkfia-portal new style, the guide and more things but its coming there.

Cheers

~Acwder

Orkfia Classic Relaunch News

September 6th, 2008Orkfia Classic3 comments

Hey everyone, the day is finaly upon us and soon very soon will the registration be open on the new server.

Now then lets start of with all the game change & Race changes.

Game Changes Age 33:

Layout:

• Remove Game Talk and World Forum ingame.
• Replace the world forum link with a Portal forum link.
• Removal of Ruler age.
• Remove the display of offensive fame bonus.
• Remove non existing rankings in history like king of the hill.
• Remove Meteor Elf and Templar from the Target finder.
• Add Option to keep throwing spells until the mp is 0 (Same should be for tp aswell).
• Add “Orkfia Toolbar” under “Tools”
• Add for Elders to see that there is rps invested in the footer.
• Add Google Analytics.
• Move Admin message from the bottom of the tribe page to the top with the rest of the links.
• Add Rss feed to the Global news.
• Add timestamps to Inner Sight, Recon, Sneak, Intercept and Truth Eye just like Vision got one.
• Remove “Pestilence” in the Orkfia Stats.
• Add DragonMage dmg to the Orkfia Stats next to Arson.
• Add Most Kills to the Orkfia Stats next to Largest Kill.
• Add A countdown timer for age ending in the Orkfia Stats just below The age duration counter. (some ppl cant calc.).
• Add Priests to the total citizen count and divide thieves and military again.

Buildings:

• Remove Labs, replaced with buying rps for cr instead.
• Remove Markets, set cr cost for buildings and same minimum cost for logs.
• Add Temple, each temple trains one priest per tick, no limitation on how much temples one can have but you can only have 10 PPA (Priests Per Acre), each PPA gives 1 % extra productivity, other then the same a productivity science this should also effect taxes.
• Add Tent, 20% chance that tents gives random acres each tick, maximum 25% tents. formulae: 900*t/(200+3*a). (20% gains for dragons and 0% for nazguls).

Protection Build Setup

• Remove the 10 hideouts.
• Start with 0 temples and tents.

Science

• Labs been removed like mentioned above.
• Buy rps for cr.
• 1k / rp (2k for britts and 200 for dragons).
• Science cap at 25%.
• Formulae: R / (54 + 3R) = sci ; R = RPA.

Spells and Ops

• Add “Hurricane”, Each Hurricane destroyes 1% of the enemy Tents, 20% chance of backfire sending the Hurricane over your own tents. Successrate and fame gain like Cyclops, Costs like Anthrax.
• Add “Assassination”, Kills Priests, each op kills 2% of the priests. Successrate and cost like PW, requires acres*0.5 thieves.
• Napa disabled.

Exploration

• Same cost for basics and logs, cr cost: acres*5.

Merging

• Fixed.

Fame

• Set starting fame to 10k.
• Each k fame gives 1% extra tp/mp regrowth.

[Update] 01:57 September 6th

I forgot to mention that Dragonmage dmg has been slightly modified, its now rounded up instead of down since earlier it could result in 0 homes burned.

It’s also now fixed so that ‘ etc is allowed in the tribe names.

[End Update]

Now over to Race Changes age 33:

Ravens

• Nester (0/0) – 100cr -> 80 cr
• Blackwing (5/5) – 750cr -> 810 cr

Undead

• Skeleton (0/0) – 80cr –> 75 cr
• Vampire (7/9) – 1100cr –> 1060 cr

Nazgul

• Wraith (13/13) – 1525cr –> 1425 cr
• Gollum (0/0) – 660cr –> 333 cr

Eagle

• Anekonian (2/8) – 1120cr –> 1200 cr

Dragon

• Baby Dragon (1/1) – 50cr –> 40 cr
• Red Dragon (50/15) – 1150cr –> 1075 cr

• 3 hour attack time –> 2 hour attack time
• -80% military losses –> -50% military losses

Viking

• Berserker (8/7) – 860cr –> (8/6) – 815 cr

Dwarf

• Grunt (0/0) – 85cr –> 100 cr
• Hammer Smasher (6/1) – 570cr –> 515 cr

High elf

• Sage (6/0) – 700cr –> 660 cr

Wood elf

• Druid (0/4) – 335cr –> 400 cr
• Tree Ent (0/10) – 1500cr –> 1550 cr

Mori hai

• Ogre (4/5) – 600cr –> 570 cr

Uruk hai

• Half-Giant (16/1) – 1360cr –> 1300 cr

Now that is all changes for age 33, I might have missed to add some layout fixes but other then that, thats all. Biggest change tho is behind the scene where Max our coder has recoded and sorted most of the code, basicly its close to a new game;)

With the annoucement of this list Id like to thank the development group behind this thats been known under the name “Ab hinc” which is latin meaning “From here on”. These are the members:

• Atan Asfaloth
• Bolle
• ENDer
• Joe
• Max
• Ozzie
• taNk
• Vo Child
• Voodoo Cowboy
• VorteX
• Wheelie

Now there is quite a few more then just these people that has helped out and have signed up to helping out in the future. Thank you all, its cause of dedicated players like you that keep this game going!

Back to buisness, the Classic game server has been moved and are now found on game.orkfia-portal.com, the reason behind this url will come in the next article or so here.

We have covered alot of fixing and alot of changes, we had so many of them we had to save a few until age 34 and as a first tiny tiny sneak peek for age 34 Id like to mention Classes and that Priests will take upon themselves a larger role, what this means you’ll have to find out;)

So registration is open and there is a unpaused game with a unlimited updatebutton there so join up and check the new Orkfia Classic out.

Note: We are still correcting some layout stuff so if you come across something you dont thing should be there then please post about them in the announcments bug thread. The guide is also being worked upon as we speak (Im working on a new layout) and it will be ready within 24-48hours.

Cheers

~Acwder

Site Update

September 4th, 2008Orkfia Portal7 comments

Hey, I hope you can’t miss the new style here on the portal.

If you like it please leave a comment, still got to update the forum and the chat.

We are now ~27 hours away from opening up registration on the Orkfia Classic Relaunch, for a small sneak peek #3.

The second building that is getting removed is Markets. The exploration cost and building cost is changed.

This was the last sneak peek before the registration opens up, stay tuned for complete Game change and Race Change list here tomorrow night.

Cheers

~Acwder