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