Very Sad News
Saura, 22 minutes ago, edited
It is my sad privilege to notify you all that Chris known by most of you as Hawkwing, HW, Penguin Feather, among other names through out his ORKFiAN career has passed away.
He was involved in car accident two nights ago while driving through St. Louis en route to his Family home in Raymore Missouri from Flordia.
He was critically injured in the crash, leaving him in pretty bad shape, but after tests this morning it was determined that there is no brain activity.
Funeral services have not yet been announced but I will let you all know more as I am updated. Please keep him, his friends and family in your thoughts and prayers.
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On a personal note, I know this post seems kind of void of emotion…I don’t deal with death well. Please forgive me that but, being as close to him as I was I know he would want you all to know what happened.Merry Part my dear friend…you will be missed
That is what is known at this point.
R.I.P Hawkwing.
I wish to pay him some type of tribute, my idea is to either create a new race Hawks with Hawkwing as elite unit or something like that, if anyone else has a better idea how to pay tribute and to have something to remember him of please get in touch.
~A sad Acwder
ORKFiA Classic – Age Changes – Age 43
Hey
Age 43 starts 00:00ST night between september 18th and 19th, first update as always 01:00, the updatebutton will be available once the changes has been uploaded and server reseted, the button will be removed 24 hours before age start through another server reset. Age will last for four weeks.
Here are the Age Changes for Age 43
There won’t be any race nor class changes for next age, if you want race changes then I suggest you stay tuned for the age after, do I dare to say that 15 races is to few? Find out age 44.
The Ingame Forum, its back and its bringing sub forums with it. Check the screenshots below to see what I mean.
With the improved and relaunched ingame forums comes bbcode, its been around a little while but I figured Id explain it more here.
- Code: [b]content[/b] – Outcome: content
- Code:[i]content[/i] – Outcome: content
- Code: [pre]content[/pre] – Outcome:
content (not with this box but will preserve space and line breaks)
- Code: [img]www.content.com/image.jpg[/img] – Outcome:
- Code: [url]www.orkfia.biz[/url] – Outcome: www.orkfia.biz
- Code: [url=www.orkfia.biz]Orkfia Classic[/url] – Outcome: Orkfia Classic
- Code: [quote]content[/quote] – Outcome:
content (well same here, wont look like this but will be a proper transparent box around the quote)
- Code: [quote=Acwder]content[/quote] – Outcome: Like above but starts with “Acwder wrote:”
- Code: [yt]hB-3RleIJxM[/yt] – Outcome: well guess:P if you need a clue YouTube Clip
More stuff will be added, just let us know what bb code you want.
Something thats already been added is the spell list drop down menu (I like to have space between each word yes, wicked isnt it), its been divided into three sections, Self, Intel and Offensive.
We are replacing all the table headers everywhere, check the screenshots and you’ll see what I mean.
There is some huuuuuuuge changes lurking around the corner. What if you could have your own profile, your own user, you would have achievements to gather over the ages, didnt fancy your tribe one age? Delete it and recreate, your user is still there and your achievements ofc. Want to post on the ingame forums but don’t want a tribe? No problem, all this is something lurking just around the corner.
Do you maybe have ideas of achievements to achive? Races to be created? Then do consider signing up to the development team, We have for over a year now been located on the portal forum, it will still be a archive but the new placement for the Orkfia Classic development team will be #5.
Stay tuned for more information
I know Im forgetting something so bear with me please^^
Alliances at War – Down
Hey
As most of you aatw players has noticed, Alliances at War is down, its been going up and down today and yesterday.
No information is currently available on why the site is down. Martel will hopefully have it fixed first thing tomorrow.
Cheers
~Acwder
Alliances at War Slow
Hey, Alliances at War has been slow for a few hours
Hopefully its a quick fix and can either sort itself or by Martel tomorrow morning.
Stay tuned for more information on the issue.
Btw. Haven’t been much activity here on the portal lately, I just got back at my uni flat and uni starting up again so lots of stuff to sort, Orkfia Classic got a higher priority then the Portal for me ofc so it is suffering a bit, but don’t worry, it will change soon (not the priority^^).
Cheers
~Acwder
ORKFiA Classic – Age Changes – Age 42
Hey there.
Here comes the age changes for Age 42.
Dates: Age 42 starts August 15th night between friday and saturday, first update at 01:00 and lasts for four weeks.
Game changes:
Rankings has been upgraded to proper sortable rankings, both alliance and personal rankings.
Military losses when getting overpowered is limited at 500% overpowering (meaning max losses is five times the normal dmg.
Tribe News will be getting some colours, inspired by the alliance news setup.
Global news will be moving from being a rss feed to start using Twitter (you can already follow us on twitter at orkfiaClassic), if you love rss you will ofc be able to use the rss feed from the twitter account:)
Twitter @ external affairs, not sure how many of you uses twitter but you will now be able to add your own twitter rss feed in options to have your latest tweet displayed on your own external affairs, got a message you wanna show anyone viewing your external affairs? or just wanna brag about your latest kill, tweet about it and have it shown, these tweets will also be showed in a combined twitter list from all players that uses it. If you dont already have an account then go to twitter and get one.
ORKFiA?, while cleaning up the frontpage alot of information has been merged into one big help section. This can be found in the main menu under “ORKFiA?”
Vote bonuses – You will no longer be able to recieve any vote awards while in protection.
Race Changes
Raven
- Blackclaw (2/0) – 50cr -> 75cr
Class Changes
Warrior
- 80% lower military upkeep costs. -> Removed
Hope I havent forgotten anything, if so there will be a #2 post so don’t worry.
Cheers
~Acwder
Orkfia Classic – Age Changes – Age 41 #2
Hello there again
Last night Ive covered the race changes and game changes.
Now its time for the Layout changes.
The goal with these changes was to try and bring Orkfia Classic forward in the design bit.
Here are four screenshots from within the new layout.
There is a new notes to this new layout, for Age 41 this will only be available for the old classic blue color scheme, the patterns etc will be added for the other color schemes for Age 42.
Headlines – This is a new section of Orkfia Classic, basicly it shows the news from Orkfia Portal, Orkfia Portal Forum, Orkfia Classic @ Twitter and Orkfia Classic Global News. You also have the option here to filter between what feeds you want to see, Orkfia Portal Forum is by default turned of to avoid to much spam.
Footer – Here is now quicklinks to the advisors, communications and your own personal quicklinks, when you first logon it will consists of links to options where you can set your own links, a current flaw is that it displays the actual link as name of it, this will be fixed once I figure out how^^.
Rounded Corners – Due to different standards for different browers the rounded corners is only available for the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, the rest of you will have to wait until css3 is properly launched or your own browers adds its own rounded corners standard.
If you would happend to find anything which seems to be wrong please contact me, its unfortunatly easy to miss something while trying to get everything to work for most browers ( ie5 and ie6 excluded).
Id also generally advice you all to always use the latest version of your browser, main players in Orkfia uses firefox 3.x.x which I think personally is really good, but there are a few players out there running browers that are 4-6 years old, if you happend to have a old browser then be aware that you wont have the most out of the experience.
More information to come.
Cheers
~Acwder
Orkfia Classic – Age Changes – Age 41
Time to break the silence again
There is about 24hours left of Age 40. Here comes the Age 41 information.
Dates – Age 41 starts 00:00ST between 10th and 11th of july, first update at 01:00ST.
Once this age is over there will be a reset followed by all changes added and updatebutton added. The updatebutton will be around until 24hours before the next age starts, then it will be removed with a soft reset.
Age 41 is 4 weeks long.
Changes – There are three types of changes for this age. 1. Race changes and 2. Layout changes and 3. a attack change.
Starting of with some race changes.
Uruk Hai
- Brute 500 cr –> 480 cr
Mori Hai
- Goblin 300 cr –> 250 cr
Dark Elf
- Nightstalker 200 cr –> 120 cr
- Nightrider 650 cr –> 675 cr
High Elf
- Sage 660 cr –> 600 cr
- Longbowman 800 cr –> 750 cr
- Priestess 350 cr –> 400 cr
Dwarf
- Grey Beard 750 cr –> 725 cr
Dragon
- Red Dragon 1125 cr –> 1250 cr
Nazgul
- Black Rider 510 cr –> 460 cr
- Blood Pet 770 cr –> 660 cr
Spirit
- Phantom 250 cr –> 125 cr
- Ghoul 6/3 600 cr –> 6/2 525 cr
Raid
In the past this attack used to kill 3*acres citz minimum for normal races and 2*acres citz minimum for Dragons, this was changed for Age 35, it then got cut in half, and in war that remaining half was increased by half. This will now once again be changed.
New formula is: 3*acres citz minimum for normal races, 2*acres citz minimum for Dragons, in war this will be 3.3*acres citz minimum for normal races and 2.2*acres citz minimum for Dragons.
Max citz killed in raids is instead changed from 15% to 12%.
Layout – This is something that should have been done for last age but I just simply didnt have the time for it.
Orkfia Classic got a updated layout getting launched this age.
But more about that tomorrow, with a post purely dedicated to the new layout and new pages etc.
Cheers
~Acwder and the Dev. team
Age Changes – ORKFiA Classic Age 40
Breaking the Silence
Been a very silent month here on the Orkfia Portal, but theres been just to much to do both ingame and afk.
Dates for Age 40 is:
Start – night between 5th and 6th june at 00:00ST, first update at 01:00ST
Age lasts 4 weeks.
There will be a updatebutton for a minimum of 48hours, followed by a 24hours window until the age starts (meaning soft reset -> updatebutton -> soft reset -> 24hours -> age start).
So here it is, the changes for ORKFiA Classic Age 40.
Layout
A new layout is to be launched, its been mentioned a few times in the past but now its finally here.
We are increasing the width another 50px, increasing the size of the header which btw is brand new, designed by Sindustry from Visual Industries. The menu system has been improved for cellphone users who in the past got sent wrong since the menu dropdown links has to be clicked for them to open.
Also moving away from the fixed “iframe” layout that we had for so long, and I promise you wont get delayed from checking the menu cause of scrolling, with the new width we are going 3 columns for most data instead of the old 2 column layout, in the case of a actual long page we’ve added a js function which gives you a link to the top down on the right (gets visable once you scrolled more then 200px).
There are small tweaks done to almost every page, but apart from that there is three new pages added:
Orkfia 101 which is a new basic guide with short tips, hints etc to get new players going, the current Guide is quite a mouthfull for new players so this is a way to give crucial information to new players. It placed under the “Help” menu.
Orkfia Chat, a information page about communication, irc, links to orkfia chatrooms, a orkfia classic mibbit chat etc. Placed under the new menu named “Communication” (which is also where the pm and forum links now are placed).
Vote for Orkfia, this page hosts all the different links for various voting sites where you can let ppl know of Orkfia Classic, you will get rewards for voting on some of them (information about that is on that page), this page also displays a list of all the sponsors.
Keep an eye out for more layout improvements:)
Game
Everbloom successmessage changed from blabla to “Your mage has generated (xxx) acres for your tribe to thrive on!” – contribution from Michele.
80% chance FO and IS gets added to intelligence:P
Sponsorship
For $2 per age you get access the following extra features:
- Your own nickname@orkfia.biz. <-- Accessable from mail.orkfia.biz
- A all in one selfspell.
- Access to the Targetfinder.
- During protection you can use the updatebutton for the first 24hours meaning you can do you first half at any given time during those 24hours.
- More stuff to come.
The intention with having sponsorship is never to create a unbalanced nor unfair situation, the bonuses given from sponsorship will purely be either timesaving or stuff that doesnt affect the ingame. Orkfia Classic will always be available to play for free and still be able to get the most out of it, it might just take alittle bit longer to complete the tasks.
Race changes
Spirit
- +15% resistance to magic changed to +10%.
- Poltergeist (1/7) – 920cr changed to 945cr.
Dragon
- Baby Dragon (1/1) – 30cr changed to (0/2).
- Red Dragon (50/15) – 1125cr changed to (50/10).
Mori Hai
- Ogre (4/5) – 600cr changed to 650cr.
Probably forgotten something but hopefully thats all, this age the focus has been on the new layout, for next age the focus will be on the spells and ops, pestilence for example has been around way to long without being fixed;)
Cheers
~Acwder
