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S2 Restarted & We’re On Twitter

Alex — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:29:09 +0000

Server 2 was restarted today, so if you want to start over on a new server, go to http://s2.imperialages.com and register. The new graphics are 90% done, so they’ll probably be ready by the end of the month. They’ll be implemented on all open servers when they’re done.

We’re on Twitter

If you have a Twitter account, you can follow us here: http://www.twitter.com/ImperialAges

The first 10 users to follow us will receive 3 months of VIP. All you need to do is follow the account and if you’re one of the first 10, we’ll let you know.

S2: Gunpowder Age Launched

Alex — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:35:29 +0000

As the title says, the Gunpowder Age has been launched on S2.

You can upgrade to the second age from the Gunpowder Age tab in the City Hall.

Requirements:

City Hall lvl 20
at least 2 villages
at least 600 population
30,000 for each resource
plus 10% of the training costs of all the military units you currently own

Training prices and training time have gone up 20%

Attack, defence, special attack, capacity has gone up 30%

All units gained +1 in speed.

S2 will be closed for new registrations in a few days, and weâ€™ll launch S3 at the beginning of next week. Iâ€™ll announce the exact date and hour of the launch in the next few days.

Server Downtime On Sunday, October 26

Alex — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:48:16 +0000

To make the change required by daylight savings time, the server will be stopped for 1 hour on Sunday, October 26th, between 23:00 and 00:00 Server Time. When it starts again hour 00:00 will become 23:00.

The code will also be updated, fixing a few bugs from the game.

The server downtime will affect both servers.

Server Downtime On Sunday

Alex — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:34:22 +0000

Sunday, October 19th, both servers will be stopped for 1 hour (between 23:00 and 00:00 Server Time), so we can make some updates to it.

This will include the elimination of the possibility of 1 soldier raids. After the update of the code, it will only be possible to do raids if there are at least 2 soldiers of the same type in the attack group. Normal attacks will still be possible with 1 soldier.

Server 2 Launched

Alex — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:59:15 +0000

Server 2 is launched and you can register here if you want to play on it. Everyone that registers on it receives a 7 day VIP package, so you can see what it has to offer.

Enjoy!

Server 2 Launch Date And Changes

Alex — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:28:53 +0000

Finally, we are ready to launch Server 2 in a few days, with all the changes done to it.

Server 2 will be launched Monday (September 15th) at 10:00 AM (GMT+2). We decided to skip the pre-registration period, since we’ll be ready to launch.

Only after you confirm the email address will your village be placed on the map, depending on the corner of the map you’ve chosen and the moment when you confirmed the account. You can find a more detailed explanation on how accounts are placed on the map here.

It will be a different experience from Server 1, as there are many changes to the stats and costs of troops and buildings, plus a higher density of players on the map. We tried to balance the troops as much as possible, and we hope we did a good job, giving each civilization strengths and weaknesses, giving civilizations that were supposed to be defensive their true place.

You will see higher defensive or offensive values in some places, as we tried to bring to a similar level the amount of offensive or defensive points a civilization can make in a 24 hour interval. The defensive civilizations will make more defensive points in 24 hours then an offensive one.

The new Server 2 Manual contains the new Excel files, with the changes brought by Server 2, for units, buildings and resources.

Server 2 changes:

better balance for military units (modified only the offensive/defensive units, with catapults, rams, spies, senators, settlers, archers remaining the same)
modified costs for resource mines, a bit higher for the low levels and lower for later levels.
modified costs for some buildings, including a decrease in stone needed for fortress/castle
modified upgrade costs for troops in Training Ground and Arena
modified influence points levels that allow you to create new villages. A bit slower in the beginning and faster as the account grows.

Updates On The VIP Payment And Server 2

Alex — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:22:28 +0000

As you can see we have a few delays in the launch of the payment system for the VIP, because of some changes that will take a few days to be made. We’re hoping for the end of the week, but the programmers also have full time jobs and there is only so much they can do in their spare time.

As for Server 2, the changes to the unit stats, buildings costs, resources costs and upgrade costs for troops are done (including a bigger dungeon). Still on the list: modifying the influence points needed to found new villages and a few others.

We aimed to balance the civilizations somewhat, making sure that each civilization produces a certain attack or defense in a 24 hour period, according to their offensive or defensive profile.

The resources costs increased a bit for the early levels and decreased for the higher ones. They are now made according to the increase in resources, and the time of recuperating the spent resources on a new level varies from 60 hours at lvl 1 to 400 hours at lvl 15 and 600 hours at lvl 20 (for gold mines). Also the cost of the buildings that allow you to build lvl 11-15 and 16-20 mines are considerably smaller now.

As for the costs of the buildings, we increased them in some places, and decreased them in others (stone required for castle/fortress).

We’re hopping for the weekend or the beginning of next week to start pre-registrations, and the server a few days after that. But, once again, no guarantees here either.

I’ll update again when I have a sure date for the Server 2 launch, together with all the changes in costs and stats.