You can see the in game message below:

Hi.
After a few delays and changes to the code of the VIP package, we are finally releasing the payment system, which allows you to buy a VIP package. Before you buy it, you can activate the 7 day free trial period in the VIP page (if you haven’t already), to see what the VIP has to offer.

The only payment option available right now is through PayPal, but we hope to introduce credit card payments in a few weeks. The link to the VIP page can be found in the upper part of the page.

At $8 for the 3 months package, we think that the VIP is very accessible to everyone and it offers a lot for the money you pay. For just $2.67/month you get features like the building queue, a logo in your profile, no ads, tools like the distance calculator or the extended map, knowing exactly when you’ll have enough resources to start a building and much more. That, plus you help us support the server costs of the game and getting a new design for the game.

If you don’t want to buy a VIP package, don’t worry. Imperial Ages will always be a free game and the VIP features will not offer those that pay unfair advantages over the others. They’re just for comfort and saving some time.

We’ll keep adding new features to the VIP package in time, and if you have any ideas of new things to add, you can send an email to contact@imperialages.com or an in game message to user ImperialAges.

The full list of what the VIP package offers can be found here.

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.