Dear settlers,

some new content is about to come and with it our so called Fairy Tale Adventures.

FEATURES
• Introduction of the Fairy Tale Adventures
• Fairy Tale Items available in the shop

FIXES
• Various bugfixes

A preview of the Fairy Tale content can be found in your local forum:

             

Info: The balancing of the adventures is not yet final! Accounts will not be wiped during the maintenance process, but you will receive a bunch of resources for your account after the maintenance.

Happy settling,
 BB_SlasH

Dear Settlers,

due to the success of your testing support, the new Science System feature (part 1) will go live soon, including the skill tree for your Geologists. Take your chance to get
a new special item that boosts your Science System start:

• Name: Bookbinding Glue
• Effect: Increases the production speed of the Bookbinder to 200% for 24 hours
• Usage: You can use it on your home zone, it is tradable

These special buffs are rare.
This is the only chance to get them so far.

How to get the items? - Be active on LIVE game worlds!

• Play the game with your regular account between Monday, 27th of May and Monday, 10th of June.
• On 14th of June an ingame message will be sent that contains
  3x bookbinder glue to all players who met the conditions.

Happy Settling!
BB_Graubart 

Dear Settlers.

Update: Test 1 was a success (>  4,000 active users at the same time)
Update: Test 2 was a success (>  5,000 active users at the same time)

We ask you to join our load tests that will take place tomorrow. The goal is quite simple: Play as much as you can. If the login queue is crowded, it’s even better, because this means that there is high activity.

Short summary of load tests:
• Test 1: Friday, 24th of May, 11:00 – 13:00 CEST
• Test 2: Friday, 24th of May, 16:00 – 18:00 CEST
• Goal: High load (approx. 3 000+ active players)

So far the Science System looks good, but we would like to check it under high load when lots of players are online. Feel free to help us to test the newest version of the game which features the Science System. Please remember that you are welcome to share your feedback and opinion in the forum.

BB_xaar

Hello settlers,

in order to fix the "move buildings issue" we need to perform an extra maintenance. This will take place at approx. 13:00h (CEST) today. After the maintenance, players who did not receive the loot from yesterday should have it in their mailbox. There will be no account reset!

*UPDATE* We are back online

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Best regards,
 BB_SlasH

Dear Settlers,

currently moving buildings on the test server may result in blocking the whole island. We already know about this issue and we started to work on a fix.

In order to avoid possible zone lock, please do not move buildings on your home island until further notice.

Happy settling,
BB_xaar

Dear settlers,

UPDATE: We are back online, have fun testing!

in order to bring you some bugfixes, we need to perform a server maintenance on May 16th, between 12:00h and 18:00h starting at approx. 15:45h (CEST). During this period, you will not be able to play.

FIXES
• Military unit and unemployed settler count was wrong when
  producing troops
• Trade request did not work with buffs and buildings
• Weird building queue behaviour
• Locked zone when sending a named general to an
  adventure
• Book production times extended after zone shut-down
• Graphic alignment changes in bookbinder according to time
  display

Info: All accounts will be wiped during the maintenance process. You will receive XP for level 50, 150.000 gems, 3 jolly geologists and 1.000 resources of each codex, manuscript and tome.

Happy settling,
 BB_SlasH

Dear Settlers.

• Update 18:18 (CEST): Server back online again
• Upate 17:55 (CEST): The test server will be back online again
  approx. between 18:30 - 19:00 (CEST)

A short server restart is needed.

The restart will be done @17:00 CEST.
The system will be back in approx. 30-60 minutes.

Please give your F5 button a chance to survive ;o) 

Best,
BB_Graubart

Dear settlers,

we are happy to announce some brand new features for you to test on this server:

The Science System is a special skill system. In total, it will feature four skill trees. They give you the opportunity to specialize your island and your specialists with the geologists (more to follow in upcoming changes). The Science System consists of seven brand new buildings, many new production chains and nine new resources.

A brief description of the science system can be found in your local forum:

             

CHANGELOG:

• Introduction of the Science System
• New tutorial for Science System
• 7 new buildings
• 9 new resources
• New geologist talent tree with 20 new skills
• Namemable specialists
• Various bug fixes

New players will start at level 50, existing accounts will receive extra XP to be able to rise to this level. There will be no account reset this time.

Happy testing,
BB_SlasH

Dear Settlers!

• Update 15:28 CEST: Back online approx. between 16:30-18:30 CEST
• Update 16:20 CEST: The new version is only. Happy testing!

A new version will be deployed today (Friday, 10th of May).
Afterwards you can test the first part of the brand new Science System.

• Server closed: 14:00 CEST
• Back online: Approx. between 16:00-18:00 CEST
• New players will start at level 50.
  Existing accounts will receive extra XP to increase the level.
• There will be no account reset this time.

Happy settling!
BB_Graubart 

Hello settlers,

if everything goes smooth, and it looks this way at the moment,
we will have a maintenance Friday next week.

Keep an eye on the news and your local forums for what is to come,
more details will be posted here too.

Best regards,
 BB_SlasH