KindomGame News and Announcements 17MAY09 Reset Worlds Reset - Alliances The reset worlds (W11 and W12) are being reset at 11.30 BST (0630 EST) 18th May. All current kingdoms will be removed from the worlds at the time of reset... What will the reset entail? Everyone joining the worlds will be preassigned to an Alliance - whichever alliance has the least number of people - so you'll end up as part of the following : On W11 : "Roman", "Celt", "Visigoth" and "Viking". On W12 : "Gaul", "Espania", "Mongols" and "Byzantine Empire". This was originally built for the mini meetup that happened in New York last October, but never got used - we think that it adds a number of interesting elements to the game. First up, you're with people you don't know.. which is how you end up making new friends in the game. Next, it makes the game more challenging in that you have to work with those people, experienced or new, to beat the other alliances. Lastly, when you colonise you're added to your original alliance again (so, if I was a celt on W11 I'd be a celt on w12, with only other people from W11 who've got colonies). So, to get yourself a place in the brand new world, sign up any time after the reset tomorrow - people with existing w11/12 accounts will be able to log in with those accounts. If you want to comment on this piece - do post up in the official thread Regards, The KingdomGame Dev Team. 02MAY09 Updates Updates Updates! As you will have seen, a new native iPhone KingdomGame app was released at the beginning of April which has resulted in around 2000 new kingdoms being established and activly used over the past few weeks. While that has been happening a number of patches have been released, the latest is V1.063 - read the full patch notes here As always we love to read your feedback and comments on patches and any aspect of the game in the official forums - so if you get a chance sign up and get stuck in! There will be another patch in the next week or so to change the NW of some resources (namely spice, to be worth less). Regards, The KingdomGame Development Team 27MAR09 Happy Birthday KingdomGame! Well, the last year has been excellent fun - KingdomGame was released around about now last year as an alpha version to the Apple website... just to see if people might like to have a go. Within five hours of release the servers had been overloaded... and I was busy trying to get the day off work to fix it all as it happened.. then came the frantic coding to patch things up to a level I was happy with.. then more frantic coding for six months when the gold version was released. We've seen hundreds of thousands of visitors in that time... with between 4-10k players per day every day, including Christmas day.. across 198 different countries in the world (meaning that someone in almost every country of the world has played KingdomGame). A massive 217 million pages have been served to people playing.. with twenty minutes being the average time spent on the site each time someone visits. As a thank you to everyone for playing and supporting the game everyone is getting an extra weeks premium time added to their account as of today. On another note, the next few weeks should be interesting with a free KG app being released to the iTunes for people to download and play KingdomGame through - more on that over the next week. Also look out for a new KingdomGame patch in the next week or so... If you'd like to leave a comment on this article please do so here in the forums.. Regards, Paul Hutson 25FEB09   News from a world near you It has been a while since my last update, but there have been loads of changes to the KingdomGame world... You can get yourself a KingdomGame tshirt, mug, cap, mousemat, etc from the new KingdomGame.net CafePress shop here : http://www.cafepress.com/KingdomGame Additionally, two new worlds have opened, worlds 11 and 12 (Kladil and Leemarv) which are testing the new reset code - every three months these worlds reset, allowing people to try out new strategies and tactics in an ever changing scenario. Two new patches have been released, along with a number of back end changes to increase the KingdomGame server stability - and we're continuing to work on ever increasing the stability. An interview with me was published by CasualGamer.biz discussing KingdomGame and also the upcoming Outer Empires. Read it here : http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/28236/INTERVIEW-IronWill-Studios Do keep posting your comments, ideas, etc on the forums - we do read every post. Regards, Paul Hutson 13JAN09 Patch V1.056 Released This week we've added in some new fun bits that will change the way the game works slightly.. the main elements to look at are: New Prayer called "Neptunes Blessing" - which increases the catch rate of fish by 15% while it's enabled. Colony <> HomeKingdom multiple cog transfers for premium account holders (watch you don't go over your cap's when transporting goods!!) Colonies can be attacked navally regardless of whether they have a port or not - afterall, they were set up on the coast.. so can be raided. Increased trickle rate for money over someones cap - money will now trickle out in around an hour. Read the full patch notes here Next up, there have been *loads* of great styles submitted to the style competition (if you haven't seen them or tried them out, have a look here) - and there are still a few days to enter, I'm sure a few more of you have some ideas for styles.. and there is a month of premium time to win! (details on how to enter) Hope you like the changes... please do post up on the forums if you have any questions, comments or ideas, we do read them all! Regards, Paul Hutson 02JAN09 Patch V1.055 Released and a Competition Happy New Year to everyone - only a few more months now and KingdomGame will reach it's first birthday - it's hard to believe... .. anyway, on to todays topics, the new patch and a competition. I decided to release this patch today as it changes a lot of the engine around, and then release a second patch next Tuesday with a few of the more fun changes in it - simply so I can deal with any problems caused by the patch in two distinct parts. Todays patch changes around the way that the game generates each page - those of you playing KingdomGame while on the move from their mobiles will notice a huge performance increase. Those who use a desktop computer to play KingdomGame will notice a new menu shown on the screen at all times to make navigation and playing KingdomGame a bit faster.. .. in addition to that there are a number of other changes which are caused by the patch. Firstly, it gets rid of a lot of the old style issues (cookie based) displaying fonts in odd colours... secondly it removes the "System Offline" bug that was sometimes seen. Read the full patch notes : Here The most exciting change is the ability for you guys to create and distribute your own styles. If you don't like the colours we've used simply create your own one, upload it to some web space and then enter the url of the location in the new "Custom Style" box on the user config page. To that end, a new competition will be run over the next two weeks (Final Entry and winner announced at 1200GMT 16JAN09), the price will be a months free premium time. All you need to do to enter is submit a new KingdomGame Style by posting a topic in the Competition Entries forum. For information on how to create your own style, please see the Custom Styles KingdomGame Wiki page. There are loads of new an exciting enhancements coming in the next few months to make KingdomGame ever more involving. Here's to a great 2009! Paul Hutson Lead Developer - Kingdomgame.net 02DEC08 Patch V1.053 Released HO HO HO Patch V1.053 added to the game and tis the season - as such, a new festive resource has been added to the game; Mulled Wine (essentially spiced wine). Mulled Wine has the same effect as beer; twice as potent as wine - however, it will be removed in the first patch of January.! In addition to that we've worked on fixing a number of bugs which have been cropping up, trying to get the system working smoothly. I've also raised the non-premium account skill level cap to seven from five, there are still some things to test, but people have tested up to that level now.! A few "oddities" in the kingdom game dynamics have been changed; Troops no longer remove armour before going to battle, therefore you can lose armour when attacking.. but, on the other side of the coin, you don't always lose 100% of your armour when being attacked (see below for the details) - we've also changed the improved armour skill to be a little bit more effective. ! Lastly, new resource trickling has been enabled properly this time after being disabled post-patch last week; therefore we've delayed the NW value for the "new" resource types until the next patch - Gold Coins have had their trickle out rate increased, so they'll trickle out twice as fast as they did before.! Read the full patch notes here. As always, do keep the comments, ideas, etc. coming - I love reading them all! - there are loads of discussions on the KingdomGame Forums so pop your head in through the door and join in! Thank you again to *everyone* who has continued to support KingdomGame through donations, clicking on adverts and upgrading their to Adfree/Premium accounts. If anyone would like to gift someone an upgrade for the KingdomGame account please contact me at support@kingdomgame.net Have fun! Paul Hutson Lead Developer - Kingdomgame.net 18NOV08 Patch V1.051 Released Another week, another patch - this time altering the game balance by reducing the value of gold against a Kingdoms networth amongst a number of other fixes. This is a prelude to other networth changes coming in the next few weeks, including networth values assigned to Wine, Spice, Grapes, Iron and Armour. All of which will have around the same value as lumber or stone. Read the patch notes here. Thank you again to *everyone* who has continued to support KingdomGame through donations, clicking on adverts and upgrading their to Adfree/Premium accounts. For those who've not yet tried a Premium account, it's only $3.00 per month! Have fun! Paul Hutson Lead Developer - Kingdomgame.net 12NOV08 Patches V1.050 and V1.050-1 Released Two new patches released to reduce bugs in KingdomGame (and while V1.050 didn't go quite as planned, V1.050-1 has fixed the issues properly!) - read the patch notes here There were also a number of enhancements to speed up the back end system to make the servers (and login's) more stable. The FaceBook version of KingdomGame is slowly but surely growing with nearly two hundred kingdoms created so far - the more we can get playing the better! Create your facebook kingdom here If anyone is still having problems that were caused by yesterdays patch, please send me an email to support@kingdomgame.net and I will attempt to help you out ASAP. Look out for more Skills related updates coming out in the next few weeks and a change to the way that NW is calculated. Have fun! Paul Hutson Lead Developer - Kingdomgame.net 05NOV08 Patch V1.049 Released Over the past month the we've been working hard on making KingdomGame more stable and ever more bug free. We've also added in loads of new features, both for premium accounts and the free accounts which make the game easier to play and have fun in. The lastest changes are in Patch V1.049 - read the patch notes here In addition to that I've been working on a new FaceBook front end for the game which will hopefully get a few more people in and playing - there will also be a new "FaceBook-Only" world to play in if you fancy starting from scratch and pitting your wits against new players! In the next few months a UK/European based meet will be announced - with a little more notice than the US one early last month (Excellent fun - thanks to those who came along!) Lastly, thanks to everyone who has upgraded their accounts, clicked on adverts or sent in donations - the support you've given the Game is fantastic! For those of you who haven't yet bought an account there are loads of useful features to play with...! Look out for two new competitions coming up in the next week or so - prizes include free premium time. Regards, The KingdomGame Team 02OCT08 Alliance Buildings and a Mini KG Convention Well, another few releases out of the door and things are moving forward nicely (although it mostly feels like one step forward two steps back). There are loads of new features out there, including new spy report functionality.. and there are loads of new upgrades and enhancements to the game (you can read all about them in the patch notes for the last few patches here : V1.043 and V1.044) There will, as normal, be a patch next Tuesday, adding alliance buildings, Warehouses and a multitude of other bits and pieces. The alliance buildings are owned by the alliance and give benefits to everyone in the alliance, each level can be built by donating resources to the pool until the required amount is reached then the building will build - be aware, there will also be a 10% maintenence fee each week to keep the building at the level you have it. The current buildings planned are : 1) The Grand Library, which will reduce time to train things in the Training and Research area (for everyone in the alliance). 2) The Cathedral, which will reduce mana spell costs (for everyone in the alliance). 3) The Grand Hall, which will allow an increase of member cap of the alliance (one per level) A mini KingdomGame convention is going to be held in New York on Friday 10th October in the Gilt Bar from around eight - if you're interested in coming, please post up in the forums (or email me at support@kingdomgame.net) so that I can let the bar know how many to expect. If you want to comment or ask questions on any of the above, please Post Here 16SEP08 Universities, Training Yards and Church Studies Patch V1.042 deployed, bringing with it a large number of new features - read the patch note here. The major update for this patch is the inclusion of the new skill and technology trees to allow you to advance your kingdom through study and training. There are a wide range of skills available (51) each doing a range of different things, from irrigation to increase your farming yield to supplication that decreases the cost of prayers in the holy circle. Please do post your feedback on the forums, I'm always interested in reading what you think. In other news, a new KingdomGame Palringo group has been set up so and the first open developer Q&A session was held last night. For more details on how to join the group see here Thank you to everyone who contributed to the KingdomGame Wikipedia page, it's looking excellent! Of course, I think there may have to be some new additions with the new patch items soon. Lastly, thanks again to everyone who has upgraded to a premium account - your support means the game can continue developing and changing! As a thank-you in the future you will be able to get your hands on new changes a little while before everyone else... more on that later! Look out for a new competition in the next few days - with more prizes to be won! Regards, Paul Hutson 08SEP08 Patch V1.041 Released and Some Other Bits Well, another day, another patch - this time with a huge number of bug fixes and quite a few enhancements for the premium account holders out there. Read the patch note here Next week should see the new Universities and Training Yards released to spend a bit of that hard earned (well, hard taxed) gold on... more on that later in the week. Some of you may have noticed the new "School Worlds" section to the bottom right of the page and are wondering what it is. Well, a few schools have decided to take up KingdomGame as an Educational tool - allowing forms/classes to run a Kingdom as a group (learning about teamwork, leadership, decision making, etc). Each school that is participating is linked to every other school so that trade, communication, colonisation and diplomacy can all happen - making learning fun. There will be a full information pack released at some point soon, but if anyone out there is interested in partaking in the trial please contact me (at support@kingdomgame.net); I'm ideally looking for schools with pupils aged between 11 and 18 to take part. A new review of KingdomGame has been posted at retrorabbit.net - please do visit and leave a comment. Finally, a new Wikipedia page has been set up for KingdomGame - if you feel you'd like to add some more information about any aspect of the game please don't hesitate to have a go - the more information that we can get on there, the better! You can view the existing page here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Game Thanks again for everyones ongoing support. Paul Hutson and the KG Team! 01SEP08 Competition Winners and Reset Firstly, thanks to everyone who entered the competition - there were sooo many excellent entries and a lot of interesting discussion to read through! Judging the winners was a very hard job indeed... but we finally sifted through the entries to come up with the winners : First place went to : EmKraen with Diplomacy - which will make the diplomats in game a little more involving! Second place went to : Peeksvill with Monasteries - by researching this your mana production will increase.. Third place went to : Sorbitol with Preservation - increasing the effectiveness of Spices in your kingdoms. Next up, the final reset time has been scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd September at 12 Midday GMT (6AM EST) - please make sure you've made the choice as to whether you want to be reset or move to the veteran server before then (you can do so in your user config area!) The reset/transfers should take around an hour - once the worlds come back online there will be a new world to log into/register at called "Veritas" which all the people from the veteran transfers will be able to log into. Lastly, thanks again to everyone who has donated or has bought an Adfree/Premium account - it's very much appreciated! Regards, Paul Hutson 13AUG08 Development Plan and a Competion A new development plan has been posted on the global forums, to read it in full go here : Full Development Plan : In the KingdomGame Forums An excerpt from the plan: One of the new features of KingdomGame is going to be the ability to spend money (and time) on discovering faster ways of doing something or training your army to be more effective. Two new areas in game will be created to allow you to do that. As a break down of how training will work; if I were to train "Irrigation" to level one, it would take me 12 hours and cost 2000GC. Once trained I would receive a +1% increase to my food yield per hour. If I wanted to train the second level in irrigation, it would take me 24 hours and cost 8000GC.. but would give me a +2% increase in my food yield per hour. [Note, the costs and times are not set yet!] There will be about 20-25 levels per skill type, only one item can be trained in the university or training yard at any one time. Some skills will only be available when other skills have reached a certain level. Read the full plan by clicking here... Competition As I've seen in the past, everyone playing KingdomGame has got ideas on how to make the game better... this is your chance to directly influence the game development! The competition this month will be to design a new skill or technology to be implemented in the new Universities and Training Yards. There will be prize for the top five entries : 1st Place A free tshirt of your choice from superherostuff.com and two weeks of premium time* 2nd Place A free tshirt of your choice from superherostuff.com and a week of premium time* 3rd Place A week of premium time* 4th/5th Places Two days Premium time* *Premium time will be applied to one Kingdom of your choice. To submit an entry, simply go to the "Competition" forum and post a new topic (entitled with the name of the skill you're submitting), with the following information in it : Skill Type : University or Training Yard Skill Name : Name of the skill Description : A basic overview of what the skill does Prerequisite : Are one or more skills needed before this one? How it works : A more in depth view of how the skill would effect your in game Kingdom or Troops (if needed) You can submit as many entries as you like, or comment on other peoples entries with ideas or enhancements. Incomplete entries will not be elligible for prizes. Submissions close on Friday 29th August at 1200 GMT (0700 EST), the winners will be announced on the Friday 31st August - the KingdomGame team's decision is final. I can't wait to see what you come up with! 12AUG08 Patch V1.038 - New Mana Prayers, Siege Workshops and Siege Engines A new patch has been released which includes a number of new different mana prayers, siege workshops and siege engines.. along with a load of other small changes. Full Patch Notes here : In the KingdomGame Forums I'd like to also take a moment to welcome our newest world sponsor to KingdomGame.net - SuperHeroStuff.com - who have an exclusive 10% discount for all KingdomGame players. Visit SuperHeroStuff.com by clicking here   Look out on the global forums for the new plan being posted in the announcements area later today.. and also for a new competition being announced tomorrow.. with a chance to win some excellent prizes! Keep the comments and posts the forums, the team and I read every one. As some of you may have noticed - KingdomGame is, once again, featured at Apple.com - a big thank you to everyone who have submitted bugs and feedback on the forums.. and to everyone for their continued testing, without you all here KingdomGame would be very different! Lastly, thanks to everyone who has signed up for an AdFree or Premium account so far - there are a lot more enhancements coming your way soon which will make it all the better value.. for those who've not yet decided to take the plunge, you might like to think about it in so much that a month costs less than a gallon of petrol.. Regards, Paul Hutson 06AUG08 Patch V1.037 - Premium/AdFree Accounts, Troop Levelling and Colonies A new patch has been released which includes being able to set up colonies in foreign worlds amongst a myriad of other things. Full Patch Notes here : In the KingdomGame Forums One of the major updates in the inclusion of AdFree and Premium accounts to the system. The latter gives players the following enhancements (there are many more to follow in the coming weeks!): No adverts; faster server connections to play through; Market Enhancements (searching of market items); Customizable quick menu options; Configurable out of game Email Alerts; Enhanced mana spending options (+24 hours instead of just +5); Enhanced building and training options (build max buttons); Number formatting (comma's in large numbers); Multi Delete option for Pigeons As of now the only way I can accept payments online is through PayPal - however, in the near future I hope to expand payment options. If you would like to make payments in an offline way with a cheque, please email me at payments@kingdomgame.net for information. As normal, do keep posting your ideas in the forums - the team and I really do read every one! Lastly, a new stat tracking system is now working, allowing you to track Networth over time by Kingdom or Alliance - the data in the system has been reset recently, so you'll only be able to see the data from yesterday onwards. Check it out here : http://kingdomgame.net/kingdoms Regards, Paul Hutson 26JUL08 New Design Released As you will have noticed, the site has been redesigned extensivly - there will options in the near future to choose the style that you want to see. Regards, Paul Hutson 21JUL08 Patch V1.036 - Interworld Warring Today see's a major update go live - allowing people to build navies to attack other worlds. See the patch notes below : Release V1.036 Patch Notes Colonies and mana updates are scheduled for the next patch... Regards, Paul Hutson 11JUL08 Patch V1.035 - Interworld Markets Yet another patch, this time adding in interworld marketing and fixing a few other bugs. See the patch notes below : Release V1.035 Patch Notes World wars and resource caps will be out next week... Regards, Paul Hutson 08JUL08 Patch V1.034 Another new patch today, which has involved a major reworking of several systems.. people can now see and message Kingdoms from other worlds if they have a port, along with a myriad of other bug fixes and enhancements. See all of the patch notes below : Release V1.034 Patch Notes Look out for the announcement regarding building resource caps coming out in the next few days, any feedback you give me on the details will be well receieved so I can balance things before I implement them... ALSO note that if you have more people than your buildings will sustain (i.e. more priests than your temples will allow) they will start to leave in a trickle over the next few days (and in the future) - you will receive a pidgeon when that happens so you know to build more buildings to house them. Regards, Paul Hutson 03JUL08 Two New Patches Two new patches have been released, you can see the details of them on the forums here : Release V1.033-1 Patch Notes Release V1.033-2 Patch Notes Keep the comments and ideas coming we really do read them all! Regards, Paul Hutson 26JUN08 Release V1.033 Another patch, this time introducing ports, shipyards and fishing boats (amongst a number of other things...): Read the Patch Notes Here Also, for those of you who have not noticed Steven lurking around on the forums, he's our newest KingdomGame developer.. joining the ranks with Greg and I to add new and exciting things to the game (or fix the broken ones..) - so, I hope everyone gives Steven a grand welcome! Regards, Paul Hutson 09JUN08 The New Plan As promised, a new plan has been written up for everyone to have a look at and comment on.. as always we do value your input in where things are headed.. : The New Plan Regards, Paul Hutson 09JUN08 Patch V1.032 A new patch has been released, you can read the patch notes in the forums below: Patch V1.032 I'm aiming to put The New Plan up on the forums at some point soon, so you can see where the development is headed... as always your comments are very welcome on any aspect of KingdomGame.. Greg and I are always around trying to read all the posts you make in the forums Regards, Paul Hutson 08JUN08 CoolGorilla.com CoolGorilla.com has just started a new service to collect together webapps and applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch... .. naturally, KingdomGame is on there at the following URL: http://www.coolgorilla.com/iphone-applications/kingdom-game.html If you have a moment, rating the game and/or submitting a review would help get more people to KingdomGame and playing... plus I'll be eternally grateful.. Thanks in Advance, Paul Hutson 07JUN08 Patch V1.031-1 A new mammoth patch has been introduced, you can see the patch notes in the following thread on the forums: Patch V1.031-1 Also, you may have seen that accounts are being banned if they are believed to be multiple kingdom accounts. Some people have had their accounts re-enabled once they've emailed me to discuss their banning. We apologies for any incovenience that banning accounts has caused, we hope everyone understands why we're trying to cut down on the multiple kingdom accounts. Sincerely, Paul Hutson 02JUN08 Notice: As we have said in the past, we take cheating and exploiting very seriously. If anyone is found to have used an exploit/cheat or is found to have multiple kingdoms on one world then all of their kingdoms will be banned. We do this to ensure that the game is fair for everyone, we do it for everyone who is playing by the rules. However, if you feel that your account has been wrongly banned, please do contact me on the forums, or via email. Sincerely, Paul Hutson 02JUN08 Scheduled Downtime and Patch : 03JUN08;1700GMT There will be a server outage while new code is deployed tomorrow at 1700GMT. The changes will include new attack code being added to the system to make it more interactive (and, strategic). As someone on the forums said "The current attack system is like playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, but with just Rocks" - the new patch is going to make it work properly. Regards, Paul 01JUN08 World Nine - Inic - Capped Attack World As you'll see below in the list, a new world has been added to KingdomGame. This one is slightly different to all the servers that are available now. On this server you can only lose a maximum of 30% of your land in any 24 hour period. As usual, please do comment on the forums about the game (and this new server), we really do read everything you post! Regards, Paul 27 May 08 Patch V1.030 - Bits'n'Bobs There are a lot of new changes mixed in - you can see the patch notes on the forums (link below). Additionally, you'll notice that there is a new sponsor on worlds 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7 - please do take a moment to check them out at www.carouselchecks.com Patch Notes here Regards, Paul 27 May 08 Patch V1.029 - Alliance Markets Finally, alliance markets are now operational in the game... see the patch notes below: Patch Notes here Regards, Paul 26 May 08 Non-Alliance World & Patch V1.028-b A new non alliance world has been set up, please do not go on here as an alliance - you've got seven other worlds to do that on. Anyone found to be working as an unannounced alliance will have their accounts on the server removed. Also, a couple of new things have been released in a new patch update (V1.028-b - Notes here) including the ability to change your own passwords (providing you have validated your email address) If you've not already read it, Talador (from W4) has been creating an "unofficial guide" to KingdomGame - so far it has some excellent information in it - you can read it at the following URL : http://kingdom.loxtech-gaming.co.uk/ Regards, Paul 25 May 08 Patch V1.028 And another new patch... Patch Notes V1.028 [Edit] ... and a little bit more.. thank you to everyone who has continued to donate, the servers the game currently has wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the money coming in that way! Regards, Paul 19 May 08 "The Plan" and another patch V1.027-c Some people have asked to know what our planned developments and enhancements are in advance, so, you can see what they are in the following thread.. please do comment on them earlier rather than later! We really do read your ideas and comments! The Plan Information Patch Notes V1.027-c (the last NW patches we're going to release, ever, it's such an unpopular thing to do, I somewhat wish we never had!) Regards, Paul 19 May 08 Release V1.027-b NW calculations have been adjusted, yet again, to make things a little, well, better.. see the details in the patch notes below: Patch Notes V1.027-b Regards, Paul 19 May 08 Release V1.027 There's a new set of release notes, with a whole bunch of changes in them. Details are in the forums ... 16May08 Shhh - this is sort of secretive.. Well, the new server is up and running and we'll be transferring some things over there.. the first thing we transferred, however, was the code, so you'll be able to access the game without the bazillion timeout's and login's you've been having to endure! More details here: in a forum post... Regards, Paul 14May08 Patch V1.026 Yet another patch.... you can see the details here: Patch V1.026 Released - Patch Notes v1.026 For reference, I've purchased a new dedicated server, and all of the worlds will be moving off the various VPSs they're on at the moment. The new server should provide a much better service (i.e. not all these bazillion timeouts that we're getting at the moment, rather frustratingly!) We believe that the response times will be vastly improved.. so, if you find your world is off for maintenance, it may be because it's being moved to the new server.. so hang tight! Regards, Paul 12May08 Patch V1.025 And another patch tonight, you can see the details here: Patch V1.025 Released - Patch Notes v1.025 10May08 Patch V1.023-2 Due to popular demand, the alliance cap has been raised to 50 people - there is still a cap, and that will not change, however, the cap is much higher than before. Please note that there will soon be an indication of inactive people shown to other people within an alliance (from the Alliance page). Patch V1.023-2 Released - Patch Notes v1.023-2 09May08 Back - and a New Patch... I'm back again after a glorious few weeks off! Straight back into it when I got home(ish) and so here's the first of the new updates - read the patch notes at the URL below.. there are some changes included! Patch V1.023 Released - Patch Notes v1.023 5 May (again!) Patch V1.022 Released Patch V1.022 Released - read the patch notes here 5 May Patch V1.021 Released Patch V1.021 Released (Now active on all worlds) - read the patch notes here 3 May Patch V1.020 Released Patch V1.020 Released - read the patch notes here 01 May, 2008 Planned downtime At approximately 20:00 GMT/21:00 BST, I'll be taking all worlds offline to fix the stuck buildings/training issue. They should be down for 15-20 minutes. The exception is World 5, which will be offline for longer while I look into the bigger problems that it has. 21:20 Update: All worlds bar 5 should now be back to normal 22:05 Update: World 5 is now back ... 30 April, 2008 Forums, worlds 1 & 3 We are having a problem with the server that hosts the forums, and worlds 1 & 3. Please be patient while we try to get a more permanent solution than continually rebooting it! 26APR08 Patch V1.019 Released Patch V1.019 Released - read the patch notes here 24APR08 Patch V1.018 Released Patch V1.018 Released - read the patch notes here Regards, Paul 23APR08 World 1 Test Updates (plus other security fixes) World one has now got the "lose buildings" pluggin in operation - if you lose land from a battle, then you will lose buildings too. Once we have confirmed that it works on world one it will be rolled out to all other worlds. Additionally, more security loopholes have been closed, we're slowly working through them, but it's taking some time. As usual, any comments/questions/support requests that you may have should be posted on the forums please. Regards, Paul 22APR08 Updates and the next few weeks.. Worlds 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 all back online and running proplerly (transferred to new dedicated servers). Also, read an announcement from me here in the forums.. nothing bad, I might add... Regards, Paul 21APR08 W2/W4/W5 Update Worlds two, four and five are experiencing problems - I'm moving them to a new server host (the same one hosting Worlds 1,3,6 & 7).. the migration will finish early tomorrow morning. Please be patient, we're working as fast as possible! More information on the forums as and when it becomes available! Regards, Paul 19APR08 New Global KingdomGame Forums! As has been requested by, well, a LOT of people - new KG global forums have been set up. Soon all current forums (excluding alliance forums) will be closed - please head on over to the new forums to sign up! http://forums.kingdomgame.net/ Regards, Paul 19APR08 Interesting Information and Facebook While looking at some code fixes, I got a little distracted with some of the statistics gathered regarding the users of KingdomGame - that I thought you might find interesting. There have been more than 47000 visitors to the site (which is good, except there is only 12K active account places available atm), viewing more than eight and a half million different pages. The visitors have come from 6516 cities, from 136 different countries.. using 20 different types of devices to view the game one (from iPhones to the Wii..) Additionally, a facegroup book has been set up (thanks Jane!) for people playing KingdomGame, feel free to join here: http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=33300290365 Time I got back to the coding again, keep the emails, comments, etc coming in! Regards, Paul 17APR08 Update Upgrades and more Bug Fixes I've done a few update upgrades, errors on W1 won't be happening - on the other hand, money and food will effect your troops now (i.e. if you don't have either, they're going to leave your Kingdom) - the last part will be rolled out to worlds W2 to W7 tomorrow, to give people a chance to balance their Kingdoms quickly. Also, people are no longer able to attack themselves (what sort of sadist tries this?! :)) Some more double accounts have been removed, I'll reiterate what I said before, multiple accounts on the same world is against the rules - accounts on other servers are fair game. If you have multiple accounts and want to own up and save your favourite, please let me know ASAP, before I wipe whichever ones I find first. If anyone has a moment I've found KingdomGame at the following URL : http://www.nativeiphoneapps.com/link-684.html - if you fancy voting or commenting it'd be much appreciated! Lastly, thanks again to those donating, muchly appreciated - also, if anyone wants to contribute to the game but doesn't have the readies, please click on a few advert links (of course, only if you're interested in the content!) Regards, Paul 16APR08 Security Upgrade As there have been a number people reporting kingdom hacks, therefore I've updated the security system, you will notice that the password checking is now CaSe SensiTIVe. Please email me at paulhutson@kingdomgame.net to have your password reset, however please be aware I have a number of support requests to deal with at the moment so it may take some time to get to your email! Please ensure that you include your Kingdom Name and the world you're on in the email!!!! Thanks again for everyones ongoing patience, and a big thank you to those still donating - it really really is appreciated! Paul 13APR08 Temporary Attack Bug Fix! I've deployed a temporary bug fix for the attack bug script error. This will resolve any problems with attacking people at this time. I will be rewriting the attack script at some point soon which will address the problem properly. 13APR08 Quick Update... Hello all, I'm still looking into a number of the bugs, some of them are taking a bit of time to beat - on another note I'm also looking at transferring the ASP code to another server so that these (frequent) timeouts will stop! Another KingdomGame review has been published, you can visit, read and comment about it here: http://consolation-prize.com/2008/04/11/kingdom-game-review/. Do keep the bug reports coming in via email, I really do read everyone and try to respond to them as quickly as I can! Thanks for your ongoing support, Paul 11APR08 Update Patch : Beta - V1.12 Todays patch does the following.. Training/Building Fix's - properly implemented, the last solution wasn't complete.. this one is. Let me know if you're still experiencing the problem by email please. Don't forget your Kingdomname and to tell me which world you're on. World 1 and World 3 stability fixed - lots of thanks to Greg Thomas for helping out with that one! I'm hoping that what has been done ensure the worlds run as smoothly as possible, with less down time.. it did involve a server upgrade though Some more forum fixes and other small bug fixes. For reference, I'm working from this bug list at the moment, generated from a volunteer effort (from Reitha, on W2)... plus any others people are emailing in about! Current Bug List The next updates will be to have a communal forums across all world, instead of individual ones - but keeping in tact the existing alliance forums.. additionally, the alliance forums will be fixed shortly. Also, the nasty prayers will be deployed, so start saving that mana ;) 10APR08 Update Patch : Beta - V1.1 Todays Patch does the following.. Training Fix! No more people stuck in training! Let me know if the problem occurs again. Building Fix! All the buildings that have been stuck should be fixed! Let me know if the problem occurs again. Fixed a myriad of, erm, loopholes that allowed some people to generate endless cash and troops.. Attack bug fixed, where people with no casualties lose all their troops... this won't happen anymore. New FAQ deployed, because that's rather handy.. The next update (perhaps tomorrow evening around the same time) will see the "nasty" prayers being deployed, along with some more bug fixes :) Been a bit of a roller coaster of a day. 10APR08 All Servers Back Up : All servers are now back up, including W1 now!. I'll be implementing the training/building fix this evening so stand by! Thanks to everyone for their ongoing support and for the donations that keep on coming in! Just as a side note, if anyone see's any adverts on the site (which I get from google) please do give them a click, as everytime you do I get a few cents which start to mount up! 10APR08 Server Patch Scheduled : 10APR08/1700GMT(1200EST) : There will be a patch this evening at 1700GMT/1200EST to resolve a number of errors.. finally! 09APR08 2000GMT/1500EST Provider Database Maintenance : The host I use is doing a server upgrade today, which is causing some problems with connections to the game worlds - the game will be back up and running ASAP! ..... they could've let me know in advance ;( On another, better note, the training/building fixes are ready to go now - so that will resolve two of the largest bugs left in the beta :) 08APR08 World 2 Bug - Reset : Due to a hefty bug on World 2, I've had to do a full server reset. There will be 2K more Kingdom slots available again - very sorry to all the people playing on W2! :( In a more positive light, at least I can look at what a new Kingdom start up looks like from a world perspective now to give everything a test! 08APR08 More Bugs Fixes and Game Changes : And a few more fixes and changes.. Forum Bug fixed, I'd made things *too* secure, now people can once again post on the forums they should be able to. New Explore Bug fixed - if you have more than 50k NW and less than 2500 acres you can still get the 2500 acres you should have got earlier.. Fixed population report bug on overview screen, to show Diplomats Fixed Food bug: If you have no food, peasants will leave.. and quite quickly, at that. They also won't arrive either. For reference, I'm working from this bug list at the moment, generated from a volunteer effort (from Reitha, on W2)... plus any others people are emailing in about! Current Bug List 07APR08 Bugs Fixes and Game Changes : This list will grow throughout today.. Forum Bug fixed, people can no longer access private forums. Forum Bug fixed, you can only post on the world forums of your own world. Land exploration cap increased. For each 10K networth you can explore 500 more acres up to 50K NW - giving a total of 2500 acres of possible land exploration. Forum post dates added to each post in a thread. Fixed alliance ranks bug. Fixed Diplomat sending bug for some kingdoms with ' in their name. Spys will take a maximum of five hours to return from missions. Market wagons now report the correct amount of gold being sent from a sale (although they actually did give the correct gold already) New cancel confirm button for buildings/training troops on overview screen. New menu icon images deployed (thanks go to Jon Mason for creating them!) Updated explore (again) to stop people with Networths greater than 50k from exploring at all... time to work for that land! 07APR08 Cheats, Multiple Accounts and Stuff : It has come to my attention that a number of Kingdoms are using exploits to elevate their Networth in the game. People who abuse the system will be removed - while this is still a testing phase people are enjoying the game and want it to be fair. Additionally, multiple accounts in the same world will no longer be allowed (there have been 27K distinct people visit the site, while I've only got room for 12K people in the game at this time. It seems a bit unfair to have multiple accounts in a world while others can't get in at all For reference, requests for world transfers can not be granted at this time - there will be additional spaces opening on each world this week so standby to jump in! Last but not least, thank you to everyone who is posting up the bugs, it is much appreciated and also thank you to everyone who has donated and is continuing to donate!

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