Dear community,
we're currently working on a major change/addition to the game which we'd like to give you some more information about today. A lot of you have discussed this with us and it has been one of the most requested things if not THE most requested thing at all in many communities of Ikariam: the server merge.
We've already let on in discussions that we ourselves are big fans of merging servers to fight the problem of servers getting more and more empty.We also always told you in each and every one of these discussions that Ikariam, unlike character based games for example, is not exactly easy to merge in terms of all the things that need to be carefully considered before merging one server with another. However, we've been spending a lot of thought and manpower on this topic which resulted in what we think to be quite decent ideas for a merge concept which currently are already being worked on.
The general idea behind the merge concept will clearly be to give you as much liberty as possible to set up your merged account to your liking. For example we intend to give you a free city move per city so you can change your location to a more suitable one in case you should be unhappy with the locations of your cities after the merge. Also you will be able to choose your target server freely from a given choice of possible target servers.
There are however still things that might be subject to procedural changes as due to the complexity of Ikariam as such there things we can only properly evaluate as we go instead of really foreseeing all of them. This is an unfortunate side effect as it means we can not really give you very much of the info or the concept as such as it might still change in vital points which we don't want to announce in dozens of different versions. We'd prefer to give you a clear and exact set of information that will ideally not change much from the first announcement until the actual implementation of the feature. We hope that you appreciate this as we'd like to keep potential confusion and misunderstandings to an absolute minimum.
For exactly the same reason we can not provide you with an ETA as to when to expect the merge to take place. Due to the complexity of Ikariam something massive like merging servers with hundreds of cities and islands and troops and all the other things that have to be factored in, carefully evaluated and taken good care of this is obviously something that will undergo extreme testing, bugfixing, fine tuning, more testing, etc.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Your Ikariam Team
we're currently working on a major change/addition to the game which we'd like to give you some more information about today. A lot of you have discussed this with us and it has been one of the most requested things if not THE most requested thing at all in many communities of Ikariam: the server merge.
We've already let on in discussions that we ourselves are big fans of merging servers to fight the problem of servers getting more and more empty.We also always told you in each and every one of these discussions that Ikariam, unlike character based games for example, is not exactly easy to merge in terms of all the things that need to be carefully considered before merging one server with another. However, we've been spending a lot of thought and manpower on this topic which resulted in what we think to be quite decent ideas for a merge concept which currently are already being worked on.
The general idea behind the merge concept will clearly be to give you as much liberty as possible to set up your merged account to your liking. For example we intend to give you a free city move per city so you can change your location to a more suitable one in case you should be unhappy with the locations of your cities after the merge. Also you will be able to choose your target server freely from a given choice of possible target servers.
There are however still things that might be subject to procedural changes as due to the complexity of Ikariam as such there things we can only properly evaluate as we go instead of really foreseeing all of them. This is an unfortunate side effect as it means we can not really give you very much of the info or the concept as such as it might still change in vital points which we don't want to announce in dozens of different versions. We'd prefer to give you a clear and exact set of information that will ideally not change much from the first announcement until the actual implementation of the feature. We hope that you appreciate this as we'd like to keep potential confusion and misunderstandings to an absolute minimum.
For exactly the same reason we can not provide you with an ETA as to when to expect the merge to take place. Due to the complexity of Ikariam something massive like merging servers with hundreds of cities and islands and troops and all the other things that have to be factored in, carefully evaluated and taken good care of this is obviously something that will undergo extreme testing, bugfixing, fine tuning, more testing, etc.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Your Ikariam Team
