Blog for servants! Earn 10,000+ servants!

As mentioned a number of times, we are actively looking for ways for our players to earn servants. Today we are rolling out a ‘blog for servants’ offer! Basically, we want to reward you for helping spread the word about Realm of Empires!
So, if you have a blog, know someone with a blog, write for a magazine, know someone who writes for a magazine etc, and you can either write a favorable blog, publish an article about us, or influence someone to do so, then we would like to reward you handsomely!
You do not actually have to write the article, but at least influence someone to write one. If the author will confirm you as the reason for writing the publication you will be rewarded!

Rules


  • The article / blog must be favorable towards realm of empires and must include a link to http://www.realmofempires.com/
  • One offer per person unless you clear it with us first
  • NO SPAM! Anything that could be considered as spam is not allowed.
  • This is a limited time offer.
How we determine the reward amount
We ultimately decide if the article/blog is acceptable for this offer and every article that is accepted will earn a minimum of 50 servants. We will then decide how much more is the publication worth based on the following:

  • Popularity of the blog / magazine
  • Quality of the publication (is it engaging, is it well written, proper grammar and spelling, length, presentation, how favorable it is to Realm Of Empires etc)
  • Relevance of the blog / magazine to the game (an online strategy game magazine/website will be considered more relevant than a food magazine :)
  • Presentation of the publication - does it include nice screen shots of the game? Does it include nice images?

How much can I expect to get?
A paragraph length blog entry on a personal blog with minimum popularity will earn you 50-100 servants. Article on a relatively popular gaming website will easily earn you 10,000 servants. Get us into wired magazine, and there will be servants coming out of your … ears! :)

However, a new blog, created just for this offer, with no readers, will normally not be accepted.

Maximize your reward - Include nice images!
Feel free to use any of the game images you choose. We also creted a few nice images for you to use here: http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/uu225/RealmofEmpires/
Maximize your reward - promote your blog!
Remember that the goal of this promotion, is to help spread the word about realm of empires. If you write an blog that no one reads, it has very minimal value to us. However, you can increase its value greatly, and hence increase the reward, if you try to prmote your blog in some way. Consider posting it on:
  • digg.com
  • buzz.yahoo.com
  • delicious.com
  • slashdot.org
  • stumbleupon.com
  • reddit.com
  • ping.fm
  • twitter
  • etc


How to claim your reward

Email cases@roe.fogbugz.com with subject “blog for servants offer” (please get the subject right for prompt response!). Include a link to the article with any explanation, or metrics on the blog/website/magazine that you feel are relevant. Send using the email that identifies you are the author of the publication. If you are not the author, include the author on the email and he will have to verify you are the reason for this blog/article.

Remember to help us out in determining the popularity of the blog, website or magazine. Help us get the proper information, or offer us the matrics if you have them.

We will review your entry and will get back to you as soon as possible ( we aim for a 5 day turn around)


Yeah, yeah, you will just not 'accept' my article won’t you!?

No, we plan to accept every entry unless it is very poorly done/trivial, does not promote us at all, or even worse, damages us. We want to encourage you to use your talents to help us grow accepting articles will help us accomplish this goal.


Can I get an estimate before going to the trouble of writing?

Definitely! If you are thinking of taking advantage of this offer, but not sure if it will be acceptable, or what the reward amount will be, submit your idea to rewards@realmofempires.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Include as much relevant information as possible.


Examples of what will NOT be accepted

Remember that the idea behind this offer is to reward you for helping to promote Realm Of Empires.

Creating a brand new personal blog just for the purpose of this offer, a blog that has no readers of any kind, does not promote us and will not be acceptable. This offer is for exising blogs, website or articles with at least some popualrity /reader base.
Blogs with spelling mistakes, gramatical errors will not be accepted

Allowing Realm Of Empires to publish short stories to your wall

At realm of empires, we only publish relevant stories about significant events in the game ( read about stories we publish ).

We strive to make the stories fun, interesting, appealing to the eye to your and to your friends.

Being able to publish stories to your wall, helps us grow! Facebook may publish those stories to your friends news feed hence increasing the chances that Realm Of Empires will be discovered by others.

If you are enjoying the game, and would like to help us grow, we would very much like to ask you to allow us to post stories to your profile. As explained here we publish very few stories, and only of significant events in the game.


THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for helping us grow!



Allow Realm Of Empires to post stories to your wall in 60 seconds.

Step 1: Login to Facebook and click the Applications button on bottom left of the screen


Step 2: Click the Edit button.


Step 3: Locate Realm of Empires and click Edit Settings



Step 4: On the Wall tab, select 'Allow Realm of Empires to publish specific story size (...)" and select "Short" as the story size.

Stories Realm Of Empires publishes to your wall

As seasoned facebook user, you probably know that Facebook Applications you authorize, can post stories to your wall.

Those stories are supposed to tell your friends significant events in your 'life'. Unfortunately, many applications spam their members.

Many game post as many stories as the they possibly can, mostly of trivial events events such as of you inviting friends to the application ("Bill has invited his friends to join him in something wars") or clicking a complete quest button ("Bill stashed away a hoard of gold in Dragon Wars")

At Realm of Empires, we aim to only publish significant stories. Here are the stories we publish:


You registered at a realm


You joined or created a clan


You accepted a new title


You conquered a new village



We plan to make those stories more interesting and relevant by including unique graphics to every title, different graphics, and your statistics in conquered village story etc.

Cannot enter realm of empires - 3rd party cookie issue

Problem

I cannot enter the game. Everytime I click on Login or Enter, it just takes me back the main screen.


Reason

We use cookies to remember who you are, ie to log you in. Because Realm Of Empires is running inside Facebook iframe, Realm of Empires is considered a '3rd party' so you must enable 3rd party cookies.

Solution

While in Beta, we only support Fire Fox 3.x and Internet Explorer 7. If you are using a different browser and find a solution to this problem, please send us some information so that it can be added here

Fire Fox 3.x


Enable 3rd party cookies. Go to Tools->Options go to Privacy tab and check mark 'Accept third-party cookies'


Internet Explorer 7

You must allow Third-party cookies or, add http://www.realmofempires.com/ as a trusted site.



Under Tools->Internet Options, go to Security Tab



There you can add http://www.realmofempires.com/ to trusted sites:



OR, go to Privacy tab



There either lower the security level to High or lower OR, click Advanced and enable third-party cookies