As you may remember, we've run our first pilot of community realms via player designed RX.
We are now proceeding with Pilot #2. You will now be able to design a full realms based on these parameters.
Because this pilot still involves a lot of manual work, we want to limit the submissions to only serious ideas, and we require that each players makes a donation in order to be able to design their own realms.
If you wish to proceed:
1. Make a $20 donation here
You will receive a confirmation email. Note the "Donation from:" email - it should be the email you entered in the donation page.
2. Send email to support@realmofempires.com. Include the email that appears in "Donation From:" We will get back to you with an invite to enter the parameters for your dream realm.
We will work with you to make your realm a reality.
If for some reason we do not run your realm, we will refund your donation.
"Community Realm" Feature is a-go! Pilot starting ASAP
Hail Warriors!
A few days ago, we've asked the player community if you want to be able to design and launch your own realms.
Basically, you will be able to decide on all parameter of the realm (speed, handicap, morale, duration, ages, age of cities, start date, end date, win criteria etc) and everyone will be able to join and play on your realm.
We had a positive response, and we've decided to give this a shot! Implementing this fully, is a significant investment on our end, so we will begin with a pilot program, where we will test the waters a bit. We will begin by allowing you to design the next RXs.
List of options for RXs is much more limited, but we hope it will be a good try!
Unfortunately, we have only 7 realms currently to work with. So only 7 people can build the realm in the first round. So the natural question is, how to decide which 7? Survey certainly hinted there are way more players interested in doing this.
Idea 1: first idea, was to allow you to add your name to the list of interested, and then have player community vote on the people they feel are the best to create a realm. This seems like the best option but was rejected due to complexity and would require development, which defeats the purpose of a pilot
Idea 2: allow you guys to bid on the 7 realms; top 7 bids win. We are afraid this would seem like a many grab, which is not the intention so we rejected this.
Idea 3: allow everyone to bid a small amount of servants, and randomly select 7 players from top bidders.
That last idea is was we decided to go with, as having some monetary skin in the game, will result in only more serious submissions, a very rich player cannot outbid you since there is a max you can bid, and if money is an issue, you can get a group of friends, transfer servants and thus poll resources together. We hope the latter case will naturally allow us to select players with biggest community backing.
We are setting the maximum bid at 300 servants
A few days ago, we've asked the player community if you want to be able to design and launch your own realms.
Basically, you will be able to decide on all parameter of the realm (speed, handicap, morale, duration, ages, age of cities, start date, end date, win criteria etc) and everyone will be able to join and play on your realm.
We had a positive response, and we've decided to give this a shot! Implementing this fully, is a significant investment on our end, so we will begin with a pilot program, where we will test the waters a bit. We will begin by allowing you to design the next RXs.
List of options for RXs is much more limited, but we hope it will be a good try!
Unfortunately, we have only 7 realms currently to work with. So only 7 people can build the realm in the first round. So the natural question is, how to decide which 7? Survey certainly hinted there are way more players interested in doing this.
Idea 1: first idea, was to allow you to add your name to the list of interested, and then have player community vote on the people they feel are the best to create a realm. This seems like the best option but was rejected due to complexity and would require development, which defeats the purpose of a pilot
Idea 2: allow you guys to bid on the 7 realms; top 7 bids win. We are afraid this would seem like a many grab, which is not the intention so we rejected this.
Idea 3: allow everyone to bid a small amount of servants, and randomly select 7 players from top bidders.
That last idea is was we decided to go with, as having some monetary skin in the game, will result in only more serious submissions, a very rich player cannot outbid you since there is a max you can bid, and if money is an issue, you can get a group of friends, transfer servants and thus poll resources together. We hope the latter case will naturally allow us to select players with biggest community backing.
We are setting the maximum bid at 300 servants
Facebook login problems and workaround
Hello Realm of Empire players!
Realm of empires is not accessible on Facebook for a moment, but there is a work around
We have fixed the issue that same day where the warning was received, and have attempted, unsuccessfully to contact their support to alert them of the fix.
Well, Facebook decided to suspend the app early and the game it temporarily not accessible until our appeal is address which Facebook promises to be "by the end of the next business day".
Unfortunately, this is the 2nd time we had this happen to us, and it took a week and multiple apologies from Facebook to unlock the game.
Realm of empires is not accessible on Facebook for a moment, but there is a work around
Details
We were contacted by Facebook on Saturday morning of a violation of our of their policies and were giving until July 22 12noon PST to fix the issue.We have fixed the issue that same day where the warning was received, and have attempted, unsuccessfully to contact their support to alert them of the fix.
Well, Facebook decided to suspend the app early and the game it temporarily not accessible until our appeal is address which Facebook promises to be "by the end of the next business day".
Unfortunately, this is the 2nd time we had this happen to us, and it took a week and multiple apologies from Facebook to unlock the game.
Workaround
Fortunately, there is a work around, follow the steps here
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