UPDATED: Maintenance and Merge - 01.12 & 02.12

  • Dear players,


    today I'd like to end the day with several bits of information for you:


    1. War Server merges

    Since the war servers are special and we've encountered many issues during the merge so far, we decided to have a good and long look at the situation so far now and the war servers again. During that good, long look we noticed several things we'd need to do differently. Most important of which making sure we actually have enough spots on the target server. There's really no good reason to mess things up even more over the holidays now, so we've decided to postpone the war server merges until after the holiday season and make the necessary adjustments. What this means for you: all war servers remain as they are for a while longer. We'll make info posts about this again after the holiday season (=early in January).


    We're aware of this being rather shocking now, however, it makes more sense to make the adjustments we found necessary during our evaluation than to go through with it just to run into those issues we think we may run into if we don't.


    2. Graveyard players transferring to new servers, ending up in the top 50

    We're obviously aware of this having happened. To be very clear and blunt about it right away: no, this should not have happened and we're sorry for this oversight. We're investigating the issue. Players having done so will be moved back to the graveyard servers.


    3. Trade ships going missing

    We're aware of that issue and it has been forwarded and is being worked on. Unfortunately we have no fix for it just yet.


    4. Delay in fleet and troop actions

    We're aware of that issue and it is still being investigated. As soon as we have a fix for that, we'll inform you.


    Your Ikariam Team

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    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    tomorrow, 16.12.2021, starting at around 10:00 CET, we'll roll out an update that is supposed to address the following issues:

    1. It was possible to transfer from the graveyard to other servers and end up in the top 50. This will no longer be possible.
    2. Trade ships scattered and didn't return. This should be fixed after the update has been rolled out everywhere. Currently still scattered trade ships should return.
    3. There was a delay in fleet and troop actions of some seconds up to several minutes. This should be resolved after tomorrow's update.

    Due to the nature of the update and the time dependencies on some periodically running scripts it will probably take at least up until around 15:00 CET before all live rounds have been updated.


    Concerning #1: accounts that have transferred in this way will be manually moved back to the graveyard server one by one, starting after the rollout has finished.


    Your Ikariam Team

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    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    the rollout mentioned in the previous post has started. Please remember: it will take until at least 15:00 CET for all live rounds to have been updated accordingly.


    In other news: we have also activated the winter layout, which will be active until 07.01.2022 23:59 CET.


    Your Ikariam Team

    pcmIK.jpg

    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    judging by some of the reports that have reached me so far today there seems to have been a misunderstanding.

    With today's version we fixed that scattered trade ships didn't return. Obviously no change was made so that trade ships would not scatter anymore to begin with. Trade ships will still scatter in all the situations they're supposed to, just like before. They will, however, now also return again :)


    Your Ikariam Team

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    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    we're currently rolling out a version which should fix an issue due to which trade ships could drive a little too fast.

    This may lead to short unavailability of your game round for a few moments.


    Your Ikariam Team

    pcmIK.jpg

    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    since it keeps popping up: the remaining merge issues are still being worked on and there is no useful news as of yet. The answer "We will inform you, once we have news." is still valid and said news will be posted in this channel here.


    The same applies for the question "War Server Merge. When?". It is pointless to start a War Server merge, as long as there are still merge issues to be fixed.


    Your Ikariam Team

    pcmIK.jpg

    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    the remaining merge issues are still being worked on and there is no new information about a solution as of yet.


    The answer "We will inform you, once we have news." is still valid and said news will be posted in the news sections of the forum and Discord.

    We're aware that the inactives not getting deleted and the delayed warserver merge are big issues and we're sorry for the extended waiting period and any inconvenience this may have caused you.


    As a little token of gratitude for your patience we've decided to give every player the following items:

    • 5 x Premium Trader
    • 1 x 10 Days Steam Wine Press

    The items will be put into your inventories at some point between 10:00 and 15:00 CET on Monday, 31.01.2022.


    Thank you for your patience and understanding.


    Your Ikariam Team

    pcmIK.jpg

    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.

  • Dear players,


    today at ~10:30 CET we'll be performing an extraordinary maintenance.

    Along with some minor background changes this should also address the issue of inactive accounts not getting deleted in time as well as the issue of accounts not being merged properly (in somewhat rare, single cases cities were lost).


    Please excuse the short notice and any inconvenience, this may cause.


    Your Ikariam Team

    pcmIK.jpg

    Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.

    Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.