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[edited 18:46ST 19th Aug]

We're still very much working on Age 69 (next age - due around mid Sept) so not a lot is finalised but to keep you informed.. this is where we are up to:

*We've continued with re-organising in staff, working on who who is doing what and trying to establish procedures for things which we hope will help us improve consistency and communication for this generation of staff and the next. This is ongoing.

* Tutorial for Dark Elf has been submitted to Del for coding. Viking and Spirit are in progress. We're aiming to have basic tutorials for all three ready to be tested by October and in the game (as an option upon tribe creation) from December.

* 4 week ages are very likely to be initiated from age 69. Everything else will stay the same (6 week lifetimes) but this is to assist with removal of the “between ages time” and give us more opportunities per year to upload changes when necessary. To start with, the 4wk ages may still be manual but we're hoping to automate this in the end.

* A staff controlled monster will be arriving to terrorise you all from age 69. This has been coded by Max and is currently being tested, so far so good so it will probably be released age 69.

* This change which came from suggestions forum has been coded and will be uploaded for age 69 “explores should take 1 hr less time with 20% growth sci, explained further here http://alliancesatwar.com/suggestions/read/9116/quicker_explore_with_growth_sci/ ”

* Remove dragon sponsor info from start/tribe page since not used <-- this has been coded and will update on Age 69

* Removal of bootcamp (at least for now). Twinnies alliance in #11 will become a regular alliance from age 69. There will be no bootcamp for the time being at least.

* Addition of some more “weird tribe news” type items. We have been working on suggestions. Max is choosing a few to code in for Age 69.


In the next week we are aiming to agree:
* further race adjustments (as per the various threads in Game Talk forum http://alliancesatwar.com/forums/game/ )

* race rotation of 1-3 races

* alliance size reduction to 8 (this will be decided around 20th - 23rd August)

an update to this - Bruno aka Nightbird has rejoined staff today. Firstly he will be responsible for a revamp and maintenance of the AatWawards.

Then in a few weeks he will also join Mazja and I in Ops with a view to later further expanding his role to join LnO.

Current staff are:
Coders - Max, Del, Robokop, Termato
Ops and LnO - Mazja and Jamzi
Dev - Bolle (and Sonix is in the process of returning).

nb!

Congratz bby !

Regarding the number of tribes per alliance, we have decided to keep things the same for at least one more age with 12 tribes in an alliance.

Some of the reasons behind this are that for the work involved in making a change to an 8 person alliance (which was the most popular choice in the poll), the results of the poll and discussions were not definitive enough to make us confident enough of making the change at this time.

This doesn't mean we have thrown out the idea permanently but at the very least it is postponed whilst we see how our next batch of changes go. There will still be 12 tribes to an alliance for Age 69 (which begins around 11th September).

Thanks for voting and sharing your opinions as it helps us to make (what we hope!) is the right decision!

9/11

So we voted and it didn't matter?
Murica

It did matter (coz I just wanted to go ahead with 8 tribe allis in the beginning). The vote showed that the opinion of the existing players at this time, along with the staff, after so many discussions was not straightforward enough (sure 8 person alliances had the majority vote but you could also say that more people voted against 8 player alliances than voted for it.). Also the people that voted “no” seemed really really opposed to it compared to the people who voted yes who seemed only mildly in favour of it (going by discussions and PMs). So the poll did help but didn't make such an easy decision as we were hoping for which is why we felt we'll leave it one more age and then review again if we should do this in age 70.

Straightforward? What u want a 62/0 vote or something lol.

If you add the people who actually want changes from the 12 man allies to 8 or 6. They win by a landslide. I mean I bet if u re-do it and just put 8 and 12, 8 would win out.

Perhaps a new Poll with the top two choices only is needed, 12 or 8 tribes per alliance as choices.
That, or, give several descrete choices 6-12 and see how a standard distribution of the results looks. Perhaps we'll find that 10 tribes per alliance is preferable....

8 seems best... would be a lot more competition i think