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Behind the Scenes - Age 77

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Jamzi -

To keep you informed what is going on with Orkfia here is an update from the staff end of things :)

We're hoping to announce race changes for next age in the next week or so. Max is coding at the moment so it is not decided for sure until that is further along but the 12 race proposal includes 3 new races, (Hobbit, ArchAngel and Succubus). More detail is found in Game Talk forum.


If that happens we will also send out a mail to old players again as we haven’t mailed them since March. Our Marketing Dept. (Hardar, Kovenant and me) had lots of discussions and ideas, we each did some work too but it doesn’t seem worth spending too much effort on this until the basics were improved (game play and guide) as current feedback leads us to feel we cannot keep many of those who we recruit.


Straight after resets were initiated we went up to 99 players (from 53 this time last year), now we are back down to 63 again which is comparable with most of last year so we obviously still have some work to do..


Our next priority after races/needed gameplay fixes is: new Wiki, New Game theme/visual update choice, Badges. We also had plans for a Midsummer event but I think that has been shelved now. For staff we hope to improve staff tools and improve the structure to automate tasks that can be automated and reduce the consequences if one person disappears. Our aim is to do some future-proofing to increase the likelihood the game can continue no matter what.

Then I am hoping with all this done we can re-launch during September where we start pushing on marketing again and establish a low-key marketing routine.

Some other things in the background:
App Development – A returning player volunteered to create the apps, through his professional work he has access to the development licenses needed for Apple etc. We gave him all info he asked for and he is working on this but no update on expected timescales is available so far.

Staff – we are recruiting for three positions: A writer, A suggestions steward and an Ass-kicker (see other thread in Game Talk forum if interested).

Forums – A few people had ideas for replacing our forums. It’s been on the ToDo list for a while and along with a Halloween or Autumn special event is one of the next priorities after the above items and anything urgent regarding Game Play that comes up in the meantime.


If you personally would like to help Orkfia keep going, please contact any old Orkfians you know of, share our page on Facebook/Twitter or keep posting in the various forums to keep it fun to be here whilst we wait for the changes and most of all.. keep playing [up]
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