THE HERALD

Greetings!

Beginning Friday, September 2nd, 2011 we will be running a Battleground Event on Ywain which will open Leirvik, the level 40-44 battleground, to all players regardless of character or realm level! Normal RP and BP will be awarded for slaying your enemies. The Battleground Event will continue through the holiday weekend and conclude on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011.

Special event teleporters have been placed at the primary border keeps for each realm, so make sure to visit Visur Acheren in Castle Sauvage, Stor Gothi Truji in Svasud Faste, or Channeler Inarea in Druim Ligen.

Secure the high ground, capture strategic towers and storm the ramparts of Castle Leirvik for the glory of your realm!

Update 5:00 pm EDT: The Account Center is back online.

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance at 4:15 pm EDT today. During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 6:30 pm EDT.

Thank you for your understanding.

As things are, King Lug hasn’t got his spear back, but his realm also lost Dagda’s Cauldron. Once again, we saw a war torn weekend full off merciless battles all over the frontiers.

When the Battle Herald entered the Frontiers on Sunday afternoon Albion had managed to establish a beachhead in Dun Crimthain. Hibernia’s North was echoing with battle cries and the sounds of clashing steel while armies of Albion invaders pressed eastward to Dun Crauchon with West Crauchon bridge, Crauchon Spire and Crimthain Outpost as the focal point of the slaughter.

Although Midgard first used the opportunity to capture some of Hibernia keeps and towers, they soon switched to invade Albion which gave Hibernia the chance to free their country when the fighters of Albion rushed back to defend their homeland.

Later in the evening after successfully re-conquering their lands, Albion troops lead by Rescu and Billings tried a surprise attack on Dun Ailinne, where Merlin’s staff is still kept. While the  advancing forces were able to lock down both postern doors, the attack against the main gate was finally thwarted by the defenders already present in the keep when they were joined by Hibernian reinforcements lead by Shamashar.

The day ended with an invasion of Midgard frontiers and a successful attack on Fensalir Faste, where Midgard kept Lug’s Spear. Now the spear is stored away in Caer Renaris, and Hibernia already has a beachhead at Caer Erasleigh, as does Midgard at Caer Berkstead.

Is this where you’ll head now?

Last week saw a very special anniversary: One of our oldest players celebrated his 80th birthday. Happy birthday, Gerd! We /salute you for your continued enthusiasm and wish you all the best for the years to come.

But the battles didn’t pause. Probably because of the relic situation – Midgard owns its relics and the ones of Hibernia, while Hibernia keeps controls the ones from Albion – Sunday evening saw a full scale invasion of Midgard’s frontiers. Hibernia’s forces established a foothold in Bledmeer Faste and were soon joined by a big Albion attack on Blendrake Faste. The Battle Herald was on site and you can find some impressions in the Facebook Album.

Update 1:15 pm EDT: Glamorgan is back online as an archived server.
Update 10:00 am EDT: Glamorgan is now offline for maintenance.

Greetings!

In an effort to finalize transfers from Glamorgan to Ywain we will be shutting down all zones on that server except for the following:

• Classic Terrain/Dungeons
• Housing
• Capital Cities

Characters logged off in disabled zones will either return to their last legitimate bind location in a still functioning zone or, if the bind location is in a disabled zone, to their primary Border Keep within the Classic zones (Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste and Druim Ligen).

We will be bringing Glamorgan offline tomorrow, Thursday 08/04, at 10:00 AM EDT in order to implement these changes. At this time we anticipate that the server will be back online no later than 3:00 PM EDT.

Thank you for your continued support and we’ll see you on the battlefield!

The warhorn of Midgard could be heard all throughout Hadrian’s Wall early Sunday evening as a host lead by Vigdisdk cut a swath through Albion territory. The raiding party sacked towers at Caer Boldiam, Cear Berkstead, and Caer Benowyc with only mild resistance from the outnumbered Albion defenders. Pausing near Berkstead to prepare for another assault saw the forces of Midgard ambushed by a group Bainshees that had tracked them along the Suspiro River. After a quick and lethal attack the Bainshees and their Hibernian supporters retreated south across Hadrian’s Wall, but the remaining forces of Midgard, hungry for revenge, ran them down as they fled.

Although Midgard crushed their assailants, the Hibernian attack had broke the host into two groups and slowed their momentum. Albion, not keen to let their prized Hibernian Relic fall into the hands of Midgard, deftly used their enemy’s moment of disorganization to fortify Caer Renaris. After being Harried and delayed by Hibernian attacks and scattered Albionians desperate to regain their lost towers, the Midgardian warband reached the keep. By this time however, Caer Renaris’ defenses proved too great and Albion successfully defended their Hibernian prize.

Update 10:22 am EDT: Glamorgan is back online as an archived server.

Update 6:11 pm EDT: Glamorgan is now offline for maintenance.

Greetings!

We will be bringing Glamorgan offline tonight, Wednesday 08/10, at 6:00 PM EDT in order migrate the data to a new server. At this time we anticipate that the server will be back online no later than Thursday 8/11, at 12:00 PM EDT.

Update: The Account Center is now back online.

Update: The Account Center will be down until approximately 12:00am EDT August 13th. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Greetings!

The Account Center will be down starting 11:30pm EDT tonight, Wednesday the 10th of August and remain down until 4:10pm EDT Friday the 12th of August for extended essential maintenance. If you have purchased gametime in the last few days please do not make an attempt to apply them until the account center is back up.  This will not affect you getting into the game to play.

Thank you for your patience.

Update: The Account Center is now offline.

Early next week the Account Center will be offline for an update. We will update you on expected downtime for both the account center and game servers as we know more.  We do not expect the combined downtime to take longer than several hours.

Over the past week we have gathered and evaluated player inputs on the account center, and will update and adjust account information based on this feedback.

Continue reading for more information!

We disabled many of the billing processes to avoid inappropriate or untimely charges during the transition to the new account center.

Our first step in is to update and process all those on any form of recurring billing. This means If you are charged for 30, 90, or 180 days at regular periods, AND were set to bill during the period from August 5th, through the time in which we enable the account center, you will be charged.

Also, during this update, we will re-enable and extend gametime for those whose accounts were incorrectly moved to an inactive status.  For anyone whose accounts may have lapsed due to an expiring gametime card, your time will be appended.

The ability to redeem game registration codes and other codes which allow you to connect to and play to the game will run once we are confirmed the first part of the process is running smoothly.

Our intent is to maintain player and character data for anyone who updated their subscriptions during this transition to the new account center.

We will also re-enable account age and veteran rewards.

Again, if you call into for support, please request an incident number as we are also tracking feedback for our use during this time.

Thank you again, for your patience during this time.

Look for information on Pub 72 and Ultima’s 14 year Anniversary later next week!