IRC is up and running again. We apologize for the delay. Please let us know if you need anything.

The IRC servers were under a brief attack this afternoon, and as a result they must be rebooted. Due to r/l work schedules, this may not happen for about 4 hours from now (approximately 0200 hrs Server Time). We will be getting the servers back online as soon as possible and are sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for your continued patience.

To assist a bit during the times when the server is over loaded I have made the following changes:

• Recruiter now auto reloads failed images (instead of them needing to be clicked)
• An average submission time has been added to the right of the pending batches, this shows the average time for submitting the last 10 batches
• An estimated queue length has been added to the right of the average submission time. This shows the estimated time to submit all of your pending clicks, based on the current average.

Both times are in seconds, if the estimated queue lenght exceeds 600 seconds, there is a high possibility of losing credits so it would be a good idea to wait a while for the recruiter to catch up before continuing. ~C

The new Hard Drive has been installed and is currently being rebuilt. It usually takes roughly a day to complete so it should be in full action by tomorrow.

In addition to the hardware issues, someone thought it would be witty to attempt an attack our server with a DDoS. This obviously increased the complexity of the task at hand but we should have that under control shortly as well.

We again thank you for your patience and there should be more good news starting tomorrow.

As all of you have experienced the game has been extremely slow to start the age. Due to the unfortunate circumstance of a hard drive crashing on the server the game is having issues coping with the load. A new drive was ordered and is currently on its way to the host to be installed. We anticipate that we should know more by the weekend withNO guarantees or time frames.

We appreciate your patience and loyalty during this tough time and we assure you the game will be back to 100% as soon as possible. If you have any questions please feel free to ask but be advised we are well aware that the game is lagging and that it will go down temporarily from time to time.

Welcome to Age 10.

Thank you to all who participated in the beta. Many of you provided valuable feedback and ideas which helped make some significant changes coming for this age.

New Changes for Age 10:

• New Race - Goblins. Goblins have a race bonus of 20% Unit Production and a "Select your own bonus" in the forum of 15 bonus points on sign up.
• Elves Race Bonus changed to 15% Spy and 15% Sentry
• Inactive timer changed from 1 week back to 2 weeks
• New Race - Pixies. Pixies have a race bonus of 20% Covert Ops Success bonus and a 30% Casualty Reduction bonus.
• Increased Sabotage Success
• Letter recruiter operates once again.
• Event Changes:
  • Eagle Eye - Displays all gold on the battlefield. Gold you are unable to normally see appears in red.
  • Rankers' Revenge - Defense, Spy, and Sentry weapons are sabotaged for additional value. (Same max value as SA)
  • Cheap Tricks - Raised merc cost to 1500 from 1000
  • Size Doesn't Matter - Cooldown increased and will show up less frequently
  • Hippies - No longer allows sabotage during the event

Good luck to everyone in Age 10 and as always you can contact us in the Official RoC Chat, the Forums or via in game PM.