This is the second Empire War Newsletter. This letter covers all the changes that have occurred the past month to keep people who don't check the website often informed about our recent changes.
We will also send these letters to all website members, so if you don't want to receive them because you left the server, you can leave the website and you will no longer receive them.
New Siege map: Black Gate
This map has been suggested many times, and has now finally been added to the server. This map can also be downloaded here.
This map contains:
- 8 flags
- 17 unique spawns
- 4 Mordor classes
- 4 Gondor classes
- No flag order in 2nd half of the map
- flags very close to eachother, less walking, more pvping
This map will soon also have the NazGûl class and a Gondor Catapulter class as well as 2 catapults added, both are point classes.
Edoras Build Day
We have also been working on Edoras, the Capital of Rohan, this month. This map is about 90% finished, and we've held a build day to make sure we got enough houses.
Because this is a smaller project, we decided only to reward the person at 1st place.
Pythonawe built about 30 houses for us, and it was pretty clear that he would win this contest.
He has been awarded with 2000 points.
We also want to thank all other builders for helping us work on this map, you may not have gotten a reward, but your help is highly appreciated!
New Donation system
We also changed our donation system, to one that is more EULA-friendly and works better now that we have fewer rewards.
The new rank system has 3 ranks, each of them working for all servers combined. (So you no longer have to donate for LMS & Siege seperately!)
The ranks are VIP (10€), PRO (25€) and ELITE (40€).
All people who paid a total of 5-15€ before got the VIP rank for free, all people who paid 20-35€ got the rank PRO for free and all people who paid 40€ and higher now have the ELITE rank.
We understand some people may not like the idea of no longer having a high 100€ rank, but you can still help supporting us by donating more money after you reach ELITE, and this is only done because we did not have enough rewards to give all 7 old ranks a good number of rewards.
We also recommend you to check out our new shop, on which sjoerdo0 has done an amazing job with the new images and rank tags, and we also managed to add some more rewards =)
Siege spectating system
As one of the new donation rewards, we added a spectator mode for Siege. People can now watch the game without interfering with the battlefield, this can also be used to make cinematics for certain YouTubers.
VIPs can use spectator mode, PROs can toggle other spectators visibility (for cinematics for example) and ELITEs can also change flly speed and toggle Night Vision to watch the dark places of the battle better.
YouTubers, [YT] rank and server activity
Something a lot of players will have noticed is that we now have a new YouTuber rank that players with over 10.000 subscribers can apply for. The YouTuber rank has a [YT] tag ingame and can use all spectating features for free.
We have had two YouTubers on the server the past weeks, that have highly increased the server activity by telling their subscribers about us. We are really thankful for their support and they have really helped us a lot! The YouTubers are VonoxNL (21k subs) and JustRonald (105k subs).
Even though both of them are dutch YouTubers, they were very helpful and got us a lot of new players
That's it for this news letter!
It's been another very progressive month, but now that school's starting for most staff and build members, we expect the coming months will have a little smaller amount of features, but we'll definitely keep updating the server!
~ Empire War Staff
We will also send these letters to all website members, so if you don't want to receive them because you left the server, you can leave the website and you will no longer receive them.
New Siege map: Black Gate
This map has been suggested many times, and has now finally been added to the server. This map can also be downloaded here.
This map contains:
- 8 flags
- 17 unique spawns
- 4 Mordor classes
- 4 Gondor classes
- No flag order in 2nd half of the map
- flags very close to eachother, less walking, more pvping
This map will soon also have the NazGûl class and a Gondor Catapulter class as well as 2 catapults added, both are point classes.
Edoras Build Day
We have also been working on Edoras, the Capital of Rohan, this month. This map is about 90% finished, and we've held a build day to make sure we got enough houses.
Because this is a smaller project, we decided only to reward the person at 1st place.
Pythonawe built about 30 houses for us, and it was pretty clear that he would win this contest.
He has been awarded with 2000 points.
We also want to thank all other builders for helping us work on this map, you may not have gotten a reward, but your help is highly appreciated!
New Donation system
We also changed our donation system, to one that is more EULA-friendly and works better now that we have fewer rewards.
The new rank system has 3 ranks, each of them working for all servers combined. (So you no longer have to donate for LMS & Siege seperately!)
The ranks are VIP (10€), PRO (25€) and ELITE (40€).
All people who paid a total of 5-15€ before got the VIP rank for free, all people who paid 20-35€ got the rank PRO for free and all people who paid 40€ and higher now have the ELITE rank.
We understand some people may not like the idea of no longer having a high 100€ rank, but you can still help supporting us by donating more money after you reach ELITE, and this is only done because we did not have enough rewards to give all 7 old ranks a good number of rewards.
We also recommend you to check out our new shop, on which sjoerdo0 has done an amazing job with the new images and rank tags, and we also managed to add some more rewards =)
Siege spectating system
As one of the new donation rewards, we added a spectator mode for Siege. People can now watch the game without interfering with the battlefield, this can also be used to make cinematics for certain YouTubers.
VIPs can use spectator mode, PROs can toggle other spectators visibility (for cinematics for example) and ELITEs can also change flly speed and toggle Night Vision to watch the dark places of the battle better.
YouTubers, [YT] rank and server activity
Something a lot of players will have noticed is that we now have a new YouTuber rank that players with over 10.000 subscribers can apply for. The YouTuber rank has a [YT] tag ingame and can use all spectating features for free.
We have had two YouTubers on the server the past weeks, that have highly increased the server activity by telling their subscribers about us. We are really thankful for their support and they have really helped us a lot! The YouTubers are VonoxNL (21k subs) and JustRonald (105k subs).
Even though both of them are dutch YouTubers, they were very helpful and got us a lot of new players
That's it for this news letter!
It's been another very progressive month, but now that school's starting for most staff and build members, we expect the coming months will have a little smaller amount of features, but we'll definitely keep updating the server!
~ Empire War Staff