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FR : News: Details about unifusion
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Dear OGame Players,
It’s no secret anymore: We are working on the universe fusion, a tool to transfer players from one or more universes to another. This feature was your biggest wish according to the survey. Therefore we focused our efforts on it.
As the first internal tests are coming closer, we want to give you a glimpse of how the whole thing works.
Unifusion procedure:
To start with one or more universes will be marked as Exodus-Universes. These are the unis that players will be moving away from to settle in what we call Target-Universes.
The criteria by which Exodus- and Target-Universes are determined are the number of players, the age of the uni and the points of the top players in each uni.
The Exodus-Phase will be announced a couple of weeks before it actually starts. From now on until the end of the Exodus-Phase, players in the Exodus-Uni can pick their choice out of the list of Target-Unis.
The duration of the Exodus-Phase itself depends on how long it takes for the players to make their choice. In this phase, all accounts will be frozen. Flying fleets, active build orders and everything else will be canceled. As mentioned above, players can still log into their frozen accounts and choose a Target-Uni. This phase marks the end of the Exodus-Universe. In a celebratory act, the final score will be collected and posted in the Hall of Fame.
Once a day during the Exodus-Phase, players that have made a choice will be copied to the Target-Uni. Everything is copied: Planets, resources, fleets…, we even hope to be able to transfer the message box and the alliance affiliation.
Players will enter the Target-Uni in the same frozen state that they left the Exodus-Uni. They can now login to both unis and check if everything moved correctly. The planet positions are likely to change, but we have invested a lot of effort in finding the closest free positions. In general it will be a matter of first come, first serve. The earlier a player makes his Target-Uni choice, the more likely it is for his planet positions to still be free. Once the player is ready he can reactivate his planets and, after a short warm-up period, start his conquest of the Target-Universe.
As you can imagine there are many edge cases that we need to take care of, for example when a player already has an account in the Target-Universe. We will see how good our solutions are once the prototype Exodus starts in the German OGame community (and maybe an other one).
Stay tuned for more information on this subject, the other developments and our plans for the future.
Thread for questions & answers : Discussion about merging universes
Best regards,
Your OGame Teams
FR : News: Details about unifusion
Those two news have other text than the following one :
Dear OGame Players,
It’s no secret anymore: We are working on the universe fusion, a tool to transfer players from one or more universes to another. This feature was your biggest wish according to the survey. Therefore we focused our efforts on it.
As the first internal tests are coming closer, we want to give you a glimpse of how the whole thing works.
Unifusion procedure:
To start with one or more universes will be marked as Exodus-Universes. These are the unis that players will be moving away from to settle in what we call Target-Universes.
The criteria by which Exodus- and Target-Universes are determined are the number of players, the age of the uni and the points of the top players in each uni.
The Exodus-Phase will be announced a couple of weeks before it actually starts. From now on until the end of the Exodus-Phase, players in the Exodus-Uni can pick their choice out of the list of Target-Unis.
The duration of the Exodus-Phase itself depends on how long it takes for the players to make their choice. In this phase, all accounts will be frozen. Flying fleets, active build orders and everything else will be canceled. As mentioned above, players can still log into their frozen accounts and choose a Target-Uni. This phase marks the end of the Exodus-Universe. In a celebratory act, the final score will be collected and posted in the Hall of Fame.
Once a day during the Exodus-Phase, players that have made a choice will be copied to the Target-Uni. Everything is copied: Planets, resources, fleets…, we even hope to be able to transfer the message box and the alliance affiliation.
Players will enter the Target-Uni in the same frozen state that they left the Exodus-Uni. They can now login to both unis and check if everything moved correctly. The planet positions are likely to change, but we have invested a lot of effort in finding the closest free positions. In general it will be a matter of first come, first serve. The earlier a player makes his Target-Uni choice, the more likely it is for his planet positions to still be free. Once the player is ready he can reactivate his planets and, after a short warm-up period, start his conquest of the Target-Universe.
As you can imagine there are many edge cases that we need to take care of, for example when a player already has an account in the Target-Universe. We will see how good our solutions are once the prototype Exodus starts in the German OGame community (and maybe an other one).
Stay tuned for more information on this subject, the other developments and our plans for the future.
Thread for questions & answers : Discussion about merging universes
Best regards,
Your OGame Teams