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Klandor 
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Joined: 07 Feb 2011
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 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 at 00:12 |
Actually, I think it will happen slightly differently.
If a new continent opens up, new players will be placed there. At some point in time, maybe with the opening, maybe a little before, existing players may be able to research a new skill, something like Long Distance Sea Navigation...
Then existing players can send ships across the open ocean to the new continent, where they can found new cities somewhere near the shore that they land on. From there, they can spread out as they wish.
While they will have the advantage of an existing base to supply the new cities, the disadvantage would be the TIME that it takes to get Res from the old city(ies) to the new cities, the number of ocean-going ships and how much each ship can carry, and the risk of loss when travelling trans-oceanic.
I suspect they will not have a much better time than someone who starts there in the first place.
Klandor
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 22:58 |
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New continents are still in that nebulous timeframe known as "soon(tm)" or possibly "someday." I doubt there are answers to this sort of question until there are firm plans for a launch.
Edited by Rill - 20 Nov 2011 at 22:59
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Auraya
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 22:35 |
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Yes, I realise that Calen.. when new continents arrive, if we want to play on them I would like to know if I will have to start a new account or if I will be able to transfer my current cities. Some games allow existing players to transfer to new servers if one is overcrowded. Others do not.
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Celebcalen
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 22:01 |
 Auraya wrote:
If/when new continents arrive, will all players have to start from scratch if they wanted to play or will there be an option to move current cities over? Or will it depends upon the amount of players on our current continent, Elgea? |
No we will all be moved with existing data which means that we will not be starting from scratch. I should add that there are no new continents planned for this move. It is just a move of existing data to bigger,faster server.
GM Thundercat wrote:
We're going to *MOVE* all the players and data from uk1 onto this new server
Please carefully note the word "move". This is not "Server 2", or a new landmass - it's the identical server with the same people on it doing the same things, but just on a bigger box. |
Edited by Celebcalen - 20 Nov 2011 at 22:12
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Auraya
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 21:33 |
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If/when new continents arrive, will all players have to start from scratch if they wanted to play or will there be an option to move current cities over? Or will it depends upon the amount of players on our current continent, Elgea?
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shadow
Wordsmith
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 19:19 |
AWSOME! 
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GM Luna
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Community Manager
Joined: 22 Oct 2011
Location: Illyriad
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 18:03 |
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Renaming Elgea is probably not something that will happen right now. But having players involved in naming something in the future could be a lot of fun. Great idea!
Luna
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GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Kumomoto
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:52 |
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Well... changing it to Kumotonia would be kind of catchy ;), but I suspect that if they are doing a production environment migration tonight, in my experience, they probably have been prepping for weeks and have a ton of stuff already set up with this name... but maybe not?
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Celebcalen
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:50 |
Kumomoto wrote:
Ummm, because it already has a name? |
Since it is early days and this is a major development in the course of the game I was just suggesting that it might be an idea to throw it out to the community as a demonstration of inclusion. The dev team are always on the look out for the innovative involvement of players in all aspects of development. I thought that this might be an ideal opportunity to bring us all closer together for the greater good. ( supposing someone came up with the suggestion of Kumotonia - I bet that would make you change your mind  )
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Kumomoto
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Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:08 |
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Ummm, because it already has a name?
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