We've recently found ourselves short-handed on the Guide team and so I've opened up applications in the Main Forum for players who want to join and help improve our community.

Any desire to help newcomers to the game are welcome. Everyone can agree that new players joining the game is needed and our Guide team can help directly impact new player retention. We look forward to your applications. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

We are excited to introduce a brand new item and mechanic to Legacy called Meep Coin! This special currency is given as an additional reward to players who receive Staff Favor, and can be used to purchase exclusive items and buffs that are not available elsewhere.

All active players in good standing are eligible to receive and use the Meep Coin, and you can earn one whenever you get Staff Favor. Meep Coins are not tradable or sellable at the moment, but we may consider allowing players to trade them in the future.

Wondering what you can do with Meep Coins? The possibilities are endless! You can use them to purchase various hive buffs, WL-related buffs, energy items, and exclusive collector's edition paints and designs. Plus, you can use Meep Coins in secret Forge Recipes to create rare and upgraded items that are not available anywhere else.

There is no limit to how many Meep Coins you can earn or use, and they do not have an expiration date as of now. However, we may consider adding an expiration timer in the future to keep the game balanced if it's deemed necessary.

Meep Coins have already been implemented in the game, so you can start earning them today! We hope that this new item will add an extra level of excitement and that it will help to promote a more positive playing experience for everyone.

Thank you for your continued support, and happy 18th to Legacy!

~Meepers~

Legacy is 18 years old now so seems like as good a time as any to do a general update on the state of things. It's been many years since I did so there is quite a bit to catch up on I guess. I'll start with the most relevant things.

Legacy is still, after 18 years, running at a profit. It only costs about $1,200 USD per year to run the server so it's not a major expense. Even if it didn't generate any revenue though I'd keep it running regardless as I've grown quite attached to it. I see we still had 230 players login last week so that's nice to see. Thanks to everyone who still plays and a special thanks to all the volunteers who keep it running.

Hunted Cow Games recently got a re-brand to orange. It's also still running at a profit with the majority of our revenue now coming from Operation: New Earth and Warhammer: Chaos and Conquest. We now have about 40 employees (mostly artists) and we're currently hiring a couple of Junior Unity Developers. Almost everybody is working on our 3rd game in the build and battle series which is essentially a re-skin under a new (but still secret) intellectual property.

In the company I now head up the programmers as the CTO. Day to day I'm working on the PHP based server-side for the games, keeping the older 2 running while adding features for our newest project.

My free time is split between family stuff, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (that I started about 4.5 years ago) and working on a personal game project called Star Vortex that is a single player ARPG I'm making in Unity, mostly in the evenings and week-ends (https://zorguk.itch.io/star-vortex). There are no deadlines on this project, it'll be finished whenever it is finished.

Beyond that everything is going fine. My family is doing well and my daughter turned 3 years old in April. Hope you all have a good anniversary!

That's the anniversary gift boxes up for Legacy's 18th birthday! I've been speaking to the your mother and I think it's time you moved out and got your own place. But hey, at least you're old enough to drink now... in the UK anyway.

You can also buy 'Twisted Tea' in Joe's Merchandise to celebrate and there is a Toolbox in the gift box this year. Thanks to faelust for making all the artwork so I didn't have to.