Sorry for the delay, had to finish the Auction House system for Fallen Sword. But I'm back now, Legacy will be going down at 1pm EST (Server Time) / 6pm GMT. It will be down for a couple of hours while we implement the new merged account system (see my previous blog).

We'll also be posting about Legacy on various Hunted Cow channels, so hopefully we'll see a few new faces.

Just wanted to give people a heads up on what's going to happen here soon. It will be quite a lengthy process that will require a bit of down time, but should go smoothly as we've done it on 2 other games already.

Firstly, our new Hunted Cow website is up at www.huntedcow.com. This entire process will be easier for you if you go make an account sooner rather than later.

I'll be putting some updates live later today, one includes the new tutorial. You'll be able to go to Account Options and click Reset Tutorials if you want to see what they're like for new players. They should give newbies a brief overview of our game that the guides can pick up and continue from.

Next I'll be breaking down the outfit bundles and some outfit items will be getting renamed. Nobody will lose any outfit items they have already purchased although some may stop being sold.

Once all this is done the game will be going down for a few hours down time, during this down time all current players will be awarded a new banner for being here before the account merge.

When the game comes back online the outer site will have a new Hunted Cow top bar, with login and create account options. The old login will be removed. You'll need to follow the links to create or login to your Hunted Cow account after which you'll arrive back here and be presented with the option to either create a Legacy account or merge an old Legacy account.

You'll want to select merge and login with your Legacy details (for the last time). After which you'll be logged in to your character as normal and nothing in your account will have changed. From then on you'll login with your Hunted Cow account to play Legacy.

No names are changing, your display name on Hunted Cow is in no way connected to your characters name here. If you're still concerned about how this will work you can go to Hunted Cow now and try out Cow Play or Solar Fleet which the process is already live on.

Finally, the reason we're doing this is so we can offer incentives in Hunted Cows other games to come and try out Legacy. So while it is not directly beneficial to you, the new players it attracts should hopefully be worth your time. Also the new HCS site is far more secure, uses HTTPS and encrypts your details in a more sophisticated way.

Warfare results for the last 3 months. The freezing mechanic should be working again now, think something in the PHP update broke how it worked previously. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure it keeps working.

Warfare: July - September 2012
1: Dark Flame - 1,581,350 points
2: Blade of Dawn - 815,300 points
3: Outcasts - 741,640 points
4: Chapter - 398,750 points

Have fun... I hate making tutorials.

The new tutorial is nearly completed. It's been a nightmare to code, but I think it should be pretty solid now. You can check my thread in the forum to see what it contains. There is also another thread in the main forum directed to Council members, who need to go and create new player landing threads in their gang newbie forums.

Warfare reset is this Sunday at midnight (server time), with WTF mode starting a few hours before. The next map will be the snowy winter one with the freezing rivers. Rivers will begin frozen for at least the first 5 hours (it's random but that's the fastest they could unfreeze).

Map: Unfrozen / Frozen

Starting locations will be...

Chapter: 6,14
Dark Flame: 12,14
Blade of Dawn: 10,14
Outcasts: 8,14

Based on the history in our Wiki that should give each gang a starting location they have not had the previous 3 times this map has been played. Guilt is now working on some new hue selections for outfits, contact him if you have requests.