Finally we are able to give you some of the Utopia news that you have been waiting for.

Let me start by saying that both of the Utopia servers will restart on November 3rd, as I know that the Question and Answer forum has a few threads about this.

I also have some news about the sign-up system for the game, which we are modifying. From November 3rd onwards you will have only one user account, which can be tied to multiple game accounts - although we will still allow only one game account per server. This means that you will access both your World of Legends and Genesis game accounts via one master account.

We are additionally going to trial a limited form of trading/targeted kingdom selection. In practice, this will mean that next round you will have a limited number of chances to perform different actions. You will be able to either move your province to the kingdom of your choice - with consent from the monarch of that kingdom, and provided the kingdom actually has space for you, or you may swap provinces with someone else - with consent of both players, or finally you may take over an existing province - which would naturally destroy any province which you may already have.

Please note however that this system is experimental, and is likely to only be available to you on the World of Legends server.

A new premium feature will be introduced at the same time which will allow formal account sitting.

Last, but not least, you will be pleased to hear that the game manuals have having a re-vamp and a re-write which is progressing nicely, although we can't promise that they will be ready for the start of the new age.

Every week I write a jolly list of all the great ideas that you have had during the past seven days for the developers, and especially Roisin.

Each single (not completely off-the-wall) suggestion is read by me, reported on and dispatched onwards, and I have to say that sometimes there are rather a lot, I think my record report to date was some 40 pages long! So, if you are wondering - "Do OMAC read our suggestions?" the answer is yes, both the community managers and the Devs read them.

However, it would make the whole process rather smoother if the Bugs and Suggestions board were kept to just that, and all posts managed to be reasonably on-topic. Likewise, a title explaining what the suggestion is about is helpful, and there is no need to use the prefix Sug or suggestion any more.

Looking forward to many more of your offerings!

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First of all, I would like to address the recent deletion of a number of traded accounts, and the handling of reports we had received of instances of cheating within the game.

We took over existing tools for the game when we acquired it, and a policy of deleting accounts that were detected as cheating with these tools. However, it seems that we have applied the letter of the law rather than the spirit to which the community was accustomed to.

We are looking into the current reasoning behind all aspects of cheating that we have come across, and are considering putting in place a system more accommodating to players at all levels of the game, over the next couple of months. For now, there will be a moratorium on the deletion of traded accounts. Multiple accounts, x-logging, and coercing a player to give up their account information, are still considered offences, and will be handled as previously.

Players have also been deleted for abusive language recently, perhaps more so now, than in the past. In the future, abusive messages will be removed, and players will receive a warning via the in-game forum system and via their registered email. Failure to cease this sort of behaviour, or excessive harassment of another player, will result in a deletion.

There have been a number of rumours flying around as to what OMAC's plans for the game are currently. I'm not going to make vague promises other than to say we're focusing on elements which are a viable long-term model for the game, that support new players as well as the old ones.

Finally, as I'm working on some of the more major features needed for the games, Genesis will probably run a little late - an exact end date has yet to be determined, but I'll give you more news on that in a couple of weeks.