Re: Changes?
New hardware will be up start of January, will want a couple of weeks of testing on it so will probably be a couple of weeks public "playtesting" on it rather than force everyone to remain on this server (the old server physically and softwarely) until testing is done (though we'll see, I may do a week of private testing first to catch any of the larger bugs etc.).
Alliance limits will be 20.
There is very little in the way of unit/route changes, so all of your plans for alliances shoudl be, by and large, entirely unaffected.
There will only be 1 score system - "score" (aka valuation) - so if you had any plans to chase rankings, I suggest you base it off of this!
More info forthcoming this weekend.
Apologies for the delays, the new server hardware, setup etc. has been delayed by 6 weeks beyond the point I actually bought it and it was meant to be ready for, this has in turn delayed some of the development I've been able to do not to mention make any testing possible (thus making any debugging of stuff I do a painstaking process). I'm going to be trying to compress the 6 weeks of delays on the new server, in to no more than 3 weeks of delays on Age 5 for you all, and can only apologise profusely for it, and ask for everybody's patience.
Feel free to sign up to the current round - it's just a random settings world to be going on with in the mean-time.