Realm of Empires Official Blog: The Realm of Empires Roadmap

Realm of Empires Official Blog: The Realm of Empires Roadmap: "Many times we’ve been asked by our players to tell them what is going on at Realm of Empires, what direction RoE is going in and what featur..."

Just recently, we've post the above blog laying out the roadmap for Realm of Empires for the balance of the year.

I just wanted to add a couple of personal comments.

First of all, I will do my very best, as a certified slave driver ;), to whip my team into completing the ROE and ROE' separation as quick as possible

By the way, ROE' stands for ROE PRIME ( See for more geeky info! )... I am not the coolest member of the ROE team! :)

I want to get back to improving Realm of Empires as soon as possible. Its a great feeling to release a long awaited improvment that is well received. Love the debates I have with you guys on the board - after a release, I always find a bit more time to participate in discussions.

For the specific features for Realm of Empires, I will try to keep the focus on features that will make running a clan, fighting a big war and managing a large kingdom easier. We got lots of feedback from you guys, and althought we've made significant improments with mass recruit and alike, we got a lot of opportunities to cut out more mindless tasks still.

We are looking for a tool that would allow you guys to vote on suggested features to help us plan future work - suggestions for such a tool are most welcome! Please post in comments.

Also a note about ROE and ROE' - some of you may worry that we will give one game more attention then the other. Note that this will be the same code base. So changes and additions we make in one application will be made in both at the same time - there will be no need to port the changes from one app to another - both of the apps are essentially the same application.

Hope to wow you guys with new features shortly!!

Realm of Empires Official Blog: Interview Series - Greg (Part 1)

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Inviting players to realms close to new players

The recent release of Realm 9 and 10 prompted us to close Realm 6, 7 and 8 to new players.

We've also reminded everyone that you can still invite a NEW Realm of Empires player to any of the close realms.

We got a number of questions related to do that so let me take a moment to explain what is the reason behind this, which will helpfully address your questions.

When you invite a new Facebook friend, they automatically start as close to you as possible, in the realm from which you invited them from. Reason being is to allow you to play close with your friends, and make it easier for you to mentor and guide them.

This is why we allow new players to start even in realms close to new players if invited. An existing player already understands the game play does not quality for this offer.

Do you find this 'start close to your friend when invited' a useful feature? Have you taken advantage of this? Would love to hear from you guys!