Latest Kingdom Merging Blog Updates
This is what we asked for guys. Massive Kingdom merges.
It appears that Game of War is adding structure to these merges which signals to me that they are serious about them. These new 8 and 10 way KvKs are going to keep getting crazier.
This time we are provided with a lot more detail on how the mergers are going to occur. I’ll bet a lot of people were sending in support questions last time so they added more detail in the blog this time around.
Here’s a quick summary of what will happen to you if you are in the losing Kingdom:
- You will be randomly Teleported to the new Kingdom and receive an Advanced Teleport.
- There will be no Events taking place during the merge.
- All of your Marches will be recalled to your Stronghold before being Teleported over.
- If you were a King, you will be dethroned.
- Peace Shields will be extended for those who had them up.
The action begins on November 7th at 4pm PST and ends on November 9th at 4pm PST.
Nothing unexpected here so that’s good. They’re even extending shields – probably by 24 hours – for all those who merge over.
Humor: If you want to experience a humorous take on Kingdom Merging, take a look this article written by Harry from Game of War Tips.
Kingdom Merging Has Expanded To K300 and Below
The blog just released an announcement that more kingdoms will be merged. I’m not sure on the exact number yet, but I’ve talked to some Line groups and I’ve come up with a bunch of Kingdoms who will be merged:
38, 40, 42, 70, 72, 86, 100, 112, 136, 140, 142, 154, 156, 160, 166, 170, 180, 192, 196, 206, 224, 236, 244, 252, 254, 256, 264, 266, 270, 280, 286, 288, 296, 316, 328, 332, 456, 472, 511
The blog does not mention who they will be merged with. Time will tell.
Let us know in the comments if your Kingdom is merging and higher than K300. Also, who you ended up merging with.
Kingdom Merging Is Finally HERE!
Take a look at Kingdoms 1, 2, 6, and 8 below. They will be fighting each starting this Saturday (10th) at 5pm PDT and ending on Monday (12th) at 5pm PDT.
According to the blog, the event will be a 4-way free for all lasting for two days. The first place kingdom will absorb the fourth place, and the second place kingdom will absorb the third place. I’m assuming MZ thinks the first place kingdom will be most active so they should merge with the fourth, and the second and third place kingdom will merge to become equally as active.
Actually when they first announced the Kingdom merger I was anticipating a single kingdom absorbing all 3 of the losers. I’m not sure how active these old kingdoms are but I feel that they are at least 1/4 as active as a new kingdom. Personally, I think MZ should merge all the kingdoms enough so that they are as close to equally as active as possible. This would likely create the most competition and thus enjoyment.
My question is how would MZ deem this Kingdom Merging as a success vs a failure? What would make them want to continue merging kingdoms to become more comparatively active?
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Help! If anybody knows of a kingdom that is gonna merge soon, please let me know, i’m trying to move a farm into an ancient kingdom, but apparently know you can only beginner teleport into an ancient if you’re in an ancient. Much appreciated!
Bara 424 merged with Ramos 366 yesterday and my Alliance City never random ported over and is stuck in Bara 424!! MZ is saying nothing to my inquires about my very active very expensive city. Anyone else have this problem? Even received the merge is complete email and still do not have my Alliance City!!
So we’re supposed to be merging now all events have been stopped for 5 hrs no one has ported yet but it’s going to happen I assume we’re 412 going to 368 look us up RYZ acesion from ashes
We had the same thing on Jan 2 in 350 and 382. Im in 382 and we won the merge. Merge still hasnt happened. Also no word from MZ. I have sent them a message and the reply i got was not enuff info.
Yes same thing here. Our kingdom 553 lose the merge kvk against 585. Been 4 days, and wonder timer has reset but still nothing. Everyone is confused & doesn’t know what’s going on. Nothing in the blogs. How long will this take!!
Yes same thing here. Our kingdom 553 lose the merge kvk to 585. 4 days later, wonder timer reset & nothing!! No one knows what is going on.
K496 lost to K456 as mentioned earlier. Can’t see why K496 was picked as is an active kingdom and win many kvk events. Still no news merger, come on MZ we are all in limbo should we be looking for new city locations or what. If you have changed your mind and going to leave us alone then tell us…… COMMUNICATIONS guys you have never been any good at that have you!
I’m in Kingdom 633 and we recently went up against 597 in a Merge KvK and lost. It’s been 3 days now the Wonder has reset but yet nothing is happening. Does anyone know if they decided to stop doing this or is it a bug in the system?
K496 lost to K456. Event ended Jan 3rd… Still no merge. We’re hoping its tonight when the wonders protection is up.
Also in the event Saturday Jan 3, #488 Anjar and #537 Tamar have not merged yet.
I’m in #488 and we lost but did very well. The score had to be close. Anyway we also are waiting to merge.
It’s very frustrating that no expectations of when this merge event will occur are available.
“Upon completion of the event” implies the moment that the event is over these things will happen, not days later without a clue when it will happen.
Are there kingdoms that had an event Saturday that *have* merged?
This is inconsiderate of thousands of players!
Any word from MZ? Please work your contacts GoW Real Tips !
So last Saturday 412 and 368 had a merger kvk and we in 412 lost and we still haven’t merged wth is going on
513 is merging with 460, been around three days since the event ended and still no merge.
519 and 595 are merging into 595.
547 and 565 are merging as well. FYI. Does anyone know what they will do about the dead accounts? How would they determine the criteria for that? Thanks!
I think mz should make it more fare whin attacking someone like they should be matched in power not a bil power city hitting a 10 mil power city people don’t find it fair
What happens to Alliance Cities in losing kingdom in a kingdom merge event?
Alliance cities are also randomly ported to the winning kingdom.
K212 and K236 are merging. We in K212 defeated K236 so they are merging into K212 which should be completed 11.22
The merges are a godsend. Some much more action than before.
Count in K100
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I’m in K2. Was interesting to run for 48 hours. Kind of exhausting really to go that long. I think 24 hour events are better in general as people lose interest with 48 hrs of KE, but i get for this 1 time big event they wanted to give more time for kingdoms to fight.
At this rate they will stretch these “merges” out for years trying to sucker us into believing and spending. Please don’t feed this beast that is mz any more money or we will never be responded to by them properly.
MZ problems started with their greedy behavior, When I started to play more than a year ago, you could play in wonder well, no major lags. the firsts super wonders were fine either. but MZ started to grow as a bubble and they didn’t make the changes needed to make if you are going to double the number of players. they made changes, they introduced more parameters to the battle, but they didn’t think how these parameters will affect the battles. an example, while you are playing individual game, training, research, dungeon, the game run fine, but in the time the game start to interact between the players, game crash bad, why this is happening now? and not before. basically because they need a super strong platform to sustain the game. this is the classical case of the company that saw money and tried to grow more than their capabilities, instead wait and grow respecting their budget. and we dont see solution basically because the result in only one, MZ don’t care, just becasue they have young kingdoms where they dont have KVKKE, a simple game at this point, so they are having fun and spending money. MZ is caring too much of those kingdoms, the packs are expensive for them, they make their profit in those kingdoms, in a new kingdom be a bill player cost thousands of dollars. in old kingdoms cost you just 200. this is their business while they follow having an increase in the number of young players and of course new spenders, MZ wont make really big changes. sorry guys but as a frined in game say (she looks MZ assistant, haha), the game is fun just enjoy it, if not quit. well we are seeing many in my kingdom are quitting, we will finish quitting and MZ is covering their back with the new terms of use, saying our accounts has no value, because they know many after a time will quit and is better have a new naive player than a old claimer player. is just business
The game has a LOT of problems. Kingdom merge helps somewhat: Kingdoms need more players. The ratio of main player accounts to farms and dead accounts is problematic. Merging two old kingdoms should double the number of real players. And it should be fun to toss two kingdoms together. Our kingdom has two factions and it’d be fun to turn a two-way battle into a 4-way battle (or make new allies and enemies).
But, the other problem is the game relying on KvK as the only real form of fighting. KvK sucks because it is too tedious to differentiate a “real” account from a farm or dead account. It is absurd that my SH21 food farm looks the same as a SH21 that fights for the SuperWonder. You should be able to look at a hive and easily tell (without clicking on all of them) which accounts are legit, which are zeroed and which are farms. Shields should be better too. Too hard to look at a mass of SHs and squint your eyes to see if that one SH is shielded or not.
How hard would it be to color code SHs by power levels and whether the hero is dead? How hard would it be to make shields look a little different?
Personally I think that if they dumped me randomly into some new kingdom and I lost the nice setup I have now, in a quiet-ish area of the kingdom with a nice group of inactives to harvest for resources, that would be the point at which I give up the game. It’s only the addictive nature of slowly making progress through the research tree that keeps me going now.
MZ might find that if they start messing with the existing kingdoms they will lose even more currently active players!
The labels on each empire cover the eyes during a KE when they are grouped so you cannot see who is online and who is not.
BTW. Age of Lords uses a half-sphere bubble to show a shield. Much easier to see than the blue skirts used by GoW.
Happy days. Old kingdoms need more peeps. Thanks MZ.
If things continue as they have, the game will end up back where it started in its infancy – one kingdom. Not sustainable and it will cease operations before it gets that low – not enough income to keep the lights on at the current place. Anyone that’s removed their head from the sand can see the game is losing players in droves – most in the last 1-3 months… The MZ executive suite has been terribly irresponsible and not adequately managed their app dev group in its rapid release of updates and ensuring there was quality control over what they are producing, to above all else, maintain stability of the app across all the devices it’s purportedly compatible with. The release of latest client app bug riddled updates in September accelerated the exodus. The reviews on the app distribution sites, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.. are filed with like kind complaints of the app crashing or not even able to launch and run at all on a wide variety of devices on all platforms and MZ isn’t doing anything recognizable and meaningful to remove the problems they introduced. I am surprised Apple or Amazon hasn’t actually pulled the app, considering they have brand name devices to protect. Google will allow any old junk. Compound that with the deplorable customer/tech support they have and it’s a recipe for the rapid decline and failure of this company – and we are seeing it happen now. I believe the structure of the packs are basically a result of a rapid loss of revenue – MZ bean counters (including the c-level execs) sees this increasing every day, and instead of addressing the cause for the lack of interest in their product, they load packs up double gold, speeds, or whatever to try and make it appear a better deal than the last… Too good a deal to pass up for the remaining suckers… Just to keep some revenue coming in. After all, the founder/CEO is reportedly going around still proclaiming game of war has a $6 billion valuation with $1 mil revenue a day… Um, he’s not smart enough to realize the venture capital firms got taught a hard lesson during the .com bubble burst… Due diligence is going to be done before there is any interest in taking this company to an IPO or package for sale… If sales revenue isn’t really there, well… Good luck. And right now, MZ seems to have run out of luck and I am not sure they ever had enough knowledge or sense at executive level to make this good and lasting… Some rocket scientist, probably with an MBA, talked them into spending tons on bimbo celeb promotions instead of making the actual product reliable and appealing. I for one will not be spending another dime… I will burn up what I have in between crashes, and once I end up with equivalent of zeroed account… I am done, like all the others.
Well said I must say !!!
I thought the same thing, that the winner kingdom would absorb those 3 losing kingdoms. At this point they are so dead, merging only 2 won’t help. And to be honest, most kingdoms are dead, so there should be all kingdom merging without a question. I don’t know what MZ were thinking. I feel like this will be a failure. And when there was this 1st announcement, I laughed about the part:”If you feel like your kingdom is dead too, we might do a merging for you as well”. Well, it was something like that, but you all know what I meant. It’s ridiculous.
hahahahhaa ya they were like “if we think your kingdom is dead too, we might merge it…. if it’s old enough” LOL
I am wondering how they are going to merge the kingdoms. Will everyone in the losing kingdom get a special teleport so and given a week to move. Or will all the empires/Alliance citiies just be dropped in randomly and then have to be moved. I am hoping something like the second otherwise all the dead accounts will be dropped in also.
From what I understand, all account will be randomly ported over. Hopefully dead accounts wont’….
Beta is trialling merge today. Losing Kingdom SHs are randomed into their new Kingdom. An Athena’s gift of an ATP is given, allowing them to reform their alliance hub if they like.
Thanks for info! Good to know!
My understanding is that k2 still does well in tournaments and kill events, k1, 6, 8 less so.
I’d say success would be defined as the merged kingdoms doing better in kill events. And, commercially for MZ, spending more money on the game.
Incidentally, I’ve a 3b account in one of the 2 main alliances in k1, so if people are interested I can report later on how the event and merge go.
It’d be great to read how things went down, please share what u ca.
The last I checked K1 was empty, so yeah they don’t do well in kill events.