Dear Settlers,

Just a friendly reminder, The Settlers Online Zeus and Ares servers will come down for its weekly maintenance. 

• Start: Wednesday, March 26th at 11:45 PM PST (March 27th at 2:45 AM EST)
• End: Thursday, March 27th at 4:00AM PST (7:00 AM EST)
• Premium/Adventure Times:  Extended
• Guild Quests: will not be reset.
• Patch Notes: Link

Happy Settling,
~BB_Rawren

During the month of February, we collected applications and nominations for the Community Leader Program. It was a difficult decision, but we are excited to welcome our new Community Leaders! Here are your new Community Leaders: on Zeus: RomanGodCamper, Melorr, Rigidnubs. On Ares: Khamuul, Greek_Spartan, Spikescopilot and Aurboth. Please join us in welcoming them to the team!

Read more here

Cheers,
~ BB_Rawren

Dear Settlers,

After a cold winter, today your Settlers enjoy the warmth of spring throughout your islands. To celebrate the new season, a gift package was sent to you.

The package will be in your game mailbox within the next hour.

Happy settling!
~ BB_Rawren

Dear Settlers,

As announced in our earlier Sneak Peek, the Collectible Items feature will
be improved. One of the upcoming version updates (currently planned for 03.27.2014)
will introduce new collectible items, new buffs and interface improvements!

More details can be found in the latest > developer's diary <.

Happy settling!
~ BB_Rawren

Dear Settlers,

Just a friendly reminder, The Settlers Online Zeus and Ares servers will come down for its weekly maintenance. 

• Start: Wednesday, March 19th at 11:45 PM PST (March 20th at 2:45 AM EST)
• End: Thursday, March 20th at 4:00AM PST (7:00 AM EST)
• Premium/Adventure Times:  Extended
• Guild Quests: will be reset.

Happy Settling,
~BB_Rawren

Dear Settlers,

Thanks for your feedback about the planned changes to Weak Point Potion and Ranged Support buffs. The mechanism controlling how these buffs work still needs to be changedm but the modification will not affect already acquired buffs.

Recently announced changes will still take place, 
but they will not affect already acquired buffs.

Next steps:

• Mentioned buffs will be temporarily disabled in the Shop (03.27.2014)
• Behavior of already acquired buffs will remain unchanged
• Two buffs will be re-introduced in the future with a changed behavior

Happy settling!
BB_Rawren

This week's Screenshot of the Week Winner, TheGreatMatt, has found a neat trick to fast-find all the collectibles on the map. Congratulations!

Click here to see the full pic and share your own!

See you in-game,

~ BB_Rawren

Dear Settlers,

Uplay maintenance is scheduled for tomorrow, March 18th, 2014. 

• Start: March 18th 1:00 AM PST (4:00 AM EST)
• End: March 18th 5:00 AM PST (8:00 AM EST)
• Update: Maintenance has concluded!

During this time, players will not be able to log in to the website. If you are already logged in, you will remain logged in.

Happy settling!
BB_Rawren

It's GM Trivia toninght! This week's trivia theme is "Words."  Join us for trivia at 7:00PM EST on Zeus/7:30 PM EST on Ares. 

Four questions. Five winners. Free Gems. Have what it takes? 

Play Now or Read the Rules

Happy Settling,
~ BB_Rawren
Ubisoft Community Manager

Dear Settlers,

Before last night's maintenance, the mechanism responsible for adding new settlers to villages was not working properly. In some cases, villages became over-populated (i.e. amount of settlers living in a village was higher than the population limit). The issue was fixed during maintenance and the amount of settlers was adjusted accordingly. In case a village was over-populated, the script could modify the amount of unemployed settlers and, if that was not enough, it could also adjust the amount of working settlers.

As the adjustment was rather alarming for some players, we have created a forum post that clarifies the changes made and workarounds for any residual issues after the adjustment.

Click to read more about the changes

Cheers,
~BB_Rawren