Stroll through the Coral Plains and visit Mermaid’s Tears in style with this summer’s stylish swimwear!

Here to help you soak in the rays is the new sleek looking Sea Krait Swimsuit. This summer selection will also be joined by the Summer Nights, Summer Racer’s, and Beach Racer’s Swimwear.



Sea Krait Swimsuit – 400 Loyalty (or potentially found in the Sea Krait Crate!)
Summer Nights Swimwear – 400 Loyalty
Beach Racer’s Swimwear – 1000 credits
Summer Racer’s Swimwear – 1000 credits



The Sea Krait Crate (450 credits) can possibly include the following items:


Common Drops:

• Superior Lunarite: Fire, Wave
  
• Fine Lunarite: Fire, Wave

Uncommon Drops:

• Clear Synthium Shard
  
• Vivid Synthium Shard

Rare Drops:

• Lucid Synthium Shard
  
• Radiant Synthium Shard
  
• Majestic Tree
  
• Mining Drill
  
• Tax Certificate
  
• Expansion Scroll
  
• Eco-Friendly Fuel
  
• Shatigon’s Sand
  
• Specialization Snowflake
  
• Salon Certificate
  
• Gender Swap Certificate
  
• Companion Crust
  
• Crest Trade pack Storage
  
• language Proficiency Spellbook
  
• Crest Brainstorm
  
• Professional Tonic
  
• Lucky Sunpoint/Moonpoint/Starpoint
  
• Lucid Wave Lunagem: Defense, Magic Defense
  
• Special Pirate Plushie Trove
  
• Wrapped Serendipity Stone
  
• Sea Krait Swimsuit

Very Rare Drops:

• Mornstone
  
• Indomitable Lunafrost: Hostility, Transcendent, Tracker, Love
  
• Distorted Lunafrost: Hostility, Transcendent, Tracker, Love
  
• Lucid Gale Lunagem: Wrath, Harbinger, Constance, Benevolence, Mercy, Fury, Destruction, Serenity

– The ArcheAge Team

Stroll through the Coral Plains and visit Mermaid’s Tears in style with this summer’s stylish swimwear!

Here to help you soak in the rays is the new sleek looking Sea Krait Swimsuit. This summer selection will also be joined by the Summer Nights, Summer Racer’s, and Beach Racer’s Swimwear.



Sea Krait Swimsuit – 400 Loyalty (or potentially found in the Sea Krait Crate!)
Summer Nights Swimwear – 400 Loyalty
Beach Racer’s Swimwear – 1000 credits
Summer Racer’s Swimwear – 1000 credits



The Sea Krait Crate (450 credits) can possibly include the following items:


Common Drops:

• Superior Lunarite: Fire, Wave
  
• Fine Lunarite: Fire, Wave

Uncommon Drops:

• Clear Synthium Shard
  
• Vivid Synthium Shard

Rare Drops:

• Lucid Synthium Shard
  
• Radiant Synthium Shard
  
• Majestic Tree
  
• Mining Drill
  
• Tax Certificate
  
• Expansion Scroll
  
• Eco-Friendly Fuel
  
• Shatigon’s Sand
  
• Specialization Snowflake
  
• Salon Certificate
  
• Gender Swap Certificate
  
• Companion Crust
  
• Crest Trade pack Storage
  
• language Proficiency Spellbook
  
• Crest Brainstorm
  
• Professional Tonic
  
• Lucky Sunpoint/Moonpoint/Starpoint
  
• Lucid Wave Lunagem: Defense, Magic Defense
  
• Special Pirate Plushie Trove
  
• Wrapped Serendipity Stone
  
• Sea Krait Swimsuit

Very Rare Drops:

• Mornstone
  
• Indomitable Lunafrost: Hostility, Transcendent, Tracker, Love
  
• Distorted Lunafrost: Hostility, Transcendent, Tracker, Love
  
• Lucid Gale Lunagem: Wrath, Harbinger, Constance, Benevolence, Mercy, Fury, Destruction, Serenity

– The ArcheAge Team

The 1-Credit Transfers begin August 16th and will continue through August 30th.

We know the Evolutions bring about many concerns, and because the process creates necessary disruptions to your adventuring there may be frustrations with it. To help smooth out the change-over we’re happy to confirm the items in the compensation packages and who they go to.

Here is a reminder of which servers will be affected by the Evolution process:

North America – These servers will no longer accept any transfers into them.

Ollo, Tahyang, and Salphira will be evolved into CONVICTION.
Morpheus, Nazar, and Hanure will be evolved into THUNDERWING.
Europe – These servers will no longer accept any transfers into them.

Kyprosa, Dahuta, and Rangora will be evolved into TEMPEST.
Leviathan, Anthalon, and Sirothe will be evolved into RETRIBUTION.
Legacy servers not affected by the Evolution will accept incoming players through the server transfer service. These servers are Aranzeb, Kyrios, and Kraken in North America, and Shatigon and Eanna in Europe.

Our Fresh Start servers – Reckoning, Vengeance, and Prophecy – will not be affected by the Evolution and maintain the same transfer rules.

Also, keep in mind that no new characters can be created on Evolution candidate servers until the Evolution is complete. Players may make characters on non-Evolution servers. Additionally, the character creation restrictions will cause a visible change in the server select UI where races will overflow onto server status. This is a known issue that will be fixed in a coming patch.

The requirements to receive a compensation pack are noted below. Please note that some of these packs are per character, so you can receive multiple copies of them per account. This distribution is a very large undertaking, and it may take up to 48 hours after the servers open to receive your compensation packs. In addition, some of these packs are higher priority as they are required for when the servers open – Houses, Tax Certificates, Guild/Family levels, and the Worldweaver Pack.

Only Players who stay on an Evolution server for the Evolution will receive the packs below, as noted:

This pack is for each level 15+ character on an Evolution Server OR Landowners on an Evolution Server. You will receive 1 pack per character that’s level 15 or above, OR 1 pack per character who holds land on an Evolution server, regardless of level, up to a maximum of 6 per account. This pack will be in each qualifying character’s mailbox.

The pack contains the following fixed items:

• Dread Guard Armor
  
• Dread Steed
  
• Dread Steed Helm
  
• Dread Steed Saddle
  
• Dread Steed Legguards
  
• Dread Guard Nodachi
  
• Dread Guard Katana
  
• Title: Worldweaver
  
• 60 Gift Coins
  
• 1 Any-Post Owl
  
• 50 Bound Hereafter Stones

Characters who are level 50+ on an affected server OR who own land on an affected server get one of these packs PER ACCOUNT:

• 5 Bound Serendipity Stones
  
• 2 Bound Dunn’s Blessings
  
• 1 Loyalty Token 150-Pack

This pack will be granted to those with Crest Inks with UCC.

The UCC Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Bound Crest Brainstorm for each Crest Ink

Irretrievable Furniture Compensation[/h1]
This pack will be granted to anyone with furniture items that are normally unable to be retrieved via demolition.

The Irretrievable Furniture Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 piece of matching furniture for each item lost

(Note: If a player picks up these items and saves them in their inventory, they will not be duplicated. If picking up an item would destroy it (such as a plushie) the player must leave it there and let the Evolution process track and replace it.)



This pack will be granted to anyone who possessed a structure of any size on the servers involved in the Evolution.

The Housing Compensation pack contains the following:

• Full Kit for each of the completed structures you owned
  
• 1 Design (not Full Kit) for each of the non-completed structure you owned
  
• Bound Tax Certificates (Security Deposit + up to 5 Weeks of already Pre-Paid Taxes per structure)
  
• 1 of each piece of furniture/decor in the structure (chests, retrievable items from demolitions, items in chests, etc)

This pack will be granted to anyone who used a Decor Limit Increase item on a structure.

The Decor LImit Increase Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Decor Limit Increase for each 1 used on an owned structure

This pack will be granted to each character that owned a family.

The Family Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Family Growth Ticket for each ticket used on a family
  
• 1 Family Name Change Ticket for each family who changed their name
  
• Family Level Compensation items that increase the Family level to the previous state plus an extra level. Families at level 1 will become Family Level 2. Family Level 2 and 3 will become Family Level 3.

This pack will split up into two different categories – Characters that owned a Guild, and Characters in a Guild with Guild Prestige.

The Guild Compensation pack for Guild owners contains the following:

• A number of special “Oath Ribbons” to return a guild to its prior level +1 (A prior level 3 guild will become a level 4 guild post evolution).

(Note: These ribbons may be used on a newly created guild made by the owner of the previous guild that has been granted these Oath Ribbons. These ribbons will be bound and guild level specific: A level 2 ribbon will move a guild from level 1 to 2. Guild leaders will be given an additional Oath Ribbon to make up for any XP they may have had in their leveling state. )

The Character Guild Prestige Compensation pack contains the following:

• A number of ‘Prestige: 100’ tokens that meet the user’s prior prestige amount

Resident System Contribution Compensation
This pack will be granted to characters who contributed to a zone’s community center.

The Resident System Contribution Compensation pack contains the following:

• Gold equal to the contribution amount the character has provided

This pack will be granted to characters who were heroes at the time of the Evolution.

The Hero Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Golden Hero’s Chest

This pack will be granted to characters who were Lords at the time of the Evolution. This won’t be delivered until 9/13.

The Lord Building Compensation pack contains the following:

• A number of Lord’s Coins, Building Materials, and Designs equal to what the Lord had built in their castle before the Evolution.

(Note: If the Golden Wyvern is not completed, it will be removed during the Evolution)



– The ArcheAge Team

The 1-Credit Transfers begin August 16th and will continue through August 30th.

We know the Evolutions bring about many concerns, and because the process creates necessary disruptions to your adventuring there may be frustrations with it. To help smooth out the change-over we’re happy to confirm the items in the compensation packages and who they go to.

Here is a reminder of which servers will be affected by the Evolution process:

North America – These servers will no longer accept any transfers into them.

Ollo, Tahyang, and Salphira will be evolved into CONVICTION.
Morpheus, Nazar, and Hanure will be evolved into THUNDERWING.
Europe – These servers will no longer accept any transfers into them.

Kyprosa, Dahuta, and Rangora will be evolved into TEMPEST.
Leviathan, Anthalon, and Sirothe will be evolved into RETRIBUTION.
Legacy servers not affected by the Evolution will accept incoming players through the server transfer service. These servers are Aranzeb, Kyrios, and Kraken in North America, and Shatigon and Eanna in Europe.

Our Fresh Start servers – Reckoning, Vengeance, and Prophecy – will not be affected by the Evolution and maintain the same transfer rules.

Also, keep in mind that no new characters can be created on Evolution candidate servers until the Evolution is complete. Players may make characters on non-Evolution servers. Additionally, the character creation restrictions will cause a visible change in the server select UI where races will overflow onto server status. This is a known issue that will be fixed in a coming patch.

The requirements to receive a compensation pack are noted below. Please note that some of these packs are per character, so you can receive multiple copies of them per account. This distribution is a very large undertaking, and it may take up to 48 hours after the servers open to receive your compensation packs. In addition, some of these packs are higher priority as they are required for when the servers open – Houses, Tax Certificates, Guild/Family levels, and the Worldweaver Pack.

Only Players who stay on an Evolution server for the Evolution will receive the packs below, as noted:

This pack is for each level 15+ character on an Evolution Server OR Landowners on an Evolution Server. You will receive 1 pack per character that’s level 15 or above, OR 1 pack per character who holds land on an Evolution server, regardless of level, up to a maximum of 6 per account. This pack will be in each qualifying character’s mailbox.

The pack contains the following fixed items:

• Dread Guard Armor
  
• Dread Steed
  
• Dread Steed Helm
  
• Dread Steed Saddle
  
• Dread Steed Legguards
  
• Dread Guard Nodachi
  
• Dread Guard Katana
  
• Title: Worldweaver
  
• 60 Gift Coins
  
• 1 Any-Post Owl
  
• 50 Bound Hereafter Stones

Characters who are level 50+ on an affected server OR who own land on an affected server get one of these packs PER ACCOUNT:

• 5 Bound Serendipity Stones
  
• 2 Bound Dunn’s Blessings
  
• 1 Loyalty Token 150-Pack

This pack will be granted to those with Crest Inks with UCC.

The UCC Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Bound Crest Brainstorm for each Crest Ink

Irretrievable Furniture Compensation[/h1]
This pack will be granted to anyone with furniture items that are normally unable to be retrieved via demolition.

The Irretrievable Furniture Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 piece of matching furniture for each item lost

(Note: If a player picks up these items and saves them in their inventory, they will not be duplicated. If picking up an item would destroy it (such as a plushie) the player must leave it there and let the Evolution process track and replace it.)



This pack will be granted to anyone who possessed a structure of any size on the servers involved in the Evolution.

The Housing Compensation pack contains the following:

• Full Kit for each of the completed structures you owned
  
• 1 Design (not Full Kit) for each of the non-completed structure you owned
  
• Bound Tax Certificates (Security Deposit + up to 5 Weeks of already Pre-Paid Taxes per structure)
  
• 1 of each piece of furniture/decor in the structure (chests, retrievable items from demolitions, items in chests, etc)

This pack will be granted to anyone who used a Decor Limit Increase item on a structure.

The Decor LImit Increase Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Decor Limit Increase for each 1 used on an owned structure

This pack will be granted to each character that owned a family.

The Family Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Family Growth Ticket for each ticket used on a family
  
• 1 Family Name Change Ticket for each family who changed their name
  
• Family Level Compensation items that increase the Family level to the previous state plus an extra level. Families at level 1 will become Family Level 2. Family Level 2 and 3 will become Family Level 3.

This pack will split up into two different categories – Characters that owned a Guild, and Characters in a Guild with Guild Prestige.

The Guild Compensation pack for Guild owners contains the following:

• A number of special “Oath Ribbons” to return a guild to its prior level +1 (A prior level 3 guild will become a level 4 guild post evolution).

(Note: These ribbons may be used on a newly created guild made by the owner of the previous guild that has been granted these Oath Ribbons. These ribbons will be bound and guild level specific: A level 2 ribbon will move a guild from level 1 to 2. Guild leaders will be given an additional Oath Ribbon to make up for any XP they may have had in their leveling state. )

The Character Guild Prestige Compensation pack contains the following:

• A number of ‘Prestige: 100’ tokens that meet the user’s prior prestige amount

Resident System Contribution Compensation
This pack will be granted to characters who contributed to a zone’s community center.

The Resident System Contribution Compensation pack contains the following:

• Gold equal to the contribution amount the character has provided

This pack will be granted to characters who were heroes at the time of the Evolution.

The Hero Compensation pack contains the following:

• 1 Golden Hero’s Chest

This pack will be granted to characters who were Lords at the time of the Evolution. This won’t be delivered until 9/13.

The Lord Building Compensation pack contains the following:

• A number of Lord’s Coins, Building Materials, and Designs equal to what the Lord had built in their castle before the Evolution.

(Note: If the Golden Wyvern is not completed, it will be removed during the Evolution)



– The ArcheAge Team

This limited time event will be available during the following days:

North America: August 15 – September 5, starting and ending at 11 PM PDT.
Europe: August 16 – September 6, starting and ending at 1 AM UTC.

During this time, Sanddeep will be placed into Festival Law. If you’re new to these parts, Festival Law will prevent PvP attacks as if the area was in Peace, BUT you can still be attacked if your guild is fighting in a Dominion War. Be careful!

Use the worldgates found in Austera, Marianople, and Diamond Shores as a cheap way to get to Sanddeep for the festival activities.

It’s time to hit the beach! Head on out and get ready for a series of quests to have fun in the sun. Build a sand castle, help Vivalt and Mendelsson paint, eat chicken, and FIGHT HUGE BEACH MONSTERS. Enjoy yourself, relax, and you’ll earn some Festival Coins to enjoy great rewards, including:

• Beach Umbrella — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Crest Umbrella — 14 Festival coins
  
• Vivalt’s Sand Sculpture: Protection — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Vivalt’s Sand Statue: Victory — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Mendelsson’s Sand Sculpture: Peace — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Mendelsson’s Sand Statue: Prosperity — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Baked Chicken (House Furniture) — 5 Festival Coins
  
• Blue Salt Festival Empty Frame — 10 Festival Coins
  
• Blue Salt Festival Sand Castle Painting — Requires an empty frame and
• all pieces of Mendelsson’s Painting.
  
• Blue Salt Festival Beach Painting — Requires an empty frame and all
• pieces of Vivalt’s Painting.
  
• Baktehan’s Swimfins — 90 Festival Coins
  
• Granbleu’s Dive Helmet — 90 Festival Coins
  
• Fried Chicken (Buff) — 3 Festival Coins
  
• Cold Beer (100 Labor) — 3 Festival Coins
  
• Temporary Thunder Dash — 70 coins
  
• Temporary Timer Coupe 100 — coins
  
• Temporary Cogwheel Longboard — 30 coins
  
• Greenman Plushie Pet — 70 coins

This festival does have a special timed event in Sanddeep. Take out a huge monster that attacks the festival at the following times to earn more coins:

EU: 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 11:00 PM UTC
NA: 12:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 9:00 PM PDT

This year’s event also features Achievements for extra Festival Coins! Please note that if you’ve been a participant in the prior years of the Blue Salt Festival, some of these Achievements may be automatically completed based on your past progress.

– The ArcheAge Team

This limited time event will be available during the following days:

North America: August 15 – September 5, starting and ending at 11 PM PDT.
Europe: August 16 – September 6, starting and ending at 1 AM UTC.

During this time, Sanddeep will be placed into Festival Law. If you’re new to these parts, Festival Law will prevent PvP attacks as if the area was in Peace, BUT you can still be attacked if your guild is fighting in a Dominion War. Be careful!

Use the worldgates found in Austera, Marianople, and Diamond Shores as a cheap way to get to Sanddeep for the festival activities.

It’s time to hit the beach! Head on out and get ready for a series of quests to have fun in the sun. Build a sand castle, help Vivalt and Mendelsson paint, eat chicken, and FIGHT HUGE BEACH MONSTERS. Enjoy yourself, relax, and you’ll earn some Festival Coins to enjoy great rewards, including:

• Beach Umbrella — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Crest Umbrella — 14 Festival coins
  
• Vivalt’s Sand Sculpture: Protection — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Vivalt’s Sand Statue: Victory — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Mendelsson’s Sand Sculpture: Peace — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Mendelsson’s Sand Statue: Prosperity — 14 Festival Coins
  
• Baked Chicken (House Furniture) — 5 Festival Coins
  
• Blue Salt Festival Empty Frame — 10 Festival Coins
  
• Blue Salt Festival Sand Castle Painting — Requires an empty frame and
• all pieces of Mendelsson’s Painting.
  
• Blue Salt Festival Beach Painting — Requires an empty frame and all
• pieces of Vivalt’s Painting.
  
• Baktehan’s Swimfins — 90 Festival Coins
  
• Granbleu’s Dive Helmet — 90 Festival Coins
  
• Fried Chicken (Buff) — 3 Festival Coins
  
• Cold Beer (100 Labor) — 3 Festival Coins
  
• Temporary Thunder Dash — 70 coins
  
• Temporary Timer Coupe 100 — coins
  
• Temporary Cogwheel Longboard — 30 coins
  
• Greenman Plushie Pet — 70 coins

This festival does have a special timed event in Sanddeep. Take out a huge monster that attacks the festival at the following times to earn more coins:

EU: 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 11:00 PM UTC
NA: 12:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 9:00 PM PDT

This year’s event also features Achievements for extra Festival Coins! Please note that if you’ve been a participant in the prior years of the Blue Salt Festival, some of these Achievements may be automatically completed based on your past progress.

– The ArcheAge Team

Join Senior Producer Merv "Khrolan" Lee Kwai, Producer Amanda "Amary" Fry, Associate Producer Seraphina "Celestrata" Brennan, and Localization Tester Sophie "Socke" Pickens on the Trion Worlds Twitch channel for our next ArcheAge livestream!

This week the team is here to answer your questions on the upcoming Server Evolutions, as well as discuss what's coming to the game in the August Update!

ArcheAge Evolution & August Update Livestream
Twitch Channel: http://www.twitch.tv/trionworlds
Start Time: Friday, July 28 at 1:30 PM PDT (GMT-8)
Duration: 45-50 minutes

Make sure to stick around to the end of the livestream, because we'll be hosting our usual giveaway and you could win!

Join Senior Producer Merv "Khrolan" Lee Kwai, Producer Amanda "Amary" Fry, Associate Producer Seraphina "Celestrata" Brennan, and Localization Tester Sophie "Socke" Pickens on the Trion Worlds Twitch channel for our next ArcheAge livestream!

This week the team is here to answer your questions on the upcoming Server Evolutions, as well as discuss what's coming to the game in the August Update!

ArcheAge Evolution & August Update Livestream
Twitch Channel: http://www.twitch.tv/trionworlds
Start Time: Friday, July 28 at 1:30 PM PDT (GMT-8)
Duration: 45-50 minutes

Make sure to stick around to the end of the livestream, because we'll be hosting our usual giveaway and you could win!

Greetings all Adventurers, great and small!

Over the past year, we've seen a lot of discussion among players about the need for server consolidation. The number of players in each server is critical to the dynamic world of ArcheAge, and that’s why the team has monitored it so closely. In short, after our analysis and your feedback we agree with you: It's time for some of the servers to combine numbers to ensure the best play experience for all.

We know some of you have questions as to why we may have waited so long for this moment, and the answer is simple. Server consolidations, or Evolutions, in ArcheAge require players to give up their land. For some of you this isn't much of a problem -- you've packed light and you're ready to cross blades with a new opponent. For others, the land you own has defined you and your play for years. Your land could be anything from a small farmhouse to a multi-region nation. Your land means a lot to you, and to be asked to give it up is not easy. This is why we've waited for as long as we could, and made sure to encourage players to make use of the server transfer system if they were looking for a higher population server with a new challenge.

But the time has come, and an Evolution is now the best way forward for the game as a whole. Some of you will be excited to hear this, others will be nervous, and we understand that. Today's announcement comes with a comprehensive look at how this year's Evolution will take place, and outline the options you have. The team is working hard to benefit all players of ArcheAge with this move, and we’re certain you’re going to notice many improvements over last year’s Evolution process. We’ll also make sure we leave our communication channels open with you so we can answer your questions and address your concerns in the coming months.

Please read through the following FAQ, and watch for further information on forums, in livestreams and social media as we move closer to Server Evolutions this September.

A Server Evolution is similar to a server merge that you’d see in other online games, except those affected by it will be moved to a new server rather than a currently existing server. We perform Server Evolutions in ArcheAge to give everyone involved the most equal chance at claiming land and castles in their new homes.

If we performed normal server merges, players from the lower population server would be placed into a pre-existing lower population server, where land is already claimed and castles are already built and one group may already have a significant advantage. That’s not exactly fair for those who have their homes and castles taken away.

In order to give everyone the same shot at claiming land and territory, we perform Server Evolutions instead.

After carefully looking at the active populations of all servers, we have determined which Legacy servers will be involved in the Evolution process and how they will be combined. After this process, the active character numbers on the new servers will roughly equal those of unaffected servers.

North America

• Ollo, Tahyang, and Salphira will be evolved into CONVICTION.
• Morpheus, Nazar, and Hanure will be evolved into THUNDERWING.

Europe

• Kyprosa, Dahuta, and Rangora will be evolved into TEMPEST.
• Leviathan, Anthalon, and Sirothe will be evolved into RETRIBUTION.

Legacy servers not affected by the Evolution will accept incoming players through the server transfer service. These servers are Aranzeb, Kyrios, and Kraken in North America and Shatigon and Eanna in Europe.

Our Fresh Start servers – Reckoning, Vengeance, and Prophecy – will not be affected by the Evolution.


If you do not want to participate in the Evolution of your server, you will be able to perform a one-time, free transfer of your characters to one of the servers on your region that is not affected by the Evolution and is not a Fresh Start server (Reckoning, Vengeance, Prophecy.)

At the start of the Evolution transfer service, all accounts will be granted 10 temporary credits and the price of Transfers will be reduced to 1 credit. This will allow you to make use of the transfer service for free. These 10 credits will expire after the transfer period.

You can refer to this in depth article on the Transfer System. (Again, this will be a one-time, 1 credit transfer, not 2700 credits, and all accounts will be given 10 temporary credits before August 16 to make sure they can use the service for free.)

Important: Please be aware that we may shut off transfers to a specific server if it receives too many transfer requests. Transfers are on a first come, first serve basis. (Example: If too many players elect to transfer to Kraken, we may discontinue transfers to Kraken, but still allow transfers to Aranzeb, Kyrios, etc.)

Available Transfer Dates: August 16th - 29th, 2017, with transfers ending on August 30th, 2017. Exact start and end times to be announced officially as we get closer to the Server Evolutions.

The benefit of choosing the transfer option is being able to take your character to an established server that will not be affected by the evolution, for free. You get to choose where you go, and who you want to join. At any point in the 2 week window, you will be able to transfer at your own convenience.

The downside to choosing this option is the limitations of the transfer system: transferred characters cannot be part of a guild, castles and nations cannot be transferred, and all items to be transferred must fit within a character’s inventory and warehouse. Placed properties must be demolished or kitted before transfer. Characters that stay and are moved to the new Evolution server instead will have additional handling of some of these assets – read below!

Additionally, characters who transfer will not receive an Evolution compensation pack.

If you choose to stay on your server (or if you take no action to transfer), your characters will be involved in the upcoming Evolution. Once complete, your characters will live on the final Evolution server noted above.

The benefits of being a part of the Evolution include a more-complete reimbursement of items you’d normally lose during a transfer (including Guilds, Families, and Nations), as well as extra compensation. You also don’t have to pack up all of your items into limited inventory space in order to make the move.

The downside to choosing this option is that you will not be able to choose where you go, and re-placing properties will involve a server-wide “land rush” – a period of time where players move quickly to claim land.

During the Evolution [Option 2 above] you will receive the following:

• All of your fully-built homes/farms/structures will be reimbursed as full kits. Full kits are housing designs that can be immediately placed in the world without requiring any resources or labor to build. You will also receive Bound Tax Certificates equal to the security deposit of your home + five weeks worth of tax payments, regardless of your pre-pay status.
• Furniture items in your home will be returned to you via the standard demolition process, and that includes items in chests. Items that are normally not returned due to a demolition will be returned to you after the Evolution is completed. Livestock and plants will not be returned to you. Décor Limit Increases will be re-sent to you after the Evolution is completed. The full list and more information on how this works will be presented on August 16.
• Families will be disbanded, but the family owner will be reimbursed any used Family Growth Tickets and used Family Name Change Tickets after the Evolution. Families will need to be re-formed once you arrive on your Evolution server, but the prior Family owner will receive items to increase your family level to what it was prior to the evolution.
• Guilds will be disbanded, outside of the Guild Leader, who will keep the Guild Name. Upon arriving in the Evolution server, the Guild Leader will have to re-invite his Guild Members. Guild Leaders will also receive Guild Contribution items and Guild Ribbons to restore their Guild Level.
• UCC Items and Crest Inks cannot be carried over. Instead, players will receive a compensation of a Bound Crest Brainstorm for each item that has a UCC and each Crest Ink you possess.
• Arena ranking information will be preserved as-is.
• Heroes will be removed and no Heroes will be on the council until the next election cycle. Any player who was an active hero at the time of the Evolution will be gifted a Golden Hero reward after the Evolution.
• Diamond Shores Faction Bases will start at Level 1 and their portals will be activated. Players will have to rebuild the bases in order to claim castles and land in Auroria.
• Nations will be disbanded outside of the Sovereign, who will keep the Nation name. Despite not owning a castle, Sovereigns will be able to invite new citizens to their nation as long as they are over level 50. If a Sovereign owns a Golden Wyvern mount, it will be preserved in their inventory as normal. If the Golden Wyvern is not fully completed before the Evolution, any progress made on it will be lost.
• Castle Lords will receive a compensation package for each of their fully-built castle structures. Details of those packages will be released on August 16.
• As the Evolution downtime will take 2+ days to be completed, all players will be gifted +7 extra patron days if they are patrons during the Evolution.
• Finally, every character involved in the Evolution will be given a special Evolution package which will include the unique title, a temporary Any-Post Owl for use on the new Evolution server, bound hereafter stones, and more. More information on this pack will be delivered on August 16.
• All items delivered to you via System Mail, such as your house demolitions, Evolution Compensation, Guild Compensation, Family Compensation, Lord Compensation, Hero Compensation and more will last for 1 year. Don’t worry about those items expiring unexpectedly or quickly out of your mailbox!

When will all of this take place?

Here are our current dates for everything related to the Evolution process:

August 16th: Official compensation plans will be announced in detail. 1 Credit Transfers will begin.

August 30th: 1 Credit Transfers end. At this time, specific 7 day buffs will be blocked so no one can use them by accident and lose them early, and character creation on evolving worlds will be closed.

September 4^th: Auction Houses will be locked. No new auctions can be created on any server.

September 7-9^th: ArcheAge will be unavailable as we perform Evolution related maintenance.

September 9^th: Europe and North America will be brought back online at separate times. During these periods, we will launch a single server at a time in order to control server loads and give everyone a chance to log in. AFK kick will be enabled on Evolution worlds. During this time there may be queues on Evolution worlds due to the number of players attempting to log in at once.


We will be monitoring servers closely. Anyone who abuses an exploit or uses a “land hack” will find their house swiftly demolished, and their account will receive disciplinary action to be determined by the Customer Service team. Don’t do it!

Additionally, our normal land rush rules will be in effect after the Evolution. You may only have two unbuilt plots per account at any one time, and the other rules will apply as well. Full Kits work around this rule as they are automatically completed once placed.

Yes! Peace will be enforced in all zones for 24 hours after the launch of the new Evolution servers. This way players will have the best shot at claiming land without undue conflict.

We have not yet set a date for when we will open transfers to the new Evolution Servers. Please watch for future announcements.

There is no limit for anything you are wearing, anything in your inventory, or anything in your warehouse. Items being returned to you via mail will last 1 year in your mailbox.

These items will be copied and returned to you after the evolution. Never fear, your Fish Trophies and more will be saved. We’ll have more information on this on August 16.

We are planning to reimburse the Lords of castles for each of the buildings they have placed in their domain, but more information on this will be given on August 16.

We will detail how Evolution name conflicts will work on August 16. In the case of transferring, if you transfer to a server where someone already has your name, you will be asked to choose a new name during the transfer process.

It is not returned as a kit. Only fully completed houses are returned as a full kit. The standard design will be returned to you instead.

Yes, a priority system will be in place for Patrons during the opening of the Evolution servers.

Yes, AFK Kick will be enabled on the new Evolution servers during their launch.

North America and Europe servers will be brought online separately and at different times. This is to appropriately manage load on the servers. A more detailed plan will be released as we approach the live date.

Yes, character creation will be disabled starting on August 30.

All Patrons will receive +7 days of patron for free after we arrive on the other side of Evolutions!

Some recent mail will be kept, but most will not be. Please use the time prior to the Evolution to clean out your mailbox as we cannot guarantee which messages will make it to your new address.

Your friends list will be kept intact, and those who may change their names will be listed on your list under their new names.

Your custom teleport list will be wiped in order to make sure no one has an advantage when claiming land on the Evolution server. The main teleport points in the game (dungeons, cities, etc.) will remain intact.

New evolution servers will start off without heroes until the next election cycle begins. All of your previous benefits as a hero will be removed, including your cloak.

If you were a hero elected to office before the evolution, you will be given the Golden Hero reward after the Evolution, regardless of your leadership or rallying call use.

No, all custom crests are wiped as we have no way to transfer them – they are unique to a server. However, for every “crest stamp” that you have created and for each of your items that holds a custom crest, we’ll compensate with a crest brainstorm.

No, pirates may spawn on Growlgate Isle but they are free to port to any static location that they may have obtained during their green life. Please note that all contested zones on Haranya and Nuia will be set to peace for 24 hours and that pirates cannot be attacked during peace.

For now, the only packs we are intentionally removing are Purified Archeum Packs. All others can accompany you with the transfer evolution with unless we identify an additional category that should be removed.

Currently the only items that are server specific are Siege Scrolls. These will be removed automatically should you be in possession of one.

If you still have more questions, we want to be sure to answer them! We will answer all of the questions you may have regarding the Server Evolutions on a weekly basis. Simply stop by our brand new “Server Evolutions and You” thread in the official forums, and ask away!

Discuss this announcement on the official forums!

Greetings all Adventurers, great and small!

Over the past year, we've seen a lot of discussion among players about the need for server consolidation. The number of players in each server is critical to the dynamic world of ArcheAge, and that’s why the team has monitored it so closely. In short, after our analysis and your feedback we agree with you: It's time for some of the servers to combine numbers to ensure the best play experience for all.

We know some of you have questions as to why we may have waited so long for this moment, and the answer is simple. Server consolidations, or Evolutions, in ArcheAge require players to give up their land. For some of you this isn't much of a problem -- you've packed light and you're ready to cross blades with a new opponent. For others, the land you own has defined you and your play for years. Your land could be anything from a small farmhouse to a multi-region nation. Your land means a lot to you, and to be asked to give it up is not easy. This is why we've waited for as long as we could, and made sure to encourage players to make use of the server transfer system if they were looking for a higher population server with a new challenge.

But the time has come, and an Evolution is now the best way forward for the game as a whole. Some of you will be excited to hear this, others will be nervous, and we understand that. Today's announcement comes with a comprehensive look at how this year's Evolution will take place, and outline the options you have. The team is working hard to benefit all players of ArcheAge with this move, and we’re certain you’re going to notice many improvements over last year’s Evolution process. We’ll also make sure we leave our communication channels open with you so we can answer your questions and address your concerns in the coming months.

Please read through the following FAQ, and watch for further information on forums, in livestreams and social media as we move closer to Server Evolutions this September.

A Server Evolution is similar to a server merge that you’d see in other online games, except those affected by it will be moved to a new server rather than a currently existing server. We perform Server Evolutions in ArcheAge to give everyone involved the most equal chance at claiming land and castles in their new homes.

If we performed normal server merges, players from the lower population server would be placed into a pre-existing lower population server, where land is already claimed and castles are already built and one group may already have a significant advantage. That’s not exactly fair for those who have their homes and castles taken away.

In order to give everyone the same shot at claiming land and territory, we perform Server Evolutions instead.

After carefully looking at the active populations of all servers, we have determined which Legacy servers will be involved in the Evolution process and how they will be combined. After this process, the active character numbers on the new servers will roughly equal those of unaffected servers.

North America

• Ollo, Tahyang, and Salphira will be evolved into CONVICTION.
• Morpheus, Nazar, and Hanure will be evolved into THUNDERWING.

Europe

• Kyprosa, Dahuta, and Rangora will be evolved into TEMPEST.
• Leviathan, Anthalon, and Sirothe will be evolved into RETRIBUTION.

Legacy servers not affected by the Evolution will accept incoming players through the server transfer service. These servers are Aranzeb, Kyrios, and Kraken in North America and Shatigon and Eanna in Europe.

Our Fresh Start servers – Reckoning, Vengeance, and Prophecy – will not be affected by the Evolution.


If you do not want to participate in the Evolution of your server, you will be able to perform a one-time, free transfer of your characters to one of the servers on your region that is not affected by the Evolution and is not a Fresh Start server (Reckoning, Vengeance, Prophecy.)

At the start of the Evolution transfer service, all accounts will be granted 10 temporary credits and the price of Transfers will be reduced to 1 credit. This will allow you to make use of the transfer service for free. These 10 credits will expire after the transfer period.

You can refer to this in depth article on the Transfer System. (Again, this will be a one-time, 1 credit transfer, not 2700 credits, and all accounts will be given 10 temporary credits before August 16 to make sure they can use the service for free.)

Important: Please be aware that we may shut off transfers to a specific server if it receives too many transfer requests. Transfers are on a first come, first serve basis. (Example: If too many players elect to transfer to Kraken, we may discontinue transfers to Kraken, but still allow transfers to Aranzeb, Kyrios, etc.)

Available Transfer Dates: August 16th - 29th, 2017, with transfers ending on August 30th, 2017. Exact start and end times to be announced officially as we get closer to the Server Evolutions.

The benefit of choosing the transfer option is being able to take your character to an established server that will not be affected by the evolution, for free. You get to choose where you go, and who you want to join. At any point in the 2 week window, you will be able to transfer at your own convenience.

The downside to choosing this option is the limitations of the transfer system: transferred characters cannot be part of a guild, castles and nations cannot be transferred, and all items to be transferred must fit within a character’s inventory and warehouse. Placed properties must be demolished or kitted before transfer. Characters that stay and are moved to the new Evolution server instead will have additional handling of some of these assets – read below!

Additionally, characters who transfer will not receive an Evolution compensation pack.

If you choose to stay on your server (or if you take no action to transfer), your characters will be involved in the upcoming Evolution. Once complete, your characters will live on the final Evolution server noted above.

The benefits of being a part of the Evolution include a more-complete reimbursement of items you’d normally lose during a transfer (including Guilds, Families, and Nations), as well as extra compensation. You also don’t have to pack up all of your items into limited inventory space in order to make the move.

The downside to choosing this option is that you will not be able to choose where you go, and re-placing properties will involve a server-wide “land rush” – a period of time where players move quickly to claim land.

During the Evolution [Option 2 above] you will receive the following:

• All of your fully-built homes/farms/structures will be reimbursed as full kits. Full kits are housing designs that can be immediately placed in the world without requiring any resources or labor to build. You will also receive Bound Tax Certificates equal to the security deposit of your home + five weeks worth of tax payments, regardless of your pre-pay status.
• Furniture items in your home will be returned to you via the standard demolition process, and that includes items in chests. Items that are normally not returned due to a demolition will be returned to you after the Evolution is completed. Livestock and plants will not be returned to you. Décor Limit Increases will be re-sent to you after the Evolution is completed. The full list and more information on how this works will be presented on August 16.
• Families will be disbanded, but the family owner will be reimbursed any used Family Growth Tickets and used Family Name Change Tickets after the Evolution. Families will need to be re-formed once you arrive on your Evolution server, but the prior Family owner will receive items to increase your family level to what it was prior to the evolution.
• Guilds will be disbanded, outside of the Guild Leader, who will keep the Guild Name. Upon arriving in the Evolution server, the Guild Leader will have to re-invite his Guild Members. Guild Leaders will also receive Guild Contribution items and Guild Ribbons to restore their Guild Level.
• UCC Items and Crest Inks cannot be carried over. Instead, players will receive a compensation of a Bound Crest Brainstorm for each item that has a UCC and each Crest Ink you possess.
• Arena ranking information will be preserved as-is.
• Heroes will be removed and no Heroes will be on the council until the next election cycle. Any player who was an active hero at the time of the Evolution will be gifted a Golden Hero reward after the Evolution.
• Diamond Shores Faction Bases will start at Level 1 and their portals will be activated. Players will have to rebuild the bases in order to claim castles and land in Auroria.
• Nations will be disbanded outside of the Sovereign, who will keep the Nation name. Despite not owning a castle, Sovereigns will be able to invite new citizens to their nation as long as they are over level 50. If a Sovereign owns a Golden Wyvern mount, it will be preserved in their inventory as normal. If the Golden Wyvern is not fully completed before the Evolution, any progress made on it will be lost.
• Castle Lords will receive a compensation package for each of their fully-built castle structures. Details of those packages will be released on August 16.
• As the Evolution downtime will take 2+ days to be completed, all players will be gifted +7 extra patron days if they are patrons during the Evolution.
• Finally, every character involved in the Evolution will be given a special Evolution package which will include the unique title, a temporary Any-Post Owl for use on the new Evolution server, bound hereafter stones, and more. More information on this pack will be delivered on August 16.
• All items delivered to you via System Mail, such as your house demolitions, Evolution Compensation, Guild Compensation, Family Compensation, Lord Compensation, Hero Compensation and more will last for 1 year. Don’t worry about those items expiring unexpectedly or quickly out of your mailbox!

When will all of this take place?

Here are our current dates for everything related to the Evolution process:

August 16th: Official compensation plans will be announced in detail. 1 Credit Transfers will begin.

August 30th: 1 Credit Transfers end. At this time, specific 7 day buffs will be blocked so no one can use them by accident and lose them early, and character creation on evolving worlds will be closed.

September 4^th: Auction Houses will be locked. No new auctions can be created on any server.

September 7-9^th: ArcheAge will be unavailable as we perform Evolution related maintenance.

September 9^th: Europe and North America will be brought back online at separate times. During these periods, we will launch a single server at a time in order to control server loads and give everyone a chance to log in. AFK kick will be enabled on Evolution worlds. During this time there may be queues on Evolution worlds due to the number of players attempting to log in at once.


We will be monitoring servers closely. Anyone who abuses an exploit or uses a “land hack” will find their house swiftly demolished, and their account will receive disciplinary action to be determined by the Customer Service team. Don’t do it!

Additionally, our normal land rush rules will be in effect after the Evolution. You may only have two unbuilt plots per account at any one time, and the other rules will apply as well. Full Kits work around this rule as they are automatically completed once placed.

Yes! Peace will be enforced in all zones for 24 hours after the launch of the new Evolution servers. This way players will have the best shot at claiming land without undue conflict.

We have not yet set a date for when we will open transfers to the new Evolution Servers. Please watch for future announcements.

There is no limit for anything you are wearing, anything in your inventory, or anything in your warehouse. Items being returned to you via mail will last 1 year in your mailbox.

These items will be copied and returned to you after the evolution. Never fear, your Fish Trophies and more will be saved. We’ll have more information on this on August 16.

We are planning to reimburse the Lords of castles for each of the buildings they have placed in their domain, but more information on this will be given on August 16.

We will detail how Evolution name conflicts will work on August 16. In the case of transferring, if you transfer to a server where someone already has your name, you will be asked to choose a new name during the transfer process.

It is not returned as a kit. Only fully completed houses are returned as a full kit. The standard design will be returned to you instead.

Yes, a priority system will be in place for Patrons during the opening of the Evolution servers.

Yes, AFK Kick will be enabled on the new Evolution servers during their launch.

North America and Europe servers will be brought online separately and at different times. This is to appropriately manage load on the servers. A more detailed plan will be released as we approach the live date.

Yes, character creation will be disabled starting on August 30.

All Patrons will receive +7 days of patron for free after we arrive on the other side of Evolutions!

Some recent mail will be kept, but most will not be. Please use the time prior to the Evolution to clean out your mailbox as we cannot guarantee which messages will make it to your new address.

Your friends list will be kept intact, and those who may change their names will be listed on your list under their new names.

Your custom teleport list will be wiped in order to make sure no one has an advantage when claiming land on the Evolution server. The main teleport points in the game (dungeons, cities, etc.) will remain intact.

New evolution servers will start off without heroes until the next election cycle begins. All of your previous benefits as a hero will be removed, including your cloak.

If you were a hero elected to office before the evolution, you will be given the Golden Hero reward after the Evolution, regardless of your leadership or rallying call use.

No, all custom crests are wiped as we have no way to transfer them – they are unique to a server. However, for every “crest stamp” that you have created and for each of your items that holds a custom crest, we’ll compensate with a crest brainstorm.

No, pirates may spawn on Growlgate Isle but they are free to port to any static location that they may have obtained during their green life. Please note that all contested zones on Haranya and Nuia will be set to peace for 24 hours and that pirates cannot be attacked during peace.

For now, the only packs we are intentionally removing are Purified Archeum Packs. All others can accompany you with the transfer evolution with unless we identify an additional category that should be removed.

Currently the only items that are server specific are Siege Scrolls. These will be removed automatically should you be in possession of one.

If you still have more questions, we want to be sure to answer them! We will answer all of the questions you may have regarding the Server Evolutions on a weekly basis. Simply stop by our brand new “Server Evolutions and You” thread in the official forums, and ask away!

Discuss this announcement on the official forums!