Hello Community!

Great news! We have looked under all the benches in the local taverns and maybe engaged in some sneaky endeavours with some Nord Thieves... and finally scrounged up enough gold to Pray To Odin and he has answered.

I am very excited to say that these are the most powerful servers we have ever managed to get before, and see significant improvements to CPU etc, and are hosted out the same data centre we had used previously. Additionally, after alot of rework and effort, I have managed to get everything updated to work reliably with the latest versions of many dependencies as well as delivering some significant improvements to how we manage the servers.

During load testing, we have found that even spawning twice the number of bots as is normally possible still managed to maintain a playable experience (though incredibly insane) and the ping for UK testers averaged 25ms, whilst US testers saw an average of 105ms, which also represents significant improvements to the previous NI servers. 

So, please, go ahead and enjoy and let us know if there are any issues. And thank you all for bearing with us as we worked to deliver these improvements. I am sorry it's taken so long to get to here but hopefully this will deliver that experience we all have been craving for and hope to see you back out there in game soon, and thanks to Midren and Terath for their persistence in getting this fixed.

/Nao

PS: And they even have the latest maps!!!

Hello fellow Swadians,

the following maps have recieved a rework (live on at least EU and NA):

Coastal Raid
Forest Outpost
Fortress under Siege
Frosthaven
Handes Retreat
Keancuop Forest
Lake Town
Mountain Pass

If you do encounter any issues with / bugs on these maps, please message Midren and/or Dragonfire directly.
Midren and Dragonfire have provided us with the latest edits, thank you guys a lot!

~ Julia
and the NI-Team

Hello everyone,

our active TA's have completed their trial period and additionally Kaas has returned to admining.

~ Julia

A great victory was won by Swadia, felling the devious cutthroat Nord bandits Ulfric Winterclaw, Jorund Midrenfang, Sigvar Multistorm, and Sigrun Natureswrath!

With this victory, we have secured the near future of the war effort, and can focus more on building up the strength of our forces.

House Crafting

• Captains can now use the House Crafting system to further increase the strength of the faction.
  
• Captain House Crafting will need to be separately leveled from the Leader's, allowing for a single House to level all three House Crafting professions.
  
• Leader characters already in a House can leave their current House and regain access to their House Crafting upon being promoted to Leader or Captain in a new House.
  

• Sergeants have been granted permission to invite members to their respective houses.
  
• Sergeants may now request House Events. We will require that House Events be requested from the House hosting the Event from this point onwards.
  
• Sergeants will also be able to edit the MotD.
  

Hello fellow Swadians!

The craftsmen of many Houses specializing in Support crafting have been hard at work perfecting their distilling techniques, and some advancements have been made! They can now distill Awakened Legendary items. Additionally, reports have begun to indicate that Nords have begun carrying a strange new Legendary Dust. Our craftsmen have been hard at working experimenting with this dust and have discovered a way to distill this strange material into Legendary Essence.

Crafting

• Added "20x Black Steel" to level 18 Blacksmith
  
• Added Distill Awakened Legendary recipes to Support
  
• Added "Distill Legendary Dust" to level 20 Support
  

• Royal Guard -1 Shield (11)
  
• Legionnaire -1 Power Throw (6)
  
• Zweihander +1 Athletics (7)
  

• Pavise Champion +1 Athletics (8) (no, you will not get any more, stop asking)
  

Hello everyone,

admin applications have been open for quite some time now and we were pleased by the amount of applications as well as the amount of good candidates.
You're still welcome to apply, as there surely will be more appointments in the upcoming weeks and moths.

For now, I'd like to officially announce the return of Spirit as Game Admin and Reskan as Trial Admin and welcome them "back on board".
Additionally, we've selected 6 candidates to join the staff team. They will get their permissions and introductions within the next few days.
Please join me in welcoming Andrea, DagBoy, Julianature, Mino, Multizone and Nana as our newest Trial Admins.

Kind regards,
Julia and the NI-team

Hello fellow Swadians,

We have a special announcement for everyone: today marks the beginning of our celebration of the Spring Festival of 2025! We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for supporting NordInvasion for all these years. The NI Development team has been amazed by and is so grateful for your resilience and your passion in enjoying this game that we've put so much time and effort into. When I first returned to the game a couple months ago, I was amazed to see so many still playing the game and greatly enjoyed getting to meet all of the new players, as well as reconnect with some old friends. This community can be incredibly helpful and kind, especially to those newly starting out, and it took no time at all to be caught up with all of the great new features I had missed in my years of absence. You all are truly an amazing community and we are thankful to have you. Please take some time during this event to appreciate your fellow players as well, members of the community without whom this game would not exist.

We've prepared an array of items to celebrate, including Nuts and Fruits, Red Envelopes, and Firecrackers. The Nuts and Fruits make for great snacks, and we've put lovely gifts in the Red Envelopes for all of our players. The Firecrackers we are especially proud of, as they are loaded with a strange dust we recently found that makes for especially beautiful explosions...

Of course, the Nords couldn't let us celebrate in peace and have made off with the items we prepared. Slay them to collect the gifts we prepared for you!

Additionally, XP and Gold will be increased by 50% throughout the event to help new players level up and join us on the battlefield.

This event starts now and ends February 12th.

Best wishes,
The NI Development Team

Hello fellow Swadians!

We bring you more great news!

In order to accomodate our new NA recruits, we have obtained NA servers.

Special thanks for Midren for working tirelessly over the past few weeks to set this up.

Thank you,
The NI Development Team