Hi community,

Firstly, I hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Dongzhi, or Wednesday. Hopefully you have had a great holiday!

Secondly, with the hugely unfortunate passing of Irish this year, the post of Head of Admins was left vacant. I would therefore like to inform you all that Julia will be stepping up and taking on these responsibilities. They have absolutely massive shoes to fill - Irish is no small feat to follow - but they have proven themselves worthy of this opportunity and have been working to fulfil much of the gaps left in Irish's absence.

I hope you will all join me in congratulating Julia in this and working with them to continue making NI what it is today.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year,
Nao

Merry Christmas, fellow Swadians!

This year, we are bumping up the 1.5x XP to 2x XP! Unfortunately, the Christmas servers will not be making a return this year.

In addition to the usual Christmas Hats and Snowballs, there will also be one secret gift per game mode (Cavalry, Normal, Hard, Ragnarok) as well as one extra-special gift hidden on one of the game modes (PM me for the second piece of this gift). Be careful not to explode them away! Can you collect them all?

Hints for Gift Locations

Cavalry - Galloping in, they bring lute from afar!
Normal - They have traded in their old fiendish drop for something nice to bundle up in.
Hard - Under the tutelage of the King himself, these warriors need all the practice they can get!
Ragnarok - They bring gifts from Valhalla! If you die well, they may bring you back with them.
Super Secret - Sometimes dating is hard, but you never know where you may find the love of your life.

Its with great sadness I have to inform you of The Irish Eagles passing.
Arnie passed away this morning in hospital after a short illness.
its been many years since I played this game but I know Arnie devoted a lot of time to this game and the community and enjoyed it very much.
I have played many games with Arnie over the 20 years i have known him he always came back to NI

RIP Arnie 

Hello everyone,

I intend to get a bunch of maps fixed with issues which have been reported (by someone who appearently knows a lot, you might guess?)...

If you have any requests which maps should get additional healing tables, shrines or have other issues like buggy AI-mesh, please let me know below (or if need of a discussion, in a seperate thread of the mapping area).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hey all. Just letting you know I am putting a moratorium on any instances of Cavalry mode being played on the standard game-mode map pool, under any circumstance, event or otherwise. This includes both CN and EU servers and communities. Anybody who has played it should be able to admit that it is far from the way you were intended to play either game-mode; it bugs the enemy AI, causes issues with the server (potential server crash on using big healing station and more fun stuff), and to be honest it is just not the way the game was meant to be played. Anybody caught doing this will face punishment similar to breaking a rule from the current written rule-set (visible by clicking 'Rules' at the top of the Forum screen). Of course, there will be no retro-active punishment for this, as that'd be very lame, but going forward think of it as part of the game rules. From now on, if you want Cavalry mode loot, just play Cavalry mode.

For those asking "why now, so late in the game?": It seems nobody was around that was willing to enforce what should have been part of the standard rule set; game-mode swapping is something seems to have occurred in the past four years only or later, and I would have enforced it the same way back then as I am now. Unfortunately, I've only been active recently. I'm not traditionally an admin or developer that deals with these things, but I do think we as a community should maintain a modicum of respect for common sense to say "yeah, this probably shouldn't be allowed". Thank you for your understanding, and much more thanks to you guys for keeping playing all these years.

Legendary upgrade blueprints for November have been selected - all of them. The long trail of posts noting the rotation of recipes being randomly selected each month (along with my attempts to find a slightly different way to phrase each announcement) ends here with all recipes being available all the time. Perhaps this decision will be revisited in the future if there are unforeseen consequences but for now at least, they remain unforeseen.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will not be removed in approximately 24 hours.

October's group of legendary upgrade blueprints has been made available.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

The belated September legendary upgrade recipes are now available.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.