Assalamu Alikum Challengers!
Finally we released the update that everyone was waiting for... The War of Emperium, and damn how fun the first siege was! (O' yeah... it was broken, but anyway...) We'd like to apologize about this and at the same time would like to assure everyone that we are working on a fix for it!
The boys from "Artefact" Guild were so aggressive, after 30 minutes from the patch they managed to compete with "Ninja" Guild and take control of the Payon and Geffen castles and clear all the monsters on them, winning 6 treasure boxes.
Unfortunately, during the first siege at night, something awry happened and the Emperium Crystals did not show up! Not wanting to dissapointing everyone, we tried to apply the settings and reboot the server but the problem did not get fixed. Not only that, the guild that took the castle after the server rebooted did not leave a record on the database.... This means that the guild will lose it's ownership of the castle after the Tuesday maintenance!
Due to this reason, we would like to schedule a longer maintenance session on Tuesday (16th March 2010) to rectify the issue. To ensure fairness, a one-time only Castle Siege will be opened on 16th March 2010, 9 - 11 PM (GMT+2). After that, the castle siege time will return to it's normal schedule.
Last but not least, here's a candid shot we captured during the siege last week!

Thank you for your continuous support and feedback. See you in Ragnarok Online!