This weeks rule set brings mobility back to the conquering game.

- You can again summon Dominators while warped.
- Gateway conquer cooldown dropped from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
- You can retire your pumps again as the penalty points for giving up conquered Gateway are back.
- You can Harvest your own and your teammates' Dominators when not too far from your physical location.

- Harvest made cheaper.
- Warchant back to its original self
- You get more points for destroying harvest ready Dominators.

Go!

Congratulations to the Animators!  After a tight campaign the Animators were able to seize the victory and take home the Fresh Tears campaign. During the campaign we saw the campaign image change color many times, which means the fight for gateways was fierce and plenty of spirits were donated.

Although the Animators won the campaign, the World Leaderboard was mostly crowded by the Architects:

1. mdmx - Architect - 100 potions
2. Reign - Animator - 50 potions
3. Shadows - Architect - 50 potions
4. patse - Architect - 50 potions
5. Saragorn - Architect - 50 potions

Congratulations to all!

The coming campaign's rule set will bring ...

We have seen the fierce battles and the epic wins just as the falls conquering nodes. It's time to expand and get some harvest time in.

In this weeks campaign you will get to see the following changes:
-Back to the roots. You can build dominators only from your physical location.
-Harvest is back with a vengeance. You can harvest all the friendly dominators, also on a warp.
-Simplify. Conquering a node will give you at least 50 points the first time you take it over plus the bid value effect.
-Cool down. When taking over a particular Gateway ...

After fierce campaign the Architects prevailed over the Animators.We congratulate the people of steampunk and follow with great interest which team will prevail in Fresh Tears campaign. The top scorers in A New Hope were:

1. The Gandalf - Animator
2. Phobius - Architect
3. Cruzan - Architect
4. Cloacamaxim - Architect
5. Sateenvarjo - Architect

Battle's up, mages!

First off, congratulation to the Architects for pulling off yet another win by taking Yule-Tide Fete week campaign. The World Leaderboard on the other hand looked much more colorful:

1. Panostaja (Architect) with 39887 Energy Gathered
2. Reign (Animator) with 31536 Energy Gathered
3. Zzu (Architect) with 30212 Energy Gathered
4. Moss (Architect) with 29495 Energy Gathered
5. The Gandalf (Animator) with 29262 Energy Gathered

Congratulations to all. Well done Mages!

The past week this was not all that was going on. We also had our iPad competition going in which one of those players who reached 5000 (five thousand ...

During the recent campaigns we have seen several epic battles around the city. We have heard many taking a tram around the city just to do hit-and-run drive-by-spell-casting, which I did as well with the consequence of missing my tram stop in the midst of fighting in Punavuori.

The other day we played Shadow Cities with iPad and loved drawing massive attack spells on its big touch screen. We figured we should reward those passionate players that have invested a lot of their time into battling over different neighborhood for their team by letting them also draw those big spells ...

The Architects win the Surge of Magic campaign with massive end game push! Seemingly half of the team had saved weeks worth of Spirits for just this kind of moment. Well played, sirs and madams.

This week's top players were:

1. Eldo - Animators - 100 mana potions


2. Fee - Architects - 50 mana potions


3. Hoomikko - Animators - 50 mana potions


4. Moss - Architects - 50 Mana potions


5. sds - Animators - 50 Mana potions

This week features two shorter campaigns. The Weekend Blitz will run with the same rules until Monday noon.

Last week introduced a fun set of battle rules to the game. The aim of the next couple of campaigns is to balance the battle rules with area control rules that provide bonus points for holding the conquered territory.

Here are the rules we're introducing today:

• Harvesting while in warp is back in a new form! You can harvest your own Dominators while in warp if you're not warped too far from your physical location. The range is roughly the area shown in the cloud view: you can harvest Dominators that you can see in the cloud view ...