ReignOfBlood DENIED by charity, new competition & May's winner

June's Charity
This months Charity was going to be UniCef, they help children all over the world and also one of main charities which are helping with the Haiti Crisis. But after I setup the fund-raising page, I got this *DENIED* email:

Hello Ashley,

I wanted to make contact to inform you that we have unfortunately needed to remove your myfundraising page. Although we are very grateful for your support here at UNICEF, after careful consideration we have decided not to accept the funds raised through your ‘reign of blood’ game. We feel it would be inappropriate to accept funds raised through a vampire computer game. We are also guided by the public view and perceptions of companies in the UK. Whilst we understand that that these might not always be totally accurate, we must take these views into account in order to avoid any negative publicity.

I didn't realise charities could afford to push away donations. I guess a vampire game isn't good enough for them. Their loss!

UPDATE: They sent me another email.

So this months charity will be...

Everybody knows the Help For Heroes charity. We're going to do our bit to help those who are injured fighting in the current wars.

Thank you for all your continuous support & allowing us to be one the few online games that help out good causes (or at least try in some cases).

Real time Clock

If you've not already noticed (or read the last blog yet) we have a new ticking clock! Pretty cool huh? But remember, if it doesn't work properly in your browser/mobile device, you can turn it off the account options page.

May competition winner

Here is the winner for the may competition. Why? Simply because it speaks truth. Congratulations - Xenia Le Doux (319314) [ View Image ]

June Competition

This month's competition is being held in Greenwood. Special grams of dirt are hiding around inside caves, the top 3 players with the most amount of dirt found by the 30th June, will win 100 plasma, 30 plasma, and 10 plasma. Leaderboards will be put up later in the month.

Blood shortage
Battling activity is at a all time high. Although that's a good thing, but with the lack of ~20,000 blood filled accounts being killed an hour, there isn't enough to go around anymore. (Even with the 200-300 new vampires each day). We are working on more ways to get blood to you all. Yummy blood. Stay tuned.

Enjoy the weekend to come,
Ash

The evil 503 & new real time clock

The evil 503

I apologise for the recent 503 nonsense. We have found what is causing it, and taking several steps in order to stop it. I invest wisely into a good server back up system which backs up everything every hour without interfering with server performance. Because of this, we have made some server log changes to help prevent the 503s. They should happen a lot less (even at all now) but there a couple other improvements we'll be making to keep the game running as smooth as possible. Growing pains can be painful!


As for the midnight downtime last night, the server guys do apologise because inconveniently their mail server was doing a software update and they didn't get the notification. (They get notified as soon as the server is down). They have SMS alerts too now, so they're always in the know, keeping a close eye on RoB.

Real time clock

Oh yes, we have a ticking clock. It's quite mesmerizing too. If you don't like it, you can go to the accounts page and turn it back to the static clock.

Potions

People lurrveeee potions. People also lurrveee that a portion of the potion credit sales go to charity. Have an idea that would be cool for a potion? Trik is always open to new ideas. Click here to discuss.

Thanks!
Ash

Extra turns for the rest of May & toolbar campaign

For those what were on, RoB was down for about an hour this morning. The giant evil 503 was upon us. Thanks to our Facebook page likers you can all have the turns you missed from the top of hour with the promo code: may29down

Lottery jackpot

So the lottery rolled over AGAIN this weekend, the jackpot is currently over $330million. Someone is going to be rich next weekend, good luck all.

Charity packs
For a final push of Cancer Research UK charity pack sales, buy a charity pack  now and get +10 turns an hour until the end of the month. Everyone can enjoy an extra +5 turns an hour until the end of the today. We've not raised as much this month, so hopefully this last push will get a bit more added to the pot.

Toolbar Campaign
People are loving the RoB toolbar. I want to get as many people as possible downloading and using it.

Features:
- A link to the RoB homepage
- A variety of quick links to the most popular pages
- A link to all of Robs social networks and this blog
- Dedicated toolbar search, search for anything in RoB from the toolbar.

There is also a [ Give Feedback ] link where you can give feedback and suggest features you'd like to see. If we get 200 active users using the toolbar, all toolbar uses will receive a nice juicy promo code to use.

[ CLICK HERE to download the toolbar for free ] 

There is no chrome version yet, for which I apologise. There is currently no release date for a Chrome version. The toolbar works in IE and FF.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend!
Ash

War no surrender bonus, lag update & players buying charity packs

War no surrender bonus
Have no wars left and want to declare more? By trading your month's white flag and paying a one off fee, you will lose your ability to surrender a war for 30 days, but have 1 extra war this month. This is to give incentive to those who are at war to fight through their wars, and reward those who do not surrender.

May Competition
Only a week left to enter the may competition, show us how you RoB! Click here for more details.

Lottery jackpot

Another lottery rollover last week, with the jackpot at around $160million. How much do you think it'll reach this week?

Laaaaaag

I made many efforts last night trying to find the source of the top of hour lag, involved testing wars, removing news items etc and for the inconvenience I apologise. We've done some software upgrades and things are looking much better! The 59 past lag (Which isn't too bad as you're not battling then) I have a solution for also. For the inconvenience you can have a promocode: lagsuckz

Charity packs

Got in game cash to buy charity packs? These guys are buying packs wanting your hard earned in game cash:

Naz Jeeves Asrai (243761) selling charity packs with offers $5mil +
 Vince (436225)  is selling packs too, shoot them a blood letter to see what deals you can get.

Current active Auction: http://reignofblood.net/forum.php?step=viewposts&thread=14137

 Thanks for your patience & enjoy the weekend to come!
Ash