Server Maintenance - [March 18, 2025]

Age Of Empires Online Celeste Fan Project will undergo planned server maintenance on the 18th of March 2025.
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07:00 CET: The server will stop responding to login requests, meaning you will not be able to log on from this time.
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07:30 CET: Start of maintenance.
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08:00 CET: Expected end of maintenance.

 

Game server is now in maintenance mode and authentication has been disabled. Server maintenance will start in 28 min.

 

Server is shutting down now, expected downtime is 30 minutes.

 

Server back online!

(Note that the changes with separators in the mail interface are not yet live and will be added in a hotfix later)


Changelog:

• Balance Changes:
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• Sparta PvP Updates:
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• Map Updates:
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• Quest Updates:
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• Art Updates:
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• Champion Mode Changes:
  • Greeks:
    • Fire Ship: Movement Speed reduced to 11, from 12. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Egyptians:
    • Fire Ship: Movement Speed reduced to 11, from 12. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Celts:
    • Swanship: Baseline Crush Armor increased to 0.40, from 0.00.
  • Persians:
    • Ram Ship: Movement Speed increased to 9.5, from 8.5. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Romans:
    • Enneris: Baseline Crush Armor removed, from 0.30. Cost increased to 225w/150g, from 200w/150g. Attack Range reduced to 20, from 26 (anti-Building Attack Range remains unchanged)
  • Babylonians:
    • Ram Ship: Movement Speed increased to 9.5, from 8.5. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Norse:
    • Fire Ship: Movement Speed reduced to 11, from 12. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Indians:
    • Gada Warrior: Melee-Infantry Armor increased to 0.30, from 0.20.
    • War Elephant: Cost reduced to 200f/40g, from 225f/50g. Bonus vs Ranged increased to 2.5x, from 2.0x.
    • Juggernaut: Hitpoints reduced to 1880, from 1920. Cost increased to 320f/300g, from 320f/280g.
    • Fire Ship: Movement Speed reduced to 11, from 12. Train Time increased to 22s, from 20s.
  • Global:
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• Updated the Champion Mode Website to the latest build.

• UI Updates:
  • Coin amounts in the Empire Mail now display separators in the number display.
  • Renamed "COD" to "Request (COD)" in the Send Mail UI so that its meaning is clearer to the players.

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue where the quests would fail to spawn the player units on the Incursion quests in Athens (needs more public testing)
  • Fixed an issue where the celts had access to a 5th towncenter in Champion: Fabii you're a rich man.
  • Updated the starting groupings of several champion quests.
  • Legendary: Recapturing Alfheim (and other variants): Fixed an issue where one of the AI's started with age 4 armory upgrades while being in age 3.
  • Removed the misplaced star rating from The Golden Punch Bowl (Egyptian campaign quest)
  • Fixed player 2 sometimes not having a scout in The Elite Meet in Crete.
  • Winter Canyon: deleting the flagpole will no longer prevent the quest from completing.
  • Legendary: Invasion of Rome (and other variants): Made some adjustments to the map to prevent potential exploits.
  • Legendary: Defeat of Boudica (and other variants): Fixed an exploit with the optional objectives
  • Fixed an issue where the Epic variant of the Cattle Rustler (spawn Cow) consumable displayed the wrong tooltip.

• Other Updates:
  • Server restarts no longer change the featured region in the Quest Rotation System.
  • A region in the Quest Rotation System can no longer be featured twice in a row.
  • Bolstered Noose Pole: Now grants +363.4% Damage, from 269.8%.
  • Rock of Saturnalia (Winter Event Decoration): Can now be sold and traded.

• XLive Changes:
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• Backend Changes:
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