Jolt

Jolt just announced the final races and changes for the new age, as well as the time line for freeze time. New for this age is the change of the utopia time. The server time will be -8 hours compared to earlier. According to Jolt Communtiy Director Lydias, this will allow Brian and Sean to be available when freeze time ends and provinces come out of protection.

All players will be able to access their new accounts less than 24 hours after Lydias' announcement. With a longer freeze period planned, the age will start ticking on October 27th corresponding to the following local times:

Los Angeles: Tuesday 27st October 01:00 * (Jan 1st YR 0)
New York: Tuesday 27st October 04:00 * (Jan 1st YR 0)
London/Dublin: Tuesday 27st October 08:00 (Jan 1st YR 0)

The long freeze period is allowing players plenty of time to sign up as well as ensuring Jolt that the ticks will start with the developers around to assist with potential errors.

The full post with information of the in game time, races, personalities' and other changes can be found here »

In an email currently being sent to all Utopia players, Jolt has announced that the new code that has been in testing since early this year will be used for the next round of Utopia.

In an announcement published today in the Utopia Developers Blog, the developers confirmed the suspected delays in the launch of the new code. The new deadline for Genesis will be a restart in 2 to 3 weeks, with WoL projected to start during the first or second week of October.

From the blog:

"At the start of this WoL age we were aiming at mid-September to re-launch on new code, but that’s not going to be possible now if we want to get these bugs fixed.