Merchant Alliance Battles and Changes to City Sieges

In the last weeks we asked for your opinions on the changes and expansions we have made to city battles in Bounty Bay Online. After having collected and evaluated your feedback we have created the following schedule which will be in effect on all servers starting on Wednesday 31/03/2010.

Aside from moving the times to the weekend we will also activate the Merchant Alliance Battles. Please see the following overview:

Overview of the new cities and the Merchant Alliance Battles schedule

Possible Friday at 20:00 CET - Merchant Alliance Battles
Every Saturday at 19:00 CET - Industrial Cities
Every Sunday at 18:00 CET - Commercial Cities
There will be no change to the bidding period (ends 24 hours prior), the time of espionage (30 min) and the time of the siege itself (3 hours).

Finally, a quick overview of the capital cities of the merchant alliances which will be enabled for the Merchant Alliance Battles:

Islamic Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Alexandria
Western Mediterranean Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Venice
Iberian Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Lisbon
English Channel Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Bordeaux
Netherlands Merchant Alliance - Capital City: Amsterdam
We hope you have lots of fun with these new battles!