Due to the holidays the WoE on the 25th of December 2011 and 1st of January 2012 are cancelled (both trans and retro), the wednesday woe will happen as planned.
The War of Emperium Castles should have been rotated around this time, but the GM team has chosen to wait until June for it, so that better scheduled rotations can be done each June and December (Months 6 and 12 respectively).
Regional castles are swapped depending on which region has been used the least at the time of rotation. However, according to Pandora's WoE Castle files and information, Geffen is still the least used in the past several years. Due to this, the regions open for WoE will remain the same: Prontera, Geffen and Aldebaran. The castles will be changed to another of the same region, and Payon's region will be opened on the next rotation after June's.
Castle Rotation will happen on Sunday, June 18th, 2017, sometime during the nighttime (After both WoEs have happened). Read the previous post for more info.
heRO is deciding if there should be a change in the number of castles and our long WoE times. Please head to the related poll to voice your opinions on the potential changes.
As there are a total of 17 votes who favor the time change, we'll change the WoE time to the following:
Saturday 11:00AM server time: trans WoE
Saturday 1:00 PM server time: retro WoE
This will replace the Sunday time schedule. We don't have a date of implementation yet, but once we do, we will give at least one week notice. Please be aware that this may or may not happen at the same time as castle rotation though. This should happen within month of January, or early February at the latest.
As it is a tied vote of 10-10, neither side has reached any supermajority over the other. We will maintain the number of castles as is for now (total of 2 trans, 1 retro over the week.) However, this also points that a reasonable number of people are interested in closing castles. We may look at other ways/changes to WoE that may decrease the castle count instead.