As a reminder, the Settlers Online servers will come down on Wednesday night at 11:45PM PT (2:45AM EST) for a 5 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 5:00AM (PT). During this time, the website may be down.

Be sure to follow the Settlers Online on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

Looking forward to all the fantastic things awaiting everyone in The Settlers Online in 2013 has our team reflecting back on the past year's in-game events. What was your favorite in-game event? Did collecting Easter Eggs make you grin, or was saving the world more your style? We have a great new poll up for everyone to share their opinion on this, on our Facebook page! Click on over and tell us what your favorite event was!

Click here to declare your #1 in-game event!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

Every single week, a new winner is selected to win 250 gems. It can be a silly picture, an impressive production layout, or a really cool decoration design! This week, Ron_El won for his screenshot titled "The Four Horsemen of A-Park-Alypse."

Click here to check out the submissions, as well as share your own!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

Can you defeat your fellow players in a battle of wits with Gems at stake? If you think you can, be sure to participate in GM Trivia every Friday at 10 PM EST (Zeus) and 10:30 PM EST (Ares). 50 Gems will be awarded to the first 5 players to answer each question correctly.

Click here for more information!

See you in game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

Some of you may have noticed a change in the titles below your names on the forums! After some discussion with players in game, we have come up with a new title scheme that fits the Settlers universe a little better!

In addition to this fun update, there is a new program we're going to be implementing. We have a great and robust Player Created Guides & Help section of our forum, where you guys educate fellow players by detailing adventures and giving advice. After watching how much of a boon this is to newer people, we wanted to start up a small program to aid in identifying those who are helpful. Players who have created multiple guides and are well-behaved on the forums will be receiving a new title: Settlers Guide.

Click here for a full list of the new titles & details.

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

As a quick reminder, our New Years Resolution contest ends this Friday at 8:59PM PST. Share with us what your Settlers are planning to accomplish during this new year, and you could win free Gems! Five lucky participants will win 250 Gems, and one grand prize winner will receive 1,000 Gems!

Click here to read the details & enter!

See you in game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

Every single week, a new winner is selected to win 250 gems. It can be a silly picture, an impressive production layout, or a really cool decoration design! This week, asaboi won for sharing something every gamer has experienced at one point or another (see what I did there?!):

Click here to check out the submissions, as well as share your own!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

With 2013 moving into full swing, we want everyone to start the New Year right: by entering to win free Gems! There are several great winter contests currently running, all of them with the opportunity to win gems or gem items. Listed below are links and descriptions of all our great forums events. Be sure to enter before they end, and good luck!

New Year Resolution Contest – Everyone has the resolutions they make at the start of each year, but what about our Settlers? Share their resolutions and you could win up to 1,000 gems!

Weekly GM Trivia – A quick reminder here that we do have GM trivia on both servers every Friday night. Each correct answer nets you 50 gems, and you can answer more than one question!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

We would like to wish you all a safe and happy New Year! An awesome resolution you could make is to be sure and enter our weekly screenshot contest! Every week, a new winner is selected to win 250 gems. It can be a silly picture, an impressive production layout, or a really cool decoration design! For instance, an awesome player named Mouldy won last week's contest with a picture of a flock of golden parrots:

Click here to check out the submissions, as well as submit your own!

See you in-game,

~BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager

The past year has been quite a ride, hasn’t it? We’ve seen lots of changes along the way, and some amazing people have joined our Settlers community. We here at The Settlers Online: Castle Empire are looking forward to 2013, and another great year with you all! In order to help your Settlers prepare, we’ve sent a small care package. There may even be a couple of left over presents for last minute shopping tucked between the granite and exotic wood!

Please check your in game mail for your gift. Have a safe and fun New Year!

See you in game,

BB_meesherbeans

Ubisoft Community Manager