After lots of internal discussion the admin team has decided to reset the Civclassic map.

We believe that continuing the current map is not a sustainable course of action. A combination of war gridlock, perma pearling and general staleness has turned the current map into barren soil on which no new civilizations can grow. The ongoing mass exodus towards a server run by crimeo and Stonato is more than enough proof regarding the poor state of health the server is in. We want to preempt its slow death by addressing the core issue causing these troubles and also fixing various other problems the server is facing in the process.

More posts detailing which changes will be made alongside this and a more detailed time line will follow once we have made sufficient progress in that regard.