

Rumors speculated that he may not have been a true orc at all, but some kind of halfbreed, or perhaps he was raised in secret by another race entirely. Klurak the Beautiful: A vainglorious narcissist, Klurak has long been set apart from typical orcs, by having a taste for refinement and luxury.

Starting off, I'll be remaking one of my AoW 3 leaders now with a bio to provide some better context into who he is! Seeing as my Custom Faction Concepts thread has been decently popular, and now that we've gotten a lot more information about how the faction creation system works, I figured I'd make a new thread where we can share our glorified 'fanfictions' about our faction leaders. A feature which was sadly lacking in AoW 3. This is the first of a three-part series of blogposts on how we rebuilt our infrastructure over the course of ~5 months.One of the cooler changes introduced to AoW 4 creation system, is the ability to customize a bio / description for our factions. And now today, we're announcing that as a side effect of that infrastructure change, Hacker repls now run in newer, more powerful machines, which means that we'll have more room to grow and experiment with more benefits for Hackers (and you might find that things feel a little bit snappier lately). So back in October (just a few weeks after I joined the team) when we had 2 load-related site-wide outages within a week, we knew it was time to do a major overhaul of how our infrastructure handles traffic. We did a great job of making the platform more stable during last year, but every now and then we would still run into unforeseen problems that cascaded into other parts of the platform, producing a bad experience for everyone.

Having a solid foundation is critical for us to be able to fulfill our mission of making programming more accessible, more creative, and more fun.
