As Avaria nears the release of their first expansion they have made some announcements regarding many improvements to their game and the technology that drives it.  Here is what they had to say:

With the upcoming upgrade and expansion closing in we wanted to get some pertinent information in regard to them out to you. First, we have some new technology that will be implemented into our servers. This new technology will increase smooth out game-play and reduce latency for players. We will be using the Atlanta server as the launch platform for these new upgrades in technology. In conjunction to these planned hardware upgrades for our Atlanta server we will be closing the Cali server. We are going to migrate all of the players' characters on Cali to Atlanta. This means you can have up to 6 characters on your Atlanta account if you migrate 3 from Cali. You can only create up to 3 characters so if you delete any characters (if you have more than 3) you will not be able to recreate them. As you know we have been saying that the weapons upgrade is going to be free to all players, as have been our past upgrades. That means all players, either existing right now, or coming in the future, will get all of the weapon and item upgrades for free. The Kingdom expansion is going to be our first paid expansion pack. This will sell for $19.95, but is free to everyone that pre-purchased the gold edition. To honor this you must have stamp date of 08/01/02 on your account. The following is what will be included in the Kingdom expansion -  1 new world (about twice the size of Boom Town) that can be conquered and controlled by clans, team battle towers  19 new quests  20 new creatures  New weapons (duals, +)  New jet packs (each race has at least 6 now)  Special items (magic items and tools)  New Easter Eggs Check out the news for upgrade and expansion updates!

For more information, please visit the official site at this link.