tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36432298449721454762011-04-21T12:00:06.034-07:00An Ashen Empires fan-made news service. Rumors suck. Get the answers straight from the horse's mouth. We'll make you think and we'll give you the source. This is what the DEVs said.Nwellynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755693419776267522noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643229844972145476.post-57846802664171836642007-10-25T15:18:00.000-07:002007-10-25T15:22:12.389-07:00

The update's here. And that means a list of things that were changed. Here's what's new in the world of Ashen Empires.OneEye posted in 10/25 Patch Notes: New Store Items-Halloween Pack. A mask pack to turn you into your favorite halloween monsters. Halloween themed house items.-Wedding Set. Wedding themed armor and clothing.-Thanksgiving Set. A mask pack to turn you into a turkey, indian

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It's about time we had another update. OneEye's announced it, so it's officially expected now.OneEye posted in Servers down for update 10/25: The servers (H, L and Dransik) will be down for an update on Thursday, October 25th at 10am CST.Things we're looking forward to include:Eggs back in stores! [Source]Woodrow (Problems with Bats scroll quest) will move from Lotor's Castle to Lotor's Summer

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In case you haven't noticed, or you've been living under a rock (like me), Heroes has had quite a lot of downtime lately. Naturally this raises quite a lot of concerns and complaints. Luckily, there has been some dev response on this. And quite a lot of it as well.Zarquon told us what the issue was.Zarquon posted in You're not alone:The raid controller was timing out on the writes to the

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Catherine Firemane is a new member of our community that's stirring up some controversy with his (relatively) well thought out responses and participation on the forums. He recently asked a question and raised some issues with the LK/CK and Patron quests, focusing on why they were so different. OneEye responded to these issues.OneEye posted in Task Masters: Catherine, 2 and 3 of your points are

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As a mage, I've never personally experienced this bug. But it seems that several players have and constantly hold the DEVs responsible. The problem has (always) been that the DEVs cannot reproduce the bug, so it's incredibly difficult to fix.If you've got a sure-fire way to crash your client, it's best to try and find a way to reproduce it and then post about it. These are the best ways of

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A small hotfix to address some small bugs. Even one that had to deal with a particular, mischievous GMOneEye posted in 10/11 Hotfix: -Added Runecrafting Taskmaster-Tweaked Leatherworking Taskmaster values-Fixed several Shadow Quest issues-Fixed several spelling errors-Fixed Body Spells so Rauric can't crash the server again :)You can read about how Rauric crashed the server in this thread.

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Just a small nugget of info. In a discussion about possible Pvp tournaments, OneEye had this to say:OneEye posted in Supported Ongoing PvP Tournament: There is something new coming for PvP very soon (for both servers)

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It's been almost a year since the taskmasters were first introduced to Ashen Empires. At first, they were met with some resistance as some people believed that this would mean more people doing crafts and less people providing the "quality experiences" that fewer tradeskillers meant to the community. Now it seems that everyone's at least had some experience with the taskmasters.The problem,

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A long time ago, you used to be able to buy eggs from stores. This made cake and pie making a lot easier, since clicking on chickens and only getting one egg at a time was...well....not as egg-siting as it sounded ;) But it seems we're due for some love in the next full update.OneEye posted in Eggs in provision shops: added chicken eggs to provisioner shops for next full update.This might spell

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Looks like there's another opening for reporters. If you like to write for Ashen Empires, this is your chance to put your pen where your virtual parchment is.FujiQ posted in AE Reporter Opening: IWG will begin accepting applications to fill one spot on the AE Reporter team. To be considered, you must be an active and vocal community member with no past violations on your record. You also must be

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It's that time of year again. In a growing tradition, IWG will be holding it's 3rd annual Halloween event. This year, with more candy!FujiQ posted in Halloween Event 2007: Ready your weapons and clear your calendars, my friends, because this Halloween IWG invites you to a day of dungeon crawling, candy collecting, prize winning madness. It's going down at the Halloween dungeon which opens only

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Remember that downtime we were supposed to have?Burning Spear posted in No Server Downtime 10/4/2007: We managed to update everything without having to bring down the game servers.Assuming we don't discover a problem in the next hour or so there should be no down time.Gotta love the new hotfix system :)

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One has to wonder what the impact of this downtime will be.OneEye posted in System Downtime 10/4/2007: Ashen Empires and Dransik will be down starting at:09:00:00 Thursday October 4, 2007 CST / 14:00:00 Thursday October 4, 2007 GMTThis downtime is for routine maintenance. Stay tuned to the forums during the downtime for periodic updates on when the servers will be back and available.Maybe while

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Another hotfix with glorious hotfix goodies...OneEye posted in 9/17 Hotfix: -Dungeon logout timer fixed-2nd confirmation option added when rebuilding your house from a deed-Increased Broken Finger Lever Boss chance.I have no idea what the "dungeon logout timer" is. But points two and three are good news.

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Tempester started a sort of "help the homeless" topic when Dell accidentally had his house rebuilt when he clicked on a deed in the middle of his home.By the way, if you have a house and you click on a blueprint, you're asked if you want to rebuild the house. If you click yes, you lose everything in the home and you start back at an empty plot. This just goes to show you that you need to be

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Midnight started a thread not too long ago about how the bosses weren't spawning in the Broken Finger Dungeon. Well, it's not necessarily about how the bosses weren't spawning. It's more about how you're paying extra to get access to premium content and not receiving all the content. Naturally, this upsets those players who regularly go.Both FujiQ and OneEye had some information on the matter.

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Proof that they're still alive in Austin comes in the form of a couple of quick bug fixes.OneEye posted in 9/7/2007 Hotfix: -Mukkarama portal bug fixed-Lloyd Dogen quest bug fixedProbably related to this thread.

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I normally don't do this. And my goal for this blog wasn't to do any commentary beyond what's been posted by a DEV. But the latest responses to the new expansion just seem to be off the wall.Here's what we know about the current plans by the DEVs. We know this, because they've been posted. I've even blogged it in my previous entry, Another Expansion in the Works, and You Can Name It! But

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FujiQ let us in on some key information. It's been some time since we've heard any word about what's going on for AE.FujiQ posted in What has IWG been up to?: Hi Everyone,A lot of questions have been raised lately and I'm here to answer some of them for you. First, just to keep you in the loop, we've been spending a considerable amount of time on an update for Dransik. It's coming along very

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Seems the guy behind the now infamous GC scams is at it again.OneEye posted in selling/buying account posts: There have been a rash of "im buying a 100+ level account!" posts. Please note, that the person posting this is a known scammer, both in game and out of game via credit card and paypal fraud. Do not fall victim to this scam.Buying and selling accounts in general is not allowed. Accounts

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So I come home today and see this little nugget on the Announcement forum:OneEye posted in 8/13 Hotfix: -There is now a 5 minute grace period from when you logout/are disconnected from the game before you are teleported out of the various higher-end dungeons.-Alignment message should no longer be displayed if you have alignment lock enabled.Seems like an ordinary hotfix, right? Well, here's the

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Just a couple of bugs fixed today. Haven't seen a hotfix in a while!OneEye posted in 8/11 Hotfix: -Alchemy bug where only a single item was created-Proudblood Traitor should once again talk

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There's been talk from the DEVs regarding a new DEV. But they kept referring to him as "the new guy" or "him" or "he". Well, apparently he's been properly jumped in finally earned a name of himself!FujiQ posted in Welcome Dev Alanzo!: Hi Everyone,Please give a warm welcome to our newest Developer, Alanzo Dragor. He is training up on Dransik right now and will be moving to Ashen Empires soon.If

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If you use msn hotmail, then you have a problem (other than using MSN hotmail). According to the DEVs, hotmail's been bouncing support emails. So if you have an issue with support and you have a hotmail account, you'll never get a reply. FujiQ explains:FujiQ posted in Attention Hotmail Users: On behalf of the support team, I just want to remind everyone that we tend to discourage the use of

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I think everyone pretty much knew what kind of fallout to expect from the price reduction. Well, maybe not the exact type of fallout. But definitely we all knew someone was going to say something. Well, good news for those who did. IWG listened. And they've left a little sumthin sumthin for ya.FujiQ posted in Price Reduction Gift: Hi Everyone,We evaluated the commentary and opinions stated

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Quite a few people thought that the DEVs were pulling a fast one by shying away from the tougher questions. So they started asking them in the forums. And they got some answers.If you follow the forums pretty regularly, you'll get to know who the people are and what their prime concerns are. Leah, for example, usually talks about two major subjects: Hair and Quest Logs. Both of these

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AE's first "House of Commons" in game seemed to go off without many problems. People got to go to party island and meet the creators of the game.Leah was kind enough to go through her chat logs and pull out the questions answered by the DEVs. She's posted it on the forums. Here's a sample:Posted in Meeting with devs on servers ....:(Shout) (*GM) Wintergreen: OE - Nith asks when will the

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It's finally happened! The DEVs said that the price would slowly and gradually come down. Well, this is just the beginning.FujiQ posted in Subscription Price Reduction Hello Everyone,For the past couple of months, we've been talking about lowering the subscription price gradually until Ashen Empires is completely free to play. Today marks the beginning of that process! Check out the website to

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FujiQ updated the website with a bit more information about the Q&A mentioned in the newsletter. Most importantly, it shows the location of the portal to "Party Island".FujiQ posted on the Ashen Empires Website:Want to get some one on one time with OneEye? Have a burning question for Burningspear? Wait no more! We'll be holding a DEV Question and Answer session next Tuesday, July 31st, from 3pm

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Oh yes! What's better than free? You can't beat free.FujiQ posted on the Ashen Empires Website:The update and patch last week were quite time consuming. We'd like to make that up to our community and thank you all for your patience with a free weekend!Here's how it will work: If you're already a subscriber, we'll add three days to your subscription free of charge. Subscribers will receive their

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Found this little bit of randomness while perusing the boards. 420 brought up the old Quest log issue and this seemed to attract a post from FujiQ.FujiQ posted in Can We Have Quest Log PLZ?: we know the game needs a quest log. it's a huge project, worse than the hair fix. perhaps our newest employee can start out by tackling that project :)/me goes to hunt down this other announcment....New DEV?

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Updates galore! It seems that the website is really getting some use after all. With the new look and the new stat pages, you'd think everything was done. Well, almost. Check this out.FujiQ posted on the Ashen Empires Website: The website got cleaned-up this week and is feeling shiny! Here's a list of what's changed: Guilds and Combat pages are no longer empty.AE

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Remember those wedding bells? Remember how there was no cake?!? Oi! What's a wedding without the big cake anyway? Well, Lotor and Anne will make it up to us.FujiQ posted in on the Ashen Empires Website:King Lotor and Queen Anne would like to extend their gratitude to those who attended their wedding in June. The royal newlyweds would also like to thank you in person at their reception, which

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Lara Orcsplitter has (attempted to) open a discussion about the new Pay to play dungeon we got in this update. Of course, this has proved to be a very hot topic among the players. Some people see it as a ploy by IWG to get the players to pay more money while others see it as another option to enjoy the game for literally less than a dollar.All this discussion seems to have stirred the attention

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This has been a long time coming. Many people have been asking for the statistics pages for a long time. Finally, those people have an answer. And it's in the form of statistickey goodness.FujiQ posted in Statistics Page: The stats pages are live again! You can check them out here. Thank GM Siyone when you get the chance for

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I have to apologize for the lack of updates here. There's been a lot going on during the update process and I've managed to miss most of it. I'll spend some time later on (probably this weekend) compiling what's come out of IWG.For now, it seems that due to continued issues with the current update (and if you've been away like me, a visit to the forums will definitely enlighten) the servers

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I managed to get an interview with OneEye about today's update. Honestly, this is my first interview with a Game Developer and I tried my best to ask questions that both you and I wanted to know the answers to. Personally, I don't think they turned out too bad :) Though if I do get another chance to talk with OneEye, I might try and get a little more insight into what goes on in the brain of a

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It's been a month and a half since the update was supposed to be released. All the delay has seemed to kick up new hopes and new possibilities. But remember--it's just an update. A few bug fixes and a few new things to play around with. But no new landmasses, towns, etc. OneEye clarifies:OneEye posted in woooot update is ere!: We concentrated more on bug fixes and lag fixing. This isn't an

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Looks like the original AE blog is going the way of Ol' Yeller. With the changes in the AE website, it looks like the aim is to put all the news and other bloggable bits right on the homepage.FujiQ posted in woooot update is ere!:Once the website kinks have been worked out, which should be soon, we'll be posting all announcements on the website/forums and will be no longer using the AE Dev

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According to the newsletter, we've got quite a few things to look forward to this month. Besides the update, there's also the continued event with Lotor's Wedding (for you RP fans) and some new masks in the store (which we've covered in a previous article). But here's what really caught my eye:Posted in the July 2007 NewsletterDeveloper Q&AWant to get some one on one time with One Eye? Have a

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The long wait is almost over! Just a couple more days now.FujiQ posted in Update: It is my pleasure to announce that the much anticipated update is almost here! On Monday at 10:00am CST / 6:00pm GMT, the servers will be down anywhere from 2-6 hours while we make the update live. More information to posted soon from OE about what's new and what's been fixed.

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It's been about four (or five, depending on where you started counting) months since the update that brought our subscription changes. Since then, we've seen a host of people with bronze, silver, and gold pips beside their names. Now the first Diamond subscribers are starting to appear.OneEye posted in IMPORTANT: Ashen Empires Service Changes (UPDATED):What are the subscription levels?Ashen

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Wonder what all OneEye saw while he was on vacation? Well, we get lucky. There's a post over on the official AE blog with a link to the Europe trip through the eyes of a mono-optic. :)OneEye posted on Ashen Empires Developments:Here are some shots from my recent trip to Holland, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. I'm working on labeling them.The LinkGo check em out. It's a nice break from

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Apparently, there's a few issues regarding players and their ability to report bugs. :D Well, it really should be no surprise. :p After all, it is OUR community after all. But in true AE fashion, someone who works with bugs all day came forth to help us in figuring out just what the AE bug report and resolution process is like from the DEV side:GM Timaeus posted in Bug reporting: This is a

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I've been out of it a couple days--not the best thing to be when a DEV comes back from vacation. They usually want to talk about stuff :)For instance, OneEye did have an answer to what the current culprit to our lag is all about. He was responding to Dark Master, who thought it may be the connection. Well, it's not.OneEye posted in Just to clear this up: good guess, but wrong.the current

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OneEye's back from vacation. Just in time to watch the fireworks in Austin (or wherever's close to his home). And he announces in so few words just as much:OneEye posted in yay - I'm back: Good to be home...I kid you not. That's all he says (for now). Fanfare? I guess we'll have to wait for the update.

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I had a bit of hesitation before posting this. But seeing as it's in the Official announcements...and because I'm a little curious how often this will happen...I figured I'd blog this too. So yeah...database maintenance.FujiQ posted in Database Maintenance: Hi Everyone,We had to do some database maintenance this morning, but it took longer than expected. The servers are back up and running now.

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FujiQ's starting to show a little of her marketing colors by asking the players to participate in a small survey.FujiQ posted in 5 minute survey: Hi Everyone!I'd like to invite you to participate in a short marketing survey. The survey will take only a few minutes but will be extremely helpful.Click here to take the survey, and be sure to pass it along to your AE friends!It doesn't take too long

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A while back, in myReporters Announced in the First Newsletter post, we got a little surprise. A Summer bonus was announced. Well, all good things must come to an end, eventually :)FujiQ posted in End of June: The end of June is drawing near which means the token special is about to expire! Take advantage of this deal before Sunday, July 1st to get the 10% token bonus on all token purchases

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No, it's not a slow news day (relatively) ;) We even got a sneak peek at some things in the update. TheTyrant came through with his 3DStudio render...but...well, you'll see.FujiQ posted in Update Sneak Peek: Tyrant pulled through for you guys and was able to make a little sneak peek preview of the update. Be sure to thank him for putting this together! Remember: What you see on this preview is

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A little joy for those who hate the server restarts.GM FujiQ posted in About Lag (updated):***UPDATE***We have found a better fix for the lag so there will be no need for server resets every Monday as previously announced. We are still monitoring the servers to make sure that everything is running smoothly.Please keep in mind that lag is not always a problem coming from our side. Some players may

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Well, I was cruising the forums and saw this little tidbit from TheTyant. Originally, he posted on the original preview threadI could give a sneak peak of some of the art for the update.Maybe if the players say pretty pretty please.Well, I sorta ignored it. After all, TheTyrant seems to be the more joking DEV, compared to the other three. Apparently, he was serious :)TheTyrant posted in

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If you notice, I try to put a label on each post to try and keep things a little organized. I.e. if you want to see just "Official Announcements", you click on the tag and it just shows you posts that were officially announced.Well, in the beginning, I originally had an idea for just two labels: Current Rumblings and Past Rumbling. The idea was that current rumblings were more current events

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Venant started a thread asking for a preview of the upcomming update and it got quite a few responses. But ultimately, no preview came. FujiQ tells us why:GM FujiQ posted in Update Preview: Request to Devs:aww that's no fun! It's like getting a sneak peek at your presents before you open them!On the realistic side, though, there'd be no way to give you a sneak peek anyways since OE is out of

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A little announcement about the lag:GM FujiQ posted in About Lag: Hey Everyone!We've been listening to your forum posts and know that the lag has reached epically unbearable dimensions recently. First let me say thanks for being so patient!We have identified the problem and are working to correct it. We hope to have the fix for the lag in when the update comes. In the mean time, we'll be doing a

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Have you ever wondered what they look for when they hire a new GM? What about VWC? Or forum mods? Well, now those questions have been answered.GM Rauric posted in Ashen Empires Job Profiles are now live!: Hello everyone!Today we take another step towards transparency by publishing both the profile for every volunteer position available as well as the selection process involved. It is our hope

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As I thought, it didn't take long for some people to take the news delay in a not so good way. That happens in these games, so I'm sure the DEVs are used to it by now. But I kept reading on in that player's response post (mostly because the OneEye was actively responding to the community--something that most MMOs don't do anymore) and came across this nugget:OneEye posted in The postponed

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It's already been hinted at from the previous announcements. But Lotor's getting hitched and IWG wants you to be there.GM Wintergreen posted in Lotors Wedding Saturday 6/9/07: Join us at the wedding area of Lotor's Summer Palace Saturday 6/9/07 for King Lotor's Wedding.Server Times:Heroes - 1:00pm CDT (20:00 GMT)Legends - 3:00pm CDT (22:00 GMT)Rumblings are that they wanted to do this with the

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Well, I get home looking forward to an announcement about how the update's going. Instead, I get a bit of a downer...it seems that technical issues are really hurting the update going in.GM Wintergreen posted in Update postponed - sorry folks - wedding is on:Due to scheduling and some other background technical issues, the update that was promised for June 4th has been postponed. The new date

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So why is the update being pushed back (and back again)? OneEye let us in on a little family secret:OneEye posted in Update delayed:in case anyone wants the story, the update was delayed because my wife threw me a surprise birthday party on Saturday. About 40 people showed up including my dad and brother from Florida. I had planned to finish up the update over the weekend, but this surprise

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Keeping in classic AE history, the scheduled update lives on a special "Dev Time". But the good news about the delay? Now we know what those "Book quests" are. And we even see that wishes for first aid and leadership becoming epool skills have been granted. Yay Devs!OneEye posted in 6/4 update delayed till 6/5.: The servers will be coming down at ~9am CST tomorrow morning for an update.The

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It's about time that "Newsletter" option got used. I enabled it sometime after tokens went in when I saw it. After reading it, it looks like it's going to be (hopefully) a regular monthly installment of just what's going on over there at IWG. But what really tweaked my interest was that they announced the winners of the Reporter's contest.Congratulations to Diva Fresh and Tempester for being

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Hair has always been an issue for some people in our community (i.e. "Why does my hair look like crap?") Well, OneEye finally answered one of these questions with a little story that goes back to the age before DemonSpire:OneEye posted in Devs question-extra 105 and above skills: I didn't say there wasn't a fix, it just isn't something that can be done quickly or easily.The story basically is

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Skry Scrolls price adjustment straight from the horse's mouth:OneEye posted in Skry Scroll Price Adjustment: The Skry Scroll price is now 50 tokens.So now it's roughly $2.50 per Skry Scroll instead of the old price of 25 tokens ($1.25 per). I have a friend who complained about how often people would skry for her and her friends and follow up with a massive PK raid. While OneEye provided no

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Ask and ye shall receive. Finally, we get some details about what's going to be in the next update.OneEye posted in New Update Wish List:This update isn't going to be of the major orb/race changing variety. It will have:Bug fixesmore taskmastersmore itemsmore monstersnew dungeon(s)more questsmore book questsI am also thinking about a few new spells, but i am running out of time, so those might

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A lot of my friends who hang out in Meroven complain about the Chaos Knights there attacking them. I've seen a few screenshots about it and I thought it was funny--the Knights there had Good Alignment. And, naturally, they started acting like Good Guards.Well, Fugi posted about this and got a response from one of the DEVs.OneEye posted in If you know theres a problem...: It will be fixed with

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OneEye posted in Next Update: As an FYI, we will be doing an update on June 4th. More info will be forthcoming in the near future.Shortly after that, theTyrant posted: And I must say, its going to be awesome ;)which probably means that their sticking to their terms about what an "update" truly is. For those who haven't heard:a "patch" is a general bug fixan "update" is a patch + some minor

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There have been many posts asking what the 106+ boons were. This latest one came from Leah, asking what specific bonuses they are. GM Siyone responded to her thread with the original announcement, making it at least worthwhile to take note of.GM Siyone posted in Devs question-extra 105 and above skills: This is the original announcement: quote: The upcoming Sands of Creation expansion will

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A couple of months ago, Jolie started a topic about wedding outfits going into the game. This was on the heels of the Valentine's day and St. Patrick's day sets, so it seemed natural to ask for a set of clothes that weren't holiday themed. Tyrant responded early on that this was something he'd like to do, but we haven't heard word since then.Well, now there appears to be some work going

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Several people always come up with comments about how the game must be floundering and that IWG isn't making money from us. Or, they say that IWG is just taking the cash we pay and not doing anything with it. Well, I was going over some old posts by OneEye while trying to find some info about boss spawns and I ran across this gem.OneEye posted in Possible new game to be developed by IWG:As far

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If you've been looking for some of the mini-bosses for the Mckelsky quests, you're one of many like me who are looking for a way to finish that quest you get after you kill those three proudbloods. (Well....maybe not me...I'm still trying to find those proudbloods). At any rate, Lara Orcsplitter posted a topic requesting that the devs look in to the spawns. Based on an impromptu survey (more

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Hello there.As with any first post, there isn't a whole lot of information to start with. That is, unless what you're blogging about happens when you create the blog. Unfortunately, that's not the case right now, though I've got a couple of things to share with you.Generally, this blog will try to document one of two types of things: Things the devs are saying now and things the devs said in

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