Availer

Great video and great build, looking forward to seeing more :).

Yes you can.

A 5 day extension due to down-time.

I'm 32 and this game is an escape I play to relax and unwind. Alittle transparency with such a large server community is required unless you are footing the bill yourself. But this isnt the case, show us the money! And not in a twitch link .... playing league of legends. wtf? How is this showcasing Lotc? If I wanted to watch lets play I'd be in youtube. *lets out a big sigh . When I see a meter and something in stone I'll assist the server the best I can but right now I'm reluctant to send my earned money when all I have to go off of is a meter on another website. Not be an idiot but, I have nothing to do with the money so don't but the blame on me concerning where the money goes. You really don't understand the reason why we're raising $400 specifically for the anti-ddos as an emergency and for that reason we have done a 24 hour livestream. You cant have LoTC for 24 hours on the stream. It seems that you still hold the misconception that money was stolen yada yada and would still like to bring that up even though things have been cleared. Server has been alive the past month because we paid from our pockets, we don't like to flaunt it but that's what's happened.

http://twitch.tv/thelordofthecraft Hello there everybody. I'm sure you are all aware of the DDoS issues that we've been having lately. We've exhausted most of our techniques to fight the DDoS attack, with Vaquxine our lead Technical Developer and Programmer working very hard to negate the attacks. However, we're facing a DDoS attack that's too strong and well protected to simply disarm via software. We're running on an expensive Dedicated Server on the Limestone networks that costs around $1,000 a month to run. A lot of the bandwidth we have to pay for is DDoS bandwidth and it's costing us and the community dearly. We can't simply allow the server to stay down, it's not fair for our donators, it's not fair for our community and it's not fair for all staff members who have spent hours labouring on LoTC. There's one way to negate this attack and it's to rent a hardware modification that will filter the DDoS. At the current speeds, we will need a DDoS filter that costs exactly $400 for one month that will negate 1GB/s of DDoS traffic. At worst the server will go down for 10 seconds and come back up again if we are hit hard by a DDoS. For that reason we're doing a Livestream Community Fundraiser. Members of staff will be taking it turns to entertain our community through exploring Asulon, searching through our amazing forums and reading your incredible posts, playing online games together or simply answering some of your questions. So we ask you to support us! Even if it's just by watching the stream and taking part! We hope to run the stream for 24 hours starting 12AM GMT +1. So check out our Livestream in the embedded video above OR you can visit us on www.twitch.tv/thelordofthecraft. These donations will work to increase your VIP rank or give you VIP if you don't have it. So make sure to make an in-game Modrequest after your donation. For more information on our donation packages check our donation page linked above. If you have any questions feel free to message the staff on the Livestream or come and meet us on Teamspeak!

That's all nice and dandy when you say it like that. But ignoring DDoS, ok. Writing lore? For what? There won't be a server online for you too write lore for. DDoSing isn't a full-time job, it's an easy thing to do and keep consistent until a community dies. There's no disagreement that they are "dogs" but pretending it's not affecting us is simply silly. It is affecting us, it's affecting the donations we get as well, we've not had enough money to pay for this months hosting because of the lack of donations and the player count is a lot less than usual. We don't have many players coming in either. If the DDoS continues at this rate without fixing it, we don't know what will happen to LoTC.

Thanks for your suggestion. But Vaquxine is a very very capable software engineer. - The server is hosted on a proffesional dedicated server that is costing overall almost $1,000 a month. - We have tried absolutely every single form of mitigation. - This is not a simple DDoS attack. The DDoSers are using Severs not botnets, they've spoofed the ips and nullrout our connection at 100mb/s, they then spike it to 6gb/s for a few seconds to take the servers down. They're behind proxies and of course, we've contacted the authorities. These servers are also most likely USA based servers. Blocking IPs wont work. Just to answer a few question. We've exhausted every software based fix possible.

Depends what kind of cusses, if its deemed to offensive we cant put it on our channel even if you won.

To answer some questions, a good video recorder would be Fraps. You can use any footage on the competition video and if you are using footage from other videos you must get permission from the producer. You can use any royalty free music, we are not limited in that regards. You can do whatever you want with the prize money. Hope that clears it up!

This isn't a thread to discuss whether or not your happy with your donation perks. You can always write an articulate and elaborate thread in the support and feedback forum. As a reply to what you said, I hope you donated for the community not for Minas, just as staff members have donated thousands of hours of their time for the community.

Good evenin' ladies, gentlemen, gentleboys and ladygirls. We've got a great competition for our community today. A Youtube Video Review competition. - Submit a Video Review about The Lord Of The Craft. Tell us in the most creative way possible about your experience in the World of Asulon. What's good, what's bad? Your highs and lows. Just sum up your experience in a general sense and give LoTC a score out of 10 at the end of the video! - Make sure the video isn't longer than 10 minutes! - Upload the video on your Youtube channel as a respond to this Video then post a link to the video as a reply to this thread! - Videos will be given points based on creativity, honesty, quality and charisma! - You can begin submitting your videos to this thread straight away. The deadline for this competition is the 30th of September 2012. - Voting will take place between the 30th of September and 3rd of October with the winners being announced on the 3rd of October So what do you win? First place: - Have their video review uploaded on the Main LoTC Youtube channel for all to view. - 50,000 in-game Minas. - Gold VIP. If you already have Gold VIP or more you can transfer it to a friend. Second Place: - 15,000 in-game Minas. - Iron VIP. Third Place: - Coal VIP. We can't wait to watch all of your video submissions :)!

Hello everybody. My name is Availer, and for those who don't know me, I was the Lead Developer and Founder of The Lord Of The Craft. It's with great pleasure that I'ld like to announce my return to The Lord Of The Craft Staff team as the Lead Developer and I hope to work with our community to create an even more amazing Role-Playing experience for the world to enjoy. Why am I returning? Shouldn't I still be on the team. Well, during late 2011, a succession of miscommunication occurred between senior staff members that resulted in my removal. There were mistakes on both sides and removing a Founder or Lead Developer is something that should not and can not occur. During that period I was moving to a different country because of my education and for that reason I was not able to provide the community the time it deserved. That coupled with a misinformed staff team believing money was stolen caused a large issue that resulted in my illegal removal. However, regardless there were faults on both sides. Recently I was approached by the Lead Programmer and Developer of LoTC Vaquxine. We both agreed that what occurred was in the past and that the community would benefit if we worked together once more. Lord Of The Craft being my adopted baby, I could not decline Vaquxine regardless whether I was angry or not and I soon forgave the community for what had occurred. And I hope the community accepts my apology for any problems caused. Shiftnative has done an absolutely incredible job continuing where I left off and a big thanks to all the staff members, community members, event and media team staff for all the work they have put in. They've all done an excellent job and they deserve mine and the communities sincere thanks. For all of our players, give yourself a pat on the back, you're part of one of the most incredible RP experiences on the internet (i.e the world). And now it's time for us to work together and continue this amazing job of developing this game to be the game that rules them all. Once more, as part of the Administrative team, our aim is to create the best possible Role-Playing experience on Minecraft and hopefully on any platform. We're working hard, with no pay, to create an environment, a world, an atmosphere for people to share their creative energies. Thousands of people have felt moments of happiness on LoTC and we hope to make it hundreds of thousands. Together with the community we will be able to reach this goal. During the next few weeks the LoTC development team will be working hard to improve the Role-Playing experience on LoTC. - Re-formatting the way our application process works, making it more streamlined. We will be also changing the way applying works to allow our Minecraft Forum thread to be automatically bumped by applicants, giving it more views. You can also help the team by posting replied to our MC Forum thread HERE. By bumping the thread you allow more users to see our thread which means more players to interact with. If each user bumped it daily we would almost always be on the front page. Thank you in advance. - We will be recruiting new members of staff from the community very shortly, so prepare your CVs and get them posting. We will also be removing members of staff that have not been active and will be replacing them with members of the community who deserve the responsibility. We'll also be radically changing the way our team works to make us more efficient. I'm sure this will all have a positive effect on the community and the game. - The Development team will be working closely with the Event team to create incredible story moving events that will enrich the already amazing experience on LoTC. Be prepared to be featured on our livestreams! Check out our events forum for more details. - We will also be working closely with the Media Team to offer our players new video content. Role-played series, Vlogs, showcases, competitions, podcasts will be featured on our official Youtube channel. We'll also be accepting work from the community that we'll be spotlighting on our channel. If you haven't checked out the Youtube channel, click on the Youtube button to the main page. - Competitions! Many of them, members of the community will be pit against each other in many forms! We'll have competitions on Video composition, Reviews, Music, Art and Role-Play, time to get our creative juices going! And of course competitions don't work without prizes :). - Aegis 3.0. Must I say more? EDIT: Here is the lore post. Videos of the event will be uploaded to Youtube as well! It's great to be back.

Once again we are let down a tad by Minecrafts capabilities. We hope it wont occur again.

I don't understand why players think it's ok to criticize the choices the development team makes to such a ridicilious level. We have created an amazing RP experience so far and it's only been improving. Why not trust the development team and allow them to continue development or discuss things in a civil and educated manner. Furthermore, you are very fortunate to have the ability to discuss issues with the GM team and the development and have a say in the development of this incredible world. It's unacceptable that you speak to these hard working people who are creating an experience free of charge and are spending hours working and developing this world in such a disrespectful manner. Playing here is a PRIVELAGE not a RIGHT and it can be revoked at any time.