Fireheart

Hello I’ll be speaking with Joel in relation to this warclaim. We already have a warclaim set-up for this weekend so this one will be planned around the following weekend on the 4th / 5th. More information will be provided and chats will be created later on this week. Thanks.

Good morning! Hope everyone had a good weekend and had a good time Sunday. Going to be jumping right into it and laying out a couple of changes that are hitting the server today. Before that to reference our last update we asked for some ideas to add items to the Cloud Temple market. We’ve implemented some of the suggestions, but some of the items will not be able to be pushed out either due to an item blacklist or due to technical concerns for our server’s setup / economy. If you have ideas always feel free to forum message me which is the best way to contact me. Rule Update 1: (Why are thieves so damn expensive!!!) -We have updated the cost to heist per member and have lowered it from 1000 per member to 500. The logic behind this is there has been consistent feedback that heist has a very high barrier of entry and while we want to keep it like that we do not have as strong of an economy as we did last map. Rule Update 2: (Bolt cutters are made of gold,,, wth?!?!?) -Bolt cutters is another knob we are gonna be turning down on heist. Bolt cutters are stupid expensive and they still will be, but now they will be 10k instead of 12k. Rule Update 3: (Hot potato with personas, OUCH!) -Personas (characters) can’t be transferred between other players. This is a patch to stop several issues that were arising with it happening a lot recently and there being a bad way of handling it and a very bad way of handling it. Until we have a better method in place we are turning it off competently. If the community has ideas on how to fix this issue please post some feedback detailing how you would like the rule to work or be changed. Rule Update 4: (English m’lord) -We have run into issues where players will be speaking alternate languages to evade being caught doing sketchy actions by moderators. Google translater is a thing, but super annoying to pull up so we’re ending it altogether to avoid further issues. This is something that is already implied and explained in our whitelist process so it shouldn’t be new to anyone. Do note that speaking elven languages or blah is okay since that is an approved roleplay language. Rule Update 5: (Speedy Jones is CRAZY!!) -We have seen a constant stream lately of people throwing themselves into conflict roleplay and then dipping out as soon as things start going poorly. To still allow this, but give everyone a fair chance we are requiring a countdown before a party leaves mechanically through sufficient roleplay. Details for the rule changes can be found on their respective rule pages in the form of a comment to the post. It’ll be the most recent one posted at the end of the 1st page for heist and 2nd for server rules. I also want to throw out a notice that I’ll mention later in another update but @Riftblade will be departing as a manager from moderation staff. We appreciate the many months of contributions he has brought staff and wish him the best of luck as he focuses on school and his personal life. @IZipZapManI will be stepping in to fill that spot and will be getting settled in this week. We look forward to this next page in management for moderation staff. Have a great week and happy roleplaying! Moderation update log will be out next week.

The developers are now one step closer to having complete control over the server!!!!

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Moderation Staff are in need of more volunteers. If you are interested in contributing to the server in the form of a moderator please apply. Moderation Staff Update Log - March 2019 ‹ Introduction › We back with another one of those hot off the press updates. Due to us pushing out a lot of information in the past month this one will be pretty brief. We have been really pleased with the direction of the server and have been seeing people now fully settle in alongside an increase in community interaction and active player base logins. Major issues and bumps are for the most part completely smoothed out which has paved the way for us to introduce some exciting new concepts down the line! ‹ New Changes › War rules are going to be pushed back until summer of 2019…..just kidding! They’re fully complete and have passed the admin review process. We will be posting them later on this week at which point they will be there for people to read over and shortly after applications will be allowed to be filed. It’s been awhile and more information and specific details, such as CB processes, will be explained in a later post. Wars are always a very hectic environment and there will be an emphasis placed on dividing ooc and rp feelings. We are not looking for repeating issues of people taking things personally and a lot of what was written into this version of war rules will account for that. Nation and charter management is still working smoothly. We are getting to the point now where nations are now having enough funds to purchase the remaining land leftover which is very exciting. Over the next month or two we will probably see some nations become charters and charters become nations which will reflect the small changes in roleplay and player movement we can see in the data. Due to the high amount of charter applications some of these processes are taking a little longer than expected so please be patient with us as we work through this. If you have any questions please always refer to the information post on charters and nations before messaging a moderator. Cloud Temple shops are now mainly fleshed out. There are a couple of items that we would like to see added, but due to technical restrictions they will likely never see the light of day. If there are blocks or items that you think should be sold leave a comment down below! There is a brand new shop set up that has a special item used to capture mobs. It was our April Fools Day joke which is now not a joke. We encourage people to use these especially on horses since it will contribute to helping the server perform adequately. The shop will be changed over to something more LoTC themed this month in April. Speaking to moderators and receiving aid. This is an area I wanted to touch on in the changes section to mention that if you have an issue with a verdict or if you disagree with it please cross-reference that to server rules. Often times players will disagree with something, but in fact it is a server rule. However, if there is a legit issue reach out to the moderator in question and if you are still certain that the situation is not correctly handled contact a moderation staff manager. We encourage an environment of discussion that is constructive, however, when that devolves into name calling and other inappropriately constructed insults it will not be received well. This goes beyond just player and moderator interactions as well. Treat others with the respect that you want to be treated with and it will be given back. ‹ Current Team Roster › ‹ Monthly Statistics › Moderation Staff received a total of 3800 modreqs in March. Congratulations and thank you to: Kaelan, Punisher, and Ioannis for taking the most tickets in that respective order! It was awesome seeing these individuals step into the team and really contribute a lot during their first month. The monthly quota for Moderation Staff 3%, for this month that meant an individual Mod had to complete a total of 114. Below you can view the general statistics for all members of the team. Keep in mind some new Mods were added to the team late in the month and some Mods were on leave for real life reasons. We will be taking out the bonus point claim graph from here on out since it is an optional submission on the moderation side of things and the data does not accurately reflect reality. ‹ Roster Changes › + Tasty_Cheescake added to Moderation Staff + Ioannis added to Moderation Staff + Pandann added to Moderation Staff + Xalid added to Moderation Staff + Keening added to Moderation Staff + Yagami added to Moderation Staff - Endershadow292 stepped down from Moderation Staff - ScreamingDingo stepped down from Moderation Staff - Sky stepped down from Moderation Staff - Demigryph removed from Moderation Staff ‹ Special Thanks › ScreamingDingo for leading up the final drafting and review of war rules. Gamma_Byte for build support and helping with decorating. ------------------------------

you’re not funny

Hope you all enjoyed the April Fools joke yesterday. Over the course of this month at some point we will be reskinning the texture on the item and will be changing the mart into a more appropriate looking building since we will actually be keeping this plugin around. But Fireheart, why would you keep such a troll plugin around? I’m glad you asked! This oddly enough helps a lot with our issues with performance and lag so by using this on horses and other mobs it will actually cut down on performance issues and give you an easy way to transport them around. As a small notice you can not capture animals that are tamed, but if they are in a ball and are given to you then you will then have full control over the animal. These also work on hostile mobs. Enjoy!

Hello all! Hope you’re having a great month and been having some good luck following the NCAA if you’re into March Madness. We’ve had a lot more settling in since launch and things have been calming down a bit so I figured I’d push out a general announcement to give an update to wars as well as highlight a couple of rule changes that have taken place recently. To start off war rules are now in their final stage of admin review. This process has been going on for over a week, going on two now, so please continue to show patience as we finalize the rule-set. I expect this to be wrapped up by the start of April so expect to see them come sometime in the first week or two of that month. Big shout-out to @ScreamingDingo for all the hard work he’s put into the rule-set the past couple of months. Now onto the rule changes! 1: To re-highlight this one relates to button usage. There was some confusion over the purpose of this rule and since we are on a new map with builds designed around the rule the old reasons for it are obsolete. We’ve added a clarification to the rule to give it back the sense and clarity it once had. 2: This rule change relates to livestock issues we’ve been having. Despite most animals being sold in the Cloud Temple there have still been some not so nice players taking all the livestock from other players. While it was not technically against the rule we’ve clarified it now so that people can’t kill all the livestock, but take them. 3: This final server rule change stems from a recent player report. After reviewing over the situation the outcome as enforced by the rules did not line up with our standards of roleplay so we’ve clarified the combat escape mention to include that the rp must be logical as well. 4: The final rule change related to raid rules. A long while ago we raised the cooldown cap due to the large number of settlements and how many raids were occurring. However, due to freebuild being pulled back drastically and there being far less settlements we’ve lowered it slightly. We’ve had some comments as to why we did not make the cooldown lower and the main reason why is this was a rather quick hot-fix to raids and we want to see how this impact settlements for a longer term. I highly doubt we will be lowering it any further without a larger restructuring of raids, but that is not in our near scope at the moment. That is all for now, The general update log will be dropping next week and that will detail a lot more information and updates. Until then enjoy your week and happy roleplaying!

Super neat! And YES it is definitely the most important place on Arcas!!

Moved to completed blacklists.

Blacklist removed.

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why do you like playing Care Bears: Let’s Have A Ball and how is your let’s plays of the game going?

o7 have fun with life dude

when are you fully coming back and applying to be a mod?

Why are you lying and saying you are a GM?

why is your iq score in only the double digits?