AB and #jov topic Tuesday February 27, 2001 Zeke has posted a new Forum for reporting AB issues. You can post screenshots of people spamming, people who only level in BSD without helping defend it/town, people who recall when there's a raid, etc. Here's what Zeke said in the first post :
What is going with all the Anti's and BSD levelers in AB? I want names.. And I want them often. If people are sitting around the lifestone doing nothing but jacking off spamming ANY trade requests, begging for buffs or ANYTHING, take a screenshot, and get it to me. People that do nothing for us but level in BSD, I want thier names, I want them the fuck out of Blood. If there's a raid in town and you jack off.. I want your name to. You either help or you get the fuck out. I am not putting up with anyone's shit "I didn't see the raid, I wasn't buffed, Don't add me to the KOS page Im the new owner." Tough shit, we dont KOS people, we KOS characters. Gonna start adding alot more of these jackasses to the KOS page. You will be given a verbal warning ONE TIME and that's it, I will make a list of people that have been warned.. Enough Said... Goddamn right. So, make sure that you guys aren't the ones fucking off in town, asking for buffs, gates, trades, etc. That's what IRC and the tradeboards are for. Added a permanent link for this. Also, I want the spam in the #jov topic to stop. I don't care if you're looking for this trade or want whomever to message you when they get on. That area is for information the entire guild needs. Quests, raids, important links, members who've left or are KOS... things like that. If I see your name next to non-guild affecting information in there, I'll remove your op privledges. If you see irrelevant info in there, make sure you remove it if you plan on changing the topic since YOUR name will be the "changed by" name. Thanks.
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- Nighthawk Everyone hates buying comps, figuring out how much of each they need - this minimizes the amount of time it takes. Curious? Want it? Go read it.
- Nighthawk We're doing the Frore Quest today. If you want to participate, you need a lich seal and to do a bit of running beforehand. Go get your 3 transcripts (the lich seal gets you one of them) as soon as possible. Rory is going with us sometime today, but we don't have a specific time of when we'll all be available. So, plan on it today/tonight sometime. Get your 3 transcripts since that's the part you can do solo VERY easily... it just takes some time. Thus why you do it before we go. Also, Shui Noxic is recruiting low levels. Yesterday I had someone send me a /m tell who said he was recently recruited by Shui and that he was lvl 2. Obviously, this sort of recruiting is not allowed. Shui's patron is no longer Brendan, so we have to find out where in the tree he is. If he's under you, drop him immediately. If you see him, id him and get his patron. And FYI, from the State of the Network page :
February's event scheduled for late next week The February event, “Lonely in the World,” is currently scheduled to go live late next week. We are aware that we do not state this early on what date our events will occur, and that they are usually expected on the second Tuesday of the month. This month, however, the event will not open on Tuesday but instead later in the week.
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Next thing you know, he's not a JoV member anymore. I encourage people to try to catch my guild portal logging. It's simple, if it happens once, it won't happen twice. It's a bootable offense and we're very serious about it. Hell, Yeti (IRC yeti, not the current owner of Yeti) reported someone to me and he was kicked from the guild so fast he wasn't JoV by the time he logged in 5 minutes later. We're serious about portal logging. There is no second chance. We're above that.
- Nighthawk Anyhow, this Monster Resist Research is very interesting. I put this link permanently in the menu for your future reference. This answers the questions of "why the fuck is this monster resisting me so much?" I was asking that just yesterday when my og mage couldn't land one spell on a Firestorm on the island. The top 12 resisters?
I know most of you have seen it, but in case you haven't you should check out the AC PK Rap. I'm no fan of rap, but that amuses me endlessly. And plus, finding that link when you want to isn't easy. So, now it's here.
- Nighthawk Ok, I want everyone in JoV that lives in AB to take a close look at this link on the Blood [KoC] page. It basically gives a brief rundown of the rules of town. The ones specifically to note are no one under lvl 40 in AB/BSD/Metos and no trade/portal/buff spamming. If you're not level 40, get level 40 before going there - we will kill you and loot you with very minimal warning. If you're looking for trades, go to the Darktide Trade Board. If you need buffs/portal, ask in channel and don't spam it - if we have it, we'll speak up. JoV Rules and Recruiting We've been having to kick a lot of people from JoV here recently for portal logging, recruiting tactics and not knowing the Guild Guidelines. Frankly, I'm all for it. Me and everyone else in JoV who've dedicated themselves to the guild don't want it to be marred by fuckups. I will give people second chances rarely and normally not without good reason. So, just follow the VERY simple rules we have and you're welcome aboard. If you don't want to use IRC, want to p-log, scam or attack allies or guildmates - we don't need you and will drop you without thinking twice. Basically, that translates to this : YOU are responsible for reading, knowing and agreeing to the Guild Guidelines. You are also responsible to make sure that anyone you recruit reads, knows and agrees to them BEFORE PLEDGING. If I get a @m tell from a new recruit, I instantly know that they didn't read them and I'm already trying to find out who their patron is. We're strict because we've worked hard to keep ourselves clean of hackers, p-loggers and people who are generally scumbags. We didn't build our reputation because we just take anyone. We all hold ourselves to a higher standard, so expect the same of people you consider recruiting. Did I link the Guild Guidelines enough? Hint taken? Good. ;) Final Notes Again, I need everyone to email Trai (sinzh@mediaone.net) your heirarchy information to me within the week. She will be posting who she has already in the Guild Forum here soon. If you don't see your name on that list or if you know you haven't sent it to her, please do so ASAP. Gnomish Mage account has a new owner and is staying in JoV.
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[10:54] <devilmouse> notice any dramatic improvements in DT lag as of last night?So, check your lag and see if it's improved. I'm still getting spikes occassionally, but it appears better overall (pinging down around 260-300 a lot, which is a first in a long time).
- Nighthawk Thank Maggie. =)
- Nighthawk In light of this, I would also suggest that everyone email complaints@asheronscall.com about DT lag in hopes that they will recognize how impacting of an issue it is. We all know that Jesse/Nei/Devilmouse knows, but apparently his one voice isn't enough to get the problem fixed. If you haven't already, email them. Although Trai is suffering from lag on DT, she's also trying to help map out the JoV guild tree. Please email sinzh@mediaone.net with this info : your name:** patron name:** vassal names:**. I'd like to stress how serious I am about IRC use. If any JoV sees a Patryn tagged member they don't know, ask what their IRC name is (to make sure it's not a second character of someone in chat). If they say "what's IRC" or something along those lines - feel free to attack, kill and loot them so long as you screenshot the question/answer. Our guild is getting away from the "everyone knows everyone" thing, and I am dead set on strictly enforcing the "be in IRC or you're not in JoV" policy. If you don't use IRC and aren't keeping up with the rules of the guild, you don't exist to me. Period. On a final quick note, I updated the Guild Guidelines with some information I posted back on Dec 22nd. Since that is no long on the main page, I figured I'd post it somewhere that's "required reading".
- Nighthawk A few quick guidelines about the AB War :
Alberon Mindeater's guild in Teth has grown to a nice 1600+ people, and they haven't shown their face in the war. With so many pk/neutral guilds rallying to stop the Blood/JoV allegiance, I'm surprised they haven't done anything yet. I guess they think they're safe in Teth. Funny how people are starting to tie to Teth while lifestoned in AB... yeah, they're safe. ;) Some Sagacious and Alberon vassals have started to move into Zaikhal. As Apoc said to me, "Sag can take this town." After I got up off the floor from laughing, he was gone, so I couldn't ask him why in the world they would want such a shitty town as Zaikhal. I only lived there out of nostalgia from when Ron and Azile brought me there to level as a newbie in November 1999. The 35p tapers, 50% sell rate, no leveling spots for anyone over lvl 10, and being in a portal circuit were certainly not the main reasons I stuck around. However, since I still go there occassionally, it's nice to find people to kill waiting for me. BTW, they're lifestoned at the ls just east of town in case one ls-recalls from you. I got several "you think I don't know where the lifestone is?" kills yesterday.
- Nighthawk JoV was offered a place in GEN. JoV was offered being allies with Blood again. Both were extraordinarily surprising since I consider both groups to be powerful enough to be able to overlook the small guild of JoV. I don't know if it was out of respect for me/us or thinking that we could bring something tangible to the table greater than our numbers represent. In either case, receiving the offer from both guilds with similar goals to myself was very flattering. We decided to go with Blood for a couple of reasons, but mainly because of the assureances on Blood's AB Guidelines page. With the secondary goal of reducing numbers, locking down on ally-attack incidents, etc as well as the link that we have with many of the core members of Blood... it just made sense. Also, the fact that my discussion with GEN really seemed to be going downhill when I mentioned that I expressed concern over TF joining. Blood and GEN both knew that we were being approahced by both sides and Blood made the better arguement. Anyhow, I'd like to thank Naudica publically for the extrememly nice things he said about myself and JoV as a whole. Of all the people I expected to gain respect for, Jesse was a ways down the list, but I'll be damned if he doesn't seem to have come around. Thanks for the pleasant surprise. In conclusion, if anyone has any questions, concerns, accolades... feel free to forward them to my email or catch me in #wtfman or #dnn (public) irc channels. I'm far more available through those than I am in game. Obviously, the guild folx know where to get ahold of me anytime. =)
- Nighthawk So, the AB War is on for Blood/JoV again. Strangely enough, our main opponents aren't even the anti/neutrals this time, but GEN. To participate in the AB War, you're required to be 40+ level and to lifestone in AB. I expect the JoV guys to put forth as much effort as humanly possible into the war. I will be spending 90% of my time in AB fighting and I hope that most of you will likewise put forth that effort. Also, be aware of the KoC Blood & JoV Alliance for AB guidelines. We have a separate IRC channel setup for the AB War, so be sure to get in there if you're 40+ and fighting in AB. No lurking in there, it's for serious fighters in our group. If you're new to the guild and are looking to make your mark, here's your chance.
- Nighthawk Posted a link to our Private Guild Forum since so many of us wanted a place to speak of issues not in realtime (IRC). Ask me for the password in IRC. I'll also be making a public forum, but I'll probably make it so that only registered users can post so if people get out of hand, it's easier to oust them. Here are the steps to dagger quest posted by Bad Influence:
"NOTE : the weapon added to the hilt MUST BE LOOT GENERATED and NOT MODIFIED. Once complete the weapon has a value of 0 and is non-drop/non-give. Creating this weapon and using full-power you should be able to occasionally make double or triple strikes in combat."
- Nighthawk As a side note, GEN gobbled up HoC and XL, so we are officially the last of the non-uber-pk monarchies. We've grown to just over 100 characters (probably 60 mains, or so) including SUN and OGD, but we're still pretty small (thank God). Just wanted to take a sec and welcome to the new guys. Great raiding so far... lets keep it up. |