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Q. Not that long ago you announced a reward for players with 5yrs+ account time. Is there any way to tell how long you've had an active account? I started in Beta 3 but over the last few years have been on and off for various reasons. I get told that I don't have the 5yrs but is there any way, other than heading to Jordheim every week or so, to know when my 5yrs will be up?
A. Here�s the word from Billing: When you log in to the server selection screen (before picking their server and playing) you can click the "Account Info" button at the bottom. The second line says "Created:" and the date the account was created on.
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Hot fix on the Herald assassin's now have less trouble climbing.
- Assassins will no longer have trouble climbing higher tier towers. This fixes a bug where assassin classes were unable to utilize the climb points on higher level towers.
Please checkout our Population Bonuses page for more details.
Please Note: When a Population Bonus is changed, it alters every Free Level Timer on the Cluster. In Game Support can not verify your old timer, or alter your current timer. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
This week's guild news from the Camelot Herald consists of announcements from Freedom Reborn of Kay, Shadows of Darkness of Guinevere, and Infortis Ov Forstei of Merlin. Also in this week's Guild News are various recruitment posts, go check it out!
From the Herald. Bounty point deeds removed for the time being.
- Housing Deeds (cottage, house, villa, and mansion) are no longer available for purchase with Bounty Points (BPs).
These deeds have been temporarily removed because they were providing the potential for an exploit. Of course, we can�t go into detail about what the exploit was, exactly, but we can elaborate a little.
Bounty Points are intended as an alternative method to obtain some items and services in game, but are not designed as a method to obtain currency. Some players figured out a way to abuse the housing system in order to obtain gold via bounty points. You don�t have to worry if you bought or sold house deeds with Bounty Points that you earned legitimately. The use of the exploit is very methodical and you would certainly know if you were doing it. There has been some concern about players who may have been banned because some of the exploited gold has been traded to them. This is only the case when it is obvious to us that the player holding the gold was aware of the means that the gold was gained, and therefore was knowingly helping someone who was exploiting the situation. The Housing Deeds that can be purchased by Bounty Points (BPs) will return after we have fixed the issue with the Housing Upgrade process.
On a related note, if you find a way of gaining gold or experience that is vastly quicker than it should be, then we ask you to please file an emergency appeal rather than a bug appeal. The appeal system for bugs works differently than the rest of our appeal system. If you enter a bug appeal, your entry goes into a queue that goes straight to our bug department. You will not get a reply from a CSR because the CSRs have a different queue. Bugs like the ones mentioned above should be sent in via emergency appeal, so that our CSRs can work with you to document the issue and verify the bug, and protect your account from being flagged for using the bug. Testing something once or twice is just testing. More than that, and it is considered an exploit. We all want Dark Age of Camelot to remain a game with a well balanced economy and we thank you for your cooperation, and of course, for playing!
October is the month when frightening phantoms, restless revenants, and spooky spirits roam the streets and countryside. Here are some of the crazy things you will see during this time of year.
Team Naturalist of the Caerleon cluster has long fought to defend Hibernia at all cost. But now, there grows a bigger threat on the horizon and Team Naturalist needs all of Caerleon's help to get rid of this growing threat.
From the President of the United States of Team Naturalist's declaration:
My fellow Caerleonians,
As you all know, Team Naturalist has been dedicated to the defence and preservation of the Hibernian Frontier. We have fought long and hard to preserve our keeps, relics, and freedoms, and Team Naturalist forces have been involved at great length in a vast majority of defensive and offensive initiatives.
The vision and goals of Team Naturalist have been support fully by our realmmates, and we have worked with them (and they with us) to accomplish many glorious ends.
Indeed, many of you have fought with or against us, on one or many occasions. We respect many of you as peers.
Today, however, I come to you not as a rival on the field of battle, nor as President of the United States of Team Naturalist, nor even as a Hibernian. I come to you today, humbled, as a fellow Caerleonian.
For you see, my friends, there is a greater threat. A threat that threatens our borders and threatens to become an unstoppable threat that threatens to threaten our existence.
A guide to the various style changes on the Herald to help you make sense of it all.
We've come up with a comprehensive guide to all of the style changes that have gone in so far for 1.91. This guide is for your reference while testing the new adjustments.
Since there is a good chance things will be changing, we didn't want to update the official Herald documentation just yet, so please use the following links as your guide to what's on Pendragon right now.
Your feedback is very important to us! Please send your suggestions to us using our feedback form and be sure to select Class Balance Issues from the dropdown menu. Thanks!
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Hot fix on the Herald. Anniversary bonuses are now off.
The additional zone bonuses that were instituted in honor of Dark Age of Camelot�s Sixth Anniversary have been turned off. We now return you to your regular bonus programming, already in progress.
Style Changes changes are now on Pendragon. Some say it's been a long time and a needed change, however some view this a nerf. All you Reavers, Beserkers, Savages, Shadowblades, etc; How has this impacted the class you play?
Help for Vista users having trouble logging into the game on the Herald
We've become aware of an issue with players that are using the Vista operating system having difficulty logging into the game. Please following the instructions below to help you get logged in:
Please note: This is for Vista users only
Here is what you need to do:
* Right click on the shortcut you use to launch DAOC
* Select "Properties"
* Click on the �Compatibility� tab
* Check the "Run as administrator" box
* Click on the �Shortcut� tab
* Click the "Advanced" button
* Check the "Run as administrator" box
* Click OK then APPLY then OK
Here is our Technical Support article link about this issue:
Guild Website contest on the Herald. Think you've got the best website? Enter and see.
Do you think you have the best website for your guild? Want to put it to the test? Send it in for our third annual Guild Website Contest! We�ll be accepting entries starting on Thursday, October 11 and ending on Monday, October 15. Entries will be judged by the Herald team, and the winners will be announced on Friday, October 19th.
Here are the rules:
-Anyone is welcome to enter, but your guild must exist on a US server.
-All sites must have clean content throughout. Sites containing defamatory content or links to objectionable (read: PG13 or darker) material will not be included in the contest.
-Previous winners are welcome to enter.
-If your guild site is also the alliance site, you may only enter one category. Be sure to specify which category you're entering on the form.
-Sites must represent a currently active guild from any DAOC realm and server.
Winners will be announced on October 19 in each of these categories:
Best Design/Layout
Best New Guild (please include the date your guild was formed for his entry)
Best Screenshot Gallery
Most Hilarious
Most Informative
Best Alliance Site
Best Realm/Server Site
Best Roleplaying
And More!
How to enter:
-Send your link in using this form: http://www.camelotherald.com/event.php Please be sure to fill out the form in its entirety. Select Guild News from the drop-down menu and enter WEBSITE CONTEST in the �your submission/story title� field. Also, be sure to let us know which category you're entering!
All sites entered will be linked in the final announcement on Friday, October 19, regardless of winning status. So get your guild name out there just by entering!
Prizes:
Worldwide fame, bragging rights, and recognition on the Herald. Winning sites will also receive an official DAOC/Mythic Best Website of 2007 banner.
Letter from the DAoC Producer on the Herald. 6 years old and good stuff coming.
Hello all,
It�s been six truly wonderful years since Dark Age of Camelot first opened its servers to the hungry Realm versus Realm masses; six years of high intensity melee combat and countless magical explosions on the battlefields of the Frontiers; six years of the deadliest and most compelling siege warfare ever seen in any live MMO to date.
Six years and still counting.
I suspect that few of you know who I am. My name is Chris Rabideau and I have been the Producer of Dark Age of Camelot since January of 2007. Perhaps some of the �old schoolers� might remember me, but for the most part, prior to my role as Producer, I�ve not been in the public eye simply because most of the jobs I�ve held over the years didn�t require it. In the seven years I�ve been with Mythic, I have never moved off the DAoC project. I�ve worked in nearly every capacity, including content development, systems design, QA, and production. I remember running to the store for office supplies or server RAM back when Mythic Entertainment was a small company and we all wore many hats. I have a great deal of passion and love for this game, and I have a tremendous amount of appreciation and respect for its community.
During my time as Producer thus far, the DAoC team has worked hard to realize many new features and loads of new content for the game. From upgrading/improving the keeps and towers in the Frontiers region, to �A Dragon�s Revenge� (a six month story campaign chock-full of free content), to working on a new UI, to updating our patcher to a more modern (and user-friendly) layout, this team has gone from one end of the game to the other - and we aren�t finished yet. We are currently in the process of improving our housing system to expand on and make storage more readily available and to add value to higher tier houses which cost more to buy and maintain. We are also developing some new player mounts � I don�t want to ruin the surprise, but they�re not horses J. We continue to fine tune and tweak core systems of our game with new improvements, as well as each of the realm�s classes within DAoC to ensure that all players share an equally enjoyable gameplay experience.
We also recognize that some changes are not always welcome. A decision to make a change, particularly to a core game system, is never easy. As a team, we carefully analyze not just data, but also what our community is telling us. This is why you will continue to see login polls asking for your opinions. We have always been interested in what our community says, and we always will be.
I�d like to tell you more about our new test environment: In the coming months, we are going to be deploying a new �experimental� test server to our gaming community (to accompany Pendragon). This new server will house code changes to highly complex game systems, which will typically require more than one patch cycle to implement. Changes to or additions of major systems, such as the UI, in-game mail and auction house (to name a few) will be deployed out to this new server ahead of all other servers, including Pendragon. This will allow the community to log in and see what we�re up to, as well as allow more time for the community to react to and make suggestions about whatever major systems we�re working on. This will also provide us more time to consider community feedback, and make adjustments where best for the game and its players.
I realize this post is more of a Producer�s Letter and less a celebration of DAoC�s 6th anniversary. However, I hope my message conveys the facts that Dark Age of Camelot, after six fantastic years, still has a tremendous following, and still receives a tremendous amount of developer support. We are committed to this game and we will continue to work hard to ensure that Dark Age of Camelot remains a truly fun and enjoyable gameplay experience.
From all of us here at EA Mythic, we thank you for six wonderful years, and we hope to see you around for many, many more.
Hot fix on the Herald. A few Dragon quest issues addressed.
Just a few quick fixes to make your questing lives a bit easier. Enjoy!
NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES
- The area in Dartmoor where Gerik Morrow's Sword can be used has been moved north of Golestandt�s Lair, allowing players to more easily activate the sword without unduly attracting the dragon�s ire.
- Draconic Essence Stones will no longer auto split to group members if the player�s inventory is full.
- (Hibernia) The Stealing Supplies Quest has been updated to display the correct waypoint.
Kicking off the long Columbus day weekend with the Grab Bag!
Q. I want to know if there�s a list of the rewards you can receive from a siege supply chest? I've done multiple searches for this but I've not succeeded hence I'm turning to you as you are the developers. I know there are potions with group effects etc. I also wonder if these potions are rechargeable just like crafted potions?
A. The Bearded Wonder was nice enough to look this up and provide a list: The supply chests give you a random item from the following: one of eight one-time use potions (non-rechargeable), a Hired Militiaman Contract, or random siege ammunition in a stack of five.
Q. I recently canceled my account because I just don't have time to play this particular semester at college. My house was condemned, which I was expecting, but I just realized, what's going to happen to all the things inside my house? Mainly the 60 something platinum I left on my merchant?
A. You can find this information on the herald.
http://www.camelotherald.com/more/3117.shtml
- Houses which are owned by closed accounts will be condemned and removed from their lots after a reasonable period of time has lapsed and the account has not been re-opened. The house (in the form of a deed), all in-game money stored on the consignment merchant, all trophies, vaults, the consignment merchant, and items contained within the vaults and consignment merchant, will be placed on the repossession NPCs located in the Market areas of the housing zones.
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