Baldur
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We've had several new quests added today, for both newbies and veterans!
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Ah... living in the south. The weather station said it -might- snow tonight, with a 'possible' 1 to 3 inches. The governor immediately declared a state of emergency. :P
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Question for everyone: What would make you want to join a guild? What would make you want to form a guild?
I want to make guilds more important to the site and to characters. They're shown to be very important in the anime and the novel, and in MMO's in general.
I realize housing/guild halls are currently a bit lackluster, and we'll be working on that, but what would you like to see from the Guilds themselves specifically?
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Unique Skill Update!
I've been asked about this a lot, and I don't really have information to give you other than this:
Unique skills will be reviewed after the 3.0 update. Once 3.0 is live and settled, staff will begin a complete reworking of Unique Skills. The scout broker, as a means of distribution is more then likely gonna be completely removed. Unique skills themselves will be completely changed and made to balance among themselves.
We're basically going back to the drawing board because how they were distributed, and the abuse of them by people who could was detrimental to the site.
To that end, Takao and myself have agreed that while we are GMs, we will not take a unique skill.
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Reposted for Shark. Hello everyone! We are becoming a huge community and that doesn't come cheap. All staff here are volunteers and do this because they love the site. Right now, everything is paid out of pocket, by Erroneous. We would love for you to donate in order to help out with the site costs (i.e. Forum License, Domain Name, Hosting) so that we can keep Security and Forum Software up to date and possibly add some new features. If you do decide to donate, we have some fun, snazzy gifts of appreciation for you ;) Please message me (Shark) so we can get you the gifts of appreciation!
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Appraisals, housing buffs, and certain crafting items are being fixed right now to prevent abuse of the system. Please stand by.
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Happy holidays everyone! I will be sporadically available as I cook goose and do last minute preparations for Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful time with family and a relaxing break from school and work. Mele kalimimaka meke ha'ole makahiki ho
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Well, still not quite 100% yet, but much improved from my bout with Salmonella. Beware eggs at restaurants!
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Food poisoning sucks :(
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I will be traveling for work again, which means most of my days will be spent on the road or on the jobsite. I should be able to post a little tonight assuming I'm not exhausted from travel, but my parents are flying in for the holidays tomorrow so I will likely not be able to post again until Wednesday.
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Yes. If only it was simply our desire to stay alive that kept us so safe. By now, Baldur could see that his words were bothering her. His words must have bothered her the last time they spoke on this subject as well, but the words were heavy on his heart, and he needed to share them with someone. He just hoped that Lessa could bare a little more burden, along with his name. He hadn't realized how difficult it was on her, asking her to remember him well. That, should he fall in spite of his best efforts and she survive, that she tell people he was noble in the end. That he had managed to s
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I think I got most of my threads. Let me know if I missed yours!
I still need to hit Warmth, and the Boss meeting, and my thread with Teayre. If you're not one of those, please send me the link.
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I took tomorrow off of work so that I can catch up SAO stuff. Sorry I've been so swamped lately guys!
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The December update is live!
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We will be getting a December update. It will not be 3.0. The loss of Oikawa unfortunately meant we lost the spearhead of 3.0, but we're still moving forward with it, just taking some extra time to make sure we have everything fleshed out and ready when we make such a large change to the game. I hope you guys will enjoy the December update changes, as they will give you a small peak at what to expect with 3.0
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Whew. We had a tornado yesterday. Thankfully I'm alright, nothing was damage or broken, but that was a MASSIVE storm.
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Please do not spam the status updates. If you wish to communicate with someone directly, we have a lovely PM system for that.
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I think I've caught up with my threads. If I missed you, let me know!
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Baldur smiled and blushed a bit when Lessa commented on his harmlessness. It was true, that the worst he had done was treat people poorly, but it was something that he had tried very hard to grow out of. Since being trapped in SAO, it was like he had a new lease on life. Yes, it was a death game, but no one knew anything about him from the real world other than Tyger, and so he could almost reinvent himself. It was especially true now, since Tyger was... not around. He was making an effort to be the man he always wanted to be, and put a lot more thought into who that person would be. It wasn't
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You're right, that is a bad photo of you. I got into photoshop and cleaned up the picture for you.
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"I understand what you mean. This..." Baldur gestured to the world around them, "is probably the first chance I've had to breath in a while. I have been so busy training and pushing forward, doing everything I can to save as many lives as possible... that I forgot to breath for a while... and this walk has shown me that. Having a chance to enjoy just spending time with someone I like, and taking in the bits of beauty we can... for me it's akin to what you miss. Relaxing on the couch and just...be-ing." He turned his head to face her and smiled. "It's really nice." As they walked alon
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SAO Achievements! (long post)
So I've been trying to think of an achievement system for SAO, and I've talked a little bit about it with other staff. I know several players have said it's something they'd like to see... but I'd love more ideas! What kind of achievements would you like to see? How would you like them handled? Badges in your journal? Titles? Some with non-combat rewards of some kind?-
You and I have talked about this already, but I would encourage you to stick with very cut-and-dry achievements. You do it, or you don't. There is no denying what has or hasn't been done. I know ages ago we were talking about post and story quality, but we don't want to go down the Althanas road. I'm a huge badge girl. Earning badges or titles would be neat.
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Yea, no I don't want to do post and story quality. I was thinking about achievements like Dungeoneering, where you do a dungeon on every floor in a Tier, or a Quest Master, where you complete X number of quests. Perhaps ones for beating a certain number of bosses, winning a certain number of duels. Other games have ones like "guardian" if you save someone who is almost dead, or maybe "vigilante" if you kill an orange player.
So I'm certainly curious for what kind of tasks could be good achievements, but also if people would like badges for their profiles, or titles, or a mix. If people would want them to show up under their avatar, or in their journal, etc... I have to research the technical limitations too.
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Baldur breathed in a long, deep draw of that cold, crisp air flavored with the scent of pine and freshly fallen snow that permeated the floor. It felt so good to be walking along the lake with Lessa. He wasn't worried about anything, even as their conversation moved to players they had lost. Instead, he had only the walk and good conversation to enjoy. How long had it been since he had done that? He enjoyed his sessions with Calrex, but the tutelage and philosophical conversation was a force of will, it was something Baldur meditated on, reflected on, and then taught with an effort. Here, now,
