Lumino

UPDATE! SOME TIMES/DATES HAVE CHANGED. PLEASE READ THE TIMES BELOW TO MAKE SURE YOU SHOW UP AT THE CORRECT TIME. Hello everyone! Lumino here again, and this time with an exciting Christmas event for all of you out there who want to combine holiday spirit and Eternal Lands (I assure you it can be done ). So without further ado, I bring you...from the producers of the Eternal Lands Gala... The Eternal Lands Christmas Festival, 2007! (Made possible by everyone who helps/donates, the guild ALoA for her contributions, and the community ) Now, this isn't going to be like the Gala was, a huge party for socializing and games, but rather a series of contests. This event is in three parts, each of which is a chance to win prizes (Altogether, our prizes total 50k in value!). Here's how it works... Saturday, December 22nd: 4 PM GMT: Santa Claus will be arriving in Eternal Lands by sleigh ride so he can attend the weekend event. If you want to welcome him to Seridia and have a chance to win a prize in a fun contest (you won't know what the contest is until it happens, but I assure you something is bound to go wrong and we will need your help), log into EL at 3PM GMT and get on the events channel. You will get instructions there about where to go. Prize will be an iron greaves, an iron cuisses, and 5k. 6 PM GMT: With Santa safely settled in, all that's left to do is make the Christmas pies for the party. Lumino insists that he can handle it on his own, but chances are he will need some help. Head on down to the WSC Palace Kitchens to give him a hand and have a chance to win a great prize along the way. Prize will be a rostogol stone. Sunday, December 23rd: 4 PM GMT: Finally, the actual party! Everyone who pre-registers will be taking part in a Yankee Swap (explained below) and afterwards, a contest to be announced at the party for another prize. The party will be in the Library of the WSC Palace. Changed to the main throneroom of the WSC Palace for simplicity. Prize will be a MoL and a serp stone. How A Yankee Swap Works Everyone who wants to take part in it must first go out and get a gift. It could be anything, from a cape to a small sum of money, or a rare stone or weapon. Whatever is within your price range is just fine. Give your prize to me at or before the party, and I will register you. Let's assume we get 10 participants. Once at the event, you will all be randomly assigned a number, 1-10. The person who got #1 goes first. We received 10 gifts, so they get to choose a number 1-10 which will be assigned to a particular gift (the number you drew for order of play isn't the same as the number of the gift you gave). They 'unwrap' the gift and I will tell them what they got. Then person #2 goes, then #3, and so on until completion. Here's the twist: after you open your gift, you are free to trade gifts with ANYONE else who has already opened their gift. They MUST trade with you if you request it. So, clearly, the best number to draw assuming there are 10 people is #10, because you get the choice of any gift! We all keep the gifts we get Ok, sorry I have to be vague about the contests at the three events, you will find out more at the actual event! You can be sure that they will be fun and innovative, however Remember that all times are subject to change If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to ask here. Also please comment on your thoughts or if you can help/donate. SUMMARY: -Three part event over two days, 22nd-23rd -50k of prizes Special Thanks to: Lexi, Krakas, Baloney, for their donations so far. And to my wonderful guildies who have been very supportive See you there! -Lumino and Company-

Sorry about the wait, everyone.... I still have TONS of prizes that belong to all of you, please contact me soon! I try to "hunt down" people when I can but it's difficult, what with different online times. Lum

Thanks for the support, all, and please post a response on here with any thoughts, even if it's just "good idea" or "bad idea". Also, PLEASE take the time to sign up, it's very very easy (~5 mins) and is a VERY valuable resource. Lum EDIT: I have decided that to encourage joining, the 50th to join will win an EDE. I must say, I am a bit disappointed with the response of the community here; many have read this thread, yet I know that not all of you are joining the organization. I may throw in other prizes for people who join, which I won't tell you about now to avoid people who want to wait until the right time to join if prizes go out at a high number. Anyway, if you got nothing whatsoever from this post, get this: http://el-ces.110mb.com/join.html <edit> Edit is your friend. There's no need of posting every 2 hours and 40 minutes. ~Kheres

Some females might choose to play as males because they are sick of "harassment" in other MMOs and think it will be the same in EL. I know from some female friends that even in EL there are "flirtatious" males in the game. Some males might choose to play as females because they think that people will be nicer to them. I AM NOT BEING SEXIST. However, a lot of the time, on the internet, there can be bad language, and having a female avatar sometimes keeps you safe from it. A relative uses a female avatar in Yahoo Games when he plays chess for just this reason. I'm not saying these are GOOD reasons to pick a different gender character than yourself, nor am I saying they are BAD reasons. But they are potential reasons all the same.

Awwww, missed it. This sounds like a BLAST. Please let's have one again. What mustve all those poor newbies thought...lol

Yeah I noticed that shortly after posting and deleted it, but you were quicker I guess! lol Lum

Alright, the following people still have prizes to collect... Robindell-exc cape Zipher-leather torso, iron sword Ottawa-5 SRs, 10 HEs, tit steel short, wood battle hammer DONATED TO FUTURE EVENTS (all but sword) Imadragon-four books, 40 HEs Lexi-steel chain Psychoticmonk-BP cloak Cynny-steel long, skunk hat xenaMT-20 mercury DONATED TO FUTURE EVENTS hellraizer-300 SRs, 3 EMs aphistolas-fur cape, 5 HEs soul-tit chain slyguy-small mine cruella-EDE, BP cloak saint-iron chain, leather pants, leather boots, book swordofflame-BP cloak paulb-steel two-edged stephane83-BP cloak

I'm posting here for Curia, my sister, who just got a brand new Vista Premium Dell Laptop with Dual AMD Turion 64 Processors and about 2gig ram. She starts the game, everything is going ok, the server loads fine, she selects English language, and logs in. The game loads all 3d objects, 2d objects, etc, the loadbar completely fills up and then just when the game should kick in, it crashes. When looking through the el.ini I noticed it was on port 2001--I thought EL was supposed to be 2000, so I changed it, it still connects to the server fine but the same problem still occurs. The error log (from the most recent attempt to run EL): I see here issues with sounds not loading, but sounds are set to "0" in the .ini. In addition, I saw that certain files, like the spells data file, didn't load, but I assume thats because it doesn't yet exist on this computer, and that would not not be a critical error causing game failure. However, the last bit with all the "unable to add command" things, I do not understand. Perhaps this is the problem? Strangely, these command issues do not show up in any of the other attempts we made to run the game, just the most recent. (Don't think it has anything to do with changing the port to 2000 but that's the only thing I've changed on the most recent run...) Any thoughts? Thanks! Lum

Fixed. She was missing a driver. Sorry to waste your time Ent, thanks for being quick to reply, especially on Christmas Day! Lum

Tried the patch. No luck, the same issue occurred, identical to what happened before Any thoughts? Are there any minimum specs or something that Curia is missing? I would doubt it since this is a brand new computer with up to date hardware...but can't think of any other possibilities... EDIT: Here's the error log for this new attempt: Lum

Nice En! Boy, am I jealous Well, gratz! -Lum

We missed you too Well won't say much right now but there'll be a big event (gala size) sometime in February...so hopefully you'll catch that Lum

Gratz to XenaMT for finding the kidnapped Santa and winning a MoL and serp stone! Very nice work! Thanks to EVERYONE for coming, if you need a prize that you won, please contact me by Forum/Gossip PM or ingame. Ill get you all what you won. Thanks also to Lexi, SleepyDragon, and CatsPaws for their help, and to Lexi, Krakas, and Baloney for their donations. Thanks also to Guild ALoA, my lovely guild without whom this wouldn't be possible They are great idea bouncers and donaters! Merry XMas!!! -Lum

Event #2 was pretty good, although it ended up being really fun for a handful of people and boring for the rest--once you lost the path you were pretty much done. Sorry about that, it was an experimental event and I have concluded that we won't try something like it again in the future without some revisions Thanks to Lexi for playing Flowria, the thief On another note, a small issue has come to my attention. There were 40-50 people at todays event, which is WAY too much for the Yankee Swap. So I think I'm going to limit it to the first 20 who contact me. Lexi has already given me her gift for the game. That leaves the 18 slots open. Please forum PM me, PM me ingame, or post here to reserve a spot. 1. Lumino 2. Lexi 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. IMPORTANT: EVEN IF YOU DON'T MAKE THE FIRST 20 TO DO THE YANKEE SWAP, STILL COME TO THE PARTY AS THERE WILL BE A CONTEST AT THE LATTER PART IN WHICH EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE. Also, Santa Claus will be in attendance to chat it up with all of you Thanks all Lum

Thanks everyone for coming to event #1! Santa arrived, only to crash his sleigh in Tarsenguard. I was logged out because my cat made a mess, but Knight11 found and rescued Santa, and won an iron cuisses, an iron greaves, and 5k that Santa happened to have on him Hope the other two events go well too! -Lum EDIT: After Knight11 rescued Santa, they went out for a pint! Here's a picture...

Ahh, yes, sorry about that--I get busy 'round the holidays :/ But we're all set on prizes...although I do run a bunch of large events so I can definetely use anything you've got to fuel those. Hope I'll see you tomorrow! Lum

Can you post a pic of you wearing it?

What do you mean? I agree. And since you're helping out what you say goes. So... SUNDAY EVENT MOVED TWO HOURS EARLIER--4PM GMT! Updated original post. -Lum

ALERT: MINOR EMERGENCY I am sorry to report that I have just received notice of a mandatory event on Sunday during the event time. We have two options: 1. Move th event to Monday (Christmas Eve) at the SAME TIMES (6 PM GMT) 2. Keep the event on Sunday, but begin at 3PM GMT (early for some I know...) We can also try 4 PM GMT if its easier. Neither of these is ideal. But I need to know which is BETTER. So post here on which you would prefer and I will make the call ASAP. Really sorry that this happened Lum

Yes, unfortunately. But that's the way it worked out, can't be fixed unfortunately Well we will catch a lot of Europe at that time and some of the Americas. Maybe even some Asia/Australia! If the yankee swap doesn't make sense, check this link: http://www.yankee-swap.net/yankee_swap_rules_official.PDF (its a pdf so make sure you can view them) If you still don't get it, all you really need to know is come to the party with a gift. It will be easy to understand once we start. Glad you two can come You too Ferny See everyone there, Lumino

Small update...due to some issues with times, the Friday event has been relocated to an earlier time on Saturday. I know this may be most inconvenient for some of you. Hopefully it all works out. ALL TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BETWEEN NOW AND THE EVENT. However, in all probability, these are the actual times. EDIT: Another update. I have decided to change the rules slightly as sygon suggested...the person who draws #1 goes first AND last. If my explanation of the yankee swap didn't make sense, here's one I found online... http://www.yankee-swap.net/yankee_swap_rules_official.PDF (its a pdf so make sure you can view them) EDIT #2: Updated the first post with the new times and prizes. In addition, the first event meeting place is no longer WSC. Just come online and join the events channel. In case of more updates, the most recent information will always be edited into the first post of this thread. -Lum

Ahh, I see. Cool. I agree with what others have said, I love the idea of a more advanced "class" system, i.e. you must choose what you want to be, but still not rigidly enforced as in you can never change and you can't be in between. This system seems perfect. Technically the skills should provide a class/profession system, but a lot of people become all-arounders because it's pretty easy to do. This will make it more difficulty to be/do everything, and it will also make combat far more interesting Lum

I am all for this idea. It seems like a very good way to deal with the attribute caps. One question though...what happens if you somehow get all attributes to 48 and get all the perks that you want to get? I know it's very unlikely and perhaps far in the future, but is there a plan? Still, I think this is a very good idea. Lumino

I've also played this in real life, but #1 was the best one to be because once it was all over, they got their pick after #10. That ensures that every player had the opportunity to trade with at least one person. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to participate because of RL holiday festivities, but this looks like great fun! Hopefully I can sneak away and join in for a little. That's the way I played it in real life too! But I thought that might be a little confusing so I decided to take it out, but you make a good point about everyone being able to trade...Maybe I will change that for the actual event. -Lum

And by the way, I just want to make the following clear... I am aware that not everyone celebrates Christmas. By all means that doesn't mean you can't come to these events. Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, whatever church you're from, or really anything. I don't care. In the spirit of the holidays, everyone is welcome, and we will keep "religious talk" out of the event. I just don't want to call it like "Holiday Festival" because I'm sick of all this political correctness. Anyway, if I call it "Holiday Festival" then atheists get left out. And "Winter Festival" is no good for people in the Southern Hemisphere. You get my point It's staying Christmas for now Lum