sywren

Csiga made all but bkc's. Talk to him. Obviously there's a little debate there about whether to use Labrat's custom mirror or csiga's. Personally, I think it would be great if most of us on this server would use csiga's since the designs show up on both servers. That means, if you're in a guild that's on both servers, you're stuck with the design they choose. Worse, if you bought a character and haven't gotten a name change, you could end up wearing that person's clothes. Also, csiga is on the PK server a lot more often than Labrat, so he'll probably be easier to get in touch with about adding files. I know Labrat checks forums frequently, so I doubt forum pm's would be a problem, so this isn't really the strongest argument, but it is easier to get stuff done in game than on forums, so eh.

Not even Cujo is scary in a tutu.

I love it! I actually have Sy tatooed on my back in RL. Now my EL characters match!

He's banned from forums, so I'll introduce him: Legendary_KoD in (thor) has the alt Jay. (And just to clarify a second time: I am NOT Legendary_Kod. Just adding him to the list and letting people know he's here.) Edit: His full name is Legendary KissofDeath

Looks like it's time to call in an Ex-Terminator! Edit: AARGH! Trojan Knight beat me by seconds!

I'm trying to update the boyfriends PC (Windows XP). A few months ago I got labrat's ( ) cvs thingy with the "sto all" and "get all," so when I did the 1.8 update, I erased the old shortcuts and made new ones. The problem is, it won't connect to the server unless I type cvs back into that properties line. I don't know what a cvs is, but the pk server people are telling me that I should have some "mix all" button that I don't have, so I imagine it has something to do with this. Help?

I changed it, but it still doesn't wok. It still says .\

OK, some folks on the PK server have questions (please keep in mind that most of us have never even seen a mule). How do mules fight? If I were to get PKed as a mule, could I still attack, or are we talking sure death at the hands of weakling alts unless I change out of mule form? Can I heal with potions? What's up with the frozen thing if you change back out of a mule? Does that mean I can't diss and teleport to range without dropping stuff? Can mules even use rings? Thank you, Sy

I tried starting it from the exe and it didn't work. I checked the shortcut and it is exactly as you said ("C:\Program Files\Eternal Lands\el.exe" pk). So, I completely uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. Same thing. This is all I get on the log in page: using it... Couldn't find the GL_ARB_shader_objects extension, not using it... Couldn't find the GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension, not using it... Couldn't find the GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension, not using it... Couldn't find the GL_ARB_texture_rectangle extension, not using it... GL_EXT_fog_coord extension found, NOT using it... Couldn't find the GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc extension, not using it... Couldn't find the GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc extension, not using it... Not using vertex program for actor animation. Error opening sound configuration file The location of the data files in use is ./ Your personal settings and logs will be saved in C:\Documents and Settings\Fuck You\My Documents/Eternal Lands/main/ Connecting to Server... Can't connect to server Press any key to try again. Press Alt-x to close the game

Best point yet. I'm getting antsy. Can we all try to talk about this online tomorrow (Jan 9) around 4:00ish Central time, GMT 22:00? Hopefully we can decide and get something together for Saturday when most of us are online.

Easiest update to date. Nice job! Thank you!

This is going to be hard. There is a possibility that ^v^ or the allied guilds could succeed separately, and eventually I imagine we're going to try it that way, but our best chance at getting this right the first time is together. Both teams alone are looking at about four higher leveled players and one weaker, possibly potted player. Add to the disadvantage that we have of lesser armor/weapons. From the pics I'm looking at, most people are in full black dragon or titanium. I don't think either group can get a team of full titanium, let alone black dragon . And as for "whoever spends the most should get the best loot," I don't agree. We're looking at potentially ruining some pretty good gear, some of which there is only one or two of on the entire server. That's just going to end up in huge arguments. Honestly, I think we need the max (9?) in the best gear if we're going to succeed the first time. Following our first successful run, we can break up and try it individually. 150 hours is a long time to wait if we fail.

This part I don't get. I know you go to the invasions when they are announced, so why not contribute to the announcement? We've worked together before in other competitions, and there were a lot of good invasions together, too. With the guild idea there's no fear of "misclicks" (particularly at the end). I just want to try it, and I think it could be fun as a server. Edit: Plus, with the guild idea, anyone healing summons would heal ALL the summons, and we avoid that whole summons attack other players and summons thing.

The idea came up today to create a special guild just for instances. We could schedule a day/time for the instance, then join the guild a day or so in advance (in case the GM can't be on that day), and then leave the guild right after. Obviously, GMs would have to hand over their 20 ranking to an alt, but otherwise I don't see any glitches. Kaldoon, as a neutral character on the server, would make a great GM for the guild, but of course that's up to Bkc. So, three questions: 1. Are there any old, no longer active guilds that we could resurect to save 30k gc and who wouldn't mind making Kaldoon a level 19 and a name change? 2. If not, could we all split the 30k gc price (no fair asking Bkc to pay since he'd be doing us a favor)? 3. Does this sound like a good solution? Oh, and a fourth only slightly related question about splitting larger loot items: 4. Could they be sold and used to pay for GIWS? Thoughts?

I've heard of a brod, probably someone trying to save the economy... who knows! brod only helps the economy on normal server, on pk server it only ruins the game Agree 100%, which is why this conversation keeps coming up. PK server perk #46: Our economy ain't broke!

The PK server is celebrating its one year anniversary with events and prizes spanning three days! If you're an old friend of the server, or have been thinking about getting an account, now's the time! The celebration will be ongoing from the 27th to the 29th with events happening every three hours (at 0:00 and 3:00 ingame time). HUNDREDS of prizes will be given away! The current schedule of festivities will be as follows: And we've figured out the starting times! 0:00 ingame time is 9:00 AM central US, and 1500 GMT. Saturday December 27th: 0:00 Kick off the anniversary celebration with a Summoning Party in IP (OK, there's a back story to this. Those of us who were here the day of the character wipe basically sat around Beam for about 6 hours waiting for the server to restart. Since we all had bear stones, there were quite a few creatures who joined us). Those interested in polishing off their summoning skills may use this opportunity to show off get experience, others may work on att/def by slaughtering what they can, and others can sit around and giggle every time one of Requiem's Armed Orcs kills someone (or remote heal, your choice). Come dressed in weirdest costume! (prizes!) (hosted by Orange) 3:00 Other event 0:00 CotM Hyperbag Race (Hosted by CotM guild) HUGE list of prizes! (this one will probably last a while) 3:00 Riddles and Trivia: I've got questions, you've got answers 0:00 Other event Sunday December 28th: 0:00 Gossip Appreciation Day: (hosted by Gossip) Send admires, threats, and messages. Don't forget to send a telegram to your main server friends to tell them what we're doing today and invite them over! 3:00 Find Gossip! (hosted by Gossip) Since she rocks, she'll be handing out stones (yes, it's punny), various glittery stones (the kind that go in fun storage categories like "magic" and "misc"). 0:00 Team Mob Hunt: (hosted by SyWren or Segor, or both) Entrance fee is 200 gc per character. Join one of two teams, and see which team can get the most loot in 1 hour. Winning team gets the gc (and the loot!) Best loot is given to Kaldoon for the next event. 3:00 Kill Kaldoon (Hosted by Bkc) 0:00 Event 3:00 Event Monday December 29th 0:00 Harvesting Bingo (hosted by Handyman) The prize? Harvester Medallion of course! 3:00 PK Server Tournament: (hosted by Felessan) The tournament will travel to various arenas and end in votd for the top fighters. 0:00 Toadstool Eating Contest (hosted by Kit_GW) 3:00 Find ReMuS! (Hosted by Handyman) Let's end our celebration with a big hunt and lots of PK!

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Congratulations to today's winner! Find Gossip 1st place: poot 2nd place: Kit_gw 3rd place: Rhiannon And a special thank you to Gossip for playing along! Team Mob Hunt Pictures above! Winning team: Segor, poot, and SyAnide (with a grats to Rhiannon for finding an artificer cloak, but wasn't playing) And a special thank you to Bkc56 for being the judge! Kill Kaldoon Winner: poot Thank you to all the hosts and participants!

OK, so here are some of the winners we have so far: Best Costumes: DHT, poot, and Felessan Thank you Requiem for the prizes! Trivia and Riddles: EL trivia (Round 1): DHT and Sego General Knowledge (Round 2): Bkc56 Mixed Bag (Round 3): Aphistolas Overall winner (most points): DHT Grats to all so far! It's been a great day.

ONE YEAR! In this time we've seen a lot of friends come and go, and come and go again. Since so many people play back and forth on both servers, I'm announcing our huge celebration event in this thread to make sure everyone with a PK server account remembers to stop in, say hi, play a game, and join the fun. From December 27th to 29th, the PK server will be holding many, many events hosted by most of our regular players. Everyone is welcome! Here's the schedule of events so far. Each event begins either at 0:00 or 3:00 game time. Saturday's events will begin at the first 0:00 game time when most of us are on. I know, that's tricky, but if someone wants to do the calculations, I'll be thrilled. I can't do the math that far ahead. And we've figured out the starting times! 0:00 ingame time is 9:00 AM central US, and 1500 GMT. Saturday December 27th: 0:00 Kick off the anniversary celebration with a Summoning Party in IP (OK, there's a back story to this. Those of us who were here the day of the character wipe basically sat around Beam for about 6 hours waiting for the server to restart. Since we all had bear stones, there were quite a few creatures who joined us). Those interested in polishing off their summoning skills may use this opportunity to show off get experience, others may work on att/def by slaughtering what they can, and others can sit around and giggle every time one of Requiem's Armed Orcs kills someone (or remote heal, your choice). Come dressed in weirdest costume! (prizes!) (hosted by Orange) 3:00 Other event 0:00 CotM Hyperbag Race (Hosted by CotM guild) HUGE list of prizes! (this one will probably last a while) 3:00 Riddles and Trivia: I've got questions, you've got answers 0:00 Other event Sunday December 28th: 0:00 Gossip Appreciation Day: (hosted by Gossip) Send admires, threats, and messages. Don't forget to send a telegram to your main server friends to tell them what we're doing today and invite them over! 3:00 Find Gossip! (hosted by Gossip) Since she rocks, she'll be handing out stones (yes, it's punny), various glittery stones (the kind that go in fun storage categories like "magic" and "misc"). 0:00 Team Mob Hunt: (hosted by SyWren or Segor, or both) Entrance fee is 200 gc per character. Join one of two teams, and see which team can get the most loot in 1 hour. Winning team gets the gc (and the loot!) Best loot is given to Kaldoon for the next event. 3:00 Kill Kaldoon (Hosted by Bkc) 0:00 Event 3:00 Event Monday December 29th 0:00 Event 3:00 PK Server Tournament: Details to come as soon as someone tells me the best way to run this or volunteers to run it themselves 0:00 Event 0:00 Find ReMuS! (Hosted by Handyman) Let's end our celebration with a big hunt and lots of PK! Any and all times can and will change. I'll try to keep this updated as people add more event ideas.

At the end of this month, the PK server will be one year old. I'd love to make it big. My idea is to plan a whole bunch of activities spread out over about three RL days at the end of the month so that no matter what time of day each of us plays, there will be some fun activity while we're on. (Maybe an event at the start of every new day?) If you've every had an idea for something fun to try with a small server, here's your chance. All ideas welcome! Obviously, I'll try and hold a couple events, but the more the merrier! Speak up if you have an idea for someone else to execute, and let us know if you're willing to run it yourself. Some ideas to get us started: Kill Kaldoon Hide and seek Riddle hunts for hyperspace bags Costume party Leveled PK tournaments Capture the Flag Group dragon hunts Lottery Music hour with DJ Gambit Photo contests Etc... Etc... Etc... EDIT: FULL UPDATED SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=47515

This list is fantastic! I'm sorry I've been away for a few days. I'm up in DC right now doing the whole family Christmas thing, so I don't plan to be back full time until the 26th. I've heard in game that some people have a few more events to add, so please post those ideas here. It doesn't have to be big (small events help keep the server talking and active). The idea behind the celebration is just to keep everyone talking and having fun, so that leaves a lot of room for different ideas. I'm also posting this in the main forum events page, and I'm going to try to get it onto the calendar. See you all in a couple days! (and Merry Christmas!) Another note: I'm going to have to scratch the Win A PK character on the main server event on the 26th since I won't have time to plan it. If anyone else is interested in running it, I'll still donate a character (and if I'm online, I can help).

it seems as though Woodeh is not planning on honoring this statement, he killed me and RotationZ while we were fighting a GIWS invasion in NC. He claims that his brother never told him about that agreement...just to warn you all. Watch you back during GIWS invasions. Community rules refer only to spawned invasion that used to be held by MrHide and that we hope (if teh god has the time for the PK Server) someone can hold in the near future. I've always considered GIWS invasions acceptable PK since it's a good chance to bring together some higher level players who are dressed for a fight already anyway. We should have some events when people can expect to get to PK, and in my opinion, GIWS is one of them. So for clarity sake, I think many of us can agree on the following: PK during a moderated invasion will result in a very angry server and retribution by the victim's guild members and friends (not to mention the drama...Oh the drama) PK during GIWS is at the player's discretion. Reactions from the rest of the server will vary.

Dear understanding moderators, Sygon is a very old name. I'd like to end this account and start a fresh one using SyWren as my name. Since changing over to the PK server, some main server friends have tried to forum PM me, but couldn't find me due to this old name. I've tried to create a new account as SyWren, but it was not approved. I'm sure this was in protection of my identity, and I really appreciate that. I understand that having two forum accounts is an issue with voting and whatnot, but I will delete this account as soon as the SyWren account is confirmed (or you can do it ). I also understand that any overlapping uses of the two names (indicating that both accounts exist) would result in a complete forum ban. This won't happen. I think we've all figured out that I'm a forum junkie. I'm almost as addicted to these forums as I am to the game itself. Thank you, SyWren