[AC] Weekly Update 7/24/06

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Hello everyone. I hope that you all had a great weekend. Things were a little soggy here, but overall it was a good weekend.

Let’s get in to what is going on this week.

First off we have some news about forum upgrades. On Thursday July 27th we will be bringing down the forums at 10am EST so we can upgrade to the latest version of vBulletin, which for those who don’t know is the software that runs these forums. This will allow us to add more features to the forums and to have much more freedom over what features we can use here. As part of this upgrade we are also going to be changing these forums over to a system where you will need to be a subscriber to post. We are working on a way for non-subscribers to be able to post in a separate forum also, but for the time being you will need to have an active game account in order to post. Everyone will still be able to read everything that is posted on the forums.

After the upcoming forum downtime on Thursday when everyone tries to view the forums, they will be prompted to enter a username and password from an active game account that they want to associate with their forum account. That’s it. After that you will be able to go to the forums and post as normal, but we will now be able to track information easier. Also bear in mind that this means your forum account is linked to your game account in every way. If you break the Code of Conduct in the game and get banned, it could also affect your forum account, and vice- versa. We feel this new system will be better for everyone involved.

A reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday July 25th is the day we push out the July event Toward Ancient Shores. All worlds will be down from 8am EST – 3pm EST. During that time players will not be able to log in to the game. We would also like to remind players that during the event that there will be several un-announced Live Events taking place in locations all over Dereth. That means that all players should be mindful of where they log out certain characters on their accounts. You never know what you might log in to.

And just so the issue is not ignored, we are still in discussions about possible compensation for players due to the recent authentication issues. When we have more information on this we will let you know.

That’s about it for now. Everyone have a great day. See you all in Dereth!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc