Quote of the Day
'"If the item is a Container and the Ground Container is full of Containers (i.e., if the number of Containers it contains is not less than its Maximum Containers), it cannot be put in the Container."'- Pierson, in Spec Hell
Thursday, September 27th
Roberto posted on
28 Sep 2007 01:38
One of the cool new tools we have here on the redesigned site is the ability to show off what people have submitted to the databases. Just in the past few days, while working on cleaning up the conversion, we've also added several new entries, including:
New Items
Paradox-touched Olthoi Axe, Paradox-touched Olthoi Spear, Paradox-touched Olthoi Sword
New Monsters
Paradox-touched Olthoi Warrior Nymph, Dark Bobo, Imp, Mudmouth, Paradox-touched Olthoi Warrior
Thanks to those that submitted these items, either through the patch trees, or directly to us. Read more to see what else we've added. As always, if you find something we don't have in the database, or a quest writeup we're missing, please submit it!
Monday, September 24th
Roberto posted on
24 Sep 2007 21:15
Frelorn, of Turbine's Asheron's Call Community Relations, posted an important notice about one of the quests in the game:
After going into the dungeon and seeing an overwhelming number of corpses, this quest is going to be closed down for 24 hours to allow players to recover any bodies they may have lost in this dungeon. After the 24 hours is up, we will clean up all remaining corpses and turn the quest back on again.
In the meantime, we are asking for player feedback on this dungeon. What caused the most deaths, did something hit harder than expected, was there just too much to handle? We just want to know why everyone has been having trouble with in this quest.
To give feedback on this dungeon, head over to the official forums, here.
lepidus posted on
24 Sep 2007 18:54
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Thursday, September 20th
Roberto posted on
20 Sep 2007 20:36
Dark Materials, the September Event for Asheron's Call, has gone live, and with it comes the rollout Fiction:
In a mist-shrouded valley between the Obsidian Plains and the Inner Sea of Dereth sat the ruins of an ancient graveyard. Shambling undead and corruption-tainted rats lurked in the cold recesses of the crypts. Wisps and ghosts glowing with malevolent energy hovered in the open spaces between gravestones. Into this nightmarish patch of land came an even stranger creature, scurrying nervously between hiding places to mask its presence from the roving groups of undead.
Looks like Aliester and Ardry are going to be having some 'fun'!
Tuesday, September 18th
Roberto posted on
18 Sep 2007 22:13
Frelorn, of Turbine's Asheron's Call Community Relations, posted the teaser fiction for September's Event, Dark Materials:
Ardry crouched in the wide stone hallway, trying to ignore the chill in his bones. He'd found this portal, strangely unguarded and unwarded, in the middle of the Singularity Caul after the Council of Sages had asked him to investigate rumors of Elemental activity in the area...
Roberto posted on
18 Sep 2007 22:05
Frelorn, of Turbine's Asheron's Call Community Relations, posted the event notes for September's Event, Dark Materials. It looks like changes are in store related to the Harbinger, including:
The two Harbinger Portals into Old Yanshi will now ask if you wish to return to your Harbinger fight if you have already entered the Harbinger's Chamber. If you choose not to, you are portaled to the Tunnels.
Read on for the complete details, as well as information on some requested feedback regarding quests in-game.
Monday, September 17th
Roberto posted on
18 Sep 2007 00:01
Frelorn shared an interesting image with us, in preparation for the September event:
What are those crafty Virindi up to now?
Friday, September 14th
Roberto posted on
14 Sep 2007 16:06
Frelorn provided us with an update regarding the start of the September event:
Update: We are changing the day of the September patch from Tuesday the 18th to Thursday the 20th. We ran into some issues that we felt needed to be addressed before we would ok the September patch.
This means that the release notes as well as the fiction, will now come out on Tuesday the 18th.
Wednesday, September 12th
Roberto posted on
12 Sep 2007 22:18
Frelorn posted this warning for us today:
We will be doing some maintenance to the login servers on Thursday September 13th from 5am EDT - 6am EDT. During this time connecting to the game may be sporadic, but should not be consistently down.
Good thing I'm still in bed at those hours!
Uzi-El posted on
12 Sep 2007 20:53
Frelorn keeps it brief this week with a preview of the September Event (but don't tell Philip Pullman), a reminder about housing payment, and a look at the new AC Forums coming in a few weeks:
Asheron's Call Update 9/12/07
We are going to be keeping this edition short and sweet because, we have a lot of work to do still and there is not much extra time floating around right now.
The September event Dark Materials is scheduled to go live on Tuesday, September 18th. This of course means that all worlds will be down on that day from 8am EDT - 3pm EDT. If for some reason that date changes, we will let everyone know. We will be getting the Teaser screenshots out to the fansites as soon as possible, probably on Friday, along with the Release Notes and Fiction.
lepidus posted on
12 Sep 2007 17:11
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Monday, September 10th
Roberto posted on
10 Sep 2007 21:47
Noticed this on the LOTRO forums this afternoon. It's always good to have a reminder!
Turbine takes the security of your personal information seriously. Recently, we've received some reports of suspicious emails from turbinegames.net and accmanagement@turbinegames.net. These emails request the verification of your account information including username and password. These emails are not from Turbine, Inc. Please do not reply to them if you find one in your inbox.
Turbine will never ask for your account name and password via email. Please forward any such requests to us at fraud@turbine.com for investigation.
Legitimate email from Turbine will only be sent from turbine.com, ddo.com, lotro.com, and thelordoftheringsonline.com. Email from any other domain claiming to be from Turbine should be also be forwarded to fraud@turbine.com.
Thank you for your assistance!
Roberto posted on
10 Sep 2007 13:35
While you're waiting for Turbine's games to come back online, here's an interesting little news tidbit sent in by one of our faithful readers:
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To take part in the survey, click here, or upon the Survey link in the site menu. As an added incentive, you could win the game of your choice (terms and conditions apply) just for taking part!
We encourage everyone to pass the relevant link onto anyone who might be interested. Thanks for your support!
Friday, September 7th
Looks like Monday is a good day to do the laundry:
All Turbine services (game and login servers, websites, and forums) will be offline for maintenance on Monday, September 10 from 7:00AM - 1:00PM EDT (-4 GMT). Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!
Wednesday, August 29th
Roberto posted on
29 Aug 2007 21:49
Frelorn's posted an update for this week, and includes a bit of an update regarding the 'excitement' we had this weekend, commentary on the players' reactions, as well as some feedback from PAX.
All the evidence we have at this point says that we had what is classified as Network issues. We still have one of our Operations managers out on site, doing some more work to the servers and the network hardware located out there. As a result of this past weekend, we are going to be returning to our regularly scheduled weekly maintenance window. We want to be very clear that we are going to do everything within our power to make sure that something like this does not happen again.
As always, you can read more after the link!
