Today, starting at around 18:00 GMT, the island will face a serious threat. Due to the fact that I know that Illarion and its players are not used to large scale threats and battles, I want to give you some guidances so the event becomes a good show for everyone.
Keep calm!
We all play together and the players who control your ingame enemies are not your enemies. So, give everyone the time for roleplay.
Minimize OOC!
OOC is no fun for everyone and distracts from the actual gaming experience. This holds for OOC-speach AND OOC-behaviour. Remember this is a RPG after all, not a real time strategy game.
There is no prewritten script!
Thus, do not ask what you should do, do what your character would do. And bid farewell to persona play. This game and this event is not about "winning" or "pwnage". Sometimes, a defeat with glory is better than winning in shame...
Support new and german players!
It is not possible to translate every dialogue into german, thus help those who don't understand a scene. Also, those players who have no clue about the ongoing plot can use any ingame-information.
Respect the save zone!
Greenbriar is declared quest free zone today. The rest of the island (including Silverbrand, Nordmark, Vanima...) may get involved in the event. The save zone is not ment as refuge for characters who flee the event but for players who refuse to partizipate in a big show and prefer to... what is done best in the isolation of Greenbriar
!gm is your friend
...but keep it clean and use it for urgent messages only. Do not use it to mock or comment the plot.
Stick to your role!
Everywhere, we hear this game is not about skills and items. Today, you might lose them. In exchange, you get a good show I hope. Thus, e.g. if your char is not a fighter and has to face a fight, losing is sometimes better than avoiding a situation. And there won't be much of a chance to avoid a threatening siuation today, even though it is up to you how you handle threats.
That's about it. You can contact me in the #illarion channel on quakenet (IRC) for urgent questions until the quest starts.
alright, we're told not to gather in one place. but then the quest seems to only be happening in one place...so then...exactly how does everyone get to enjoy this event without crashing the server??
or was it only potentially going to be moved around? i may be wrong so apologies if i don't know what i'm talking about.
this is some lame ass shit, excuse my french.. a quest is taking place somewhere and we were asked to move along cos we're lagging the server..
It would be nice if the quest would be shared with all areas in this case
I was in Trollsbane and nothing happened except some globals, a guy screamed KOAK? and some people teleported in and I used their portal to teleport a few squares north, like, four times. No action other than that.
The quest actually already is taking place somewehre else on the island. It is not that important where, since now the quest is played with a limited number of characters who already are playing.
THe problem is, as Nitram has explained, that there should be not more than 10 characters at the same spot. Otherwise the server would crash.
This is some technical limitation of the game. Though, if I have understood them correctly, the staff is working to solve this problem.
I think you are right, yes.
Though, perhaps all members of the staff just noticed that the server is not able to manage so many characters at the same time.
So, I think it is best to consider this quest as something where all of us could learn something of
