How lond does it realy take

Jundullin · Post by **Jundullin** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:14 am

ok, ok, I understand that at the time it would be 3 weeks to get your reply about your account

, but now that message has driven so many people away because they dont want to wait so. long(neither do I)

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I understand that , so now sooo many people have been driven away how long does it take to get your account thingy replied

Joseph Whittlemen · Post by **Joseph Whittlemen** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:45 am

well for me its been three agonizing weeks of checking me e-mail every 5 seconds and nothing

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:22 am

do something else in your freetime, do you people have no lives you can attend to? try reading a book.

John Laffing · Post by **John Laffing** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:30 am

I have been waiting over a month

......... try other rpgs while ur waiting.

P.S. Illarion is still the best though

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Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:39 am

Gro'bul wrote:do something else in your freetime, do you people have no lives you can attend to? try reading a book.

Really, you would think that people had no life outside of games.
I know it's painful to wait but find something else to do and forget about it for a week then check back.

Joseph Whittlemen · Post by **Joseph Whittlemen** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 4:01 am

i really have no life all i do is stay inside and be on my laptop and this makes the wait even longer the time doesn't pass at all when your doing this and the neighborhhod around here isint the best environment lol

after school thats all i do wait for the e-mail and play tibia but i think illarion is better

and you guys ur just saying this because you can play the game anytime you want and can

even though i know i havent played before and ur asking how do i know its better well i know because of the way the game is don't ask lol

John Laffing · Post by **John Laffing** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 4:04 am

@Joseph We share quite similar lives....I sit at my laptop when I get home from school and wait for the email while playing Tibia.

Salathe · Post by **Salathe** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 4:11 am

yea i used to just watch tv and go on my comp, then lacrosse season came!!!!! woooooo i love lacrosse , now i do is play lacrosse , but it takes up all my time, from 3 to about 5:30 everyday weekday is our practice =P but lacrosse is fun

Joseph Whittlemen · Post by **Joseph Whittlemen** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 4:37 am

John Laffing wrote:@Joseph We share quite similar lives....I sit at my laptop when I get home from school and wait for the email while playing Tibia.

what world do u play in trimera if so my name is Atomic-Zero Lets go hunting some day in main lol

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:14 am

never played tibia but i never really felt the urge to, i would rather read lotr books or something.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:25 am

At the moment, the account accepting person (Yes, one SINGLE person does ALL the work) has to answer several hundred !!! emails EVERY day. With a real live and a job, that is indeed a great problem.

Please watch out for the following :

- When applying, stick to the necessary things. Only put the needed data into your email.
- do NEVER write your email twice or three times.
- read ALL server rules. Read the NAME RULES. Characters you create named "Dragon Slayer" or "Master mage" or "fred123" will NOT be accepted. In these cases, you will NOT get a response.
- write in a form that is understandable. Use punctuation.
- be sure to have a virus-free system. Else, your email will be deleted automatically.

For more data on this, you will find another topic here on the boards.

In some time, there will be another method for character requests.

Until then, stay patient.

Brendan Mason · Post by **Brendan Mason** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:04 pm

Why don't those of you whom only use their laptop...do something more productive...?

Read a book
Get involved in charity work
Make friends (non internet ones...)
Plant a plant
Learn about animals
meditate
Watch educational television...

Elaina Exemoor · Post by **Elaina Exemoor** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:58 pm

Ok guys I've been waiting a long time, but I've been doing some looking and here's what I've come up with to do while we all wait for our accounts.
These are all free at the moment.
http://www.project-entropia.com
This site is a free 3D MMORPG

Myrmidia.com
This is free 3D MMORPG with chars that look on par with Everquest characters. Problem is it's in it's beginning stages and you can't do much with it yet.

arianne.com
A 2D MMORPG that's moving into it's 3D stages

Progress Quest
This game is a free MMORPG that's a tongue in cheek. It's characters are the likes of enchanted motorcycles with monsters such as a beer golem, girlscout, cheese elemental, etc.

**Disclaimer** I have not tried any of these games....yet. I'm still waiting on Illarion cause of the emphasis they put on roleplaying. A MMORPG quickly becomes very boring without roleplaying and Illarion seems to know what they are doing in this instance. So even if you do try any of these games, I'd still come back and try Illarion.

dendthor · Post by **dendthor** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:30 pm

Ok, I am doing something other than waiting for my Illarion Account! I am reading the third part of LOTR, I am playing DSA (The Black Eye in English, I think) and many other things like playing Hockey with my friends.
But that don't mean that I am not waiting for my Illarion Account!! I am already waiting for about 5(!!) weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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dendthor

Loki Feuerhaar · Post by **Loki Feuerhaar** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:34 pm

Woops, Denthor, there might be a serious problem with your Keyboard.
Seems to me your Exclamaitionark-Key (!-Key) is brocken.

You might also read again Damiens Post.

Grishnak Bloodlust · Post by **Grishnak Bloodlust** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:43 pm

You could always get a job. And then use the money to learn to play a musical instrument, or try martial arts. I just watch music channels and stuff in my spare time, oh and I play my console (PS2).

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:48 pm

@ Grishnak : PS2 ?

Gee, now you really outed yourself.

@ Elaina : CHEESE ELEMENTALS ? BEER GOLEMS ??

I ALWAYS wanted these !

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:20 pm

Don't forget the Demi-Canadians, and Battle Finches. High time to get this topic locked, so I will once again ask THE question. Why don't some more people work on the account system? I'm NOT saying I should be a GM, contrary to GMcFly's beliefs. I'm saying that someone who is already a GM should contrinute to the account system.

Caens · Post by **Caens** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:31 pm

I've waited 2 weeks, I got the questions the same day I sent the first e-mail but haven't heard from em since. In the mean time I just play Tibia and wait and wait and wait. Thought it was only supposed to take a week. Can't wait til I get it though, just started dling that project entropia, looks pretty good but is 500mb. Oh well, guess all I can do is wait. Oh ya, sup Atomic. ya can't do much around here beside play on my com and watch tv. I live in to bad neighborhood ta go out side to much, oh well guess Ima just wait somemore. peace

Aravan · Post by **Aravan** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 12:05 am

Well, some of us havent even got the questionaire thing yet and ive been waitin for like 4 weeks

John Laffing · Post by **John Laffing** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:52 am

Joseph Whittlemen wrote:
John Laffing wrote:@Joseph We share quite similar lives....I sit at my laptop when I get home from school and wait for the email while playing Tibia.
what world do u play in trimera if so my name is Atomic-Zero Lets go hunting some day in main lol

What a coincidence! I am in Trimera......Guess what my name is.

Hint:hmm....maybe John something....hmm......

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 12:08 pm

Why the work is not divided into more GMs ? Simple.

1.) Overview (does this person already have an account ?)
2.) Coordination (This story here... what kind of story did he get, and who sent it ? )
3.) etc.. etc..

Several GMs would be too ineffective. We would have more traffic asking others about player mails and statuses than the actual player mails themselves...

Joseph Whittlemen · Post by **Joseph Whittlemen** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:27 pm

even though the account sytem would be wrong for this i agrre more gms only for going through the account system there is too long a wait i am still waiting though and i think more gms answering e-mails means more e-mails answered

but i also have a theroy everyone says about 100 e-mails come in a day to this e-mail accounts@illarion.com well then y dont most of them come back to the senders her mail box would be full of e-mails and most would jsut come back to us saying mail resipent coulnd't accept or something but most e-mails go through is she really checkign them as soon as she sees them or marks them all read and then checks them later

whats up Caens

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:47 pm

ARGH !!!!!

Use punctuation ! That post of yours is UNreadable.

Of course, emails like THAT won't be answered too. But deleted.

dendthor · Post by **dendthor** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:02 pm

But my mail WAS readable. My name ist also Dendthor and because of this, I don't know, why I haven't got an answer yet. And I am waiting for more then 5 weeks now!!

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dendthor

Elaina Exemoor · Post by **Elaina Exemoor** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 6:29 pm

Well Damien we do have to wonder....
I was accepted and somehow my password was messed up. I sent in an email explaining what happened with who my character was and the password. I received back the questionaire. It appeared to me that she had not really taken the time to read my email. If she did, then she didn't seem to understand English. No offense Cosma if you do, and I appologize now if there is a misunderstanding, but my email was pretty clear especially since it was titled "wrong password".

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:48 pm

Instead of just deleting the invalid emails why not just send a reply saying that the email was invalid?

If the email is just deleted the person would be sitting and waiting forever not knowing when they will get accepted when the whole time the email had been deleted.

It would'nt take maybe 2 seconds longer to send a reply rather than deleting.

I'm not talking about replying with an elaborate message but just a short generic message like "invalid email" and it would be done.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:14 pm

Then people will want to know why it is invalid, and so on.

The solution to the problem is none other than to have people not post these topics. Remember, you are applying to play THEIR game, so have a little respect. Most people can make the connection that if you don't get a message back, you are not accepted. They don't have any responsibility to tell you otherwise.

@Crocket:
It takes a bit more than two seconds, and that time certainly adds up when you have thousands of emails to answer.

Caens · Post by **Caens** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:05 am

Most people say when your not accepted you get an e-mail back tellin you. So therefore I'm guessing she hasn't checked all our e-mails yet. So to those of u saying if we aint gettin an e-mail back cuz we wasn't accepted I don't think thats the case. I could be wrong, but who knows. Personaly I thought I answered those questions pretty good and was hoping since they was sent the same day I sent the first e-mail then there wasnt that many e-mails, but that was 2 weeks ago and I havn't heard from her since.

sup Atomic

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:48 am

Would it be possible to have one GM recieving the emails at the accounts email, then randomly forward them to a GM? Then the Gm would send an email back to the person who originally sent the email explicitly telling them to send the return email to them? Then once a player had passed the account set up the GM would did it with them could put there name into a sort of database? I don't think that would create too much conversation traffic.