Posts by Iaerah

  • Beta of our new theme!

    Quote from wind fire and ice

    That would be great as a solution for me and others interested in visibility, but if that is a regular complaint maybe a standardized fix to the font and/or text size would be useful. That was really my point.

    Even just the current font bumped up one size is far better. Right now our font/size combination is a little below the point of easy legibility, at least for me.

    Add this in a Stylish stylesheet and it'll change all the post fonts to Georgia 18pt:

    Quote

    @-moz-document domain("guildwarslegacy.com") {
    .post_body {
    font-family: Georgia;
    font-size: 18px;
    }
    }

  • Beta of our new theme!

    I'm not really a fan of Times New Roman/serif fonts myself (though I do like Georgia). But I can create a small stylesheet for you that you can use with Stylish for example to change the fonts into Georgia 5. That way, you can browse this site like you want to :)

  • Beta of our new theme!

    Hello everybody,

    I think it's hardly a secret that we've been working on a new theme that would solve a few issues that people have/had:

    • Text too hard to read
    • Several items that are very hard or impossible to read
    • People might not like the dark layout


    In order to solve this, I started working on a new layout - codename for this was "Stormcaller". The alpha versions of those themes are still available, as "Stormcaller" and "bickycheese".
    However, I decided to use another theme as our base and started customizing it for our needs.

    That theme was MyIPB, which bases itself on the base theme of Invision Power Board. I modified it quite heavily, incoporating several new features (like the "Recent Activity" on top. I couldn't miss it ;3).

    Now, this new theme is available for all to test! Should we get no complaints, we'll put this theme as our default. The current default, Revolution, will stay available as a choice.

    You can enable the theme by going down on the page and choosing for "MyIPB" in the dropdown menu!

    So, please let me know your feedback!

    - Kev

  • Gaile's account was hacked.

    Well dear Sadness, as it happens, I got a reply today (what a coincidence!).

    I got a reply from Gaile, and she states that she is pleased that we're continuing to cover Guild Wars, which is still a game that's very dear to her heart.

    In regards to an interview, they're not able to do one now, but should the opportunity arise, they'll think of us. That's not a no, it's a well, not right now, but perhaps in the future.

    Further some general things and she wishes us great success :).

    All in all, quite happy with the reply and we're also added to the community mailing list, so yeah, all in all quite positive.

    - Kev

  • Donations to Legacy

    Hey hey all :)

    The monthly breakdown is as follows:

    * € 10 - Main cost for the server that is running our site
    * € 2 - Cost for snapshots (backups) of our server, occuring about once a week
    * € 3 - VAT for the server + snapshots
    * € 2 - Domain costs
    * € 10 - Costs for our backup server that makes daily backups of our site + database
    * € 2 - VAT for the backup server
    * € 5 - Extra bandwith costs (variable) (mostly traffic between backup server and main server)

    That brings us to about €30 a month for hosting costs alone.

    The other €10 is mainly used for transaction costs that are billed to us when a donation is made (unfortunately, we have to pay a chunk of each donation).
    If we get 10 donations of €3, that means we won't get €30 but about €25-€27.
    The rest of this is used as a net to cover unexpected costs, chargebacks (a chargeback always costs us €15), a rainy day fund and to allow us to organize contests with cool prizes.

    My ultimate goal is to have an extra server ready as well, so that when our server would go down, we still wouldn't have downtime because of our secondary server. That's however not feasible for me to pay right now.

    These costs are actually very low for a VPS that we're running on and that is because I am managing it completely myself. Managed hosting easily costs 3-5 times more.

  • Game Update: September 8 2016

    I also had no clue about this, but I'm glad it's fixed - properly this time.
    This proves that ArenaNet still cares about us, even though it's probably only 1 person (I'd put my money on Joe Kimmes), who has been a bit more active on the wiki a few weeks ago.

    I'm glad that they did this :).

  • Guild Wars Guru- archive down?

    And that kind of attitude makes me even gladder that we started Legacy... even though Guru should be seen as lost now, at least we have a site now that's not in Curse it's hands...
    What makes me afraid is that Curse has these Guild Wars sites on their server:
    * GuildWiki (I can't imagine that it's still that popular, with the official Wiki... won't they kill this next?)
    * PvXWiki

    Yeah, they kinda lost my faith in them now.

  • Guild Wars Guru- archive down?


    I'm going to answer these the best I can...

    1. Yes, we have more than enough bandwith to host it here. That's not the issue - the issue would be the size of the website, we don't have enough diskspace for it. I can set up a seperate server, with extra storage, but it would need to be funded by the community every month to stay online. Guild Wars Legacy is running on a server that I also use for other projects, so while income is handy it isn't required. For the archive, that would be required. Last I heard someone had a backup with a size well into 500 GB.
    2. I'm not aware of any full backups - if you do know it, let me know.
    3. Legal implications? Well, if the original content is down, we're just mirroring it. If we listen to takedown requests, we wouldn't do that much wrong.
    Since we're not located in the USA, we're not required to follow the DMCA though (our servers are located in the Netherlands) - we however do need to respect the copyrights.
    4. No, we wouldn't be able to do this. However, we would be able to use a Google Custom search to make it searchable, but it wouldn't be perfect.
    5. We would need more people and money to realize this.

    - Kev

  • Image not showing up? Here's why.

    Hello everybody,

    In order to make our website more secure, we have been using HTTPS/SSL since the beginning of our site.
    However, quite a lot of you are using http-images instead of those protected by SSL (https).

    When an image from a non-secure source (non-https) is loaded, our site "loses" it's lock and is marked insecure.
    To solve this, we're now displaying all images from a non-secure source as a link.
    If you use an HTTPS-source, it will display like it always has.

    Most image hosts support https, like for example Imgur.
    Try to change the http to https, in most cases this will work.

    This helps secure our site and maintain our lock on all pages :)

    Kev

  • Gaile's account was hacked.

    Quote from Sadness


    Go, Kevin Go! :)

    Have you done any progress so far?!


    I've started working on the new guild recruitment system, I decided to wait until Laravel 5.3 came out since it has some really nice changes which will come in handy.
    The domain name is also taken care of, it's just programming now! I'm kinda busy right now with my job, but I'm working on it. Hopefully I'll have something to release at the end of September.
    I'll start testing the system with some guilds as soon as the basics are ready and I need feedback :).

    For the tag that shows character names for members only, it's still something I'm looking into and it's looking a bit more complicated to implement than I had hoped, but I also hope to implement this during September.

    - Kev

  • Guild Wars Guru- archive down?

    They're aware of it, we haven't actually got any information that they're working on it :P

    My thoughts are that they:
    * Got an error with the web server which went down, but this should be an easy fix and could be implemented automatically. Should also be resolved with a server restart.
    This makes this one unlikely.
    * They are performing server maintenance, but an unplanned and unnotified one. It's also taking very long.
    * Something crashed on their server.
    * The forum got hacked (not unlikely, since it's running on a very old version of vBulletin, and vBulletin isn't really a well-written forum: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-…/Vbulletin.html)
    * They shut down the servers on purpose.
    * Something else.

    Not going to speculate any further on this, but that's why I think is likely (I'm a sysadmin specialized in Linux, so I have knowledge about these things).

    Kev

  • Just ask us...we dont bite (not usually)

    My current goals are to push a few more characters through every ounce of content, as I have mainly done that on 1-2 characters (my Warrior mainly, and my assassin a little bit).
    Next to that I finished my HoM, I'm still working on getting GWAMM. To get it, I'm working on getting Drunkard/Party Animal and one title I haven't decided upon yet.

    If you want to help, all help is welcome :P I'm at 6000 points on Drunkard/Party Animal.

    Next to that, I also enjoy playing the game :) So yeah, you can find me online quite often :P

  • Gaile's account was hacked.

    I would also like to point out that Gaile is still a player and a member of our community in the first place - the second place is that she works for ArenaNet.
    Forcing her into answering questions will only drive her away and for a good reason.

    Don't forget that even though you're a developer of a game, you can still very well be a player in it, without having to be a representative of the company you're working for.
    As such I'm pretty certain that Gaile has been playing a lot more Guild Wars than we're aware of (the possibility exists that she has a private, non-work account too). So don't try to be so aggressive towards her :) let her enjoy the game.

    While we all would like more information from ArenaNet in the first place, I think that we should all be aware that the main thing that bonds us is the love for this game.
    I'm pretty sure that if Gaile had something to share with us, she would do it in the first place.

    As of now, the main channels of communication for Guild Wars are, afaik, Stephane Lo Presti and Joe Kimmes. Both of them are still somewhat involved with the Guild Wars on a professional level (https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Stephane_Lo_Presti / https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback_talk:Joe_Kimmes) and both of them are more involved than Gaile still is (Stephane being a community manager and Joe being a member of the Live Team afaik) - and we should try to avoid hammering her for information.
    Don't forget that Gaile's role for the last few years has been that of a Support Liaison and Forum Communications Team Lead for Guild Wars 2 - she might not even be up to date with what's going on for Guild Wars 1 - it's a big company after all and I doubt that in her current job Guild Wars 1 is something that pops up often.

    While I absolutely agree that a feedback channel should be available, I'm currently trying to find another way to get this - hammering Gaile won't help us with that.
    Instead, I think that we should, as a positive community, try to reach out to ArenaNet in the best way possible and ask if there's a way that we could get a feedback channel - be it official or unofficial.
    The best way to start there might be to contact Stephane, as he's one of the community managers.

  • What music are you listening to?

    Quote from Marty Silverblade


    In the past week I've mostly been listening to The Mars Volta. Muse before that.

    EDIT: Why is this in it's own subforum?

    Quote from cosyfiep


    ask Kevin...he created this...I did the reg OT threads...

    Yeah, shouldn't be the case. Fixed it! :)

    I'm currently listening to Alpenglow by Nightwish!

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  • Why so many gold sellers?

    Honestly, I would rather have that they don't make Guild Wars F2P. They don't have a support team in place right now and the game clearly wasn't built for it.
    In GW2, you have the gem store that is completely integrated to make it easy to spend money, while in Guild Wars there is no such thing, except for the external shop which doesn't really have that much except for some costumes.
    They would seriously need to ramp up the security measures of this game and start making sure that there are quite a lot of measures against gold sellers, because it's already a huge problem.

    Unless they decide to drop a big bag of money on Guild Wars, I don't expect that to happen.
    I would however like if they would put a small team on GW1 again... but one can dream.

    For the rest, I would like to ask an interview yeah; but obviously we would need to talk about GW2 as well in order to get their attention..

  • New update...

    Well, I'm just glad they didn't do what they usually do on GW2:

    * Fixed a server crash.

    And that would introduce a server crash that affects EVERYONE. It has happened so often...

  • What music are you listening to?

    I think this speaks for itself :)

    I'm currently listening to Universal Death Squad by Epica (can you think of a more metal title than that? :P)

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  • Introductions Thread!

    Quote from cosyfiep


    off topic and absurd....pwnd and I used to hang out there (and he was the mod for that section)....besides a general off topic thread, we had a few games (this or that, the poster above me, word game, etc)...it was also where we had really off topic stuff like when people passed away or real news that was not gw related (movies coming out, cons etc).
    We also had a thread called 'get to know your mods' where people could ask questions of the moderators.

    We should do that too :). What threads should I make ^^?