Posts by Iaerah

  • 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..

  • 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 ^^?

  • Guru closing any minute

    Well, the mod tools here are quite easy in my opinion, but in Stormcaller we're going to make them a lot more visible to our moderators :)
    I have worked with both vBulletin and Invision Power Board though, and in my opinion the UI of both was aweful (the admin UI atleast). The moderation panels are something I barely touched..

  • Introductions Thread!

    Quote from I pwnd U


    Ya she approached me about it. I just don't know how active I am going to be on here, so I didn't want to make a commitment that I couldn't fulfill. But I'll definitely be on here occasionally to say hi to people. Though the lack of an OTA area makes me a bit sad...

    What area do you miss? ;) I'm pretty easy to convince :P

    For the rest, welcome aboard all! :D

  • Gaile's account was hacked.

    As a direct reaction of this thread, I have decided to remove the standard placement of your in game character name until I'm certain that it's safe to enable it again.
    It's still available as a profile field and it will probably return soon but only for groups with enough posts on our website.

    I'll also make sure to get a tag for in game names (like [ign]your character name[/ign]) soon, that will make sure your in game name is only visible for users with enough posts.
    That will make scraping of this information harder (but not impossible).

    Kevin

  • Legacy Website

    Quote from cosyfiep


    upgrade to a new os just so I can view a website???? seriously?! I do not like any of the newer os that are out there and wont spend a dime on them. XP was the last good os that came out and I find no reason to change from it.

    It works on my firefox 4 so I will just use that instead of chrome...I dont get all the images to load but they never did, so no biggie (and it was working on chrome until about 2 days ago and then it just stopped--unless you just upgraded last week I think there is something else going on and I have the last update they did on chrome before they stopped supporting xp: Version 49.0.2623.112 m ).


    The way the internet works is that changes aren't always directly effective and it can take a while.
    I'll be looking for a way so you can access the site without encryption, but it might take a few days for me to implement something like this.

    And I would really recommend not using Windows XP (as a system admin/programmer). It's basicly an iron bucket with a few thousand holes in it. While it might work to transport water, it's not really effective anymore and it'll rust easily. If you want to see what I mean... this site will show you how many (unpatched) security issues there are with Windows XP: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-…Windows-Xp.html - it's super-easy to attack Windows XP as the security issues are easily found online and they aren't being fixed anymore.
    At the least I would suggest that you don't use your PC to do online banking/payments and I would really suggest running antivirus software (though I don't know if there's still support for this). I'll try to implement a non-SSL domain, but I can't say when it'll be ready. You might also need to delete some browser data in your browser because we're using HSTS, which means that your browser will reject visiting our site if it's not over SSL, and we're asking browsers to remember that for 6 months (so you'll need to delete that bit of data - I'll explain you how once I've gotten a solution ready).

    Kev

  • Legacy Website

    Quote from cosyfiep


    "This site can’t provide a secure connection

    guildwarslegacy.com uses an unsupported protocol.
    ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH"

    and yeah, I tried clearing the cache--didnt seem to change anything (and yes its httpS, I tried to do it with out the S but it just redirects to S).
    firefox is working chrome is not (then again I am on an xp computer so chrome no longer updates either---).

    Quote from Marty Silverblade


    Everything I can find on Google indicates this is an issue entirely on your end; likely due to your outdated operating system. I'm running W10, which would explain why I'm not having issues.


    What this means is that your computer hasn't got support for the security ciphers that we use.
    I'll try to explain it: our website is using encryption in order to be more safe and to provide more privacy (though security is the main reason). In order to do this, we offer several ways in which the encryption can be done: these are the ciphers we support.
    However, with the move to our new server, support for the old and unsafe ciphers got dropped - Windows XP is one of the operating systems that doesn't support the ciphers that we use. It's nothing that I can easily fix while maintaining security (it would mean that I would have to drop SSL encryption).

    Since we're using CloudFlare, which uses SNI with ECDSA, the support is as following:
    Desktop Browsers installed on Windows Vista or OS X 10.6 or later:

    Internet Explorer 7
    Firefox 2
    Opera 8 (with TLS 1.1 enabled)
    Google Chrome v5.0.342.0
    Safari 2.1
    Mobile Browsers

    Mobile Safari for iOS 4.0
    Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and later
    Windows Phone 7

    This is support from CloudFlare itself (which we both use for DNS hosting, protection against threats as well as analytics and as our CDN), so I fear I can't do anything against this unless I start paying them $20 a month just for Windows XP support... so I'm sorry, the only thing I can suggest here is to either upgrade to another OS or try to find a browser that does support our ciphers...

    Sorry! :(

    - Kev

  • Guru closing any minute

    Quote from I pwnd U


    New Guru forum is definitely different than the old Guru. Does take some getting used to but it is fairly easy once you figure it out.

    Too bad that the forum software they use is an utter piece of crap (talking from experience here). I had a (legal!) Invision Power Board 3 running, when I upgraded to IPB4, literally EVERYTHING broke. And that was a full release of commercial software.
    Eventually I had to migrate that other forum to MyBB... because that actually had a great and supported IPB4 converter. MyBB is however really good.

    I'm not the only one with these issues though, as for example Neowin had issues for over a year following the upgrade and it broke everything on their site - commenting, the editor UI and so forth. It's still not 100% fixed over there, and that's one of the biggest IPB forums around.

    That being said, enough about my hate for IPB (though I really used to love it!). Together, we can do everything we want!

    Kev

  • Guru closing any minute

    The intention is (and always was) to be more than Guru. A lot of things are currently being planned (but not being worked on, probably my fault - I'm having a quite busy period now).

    We want to be "more" than a generic forum, we want to be more tailored to GW than Guru was. Builds should be easier to find, perhaps a gallery, we're goint to mirror mods... those kinds of things.

    If there's something you want added, just ask and we'll consider it.

    We want to be the best place for Guild Wars 1. Not being pushed in a Guild Wars 2 forum where we're not even second class citizens, but third class.

    We want to sail our own course :)

    Kev

  • Have you got a mod that's now unavailable?

    A lot of the downloadlinks to mods on the wiki are unfortunately either behind a very slow download, or are dead links.

    In order to prevent this, please upload them here as attachments or link them so I can upload them to our server.

    Should you have one that's no longer downloadable, I'll be happy to host it ;)

    Kev

  • Downtime 24/06

    Hello everybody,

    Last friday, we had a downtime of about 20 minutes because our server lost internet connection for as of now unknown reasons.
    Several services on the server went down, and within 4 minutes I was aware of the issue and started working on a restoring the service which took me about 15 minutes.

    I'm currently working on a solution that will double as our back-up server as well as our failover server. Should something occur like what happened Friday, the new server will take over and you won't experience any downtime (our second server will take over as soon as our main server goes down).

    I'm going to work on this solution in the course of next week, I hope to have it implemented before next weekend.

    Remember, if you want to support us, click on Donate to Guild Wars Legacy on top of our site or visit https://donorbox.org/guild-wars-legacy - webhosting ain't free ;).

    Kev

  • Wished for changes and additions for these forums

    Quote from Redeemer


    http://xunlai-truhe.redeemer.biz/gwbbcode-redeemermod-gwlegacy.zip
    What's your plan with that?
    Well the theme is adjusted to these forums.

    honnaja: I'm from Germany and after the years of surveillance in national socialism and the GDR, we cannot accept any kind of censorship. I feel insulted by being ask to censor my posts. Censorship in the US doesn't keep any kids from using these words, so I think it's not worth to restrict free speech in media.

    I personally don't have an issue with these words, but then again, we're most likely from entirely different parts of the world. I live in a country next to Redeemer (Belgium) and well... curse words and such aren't an issue here and censorship of them is seen as 'silly'. If you're going to censor music because it contains curse words, just don't transmit it but don't put bleeps in them. Annoys me so much :P

    That being said, since this website is all about Guild Wars, I think we'll just follow the PEGI 12 advice, which states the following:

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    Videogames that show violence of a slightly more graphic nature towards fantasy character and/or non graphic violence towards human-looking characters or recognisable animals, as well as videogames that show nudity of a slightly more graphic nature would fall in this age category. Any bad language in this category must be mild and fall short of sexual expletives.


    That means that you are allowed to use curse words here, but don't use the sexually loaded ones. Words like shit, damn, holy moley are definitively allowed.

    All in all I agree with what Redeemer says though and that is that censorship doesn't work. The solution, in my opinion, is not censoring the issue but rather explaining what it's all about and giving it a place. :)

    But, let's get back on-topic and return to improvements and suggestions :)

    Kev

  • Wished for changes and additions for these forums

    I've reset your theme to revolution ;).


    Hi Redeemer!
    The GWBB code that we use comes from http://gwbbcode.arnapou.net. It's 100% pure JavaScript and it has been working quite well (apart from me having to add it manually to each theme). If you have another, better solution, I would love to hear it.
    I like your build ladder! Very handy and I agree that there should be a link to it (added it to my to-do). I'll also add links to your buildwars and paw-ned once I'm home and I've got time for it (weekends are GF time :P).

    I haven't really got the time to fix the text shadow yet, but it's very high on my todo list and it should be fixed in the next few days. I agree that changing the fonts would be a good idea, so I'll make sure to do that too.

    I'll take a look to change the header, so it will fix the issue.

    Well, while typing I already found some time to do the CSS changes...

    I'll take a look at the quotes later.

    It might be a good idea to work together Redeemer for your projects (if you would want to) - feel free to send me a PM! ^^

    - Kev

  • Wished for changes and additions for these forums

    Quote from Marty Silverblade


    One more thing - now that Guru will remain in place adding a link to it somewhere (either as a forum redirect or in the handy links section) would be worthwhile.

    Once their archive is in place, I'll make sure to add a link.

    Quote from honnaja


    Yeah, signatures are quite neat ;)!
    As told before, we're currently in the planning stage/designing stage of our new theme. This will take a few months before it's ready... so in the meantime, I'm going to provide another (LIGHT) theme. I'll install it in the evening. I'll let you guys decide which one we'll use as our default.
    Because of several edits on our site (like the skillbars BB-code), it's not as easy as just installing it - I need to make some manual edits.

    And I agree, more smilies! I'll make sure to make some time soon to add some new ones.

    Those links you sent are indeed all very handy, but for example, the KamChat is already linked ;). It's a seperate board which will port you to the Kamadan Trade Chat. I'll add GwAuctions soon too, as it's indeed a handy resource.

    One of the things I would really like to provide is a gallery, and it's something which is on my to-do list. A game as beautiful as this one really deserves it, so I'll make sure that we'll get a nice place to put screenshots :). It's a lot of work to implement that though, so... other priorities first ;).

    Among other things I need to do are (just a small list so I can remember it ;)).
    * Put a link to our Facebook group, make our Discord channel a bit more visible, set up a donation page/system (so we can stay ad-less), edit the current theme to remove the shadow effect on text in the edit box,...


    And now... let's keep the fight going!

    - Kev

  • Wished for changes and additions for these forums

    Quote from Rushin Roulette


    Stormcaller is actually fine as a theme. The only thing which really needs attention is a minimal colour change for the links at the bottom to give them a contrasting colour to the background (Marked with an arrow in teh screenshot below) and the thread title of a thread in grey ontop of a dark background. Everything else can be easily seen.

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    I'll try to make some time to make a quick dirty edit to change the colors :)

    Quote from Marty Silverblade


    It would be good if, when on the forum index, you could see the date of the most recent post in each forum without having to mouse over the little clock.


    Well, going to add this to the todo list as well ^^

    - Kev

  • Wished for changes and additions for these forums

    Quote from Gadd Fan

    Thanks, Stormcaller helps big time. A bit bright but I'll take it over the default and rank it 99% better, heh.

    Black backgrounds may seem "cool" in theory but they rarely work well in practice. It is the reason books still print dark on a light background. Our eyes just aren't geared for night vision in the end. Fine as a menu selection but maybe the default should be Stormcaller because I almost didn't come back here after the first look see cause I couldn't read the boards well at all and had no idea I could opt out of the dark on dark on dark look. Only found out cause I asked about it. How many posters do that? First impressions for first time viewers for a new site are important after all.

    So now I can finally separate the quotes and the messages and the posters and see the thing as a whole clearly. Now I feel comfortable and at home for the first time. Thanks so very much for replying.

    And Kevin not meaning to come down on you. I'm sure some people like black on black. And you have done tons of good work here and in such a short time. Props! And I love Stormcaller!


    Well, I've been working on a few small tweaks for the forums that should improve the 'read-issues'. The intention is that Stormcaller will get a 'toggle' between a light/dark version, as well as (hopefully) multiple backgrounds. But it's still in a concept phase, and what is online now is just something I quickly hacked together (after our current theme was installed).
    It won't be black on black, but this theme was the best I could find in a short notice ;). It all had to go quite fast. So I hope you'll like Stormcaller when it's finished. I understand that this theme can be quite hard to read... and don't worry, you're quite right to bring this up ;). I want this site to be for all of us!

    - Kev