Posts by Iaerah

Quote from Fhaerron

Hello!

(Very) old player here. I think I started way back in 2006 or something, Kevin bought the game for me as a birthday present back then (:.

I haven't been active for many moons (years), after the failure of GW2 (it's a failure for me), I kind of stopped GW1 too. Over the years I logged back in every now and then, actually my most recent LDoA title was from in this time I 'didn't play' (just did the daily every day).

With the recent updates I started to play a bit again, I saw that I was kicked from my previous guild for being inactive no doubt although I do remember some players with 'over a year ago' on their last online status, the guild was called ADHD (the tag), that's actually the only thing I remember, most people where from the U.S. Now I've been playing every evening for a bit every last couple of days but it just gets a bit lonely. ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡

Now for activity, I work full time and take evening classes and I have exams coming so I'm studying a lot. Though I still try to pop on a lot.

Apart from the studies there's also 'that' other MMO I play namely:

• WoW, altough my account has been frozen for over a year now but I'll play the new expansion (August) for a bit at the very least.

• FF XIV, which I'm currently subbed on without a break for over a year, though I'm pretty bored currently and the new update that's coming this Tuesday is not looking very interesting to me and will probably take a break.

• Bless online (Steam version) which will release the 28th this month, I won't play this much the first week due my exam but after that I'll probably nolife it for a week or two.

I also have a PS4 & a Nintendo Switch I enjoy way to much & a Steam library that's way to big.

Anyway, it's not that I will be offline several months, just don't expect me to be online every single day.

For the game itself I'm mostly playing due to nostalgy power at the moment, I'd like to make some new friends so that I'll keep playing after the nostalgy feel has ran out.

I used to be in Lazy Nation where I learned / did most of my 'end game content'.

I did 55HP SS UW, A/E SF ecto farm, 105 (or 133 or something) HP Dervish farm and 600HP dual smite monk that was probably what I enjoyed the most.

Until, my account got hacked back in 2010 IIRC. Took me 2 weeks with phone/email/fax Anet support to get my account back.
The guild I was in at the time didn't really wanted to help me get stuff back and do runs for me so I kind of ragequited at that point.

Over the years I played a bit again and I nolifed for about a half year before GW2 came out and currently have:

R/Rt SoS

W/any HB

D/W with that pious spam thing

Currently playing a new Assassin and just got of the starter island. And would like to get that trough the story and such (They are still used for farms and such I hope?)

What I'd like to do:

UW (kurzick)

Deep

UW

FoW

EoTN Hm dungeons

I have about 40 summon stones and a handful of max staks with food buffs, maybe I can compensate for missing stuff with money or something.

Ultimately, why I choose this guild over the others I've seen is due this seems to be the most laid back one and I'm fine with 'normal runs' too, doesn't always have to be SC's.

I'm not familiar with the new builds so I might needs some help / advice there.

Warrior is my main though, so I'd like to get invited with that char. Most of my character names start with 'Gracenys' so I'm easy recognisable.

Goals for the game: Obisidian for all my characters completed with perfect Zodiac, Tormented, Destroyer & Elemental sword. Please make it happen.

Realistic goals: Finally play mesmer & make new friends.

Gosh, this post became way to large.. consider this both my guild app & introduction.

IGN: Gracenys Celestia

Discord: Fhaerron#1058

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Yep, the Kevin he's talking about is me.

The world is small, isn't it, Fhaerron?

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Shining Blade!

Traitor. But it's a free country and I'll respect your choice.. for now.

I have a first test version of my tool ready, basically it does the following:

• Checks if there is a ChatFilter.ini file in the folder it's running in. If not, downloads the latest version from GW Legacy.
• If there is a file available, it downloads the header of the ChatFilter.ini on GW Legacy
• Compares the header to the local downloaded version to check if the last edit date is different.
• If so, it downloads the latest version from GW Legacy.
• If not, or finished with the download, it will look for a shortcut called Gw - if found, it will launch this shortcut, so you can use the tool to launch GW - your arguments are still used.
• If it can't find a Gw.lnk, it will look for Gw.exe and launch it.
• If it can't find that, the tool window will stay open.

The tool requires .Net framework 4 - I'll drop the source code when I get around to it, download is attached for the compiled version.

Legacy Chatfilter.zip

To install, drop the Legacy Chatfilter.exe in your GW install root.

Quote from Saxazax

See what I said here:

I think you shouldn't waste your time. What if they start using Japanese or Korean characters? What if they just make a bunch of alts stand in next to each other to form the letters?

Just added Japanese or Korean letters to your filter would root that out immediately, unless you actively play with Japanese or Korean players that should not be too much of an issue.

I'm working on a small tool that will download the newest version from Legacy when you run it and launch your GW-shortcut once it has ran.

That way you'd always have the last version of the chatFilter.

ETA: probably like a week.

Quote from Cataphract

Shining Blade, of course. The Mantle is nothing more than a genocidal cult. FREE KRYTA!

Dangerous words...

Quote from Misty

White Mantle all the way! Praise the The Unseen Ones!

I like how you think.

Quote from Peter Crypt

White Mantle. Change my mind!

Why would anyone want to change your mind ;)?

Let me know here.

- Kevin

You can display your trophy by going to https://guildwarslegacy.com/settings/

Quote from Lexx

Haha yes,

if it was simple I know you would have done it already

But I guess you could try do simple tests in the background, alter the theme or maybe the "REPLY" button color.

I guess it's easier to alter something than to create a whole new dialog warning. A red "REPLY" button would still help.

At 1st. maybe all users see the red button, but the original poster would know the consequences of using it

It would require just a slight bit less code to do that, I would still need to write the detection script so...

Quote from Lexx

_Update:

[ChatFilter]

userFilter1=mmosky.com

userFilter2=gw2sale.com

userFilter3=GW2SàLè.com

userFilter4=mmogamersmarket.com

userFilter5=MMOGäMERSMARKÉT.COM

userFilter6=gwshop.com

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Quote from Motoko

What exactly does it do?

Like if someone posts - "WTS GOLD ECTO AMBRACES - mmogamersmarket.com"

Does it just filter out to look like: "WTS GOLD ECTO AMBRACES"

I plan on using it, I am just trying to get an idea of it.

Also I saw suppress was a command. How would this be different than filter?

If I'm correct, it will block the entire message.

I've written an introductory pinned post: Chat Filter - Filter out gold spammers.

Thanks to the excellent update of 8 May, we now have the option to filter out messages - which is really handy for RMT spam!

How does this work?

You'll need to create a new file in this location: C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Guild Wars (you can copy and paste that location in your explorer - it will work) with the name of ChatFilter.ini

You can then fill up your file as following:

[ChatFilter]
userFilter1=mmosky.com
userFilter2=gw2sale.com
userFilter3=GW2SàLè.com
userFilter4=mmogamersmarket.com
userFilter5=MMOGäMERSMARKÉT.COM
userFilter6=gwshop.com

You can also download our file (which we try to keep updated) on https://www.guildwarslegacy.com/ChatFilter.ini - you can download this one and add it to this location.

Do you want to add some entries to our file? Feel free to list them here so we can add them.

Thanks again to Lexx for this initial list

Quote from Lexx

I do hope 15 years of technology will help solve this problem

Edit: Anyway just want to make sure I wasn't ranting or complaining, I bumped my thread too early and that's just my fault.

I was just thinking if it was possible to find a solution that maybe help prevent it.

An alternative could simply be a dialog:

Code

$warningTemplate = "";
if ( time() - $user->lastPost < 24*60*60 ) {
  $warningTemplate = showBumpWarning()
}

Well, my PHP sucks, I haven't done that in years, but it might just be an example

I'm looking into it, I'm still studying the forum software it's extension system. Once I get the hang of it, I'll look into implementing a bump protection check.

It's not as simple as you state here, since we'd only have the check active in a single category - complicates it a little. But it's high on the list of priorities.

Quote from Lexx

Well, as I suggested the ChatFilter to SCW in the first place, I can tell you my intention. It was just an alternative to help filter the RMT spam you see.

My current file now:

Documents\Guild Wars\ChatFilter.ini

Code

[ChatFilter]
userFilter1=mmosky.com
userFilter2=gw2sale.com
userFilter3=mmogamersmarket.com
userFilter4=MMOGäMERSMARKÉT.COM
userFilter5=gwshop.com

I think we should keep such file hosted here on Legacy in a sticky to quickly help filter out most of the spam bots by downloading a single file.

New ChatFilter

Quote from MaxBorken

That, sir is an absolute stroke of genius. I shall enquire with the Server Monkey immediately about making this a reality.

https://www.guildwarslegacy.com/ChatFilter.ini

Quote from Agent Chevy

I like the background, however the text colors in a forum list makes it difficult to see which are read vs unread. Maybe there is a setting/suggestion on how to keep the background and change the effects of the text?

Can you give me a screenshot of where it's really visible? I'll change it then to make it a bit easier to see.

It looks like we're being assaulted by White Mantle - but they brought a new lick of paint for Legacy with them - this time, a lighter theme!

Feel free to share your feedback!

(A dark theme is also in the works but unfortunately isn't ready yet).

- Kevin

Seems to work well now here, anybody else has issues still?

I've decided to reopen this thread, if there's a way we can better run Legacy, we're open for that feedback and in fact welcome it.

That being said, I've tried to read into what happened, and I would like to clarify a few things: the rules are there to make sure we can take action, but in any rule there's a bit of wriggle space, which is decided by the moderator - while they might make mistakes, in the case I believe you're referring to, feels like a correct edit to avoid the thread going off the rails - boards like the Xunlai Marketplace require a bit more strict handling of rules, because of the nature of the discussions.

Another thing I would like to note is that all edits to posts are saved in our system and we can easily revert back to the original post if the need for that is there - when you find that unjust action has been made, please contact me or another mod so we can take a second look.

This is something which rarely happens, but the possibility is there and we take this option seriously.

I can understand your suggestion why mods would not be allowed to edit posts, but to have healthy discussions it's often needed to intervene in small details and on it's own, that's fine - things can derail quite easily if left free. For that reason, we (and almost all other forums) allow moderator editing.

Not to control you or change what you said (that's something that we are completely against), but to make sure discussions stay a bit on track.

Deleting a post is often not the right reaction to it (though, in this case, that might have been a better option instead) as some posts often have some merit that makes that they should still be there - in those cases, it's in my opinion better to edit some out and leave the rest standing.
Deleting a post is closer to censure than what I would like and we leave the edits of posts to the bare minimum and delete/change only what is truly necessary.

Don't hesitate bringing me into it (by tagging me or starting a conversation with me) if you feel an action taken was unjust - we take these serious and you'll get feedback

Quote from gasconron

Congrats to the hacker to ransacked my account and stole everything of value.

It's very clear that it was done through GW legacy as well. Ironically the attack happened hours after I posted this thread.

With virtually all ded minis except the big 3 (panda, kana, IG)

All tonics except Reindeer

All Q9 BDS, Froggies, CC and every insc item still worth something

In there that should be able to get you enough EUR to buy your life something significant.

Thanks for the 10 years Guild Wars, I guess I'll stop at 9 out 10 GWAMMs after all. Time to move on from this game. #FunsOverHellios

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We haven't had any database breach as far as I'm aware (and I should be).

The information stored in our database is also encrypted (I've gone ahead and double-checked the source code) is being encrypted with bcrypt and is double salted.

If you know anything about cryptography, that's extremely strong encryption and non-reversible (and since it's salted, rainbow tables are out of the question).

Even if you got access to our database, you'd still need to crack the passwords and because of the strong encryption that's going to take you several hundreds of years - ofcourse, if you have a weak password or reuse passwords, you're going to have a bad time.

Check yourself on https://haveibeenpwned.com - this will show you if your password has been leaked in different hacks. If you've used the same password on one of these sites, it's likely that the hacker has succeeded in getting the information from there. From what I can see, your e-mail is listed and the password you used on that site has been leaked (in MD5, takes only a few minutes to hack this, and it might have been unsalted which makes it take only seconds).

Long story short: you probably got hacked elsewhere and the hackers used your password + email to log in.

For the same reason, Guild Wars Legacy has disabled the public showing of character names - in fact, we no longer store these (since our transfer to a new forum software) to make it harder for people to get to your character names, making it tad bit harder to get logged in on the accounts of other people.

Always use a unique password for Guild Wars that you use only for Guild Wars and nowhere else - and make sure that it is strong.

I regret that your account got hacked, but I can say, with certainty, that it was not Guild Wars Legacy that was the reason you got hacked.

- Kevin

Hello everybody - you've been asking for it, and today we're proud to announce that we've added support for WSC-Connect, which allows you to hook up Guild Wars Legacy on your smartphone and easily check on things on your smartphone and receive notifications!

In order to get started, you need to grab the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/det…wsc-connect.com (currently not yet available for iOS).

Once installed, search for Guild Wars Legacy, log in using your details (this is safe), and you're ready to go!

If you've got questions, feel free to ask them here.

Kevin

Hello everybody,

Just a technical heads up that Guild Wars Legacy has switched on DNSSEC and that we've, at the same time, moved to another domain provider.

This should have no impact, but should you experience any issue, please let us know here.

- Kevin

New update, I spent some time testing how to resolve it, but it's taking far longer than I hoped.

It'll return though.

Quote from Krschkr

This screenshot feature has been around for years. Can't tell whether it worked like that in the first years, because I did not play back then.

As far as I know, it has always been this way.

Used to be GW saved screenshots in BMP by default, easily took about 10 seconds for a screenshot back then - loading all full 3D models and the heavy file format was taxing back then.

Quote from Krschkr

Any news?

Quote from Lexx

Would love to see it making a return as well.
Hey Kevin, feeling better yet? I heard you had a recent experience with a team of big Turkish masseurs lol.

There is some news, but it's that I haven't had any time to look into it so far - however, it's not the biggest of work but I took a small break from the interwebs to focus on my health for a while - with results.

I'll try to do it as soon as possible, you'll hear from me when it's done.

And with this, we close this thread to allow for judging the entries.

Thanks all for your entries!

Hello everybody,

We've been thinking and pondering (and I fell ill), but here are the results of our Wintersday Contest:

1. Black Beast and Zippy's Bowling Journey -> Skill Pins/badge set
2. New Raid Boss - General Knoxx -or- Weirdest Rush Hour I Have Ever Been In... -> Miniature Grawl
3. /!\ Ooze invasion /!\ -> Miniature Grawl.

We'll be contacting the winners as soon as possible to hand out the prizes - trophies will be given out as soon as possible (this is done automaticly).

I do however have to note that some entries were disqualified due to them being Photoshopped (which goes against the rules of this contest).

Due to this, and the fact that we didn't have that many submissions, we lovered the amount of prizes that we're giving away - we've opted to start running more smaller contests on a near-monthly basis instead of organizing 1 big contest a year.

Well done all,

A very sick Kevin.

Quote from Motoko

Oh, Sorry to hear. Hopefully it isn't the flu, it'd taken me out for about 2 weeks at the New Year. Get well soon!

Thank god it's n ot the flu, it's pneumonia.

Quote from Motoko

When is this contest being completed?

We'll be announcing the winners today. I've fallen sick so that slowed down things a bit.

I'm not against archiving, but in this case we'll need the approval of the admin first and we're not going to archive every Guild Wars site either.

If there's a call for it and the admin gives his OK, we'll host it.

April 2006, just before the launch of Factions.

The poster above me made me add

I'll look into it as soon as I can

Quote from Chronic Visions

just tried again it says the same thing mate

Should be set to 35,000 now. Can you try again?

I'll try to be there, pupu!

Quote from bsoltan

Is there a way to hide avatars?

Not at the moment, no.

Quote from mauirixxx

my only problem with PayPal is they're requiring me to make an account with them which I do NOT want to do for the recurring subscriptions.

I'm subscribed to another service that uses PayPal as a payment processor, and while they charge me yearly, I did NOT have to make an account with PayPal to do so.

I am NOT a fan of PayPal and their business practices

We've also got a different donation service hooked up, but it's not yet on the new forum: https://donorbox.org/guild-wars-legacy

This uses Stripe

Kev

You can still participate, we're running 2 contests now.

The end of the Year of the Rooster is dawning and the year of the Dog is lurking.

Join us in joining the Canthan Empire in welcoming the Year of the Dog with the first contest on our new website.

You've read it correctly - Guild Wars Legacy is joining in in the fun with the Canthan New Year and we're running our first new contest - feel free to join in the fun!

What can you win?

Most important ofcourse is - what can you win? For this contest we've set something special aside:

* A Miniature Grawl code

* A set of Guild Wars badges (you can only get these from us now!)

Every winner will also gain 3 months with no ads on Guild Wars Legacy and will get the trophy associated with this contest.

Please note that these prizes can change and depending on the amount of contestants we might increase the prize pool.

What do you need to do?

Well, with a Canthan New Year belongs a ton of alcohol... like rice wine! Enjoy the local delicacies, I'd say!

When slightly imbibed with copious amounts of alcohol, you might get some slips of the tongue. Like for example, Molotov Cock-Trail instead of Morostav Trail.

What we want you to do for this contest is ruin a Canthan name, either be it a place name / the name of an NPC or a skill name.

You'll need to list what you've made fun of and provide a link to the official wiki.

The funniest ones, or the ones that crack us up the most, will win a prize.

Judges for this contest are Iaerah , MaxBorken , Emma , cosyfiep, Anssa and Marty Silverblade - though the others in the Legacy Team can join in.

When will this contest run?

This contest will run between the 1st of February until the 25th of February. We'll try to post the winners as soon as possible.

How to participate?

Reply to this post with your entry, and add the Wiki link to what you're referring to.

Rules

No contests without rules, I fear:

• All staff of Guild Wars Legacy that is judging in this contest is exempt of participating in this contest.
• A Guild Wars Legacy account is required.
• You can submit as many entries as you want, but you can only win 1 prize per person.
• Any entries must be suitable for a family audience. This site is available to all ages. Any entries found to contain inappropriate content will be edited or deleted at the discretion of the moderators. Entries that are not suitable for family audience are automatically disqualified.
• A single person can only use a single account to enter. We won't send multiple prizes to the same address.
• Should you win we will contact you in order to get all details required to get the prize to you. If we don't get a reply within a week the prize will go to the runner-up.
• The winners and runner ups will be decided by the Guild Wars Legacy staff (listed above)
• You can participate between the 1st of February 2018 until the 25th of February 2018.
• This contest contains physical prizes. Our team will try to cover the shipping costs, but should these be too high we'll contact you to find a solution.
• Winners will be contacted by mail.