Posts by Iaerah

    Any news?

    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.

    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  -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.

    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

    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.

    Hello dear Canthans, Elonians and Tyrians!

    You might have noticed that we've got a bit of a Nian-invasion going on here.

    We need all your help to get rid of these, so bring out all of your fireworks!

    I hope you'll like our first new extra paintjob/theme - we'll be slowly introducing new color variations and completely new themes over time.

    You can switch back to the regular theme (or after February, when our theme will reset to the default) using the stylesheet switcher below.

    Feel free to share your feedback (and ideas for new variations!) below!

    Kevin

    Since the software change the previously supported GWBBCode does not work anymore. Is this an issue on my side or does everyone have that issue?

    [healing signet]

    [[healing signet]

    [build=OQMAEAAAAIAaFAAAA]


    Also, external links seem to be invisible?

    We're aware of this - it's an issue with the GWBBCode script that I'm going to resolve as soon as I can.

    It'll likely return in February.

    Let's test external links: external link

    You could add the Wintersday banner in background - or make the Wintersday thing the default page when entering Legacy?

    Another problem: I really want to participate, but I´m still waiting for snow - I fear it won´t happen :D

    Don´t expect snow in my pic then :_(

    Well, we launched it very late because I had so much work with the new Legacy. Well, there is always a next year ;)!

    Kevin

    how do i get rid of "Moderators" " Hot Threads" and " Cloud something" on the right hand side which kills a 1/3rd of the page?

    *edit* nvm. just added to adblocker then zoomed in on the forum slightly. fixed :)

    Well, right now there isn't really an option to do so - but it does contain quite a lot of valuable information and it's not that obnoxious so I can't really remove it or make it smaller.

    For smaller screens it should default to auto-hide though.

    PS: Adblocks aren't really helping us, consider whitelisting us ;)

    Some constructive criticism.

    is themes coming back to this new legacy?

    Also,what is that samurai dude doing in the site background if its gw2 please replace it.

    Themes are going to come back to this new Legacy, we're right now focussed on making this first design working and getting all the kinks out before we start making different versions of it.

    The Samurai dude in the background is an image from Winds of Change, the last GW:Beyond release. It depicts someone wearing the Ministry of Purity's costume.

    The reason for this is in the title - Legacy had it's biggest change, so it was only fitting to pick this image as the main background.

    Guild Wars Legacy will never use GW2 imagery, we're a Guild Wars 1 fansite and not a Guild Wars 2 fansite.

    Hello everybody,

    Today we've overhauled the entire structure of the forum - everything should be a lot more logic now and several boards have either been merged or have gotten new subforums.

    This should make it easier to find your way around Legacy and find the things you're searching for.

    The overhaul has been done entirely by Marty Silverblade , so kudos and thanks to Marty for working this new structure out!

    Also, we've brought the Daily Activities back to the sidebar of the site.

    Kevin

    Hi guys,great work with the new website!

    I'm having some trouble finding the button to edit a topic created by me,can you check it out please

    I changed some of the permissions -some were wrong following the transfer.

    Is it possible now to edit posts or not? If not, could you send me the link of the URL so I can check what is going on?

    Thanks for quick reply Kevin! The sizes for sure better!


    The avatar was one with GoE text and picture of ectospasm and in there monks head with obby armor and text "Pleikki"

    Anyhow, so i tried it now, clicked checkbox on each PM of one page but when deleting it only removes 1 PM of the time, is there way delete multiple? XD (deleting hundreds pms aint fun 1 by 1 ;( )

    Thanks again ;P

    You can click as many checkboxes as you want (and even on top to select them all). Goes quite a bit faster ;)

    Hey! ive got few questions to start! 1st, avatar! is there way save my old avatar from old legacy as i didnt have it saved anywhere?

    2nd! Conversations! i just deleted tons messages today before the update, but it shows i got over 3 x more conversations then allowed at the moment?
    Is there going to be chance on the size of that? cus i allready struggled with old legacys PM box size xD (yes i do send and receive tons of PM's)

    Also! is there way to send PM from going to someone profile? cus i cant find it xD

    Thats all for now! looking forward getting used to new site xd
    Also, how in fk u delete PMs from conversations? i cant find a way either,so much struggles to send PM XD

    Hey Pleikki,

    I've checked on the old Legacy site and on my local copy, but it looks like your avatar disappeared on all of them (must have been that something went wrong) - can you describe me your avatar? I'll try to retrieve it from the oldest backup (which dates back to the 22nd of August 2017). If it's not in there I fear I won't be able to recover it.

    I've boosted the maximum amount of PM's about 5 times, should you even run full again let me know.

    On the profile, click on the user icon and click Create Conversation to send a direct PM :)

    To delete them, click on the checkbox and in the bottom right there'll be a button. Click on it and choose leave.

    Kevin

    I used to use Toolbox, long ago, for forcing Guild Wars in a windowed fullscreen state.

    Since that was added to the game itself, I stopped using it altogether.

    Use at your own risk.

    Welcome everybody on the new Guild Wars Legacy, a project that has been worked on for months in order to prepare everything.

    Over the last 2 years, we've been using MyBB, but it has actually held us back quite a bit over the last few years - it wasn't an example of a properly designed piece of software and it started cracking at all the seams. So we decided to look into other options, that would allow us to grow further.

    So over the last few months, I tested almost all of the available forum software... and I mean a lot.

    Our requirements for the new software was simple:

    • It should be fully responsive - a lot of you visit Legacy on the phone.
    • It should be easily extensible.
    • It should feel modern.
    • It needed to support importing from MyBB.

    After a thorough testing phase of over 2 months, we've finally converted over.

    Now, not everything will have gone smoothly and we suspect many parts might be lacking or might be improved - please tell us when you find these area's.

    For the meantime, we're doing our best to improve the website as much as we can.

    As you've probably noticed, we've started showing a single ad on our site.

    Should you see an unacceptable ad here (for example, for gold selling), please create a screenshot and post this here so we can try and block this kind of ads.

    Thanks!

    Kev

    Hello everybody,

    This is a heads-up that Guild Wars Legacy will be down on the 21st of January 2018 for a duration of up to 12 hours.

    The maintenance period is defined as:
    21 January 2018 - 12:00 CET - 24:00 CET (CET = GMT+1)

    This downtime is caused by a major maintenance which requires that we temporairly close down Guild Wars Legacy - the entire website will be down during this time.


    During the downtime, a webpage will be displayed which shows the progress of our maintenance, but you'll also be able to stay up-to-date on our Facebook page.

    Why this long maintenance?
    Well, that would be telling... But in all seriousness, this is a major overhaul of almost all parts of Guild Wars Legacy, which not only requires work on the hardware and server side but also some software and configuration changes. This is what causes the long duration of downtime.

    Why is the website inaccessible?
    We're also going to perform changes in our database and performing these changes on a live board could, at worst case, lead to a corrupt database.. and we want to avoid this.

    But what do I have to do in this downtime?
    It's a great time to go outside or play some Guild Wars. You know you want to.

    12 hours divided by 4 gives 3... Half-Life 3 confirmed.
    Well, that would REALLY be telling.


    Feel free to ask all the questions you have here.

    There is indeed a requirement of having 3 posts before you can change your avatar.
    This is an automated process that triggers three times an hour, so ideally you should be able to set an avatar within 20 minutes of reaching a third post.

    This is a precaution to avoid spam avatars :)


    There are two things ive noticed that legacy lack that i used rly much in old guru, wonder if those are someting that could be added on new site.

    1st, Preview window when u have ur mouse over some thread title little window used pop that showd u 1st few lines etc on the thread.

    2nd. Better search functions, ive allways used to search certain posts by user in threads etc if it could be added? like you once you open some thread in sale with 10 pages you could easyly find posts by certain person instead looking throw all pages.

    -Pleikki

    Hey Pleikki,

    The new version will have pop ups that will show you the first bits of a post - it works on the mainpage and anywhere else, really.

    The search will be much improved too, I'm not certain that what you're asking is possible, but it's a huge improvement nonetheless.


    Hello!

    So this may be far fetched, just thinking outside the box, any way to display if favor is active or how many achievements are left? This may not be possible where it isn't on a timer. Not sure if anyone else shares this interest, but thought it would be neat if I could see without logging in if it's favor as I may pop on to farm.

    Agent Chevy

    Chevy, it would be really cool to do, but unfortunately Guild Wars hasn't got an API to hook into to get this info.. we might be able to extract this information from a running client, but it's far from my cup of tea.

    Kev