Posts by Iaerah

  • GW1 Client Install Problems

    Quote from Volkey

    Hey guys,

    Glad to find a community still dedicated to the game I grew up dedicating what seemed like my life to.. I have stumbled on an itch to play some original Guild Wars, however am having a hell of a time getting the .exe client file to launch after downloading from the ANET GW1 website.. Can anyone shine any light onto getting it to launch specifically in Windows 7 64-bit? I tried changing the compatibility launch options to Windows 98/ME, to XP, and everything else to no avail... Trying to log into my old GW account is going to be a whole nother ball of wax because im not sure I can remember my old log on creds lol.

    Any help would be appreciated.. I do also have the original box/disks/activation keys for both Prophecy and Nightfall, Factions and EoTN were both bought digitally back in the day, if that matters at all.

    Thanks guys!

    Is there a specific error you are getting?

  • ArenaNet Drama

    Bad timing on this, though. It kinda overshadowed our cupcakes...

    That being said, there's always a line you need to make sure you don't cross - if you do, the results of that are yours to bear.

    Is this justified? Well, it's not my place to judge about that. Fact is, people lost their jobs and perhaps got their name burnt as well - morally, that's a bit of a grey zone for me.

  • We are in the news again!!

    :D Thank you all <3

    This was really something the entire community did, I'm just glad to have been a part of it - the thanks are really for all of you.

    We have had good communication with ArenaNet since when I first approached them - they even invited us to the GW2 meetup last year in Cologne, which I attended (and handed over some chocolate).

    They've provided us with prizes, which allowed us to do cool things.

    ArenaNet really cares for this game, and I'm glad we could do this, all together!

    - Kevin

  • Activation mails not being received by Outlook/Hotmail.com

    Hello everybody,

    Over the last few weeks we've had some issues with emails not getting received by @outlook.com or @hotmail.com emailaddresses.

    This is because the mail provider we're using has gotten blacklisted with Microsoft - and is currently working on resolving this.

    In the meantime, we are unable to send mails to these addresses as we're getting an error back when we try to send to these addresses.

    Should you have issues getting activated, please mail legacy@scribe.guildwarslegacy.com so we can manually activate you.

    Kevin

  • Anet's stance on toolbox

    Well, I've seen a lot of opinions here, but there have been in my opinion some great Guild Wars mods - DressUp, GwVanquish, DirectSong editor, TexMod are a few that I've used before. They enhanced my game experience quite a lot.

    The devs of Toolbox have, in my opinion, the right mindset and are willing to remove features if required - something that we can only be glad for.

    It's still a far way of from being a real cheating tool/bot, but it has the potential - you can skip required quests etc, and that's a line too far for me. But those are only a few features compared to what is really handy on it.

    But, I'll cut it short here - if ANet isn't okay with it, we won't be either - otherwise, we'll make sure to provide a platform for it here.

  • Anet's stance on toolbox

    I'm not strictly against Toolbox - in fact, it's an amazing tool that offers a lot of QoL I believe would have been added should the game have been actively developed for longer.

    For example, opening up your storage - in GW2, bank storage access is far and between, but in GW1 you've literally got storage access in every outpost.

    Having a button to open it up, instead of having to find and run to the storage chest, would be a great time-saver at no cost/negative influences.

    I also liked several of the features that toolbox has (I started to use Toolbox for the borderless windowed mode).

    All in all, Toolbox is in my opinion a response to the game it's current state, but goes a bit too far - it's hard to find a gate monkey nowadays, so having the possibility to do that without having a second player for that, in the current state, is fine to me.

    Transporting to any (UNLOCKED) location in the game, without first having to go through Embark or any other outpost in order to reach it and re-adding your heroes - that's just annoying. Imagine having to go to the Gate of Pain - you'd need to go to Kamadan, through the Vortex to finally go to the Gate of Pain - only to re-add your heroes. Embark tries to solve this, but it's still a lot of work to find everything. In that viewpoint, it only shortens the time that you need to reach it and removes some annoying things - and this itself gives no real advantage - being able to reach places you shouldn't (or not without some special items like The Deep) is another thing.

    Other things, like flash GW's icon on the toolbar when you receive a new message is genious.

    It's a bit of a grey area - and I'm currently no longer using Toolbox. I only really used the Open Xunlai Chest and borderless window mode.

    It would be nice of having a ToS complaint version of Toolbox - until then, I'll allow discussion of Toolbox on Legacy, with the caveat that when things are directly about cheating, they will still get deleted and it's the discretion of our staff to decide if it should be deleted or not.

  • Minions Of The Rabbit Legion [pupu]

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

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

  • Chat Filter - Filter out gold spammers.

    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.

  • Chat Filter - Filter out gold spammers.

    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.

  • Early bump prevention :D

    Quote from Lexx

    Haha yes,

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

    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 :D

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

  • Game update 9th May 2018

    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.

  • 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:

    Code
    [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 :heart:

  • Early bump prevention :D

    Quote from Lexx

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

    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.

  • Game update 9th May 2018

    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
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    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

  • New White Mantle Skin!

    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.

  • New White Mantle Skin!

    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

  • Mods shouldn't edit user posts

    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 :)

  • Congratulations

    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

  • Mobile app / WSC-Connect support

    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

  • DNSSEC and domain changes

    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

  • March 22 Update

    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 :P - loading all full 3D models and the heavy file format was taxing back then.

  • Welcome to the new Guild Wars Legacy!

    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.