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Layonara Server / Rules, Policies and Procedure Review

« on: March 16, 2009, 03:06:24 pm »

Over the past few weeks the teams have been spending time analyzing all of our rules and procedures.  

Some have needlessly languished as archaic solutions to problems that we experienced as a very active community.  

Some have always been difficult situations where making everyone happy was not possible.

Some were even probably mistakes on our part to institute, harming the majority of the innocent players for minimal actions of the guilty.

Some bog down time for GMs to police and thus hurt their ability to create meaningful moments for the players.

Some bog down our teams with administrative overhead that could be better spent on making the world more fun.

To this end, as we reach definitive conclusions on our reviews, we will be announcing and rolling out these changes.  This may take some time yet still, but there are some that we have quickly agreed can be adjusted and there's no reason we should not implement them right away.

As always, we will listen to your feedback. I can tell you right now that threads and posts on these forums by community members are continually referenced in our discussions.

As a final note, our focus on these adjustments have tried to aim particularly at having the existing community enjoy Layonara more and welcoming new members to have as much fun as they can.

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General Discussion / Insanity or Dedication?

« on: February 16, 2009, 12:45:11 am »

Insanity or dedication?

You tell me.




I got this tattoo yesterday (Valentine's Day) at the same time as my fiancée got the following one:



Sharing the experience of getting tattoos; how's that for a Valentine's gift?

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Trade and Market Hall / Angels Guild--Adventure Outfitters

« on: February 09, 2009, 09:57:47 am »

Angels Guild is a brotherhood of crafters eager to help you with your adventuring needs. See any active member to place an order or visit our well-supplied shop. Prices are competitive with other guilds.

Angels Guild will take gathered resources needed for crafting and give you credit toward the equipment you need. You may keep an account with us to build toward meeting your needs. At present, we are particularly in need of:

Aloe - 2,000 per box or 55 each in trade

Bodak Teeth - 500 each in trade

Ginseng - 2,000 per box or 55 each in trade

Greenstone Dust - 3,500 per box, or 10 per dust (raw greenstone, 40 each) in trade

Hazelnuts - 3,000 per box, or 85 each in trade

Platinum - 200 per ingot, or 100 per nugget in trade

Salt - 350 per box, or 10 each in trade (very new adventurers only, please)

Silk - 2,500 per box, or 70 each in trade


[SIZE=16]Currently active members are:[/SIZE]

Alatriel
Steel
Gala (Galathea) Arnaduillae
Chakar Achmed El'Mujahir
Snagnor Hornblower
Jil (Jilseponie) Kendall
Aerimor Lightbringer
Lance Merrrick
 Kyle & Ferrit Pandorn
Ben (Benjamin) Poetr
 Dalan Stoneaxe
Jako Stonehill
Essa (Hedessa) Tanario
 Lareth Vathach
 
 //NOTE:  We can't hear knocking and we don't keep regular hours, so feel free to send a message requesting help.  If someone can't help you right away, a speedy appointment can be arranged.

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Layonara Server / LORE Character Updates

« on: January 29, 2009, 04:23:16 am »

While working on some web server backup maintenance, with the help of orth we made some changes to LORE. The two most notable differences are:

• Character pages are now updating again
• The antiquated header logo has been changed

Enjoy!

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Just for Fun / Awesome ads

« on: January 20, 2009, 06:47:56 am »

Funny ads a friend just sent to me. I'm not sure if they've done the rounds everywhere else but it was the first time I have seen them. Made me (and my wife) laugh.

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Roleplaying / Emote your heart out!!

« on: March 19, 2007, 07:44:41 pm »

[SIZE=18]Tired of trying to type in battle?  Tired of repeating your introduction to the umpteenth person?  I have the solution right here![/SIZE]

Those of you that have travelled with my PCs were probably thinking to yourself, "That fellow can type up a storm!"  While I can do that, I've added to my repetoire by taking advantage of this nifty software:  AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText.

This free bit of software allows you to write rather complicated hotkeys and macros.  The nice thing is that it can intercept the keystrokes before they reach your game.

Take my paladin of Vorax, Wanark.  He had a dozen or more short blessings that he'd say (some in dwarven) when just prior to casting bless or equipping his waraxe.  Then he had longer blessings that even included him kneeling.  Finally, he had the entire Vorax paladin credo he'd use when he visited the temple.  All of these I had assigned to hotkeys outside the game.  Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?  Beautiful.

I'll give an example from my current PC that you can use to build your own set.  (Careful of line wrapping if you cut&paste into your own file.)
[INDENT][SIZE=16]
;; ------------------------------------------
;; A utility routine to say something
;;
[/SIZE][SIZE=16]Say(s)
{
    global prefix

    SendInput {Enter}
    Sleep 250
    IfInString, s, /tp
    SendInput {Raw}%s%
    else
    SendInput {Raw}%prefix%%s%
    SendInput {Enter}
}

;; ------------------------------------------
;; This will send yourself a tell with some help
;;
::/o help::
    SendInput {Raw}/tp "Pen N Popper" name, description, wearing, ^f
    Send {Enter}
return

;; -------------------------------------------
;; Give your name
;;
::/o name::
    SendInput {Raw}rolan tennesen... *bows* sellsword in the employ of the freelancers
    Send {Enter}
return


;; ------------------------------------------
;; A random color emote of walking along
;;
^g::
    Random, num, 1, 5
    if ( num == 1 )
    Say("*hurries along at an uneven pace, pausing now and then to catch breath*")
    else if ( num == 2 )
    Say("*moves along at a steady pace*")
    else if ( num == 3 )
             Say("*hurries along, gaze taking in his surroundings*")
    else if ( num == 4 )
             Say("*marches along with quick strides, sounding a bit out of breath*")
    else if ( num == 5 )
             Say("*moves at a deliberate pace*")

    Sleep 100
    SendInput {LControl}
return[/SIZE]
[/INDENT]I save this to a file called "rolan.ahk" and then run it.  Ingame, when I hit Ctrl-g a random description of walking will be sent.  When I type in /o description the verbose description of Rolan is output.

You can see that this can have as much flavor as you can think of.  It is especially handy during battle when all I have to do is type Ctrl-f for a fight emote.  (I even have it setup to fill in which weapon he is using to the emotes are correct.)

Good luck!