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June!!

Posted by Lulu Belle on Tue 02 June 2009
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Month of flowers Happy While the dryads are invading, i am trying by all means to get a fairy dancer. I am fairy addicted ^.^

I got 2 chances this time ^.^ wish me luck

So ok 2 teasers out so far. Too bad the idea of the nonpvp zones was dropped out. Oh well, maybe it'll open other possibilities.

The black skull sounds savage... i pity power abusers now. There will be loads of kills around temples now Tongue oh well, you reap what you sow, don't abuse other players Tongue If you want to kill without limitation, go pvp-e

The revamp of the cities. Oh by all Gods i cannot wait to see that. Carlin looks stunning in the little picture that was shown and i want to see what the dark mansion will be like. Tomorrow should be the 3rd teaser. I wonder what else is in store....

Teasers really are true to their names.... they make me bite my desk in wait!

Hurry up and update already! XD

Anti cheating measures.

Posted by Lulu Belle on Sun 17 May 2009
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To rant or not to rant...

Honestly it is yet another thing from Cip which i am on the fence with. Do i like it or not?

Well at first view, i love it. It goes without saying that 20k botters banned in a few months is definitely more than what the GM team, altogether, could have ever pulled. Many players have been caught, in those that were impossible to manually catch. I could name a few, but it is useless. You surely know someone caught or deleted by the system already.

The system is effective up to a certain point though, and this is one of it's major con. It doesn't give real time action! Many times i have faced a player that i could have banned within 2 minutes. Sadly, we are no longer allowed to, for a reason that is unclear. I sometimes feel they are evading the question.....

So in short, players are fully able to bot, undisturbed, for a given period of time, before they are ever touched and that is.. IF they get caught. Again, there are a few players i could have banned within a few minutes , which have not been caught by the system. Makes me wonder...

So do i like the system? Yes i do, but only because of how it can indeed can a lot more peoples than GMs could. However, when you are hunting somewhere with a botter in your way, it is awfully frustrating to be hands tied!

Mostly that we cannot trap them, kill them, block them, teleport them to the temple, kick them offline or whatever else. In short, ignore them. Not always easy and i say that as a player as well!

Now there are of course many other changes that are on their way, not anti-cheating related, but still massive changes. I will keep those for a further entry. Of course i got an opinion on them Tongue

Take care!

Tech update - part 2

Posted by Lulu Belle on Thu 26 March 2009
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Now that the tech update is there since a while, well here are some inputs on it Happy

Death Penalty Reduce :

Well duh, very yes! not like there is anything to say against this Tongue

Even tested that one...

Blessings:

Different, right now i am without blessing and just my Aol, but once i don't have any left, i will be "forced" back to the blessings Happy won't hurt Tongue

Stamina Reduce:

Once again, i am not the hunter type so i will never run out of Stamina even in a PG time. The thing i adore is the 50% bonus for the first hour. Infernalist at 5k each (DS gets some XP from them) is very yes!

Area change Delay for attacking : (a.k.a. anti stair hopping)

Doesnt affect as badly as expected. There are several spots where you aren't affected and most of them required parcels to get to. that is a good thing Happy most places i hunted at required the parcels, so no delay for me XD

And since peopels chicken out and i am "suicidal" , well it leaves the spawn free for me to abuse of Tongue

Invisible creatures ARE invisible for everyone:

Cant say for sure, but this seems to have removed part of the bug i had with the infernalist... usually they could go invisible for a few seconds and they would still be targetted, but not anymore. i need more testing..

Experience Counter:

Very useful, i just wish it was in the tibia title bar though, easier to access Tongue or where the FPS usually appear at 3

I dont have anything bad to talk about it after testing it, since i am low level (in the 70ies) this gives me time to adjust to those changes and grow with them before getting to really big quests.

Take care! 3

Technical update!

Posted by Lulu Belle on Sun 15 March 2009
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So the technical update is on it's way. Only 3 days left before we can finally test out this new "baby" that Cip is planning for us all.

So far, we had 2 teasers which explains what will be going on. Very interesting readings:

Death Penalty Reduce :

Very yes!

Up to level 24, however, all characters without blessings and promotion will lose 10% of their skill and experience points like before.

So no changes there, it's okay, getting level 24, though awfully boring, is more or less fast, depending on how you hunt Happy

From level 24 on, the percentage of experience points that you lose upon death will slowly decrease.

This is where things gets a lot better. No more loosing about 2 levels on a death at level 60! Yes the death penalty will still hurt but not as much. The only thing i worry about is skills. If their losses follows the level of the player and not the level of the skill itself, this means high skills on low level will be quite.. dramatic to loose o.O I didn't enquire about this...

we'll see!

Blessings:

Merging the Blessings and Aol is a great idea, up to a certain point. The original idea was to remove the Aol and leave it alone, with the blessing. This means, when you die, you are left without any protection for your items while you get out of the temple and get the blessings back. Thankfully Cip came back on their decision and will leave the Aol until they find a better alternative. Wonderful!

This may leave you without a choice anymore, however the cost for both the "aol" and protection will be decreased. So low levels will also be happy to get those blessings at a lower cost. 3

If you want to know more about how this might cost for you and what losses you would get if you die, have a look at Erig's Death Calculator .

And of course, merging the Aol with the blessing means that we'll finally use all those "useless" amulets when hunting! Wonderful!!

Stamina Reduce : I was, and still am, one to believe that 56 hours of non stop hunting was too much. So the max stamina is reduced to 42. In the first hour, premium account players get 50% more XP for killed creatures. So those that cannot play a lot still have a chance to get decent levels. Welcome to real life guys! Though the idea of a company that wants to reward peoples for having a life is.. weird XD I still like it.

Area change Delay for attacking :

Don't really know how i can call that one. In short, once you teleport via portals/npc/kick-from-house-spell or change floor vial ladder/staircase/hole/rope/levitate/parcel hopping , you cannot attack anything for 2 seconds. This, i am a bit on the fence about for a few reasons:

Good point : It will stop players from low level to invade strong creatures spawns and use bots in order to stair hop them savely.

Bad point : Quests like, for example, Annihilator, will be a LOT harder. The secret of those quest is quickness and by removing the capacity to quick attacks, you get more chances of getting killed.

Before choosing whether i like it or not, i'll have to see it in action.

Invisible creatures ARE invisible for everyone:

Now hopefully all those bots won't find a way to bypass that. Yes yes and YES, it has my full support Happy

Experience Counter:

Since i am one to NOT trust anything unless it has Cip's label of approval on it, i say it is about time they implement that. I am 200% behind it!

It will give you info on:

*How much XP you need till next level
*How much XP you do per hour
*How long it would take you to reach next level (according to how much you gained within the past 15 minutes)

Now last, there is a Double XP week coming up once the update is added. I play on a non-pvp server so there is less chances of power abuse there (or at least, it is a different type) however, i know that in pvp servers, those kinds of events draws out the worse possible behavior from other players. I can only hope (though i know its utterly useless) that players will behave is a less "caveman" way...

So, what do you think of the technical update?

Mars, Mois des désastres

Posted by Lulu Belle on Fri 27 February 2009
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(March, months of disasters .. doesn't rhyme in english .. bleh)

It's always something i like to say. March is usually the month you get the most sick and tired of winter... Where each snowfalls makes the wait for warmer temperature seems like forever... Come on! i want to smell the lilacs already!! such a lovely scent....... ~daydream~

There's a lot going on with me in RL too. Well.. a lot, that takes forever to be fully implemented. Just glad i turned my papers on time (without even knowing there was a limit o.O ) so i could get an answer in the upcoming 2 weeks. ( for a new flatm in short, i get on the waiting list and the answer is to know in which priority Shocked ) The other stressful thing is to gather everything i need. Not knowing when i'd move out makes it a bit complicated. What to get first? I need like... everything! Well ok, aside my daughter and i's bedroom sets but that's quite a minor thing.. ~ruffle hair~ rrrrhhhhhh!! Funny though, as much as it stresses me out, as much as i find it a fun stress. 3 I don't remember ever feeling this confident about a major change i my life. I really cannot wait to finally have MY little place ^.^ And the colors i want it to be in!!! (sandy tones for almost every rooms and i get the feeling my daughter will want a pink bedroom AGAIN. along with pink blankets, pink dolls, pink pillow cases, pink carpet, pink pink pink pink PINK!!!! Hell i like pink but there are limits! XD)

Tibia, well.. still waiting to see what's going on. Still so much i don't understand...

But hey! i still level.... when i don't level downward o.O Bad idea to refresh a page in firefox when you are hunting.. you lag and die. Blessings are a blessing! (WHEN you have them...)

Back to manasitting for me, which gives out the most interesting guild conversations in the default channel:

17:13 Valentia [69]: adori frigo
17:18 Zain Macbane [28]: adori frigo
17:22 Zain Macbane [28]: adori frigo
17:31 Zain Macbane [28]: adori frigo
17:33 Valentia [69]: adori frigo
17:35 Valentia [69]: adori frigo
17:35 Valentia [69]: adori frigo
17:42 Zain Macbane [28]: adori frigo
17:42 Valentia [69]: adori frigo

Such a lovely tibia life 3333

Many tasks to do

Posted by Drenilion Lion on Sun 22 February 2009
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Hello. First of all, this is my first post in my blog entry. I'm Drenilion Lion, and also known as Thodo Fron. I work on TibiaML as translator, and I worked for 1 year on Portal Tibia.

At the moment I have many tasks to do, like translate the latest official article, reorganize some things on Portuguese section, etc.

Unfortunately I have no imagionation now, so my first post will be smaller than I thought it'd be. Don't blame on me, blame my lack of crativity. I dont know what to write now.

See you guys. Happy

Ah better

Posted by Lulu Belle on Sun 15 February 2009
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At least, the cold has dimmed. No more medicine head lol

So yes, yesterday wasn't such a good day, and hunting proved to be worse. Killed my poor Valentia _ should teach me to reload the tibia website when checking a spawn. Lagged there and died.

Oh well, stuff happens.

You know, there is a lot of changes in game recently. Lot of it involving the new automatic system, to ban botters. Don't bother asking me about it, i won't talk about its details. Cause either i cannot, either i don't know Tongue

Anyhow, the biggest change with it is how we cannot ban botters anymore. Even if we have him right in front of us and that we know he is botting. It is nerve wrecking...

Don't get me wrong, i am so happy not to have to "bother with the botters", but to be completly hands tied is another story _ On the other hand, it helps in clearing the RV/GM board faster. We don't need to loose tremendous time with some of those bots. In short, it is back to how it was before i was invited on the team. Problem is that i don't know how it was... to be, a GM was always a bot banner. Not easy to change a 2 and a half year old habit.

But it's fun, when we see who kicks the bucket. Some of them we chased for years and couldn't get enough proves to get rid of them. It's nice to see the mention "Deletion" with them.

For a while it made me wonder what we were good for, from here on. I was worried. Thinking this might even be the end of the GM team. Most of the things can be taken care of (with delay) by the Senior tutors. There is only a handful of things that differs us, so it is a bit threatening. This task, if i can call it that, might get tiring, i still love it. Wouldn't let anyone take it away without a fight ^.- Guido was right on this one, there is honor in being a GM.

Gladly, this feeling slowly goes away. There is still more water that needs to flow under the bridge before any decisions is taken (IF it would ever go that far). And of course, i see we're still quite useful in many situations.

I just wonder if this will be as effective as the company makes it feel it will. Maybe it's me seeing things negatively, but i don't know... i was never fond of putting all my eggs in the same basket. I wish there was a way we could work together... Not my decision though. So we'll see.

Any thoughts on this? What's your feel about the anticheating measures?

Take care!

~Lulu

Its been far to long fools!

Posted by Knight of the White Wolf on Sat 14 February 2009
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As I was giving a link to this earlier, complaining nobody uses it anymore...I noticed I haven't used it in a year and a half. Well, to update where I left off I suppose, I am level 90 now, still haven't got the helmet but my equipment is alot better. I have been playing my druid alot and I want to make 20 bps of icicles...like 14 left to go now.

Otherwise...I seriously have naff all to do.

~pokes~ like.. errr.. hello?

Posted by Lulu Belle on Sat 14 February 2009
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Ya .. it's one thing to ask for a blog, it's another one to actually have something to write in it eh? Maybe it isn't a good idea to start something when on cold medicine. This entry might vanish once i am back from that "trip" XD

Well let's see, my name is Lulu , or Val .. or.. well pick a random insult, it could do fine too o.O and i am from Astera. I wanted to have a little blog, my own corner, to slap some ideas, thoughts, rants, concerns about myself and the game. Maybe even have it used for questions from others. I don't quite know right now XD But i was interested to see where this could lead to.

So if you wonder what i do in game, well i manasit a lot. Too much maybe o.O But weirdly i find it fun. It gives me time to chat and do a few other things too. If i ain't manasitting, i am either hunting or fooling around. Like right now, i am on lulu, following the towncryer in thais. He doesn't really go that far though. It's funnier to follow Melchior.

Aside that, well some of you knows me as a GM, loads of changes there recently... Maybe i'll talk about it in another entry. It's fun, i like it, even if there are times i would wack my monitor with my keyboard XP

So for today i'll end the entry here. Can't really think of that much to talk about right away. It's like a first date... no action until at least the 4th! Well... depending who you are o.O

Take care! ^.^

~Lulu

Thais Depot

Posted by Efreet Warlord on Mon 09 February 2009
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SO here I am. Needing something to kill time with before I begin university.. I turn to Tibia.

SO here I am, standing in Thais Depot, listening to Fleetwood Mac. marveling at everything I have accumulated over that past 3 or so years on Celesta. I do wonder what I should enchant with my emerald.

Am taking suggestions, I have money to burn. Maybe I hold something of value now, who knows,I haven't been on properly in a long..long time.

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