At last! GOA will be organising a Midgard Hurling competition on Thursday, the 13th of May. Teams will be required to register in advance and have to consist of 8 people. If there is enough interest, it would be nice if we could make a team and participate :)

Next week the E³ Exposition will be held in Los Angeles, and of course Mythic Entertainment will be there, both with a preview of Imperator (Mythic's next MMORPG set in an alternate future) and a demonstration of New Frontiers. The New Frontiers E3 Trailer (16 MB) is already available for download. The quality isn't great but it shows some good looking new game elements :)

Today the servers will be patched to version 1.68, provided everything goes as planned. The servers will come down at 9am CET and are scheduled to return by the end of the afternoon.

Version 1.68 brings a lot of fixes to master level encounters and balance changes to artifacts and ML abilities. Read the patch notes for details, but prepare for a long sitting if you want to read it all :)

Some changes amongst the powers that be: after over 2 years at GOA, Kemor has moved on to new challenges.
For most players GMs are rather behind the scenes most of the time, but as a member of the Eyes & Ears team I can say he has been doing a great job during his time, and he will be missed. /salute Kemor.

Fear not however, reinforcements have arrived, in the form of Pilote and Requiel. Pilote has been in the Customer Support department for some time now, Requiel is a new face in GOA offices but has been playing (mostly on Prydwen) for 2 years now. They will not be bound to 1 specific server, but will have responsibility on all the English servers, wherever they are needed.

Prydwen.net Kemor thread

As you can see, tiwaz.org is back online after almost a full day of downtime.
Hardware failure of the webserver followed by software unable to properly restore the system once it was restored were the cause of this. Unfortunately the RAID controller managed to corrupt data on both disk of the RAID1 array used, and errors were made in the backup procedure of the hosting company, resulting in a somewhat out of date website from my own backups.

Things added and changed recently (like the Master Level info for each character) are momentarily unavailable, but hopefully they will be back soon. I hate doing things twice *sigh*
Fortunately no character data, forum posts, news items or e-mail were lost in all this, so most things on the website are back to normal.

See you all back in game once I'm sure everything is as it should be :)