Two new members today: Crunch, a friend of Bolith, and Escalathion, a friend of Smicer/Rel. Welcome to the both of you :)

There has been quite a bit of RvR activity the last couple of days: Midgard has gained 2 relics over the weekend. Thanks to Sub and Hulbur for organizing them :)

We also held the wedding of Bolith and Gama under our own banner at Bledmeer, which was very nice indeed. Unfortunately the albions in the area were too shy to have some fun afterwards... Anyways: gratz Bolith and Gama :)

Today is patch day! Finally 1.48 has arrived, but unfortunately that means the servers will be down during the morning and probably afternoon.

Update: Excalibur went up sooner than I expected, probably about 12:30 CET. There were some problems however, so it's being shut down again as I speak (13:45)... I wanna play dangit!

And there is a RP field on your char screen, feel free to fill it in.

Gorre will be switching to English tomorrow. If you haven't played on there yet (in German or French), I recommend you try it before the patch goes live, as it will save you some downloading when the normal servers are patched, at which time the patch server might get overloaded..

To play on Gorre, make a copy of your DAoC directory and unpack the new update.zip in there. Then, just launch Camelot.exe.

When the patch day comes, just replace the old DAoC directory with this copy and you won't need to download. Keep in mind that this undoes any hotkey and ignore list changes made in the regular version since you made the copy. If you don't want this, copy some .ini and .ign files around (and maybe screenshots!).

For more info, read the official Gorre test server page.

Update: the switch to English has been delayed, stay tuned! :)
Update 2: the server is now up, but GOA messed up the new update.zip, after I reported it, they deleted it altogether, so just use this one %-)

The fifth level 50'er today: Stunningly. Now to get his main to 50 as well eh? :)

Unfortunately for us Joreth, Arakiss and Golani have joined Immortal Legion (Cormach's new guild) with most of their characters. I can't say I understand this urge to make a new guild, but I wish them all the best. See you around ;)

To my knowledge, Kirtapz has stopped playing DAoC altogether and has therefore also been removed from the member list.

With the help of Rumil I finally identified a problem some people might have when trying to log on to the website. After entering your username and password, you would be returned to the original page without being logged in.

There are two possible causes for this: either you have cookies disabled in your browser, in which case you need to enable them. The other one is that either you or your ISP is using some kind of proxy software that is not properly handling some server responses.

If you believe this is the case (you can't log in even with the right username and password), mail me at webmaster@tiwaz.org and I'll enable the alternative login method that should fix your problem. So far however, the problem seems to be limited to Rumil and possibly Meany :)

No less than three people made it to level 50 today: big congrats to Shaniah, Tarrasque and Hpnx (Eeny), even though the latter took a little uhhhh... shortcut, so to say :)

Have fun playing your alts and RvR'ing, hopefully many more will follow your example :)