Dark Age Of Camelot: Grab Bag... Add Your Own Clever Tag Line

Taken from here.

Q: I have played since launch. I have also hidden from my enemies in trees since launch, and since TOA, people beeline right for me. Clearly, these people are cheating.

A: Well, hiding in trees is technically a geometry exploit. But that aside, there is an explanation besides cheating to explain your experiences. Many of you who have written with this complaint don't have the Trials of Atlantis expansion pack.

In TOA, we changed the way our game draws the trees on the your client. The trees are thinner, more graceful, and more realistic looking... and hard if not impossible to hide in. If you don't have the expansion pack, you might appear on your OWN display to be completely hidden. Meanwhile, someone with TOA sees someone skulking next to a tree in broad daylight.

Q: What happened to the Region Naming Contest?

A: Welcome to the joys of alpha. Our wonderful world team had actually chosen dozens of winners - but then we had to redesign the way we named regions. The new way needs far fewer region names than the old way. New winner lists will be forthcoming, as soon as we're reasonably sure there won't be more revisions.

Q: The search results window doesn't always pop up when I try to use the Market Explorer. What's up?

A: Sometimes the thing appears if you just give it a few minutes. We know about the problem and are investigating. If you have any ideas on how to duplicate the bug, please include them with your bug appeal. CSRs do not answer bug appeals, but the appeals are all read carefully.

Q: I had four scrolls in my inventory for the same book. The fourth scroll was a duplicate of the third, and I was planning to give it to a friend. When I combined my three scrolls into a book, the extra one vanished too! WTH?

A: This is a known issue, and to be honest, I don't know an ETA on a fix. The work around is to place ALL your scrolls in a vault, and only have the ones you intend to combine in your inventory. The CSRs can't replace your lost scrolls at this time, even though they wish they could. I'm very sorry for any frustration.

Q: Are mushrooms on horse paths and siege weapons near portal points legal on Mordred?

A: Yes, because on Mordred, you have the option of destroying them. With one exception - you cannot put them in capital cities, because the three capitals are "no-RVR zones," and therefore other players do not have the option of destroying them.

Q: Beta? Progress?

A: The very first beta stage will begin next week. That stage is EXTREMELY limited, and barely can be called a beta - it will consist solely of our Team Leads. But it's finally departing the alpha station, so we're awfully excited. The week after, we're scheduled to add the regular Pendragon players. Of course, that will only happen if the first stage goes well, so it's subject to change.

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Hey, speaking of team leads, a new Team Lead coordinator is starting on Monday. Mike AKA Mackey has moved on to other responsibilities here at Mythic, and he's going to bring to those the same level of dedication and focus that he brought to our beloved volunteers.

But all good things must end, and this gives us the chance to make a new friend. Miss Linda is going to join the Herald army early next week as the Team Lead coordinator, as well as taking on a few other projects near and dear to her heart. I don't want to go into too much detail, because the Team Leads are going to want to meet her first. But watch this space, gang - there are five team lead openings, and once she's settled in, we're going to want to fill those openings quick as a wink. Please don't apply over the weekend - give us a chance to transfer all the addresses and phaser weapons from Mike to Linda. If you're a (no particular order) druid, savage, roleplayer, friar, or necromancer, and you dearly love analysis and goat jokes, think about applying when I come out here begging.

Next week, we're also planning to release the "updated for New Frontiers" siege weapon information, complete with new and shiny screenshots.

Keep that feedback on New Frontiers coming. I'm about cross eyed from staring at spreadsheets, where I'm keeping score of the major issues and concerns, but it's good stuff and I'm glad to have it. And as I've said in various conversations around the net this week, that RAReview@mythicentertainment.com email address is going straight to the design team in charge of New Frontiers. If your letter is concise, clear, and to the point (you know, NOT like me and my columns), I can promise you that the fellow in charge of the design team is personally reading it.

We've got something else that needs feedback as much as New Frontiers does, and that's the 1.69 patch currently in testing. Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby throw the last tattered shreds of my dignity to the winds and openly beg - if you can, please, spend two hours this Saturday night on the Pendragon server. The teams still participating in the 1.69 Challenge have written some of the best feedback reports I've seen in the two and a half years I've sat here as your Herald typing monkey - but they can't do more without more data. You don't have to write a report, submit a bug, or do a darned thing but come out and roam the frontiers attempting to destroy them.

If everyone who ever copied to Pendragon showed up at say, 8:00 PM EST tomorrow night for a rumble in Emain, it would be quite a show. Grab your friends, and follow these simple steps tonight:

1. Create a 1st level character on Pendragon. This is the name the character will have on Pendragon, so pick a name you can tolerate that does not violate our rules. It does have to be in the same realm as the character you are copying.

2. Log into that level one character.

3. Type /charcopy Server Charactername (For example: if the character you were copying was named Bob and was found on Lancelot, you would type /charcopy Lancelot Bob).

4. Log out.

5. Watch your email. (Hey, is your email address on the registration page up to date? If it's not, you won't get anything.) You'll get an email when we receive your /charcopy request, and another when your character is actually copied. You do NOT have to stay off your character on your home server, but you do need to stay off the Pendragon placeholder.

We'll see you tomorrow at 8 EST! And we will be watching... there are no official contests, but you never know who might be nominated for beta inclusion based on the war.

Gentle reminder - CSRs cannot give encounter credit, however much they want to. It is true that groups have been granted encounter credit by a customer service person in the past. It's a very, very rare occasion, and the guy doing the granting is the guy in charge of the whole department, doing so after having watched a prearranged raid. Your average Joe (and Josh, James, and Janet) on the floor cannot grant credit.

Whew. That was a whole lot of announcements, and I need to bail. We'll see you tomorrow at 8 PM EST, and on Sunday at 2 PM EDT. That's right, Daylights Savings Time begins this weekend, so if you're in a location that adjusts for that, remember to set your clocks an hour ahead before you pass out Saturday night.

Have a spiffy weekend!