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Please note: This is a rough design. It is NOT complete. Many elements are still being tweaked, including images, image lightness transitions, text colors, and the entire sidebar. Icon background colors are still be altered and the title in the banner is simply a placeholder. A much more elegant title is being prepared. The banner image will rotate between an estimated 15 or so images. The background will also have an image on each side within each side arch. The buttons may also be tweaked in order to give a better illusion of alignment along the scroll top. Numerous other tweaks are still in the works. But I wanted to show progress this far and gather feedback. So please let me know what you think so far ^^. I apologize for the poor image quality. [spoil][/spoil]

During the last vote, registration and activity shot through the roof. And it's clearly happening again . I'm actually getting spammed with registration requests. So it's a good thing I put it under partial lock down quickly. Also, I added the poll/discussion thread to the calendar, so it displays on the top of the page with upcoming events.

Since we're getting heavier traffic than usual, I figure I'll go ahead and bump this. Donations still haven't changed as of this post.

Ah, this brings back memories. I remember when Lindblum was originally slated to win out by a landslide as the unofficial Rp server. But then everyone worried that it would be overpopulated and switched Besaid as their choice. Fast forward to present day and it's clear that it wouldn't have mattered one way or another. And now history repeats itself . Personally I could care less which server we choose. It's just a matter of making sure people are aware. Fan sites announced it last time on front pages and all, yet people still whined that they "didn't know Besaid was the RP server." At the end of the day, the server is just a name and keeping the community in tact is the most important thing. As long as we don't end up on Wutai. Ugh, what a terrible name for a RP server that would be

This is just to announce that I've placed a minor restriction on user registration on these boards due to the announced server merge issue. This is, similar to the last time we had a server vote, to prevent hordes of non-Rpers registering and attempting to strong-arm the RPers into doing what they want (such as making multiple votes under different accounts, etc). The RP community has always been an independent community. While we have many non-RP friends, it doesn't change the fact that we always have to do what's best for US, not them. Users may still register, but will be unable to login until administration gives them permission to. This will allow me to screen new registrations to ensure they are legit. I apologize for this temporary inconvenience.

Yeah, I just caught that after re-reading it a couple more times. This could end up very messy for RPers, new and old alike. I really hope the community can stay together. I'll likely send out a mass email to all RPC members to just like the former server selection process.

I don't think this will actually impact us at all. They said that the server names will be the same as the top ten populated servers. Besaid is almost definitely one of the top 10 populated servers, and as such will remain largely in tact. If this is the case, we'll still be on Besaid. Unless I misunderstand what the process is. EDIT: Oh, missed the last part of the statement about names being assigned to servers AFTER transferring. So I guess we will need to reselect a RP server and hope the community stays together ><. This could be messy. Besaid will still be around, but the unofficial RP could end up changing, causing mass confusion amongst new RPers and the like.

For the next site update, the following criteria will determine whether or not users get deleted: 1) Zero post count. 2) Not active since 2010. Please note that BOTH criteria must be met to be deleted. So even if user Bob has a zero post count, but just logged in a few weeks ago, he will NOT be deleted. Users will be deleted PRIOR to posts. In this way, post count will be determined based on posts in the Necropolis as well as elsewhere. If you're browsing this and worry if you'll be deleted, simply log in real quick and the forum will record you as "safe." It's also highly advised (though not necessary) that you at least make one post somewhere just to be safe.

Gonna post a quick favor here for you guys... If able, please take some really good screenshots and send them to me via PM or email. The banner for the new site is almost complete and it will rotate between approximately 15 different banner images. I'm trying to get images representing different things to do in game. I do not yet have anything related to NMs in this collage. Please just make sure any images sent have names toggled off and aren't too blurry or anything. Thanks and hope everyone has a blast! (I'll be at work -.- )

As per the title, which job are you looking forward to most of all? Saw that Zam had this poll and figured it would be interesting to see where Rpers are most gravitating toward. My personal pick at this point in time is black mage. That AF just looks sick! And of course, it fits my character most >.>

It'll soon be time to renew the site for both web space and domain name. This is an annual fee and we depend on the members to keep this site funded. This post will be updated within 24 hours of receiving any donations. For your reference, the web space costs a total of $83.40 for another year of renewal. The domain name, ffxiv-roleplayers, costs $35.00 for renewal. In total, we require $118.40 to renew the RPC for another year. At present, we are 100% toward that goal. To donate, please navigate to the home page of the RPC and utilize the PayPal donation box in the right sidebar. Thank you for your continued support of this community! [glow=red]EDIT: Donation goal met thanks to a generous anonymous donor! Thank you very much![/glow]

In the months to come, Archavalon will eventually be dissolved both IC and OOC. This was no easy decision but is necessary based on a number of circumstances. For one, the shell has not taken off in the way intended since its inception many months ago. And I have little motivation to hold fort until PS3 launch. Second, my own attention will be drawn elsewhere in the RP community and managing the shell will become impossible. Third, the storyline unfolding will essentially bring House Mavanix and Archavalon to its inevitable end, making the shell's existence a moot point. However, the shell's disbandment will not occur right away. Starting in early-mid February, I will begin a large-scale storyline that will partially be open to the public. A total of four faction storylines will flow from each other up until the grand finale of the story. The first half of the storyline will be mostly accessible to shell members and non-members alike. The second half will become increasingly closed off to the public as it becomes increasingly dark and sinister in nature. By that time, should anyone wish to partake in the remainder of the story, they will have to have received an Avalon pearl (which again, will be dissolving entirely at the end of the story so the extra pearl won't be in your inventory for -too- long). There will be plenty of time to incorporate your character into all of this should you need the time to justify IC'ly joining. This storyline will reveal the vast history and internal politics of one of Ul'dah's many noble houses and will last an estimated 3 or so months time, barring any unforeseen delays. The first of the four faction storylines will involve the Mavanix Academy. The first event will be a simple orientation of the academy, making an easy transition for your character to begin involvement if they're simply curious to see a prestigious academy with vast history. For believability reasons, Avalon members will have free access to the event. Non-members will be charged a fee (strictly IC of course). The event will be posted in the events section of the forums when ready. The remaining events to follow will be posted up in a similar manner. The goal will be to have one such story event once every week or two, depending on schedules. Anyone who I've Rped with extensively should already know that I'm generally pretty good at these kind of "epic" stories so I promise it'll be entertaining at the very least . And of course, there will be numerous messages and morals laced throughout it all that can have a profound impact on character development. Please note that these events will differ from the normal public events we see pop up. They are NOT socializing events (though the opportunity to briefly socialize will be present at times). They are story-driven and some of them will even be quite action-packed. Also note that even though there is an overall predetermined path that the story will follow, the end results are still largely open. For example, the fate of the Mavanix Academy will largely be up in the air and the actions taken by involved parties could determine who gains control over it after the fallout. In addition, a number of other possibilities exist should anyone wish to use the academy for their own character progression. The same applies to the Margarah faction and part of the Templars (such as the privately owned Scarlet Seraph airship to name one example). The opportunity to gain control of certain artifacts may also present itself throughout the story. Additionally, some of the content in game will be incorporated into some of the events, granting opportunities to complete certain content that some may otherwise have had difficulty completing. Overall, this storyline could be something to also help progress your own character in a myriad of ways, should you choose to partake. Any questions or comments can be posted here. Those interested /may/ want to brush up a bit on the history of the noble house and Avalon. If you wish to do so, you may find detailed information on each era via the wiki. For ease of access, here's the link to the actual page. http://www.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index.php?title=House_Mavanix Come 2.0, House Mavanix will mostly be a relic of the past as I move onto new ventures and horizons. If you have any desire to have the house incorporated into your character's overall story, now is the time to speak up. Thank you all for your continued support and I look forward to possibly Rping with many of you throughout this epic storyline! The end of one chapter simply means the beginning of another! Even though Archavalon is marching toward its inevitable end, the bonds we create from this point forward will carry on after the fact. I look forward to creating a memorable experience for us all during this 7th Umbral Era, as everything happening right now is merely a prelude to the awesomeness that will come in the years ahead.

Welcome! Always good to know that people unsatisfied with the launch of the game are willing to give it another chance. It's certainly come a long way and will be go through an even more radical change by the end of the year with zone remakes and the like. Which server were you on in FFXI, if you don't mind my asking?

Yay for more Lounge spam! The RPC site overhaul is slowly coming together. I've been mostly tied up with the graphical overhaul in this moreso than anything else at this point (although the graphical overhaul is far more intense than anything else and is the most important aspect of Part II). However, I'm reaching some points where my graphic skills are hitting a brick wall and need a tiny bit of assistance. The assistance largely just includes optimizing a few images (transparency tweaks, fancy text creation, editing lightness for better picture to picture transitions, and a tiny detail regarding an animated gif). If anyone is confident that they can help with any of this, please post here and I'll be more than happy to go into more details and send the images in question (plus, you'll get an exclusive sneak peak at the new site concept!). As for technical stuff...I'm running into roadbumps with the following things: Eorzean clock and carousel news block. Should anyone be experienced in php/html/css/javascript coding, please help! I have the basic code for the clock thanks to one of our wonderful members, but I'm at a loss of what to do with it (php? js? html?). Finally, we'll also be up for domain name and web space renewal in not too long. I'll create yet another spam thread for this in about a week or so but donations are the only way we'll be able to keep the site for another year. So if you want to get a jump on it, please navigate to the main page and then to the Paypal donation sidebar box to donate some funds to the cause. Make sure you select the proper payment type (dollars, euros, etc). Currently, we have a whole $3 toward the cause :lol: . I don't know yet the full amount we'll need until I do the official calculation, but I do know it'll be over $100. On a semi-related note, here's a mini-report of where I'm presently at in regards to the redesign just so everyone knows that I'm not sitting back doing nothing . [spoil]*A completely new background has been created and is ready to go, although I intend to still add one more element to it in order to give it more of an Eorzean feel. *A completely new secondary background has been prepared, save some needed optimization. By secondary background, I'm referring to the stone-colored background you currently see. *The new button concept/mockup (those buttons above the banner) is complete and is my present main priority. I think most of you will really like this! I expect to have this completely done within a couple days time. *The new banner concept is complete, save for some optimizations. With this will also come a slight rebranding. While people are free to continue using the "RPC" if they so wish, the banner will officially refer to us as "Hydaelyn Role-Players." *The login/user panel box up in the banner has been optimized/altered so that everything is a bit more compact, yet still appeasing to the eye. *All guildleve borders (save for one needed instance) have been totally removed from all pages and those files are ready to go. *A brand new forum specific cursor is being prepared and is mostly ready, save optimization. *New sound effects for the buttons are in the works (in which match up with the new cursor!) That's about where I'm at right now. Once I finish all of that (which isn't too far off now), I'll be moving on to the actual physical colors. The blue will be gone, though I haven't decided what to replace it all with it yet and it will likely require some experimentation to find the right shades. I can tell you that instead of just one color, the current blue boxes will instead be comprised of two colors this time around. I may go the extra mile and create fancy FFXIV backgrounds for each forum section. Text colors will also be changing with this and links will stand out more. Once all the new colors are ready, I can move onto the more technical stuff (such as a gallery sidebar widget, the forum title system, etc). I also wanted to make it known that I have no plans to overhaul the look of the wiki, as that's pretty satisfactory I think save for a few overly light colored texts here and there. The wiki, however, is constantly being worked on in terms of category cleaning and organization. If you have something specific you'd like to see changed/added anywhere in the site, be sure to speak up![/spoil]

On a similar note, I've temporarily disabled the fusion of forum and wiki usernames. If you didn't have a separate account on the wiki prior to the last site update, you will be unable to login/register. Many of you had a separate wiki account that was literally the same as your forum account, so this will not affect you. But I had to disable this feature for now due to analyzing server resource allocation to avoid another possible shutdown by the host. In the meantime, for those who don't have a separate wiki account, feel free to use the Archives section of these forums for your character profiles. When the wiki is back to its original state, you can easily copy/paste content over there from the Archives. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Deleted some posts as part of the emergency maintenance. Mostly old stuff that was archived (such as posts of lore stuff that was already transferred to the wiki). Barely scratched the surface on this one yet though. Just wanted to announce this in case people are wondering why their post count may have mysteriously dropped.

As many noticed, the forums were down most of the day. This was a result of the site putting too much stress on the overall server and our host demanding reductions in server resource usage. Thus, I had to delete a number of users and posts from the forums. I had hoped for more of a discussion as to who to delete but due to the circumstances, I had no choice (though no discussion was taking place at all anyway ). The following users have been deleted from the forum database. Reason: Not having logged in a single time since registration. Should anyone have been deleted who shouldn't have, they may re-register at their leisure. Emails of these users are preserved for the future 2.0 campaign. Total users deleted: Approximately 212 (plus several other bots not listed here). We are officially below 1,000 members again >.>. More users may be deleted by the next RPC update. [spoil]Fall_801 Luthander Esthalos Malick Kasimira Alecrast Chacha Rutoto vimzFlillemivemut Naomi ShadowFang GrubbsGrady Kyriae Aschazel kisarazu Mozely ShadowDuece Hovi Smellybacon Khymerra Echartea Nefrat Catus Hayato preludelinux Xaeos zackary Claire pagelist Seth Whyatt Elyssia Savannah Litvyak ChaiFli zalinanaruto Shadus DAOWAce Quin Urywury animpinabox Lathere ComradeZim Scrappy isisinabi Ceyla Ditzy Calladan Skeith Kaemon DukeWonderful PixieLove Skold Kosmic Lookinoji Accessblack Athaya Lutzia Ayria SSakuras Lee_Machine Stormfire Xavier4069 Mew Ajido Marujido EllCurago Orophen Calcifer pfcleming Weiko Katsiya Relthar Scynthe Etone NoirNeko dunan Tricksy Rielle Troppy kyeera Sevren Madcapp Quind vigue Jonestown Juice Nessa Saryu Hallidan Jardie Robur Moritasgus Variak chaosmali Aphetoros Uendwen Light Kazuo Kiriyama maxely maxley Marcus Raquel Amitiel_Custos Hien Fitzywitzy Kaneas Zuzubu Bixlow Kaly Woode Imno464 maigo Aevenon Margrace katsuki CyBot Tsizara Dyne Gram_Diansleif Ajani Tao Aellia Blodivere Lancerz oleum saito08 Viviace Vespers Panzera Sayl blue393 Bronn Walker Ace Kshennya Steam-Wolf Tortuga Allgood Katherine Raquel Fensfield Ashakira Daerevon aain natzapo Vedette Salamanders Rhayvenn Arydin Frolly Gordonov Andreus Sayoth sasokiux crispin Jazzister RedChimera KittanyCrintz Saracen Sthax Sylong Niya Pells Yini Camille Xaesthetics PotataCakes Poku Riynia vailiszikos Raen_Ezerti sora LillyLunardi Moonglum anntaylor DelanoHuntress Droewyn Niricko Justice Vyl'tair Malek Valeriana Kotari ice403 Meradin Zyta Vakhar Kyrthak Janius Otheptohype Raenetha japrpg blackhatchinau Bra Kokujin Goalaymam Cosette Lyonesse Shurin Isabel Proctor sym22 Denebola Razia Aramail Dragonkin Shavhanz Eylie Pandalfa Malatesta TieDyeCrusader digiheart origamikitsune Nexxa Klevenost Juliamicorn Maakrabe Ganvire jkramsey42 Dilu Bakari Nyaru Elixir DireBear Morenzo Loraycan Cordayne Crixus Stark Duca Sigillum jacksonwt92 moshion0610 draonvn71 moshion1467[/spoil]

I'm going to likely be spamming the Lounge with stuff between now and the next update >.> As most know, the wiki is in dire need of updating. Many pages haven't been updated since 2010. People are pretty good at constantly updating their character pages, but lore related pages often get overlooked and not even added. I'm trying to update some of it myself but it's absolutely overwhelming to do so by myself. So if anyone gets a chance to, please edit existing pages with updated/new info. There are a number of pages that can be added. I just added one for the Immortal Flames for instance. The other two companies need added as well, just to name one example. In addition, I'm going to be purging a ton of unused files from the wiki soon. Any files classified as "unused" will be deleted. Please see this wiki section and glimpse over the files to make sure none are yours. These images are attached to no pages. If you wish to prevent deletion, either attach the image to a page or make sure it's backed up. http://www.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/i ... nusedFiles

Along with the user database purging, the next update will also purge the forums of tons of old threads/posts. This thread is specifically to discuss this process and/or suggest threads to be deleted. Process-wise, I'm thinking of just allowing anyone to post links to threads in which they think serve no purpose whatsoever any longer. Should nobody disagree, the threads in question will either be deleted or archived (depending on the nature of the thread). Please discuss!

The next phase of user deletion will be much larger than the last. Only 43 users were deleted last time. This time it'll probably be several hundred, which will be a huge relief to our overall database. So my question is, how should we determine who to delete? Anyone with 0 total posts? Anyone who hasn't logged in since a certain date? Any other possible criteria? And should deleted users be warned beforehand somehow? I'll try to preserve the user emails before deleting them like I did last time for our future campaign to bring more RPers back into Eorzea close to 2.0. Though this will require a ton of time and work and I'll probably need help with copy/pasting everything >.>

Forums will be down for several hours on Sunday, the 8th to begin the first phase of the site update. This date and time is subject to change. A number of changes are slated for this (many of which aren't necessarily listed in the original post above). This update will largely be meant to lay groundwork and prepare for part II. While some changes to the basic appearance will begin this phase, most of the color scheme changes are slated for part II. Users will need to refresh their browsers for some of the changes to take effect. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone familiar with graphic design contacts me beforehand in regards to a few image related issues. EDIT: This may come early on the 7th instead. I'm somewhat ahead of schedule so far. So it could happen either of those two days!

Origins: Pre-Calamity articles: "Mavanix Woes Continue..." "Fashion Showdown Preparations Underway" "Riots Over Poison!" "Noble House Massacre Raises Fears Through City" "House Mavanix Falls, Mercanries on the Run" "Disaster from the Sky"

Just wanted to wish everyone a nice and safe Christmas today! Hope everyone has a good one.

Gamer Escape recently had another interview with Yoshida. Most relevant to us specifically would be the following: The full article can be viewed here.