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BM General Discussion / Annual Check-In

« on: December 03, 2017, 11:20:35 PM »

Hello,

Old player peering back in to the community in what seems like my annual "check-in" with BM.

I played the game from about 2007-2013. What's the state of the game these days? It sure was great back in the day.

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Helpline / Resurrecting Old Account

« on: July 10, 2015, 06:41:13 AM »

Is there anyway to resurrect my old account? I know I have the right username and password, but it no longer works.

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BM General Discussion / Returning Player

« on: July 09, 2015, 04:02:37 AM »

Hello BM Forum,

I'm a long time player (started playing in 2007, I think?) and have been away from the game for about a year and a half now. I thought about Battlemaster today and came lurking around the game. Why don't the political maps on the wiki work anymore? I was trying to check the status of the islands. Anyways, just wanted to see if it was worth coming back or if, as much of the recent forum chatter seems to suggest, the game is far to past its prime.

EDIT: Also, if I do return, I was looking for suggestions of where to play.

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BM General Discussion / BM Logo

« on: August 12, 2013, 08:31:20 PM »

What's up with the BM Logo on the forum today? Is today something special I'm not aware of?

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Helpline / Moderator?

« on: July 16, 2013, 07:53:42 AM »

Who is the Moderator of this board?

Why did I just get "warned" for making a joke with another forum member about his account name?

Perth,

You have received a warning for insulting other users and/or staff members in regards to the message:
Re: Duke and Margrave.

Please cease these activities and abide by the forum rules otherwise we will take further action.

Regards,
The BattleMaster Forum Team.

I said to him "Because you know nothing, Jon Snow" which is clearly a Game of Thrones reference joke to his clearly Game of Thrones account name.... not an insult to him. What in the world?

And even if it was an insult or you didn't get the Game of Thrones reference... far worse insults are thrown around on this forum every single day and that of all things gets me warned?

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Helpline / Can't appoint myself Duke as Ruler

« on: July 16, 2013, 05:55:38 AM »

Lost my position as Duke and Margrave due to inactivity. I'm back, still the ruler, but don't have the option to appoint myself as Duke.

Why?

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Dwilight / Dwilight University's Newspaper Revival Project

« on: July 02, 2013, 11:54:10 AM »

The Dwilight University's Department of History has begun a new initiative: the Newspaper Revival Project!

Dean of History Bowie Ironsides has spearheaded an effort to revive the once vibrant culture and interest in newspapers on Dwilight.

The Newspaper Revival Project has taken the form of the establishment of two primary, sister newspapers:

*The Toprak Times!
*The Occidental Observer!

The two papers have their own staffs and will focus specifically on their respective region of Dwilight. They will release news articles on a (hopefully) seasonal basis and the articles will cover a variety of topics from War News, Diplomacy, Arts & Culture, and the Aristocracy.

Contributors and volunteers are needed to help keep these newspapers going! Anyone who would like to contribute in any way big or small should contact either Bowie Ironsides or Kale Perth.


PS. Also worth noting, though not specifically affiliated with this project, is another recently established paper In The Folds which is an Asylonian based paper covering Asylonian news.

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Beluaterra / Kerwin to Beluaterra

« on: June 10, 2013, 07:51:51 AM »

So the exiled and hated/loved King of a broken Kingdom named Kerwin Perth is on a boat to Beluaterra.


Who wants to give me a run down of everything going on in Belu currently so I figure out where to land the angry fellow?

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BM General Discussion / Ruler Bulletins

« on: May 10, 2013, 02:48:29 AM »

What are some examples of good Ruler (or other position) Bulletins?

I'm always interested in being able to make good bulletins whenever I'm in the position to do so.

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Development / Feature Idea: Saved Message Drafts?

« on: May 09, 2013, 10:10:07 PM »

Idea for a new message feature: the ability to write a draft of a message and save it for use later.

Sometimes, I know I will need to send a message out at later time, but won't have time to sit and think about it and write it out at that time, would be nice to be able to save a draft of the letter and then come back to it later and send it.

Or sometimes it is beneficial to write a letter about a particularly sensitive subject, save it, and come back to it later and see if I still think I am addressing the issue in the best way, maybe revise or change something.

The feature, I would think, be implemented in another area as a "notes" feature for you to keep notes on various things, ideas, etc.

Thoughts?

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Helpline / Firefox 20.0

« on: April 19, 2013, 01:57:55 AM »

Since I updated to Firefox 20.0 everything in game that uses the "list" format such as realm lists, character lists, etc. isn't working right. Also, the saved message feature doesn't seem to work.


Just thought I would give a heads up.

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Helpline / Banner Approval?

« on: April 04, 2013, 07:20:34 AM »

How long does it generally take a banner to get approved?

I uploaded the banner and my realm needs a banner because morale keeps dropping because we don't have one. How long should it take for it to get approved?

Also, when I try to select it it doesn't show on the banner page and when I select "set banner" it says it is already assigned for my realm, but yet doesn't actually show up for my realm. Confused.

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Helpline / Government Systems Irrelevant?

« on: March 26, 2013, 04:23:58 PM »

So, are government systems irrelevant now?

It seems that even if your realm government is set to "republic" that you can still set an essentially monarchic government with an elected once ruler named King, all appointed officials and lords, etc.

Why is this? And why do we keep the realm government setting around if it doesn't mean anything? And why shouldn't you be allowed to change it as easily as you can change how the government actually works?

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BM General Discussion / Long Distance Wars Impossible?

« on: March 02, 2013, 12:24:32 AM »

Just got this from the Player of the Morek General:

Out-of-Character from Helm Altenahr   (56 minutes ago)
Message sent to: Adrian Solostus, Julius Galvez, Kale Perth, Mathias Ridder, Norgard Kaltenthal
Players of allied Generals,

The rules for long distance warfare are broken. They need to be fixed.

This is what happened when we attacked Aurvandil with troops set to Mercenary so they should have been ok at long distance fighting:

"Your men are fed up and lonely, far away from home and quite unhappy about it. Every evening, they complain loudly and yell at you that they want to return home. Morale of your troops falls 60 points."

This is crazy! 60% loss of morale in one turn with mercenaries means that war simply cannot be carried out at distance even for one turn!

Also, once I landed I can't embark because no provisions. This is ok as a rule, but it compounds the problem of low morale by stopping a retreat by sea.

"Low morale combined with the danger of starving at sea due to low provisions causes your men to refuse the boarding command."

Thats why I've called off the attack before we lose more troops needlessly. Morek is unable to fight at that distance dammit! I've lost 2 whole armies and tried different tactics but it just isn't possible. I'm not going to lose another army.

Mohammed Qureshi

Is Long Distance Warfare really intended to be basically impossible?

No intention to seem like sour grapes here or anything. This is not a complaint simply because my character's side is having a hard time. I'm just honestly curious if, on an island the size of Dwilight, you are really only intended to be able to fight realms in your own relative proximity?

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Helpline / Problem Playing Character on Atamara

« on: February 08, 2013, 11:18:22 AM »

When I click "Play" on my Character in Atamara, it directs me immidiately to a page with this error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Doctrine\ORM\EntityNotFoundException' with message 'Entity was not found.' in /var/battlemaster/include/Doctrine/Proxies/__CG__BattleMasterArmy.php:32 Stack trace: #0 /var/battlemaster/include/Doctrine/Proxies/__CG__BattleMasterArmy.php(77): BattleMaster\Proxies\__CG__\BattleMaster\Army->__load() #1 /var/battlemaster/include/init.inc(50): BattleMaster\Proxies\__CG__\BattleMaster\Army->__call('getId', Array) #2 /var/battlemaster/include/init.inc(50): BattleMaster\Proxies\__CG__\BattleMaster\Army->getId() #3 /var/battlemaster/live/stable/playchar.php(132): require_once('/var/battlemast...') #4 {main} thrown in /var/battlemaster/include/Doctrine/Proxies/__CG__BattleMasterArmy.php on line 32

Same thing happens when I hit "quickplay" as well.

Also, my other characters seem to be working fine.