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BM General Discussion / Might & Fealty Alpha Invites Request Thread!
« on: October 27, 2013, 03:48:00 PM »
Surprised this thread hasn't already been started yet. I'm sure there are alot of regular BattleMaster players who are interested in taking a look at Tom's new project, Might & Fealty. A closed Alpha of the game is running at the moment for those who have donated to the Might & Fealty Indiegogo campaign. It's early doors yet, but it looks pretty fun and interesting. It's a little like BattleMaster, but with even more freedom and player agency. Basically if you really enjoy BattleMaster, there is definitely something you'll appreciate here!

If, for whatever reason, you haven't donated yet but you'd like to take a look at Might & Fealty, feel free to make a request for an Alpha Invite key in this thread. I'm sure there are plenty of folk who will be able to help you out. I personally have three keys spare to give out so give us a holler and I'll PM you a code :-)

EDIT: If we run out of keys here, you can always check out the Key Requests / Invites thread on the M&F forums as well.

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BM General Discussion / Woop, woop!
« on: September 28, 2013, 07:41:25 AM »
It's taken almost nine years but I've finally done it. House Osha has made it on to the Top 20 Most Famous Families List! I've been consciously trying to get on that list for the last four years or so but every time I got near it the bar seemed to get higher in terms of new fame points and all that. It's good to have finally done it. Now I just need to make sure I stay there! >.<

(Edit: Nearly nine years playing is ridiculous isn't it? Felt like I had to make a donation after saying that!)

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Wiki / Can we improve the wiki?
« on: August 05, 2013, 04:25:04 PM »
So, we have the idea that maybe we can give people their Locals Board fix through a return to maybe using newspapers or what have you, but I think if that's going to have any traction the wiki needs to be adapted somewhat. At present, I would say it isn't as easy to find interesting content on the wiki as it could be. And there doesn't seem to be any way for us to obviously push the good content that will get people interested in frequenting and using the wiki more often. The wiki is probably fit for purpose if we just wanted it to be a static manual or aid to playing BattleMaster, but we also want to use it for changing in game content and world building and in that regard perhaps the experience could be improved.

Can we make it so that the wiki main page features some dynamic content alongside the static content? Could we get a list of new articles featured on the main page for example? (and emphasis on new articles by the way. Not recent changes that will flag up all the spam account creations or multiple changes to old articles or what have you). Additionally, could we have a featured articles section that gets changed every once in a while. I guess, essentially it would be a way to curate content and to emphasise the kind of articles we appreciate on the wiki. Could be good realm pages, good roleplay features, newspapers etc. The important thing though is that not only would these changes help create more of an audience for those who put the time into making new articles, but it gives people a reason to come back later to check for new content.

I don't know whether any of that is achievable at present with the current wiki version and extensions but I've had a little look and there are a couple of extensions that might be relevant to this:

Extension:RecentPages
Extension:FeaturedFeeds

As for the continuing plague of spam accounts, the list of new spam accounts in the recent changes log can regularly exceed double figures each day. Even if we deleted them as soon as they were created, you would then get a list of deleted accounts clogging up the log as well. Ideally that also can be reduced for a better experience, but if I recall correctly, we simply don't have the tools. I had a little look at things that might help with that as well, but it could be a hiding to nothing:

Extension:Phalanx
ExtensionBlockandNuke

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Colonies / So, if Colonies gets the chop...
« on: July 31, 2013, 02:04:25 AM »
...how about we all pile into one realm and go found our new Colonies empire on another continent? ;D

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BM General Discussion / BattleMaster on the Internet
« on: July 30, 2013, 12:18:33 PM »
If you want to help spread the word about BattleMaster or just fancy chilling out with your fellow players elsewhere, why not check out other BattleMaster communities and hangouts across the internet?
Feel free to chime in with any other hangouts you know of below!

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Dwilight / Mendicant Cheating
« on: March 25, 2013, 09:14:25 AM »
Quote from: dustole on March 24, 2013, 05:03:53 PM
The worst part is that it tars the reputation of everyone else in Aurvandil.  No matter what it is hard to shake that stigma.  Look at Thulsoma and Aquilegia.  That stigma still follows some of the nobles that were associated with that realm.

Please tell me you're joking. No-one knew Twinblade was a multi-cheater until he blurted it out. As it turned out, seven of Aquilegia's 11 nobles were actually Twinblade's multis. He had 8 accounts and 25 characters. No-one should be placing blame or stigma on anyone but the folks who have done the cheating. The players who find they have been playing alongside multi-cheaters are as much a victim as anyone else.

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Other Games / AoE 2 HD
« on: March 11, 2013, 08:13:33 PM »
Yes, it really exists!

I cannot wait to play AoE online again. It's going to be glorious.

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Other Games / Diablo III
« on: April 20, 2012, 03:29:14 AM »
It seemed sacrilegious that there wasn't a thread drooling over this yet. I confidently expected Diablo III to come out in 2010, then 2011 only to have my hopes cruelly dashed. Now it's finally being released on May 15 and I'm quite looking forward to it! Diablo II is probably one of my favourite games ever. I do have some fears about this new one though.

I'm really scared that Diablo III has been made to cater for the World of Warcraft crowd. It all just looks too bright and nice compared to Diablo II. Also heard rumours from the beta that the game just isn't on a par with Diablo II and the four characters per party things sounds like a horrible misstep if it makes it to final release. I don't really mind about the in-game marketplace though - people were already paying hand-over-fist for items and what not in Diablo II, just in much shadier places.

However Diablo III turns out, I reckon I'm probably going to pick it up on or as near to launch day as I can regardless. Not sure what class to go for when I get started though like. Torn between the Demon Hunter and the Monk. The Demon Hunter seems to be part-Amazon, part-Assassin. I loved both those classes even if I was only any good at playing the latter! The Monk intrigues me because he seems to have the martial arts/meleeing side of the Assassin, which is something I only got to grips with on my last run through Diablo II and had me cursing the fact I'd only ever played traps before!

Anyone else looking forward to this?

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Helpline / Government System Query
« on: November 03, 2011, 05:51:55 PM »
So, I was just looking through the options for changing government system on my ruler character. There is a new option I don't remember under the 'Term' drop-downs for Council positions. Along with being able to appoint and elect them once/monthly/quarterly there is an option to 'select' council members. Is that just a weird mistake (i.e. you're telling me to select one of the below options - though select doesn't come up for the ruler council member or any other drop-down on the page) or is there actually a mechanic whereby a ruler, I would guess, is able to pick and choose council members on a whim in much the same way Army Sponsors can with their Marshals? If the latter's true, I would like to know when that came about and why all rulers aren't alerted instantly to its existence ;-)

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Colonies / Giblot: Dead or Alive?
« on: August 31, 2011, 03:33:01 PM »
So, I know Giblot has endured some low points in its time, but right now she looks in the most dire straits she's ever been. I'm just curious as to whether she'll survive this one or whether Giblot's actually toast this time. How much longer has she got or is there a phoenix-like resurgence on the cards?

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Helpline / Government rules
« on: August 05, 2011, 10:20:08 AM »
It's been a year or two since I was in government, but I seem to remember before that upon first being elected to a council position, an auto-message would be sent directing you to the Government rules page with the do's and dont's and what have you. I feel like I've seen the page enough times to know better, but I was surprised not to get the link today.

Couldn't remember for the life of me what the page was called so in the end I searched for 'activity cycles' to find it again today. I think it was a great device to be told that every time you got elected. Kept you on your toes and keenly aware of the way you should be doing things your end. It makes me sad that players are being elected to rulership for the first time without BattleMaster whispering in their ear our very own riff on 'You're only mortal.'

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Helpline / Routefinder problem? Rogue regions don't appear
« on: August 02, 2011, 02:21:37 PM »
So, over the last year or so I keep hitting a brick wall in my travel planning (Though it could've been forever for all I know). The Routefinder doesn't bring up any rogue regions. If it's rogue, it's like the region doesn't exist. Which is supremely irritating because often it's the only way to find out whether region X will actually let you travel into region Y or you're in Beluaterra where Rogue is one of the biggest realms on the continent.

Is it intentional that you can't plan travel to a rogue region or even so much as check the length of the route and how to get there?

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Wiki / Wiki, wiki on the wall, whose the best editor of them all?
« on: August 02, 2011, 04:00:28 AM »
So it turns out there's essentially a wiki 'hi-scores' leaderboard:

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Special:TopUsers

I made top 10  ;D Three more edits and I breeze past Vellos. Best get contributing again!

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Far East Island / FEI Newb seeks counsel
« on: July 12, 2011, 12:25:55 AM »
So, I quite fancy starting a character in FEI somewhere. Shamefully however, I've never played Far East before. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good realm with a decent mix of life and action? That or tell me which places to avoid? I figure if I'm going to have an FE baptism of fire, it might as well be an interesting baptism of fire >.<

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Other Games / Wii U
« on: June 10, 2011, 02:55:39 PM »
Nintendo have blinked first and made the first next-gen console announcement. What does everyone think? As inspired as the original Wii or is the next console destined for failure in contrast to it's predecessor?

For me, I'm heartily intrigued by that control pad with the screen and of course, with news of a new Super Smash Bros. game on the way, I'm going to have no choice but to pick-up this console on release >.< Seems a shame that they're not going to sell additional controllers with screens though. That can only mean they'd be an eye watering price at retail.

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