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Friday Grab Bag - 03/30/2018

Posted by Community | 2018 Mar 30 07:57 -0400 GMT
TGIF! Welcome to this week's Grab Bag :) 

Our monthly newsletter is due later today so if you aren't signed up, there's still time (also, for shame! ;)). You can sign up using this link to get our newsletters right to your inbox.

And just a quick note about account security:

With Mithril currency shared between all game accounts under each individual EA/Origin account, our upcoming official forums will require game account info to access. Logging into the forums on any linked game account will give you access to the entire forum profile under that EA/Origin account. 

Please make sure to protect your game and master account info. Someone using your account to misbehave on the forums won't be an acceptable excuse from action, and be aware: some violations on the forums will result in action taken against your game account! So protect your account!!

When will the official forums be live? Soon. Very soon!

As always, thanks for all your questions, keep 'em coming! You can send in any game related questions you have for our DAoC Devs through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

Read on for this week's questions!


Friday Grab Bag - 03/16/2018

Posted by Community | 2018 Mar 16 15:24 -0400 GMT
Time for another edition of our bi-weekly Grab Bag, on the weekend where everywhere seems to be celebrating the green!

Don't forget our Saint Patrick's Day event started earlier today. I expect to see lots of leprechauns speeding 'round the frontier over the weekend :)

As always, thanks for all your questions! If you have any game related questions for our DAoC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

Read on for this week's questions covering con loss, come back campaigns, siege towers, and more! :)


Friday Grab Bag - 03/02/2018

Posted by Community | 2018 Mar 02 19:53 -0500 GMT
If you're like me and trapped by the weather (snow is great and all but not this much of it) then settle down for the evening with this week's Grab Bag!

February's newsletter also went out during the week and includes a new monthly poll. If you aren't signed up, you can do so here. In the meantime, you can view the full newsletter by clicking this link.

As always, thanks for all your questions! If you have any game related questions for our DAoC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

On to the questions! :)


Friday Grab Bag - 02/16/2018

Posted by Community | 2018 Feb 16 15:02 -0500 GMT
Grab a cuppa and take a minute out for this week's Grab Bag!

As always, thanks for all your questions! If you have any game related questions for our DAoC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.

Click 'more' to continue on to the questions! :)


Friday Grab Bag - 02/02/2018

Posted by Community | 2018 Feb 02 17:28 -0500 GMT

Welcome to the first Grab Bag of 2018, and what an exciting year ahead we have planned!

Our first newsletter of the year went out earlier in the week, so make sure to check your emails. If you are not signed up, you can do so by entering your email address on this sign up page. In the meantime, you can view the complete newsletter in your browser here.

Thanks to everyone for your questions! If you have any game related questions for our DAoC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.


On to the questions! :)

Live Server Maintenance - Ywain

Posted by John Thornhill | 2018 Jan 09 11:36 -0500 GMT
Update 12:40 PM EST / 5:40 PM GMT: Ywain is once again open and available to all players!

The Ywain server will be coming down today (11:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM GMT) to perform some additional maintenance to address the in-game delays with gameplay and chat.

Servers are expected back up within 2 hours.

We also want to provide a bit more context for these in-game delays that many players are experiencing. All of our servers and services are hosted on the cloud and are affected by the recent software updates required to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability. We heavily rely on these cloud services to run the game as smoothly as possible.

For more information on the recently discovered CPU vulnerability issues, please check out this article.

Unfortunately, the New Frontiers region on the Ywain server was only temporarily fixed by our configuration change last Friday. We started noticing more delays on Saturday afternoon and have been trying some behind-the-scenes fixes that don't involve downtime since then; none of which have fully resolved the issues. Fortunately, all other servers and services were fixed by that Friday downtime and are still looking good and performing better than ever.

With this downtime today, we will be trying a more robust configuration change to Ywain that we are hopeful will fix its remaining issues as well. Thank you all for your patience and understanding!

Live Server Maintenance - Ywain

Posted by John Thornhill | 2018 Jan 05 11:40 -0500 GMT
Update 1:04 PM EST / 5:04 PM GMT: Ywain is back online and available to all players. Thank you for your patience!

The Ywain server will be coming down today (11:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM GMT) to perform maintenance intended to address some in-game delays with gameplay and chat.

Servers are expected back up within 4 hours.

We've noticed some poorer performance than normal in New Frontiers and want to make a configuration change to our server hosting to try and address it prior to the weekend.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we perform this downtime.

Live Server Maintenance (AWS)

Posted by John Thornhill | 2018 Jan 02 15:23 -0500 GMT
All servers are online and open to players!

Update: Ywain, Gaheris, and Pendragon are now online and open to players! Archived servers are still undergoing maintenance and will be up within the next couple of hours.

The Ywain, Gaheris, Pendragon and all archived servers will be coming down tomorrow, January 3rd (5:45 AM EST / 10:45 AM GMT) to perform an Amazon server hosting security update.

Due to the amount of servers and background-processes under maintenance, servers are expected back up within 10 hours. Intermittent downtime may be noticed with the Account Center and the Herald websites but any issues reaching those sites should clear up within a few minutes.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we perform this extended downtime.

Friday Grab Bag - 12/15/2017

Posted by Community | 2017 Dec 15 16:13 -0500 GMT
Welcome to the last Grab Bag of 2017! We've had a lot of interesting, fun and, I hope, helpful Grab Bags. Looking forward to more in 2018 :) We're going to take a litle bag break here for the holidays, and will return with more Grab Bags after the New Year!

For those wondering where our Midwinter event is, fear not! Midwinter festival returns to the realms early next week, with the 12 days of Midwinter back for the 2nd year running later in the week. 

If you have any game related questions for our DAoC Devs, please send them in through our Grab Bag submission form. Please note this is for game questions, feedback should be sent in through our feedback form.


Click 'more' to read this week's Grab Bag! :)

1v1 Tournament Final and Reward Details

Posted by Community | 2017 Dec 06 15:08 -0500 GMT
A lot of fights, fun, and drama later we have our overall 1v1 final players! Well done to everyone who took part, and congrats to the below winners. The final will be held this Sunday, Dec 10th, at 3PM EST / 9PM CET on the Pendragon server, and streamed live on our official Twitch channel!

Winner Roundup

Archers Assassins Casters
  • 1st - Niightstalkerr (Hunter)
  • 1st - Fantam (SB)
  • 2nd - Snowdog (SB)
  • 1st - Goinghurd (BD)
  • 2nd - Evoenia (WL)
Hybrids Light Tanks Heavy Tanks
  • 1st - Haoas (Reav)
  • 2nd - Yeias (Champ)
  • 1st - Axv (Merc)
  • 2nd - Waltr (BM)
  • 1st - Romanvs (Arms)
  • 2nd - Rauk (Warr)



Match ups will be announced the day of the tournament. A note for our finalists: please be on Pendragon and ready to start at least 10 minutes beforehand!

Details on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placed rewards has also been updated. Head over to our 1v1 Tournament page and check out the prizes :) 


Good luck to all!  

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