THE HERALD

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Friends and Realm Mates across the globe, we have some exciting news for you!

We are super happy to announce that Lea, known to the DAoC world as Shileah, has joined our team as a Community Admin for Dark Age of Camelot! Some of you may already know Lea from ingame, her own DAoC site, her streams, podcasting, Facebook and oh so much more! A valued member of the German community, Lea joins our community team to help me out (minions omg!!!), and to help focus on our German community. Community stalking team of doom! Congrats Lea 🙂

In conjunction, we are also happy to announce that postcount.net now offers native German support (language switcher at bottom of board) and a dedicated German Community board! Visit the board to welcome Lea, and hang out 🙂 More languages will be coming soon, if you have a suggestion or question, feel free to PM me (carol/beibhinn) over there 🙂

Lea has taken the time to outline her past experiences with the game and industry. For those that aren’t familiar with her, please read on below, and join us in welcoming her to the team! Keep an eye out for her in region chat! 🙂
 

Heya everyone! My name is Lea, and I am happy to share with you that as of today, I will assist our much-loved Carol as new Community Admin!

Some of you, especially from the German community, already know me as Shileah. For those of you that don’t, let me tell you a bit about my involvement with Dark Age of Camelot and the gaming industry:

Like many others, DAoC was my very first MMO experience. I started playing two weeks after EU release and got instantly hooked with the game. When the Eyes and Ears volunteer guild project began with ‘Sterne von Stonehenge’, I was one of the first few to help players and gamemasters alike. I soon joined the team of people that were working on the localisation of Dark Age of Camelot, initially as a freelance agent and later at GOA in Paris. I met many of you at Gamescom, which I attended for many years, and at the various real life community meetings – Neckarzimmern represent!

I left GOA when they made the move to Ireland, but stayed in the industry and worked for other MMORPGs and in various positions. Dark Age always stayed in my heart and when I returned to the game a few years ago, I soon picked up where I left and provided the German speaking community with translations of the Herald content and assistance of all kind. I joined the ranks of the Knights of the Round Table, and to my great delight Broadsword now welcome me to their team! Although my focus will be on the German speaking part of the community, I will be there for each and every one of you and I am very much looking forward to it!

I will of course continue with localising the Herald content for you, and I sincerely hope that my work for Broadsword will make your experience with Dark Age of Camelot an even more joyful and exciting one.

Happy hunting everybody – for the realms!
Lea

• The Leirvik Battleground will be open to level 50 players from Friday, September 4th through Monday, September 7th.

On Ywain:

• 25% bonus to RP gain in all NF zones (including the Labyrinth)
• 50% bonus to RP gain in Leirvik
• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons
• 50% bonus to normal BP in all NF zones
• 50% bonus to normal BP in Leirvik

On Gaheris:

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons
• 50% bonus to normal BP gain in the capital cities
• 50% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities

In each Capital City:

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

In all Housing Zones:

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

Registration for the 5v5 Tournament is now closed and the fixture list available here on the tournament site! If you have a team but it does not appear on the fixture list, please contact Obelisk asap via IRC or Postcount.

We would ask those participating to please arrive on time and ready to go around the porter in Camelot at 1PM EST (7PM CET).

Due to the amount of teams registered, we’ve decided to go with four groups of 3 teams. With this tournament layout, the top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage. The teams in the last place of each group will be eliminated. A team that comes in 1st place in their group will play a team that came in 2nd place in another group in the first round of the knockout stage. Due to the fact we have 11 teams, one group will only have two teams. In this case, both teams will advance. The group stage for them will determine who comes 1st and 2nd in the group.

Full details of the groups and fixtures can be found on the postcount forums here. The tournament will be streamed in full on our official Twitch channel!

Update 1:15 PM EST: The Account Center is back online!

The Dark Age of Camelot Account Center is coming down for brief maintenance. 

Downtime is not expected to be more than a couple hours. Thank you for your patience!

We have recently instituted several methods to help us track down various hacks in-game, perhaps the most important of which is radar. We have not and will not ever take cheating lightly. Your feedback over the months about hacking has been well-received and this announcement can be considered proof that these types of actions will not be tolerated.

Today we have issued 1-day suspensions to several hundred accounts found to be using radar. Going forward, any accounts confirmed as violating the Rules of Conduct in this way will be subject to long-term suspension and permanent account termination. All accounts actioned today have been sent an email to the address on file.

If you receive this email, and you do not use these programs, check the name of the suspended account carefully before you panic. If you sold or traded your account to another player, it’s possible that they didn’t change the contact email information.

If you did not receive this email, but your account has been suspended, you should update the email address on the account ASAP.

If it’s your account, and you received the email, please uninstall your third party programs immediately.