Fountain Of Awe & More

Halloween Event

I hope you all enjoyed the Halloween event at the end of last month. You can still view the top zombie slayers right here. Thanks to everyone who bought special packs, and thanks to everyone who joined in the fun by doing up their profiles.

Payment Changes

As I've said in the last blog post. Google Checkout is shutting down on the 20th of this month. I have now discontinued them. I recommend you now use REALEX. Realex is our recommended payment method because it is the fastest payment processor, and it support all the payment methods that Google did. We've had a few Onebip problems, and their support is less than useless. I've managed myself to work a few fixes to make it work. But if it's still not working for you, please contact me. If you have ANY questions regarding payments, please blood letter me.

NPC Updates

NPC arena is a great way to earn some blood when some good kills are taken by other vampires this hour. Due to the demand for more ways to earn blood a while back, the NPC Werewolf Arena was added to help, and the over the lifetime of the feature so far has given out 1,169,098,334 blood. Over a billion blood. People sure do love slaying those NPC werewolves. A few updates have been made to the werewolves, which include:

• High ranks! Powerful wolves up to rank 3000 have been added
• A new cleaner and less cluttered layout
• New stats box which shows your NPC stats and total overall blood earned
• Highest NPC wins and losses have been added to the top vampires page

Fountain Of Awe

The overall goal of Reign Of Blood is to rank up, increase your power and to have some fun doing it. I want you to rank up. I want everyone crazy high ranks. You get more money, you unlock more stuff, and even better, you're more blood for other vampires.

People are ranking pretty crazy high. I never thought when I started Reign Of Blood people would be in their thousands. Lots of people. So I decided I need to start creating some features for those top players, as well as creating further incentives for people to get up there.

Welcome to the Fountain Of Awe.

The Fountain Of Awe is a new location (via the portal) where high ranked players can use the fountains power to enhance a few PvP battle rewards even further. What's great, is they're free, and come with great rewards.

There are options there for vampires who are rank 100, all the way up to rank 2000. All the available options are displayed for everyone to see.

Includes: "Extract Extra Blood" and "Attack on The Dead".

Head over to the Fountain Of Awe, and meet Vestonia there for full details

Little Things

• New player notes. Leave a note on people's profiles. (These are private.)
• Workplace and bank links added to Portal. (To get them off every other location's page.)
• List #4 - 6, 8, 10, 11 & 12 edited for balance. (QP given to all that completed.)
• List #5 - 6 & 8 edited for balance. (QP given to all that completed.)
• List #7 - 12 & 13 achievement activated.
• 750 demon duration quest reduced to 600.
• Whole bunch of new player & tutorial modifications added.
• A new player newbie house added.
• Fixed a general chat bug that wouldn't allow certain characters.

LOADS more updates coming, stay tuned.
Ash

Happy Halloween!

 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is finally upon us! To celebrate even further, each vampire gets DOUBLE the chance of getting a zombie head when zombie slaying for today.

Top Profiles

Thank you to everyone who entered this months Halloween profile competition. I've seen a whole load of awesome profiles out there. Everybody who entered has been given 2 free zombie heads! There were so many good ones, thanks to everybody who put the effort into getting a profile made, it's really cool! I have to pick some, so here are some of my favourites who have earned themselves 10 free zombie heads:
  

ZombiePickachu (177037)

THEALICE. (331649)

EdwardScissorhands (617943)

Gir:The Pichu (630804)

•GummyBear• (336590)

ZombiePin-Up Girl 2013 (390959)

AzzazelAesculus (438612)

JackSkellington (248616)

DarkJack O` Lantern (9908)

MichaelMyers (650392)

TheBatman™ (652601)

SandyOlsson (93008)

DannyZuko (97377)

KatrinaCrane (175390)

HitGirl (441156)

Sorcerer`sApprentice (1) (how did this get in here?)

Halloween Special Pack

You can now purchase the special Halloween rare pack. Each pack is filled with awesome surprises, and this time, a token to allow you to slay even more zombies and get even more zombie heads. Ohhh the amount of slaying has been insane! You can view the top zombie slayers right here.

[ Get your Halloween surprise pack ]

I can't quite let Halloween slip away from us quite yet. So the plasma special (which all packs come with zombie boxes which give even more stuff!) And all the event features will last until November 4th. Hallelujah!

Enjoy the rest of the event, there's some great stuff in the works.
Ash

Halloween Event!

Halloween Event 2013

 

One of my favourite times of the year is upon us! Let's celebrate in style.

Zombiezzzzz

Who knew that vampire lovers like zombies so much? A high demand for a zombie event has made me decide to have one again this Halloween.

CALLING ALL DEAD CITY VAMPIRES! Zombies have again started to fight their way through the portal and spreading across the Dead City. Stop them from coming in and spreading too far. Each vampire can defeat 75 zombies a day, we need as many vampires fighting back the horde as we possibly can! Head to the Dead City [Zombie attack!] link to fight!

Zombie Kills

Kill up to 75 zombies per day. If you kill a zombie that isn't too rotted, you can  slice off their head and take them to Dempan at the Dead City. He wants them. You can also earn your coven experience helping to fight off the horde.

FREE Trick Or Treat

Once a day you can get a FREE trick-or-treat. Although the treats outweigh the tricks, it's a gamble. You must suffer (if any) consequences! Spooky, eh? Use at your own risk.

Head Collector

So you got some zombie heads from killing zombies? Head to the [Head Trading] Dead City link to trade your zombie heads.

Halloween Profiles

Have you created a halloween profile this month? You can show it off at the halloween profile page. By entrering this months competition, your profile will be displayed on this page. You can still enter by going to the competition page.

You also have the ability to give one thumbs up to another profile that you like per day. (This does also show up on your profiles.)

View the Halloween section of the Dead City for full information of the events features.

Halloween Special!

Halloween wouldn't be the same without the ability to buy some VIP and plasma at great prices. Over the last couple of weeks the amount of "When is the Halloween special going to happen?" I've had. Well... now! Head over to Buy VIP/Plasma page to see all the available special packs. All the packs come with extra goodies on top of the VIP and Plasma. (P.S there is a little bonus that you can get that's explained when you buy a plasma pack this special.)

The event will continue until Monday 4th November. Enjoy!

Further New Layout Notices

Just in case you've not noticed yet, we've got a gorgeous new in-game layout. After launching and receiving (rather overwhelmingly) positive feedback, we did make a couple changes and some compromises. Here are a few more changes to it:

• Coven pages still not working? Change your layout back to RoB-Lite or Gargoyle and go back, or click here. (Azz has come up with some new coven code also.)
•  The top info bar solved some problems, but created others (depends on how you personally play the game.) So there is now an extra option to have the top bar floated at the top of the page.
• Homepage screenshots have been updated.

I've also got some interesting stuff in the works, especially for high ranked players.


Enjoy the event
Ash

New In-Game Layout (Updated)

 

New In-Game Layout!

Reign Of Blood started in 2006 with a layout theme which is now called 'RoB-Lite' (A fan favourite.) In 2009 a new more graphical interface was created. Now that it's 2013, it's time for another one. This new layout is more geared to the current 'Gorgoyle Theme' users. RoB-Lite users still love RoB-Lite, and I wouldn't want to change that.

"Don't fix what ain't broke." A common feedback line. I personally am completely against it. Things can always be improved. So, what's different about this layout?

• New top header images, new side background, and new footer
• Has the same structure as before. So it feels new, but also very similar
• Few small changes to left sidebar, including new images
• Portal link added to the top navigation
• Main content area is a little wider to support 'wider' future features
• Game blog posts moved to top for easy viewing when new post is made
• Created with maximum compatibility with current profiles

I can also happily announce that I have removed Chill-Out from the top navigation on RoB-Lite and replaced it with the Portal.

You can change to any of the 3 themes on the account page at any time.

LAYOUT UPDATES!

Thanks for all the great feedback on the new layout! I have made a few changes and fixes, listed below:

• Footer image now saved locally, and no longer appearing at the bottom of profiles
• Coven and house CSS issues have been resolved
• Made the red & green bar images a little brighter

An issue that some players have (especially ones with smaller resolution displays) is that you have to scroll down to see some stuff. That's always kind of been an issue. Reign Of Blood has a lot of content, and most of it does need to be displayed on the left. I am never going to create a 3rd column down the right, so that's simply out of the question. I have however, come up with a nice compromise.

Introducing, the new top info bar:

Using the new layout, you can enable this bar (it is on by default) which displays the game time, quick heal/suicide links, blood hour notification, and your general notifications (news, blood letters etc.) I hope you like this handy little addon. You can disable this by going to your account page.

A big thanks to Azzazel Aesculus for supplying the beautiful artwork for this new layout. Please continue to post any feedback or glitches on this thread, thank you!

September Competition Results

Thank you to everybody who submitted quest ideas last month. I've read through them all, and recorded all the ones I liked. I have given each of the top quest ideas 2 plasma each! You should see your quests (or quests based on your ideas) very soon.

Halloween Profiles/October Competition Reminder

Halloween is soon upon us! Don't forget that this months competition to win plasma is to have an awesome Halloween profile! I've even got one. If you've entered into this months competition, then you might as well enter Mayne's competition as well, he's giving away some IG cash for the same thing.

Google Checkout Shutdown/OneBip Issues

Just a heads up, early next month, Google Checkout are shutting down. (Which works out for the best overall, as they're a pain.) I have a replacement lined up, but I assure all the Google Checkout users, your card will work with REALEX. (Our recommended payment option.) More information next month. I am also aware of the problem some UK players are having with OneBip. My support request is still pending, but hopefully I'll get this fixed ASAP.

Have a great week!
Ash