New forum and new Roleplaying forum!

The brand new forum (beta) is now in full motion, you can head over to the forum page to see it. It's had a face-lift and a couple new features added too.  Which include:
 - Karma - You get 3 karma a day to give (+1 or =1) VIPs get 5.
 - Pages - Forum threads are grouped into pages so they're not all listed on one page.
- Drop down - Player options on each thread are now located in a drop down menu to save space.
- Search - You can now search forum thread titles.
- Floated topics - Staff floated threads now actually stick at the top!

The old forums will still be accessible for at least another week.

For all you RP fans I have created (based on the new system) a completely seperate forum for you guys to RP.  Valterra Dominor is currently in charge of the RP forums, she has set up the boards and the rules, she has also given a basic RP guide.

There are two different types of RP boards.
- No character setup board (free role-playing board) where you can create threads and RP in the new environment just as before.
- Character setup threads where to enter each thread  you must create a character to RP with. Categories include, character name, age, species and a bio.

Head over to have a play and see how the new system works. The character system was highly requested and I'm sure it'll be a hit.

If all goes well with the new forum system then in a couple weeks time the coven forums will be upgraded too. There will be snag with this because the old forum posts wont be transferable, more on this later.

Please give feedback on the right forum, and report any bugs whilst we test this out!

Current Jackpot: $32,368,500 << Who's gonna win that in a few hours?

Thank you & enjoy

Ash

Help ticket system upgraded

I have spent most of the morning (and afternoon now) upgrading the help ticket system as before it was pretty inefficient.  Now when you submit a ticket it gets added into a separate ticket database (away from blood letters as it worked before). You can add more replies after you've submitted one in-case you want to add something extra. When a staff member replies to your problem you will get a blood letter notification, you can then go to your tickets page (accessible on the help page) where you can view the reply.

Hopefully this will make communication a lot easier.

Oh, and the lottery jackpot for tomorow night is hitting $24,000,000. Someones going to be rich! (Unless it rolls over, ha!).

Enjoy,
Ash

Firefox is your friend.

On March 1st every windows PC in Europe will be asked if they want to change browser from Internet Explorer which comes bundled with every Windows PC. Blah blah basically Microsoft lost the right (not sure how) to force users with IE. Now they have to give the user the option to install other browsers right away, most people don't understand computers very much and use IE as its given to them. That changes from March 1st, you'll get a new option come up asking to if you want to install a new browser.

Choose Firefox or Chrome.

I use both, and they are both fantastic browsers. RoB runs the fastest in those browsers and i develop the site with them. Even though i test each browser, the game looks and plays the best in Firefox and Chrome.(Of course this is just my opinion)

Source: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/microsofts-eu-browser-ballot-approved-arrives-march-1.ars

If you are using Internet Explorer right now you can jump ahead and download firefox using the button below, if you haven't used it yet... download it now. You'll never look back on IE.





Congratulations to Theo winning just over $20,000,000 on last weeks lottery. This weeks lottery is currently up to $16,000,000, so hopefully someone else will be made rich this week. Due to how well its going I think its very liked, so after there has been a successful rollover I will take it out of Beta. Thank you for all your feedback on the feature  so far!

Ash

Achievements list 0.5 and 3!

Whilst I was working on Achievements list 3 i was looking over the previous 2 lists and decided that list 1 takes quite a while to do. So I have created a list 0.5. Which wont take a long at all to complete but will give new players a bit of a stat boost and help  getting into the game. For most of you will have all these unlocked right away.

Ladies and gentlement, the long awaited List 3 and the new list 0.5.

Any glithes/problems, please let me know.

Enjoy!
Ash