August Winners & Sunday Quiz Night

August Competition Winners

Thanks to everyone who entered the August competition, my top 3 favourite are:

First:  DarkPrincess~Diluculo (242927)
Second: Ominous (93371)
Third:  Aerith Strife (306935)

Below are listed some other profiles I quite liked (in no particular order), you all get a free plasma too:

Celeste (427599)
Tizzy†Freakshow†Phuri Dae (127113)
Cara~Fidela (75781)
Brianne Invisible™ (82385)
Amena Diluculo Haze (331649) 
 The Clap (486781)

General Chat Quiz Night

Something I've not done before, and have no idea if it will be a hit, is a quiz night in general chat. Whether or not it's a success, I will be asking 50 questions and giving away 50 QP (1 QP per question) to whoever answers the correct answer first. So I invite on you Sunday night (9th September) at 11pm game time to join us in General chat for a chance to win yourself some free QP. Please spread the word! I'll be giving out the QP regardless :)

Enjoy the week,
Ash

Ash's Birthday Celebration

Birthday e-celebrations

Today I'm celebrating my 24th birthday, and as I'm not really doing anything for it until the weekend, I thought we could have a little e-party here on RoB.

- Special Plasma packs up until Sunday night
- Double blood for everyone until Sunday night
- Double turns to anyone who buys a special plasma pack until Sunday night
- Access to the massive birthday cake in Dead City

September Competition
As the August competition comes to a close tomorrow, the September competition is now posted.

This months competition is to dust off your writing skills. Each competition entry must be an article written in the style of the ol' Phantom Press' newsworthy section. Pick a current issue, update or goings on, and write at least a 3 paragraph article about it. Click here for full entry details.

If you missed the blog post a few days ago about the further updates to the daily quests, please click here to catch up.

Enjoy the weekend :)
Ash

Further Daily Quest Updates

Downtime Results

The server move was successful. The game was down only 2 and a half hours out of the 3 hour estimate, which is good news. We're now sitting in the new North London data center. Promo code: 25thdowntime for the two hourly resets missed.

August Competition Final Reminder

This is the final reminder for you to update your profile layouts to enter the August competition. Please remember to post on this thread if you'd like to be judged, if you do not post, you will not be considered. The judging will taking place between the 31st August and the 4th September. Make sure you have your profile up during this entire time.

Daily Quest Changes

Thank you for the constructive feedback that was posted on the new daily quest updates.  I've taken all the feedback into account and have made the following changes and bug fixes, I hope you're pleased.

Bug fixes:

• The NPC's quest now counts how many NPC credits you have used today, rather than just checking if you have 0 credits to complete the quest.
• The 'daily' quest now shows how many other daily quests you've completed so far today (should have to start with).
• Fixed the issue with the random coven quest not completing.

Updates & Changes:

• The Hunt quest now requires 100 humans, down from 125
• The Feed quest now requires 80 feeds, down from 100
• The $earcher quest now requires $1,250, down from $2,000
• The Pet quest now requires 200 wins, down from 300

The 'Daily' Quest changes:
Because of the new daily quest task additions, I made it so you only have to complete 7 out of the 9 daily quests in order to get the extra bonus. After reading the feedback, I have come up with a good solution to the general issue.

The 'Daily' quest now has 5 different tiers of rewards.

- Complete 5 out of the 9 quests to receive a reward
- Complete 6 out of the 9 quests to receive a slightly larger reward
- Complete 7 out of the 9 quests to receive a slightly larger reward again
- Complete 8 out of the 9 quests to receive a slightly larger reward again
- Complete 9 out of the 9 quests to receive a slightly larger reward again

I hope you're happy with the changes, please give further feedback on the same thread (and any bugs of course).

Ash

Downtime 25th August [Final reminder]

I posted last week about some downtime that will occur this weekend. I can confirm that the downtime will start tomorrow (25th August) sometime between 10am (UK game time) and 3pm (UK game time) and will last up to 3 hours.

Our servers are being moved from their current location to a new data center in North London. The server IP addresses etc will not be changed, so as soon as we get them plugged into their new home, everything should connect back up.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for live updates when the servers are down.

Thanks,
Ash