Well, here's the rundown, I'll try and keep this message as simple as possible. As the few people who actually maintained contact with me allready know, I moved recently and found myself without internet for quite a long time, as well as a lovely virus that led to a format, making me lose all my work on the site. There was an update placed before the move, saying enough to hold you over for awhile, but that was wiped through some well timed rollback by angelfire I'd assume.

Anyways, the news is as follows:

For the past week and a half, I've been in the WoW stress test beta, it's been a blast, and the game has met and surpassed many of my expectations. It still has a very long way to go, but even now, the game is quite enjoyable and entertaining. It's also cool as hell, and tends to attract a crowd whenever I play. And it runs surprisingly well on my machine, which is a bit of a shock to me, as the graphics are excedingly beautiful in this game.

Now, the real news:

I dont know what you guys are thinking, but I'm not really impressed. The interest in this project has been less than stelar. I'm not asking for people who badger me left right and centre asking about updates and the clan and whatnot, but I expect that if I dissapear off the face of the planet for 3 months and log onto msn for a week straight, at least one person would drop me a message. The emails are ok, but I still expect you to use msn as our main means of communication. I said right from the beginning this project starts and ends with me, and right now im announcing this:

As of now, there is only me.

I will decide what to do with the clan as the time approaches for closed beta. My main in closed beta will be an undead warrior, on a pvp server, along with some people I met in the stress test. The clan is not done and over, but ties with all of you have been cut, I have no interest in people who show no interest. I'm setting out to do something very unique and powerful in the MMO community, I know I cant do it alone, but now I also know I cannot do it with the people I have. I'll just have to keep on scouting prospects in game as I usually do.

As soon as there is an announcement about closed beta, I'll make another announcement on the future of this project, until then, do whatever. I've thought about this for awhile, and it's clear to me that it's the only descision I have left to make right now. I'm not here to hold your hand and lead you to greatness, you need to pull your weight to get anywhere in this world, even in fantasy.

Well, for those of you not following the story, the RYL beta recently implemented their anti hack measures in game, in preperation for open beta. And though there's still plenty of hacked characters running around, it is one HELL of alot of fun right now. Last night was especially fun, as I had the rare opportunity to hunt in a purely Malasian group, which I found operated a signifigantly higher level of play than the normal, everyone knew their roles, everyone acted accordingly and effeciently, I made 22-29.5 in about 2 hours with them, and we werent even trying to get xp. With the hacks gone, we took the time to explore the second and third islands, decimating any humans we found in our wake (I play humans as my main, but have a few demon accounts on the side =P) . We eventually moved to the arena, and were shocked to be assaulted by none other than sokme human GMs =) We fought for a little while, doing large scale group combat, with skills and spells and swords flying every which way, then took the time to sit around with the GMs and chat a little bit and show off some level 4 spells and skills, which looked amazing, needless to say. Fighting the GMs was the fun part though, it gave me a good idea of what to expect from high level characters

Needless to say, it was a ton of fun, and my rune off (Spectra) made a few thousand fame in one day =) I also leared from the GMs that the king of RYL package contains a RYL cd, 2 account IDs and PWs, and a number you can use in game to get 500k in gold, which is pretty decent starter money, and makes it unessicairy to do the quests, unless they add more by then, which is unlikely. Near as I could tell, I was the only North American character there (at least in our little group around the gms), so this is pretty good information =)

And FYI, mages get utterly destroyed at high or even mid level, and levelling is going to be super easy, knowing what I learned last night. Anyways, I certainly hope to hear from you guys before open beta, if not, expect to see me in the high rankings with a bunch of people with crazy alphanumeric names =)

Well in the past few days we've seen a shitstorm of new devellopments happen with RYL, all of which are kind of sketchy, but definately good news. Planetwidegames has apparently stepped up to the plate and taken the north american distribution rights for RYL. This means we'll soon have a dedicated, english speaking staff develloping a north american version of RYL. On their main website you can find a variety of new screenshots, including some preliminary screenshots of what appears to be a large indoor environment, so perhaps we can expect to see dungeons sooner in the North American release.

Also, for the Taiwan version or ryl, they recently released a new client, with a radical new interface, and much more of a sexy look. You can see screenshots on a french fansite forum.

Edit: Oh yeah, and The RYL Ultimate Guidebook continues to be updated. It's in alpha version 0.12 as of this message.

Well, I'm back home again. I wrote a working outline to my guide while I was back in Toronto over the weakend, for those that are impatient, you can check it's progress here. I just transferred what I wrote over to html, and soon as the new client downloads, I'll be adding images and slowly adding detailled sections over the next few days.

I've also added a headlines area, which should make navigating important news items alot easier.

RYL is now offering more beta ids for phase 3, APPLY NOW!!! It's first come first serve, you can grab more than one acocunt, but dont be too greedy, everyone needs a chance to play this game =P

http://www.ryl.com.my/reg/register2.asp

Good news from a reliable source in the WoW beta just keeps on coming in. Apparently the devs are very active in listening to the community, and implementing changes as nessicairy. There has also been a rumour as to a pvp test server opening in the not too distant future, so there should be some news on that soon. As expected though, there are no collision physics in place, but dont be too bummed, as there is the possibility of this changing in future releases, if not simply for pvp combat (which is the only place it's really needed anyways)

Heard some really good things about WoW today, I thought it was worth mentioning =P Though still everyone has been unanimous in saying that the pvp blows goats.

Due to poular demand, it's an update!

Truthfully, there havent been too many devellopments, since nothing has really changed since the last update. But this is the first time I've been asked for an update, and I cant dissapoint.

RYL has been taking up a decent amount of my time lately, though I think it is time well spent. Recently they announced their open beta contest, which looks very intersting to say the least.

Anyways, I've allready talked to some of you, who seem quite interested at the idea. If nothing else, this will give all of us a chance to play together at our full potential for at least 4 months for free, and if all goes well, we're looking at a year of free gameplay, and that's just if we qualify and lose. RYL just plain rocks so far, I have never played a mmo with this much involvement. My only worry is that they will change the class balances to accomodate pvm, that would be a fatal mistake. Not to mention a very common one with mmos nowadays, they always attack the issue from the worst possible angle, creating more issues, and snowballing indefinately until you're left with a game that doesnt even resemble the original product. (AC players can relate the best to this one)

Anyways, I have some things planned to help us out, it's become quite clear to me lately that my knowledge of mmos gives me a massive advantage over the average player, and I'd be happy to share this with everyone in the group, with detailled levelling guides, skill guides, quest guides, the likes of which you've never seen. Currently, this information does not exist on any major website.

The main part of all of this is participation, I know we have a couple "core" members, that always sem to be online and eager to help the cause, but we really need the underdogs showing some participation now too, I dont ask for much time, just some on a routine basis. For now though, all I ask is that you message me on msn or email me as soon as possible with your intentions, and if you are interested in this RYL contest, which is also a test for our group. What we see in the RYL open beta could be what makes our name (or lack thereof) known to the world, we need to represent, and I know I have the means, I just need the people now.

So, who is with me? Who's going to stand up and be seen? Who wants to make our presence known?

I know I do.

Email me or message me, even if you arent a part of the group, we are still taking members.

Oh yeah, and if you do happen to be in RYL, you can reach me as Ripshaft, Macrophage, Holocaust, or Hellbourne (all human). Depending on interst, I may open a RYL branch of the website before open beta.

The names page has also been updated as usual, there's some interesting additions.

So, RYL seems to have struck a deal with engrish.com, and are now working to create only the finest in engrish products.

Edit: Well originally was going to put a funny pic up, but figure the nda is written in engrish too, and cant make heads or tails of what I am allowed to do.... Err, that is to say, if I was in beta... and if I was in beta, I would probably have a character named "Ripshaft", and would be happy to hunt with anyone else who happened to get in =P So message me... that is, if i was in beta... *grins*

Well, with the beta live, there's a ton of new information to sort through. So I'll be holding off on a few updates I had in the works, in favor of a massive update in a little while. Now, in the meantime, I recently had a new title (well, to me, it's been running in china for awhile apparently, so it's stable), Risk Your Life, revealed to me by some friends I used to play with on Darktide. This is unusual, as no mmorpg has ever compared to AC yet, so they must be hyped about this game if it came up in discussion. After looking through all the available video, I agree it's worth a look, and suggest you check it out:

You can sign up here and here.

Well, needless to say, things have been slow lately, as we wait on further information from blizzard, and continue to work on finding a name for our group. I've been a little busy lately, what with this stomach flu from hell going around and all. Aside from that, I have been working on making a page dedicated to explaining out somewhat complicated heirarchy system, with mixed results, the page should be up soon enough, regardless.

The sexification continues, with a new nav bar at the top of the page.

On another note, had the chance to talk to a group of you online today, and we managed to make some great progress on the name issue. To keep everyone up to date on our name, you can check out the name page. Over the next few days, expect a variety of new pages to pop up, and many improvements to existing ones. I hope to see more of you online on msn more, so we can have more productive, spontaneous group chats.

The names page is of course still very early in devellopment, please bear with us as it is improved over time.

Figured the site could use some help, so I took some time to sexify it a little, hope you like it.

For those of you not playing the UT2004 demo, you might want to head over to www.unrealtournament.com and download it now. The game is far improved over 2003, and shows signs of coming closer to the original UT in terms of gameplay.

Well, it seems that the last chat was almost completely overlooked, despite rsvps. It seems some are more enthusiastic about the idea than others. For this, I salute you. However, for those not coming to the chats, I offer you this early warning that the timeline is getting more strict, and failure to attempt to attend scheduled meetings or make your views known to me on msn will result in your being left out of many important descicion making processes. The last chat hardly even merits a chat log, though one will be available to members upon request.

There will be a series of group chats held over the next week or so, here is the latest information:

Tuesday - 11:00PM EST - ggn.fef.net #group-chat (irc link)

Thursday - 11:00PM EST - ggn.fef.net #group-chat (irc link)

If you have a recent irc client, the irc link should take you directly there, if not, read my guide, located HERE.