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Danicia
1 in thread Will Be Playing on Rackham [Sony Station accounts]
Welcome aboard Xiphos Victrix!

Not a lot of players read this section, but you can review the Rackham server forums even before your game is finished loading.

You can see the Society recruitment threads here:
http://www.burningsea.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=143

That should help you see what sort of group you'd fit in with.
Danicia
1 in thread Direct 2 Download wont give me activation key !! [Sony Station accounts]
Please contact D2D about your key; they should be able to assist.
Danicia
1 in thread Can someone clarifiy please! Confused! [Sony Station accounts]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Cab
Is the process: Finish Trial - Buy Retail box, enter code Somewhere - Set up subscription plan.
That is exactly how it works. Everyone has to buy the game, whether via digitial download or retail box in a store.
Aether
1 in thread Outage complete: Friday, February 29th [Important Announcements]
Quote:
Originally Posted by RagabashMoon
What I personally would therefore suggest you do for the future, is keep track of your usage, find the hours that have the LEAST number of players on average, and use that time, no matter what time it is. Keep constant track, and post each time that currently the hours of X.XX and X.XX are our least used time, so we are going to use this window for this week's maintenance. As long as you try to keep it to a minimum even then, I think that would be most beneficial to the entire community.
A great suggestion- and something we already do. The maintenance times were chosen based on our concurrency data in an effort to impact as few people as possible. Few being relative in this case, at some point even "a few" can represent a substantial number of people.

Best,
Aether
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread Non Rectangular flags [Flags and Sails]
My advice: Don't rely on flattening an image to get transparency. It's better to actually make a separate layer to use as a mask for creating an alpha channel. That way you'll have all the layers you need if you want to edit your flag for any reason, plus you can use the same anti-aliasing techniques in setting up the transparency as on the rest of the flag.

For an example, check out the templates posted on my personal Web site (see my signature).
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread I disagree with the rejection [Flags and Sails]
As a link to the correct thread for appeals has already been posted, I'm closing this thread.
Gray Noten
1 in thread How to Play PotBS Invincible using US Client [Bigpond GameArena accounts]
This is probably a pretty bad plan. It works when the server versions are synched up. But that's not going to always be the case. For example, right now the US/EU client is at 1.1.71.0, but the Australian server is 1.1.69.1 ... Which means that now the clients aren't compatible.

I know it'd be nice to cut down on space, but you will have issues with it.
Gray Noten
1 in thread UPDATED: The Lag Thread - Now with a fix! [Important Announcements]
Folks-

We've changed some things on Rackham. Can those of you who were experiencing lag on Rackham try again and see if that lag persists? If you've applied the vista fix, please 'unapply it' using the directions that Aether posted in post #1.

Thanks for your ongoing help with debugging this issue.
Gray Noten
1 in thread Outage complete: Friday, February 29th [Important Announcements]
All done, thanks for your patience. On a side note, expect to see a devlog from me soon about patch timing, etc. I've posted a number of times in other threads about our reasoning, but it will be nice to have it all in one easy to find place.
Aether
1 in thread Server Downtime: Friday, February 29th [Important Announcements]
Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfieThai
It would make a lot more sense if they moved their maintenance window forward (earlier) a little bit.

1am PST is 8pm Aussie time (6pm for me)

If they brought the maintenance window forward a little, it would have (IMHO) very little impact on the US/Europe players but allow the SEA players a little less 'prime-time' downtime. It also would have the added bonus of giving the Dev/Support team an opportunity to get home an hour (or two) earlier - everyone wins!
I'll share this with our Operations team and see if we can't adjust our maintenance window in consideration of our global community.

More information to come.

Best,
Aether