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Re: EXCELSIOR DAILY

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With today's eclipse visible from the northern America, we have a free gift that you can pick up at the town center - the eclipse spyglass!

There's also an amazing addon created by our player Praise which you can buy from the vendorstone, or buy a raffle ticket. The raffle drawing is every 4 hours, last raffle is at midnight shard time today.
The vendorstone for the Eclipse Addon will remain until Tuesday evening, 23:59 shard time.


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Topsite voting issues today because website was experiencing technical issues:

Some of you tried to vote on topsites today in the morning hours (shard time), but couldn't get the reward because the website was offline. I have just manually confirmed those vote sessions, and you can get your rewards.
If you are trying to progress your Topsite-Voting-Achievement, please claim the rewards by midnight today, so that it counts towards the progression.

In case you missed this message by midnight, and you care about the achievement, you can send a ticket and I will modify the achievement data so that you can progress as if this issue hasn't occurred. However, if at all possible, login by midnight to claim the rewards, and that will progress your daily achievement.
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Enormous Vat of Flowers available for Mother's day weekend, created by Arrow.

Available in the town center:
- on the vendor stone for 1 million gold. The stone will be available until Monday 12:00 shard time.
- on the raffle stone next to it, 10k gold per ticket. The raffles are scheduled every 6 hours (7 of them total) - Saturday 18:00, Sunday 0:00, 6:00,12:00, 18:00, and Monday 0:00 and 6:00 shard time.
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Upcoming Auction and IDOC.

Auction announced here: viewtopic.php?p=84973#p84973

IDOC - I mentioned recently that it might be on July 6th, but it wasn't until this monday that I sent out the notification emails, and there has to be at least 10 days between the emails and the actual IDOC, so this weekend would be too soon. Planning for it to be the following weekend, July 13th. If that will be the case, it will be announced at the start of the week.
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Grand Screenshot invitation!
I'm inviting you all this Saturday at 22:00 shard time. (The usual auction time actually, which is 6pm US eastern, 5pm central, 3pm pacific; midnight for central Europe; 8am Sunday morning for most Australians).

Just a quick get-together at the town center, there will be fireworks, and we'll take a screenshot for my daughter Evelyn.
There will also be a free give-away - an evelyn-themed addon :)
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Forum rules refresher: No hijacking threads and no Doomposting.

There was recently another thread that went completely offtopic into doomposting about this shard dying and so on. Recently there were several topics that got derailed like this, pretty much a monthly occurrence.

Now, I'm a big fan of free speech (growing up in the eastern bloc, not the really bad part, but I remember when I was a child I had to be particularly nice to certain people because they were in certain positions, ex-communist party etc... not bad people, but the whole system of corruption and blinding each other and lying to ourselves, really a waste of everyone's time).
And I don't like to be called a tyrant. And me removing posts and censoring does kind of make me a tyrant, I guess... But there's a big difference between being able to express your opinion about real-life things, where someone's right to clean water and food and education would be restricted. And in contrast, this forum, of a small community of players playing an old obscure game.
So... that topic just went way beyond what I would call grey area.

So from now on I will be enforcing 2 rules, and it's easier for me to do so by stating them here clearly:

- Threads needs to stay on topic of the original post. Some deviation that happens organically is allowed.

- No doomposting about how horrible this shard is and how it's dying. I've been hearing about it regularly since 2008 and I've let it be since I don't want to be a censoring tyrant, but basically nothing good has come of it.


I've been thinking about starting a topic that would be just for doomposting, to dish it all out. But I don't see any necessity for that, or anything good coming out of that. It's basically a very small handful of players that would want to participate, and it wouldn't add to anything good. While there's about a hundred active players (and possibly hundreds of daily active users, some cheaters with multiple accounts in the mix probably) that are just liking the game here and having a good relaxing time.
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Server connection is currently unstable.
Earlier the server went offline completely, and the issue was addressed, but it seems that it was more of a quick-fix while the underlying issue is still there, so now the server is disconnecting at random times, or hitting pockets of very long lag spikes.
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There is a plan to add a few things to the halloween vendor stone (currency of Halloween Supplies Token). Pumpkin seeds, and new addons made by our deco team. Was earmarked for this Friday, but the server lag spikes got in the way, so it will be sometime next week. Prices yet to be calculated and figured out.

(Monday is earmarked for the new server to be configured and moved to,Tuesday I have plans IRL... maybe there will be a little time during these things, or later in the week then).
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We are currently running on the "buggy" server, the lag spikes might return soon or maybe they won't be here for another day.
I have a fresh server ready to go, but needs some more configuration, so we'll probably move there on Monday evening (tomorrow).
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Still on the old "buggy" server, though fortunately the lag spikes haven't returned yet.
There were some complications with the setup of the new server, just random errors and frustrations.
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Pumpkin seeds are now available!

At the Lykosorian provisioner, a seed for 12 halloween supplies tokens.
They are an easy-level crop, and a fast growing one too. Once you plant it, it will start producing pumpkins after 10 minutes, and reaches full capacity and lifetime production about 45 minutes after being planted. Don't try to harvest the pumpkins as soon as any become available - let them grow, and then you have a chance of growing a big pumpkin. The graphic of the crop doesn't change when a big pumpkin is available, you'll just get one when you harvest them.
You can eat the pumpkins, both regular and the large ones.
The chance of a large pumpkin is about one in every 8 seeds planted. Once you get it, use the pumpkin carving kit to carve it out. There are 9 different styles available.


There's a forum thread related to the pumpkins already open:
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Temporary issue: the pumpkins display that it's a temporary item, and they are, as they would decay 30 days after being picked. I'll remove the temporary-ness, since the seeds were priced with consideration that the pumpkins will be permanent.
(If I remember the reasoning behind this when we were making this quest, the pumpkins in real life usually rot during november and next year we grow and carve new ones. Perhaps to make it compatible with the old idea, there could be 2 types of seeds - the regular harvest-quest ones that make temporary pumpkins, and these bought ones. Well, since the seeds being sold on the NPC is a temporary solution, perhaps all pumpkins in the future years might just be regular, decaying after 30 days, but maybe there could be a jack'o'lantern-preservation-kit sold for the halloween supplies tokens).
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There are 5 new addons for sale on the Lykosorean provisioner, at the entrance to the Halloween dungeon.


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The Halloween dungeon will be open for an extra week, and is scheduled to close on November 10th at 23:59 shard time.

The expiration time of Halloween-supplies-tokens will be changed, so that they will expire a few days after the dungeon's closing.

This is mostly because of the technical issues (lag spikes earlier in the month, an odd glitch today) and also because of the new items on the Lykosorean provisioner, so you have more time to get what you need.
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Donation bonus just started! Get the Personal World Teleporter as a bonus with a donation of 40 EUR or more, also double dyetubs! (the bonus item is limited to one per account).

More info is written in the book in the ED room, and on www.uoex.net/donations
The bonus will be active for a week, until November 25th. This bonus is well-announced, it won't be extended for another week :)
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Footprints effect bug "That has to be in your backpack.".
There's a bug in the verification for whether they are in your backpack or not, the verification is inverse. To activate or deactivate your footprints, just drop them on the floor or in your bank box, and doubleclick, and it will work.
This will be fixed in the next restart (which won't be for another few days).
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