Tagged News: daoc

The latest Grab Bag is available. Focusing on questions from the official forums and announcements from the developers, here's a teaser:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 10th as that is the date of the next Camelot Road Trip! We will be in Bethesda, Maryland giving away prizes, answering your questions and snacking on some great food. If you think you might be able to attend, please RSVP so we can make sure to order enough snacks. The fun starts at 7:00pm EST and we look forward to seeing you there.

Do you have a friend who deserves to shine in the spotlight? Does your guild or alliance have something interesting to say? Don't forget about the Scroll of Valor and Guild News. The Scroll honors your friends and guildies for their accomplishments in game, and Guild News is great for getting the word out about recruiting and guild events and accomplishments. Send in your submissions today!

The St. Patrick's Day quests have begun today and are in full swing! The leprechauns have told me that the quests will only be available until March 28th so there is no time like the present to get out there and start them.

Have a great weekend everyone. If you plan on drinking, please stay safe and don't drive.

Enjoy!

EA Mythic is performing an analysis of the Realm vs Realm conflict that fuels the gameplay of Dark Age of Camelot. Players will have a chance to participate in this analysis by answering a new poll that may well have an impact on the future of the game's central conflict. The poll is as follows:

The Dark Age of Camelot team is currently going through a detailed analysis of New Frontiers. Please select the option that best describes your feeling about the New Frontiers territory:

• I do not wish to answer this poll.
• New Frontiers is just fine.
• Keep New Frontiers, but reduce the size of the region.
• Keep New Frontiers, but cluster it across all servers.
• Get rid of New Frontiers. I want a new area, smaller than New Frontiers but larger than a battleground.
• I don't care what the territory is; just give me more things to do while I'm there.
• I have no preferences with regard to the RvR territory.
• I do not see my option on this list.

All current Dark Age players can hop in-game to answer this poll.

For those of you who love to decorate your houses in Dark Age of Camelot, a new contest has just been announced that you will love. Prizes for each realm will be a trophy of your choice presented by Missy and Joanne.

Rules

Decorate your cottage, house, villa or mansion inside and out for your favorite winter holiday. Take 3 screenshots of the various highlights of your house and write a short paragraph explaining what holiday you have decorated for as well as key points that you want us to see.

* All submissions must have a PG rating. Please keep it clean.
* No interface. This includes chat windows, quick bars, etc. (The default to toggle the interface is the "tab" key. If that does not work for you, please look in /keyboard to determine what yours is set at.
* No screenshot modification. (Please do not use any image editors to enhance your screenshots.)
* All submissions must remain decorated as seen in the screenshots until the winners have been announced.
* Your character must be the owner of the house. For a Guild House, your character must be in that guild. Please note: We will only consider one entry for a house.

Be creative! This is a winter holiday theme decorating contest. You can use conventional winter celebrations or make up your own! Judges will be looking at the indoor/outdoor of your house, creativity and of course the use of any decorations you can find.

Click "Read More" to see all the contest rules and prizes.

If you're planning on logging into the Dark Age of Camelot test server, Pendragon, and find that you are unable to do so, fear not, if you are currently running the Trials of Atlantis client then your problem can be easily fixed.

Heads up! Pendragon [is being brought down] in order to disable the Trials of Atlantis client and for related code adjustments . This is in preparation for the removal of the client from Live servers when 1.91 goes live. If you currently use the Trials of Atlantis client and plan to log into Pendragon ... then download the Catacombs client.

You can download the Catacombs client for free here.

Recently, Dark Age of Camelot held a costume contest for interested players as a way of celebrating October 31st. The entries have been looked over and the winners announced.

Thank you to everyone who entered our Camelot Haunting costume contest. What a fantastic time we've had judging the outfits. Congratulations to everyone!

You can take a look at the winners here.

The bonuses received for playing certain races on certain servers have been adjusted. Check out the new bonuses.

Population bonuses for Bossiney, Devon and Killibury have been adjusted. Starting today, here are the new bonuses:

These changes are currently live:

Bossiney: Midgard (7 days), Hibernia (7 days), Albion (3 days)

Devon: Hibernia (7 days), Albion (5 days), Midgard (3 days)

Killibury: Albion (7 days), Hibernia (5 days), Midgard (5 days)

Please checkout our Population Bonuses page for more details.

Please Note: When a Population Bonus is changed, it alters every Free Level Timer on the Cluster. In Game Support can not verify your old timer, or alter your current timer. We're sorry for the inconvenience!

You can see these adjustments over at the Camelot Herald.

With the new combat style changes coming, a new guide has been posted with all the details.

The following is a list that we have provided for your convenience while testing the style changes that we introduced to Pendragon in 1.91 a, b, and c. This list is by no means finalized and your input is encouraged while we continue to make adjustments. Other styles are currently in the works. As always, we appreciate your feedback! Please use the feedback form and select Class Balance from the dropdown menu. Thanks!

You can see all the changes over at the Camelot Herald.

Chris Rabideau, a producer over at EA Mythic, has released a statement to the Dark Age of Camelot community regarding the recent 6th anniversary milestone for the game. It does quite a bit to sum up a lot of the games history and really let you see how it has developed and what is in store for the future.

It's been six truly wonderful years since Dark Age of Camelot first opened its servers to the hungry Realm versus Realm masses; six years of high intensity melee combat and countless magical explosions on the battlefields of the Frontiers; six years of the deadliest and most compelling siege warfare ever seen in any live MMO to date.

Six years and still counting.

You can view the full article by clicking 'read more' below.

In other news concerning Turbine, we have found out that Walt Yarbrough has been hired by Turbine to produce a still unnamed title for the company. Walt was the Producer for EA Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot, and later Ultima Online. This was quite a move for Walt who had been with Mythic since 2000, and the launch of DAOC. According to his Linkedin profile, he is now the Executive Producer of an unannounced title, and the Acting Senior Producer for Lord of The Rings Online.

We still don't know anything about the upcoming title, however it has been hinted at before. In our interview with Jeff Anderson (now ex CEO of Turbine) at AGDC, Jeff hinted at new projects. It would seem that they are looking at new titles sooner rather than later.

Lots of changes over at Turbine today! What are your thoughts on the happenings?

For Dark Age players who are still running the four year-old Trials of Atlantis client, you may want to plan for an upgrade in the near future. EA Mythic will be phasing the ToA client out with the launch of version 1.91.

The Trials of Atlantis client is now four years old. After careful evaluation, we have determined that it is time to phase out this older engine. The "phase out" will occur with the launch of version 1.91.

You can view the full article by clicking 'read more' below.