Classical music and a forum update

Like the title says, just some musings. I was going through my archives of music, bits and pieces of which I haven't touched in the longest time after my deep-sea dive into truly good hip-hop, and stumbled across my classical music collection. So I found the videos, which you can see below, to what I think is some of the livest classical music that you can get your hands on. The first is particularly lively; the second more sombre, but amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OloXRhesab0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HpNHhRdiOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g

And this is a special mention. Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSdLGd4jsQ

Now as for the update. This update will also be featured on the newsletter, but it got installed yesterday and it's good enough to mention today. The Experience MOD has been installed. This gives users levels, points, rankings, and coming soon trophies and awards for their activity.

It's important to mention that this is only counting IC posts, so your post count does not reflect your experience level and spamming OOC threads and boards won't impact it at all. We are still tinkering with how many points to give for what, but that shouldn't stop you from going out there and racking up points anyway.

You get points for posting, for starting threads, and even for views on your thread.

Another thing to note is that this MOD is, to date, only counting the Valucre Canon (Terrenus, Genesaris, Tellus Mater) and Itoryn. For those of you wondering why not tabulate other boards, Damon made a posting on this which I'll quote below.

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"a. Forum clutter. I want to separate the OOC from the IC in the Other sections before we count them, if we count them, as right now even the current set up is probably going to change. Valucre in general needs some cleaning up, though.

b. The modification isn't a post count. We already have a post count. It's a point system. The points are meant to be used. Which boards get counted depends on whatever we decide the points should be used on (we're looking at a shop of some kind). Maybe we'll decide to just use it as a post count marker in the end, but right now we hope we can make it more purposeful than that. Example time! Itoryn uses a pseudo-RPG system (feel free to imagine Itoryn as any tabletop RPG played online if it helps, such as D&D). It, as a board, would benefit from using this. If Itoryn is given a shop system, then why should posts not made in Itoryn be used to affect Itoryn?

c. The solution to the above problem—why does only Itoryn get a shop (or points) and not my role play?—is multiple currencies. We'd like each section to have it's own (The Dead, Itoryn, Artifacture, Gaian Academy, any of the Other boards) special points. How will this be handled? No idea! The modification we are using is in beta. Multiple modifications, also in beta, will be released over the next month, which will be compatible with the points modification we are using now. Until I actually see what this smorgasbord of add-ons actually does.

This goal is likely too high of an expectation to turn out as we hope, so see a. Forum clutter, b. Maybe we'll just use it as a post count marker in the end; and expect Other to be counted soon, but maybe not permanently depending on what we decide to do."

Posted by Carlos (supernal)