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)

Fresh to Death and Other Updates

Valucre's Fresh to Death tournament.

The Fresh to Death Tournament is well underway, and we've progressed about halfway through the first round. I'm excited as a judge because we haven't really been called in yet, which is a huge plus. We always prefer when players are able to sort out their problems among themselves as opposed to getting the judges involved.

That said, I'm pretty disappointed about the number of disqualifications going on. There have been two legitimate time-DQs and one DQ/TKO (I'm not really sure?) As of right now, a few players are over the time limit, but we're being lenient since it's still early in the tournament.

In fact, the time limit thing was something I wanted to also discuss. Some people have messaged me saying their opponent has gone over the time limit, when it was only for a few hours. Note that we don't enforce strict time limits because someone might have had something happen where they can't post or they might just not have realized that it was their turn. The tournament is about T1 prowess, not posting reliability. The purpose of the time limits is just to ensure that everything moves forward - there is no honor in winning by disqualification.

By the way, has everyone seen the Fedor loss? That's insane and I'm still in shock that it happened.

Post by James (Traxien Cion)