Suzerain

I vote for the name 'Everyst'.

We have done lots of research, and thus far have not seen any evidence of reptilian frap-ray EMPs. At this moment we do not consider it to be a risk. Should something of this nature arise, we aren't worried, though. That is something the government will be able to handle, we are sure. Thank you for showing an interest and asking important questions none the less.

Go Fund Me Link:https://www.gofundme.com/everyst-legacy So as many of you know, Everyst has been shut down by 'B'. We have a solution to this problem, but we need your help. So long as we are tied to the public internet, we remain subject to the whims of big business. So that is why we have come up with a solution. We have hired a consultant from SpaceX to help us pick parts and design a satellite that is oriented towards hosting Everyst. With this, no one will be able to shut us down (Please view the Go Fund Me link at the top or bottom of this post for more information). This is a big step for us as a community, and we are proud to be the first to come up with and execute this idea. However, we can only do it with your help. IT IS TIME WE TAKE THE FUTURE INTO OUR OWN HANDS. https://www.gofundme.com/everyst-legacy

My dearest friends, it has been an excellent few months. Working on this project has been one of the highlights of my life. However, it is time that my story ends here. To understand my decision, you must know a bit about my life. 8 years ago, I contracted an unknown, incurable eye disease. Every day of my life is filled with physical pain to the point that I cannot leave my home without being rendered unable to open my eyes. While there are very very few things left that I can physically do on the computer, working on this project was one of them. However, you must understand that due to the circumstances of my life, I do suffer quite a bit from depression. When Elysium was still small, there was far less to worry about. I spent most of my time interacting with players and guilds, acting as an intermediary for the players and staff. After all, this is what I enjoyed the most. It is how I met many of the players that I today call my friends. However, as we merged, it became apparent I would have to take on a more serious position within the core team and helping to steer the ship through the storm. This was not my original intention with joining the project. I never had aspirations of doing more than giving the players a positive environment where their voices could be heard. As many of you know, our active population increased by over 40x, and no longer could I hear the individuals. In fact, most of the communication I began to receive from the community at this point was anger, insults, and hatred. I quickly began to realize that this was no longer a position I was interested in holding. However, in the end, I continued on. I knew it would be a hard journey to steer that ship into port, and I could not leave my teammates to do so alone. Ultimately though, I have not come out unscathed. The pressures to satisfy such a large community, to perform my tasks, to cover every angle of this project as to not make a mistake... all while the only reward I am given is a huge sacrifice of time, money, hatred, ingratitude, and the multitude of daggers in the dark from every direction... it has taken it's toll on me. Combined with the depression I have to fight due to my confinement, I find myself dealing with more than I can bare. For that, I am sorry. I am sorry that I am not able to continue on, and provide you with this service. For my weakness, I hope you all will forgive me. I also hope you will take my words to heart. All that the Elysium Team does, they do for you. There is no profit for them. You can treat them with respect, and they will do their job with pride. You can harass their every move, and they will take every step forward with a feeling of dread. The choice is yours whether or not they will enjoy the service they provide for you. Despite the grim circumstances, I will always remember my time here with you all for as long as I live. As I said, I have made many friends, both within the staff and amongst the players. While I will no longer be using my reddit or forum accounts, I will maintain my discord account (Suzerain#2804), so don't be a stranger. I plan on playing on one of the upcoming TBC servers, so perhaps we will meet some time in the Outlands. I consider my memories, my friends, and this goodbye to be my sole reward for the time I have dedicated, and it is more than I deserve. Farewell, Suzerain Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElysiumProject/comments/5pk5le/suzerains_resignation/

Dear Community, Let us discuss what has caused this downtime in complete disclosure. Two days ago a player on our server received a gift of an unusually large amount of gold. We were instantly made aware of this, began our investigation and quickly discovered that the gold was not genuine. Last night, we found an issue with the hardware and decided shut down for unscheduled maintenance. A little while after, our investigation on the gold showed us that an individual gained access to an account with modification privileges on the Anathema character database. As a result, we decided to immediately shut down all of our services to evaluate the damages, their extent and if this individual had more access. Our System Admin and devs have isolating the breach, revamped our security, and reverted alterations. There was a lot of data to sift through and Anathema PvP is still under some investigation. Preferring to remain safer than sorry, we have kept the servers down until this afternoon to ensure beyond a shadow of a doubt that all is well. Anathema will return as soon as we are comfortable. Before anyone starts to panic: We have secured the breach. Your data is safe (use the .account password command in-game to change your password, just in case), and any damage done has been discovered and reverted with no need for a rollback. We have made contact with the individuals whom gained access, and they did not have the intention of harming us. Rather, they were more interested in testing our security measures. In fact, they have agreed to help us to find any remaining security breaches. As a result, we welcome Auya to the Elysium team who is tasked with making sure we are never in this position, ever again! All in all, it has been a crazy 24 hours, but everything seems to be in hand. We will take further steps to secure our system as best as possible. While we very much doubt there will be any further issues from this event, we will let you know immediately if any should arise. The community is our primary concern, and we will not let pride prevent us from telling you the truth. Should we get ANY hint of a database leak, we will let you know immediately. However, as of now, we have no reason to be concerned this is the case. We will, though, take this opportunity to once again stress the importance of enabling your two-factor authentication. No matter what kind of attacks we may suffer now or in the future, 2FA will secure your account. We thank you for your patience with us during the downtime, and hope today’s adventures in the world of Azeroth will make up for the time lost! Elysium Staff

Your guild mate purchased 318 gold on Dec 31st via three separate transactions for 106g each, selling items like ZG coins and Greater Astral Essence. He then must have felt very secure in his account because he also bought another 1,484 gold on January 2nd via 14 separate transactions, also for 106g each, selling items like ZG coins again and other random low level greens and enchanting materials. Items that sell for 1g or less do not suddenly get bought for 106g. Both sets of auction house purchases were bought by two identified and banned gold sellers, and Lefara was discovered and banned as we were investigating all of their “customers”. So far, we have had dozens and dozens of posts of people claiming to be falsely banned, here and on Reddit. So far, of these appeals that have been reviewed have all resulted in 100% confirmation of the ban's authenticity. I know these people are your friends, but they will do/say anything to get their accounts back and shift the blame. Sorry for the loss of a guildmate, but we cannot tolerate these actions.

Greetings! Today we have posted the timelines for Nostalrius PvP & PvE servers. The Elysium PvP timeline will come closer to launch. You can find the link to the timeline here

The rules are simple! You and your faction will work towards capturing the 5 designated points. We have made some images for you to help in your struggle. Additionally, there will be statistics on what percentage of people are playing which faction. You can find these stats on the status page (https://elysium-project.org/status) Please use this to balance the factions to 50/50. Furthermore, you will not have access to any flight paths. Make use of the boats, and be sure to hold the harbors as strategic points! May the best faction win! Here are each of the points you much capture: Southshore, Tarren Mill, Blackrock Mountain, Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro, and the Gurubashi Arena.

You can't log in because you're not part of the staff. It's the STAFF test realm. =) It's the only server you can choose. However, you can edit your WTF/Config.wtf file and remove the bit that says SET Realm "Staff test realm" and save it, while your client is closed.

For this stress test, we're having an event. We have spawned multiple 'boss mobs' in various places around the world! It is our hope you will band together to defeat each foe. The reason we are doing this is so you will all spread out through the zones, in order to reduce the amount of lag. Good luck to you all! Edwin VanCleef in the Gurubashi Arena Cookie on the road just before Darkshire Really scary deer in Westfall Spooky scary skeleton north of Crossroads Kresh the big ol' turtle on the Auberdine docks Singe the not-so-baby whelp on the bridge of Silverpine Forest's lake Licillin in the road's fork of Nightsong in Ashenvale And the most difficult of them all... The Hammerhead Shark of Loch Modan! You will be able to distinguish all of these NPCs as they are larger than normal to signify their badassery! Oh, and some of them breathe fire.

Another private server (we have suspicions as to which, but nothing concrete) has had their password database leaked or sold. What this means, is that if you used a password on that server and also use it on Elysium, your account WILL BE COMPROMISED. Today, several players had their accounts compromised because they used the same info on Elysium as they used on other servers. The only way to assure your safety is to change your password IMMEDIATELY. Please use a 100% unique password on our server. Rest assured that our database has not been touched and is completely safe and encrypted. These attacks have only occurred because the victims used the same login/password on multiple servers. The individuals who got into the player's accounts have been found and everything he stole has been frozen. We will continue to combat such things in any way we can, but there is no way we can combat players leaving their accounts insecure! tl;dr - Use a unique password or you might lose everything! Keep Vigilant, Elysium Staff

Scatfreak, despite his name, will always be remembered a hero.

Random DDoS attacks are almost always the answer. We are always working to prevent them. We could, as you say, update the thread,... but it would mostly be the same things repeated throughout. That is to say, there would be little (if any) new information in such updates.

Greetings! The devs were doing some heavy work on the server today, which is what has been causing some lag. If you're referring to connection issues, you'll have to look under announcements for our post on DDoS attacks.

Greetings Hotdwarf, We found very suspicious behaviour that follow a pattern we detected for gold sellers and your actions clearly show that you wanted to hide something. I will not dive into more information that could harm our detection methods. I'm sure we'll see each other again. Regards, Suzerain