Aurigon

Judging by today's announcement, it would seem this poll and the will of the majority of players here are going to be disregarded by the admins, and Nighthaven will remain a fast-paced progression realm. Oh well.

Well after the poll has been there for nearly 3 months now, I seriously doubt anyone can expect the results to be reverted. 1) It's a poll, it's supposed to provide an insight to the general thoughts, not to poll each and every active player (that's never gonna happen anyway). 2) The most voted option has nearly twice the votes of the second one and it's been like this since the beginning, it's not like they're few .1%s apart... so the final picture is clear and not gonna change, regardless of how much more time you're gonna give it. 3) The longer you stick to the original timeline, the more you're disregarding THAT result. Stratholme was very short lived, if memory serves me well it didn't last longer than a month back in November (it was shut down in the early days of December 2017). Nighthaven is the only available realm from this project.

So, the result from the poll is clear... have they come to a final decision in the end?

Imho, having a customizable XP rate of 2x over a 2 year, classic timeline, OR halved progression span entirely at 1x, is pretty much the same thing. It stinks of custom, fun crap any way you look at it. It's true they did announce Nighthaven as a fast progressing realm, yet this change of route is clearly being evaluated in the prospect of appealing to more casual players (that is everyone who has a life/family/full time job, that is most old time Vanilla veterans). On top of that, Vanilla had a span of 2 years, and that is a major part of what makes a serious BLIZZLIKE Vanilla realm, to me at least. A realm that's advertised as blizzlike AND fast progression, is a contradiction. They are going to fix that now, hopefully. Sure, this change would turn away a few nolif... err, RMTers... err, "players" who already were BiS a week after launch. But it would also make others (many more in fact, according to me) join the fun, increasing the realm numbers. It perfectly makes sense, from both a strategical standpoint and in a long-term perspective. +1 for slower (2-year) progression.

Five years in the WoW legacy scene. 6.500 registered accounts. Members from 90 different nations from all over the globe. The largest community on all previous realms, and still respected like few other. Possibly the most organized guild in the history of World of Warcraft. Greetings! My ingame name is Moradinn, I am the leader and founder of the Alliance guild of mature players, the oldest one on the realm (established on 31 October 2012 on the grandfather of all 1x Vanilla WoW realms, Emerald Dream @Feenix, R.I.P.), as well as the most active, and heavily structured. In fact we enjoy a slightly militarist setup, despite our overall laidback attitude. We are an international guild, hence english is the only language allowed in guild chat. Me and my Officers strive to maintain a friendly community, where all of its members can fully enjoy what is probably the best game ever made. Our 2nd Guild Anniversary Meeting in the Military Ward of Ironforge, Emerald Dream realm, 13 January 2015. Everyone is welcome to join, long as they can live with our rules, listed here, and that are supposed to be respected even (if not ESPECIALLY) when dealing with members from other guilds or unguilded players: 1) Do not scam 2) Do not ninja loot 3) Do not be rude 4) Do not ditch groups 5) Do not troll/spam 6) Do not flame 7) Do not abuse 8) Do not make a fuss/drama 9) Do not reserve items 10) Speak english Your playtime, as well as your time of play, does not really matter: you will always find various Stormlords on for you to play with, whenever you log in. Chances are good that, as we grow in numbers, we will also be able to organize raids for specific time frames, so that EU and US players, for instance, will both have their chance to raid at their respective times and with their respective leaders. As you can guess by the general look of our site, we give much attention to detail, as much as Blizzard itself used to do once, when this game hit the shelves. We try to incarnate the spirit itself from the first World of Warcraft: a game easy to learn, difficult to master. Things in our guild work likewise: you are easily in, yet only the most committed and loyal players will make themselves up to the highest ranks. Should we describe our guild with but one word, that one would probably be organization. Some of our members have been/are in their national armed forces, so we took advantage of that by implementing features in our guild and website structure which will unlock for members as they progress through our ranks, pretty much like in most of the military: this basically means that everything you will do while in our ranks, be it good or bad, will be kept track of. Meritocracy to the highest degree. Besides, unlike other guilds, that either have a good-looking website to merely please the eye (when they do have a website at all), or a roughly designed one just to provide their members with a page to see their DKPs, we have a domain of our own, a totally ad-free website, a fully-fledged platform that offers several services to our members: a wide Arsenal for all Stormlords to gear up faster and more effectively, a Discord server to keep in touch with one another during downtimes, a tidily structured forum, events calendar, a public screenshots gallery, a Leveling Fund where guildies can obtain gold bonuses, and finally - hear ye hear ye - a Mount Fund for really deserving members. Most of the site sections are hidden to you (they are shown as CLASSIFIED), yet upon your sign up those will all become accessible, even though, as already stated, you will be granted access to more and more features as you progress through the guild ranks, and doing that requires, first of all, time. Our personal view about guilds as a whole revolves around the sense of community we share: we usually tend to consider ourselves as brothers in arms, and being that every team is as strong as its weakest player, we have to make sure that none of our members is left behind, the higher level characters helping the lowbies out through their leveling endeavor. This side of the game is deeply encouraged within our community: our specifically designed DKP system lets us take into account the actual contribution every Stormlord gives to the guild. The more help you lend to lowbies, the higher your ratings (and guild rank) will get. The higher your ratings, the better chances you will have to win loot. Should you choose to sign up (you can do that whenever you wish, by simply filling in the enlistment form provided under the Enlistment page), you will be able to learn further around all of this in very much detail. Our website features a monumental statute, within which every single aspect concerning how the guild is managed and how ratings are assigned to members is widely dealt with. For those of you who would like to learn a bit more before deciding whether our guild is suitable for them or not, here is some answers about the most common questions that arise. What does the Stormlords tabard look like? Is there any requirement to be able to join? How do I get an invite to join the Stormlords? What if no Officer is online? Is registration to the site mandatory? What benefits come from registering? What about current raid progression and schedule? What is the guild Arsenal? What is the Leveling Fund? What is the Mount Fund? What are these gold rewards? What about PvP activities and long term plans for the guild? Is the guild interested in open world PvP, or guild events in general? Will anything be asked of me, should I be some kind of casual-oriented player? Are alts allowed? IMPORTANT: if you are not a member of our guild and catch a Stormlord violating any of the rules listed above, you are welcome to take as many screenshots as needed and contact one of our Officers or, better yet, me personally, to report what happened. We, as a mature guild, devote ourselves towards the improvement of the community within the Alliance, and I would like to remark once more that we ask every member to go by said rules even (if not ESPECIALLY) when dealing with players outside of our guild. Likewise, you are welcome to report helpful members of ours as well: both you and the member you report shall be rewarded! Last but not least, here is a few screenshots of part of the positive feedback our guild has received on our previous realm, Kronos (you can find much more of it here): Thanks for your time, I hope to see you ingame... good luck and have fun!

With yesterday's hosted Molten Core PuG we managed to clear 3/10 of it (had to stop due to preset time expired). Our Main Tank, on his very first raid EVER, was able to obtain the first Bindings of the Windseeker. Now that is what you call being a predestined... The raid will continue next monday, at the same time: 7:00 PM (ST); Information about our raid progression and weekly raid schedule updated under the FAQ within the original post.

Yesterday's late afternoon/early evening we established our new online record since our move to Elysium, with 101 guildies online at the same time, beating our previous record of 96 from just two days ago; Later today we are hosting our very first Molten Core PuG, at 7:00 PM (ST). Loot system: MS > OS. All those willing to participate are welcome to show up in time and whisper Hoskar for invite; To all my italian brethren out there: with currently 20 active italian players in total we are pretty much the largest italian community within the Alliance, feel free to whisper myself (Moradinn) or any of my officers (Thranix, Rorszhach, Hardcorelife or Portya) if you would like to be added.

Aggiornamento dell'ultima ora Adesso nella mia gilda (<Stormlords>) siamo 20 italiani, tutti attivi... numero che a giusto titolo credo ci renda il gruppo di italiani più folto di tutta la fazione (Alleanza, non so se di tutto il realm), pur se sviluppatosi in seno ad una gilda internazionale (che comunque, vale la pena ricordare, sono io stesso ad aver fondato 5 anni fa e a dirigere tuttora). C'è stato un piccolo boom ultimamente, in quanto stiamo inglobando una gilda di soli italiani (<Gli Alcolizzati>) che ha avuto il buonsenso di ammettere la scarsità di prospettive future, specie col GM che - mi riferiscono - è passato al "nemico". Sottolineo quanto già detto nell'altro thread, ossia come ritenga sia questa la sola formula in grado di ottimizzare le chance di raidare in italiano in futuro, ossia partire da una base internazionale e sfruttarne la forza dei grandi numeri per farvi nascere un nucleo italiano all'interno, anziché partire schizzinosi con una gilda full ita che avrà il destino già segnato. Italiani a parte ormai abbiamo passato i 400 membri totali (giusto ieri abbiamo segnato il nostro record sul realm, con 101 (cento e uno) membri online contemporaneamente), quindi se anche un italiano fosse il solo compatriota online non sarebbe comunque solo, tutt'altro... e non trovandosi in un mortorio si sentirà più stimolato a continuare, anche in virtù del fatto che, italiani o meno, arrivato in fondo riuscirà comunque a raidare con gente con cui avrà intanto familiarizzato anziché sentirsi sperduto e rassegnarsi a cercare un'altra gilda. Come disse Andrea Bocelli... vedremo.

Ah peccato =) Al momento nella mia gilda siamo 20 italiani, tutti attivi... penso che siamo la community italiana più numerosa lato ally oramai, anzi ora lo vado a scrivere pure nell'altro topic che magari ha più followers

Ma dai! Sei tu? :D

During yesterday's evening, our guild managed to establish a new online record since we moved in here, last March: 96 online members at the same time! (The previous record, back in May, was 82.) We are currently at 60% capacity with guild spots. Everyone willing to join us should send a whisper to any of the following: Moradinn (myself), Azanulbizarr, Thranix, Rorszhach, Hardcorelife or Portya; We are glad to announce that our first Molten Core PuG will take place this thursday, 7 September, at 7 PM (Server Time).

Ciao Wulfrik, io sono su Elysium PvP però lato Alleanza, guido una gilda internazionale da quasi 5 anni con ancora un bel po' di veterani che dagli albori fanno parte dello 'zoccolo duro' quindi dal punto di vista di costanza e affidabilità sul lungo termine ce (me) la possono sucare più o meno tutti, chiedo venia per il francesismo lol Al momento di italiani siamo 6 membri registrati, contando anche quelli non registrati in gilda siamo tra i 10 e la 15ina ATTIVI... ma si tratta di una gilda internazionale quindi gente da tutto il mondo (siamo più di 350 in totale al momento, e tutti quanti attivi perché dopo 5 giorni offline sbatto fuori la gente che non mi ha comunicato una data di rientro)... anche a livello di organizzazione interna penso che possiamo tranquillamente mettere tutte le altre gilde in riga (basta vedere il nostro sito), proprio di recente ho dovuto creare una seconda gilda per far posto a tutti visto che nella prima eravamo pieni e la domanda per entrare da noi è altissima... l'unico nostro problema erano i 60 che ci mollavano per andare a raidare altrove ma ormai abbiamo i numeri per risolvere anche questo, e difatti il core si sta ora sviluppando Secondo me la formula vincente è questa, PRIMA si risolve il problema del numero di giocatori e ci si assicura di poter giocare i raid sulla lunga scadenza, e solo DOPO ci si può permettere di fare gli schizzinosi e provare a formare comunità monolingua in seno a questi; se abbastanza italiani confluiranno sotto un unico stendardo - quello della mia gilda - bene, abbiamo le risorse e i mezzi tecnici per sostenere molteplici raiding cores separati quindi anche uno italiano sarebbe bellissimo da avere, ma se così alla fine non dovesse essere pazienza, almeno né io né gli altri miei gildani italiani dipenderemo dai nostri amatissimi compatrioti per vedere l'endgame Io sono per raccogliere l'acqua dove piove, non di star fermo ad aspettare che la pioggia venga da me... se non hai problemi a cambiare fazione noi siamo gli <Stormlords>, io ingame sono Moradinn, giusto ieri ho reclutato un altro italiano che 11 anni fa su Crushridge con i <Rage Quid> (seconda gilda del realm dopo i <Fremen>) avevano fatto secchi i Quattro Cavalieri, vale a dire i penultimi boss di Naxxramas (giusto per capirci) Comunque direi di non frammentarci pure sul forum, cazzo c'è già un altro thread aperto da più tempo sull'argomento quindi direi di spostarci là... almeno in questo rimaniamo sotto lo stesso tetto miseria bastardaaaaa

This is the guild subforum, not the place to look for language based communities. Here you go, use the search tool next time ;)

Our guild has been successfully expanded to double up its normal capacity (from 321 to 642 spots); our recruitment is now open again with no further need for people to wait in queue! Those who would like to be invited right away are free to whisper my alt, Incanuss, whenever they wish; The new influx of players has currently brought us between the 10th and 11th position within the top Alliance guilds by XP.

Just wait until the least progressed realm (aka Elysium PvP) gets on par with the rest, only then >> launch the TBC realm >> profit. That way the community will be united, highly populated and thriving and there's not gonna be conflicts of sorts between worid first racers and whatnot.

We are currently stable at position #15 among the Alliance guilds by total XP (although we appear as #3 overall and #1 between the Alliance guilds here). Here we come China... We are in the process of evaluating possible times for our future raid schedule, and have a candidate Raid Leader in his final stage of leveling; We are generally not accepting alts anymore, exceptions are only made for high ranked members and under the condition that their alts are actively played and leveled up; We are receiving awesome feedback by the community on a daily base, thanks everyone who appreciates what we are trying to accomplish and especially those who are actively working towards that goal; We are being literally swarmed by requests to join that we cannot grant. Right now and for the rest of this month (August 2017), the best way to enter our ranks is by sending this form and being added to our waiting list; Our apologies to all those we have to turn down. Plans to expand are currently being worked on, by the next 1st of September we promise each and every one of you will have a spot assured.

Lol... controlla l'annuncio che hanno fatto un'oretta fa xD

Sono attivo, ma sono Moradinn non Morradin (server Elysium PvP, lato ally, capogilda degli <Stormlords> da 5 anni bla bla bla) Sono mancato 3 settimane/un mesetto a luglio per esigenze lavorative (Marina Militare), ora ci sono... ho ripreso a livellare da pochissimo, la maggior parte del tempo online lo occupo gestendo la gilda, tra reclutamenti, promozioni, gestione della banca, pubbliche relazioni, rimozione inattivi, aggiornamento del sito... non gioco a WoW, gioco a Guild Manager 2017 lol Quanto all'equip ultralusso che ho, viste le mie tempistiche mi sono divertito a giocare sull'AH, cecchinando e speculando, e una plusvalenza dopo l'altra ho messo da parte montagne d'oro e pezzi da twink da qua a tutti i livelli finali... pensate a me come al Mino Raiola della situazione, che parte pizzaiolo e diventa procuratore di top players ihihih... ovviamente ci vuole conoscenza del mercato, strumenti adatti (un addon come Aux è indispensabile), pazienza e un pizzico di deretano Ora, da quel che ho visto e vedo tuttora, il problema di noi italiani è come al solito la disorganizzazione... la nostra dispersione ne è una conseguenza (poi vabbè ne parla pure l'inno nazionale... 'sta roba è un po' nel nostro codice genetico). Un forum aiuta, sì, ma un paio di thread con post a intervalli anche di settimane sono troppo dispersivi Perché nessuno si è preso la briga di metter su un server Discord, dove tutti potrebbero entrare senza vincoli di gilda, fazione e perfino reame? Perché nessuno ha creato e tenuto aggiornato un thread con l'elenco di tutti gli italiani trovati dal proprio lato (e io lo sto per fare, al prossimo down del server, almeno il mio censimento servirà a qualcosa... si spera), così chi arrivasse si farebbe subito un'idea di chi, cosa e dove cercare senza spulciare tra pagine e post

Our guild has now reached the Elysium membership cap (321 members), thus entering Limited Recruitment Mode: we will only be able to invite new players as spots are made available by leavers and/or removed inactives; We are letting people who should submit our Enlistment Form enter a waiting list for the following 5 (five) days: they will be added to my friends list ingame and, whenever there should be spots available, I will check that first and invite them if found online. After 5 days, said forms expire and are therefore cancelled; The maximum offline period allowed to non-registered guildies (rank: Squire) is 5 days. Longer periods are only available to registered members upon request. One doesn't simply join the Stormlords.

Non fosse che per il nome un po' cartoonesco... =P Quanti giocatori online riuscite a fare al momento? Immagino che di quegli 80 una fetta sia inattiva, almeno così fu per la mia gilda ally quando ancora era di soli italiani. Dopo un mese che eravamo una 40ina ma con più della metà inattivi io ho gettato la spugna e riaperto agli stranieri, ma continuo a segnarmi tutti gli italiani dell'Alleanza in cui mi imbatto, ed ora ho una lista di quasi 70 nomi... se qualcuno volesse rifare un tentativo da questa parte sarei ben disposto a inviargliela, immagino sarebbe meglio di niente come punto di partenza. Io per ora sono fuori, porto avanti la mia gilda creata ormai quasi 5 anni fa, e in futuro chissà. Complimenti e in bocca al lupo per tutto (è il caso di dirlo)!

Scusa ma com'è che riesci a scrivere sul forum qui e non a registrare un account? Fartelo fare da un altro è il preludio alle migliori fregature...

Guild rule number 9 changed. New rule: Do not reserve items. Our guild is enforcing this in accordance to our policy of fair play, we have nothing against outsiders who follow this practice (or guildies who should join them at all), but Stormlords members are not allowed to reserve anything when looking for groups; Due to my absence for work over the first decade of August, requests for invite should be addressed to Gnoamchomsky, Polnoch, Drakovics, Frozenwinter and Zadezero.

Hey shir, an idea that's just come to me to allow and make practical to implement localized versions: why not "centralizing" all text for buttons and tabs in a single .lua, separated from the rest, called "language.lua" or whatever? Pretty much like all addons that support translations do. That way any update would be safe to download and overwrite just what's needed, without messing up the lines with localized text (and localizations would also be extremely easier to do). I guess it shouldn't be too hard nor complex for you to do, but then again I'm not that much into coding to be 100% sure about its simplicity (or even actual feasibility).

Sono d'accordo, semplicemente ho tralasciato di prendere misure in quel senso sia perché comunque la gilda è relativamente giovane sul realm ed è quindi ancora una gilda di livellanti (per cui non serve ancora chi ne coordini lo sviluppo su base giornaliera) sia perché avendo raggiunto il tetto massimo coi membri non è nulla di che se i numeri si sfoltiscono un po'