For a bit of early April fun, we have a few servers distributing random gear again!

Just join an NI_April_ server with a few or all of your equipment slots empty and you will get random weapons, armor, or support items.  Slots that you choose to equip yourself will get whatever you equip.  Don't worry about getting arrows but no bow - items like that are paired together.

NI_April_EU1 and NA1 are normal mode, NI_April_EU2 and NA2 are hard mode, and NI_April_DM_EU and NA are deathmatch.

The loadouts can get quite silly so have fun!

- Kip and the NI Team

Hello all,

We have done a bit of reworking regarding the NordInvasion team structure.


New Groups

As you might have noticed on the forum index, our worker groups have been combined into Contributor and Major Contributor and we have a new Senior Developer group.

Contributors are those who have done a notable amount of modeling, texturing, or scening work specifically for NordInvasion.
Major Contributors are those who have done a considerable amount of work.
Anyone who has contributed to the mod, regardless of being a group member, is appreciated and eligible for mention on our about page.

Developers are those who are an integral part of the development process and directly modify the mod.
Senior Developers are long-standing developers who also are administrators.


New Developers

We would also like to take this opportunity to officially welcome two new developers to the team: YuriTheRed and Thatsmybanana.

Yuri is joining our Senior Developer, K4mi, to work on the game code. The exact details of what they are working on will of course be revealed in time.

Thatsmybanana is handling models and textures. Anyone wishing to contribute models or textures to the game should speak with him and indeed, we welcome you all to do so.

- Kip & the NordInvasion team.

Hello!

Item colors might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about website design but they are something you see every time you check your inventory.

It has been a long while since we last adjusted them but that changes now.

We have added more categories to make it easier to see what you have at a glance and have swapped a few of the colors to group them better.

For details about which category has which color, please refer to our wiki: Equipment: Item Quality

If you see an item that does not fit the group properly, let us know!

- Kip and the developer team

All services are now back online


In order to further improve the systems that run NI we are scheduling some downtime on Saturday morning GMT.

Follow us on twitter for the fastest updates: https://twitter.com/NordInvasion

Times

0900 - 2200 GMT/UTC (hopefully - sorry its taking longer than expected!)
[convert to my timezone]


What is happening

We are doing some massive upgrades with a view to increasing the performance of the systems, specifically the database.

This is likely to last a couple of hours as it will involve massive backups and reshuffling of systems and data. During this time all EU servers, websites and databases will be offline. This also means that no equipment or loot will be handed out to players on AU or NA servers. Additionally the primary teamspeak server will be offline. We may have a backup working - check back here for details as we will keep you posted if it's available.

When the services are back up we will update this thread, IRC and the forum as a whole. I have included a chart to help users understand the impact.


Downtime Systems Affected:

Hi all. Happy New Year again! Back by popular demand I have decided to pull together some stats like I did last year so here we go with 10 interesting stats, some the same and some different.

20.2 Million Pages
That's over 55,000 pages served up every day this year and an increase of over half a million!

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
Crafting remains the most popular page after the character page. The redesigned auction hall however has seen a surge in its popularity and was the most popular page in December.

Region 1 baby
The source regions remain the same with USA taking the number one spot over Germany followed by the UK, Australia and Poland fill the top five. When split into sub continent however Western Europe easily trumps over North America followed by North and then Eastern Europe. Australia props up the bottom of the top 5.

22,000
You guys certainly created a huge number of characters although people are clearly much more content with their characters with a drop in 4,000.

143,000
To me! To you! To me! To you! Trading is on the up with over 23,000 extra trades set up this year.

The iPhone remains king
Although desktop users demolish mobile users (over 90% desktop!!!), the iPhone remains the most popular phone. But beware - a subtle trick by Apple devices however allows all variants to hide under one name. The iPad manages to retain second place and although the iPod too uses the trick as the others it drops to 4th place behind the HTC M7 One which takes 3rd place and proves the most popular single Android device. In manufacturer wars however Samsung takes second place over HTC (whilst Apple obviously leads).

iOS
iOS manages to retain its lead in the mobile OS wars however it has lost the crown in the monthly wars in August so expect to see Android on top next year unless Apple does something special.

23%
Our visitor numbers are up by 23% based on last year. We saw a big boost based on the new listing of the mod on Steam but plenty came from you guys. Thanks and keep spreading the word!

Browser Wars
Chrome is the undeniable king of browsers on NI increasing 2 points to over 63%. Firefox keeps the second place crown despite falling 2 points to 23% and whilst only accounting for 5% of traffic Internet Explorer has an increase of 6.32% versus last year's usage.

900
By special request I can confirm that there is over 900 players with legendary items sat out there in player inventories so its clearly not impossible to get them. Keep on fighting on and this could be you next year!


Anyway this wraps up another year of stats. Hopefully you found these interesting and let us know what other stats you would like to know next year or anything else you think that people should know about in NI during 2014. See you on the battlefield!


/Nao & All of the NI Dev Team

Hello!

Our latest web feature to get a rewrite is now the Trading Center.  Changes have been made which should help to streamline the day-to-day task of trading items and materials between friends and your own characters.

• Trade invites can now be accessed from the left navigation menu no matter what trade you are currently looking at.
  
• Trade invites can be sent by character name as before or by character id to prevent problems when two people in the same house have the same name.
  
• Trades between your own characters do not require you to accept both sides.  They are both your characters after all.
  
• If you "Add" a negative number of items to the trade, that many items will be held back.  (You have 10k gold, add -1k, 9k will be in the trade.)
  
• Open trades can be closed entirely.  A message will be sent to both characters to record this.
  

Hello,

Today the class restrictions of many items are changing, particularly old items that had very low restrictions and certain high tier items being changed to allow hero classes from previously incompatible trees to use them.  In addition, the Legionnaires have been sent to a training camp to learn how to throw and actually manage to hit things!

Changelog:
Rangers can now use Grinder Helmets!
Halberdiers can now use Studded Gauntlets, Swadian Gauntlets, and Plate Mittens!
Aurora Blade now needs T3 Sergeant, Man At Arms, or Heavy Longbowman to equip
Fang of Fenrir is now only usable by Commando and Sharpshooter
Fell Edge is now only usable by Commando, Sharpshooter, and Sniper
Bolt Tosser now requires T4 Sharpshooter
Onyx Bolts now require T4 Sharpshooter
Dragon Spear now requires T4 Pikeman
Dragon Halberd now requires T4 Pikeman
Thunder Pike now requires T4 Pikeman
Sun Pike now requires T4 Pikeman
Legionnaire can now use Dragon Breath!

Legionnaire total throwing is now 250 WPF and 4 PT instead of 170 WPF and 5 PT

Merry Christmas!
- The Nord Invasion Team

Brave and loyal Swadians! The Nord advance appears to have slowed down (something about me sending them lots of kegs of Fosters and now they're all really ill) so we see an opportunity to hold some festivities to raise our troops' morale. It is therefore with great delight that I declare we will holding our second House tournament!

Our genius Hande has provided an epic map for the event and the Swadian nobility are looking forward to seeing the houses battle to claim the title of Champions of the Realm! We will be heading over to the neutral Sarranid Sultanate as their cities have not been ravaged by those nasty Nords!

House Tournamet matches will be held on Saturday and Sunday between 7 pm and 11 pm GMT.

This event will require a lot of planning and scrict adherence to our guidelines and rules. Failure to do so will result in a short walk to the executioners block (a 2 month ban minimum). It is therefore in your interests to read the following information very carefully.

Matchmaking will be done after the sign up is closed, based on region and number of players in houses.

Spoiler

Round 1
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Round 2
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Semi-Finale
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Finale
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Spoiler

Sign up here
Untill sign up closes in [countdown=11,12,2014,22,00]CLOSED[/countdown]

Spoiler

• First and foremost, the tournament will be on a deathmatch server. This means you can kill your teammates (be careful!) but also means that spectators etc can attack each other. Any player that kills another player that is not competing in the arena will be [color=black]banned.
  
• You will listen to the developer team or be removed from the server.
  
• You will not attack another player until the presiding Lord declares the match to begin.
  
• All players not competing will head to the spectator areas provided.
  
• Players will NOT bring weapons onto the server. Only competitors with regulation equipment will be allowed.
  
• While some inter-house rivalry is encouraged, trolling/swearing/being a twat is not allowed. The same rules apply for language as on any other server.
  
• Teamspeak will be mandatory for this event. There will be many instructions given out over TS and imperative that all players listen and obey.
  

Spoiler

• Only House Leaders are allowed to post on the sign up thread.
  
• Houses need to come on tournamets on time, if a house isn't ready within 10 mins of their scheduled start they will have to play with avaliable setup or forfeit
  
• House needs to have at least 5 competitors to participate in house tournament
  
• Competitors needs to be playing NI at least 2 months prior to tournament
  
• There will be an absolute maximum of 25 players per House. This is dictated by map features and size. Concrete numbers will be confirmed closer to the event.
  
• Your House will be told how many players it can bring to the event after signing up. It's not fair to have 25 v 8. Do not complain when we tell you how many players you can bring or you will be removed from the competition.
  
• The House leader will decide how to pick his team and will inform us when requested who his troop will comprise of.
  
• We will provide to the House leader the equipment required for his team based on the information he provides us.
  
• Use of non regulation gear will result in disqualification.
  
• Your team will be assigned either Red or Green equipment. Use it and only it or be disqualified.
  
• Combat will only commence when the presiding Lord declares the fight started.
  
• Players equipment will be checked by the arena gaolers before the fight. If players have the wrong equipment, the whole House will suffer my wrath(wraith).
  
• Competitors will remain beside their allocated elevator until the gaoler orders the team into position.
  
• Any competitor that misses the elevator will miss that round of the match.
  
• Use only players from region that you applied for, unless hosts decides otherwise
  
• Houses with lack of members can use volunteers from other house; house still needs at least 3 own members participating and can only use as many volunteers to fill the required 5 participatns
  
• Volunteers can only be participating for 1 house and can't be a member of already perticipating house
  
• Volunteers can gain personal reward but can't get house rewards
  

• Tournament gear will be provided to the Houses
  
• Tournament Gear

  • [li]Tournament Heavy Body Armor(Red & Green) + Tournament Heavy Head Armor(Red & Green)
    
  • Tournament Light Body Armor(Red & Green) + Tournament Light Head Armor(Red & Green)
    
  • Tournament Boots & Tournament Gloves
    
  • Tournament 1 Handed Sword 
    
  • Tournament 2 Handed Sword
    
  • Tournament 1 Handed Axe
    
  • Tournament Shield (Red & Green)
    
  • Tournament Spear
    
  • Tournament Pike
    
  • Tournament Bow & Arrows
    
  • Tournament Crossbow & Bolts
    
  • Tournament Throwing Daggers & Javelins
    
  [/li]
  

• 100k in house bank
  
• Buff banner

• cash

(06-12-2014, 09:23 PM)Hande link Wrote:[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/Dg6Hk7RRXxc[/embed]

http://youtu.be/Dg6Hk7RRXxc

You can watch finals rounds from that video if you missed it.
Oh, I forgot to turn off dead bodies in first rounds so don't complain about them.