Hi all,

I am happy to announce the latest in our continued updates to the website.

Touch Friendly Navigation

We welcome your touchy fingers. The navigation system will now work on touch screen devices. You will find that when touching something like house or marketplace that the second option will reveal itself but the website will not change. Press it a second time and you will be taken to the page as normal or press the alternative option (Auction hall, trading etc).

Please be aware that touch enabled computers will count as touch enabled devices. We are looking into a way to only make this occur on tablets and phones and not computers.

Extra Button

There is a new "Extras" option that shows the home page links. Other extra features will appear here in time to any users who have access to extra systems. Additionally, anyone modifiying the website (eg: NI+) should use this to display their menus. Also, the logout button is now located under account section.

Auction Hall

Saving the biggest change for last, we are proud to announce the new auction hall. With a completely new design, filters and even the ability to look for things that you can't equip on that character. Also, try clicking a record for expanded statistics (which have been checked), nice pictures (click image for even larger picture) and the ability to check prices of items against the "normal" pricing range on the marketplace.

NB: All existing auction listings have been returned with your full tax money.
NI+ users - please disable the plugin pending an update as it can prevent the rows expanding. NI+ has been updated.
If parts of the website are not behaving as expected, try pressing Ctrl + F5 to force a full refresh of the page.

/Nao & the dev team


Original Notification:

Spoiler

Some aspects of the website are being upgraded. More details will be released soon but during this time you may find parts of the site are unavailable.

Please bear with us and we will be back up and running soon.

EDIT: Gameplay will be unaffected during this time.

UPDATE 21:56 BST - Server has been updated.

/Nao

Hey!

As you might have noticed, we have finally started to add item images to our website.
Because we developers are only good at drawing stickmans, we need you players help us to make proper pictures of crafting items for our website.

To signup to this project, send a private message to me with your e-mail address and I will add you to Google Spreadsheet.

Here is some info you need to know:
- We need two images
- 852 x 714 Fullsize
- 100 x 83 Thumbnail
- Both images must be in .png format
- Remember If you take pictures from somewhere to work with, make sure them are not copyrighted!!!
- The Background should be grey for now (same as the other items)

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(07-04-2014, 04:24 PM)k4mi link Wrote: [quote author=Tarrod link=topic=25021.msg173250#msg173250 date=1396885840]
Does this project only include Crafting Goods or also Barrels, Tomes, House Craftables or Legendaries?
Greets Tarrod

Hoy players.

To let you know, we just removed forage props from NI maps and we are going to add those items as a loot.
If you still somehow find those props from maps, please report it to us.

IF you don't want to download maps ingame, you can download and install them from this link; https://www.dropbox.com/s/p079ynhw4o9j5xz/27.3.2014.rar
Copy to SceneObj folder. (\Mount&Blade Warband\Modules\NordInvasion\SceneObj)

Love,
NordInvasion Team

Two common tasks that used to require waiting for a Senior Admin or Developer have now been automated: password resets and donator respecs.

The password reset instructions have been updated for the new system: Password Reset Instructions

New donators need to provide one of their character names along with their forum name when they confirm their donation with Hypernoma.  Existing donators should post one of their IDs in the donator section if their accounts have not been marked already.  The donator respec option is listed on the standard respec section of the account page.

Kip & the Dev Team

Good evening,

As many of you know from conversations on IRC and Teamspeak, March is to be the month of the purge. This has been likened to the movie "The Purge" and bears many similarities except only I get to kill everyone. I am tired with the flagrant rule breaking, insulting, trolling, queue skipping, interrupting refills, bullying etc etc etc that has been going on. I will therefore be clearing out the undesirables from the NordInvasion community. It really is not difficult to be nice and just play this game and enjoy yourself. In the first year of NordInvasion it was a rarity that we banned players, such a rarity that we knew the name and reason of every single player that was banned. I now have a list hundreds of names long. Players used to have no problem playing together and having fun without the need to act like a bunch pre-pubescent children pulling hair on the playground. I am tired of it, the admin team is tired of it and I know many players who are also far too tired of it. A zero tolerance policy is now in effect until players can learn to act with the slightest degree of decorum. You do not have a right to play this mod, you have a privilege and it is time players acted in accordance with that privilege.

As this is the internet and positive reinforcement does not work, we will therefore build a nicer community through negative reinforcement aka the banhammer. I appreciate that the majority of the community are perfectly civil and a pleasure to play with but there are a fair number of players who have abused our good nature of late. They have crossed the line on repeated occasions and expect that they will not be met with repercussions. Time for that illusion to dissipate. I love this game and the community that has been built around it but there are those who seek to detract from the good nature of what I like to think is one of the most friendly and mature communities in Warband.

Love,

Hypernoma

TL;DR If you break my rules, I will break you. There is now a zero-tolerance policy.

A little over two years ago NI started on it's first steps towards being fully translated. This was started by Jez using a spreadsheet that users could edit and for the most part was fairly successful but recently as the website has expanded the translations are falling behind rapidly. I know that this makes for a very poor user experience for our international users and so I would like to announce a new effort to bring the web translations back up to scratch.

We will be launching a new translation centre in the next few days which will allow translators to make changes without the need for constant emailing and updating. Initially, the translatable areas will be limited but the web team are hard at work making alot of behind the scene changes to all the web code so that all text will be sent to the translation module and eventually the whole website will be international.

So what do we need? Well to be honest the dev team can't speak half the languages are users speak so I am asking for all those who helped before and anyone new who would like to help to stick their names below along with langauges and proficiency on a level of basic, good, fluent so that we can register people for access to the translation area.

Thanks for your help!

Lots of love,
/Nao & the NI Dev team

UPDATE 27/7:
So here is the current upcoming list of languages, soon to be made available to translators:

'en' => 'English',
'fr' => 'French',
'no' => 'Norwegian',
'ru' => 'Russian',
'cns' => 'Chinese Simplified',
'cnt' => 'Chinese Traditional',
'dk' => 'Danish',
'de' => 'German',
'es' => 'Spain',
'nl' => 'Netherlands',
'pl' => 'Polish',
'bs' => 'American Rubbish',
'si' => 'Slovenia',
'it' => 'Italy',
'tr' => 'Turkey',
'br' => 'Brazil',
'hr' => 'Croatia',
'pt' => 'Portugal',
'se' => 'Sweden',
'hu' => 'Hungary',
'ln' => 'Latin',
'bbq' => 'Australian',
'arr' => 'Pirate'

The official #nordinvasion IRC channel is now on Rizon!  The move is due to Freenode policies we have become aware of.

From a user perspective, Rizon is almost exactly the same.  Here are the details:

Web Client

Dear NI Community,

It is with regret that I am writing another of these messages. As I am sure you are all well aware, server hosting is not a cheap business and unfortunately the NI kitty is beginning to look a little bare once again. Earlier this year we increased our costs slightly to expand our US servers and this has placed a slightly greater financial burden on NI. It is however the unfortunate retirement of Ragnash that sees further strain put on the NI kitty. Ragnash not only carried out his duties as a senior admin but also was very kind in his donations every month to aid in the hosting of servers in Australia. At present we can afford to host NI until the beginning of March, failing any further donations throughout February. I am therefore asking our wonderful community to aid us in donations if they feel they would like to. As always there is absolutely no requirement to donate and you should feel no pressure to do so.

Again, I ask that no one posts about re-installing private servers; this will not happen. As stated when we shut down private servers, a section of the NI community proved that they could not be trusted and they have unfortunately soured the experience for the rest of the community. If you would like to assist us, please make donations directly to the NI paypal account.

We are working on a new patch just now and I am sure you have noticed updates in the web department of late. I can also divulge that a conversation was had regarding house campaigns and what our objectives are regarding it... We also have our massive item rebalance coming up, balancing of crafting recipes and the introduction of many new craftables including new horses. Cav mode will also be getting an overhaul XP and loot-wise, and there may even be a legendary lance on the way...

We continue to work hard and I have always said that I will endeavour to continue running NI as long as players still enjoy it. NI has outlasted all of our expectations and grown to be something much more than was ever envisioned. We have seen a surge of new players recently and I'm happy to announce that hundreds of players still play daily. Any assistance in supporting NI will be met with the greatest of gratitude.

Much love as always,

The NI Family