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 first 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!

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.

Ok, based on region, potential numbers and day preferred, I have Round 1! Apologies to VLKA but the only other Aussie house is slightly smaller than yours, but if you get to round 2 there may be an opportunity to field a larger team!

• 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 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.
  

• Only House Leaders are allowed to post on the sign up thread.
  
• 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.
  

• 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
    
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• 9 champions in the arena, 1 from each house
  
• Tournament gear!
  
• No fighting until told to start
  
• Each champion should be with his back to the wall at the beginning, away from the other champions.
  
• It will be Free for all
  
• Lowest scoring Champion after 3 rounds is eliminated along with his house.
  

• 100,000 gold to the House bank
  
• 2 free levels of House Crafting
  
• A selection of normal and hard mode crafting items including some "rare" drops
  
• Mystery goodies...
  

Hoy Hoy!

Scene Contest III is here !!

Idea for this Scene Contest is same as earlier:

(05-02-2012, 04:17 PM)Hande link Wrote: Idea of this contest is very simple, make scene in two weeks and then we will test it in public.

Dear NI Community,

With our player-base increasing each day the need for good game admins is ever-growing. If you believe you would be a good candidate for game admin please visit the following thread for detailed information on the type of individuals we are currently looking for. http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?...888.0.html

If you are having issues and are unsure on who to contact please check the following thread. http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?...842.0.html This thread contains a full list of the NI team and their responsibilities.

If you want a fast response from an admin or a developer, we can be reached at the #nordinvasion IRC channel here.

Love,

The NI Team.

Dear NordInvasion Community,

As we mentioned in the previous patch notes, we are presently working on the 0.5.0 patch release. This release will be a huge effort, probably the biggest since the beginning of the game and will bring major changes and many new features. Due to this, we may be a bit slow on the patch front whilst we work our backsides off building the release.

Unlike previous patches this one will come in a series of phases with only one requiring a new client download. We wanted you to be notified of this because as the patch rolls through you will see each of these big changes being introduced, in turn, and with their own individual announcement.

Thanks to the rebalance taken care of by the 0.4.0 patch, players will have room to expand and we have every intention of providing them with new and interesting challenges.

Along with this, naturally new maps will be added as Hande is always hard at work making new and interesting ways to kill players.

Love,

The NI Dev Team

• A complete redesign of the website and the interface.
  
• A third level of difficulty: Ragnarok Mode
  
• The introduction of new hero class choices for level 52 players.
  
• An auto-updating launcher

• New Equipment Selection system
  
• Redesign of the website look and feel
  
• Addition of "Quick Links", giving you quick access to other pages that relate to the one you are working on
  
• Sticky Stats - See your character statistics on every page
  

We would like to remind all house captains that there is a new arrangement for requesting House Events. We have put [UK]_The_Irish_Eagle in charge of organising House Events, so please PM him to request one.

It is recommended that you all read the House Event rules again as they have been updated - http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?...123.0.html

At the same time we would like to congratulate and thank [UK]_The_Irish_Eagle for taking on this task.

NI Team

Dear NI Community,

There have been some changes to the item colours.

• Store bought crafting ingredients - Grey
  
• Store bought gear - Black
  
• Regular Crafting drops - Black
  
• Rarer Crafting drops - Green
  
• Crafted Gear - Green
  
• Top quality crafted gear - Turquoise / Teal
  
• House crafted gear Orange
  
• Super Expensive Materials - Purple
  
• Legendary drops - Red
  
• New Odin drops..... Go find out for yourselves.