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//Cayorion and NinjaBaver

Our solution
In our meeting, we decided that if none of us individually wanted to take the responsibility for making this decision, then we should all support the measure that was going to be introduced. After discussing for about half an hour on how to deal with different scenarios, all staff members agreed on changing the server’s policy with regards to warfare and raiding. We wish to steer raiding and warfare in a more mellow direction. This means staff members are extending their rights to forcibly end wars between factions, or lay sanctions on factions which are labeled as “having a negative influence on the atmosphere of the server”.

More Explained:

• Staff members may in the future forcibly end a war between factions if there is enough evidence to believe that either side cannot come to a reasonable conclusion and it affects the gameplay of the members too much, or the situation has a negative effect on the server. This may mean a simple two sided no-conditional end, or a truce from one side.

• Staff members may in the future lay sanctions on factions which are considered to have a negative influence on the server’s atmosphere, either through powerplaying, raiding without end, exhibiting a negative attitude in raids and wars etc. What this means is that staff members can (but are not limited to) denying a faction the right to declare war on another faction, denying a faction the right to raid other factions, or war reparations.

• Staff members will more strictly moderate trash talking and boasting. Wars and raids are only half the source. We will be dealing more strict punishments to flame wars in general and local chat channels, the forum, and other actions performed by any faction to put down a losing side in a war.

• Staff members will also encourage factions to be more reasonable. Wars are intended to cause slight discomfort. Not cause an entire faction to stop working on a daily basis. We will also be keeping an eye out for unreasonable faction owners who refuse peace for no reason at all.

• Sanctions or Staff intervention will in most situations work both ways. In order for a conflict to escalate or prolong its duration, actions are required from both sides. A badly running war is never the fault of solely one faction and we will try to work with both sides to improve their attitude.

Peaceful versus Hostile
Cayorion was also present during the meeting, and concluded a potential tech solution to this situation. As such, it was decided that the policy set above is a temporary policy, based on the fact that Cayorion will provide a tech solution to automate the system through factions in the future. This will entail a system of factions being able to tag themselves as “likes war” and “does not like war” which will allow some form of bracket matchmaking so that everyone can have the gameplay they want, and not force their powergaming, or lack of PVP interest on others. In short, it might lead to certain factions getting the peaceful flag enabled. Until this system can be introduced however, the staff will be taking decisions with regards to keeping the war culture friendly and enjoyable for everyone.

Some additional Points:

• Staff will be on the lookout for people who try to cheat the system by switching factions when one is forcibly truced.

• Staff will be on the lookout for factions that cry wolf as soon as they get attacked once. The majority of us play the game as well, so we have a rough understanding when raids turn sour and when people simply need to “suck it up”.

• If a decision is made to sanction a faction(s), they will always be a large staff decision. These are never made by a single individual and will always be discussed by the staff as a whole, or whatever staff is available at the time.

Obviously this system will not please everyone involved, but we hope you understand our intention with this policy change and we hope you can look forward to our future coding solution to make this system more automatic. We are trying to make sure our server identity as a friendly medieval roleplay server is not trampled under the great amount of freedom in PVP we give our players.

The Imperial Archives of Regalia have announced to the public that they will be transferring a Elven History Codex, which they currently have in their possession, to the Regalian Academy of Science and Magic.

This decision was made by regulators of the Archives in an effort to help the young and bright minds of Aloria become better informed of their history. With the recent Crimson Inquisition and other frightful things happening in our city it is understandable how to this reporter why this action is being taken.

The Codex is planned on being moved directly from the Archives to the Academy and reports say that it shall be heavily guarded by the Emperor’s personal bodyguard force. Others say that it will be moved more discreetly, but I think that is the lesser story here.

When the Codex arrives it will be stored in the upper level of the Academy until a proper place is made for it to be put on display. Hopefully once this is completed all Regalians can have an opportunity to gain a new insight into our past.

- The tavern is fully restored and me and my staff are ready to serve the thirsty and hungry people of Regalia! – igel

The same goes for team speak. You can now connect to our team speak server using massivecraft.com instead of ts.massivecraft.com.

We are removing Item frames to boost Framerate performance in Regalia, especially so since the performance loss from the Merchant district had grown to become unacceptable for a region so vital to new players and the economy.

Community

• MonMarty: released the Book on the Seraph, a book with some information on the mysterious extinct Seraph civilization.
• MonMarty, Cayorion: Temporarily disabled Vampire bloodlust. This is going to be a temporary fix until Cayorion can find the time to dedicate some days on rebalancing vampires for PVP purposes. This will also allow player made reports to be more reliable when concerning video evidence of hacking/cheating.
• MonMarty, Cayorion: Disabled placing of item frames in Regalia.
• Cayorion: Made it so you can use massivecraft.com instead of mc.massivecraft.com and ts.massivecraft.com.
• Cayorion: Updated the core server software and all plugins.
• Cayorion: Fixed two Faction-bugs. You can now withdraw money and unclaim land again.

Community

• MonMarty: released the new Character roleplay introduction rules, as well as reforming the lore friendly magic system for forum RP and future server RP.
• MonMarty: released the Book on the Sanguine Curse, a book involving vampires.
• MonMarty: released the Book on the Fall of the Elven Empire, a book involving in depth history of Elves.
• MonMarty: officially started the Community staff project, enlisting the Roleplay Staff as it’s first branch
• MonMarty: Implemented a new Staff Guideline in the Staff Codex concerning staff rights and abilities during self submitted Ban Requests.
• MonMarty: Updated the forum rules and pushed trough new forum reforms

Regalia officials are currently investigating a bank robbery that happened late last night in the Noble District of the city.

The robbery occurred at the Bank of Regalia on Friday, while the bank was closed.

Regalian authorities say the suspect were employed at the bank a few months before and the robbery must have been planned before they received the jobs. They were able to enter the bank with the banker’s keys to the vault that were stolen the day before.

After obtaining an undisclosed amount of silver, diamonds, gold, emeralds, and iron the perpetrators and their unknown accomplices fled on foot.

The suspects were last seen heading north towards the Poor District and are suspected to have escaped through a sewer entrance somewhere in the Poor or Common district.

The bank was empty except for one solitary teller who had stayed late to finish closing out his window. When he say the suspects come into the bank he hid under a table in the back room until the whole thing was over. For safety reasons the witness has asked to remain anonymous.

The witness describes the suspects as males of average height and average build. He also saw that they were wearing dark loosely fitting clothes made of leather, also they had on what looked like skull masks so it has been quite hard trying to identify them. Some of them were seen in normal clothing and seemed to be in charge of the robbery.

“eherm! Smith & Son Cooperation needs your help today! After digging countless of hours, we lost many miners due to unknown reasons. This is why we need you to help us at our newest project. The grey-sailed ship will transport you comfortably to the mine. The place is still top-secret, so you get a tea that help you to fall “”asleep”"…eherm!. You will get woken up when we have arrived at the mine. Earn your money today! Smith & Son cooper…..”

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Non-Rpish info:

We opened a new quest today. You can read a bit more about it here.

It is reachable by the grey-sailed ship in the regalian harbour right next to the other quest ships. Better bring your friends too, it’s great to roleplay there and you will need some assistance for the main-quests

We also highly advice you to use our texturepack for this quest, since we did decorate it with a lot of special blocks that are only visible as such in our texturepack. Assure you use Optifine aswell.

Have fun!