Well, we’ve had quite a few things going on recently. Our activity check has ended, but we lost our Ardeth Bey (who will be missed 0; ). So now Ardeth is up for grabs, and anyone who takes him will seriously be epically loved, as he’s involved in a ton of major plots right now that need him to get things rolling. You can find a lot more information on him here.

In other news, no one else was deleted other than the loss of Ardeth, but we also did some reconstruction of the forums. The Role Playing boards are now more organized than before, as we deleted a ton of unnecessary boards that seemed to clutter the forum. The forum should now be easier to navigate, and we believe that threads are easier to find. On that note some minor things have changed around the forum as well, such as the forum width, the height of the forum banner, etc.

We also have some new players aboard, Ducky is taking up the role of Jonathan, Em is taking up the role of Akhom, and Rob is playing Konrad, a Nazi! What does that mean? Simple, we’re now accepting characters that partake in the military, provided that you research the military force that your character’s partaking in. We’ve got quite a few military nerds on the board, so no research = bad. Also on that note, we’d like to state that the member groups have been rearranged. We now have only six member groups, and those are: ancients, civilians, Djed, Medjai, military and scholars. The suggestion was made by Lee, and we felt that it would have kept things more organized by eliminating unnecessary groups.

On that note, if you find yourself in a different member group than you were originally in, don’t worry! We changed it on purpose as our member groups changed. On a completely different subject now in regards to the forums, we have installed a program onto the forums that is supposed to eliminate the number of bots that crawl on the site. We seemed to have gone over our disk usage one day last week, and the site went completely offline! 0; So to eliminate the spiders that were causing this problem, we installed that, as well as a member group specifically for spiders. If you find yourself caught in the spider group and you are NOT a spider then please let us know!

Oh, and new Djed premades are available, too.

• There is an
activity check going on. Complete it or risk getting deleted!

• We now have a
canon timeline for canons that do not have an up-to-date thread tracker.

General FAQ has been rewritten.

• The
storyline has been updated and checked (once again) for grammar and spelling errors. Some other information on the site will be updated as well, to be more precise and check for grammar and spelling.

• We now have a
pre-game summary archive that will feature threads that have taken place before the games timeline.

• There is a new skin on the forums to match the main site layout. Currently member group buttons are being developed, so please be patient as they’ll be imageless on that skin until they’re finished.

So I finally managed to update the site a little. You’ll notice this in the articles section in particular in look, as I figured I didn’t like the column style. Anyway! Here’s some new things going about:

• We have a new premade available and her name is
Amelia. She’s a Celtologist, and she seems to have found something on Cerridwen’s Cauldron. Did we mention she also knew Evelyn O’Connell in college?

• We now have a
character index available which gives basic statics of our current characters. This ranges from name, age, nationality, occupation, fraction, and debut. Its strongly recommended that when applying for a character to take a look at this list in order to help even out our ratios. We’re currently seeking Ireland characters!

• We have a new section in the characters page titled “
Major Premades.” This gives out a list of premade characters that can gain quick involvement in the game and might catch your interest!
• There’s a new article in the articles section titled “
Character Types to Avoid.” That article will grow overtime, but its an overview of what not to put in an application.

• We only have ONE Medjai female warrior slot available. Get it while the positions still open, otherwise until we get more male warriors you won’t be able to apply for one!
  
• There is a new layout! We decided that with 3.0s upcoming anniversary, to create a new layout. We still need to make a new layout for the forums, but for now enjoy the main website! =D

For those of you unaware the forums were just recently upgraded from SMF 1.1.11 to SMF 2.0RC2 earlier this week. Although we had some minor problems after the upgrade, we managed to get the forums up and running to the way they should be. The skin is now the way it should be, as it now resembles the old 1.1.11 skin for familiarity. Members are now welcome to create and post in topics as well as continue with their daily routines. Please note that if you find a bug on the forums to let the staff members know! We want to keep the forums running as stable as possible, and we’ll need help on your part! With that said, we are aware of the “size” tag issue. This is nothing that can be fixed on my part, but more so on your part as you can edit your size tags to match the coding style of SMF 2.0RC2.

Aside from that, some of the articles on the site had some technical work done to them. You’ll notice this specifically in the Medjai and Djed articles where we now use a different kind of table to host the static information. Not to mention, our storyline was rewritten once again in order to make it easier to read (as well as add in information that was missing). It is still the same plot, simply written differently.

With major thanks to Lee, the summaries have been updated. We now have summaries for: Kill the King, My Wave, Straight Out Of Line, Back to the Remedy, Did We Play to Become Only Pawns in the Game, and Casting Shadows from the Past. So those of you who haven’t read the recent summaries for threads yet, I’d recommend on reading them.

Also in today’s news, Ami, our previous Anck-su-namun is now back and Masey has taken on the role of Rick O’Connell. Happy new years to everyone, and let’s hang in there for the long run! We’ve officially been running for one year for Evil Eyes 3.0!