First birthday

Today one year ago we started our Photoblog. 146 posts have been made within this year. Several adventures have been posted here and every day we get many visitors reading them. Let's hope the next year of blogging will bring us some more great stories :).

Test server report (part 4)

Yesterday Empereur Yorius, one of the members of Tibiacity's Dutch forum gave me his Sword of Valor for the duration of the test server. I went to Orc Fortress to try soloing 2 Orc Warlords at the same time, and it was pretty easy.




The day after I went to the Lizard City to explore the dungeon there. I ran trought all Lizards until I came at the dungeon, and then I cleared the dungeon that was very small, I had expected a bigger dungeon. After the dungeon was cleared I cleared the top floors, but on the upper floor I died because I ran out of UH runes, and also because I was too lazy to walk back to the city :p.




Later I went to the desert on my paladin where I was caught by a pk'er. He was level 50+ knight but I as level 40 paladin was stronger. Then he called his friend wich was a mage and she started shooting SD on me while the knight throwed teasure chests around me so I couldn't move. I ran around for 5 minutes avoiding chests, but after that time I died.

Test server report (part 3)

Even when test servers are mentioned to do tests, you can still have a lot of fun. I wanted to try and solo a Lich on test, and with that in mind I went to the Oasis deeper tomb. I took the middle exit of Ankrahmun and ended up in the desert between 3 Behemoths. I ran away from them back to the city and took the left exit. Trought this exit I went to the tomb close to the hills, and I succeeded in this. I entered the tomb, ran trought the firt 2 floors whitout encountering much trouble, and putted my scarab coin on the coal basin wwhen standing on the flame. I ended up in the deeper tomb searching for the Lich spawns. I first went to the south, but there wasn't a lich so I went west. I saw something familiar and I knew I have been there with Mysteriosu Lion and Mixxiphoid (look at previous stories). I was in a room 2 rooms before the Lich spawn, and I was killing 3 ghosts and 2 vampires. Then I got freezed for almost 2 minutes and when I unfroze I was still alive. After 2 seconds I got kicked.

The next day, today, I log in again, and I'm still alive and well standing in the tomb where I got kicked yesterday. I had a red health bar, so I opened my backpack with UH's as fast as I could and healed myself. I succesfully killed all monsters I was spawwning in and continued my way to the Liches. 2 rooms later I saw my first Lich.



The Lich wasn't so hard as I expected until he summoned a bonebeast. A little later he summoned another one, and another one, and one more. I was facing 4 bonebeasts, a mummy and a Lich. It took me a while, but I succeeded in my goal to kill the Lich.



I went on to the next room where I encountered 2 beholders, a few mummies and 2 vampires. I killed the 2 beholders and one vampire when another Lich appeared on my screen. He summoned a bonebeast, and after a while another one wich was fatal for me.

Test server report (part 2)

The new PM features have some nice things. A first thing you can do now is switch the PM's in the middle of your screen off. This might be usefull if you want to hunt whitout getting disturbed or if you're making a movie.



But this is not the only new PM feature. There is alos a new feature called a white list. People on this list can message you while you're ingoring PM's. To access this list just click on the icon you click on to open your ignore list. You can also select the option 'Allow VIPs to message you' if you want all people from your VIP list to be able to message you while ignoring PM's. Just as with the ignore list, you can make an allowed player permanent, or only untill you log out.




The new way trade channel works prevents you from getting banned by accidenlty putting a wrong message into the trade channel. To put a message there you now have to click on a button 'Advertise'. You can then enter the message you would like to see in trade channel. To prevent spamming the limit is still one message every 2 minutes, just like before.




There are more new features then you can read here, but the others are less important. E.g. there now is a chat channel for tutors only and etc. I hoipe this article helped a little into knowing what is going to come with the next mini update. I wish youy all a lot of fun on the test server, and later on in Tibia.

Test server report (part 1)

As you might have readed on the official homepage of Tibia the test server is online. It's not easy to log onto it, but it's possible. You'll probably get a message with 'Connection time-out' but if you keep trying you'll be online after a minute or two. Is it worth it, that's another question.

It's not really possible to hunt or explore something, since you're very likely to get kicked. I have been 20 minutes on test and I have been kicked 3 times. But remember that test server is to test new features, not to have fun. Now the client got an auto bug report option wich makes it easy for you to send it. The report window appears when you start the client, before you log in and looks like this:




What's new?

* New graphic options
* New PM options (white list, no pm's on game window...)
* New trade chat options
* New bug report feature

The new graphic options allow you to choose or DirectX5, DirectX9 or OpenGL. If you don't know what to choose and the old settings worked fine then choose DirectX5.

Old guild fun (part 1)

We from Starfox Revolution have not always been what we are today. Every single one of us has been a newbie. Looking to some old screenshots gave me the idea to post about those old times. Today I'll post about our first solo beholder hunts.

It's about 10 months ago that we all tried to solo a beholder. Our guild was called Gatekeepers that time, and we weren't very strong. We barely had money and runes and we were pleased if we could solo a beholder. Nashak (Legiunia Warschawa that time) was the strongest, I was the second, then Benders Wooping Terrier and Sammol and as last Celen The Giant and Countolaf. We were very good friends, and we all lived at Carlin Clanhall. I had the room in the basement, together with Celen The Giant and Countolaf, Sammol and Benders Woopng Terrier lived at the room in front of the door and in the other rooms some other guild members.

Some day Sammol decided to go to Kazordoon and to try and solo a beholder near the entrance there. He succeeded in this and after that Nashak, Benders Wooping Terrier and me tried to solo a beholder. We all managed to do this, some of us a little better then others but we didn't die :). Check again soon for more stories of the old days.

Bug at NPC

I was talking to a NPC at Thais when I noticed a bug. I bought a mace of the fury from Bozo and wanted to buy a second one, but the 98 platinum coins I had in my backpack changed into 98 crystal coins.

Update: this was an april fools joke.

Fire breathers at PoH

Already some time Arceon, Billy Mackem, Celen The Giant, me (on my paladin Fox The Giant) and some lower level friends of Arceon were going to do some quests at Plains of Havoc (PoH). A first quest we did was at a room wwith a firedevil, but I can't tell more about it else we would be spoiling.




After that we went to something a little more dangerous: Dragon caves. There were also some dragon lords down in those caves and sadly one of the lower level friends of Arceon died.




None of the others died and Celen The Giant did mana shield and SD'ed the Dragon Lords. Everyone else survived and succesfully made the quest. After that we went out safely and returned to the piecefull city Thais.


Person X: Free itans pls
Fox The Giant: -.-
Person X: plx

X-mas at March

My brother still had a decoration package containing a Christmas tree, and we tried to unpack it. It worked and so we had a Christmas tree :). Sadly enough it disapeared with the next server safe, and all that's left is a nice screenshot.

A lost soul (part 3)

I started talking to the Ghost but I didn't go any reply. A coal basin at the left corner of the room suddenly flamed. At the right of the room there was a coal basin too, but there was no fire there. At the rear corner of the room there was a stone with skulls on it. I walked to it and looked to the skulls. They looked human.

The Ghost suddenly said to me 'Put a skull in the burning coal basin', and after 2 minutes oof hesitating I did it. The fire faded and the coal basin at the right corner started burning. The Ghost sais once again 'Put a skull in the burning coal basin' and so I did.

The thing that happened then is unexplainable. I was upstairs were the Ghost should have been and my body was downstairs. I saw myself looking to myself, yes that's true. It seemed like I swapped places with the ghost. The body down yelled to me 'Thanks for setting me free'. Then I saw myself walking out of the cave. I realised what I did, I swapped places with him and now he was gone with my body and I'm the Ghost. I felt like a lost soul left behind all alone. I was cursed to get someone else inside and let him do the same then what the Ghst did to me so I could swap places with him. Weeks later I was still there, alone, wandering around like Ghost. I felt all life flow away...



The end.