Okay, look.

This kind of crap (springing a mandatory "your account won't work" update on people without announcing it in advance generally ****** me right off.

Couple that with you making it somewhat difficult to reclaim the character is even more crap.

But what is absolutely beyond the pale is making it so I CANNOT PLAY THE GAME AT ALL.  Have you completely lost your mind??? I am TRAPPED in my apartment.  I cannot leave the apartment, or I get killed.

Why didn't you just delete my character entirely, if you intended to kick me out of the game?  If you didn't intend to kick me out of the game, why did you make it completely unplayable?

I have fixed that, I forgot that part, sorry.  come out of your apt and use the green exit to get to montibow area

if you come in now, I'll summon you to SH.

She wasn't on Dev. She didn't like the raids on main.

Ah ok.

Just a couple of points of clarification, lest all of you think I'm a raving shrew for reasons that aren't *entirely* justified.

I don't have a problem with the raids.  The players who were in them were having a bang-up time.  I'm all for that.  Frankly, I've been part of a game where the end-of-game gameplay offered nothing to the veteran players, and that SUCKS.  What I'm not happy about is the fact that I was *literally* not able to get out of my apartment without being slaughtered.  As was already pointed out, when I signed on, there was only the one portal; I walked out of my apartment and died.  A player was running by, and I assumed he'd killed me on accident, thought nothing of it (not even to get upset; I didn't think the guy held anything against me other than I happened to step in his path at a bad time), and exited my apartment again, and again went out the only portal that was there.  And died. WTF?  Frankly, I wouldn't give a fig if the raids went on for the next week, month, or ten years.  I would, however, like to be able to play, and was told initially that it would be over in a few days and to come back then.  It's my weekend, too, and I wanted to play.  The situation I was in left the game completely unplayable for me.  I would have been perfectly happy to play the game in Stonehaven Village until I was strong enough to participate in the raids.  The problem was, I had absolutely no means of doing so.

I think a lot of y'all came on after the change to the Stoneglow apartments was made, where there were 3 portals (one purple into/out of the apartments, one purple one into Stoneglow village, and one purplish-green thing  to Montibow).  And a steel wall to prevent you from *walking* outside.  When I posted that, the ONLY portal that existed was the one into/out of the apartments.  And no wall.  Can I get a *shred* of credit back?    Just one!  A TINY one!  (Parmesan cheese sized, even!)

As far as the forums go, I am well aware that the forum is an information dissemination point.  I figured out how to upgrade the client, didn't I?     But the post about it said what amounted to "I'm taking the servers down, I'll tell you more later", then "Okay they're up, here's how to log in".  Only those login instructions didn't work for me, *because* I didn't have a forum account.  It's possible to read the forum without posting to it (again, I upgraded the client), or creating an account for it.  However, it was not possible for me to reclaim my character without one.  And THAT irritated me, and I think I'm justified in that irritation.  I was perfectly happy to let that lie, though, as my own personal misanthropic bitchiness, up until the part where I was trapped in my cheapo apartment.

And yes, I was on the main server.  I don't possess the time to beta test (beyond what I'm doing on the main server; I'm aware this is open source and in development, and if I found a glitch I would find or fabricate a means to report it.  I just hadn't happened to find any.  I DO wish the Wiki was better updated, but that's not a development issue, that's a technical writer issue), and I don't possess the knowledge to be a developer.  (In the past six months, my command of *nix has climbed from two commands to about six!  WOO!  But I am Hell On Wheels with those six commands!!!!  *galactic eyeroll at self*)

Now, to Longir's credit, he did get me the blazes out of there nearly immediately, and he helped me out immensely.  And I had a BLAST playing after that, after I was able to get around.  I'm not entirely sure I should've ended up in Bebeniss (or however it's spelled), but that's hardly Longir's fault (or anyone's but my own).

Needless to say, I agree with "safe haven for those who don't wish to participate in raid" (or whatever). 

Just a couple of points of clarification, lest all of you think I'm a raving shrew for reasons that aren't *entirely* justified.

Nice save.

But the post about it said what amounted to "I'm taking the servers down, I'll tell you more later", then "Okay they're up, here's how to log in".  Only those login instructions didn't work for me, *because* I didn't have a forum account.  It's possible to read the forum without posting to it (again, I upgraded the client), or creating an account for it.  However, it was not possible for me to reclaim my character without one.  And THAT irritated me, and I think I'm justified in that irritation.

No, that's not correct.

A game account and a site account are separate (currently), as I think was implied in that post.

Also, originally that thread was posted in the Dev server forum (which I think must have been where you first read it else surely you would never have bothered with it as I have not taken down the main server (yet).

I can see where the confusion came though.

Well things will be a bit topsy-turvy for the next day or three still but then should settle down again.

So keep having fun and don't get too upset if everything doesn't go your way over the next little while. It's all for the good in the end.

This is the only sentence in the 'Change is Afoot' thread that mentioned associating the in-game account with a forum account. The clarifier at the end should have done the trick.

So log in to (or create) an account. It would be best to create one with the same name as you have on the site, but this is not necessary while game and site accounts remain separate. - Smacky