22FEB20 - Happy 10th Anniversary!
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Printed Date: 17 Apr 2022 at 00:37
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Topic: 22FEB20 - Happy 10th Anniversary!
Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Subject: 22FEB20 - Happy 10th Anniversary!
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:36
Hi everyone! Just writing to wish you all a very happy 10th anniversary. Yes, that's right... Illy first went live on 22nd February, 2010... IN NUMBERS Over these ten years:
During this 10-year period, we've had 14h22m of oopsies (ie unscheduled downtime) for which we apologise, but we're also quite proud! THE ORIGINAL ILLY In case you weren't around at the beginning... here's what the v1 town map looked like.  And, please note the subtle way the world map blends the arctic north into the rest of the gameworld:  10-YEAR CELEBRATION MEDAL Everyone who logs in directly (not via sitters) between today and the 1st of March 2020 will receive a thank-you medal for participating in our 10-year anniversary week. The medal looks like this:  ... and will be awarded to everyone (who logged in during this coming week) in a big batch on the 2nd of March. LENGTH-OF-SERVICE ANNIVERSARY MEDALS From now on and going forward, players will also be awarded medals for their length of time in the game when they hit 1-, 2-, 3-, 5-, 7- & 10-yr milestones. These medals will be awarded shortly after midnight on the anniversary of their player creation date. These medals look like this: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY  TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY  THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY  FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY  SEVEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY  TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY  Within the next week, we'll be handing out these anniversary medals to all the players who already qualify for them; we just need to write some batch code to grant them in bulk. ---- Many thanks for joining us on this journey, and I hope you'll remain with us longer! Best wishes from all the team here at Illy, SC
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Posted By: Lagavulin
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:43
| Cool. I like this idea. |
Posted By: Thirion
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 17:19
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I really like the idea of anniversary medals. Thanks a lot for the multiple updates in the last months - i really appreciate them :)
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Posted By: DeliciousJosh
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 17:26
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Posted By: rajput
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 20:15
 Wow! Koool! -------------   Warning! Author of this post has weird sense of humor... |
Posted By: Fanuidhol
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 23:34
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Posted By: ELVES Quest Account
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2020 at 00:14
| Hey...so..uh... is that *original* creation date? or current one? |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2020 at 14:12
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Bueller? Anyone? (KP was born on 22nd Feb 2010) ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: Bill_Cipher
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2020 at 19:06
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Posted By: Dungshoveleux
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:11
| Medals anyone? I do not seem to have any on my awarded medals page? Or am I just being dense? |
Posted By: Jadefae
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:18
| No medals distributed for 10 year or tourney, and no mention of Rum in herald per the usual that occurs when ASCN wins |
Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:58
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Medals will be coming very shortly - we're just double and triple-checking the scripts to hand them out, as this will be an automated process for regional tournaments thereafter, so medals will arrive within about half-an-hour of the tournament close in the future. As the regional tournaments are fully automated things going forward (so no one will have to wait for us devs to actually do things, such as assign chosen totems, award medals etc - they'll just happen on their own)... there won't be any mentions in The Herald for the winners, as that currently requires manual writing/editing. We may look to automate the Herald "congratulations" in the future, on some sort of automatically filled-in template, but there's really no need to imagine any deep nefarious plotting or deliberate snub :) In case it's not clear, these regional tournaments that run automatically every 3 months are *not* like pre-existing tournaments that we've manually run in the past, and this is much for the better, for everyone involved. Cheers, SC
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Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2020 at 21:04
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Devs do dev stuff, us mere mortals just sit and dream :) |
Posted By: Dungshoveleux
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2020 at 22:04
| The Herald should commission articles from users for prestige currency. I am sure this would be subject to editor's approval by the devs but it would allow the Herald to stay more up to date and be more interesting. I rarely click through it all, but having users give input would imho be a huge bonus. |
Posted By: Hucbold
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2020 at 11:59
| Here's a thought. It seems to matter to some people that there are no longer medals for winning a regional square (presumably too much work for the devs). A dev designed medal is considered 'better' than a user designed one. If at the end of a tourney a dev designed medal appeared in the alliance medal list and disappeared at the next tournament, the alliance could then decide whether to spend prestige and award the medals for people who fought for the square. It could be the same medal all the time with just a name change for period and region. It might increase dev income. |
Posted By: PurpleRain
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2020 at 19:14
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Happy 10 years of illy all! Medals for the occasion received with thanks!! :D
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Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 05:19
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Thanks for the plethora of medals :)
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Posted By: OssianII
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:03
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25% increase on average and a plethora of medals.
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Posted By: zolvon
Date Posted: 12 May 2020 at 13:22
Great idea Huc 
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