The Resurrection of Karlos

So, this incredibly weird thing happened to me the other day...

I had a dream about Wolf-Haven for some reason. I found this a bit odd, since I haven't been as active as I could be and Wolf-Haven isn't exactly the last thing on my mind at nighttime. The dream was kind of short and vague, but I remember that in the dream, Karlos had come back to Wolf-Haven and surprised us all with v1.4. Not v1.3, but v1.4. Now, the significance in this is that Karlos has hinted in the past that Wolf-Haven is 'still in beta' and won't be 'released' until v1.4. Oh, the irony!

And then, the next day... would you look at that, Karlos comes online and then gives a new feature to the pack alphas. Now that's what I call coincidental (if only all of my good dreams came true :c). If you aren't a pack alpha, you may not have noticed the new feature because it isn't available to you. Basically, when you defeat a creature on the Map, you gain the XP from it, and then an additional 1/4 of that XP is sent to the pack's XP pool. When a certain amount of pack XP is reached, pack alphas can use this nonexistent XP to buy Attack stat upgrades, Defence stat upgrades, or overall XP gain upgrades. The upgrades work in percentages, and every time you buy an upgrade, the percentage of that upgrade's effectiveness is increased by 1. For example, if Shimmer were to purchase the XP upgrade 10 times, we would receive an additional 10% XP for anything that we defeat on the Map. Eventually, if we bought the upgrade 100 times (which would cost 1,500,000 XP, meaning that Shimmer's members would have to earn a combined amount of 7,000,000 XP!) it would double our XP gains. On the downside, the upgrades reset monthly or weekly (Karl hasn't decided yet). This will also work for PvP in the near future; currently, the pack can only gain XP from PvA kills. Pretty cool, huh?

Along with this nice pack feature, Wolf-Haven now has an official Facebook page. Well, we've had a Facebook page for ages, but it's going to be updated more frequently now by Jekyll. If you'd like to check it out, click here. If you don't feel secure sharing your personal information, have no worries; you don't need to state your Wolf-Haven username anywhere. You could even create a Facebook for your character, like I did.

Last but not least, the staff got a special new feature for the Moderator CP. I can't tell you what it is, but we've been hoping to have this for ages and it will definitely prevent many issues with account trades and stolen/missing accounts.

Also, if you're wondering where I've been hiding... I'm learning PHP. I want to make my own website eventually, about tigers... rawr.