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RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 12-12-2015 Hey! Those of you who were here for the downtime this summer probably remember that I still have 3968360 things I've been meaning to finish for Helovia, but sadly I just haven't had the time to sit down with it. However, I've had some time the past couple of days to fix a few, very minor things! ** SWP characters are now properly included in the Whitepages **** Whitepages groups characters based on the account switcher, so if you have not linked your accounts they will show up as multiple entries. :) ** There was a bug in which the thread location would be over-written to "Archives" when the thread was archived, but this has been fixed and the automatic archiving is running once again. ** NEW: Threadlogs now have this link called "Order By" next to the Last Post heading, which will shuffle the threadlog to put threads that have been recently replied to on top. --- NEO RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 12-12-2015 Hey guys! So, it's finally back - the adoptables system! And, it comes with a few improvements, too...
Final notes that aren't going to be pretty with circles because I'm weird like that: * If you have characters under your "Manage" tab that are listed as "unavailable" despite never having been adopted, they were marked as adopted by administrators during a sweep to clean up adoptables no one wanted at the time. Check with an admin before putting these back up for adoption. * Do you guys want to be able to view a listing of "Adopted" characters? There isn't one right now because there's no way to distinguish between adopted characters and aforementioned cleaned-out characters. Two last words: * This song is too sexy for my own good. Click. * I'm now going to go to my giant pony and put salve in her eye. Having to do that twice a day was exactly what I needed right now to manage my stress levels. :B :B :B :B :B :B :B /wants pity cake --- NEO RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 12-12-2015 Hello all, The Admin team constantly strives to be as transparent and open with all of our decisions as possible. We constantly encourage you to come talk to us if you would like to know how a decision was arrived it, or why a certain call was made. However we also know that for some of you, this might be an intimidating task. So! In the interest of keeping communication as open and free as possible, we wanted to give the community some insight as to how the Admin Team actually functions.
The Admin Team is comprised of three main admins: Tamme, Blu, and Odd. We three are responsible for making all decisions that pertain to Helovia. Broadly speaking, Tamme oversees updating, Blu oversees Judging, and Odd oversees mythical. However we are all capable of stepping in to these areas when needed. For instance, we are all capable of updating and making item and magic related decisions, are all capable of rolling and judging spars, and are all capable of writing Gods and REs. HOW WE OPERATE None of us act autonomously. We function as a group. All decisions need to be ‘passed’ with a 2/3 majority, however all members of our team are always informed of decisions made and the reasons why. Sometimes we have different opinions about rules or policy, but as mentioned, we always discuss these things together - and even when a vote isn’t unanimous, we all stand by the decision and understand the reasonings. BIASES IN OUR TEAM Biases are unavoidable which is why we eliminate all possible conflicts of interest. Admins may not roll their own spars, write RE’s/Gods to themselves, roll their own drops (if they are in a drop that they are hosting, someone else will roll for them. OR if the drop is ‘puzzle based’ they are simply not allowed to participate). We track our IPs, and so we can ALWAYS see if any of these failsafes have been violated. We take screen shots and post them for drops, since that is the biggest point of contention with biases, but we are always happy to give you even more background information if you think any amount of unfairness has occurred. We are not allowed to judge our own stealths, or judge stealths were biases might be a problem, nor do we judge our own spars. In fact, spars have to be approved by a SECOND admin, before being posted. In order to eliminate any other biases, occasionally we break out 2/3 rule. If one of the admin is directly involved in challenging a rule, or is in any other conflict, they let the other two know, who handle the situation. We all know that emotions can run high especially when your character is involved, and so as admins we are forced to step back and abide by the decisions of the other two. When this is not possible (if we are all involved in something), we outsource. We look to our Jr A’s, or even to members of the community who have been admins in the past, or who have been around long enough to have an informed position.
SO! Please come to talk to us about any issues you may be having. We are ready and willing to provide proof (include showing IP addresses of the poster with permission) to any of your claims. If we do not know the issue, we cannot help, but we are always trying hard to make sure that this site is as fair as possible. Even if you just want to causally bring up some way you might have been feeling about the site, we are ready to talk and able to show you who has been doing what. We can't emphasize enough that we are always willing to talk to you about ANY issues you might be having. We are available through PMs, or on Skype - and are always happy to have a 'moderator' to keep everything light and professional. Thank you, The Admin Team RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 12-12-2015 It has always been the purpose of judgings to be given when no clear winner can be decided (re: passing out = auto forfeit), so in an effort to uphold this purpose, any fights that finish with an HP gap between fighters of 20 points or higher is determined an automatic win to the fighter with the greater HP. In these scenarios rubrics cannot be requested, but if you are searching for feedback you are encouraged to ask in the Growth Board if anyone could provide an unofficial rubric or read through, and of course we always suggest participating in in teaching fights. Thank you! RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 02-20-2016 Hello all, During this break the admin team have reviewed some of our rules, and have gone through suggestions that the community has made regarding some of our policies. Please take the time to read through the following rule amendments. Feel free to ask any questions, or to PM the Official account! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post below, or PM Official. RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 MAUJA Ascended Helovian
RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 1. With dragon companions gender is no longer dictated by color. So any gender can be any color. Everything else stays the same! 2. Extended spars will be no more as of this post date, so just the normal standard 3 week time line. Any spars currently ongoing that are extended will continue on that way. Thank you. RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 LEGEND TITLE NOMINATIONS
Year SEVEN of Helovia Legend Title Nominations! Helovia has just reached it's seventh in character year! As a thank you to our loyal members and in response to wanting more Legend Titles for non leaders, we are going to have two legend title characters be chosen every Helovian year! One male and one female character will be chosen based on their activity, actions, words and general in character awesomeness from Helovia's inception to today. The characters who qualify are those characters who are made UP TO THIS DATE (2/20/16). 1. Each character can only be nominated once (please read previous nominations) 2. A form for each nomination has to be filled out 3. Nominating will last for seven days from 2/20/16 to 2/27/16 4. After the nominations are in a 72 hour voting period begins 5. Nomination voting will begin similar to the CoTM voting except you vote for ONE FEMALE and ONE MALE character 6. You cannot vote for your own character PAST WINNERS Year One's Winners Azzuen the Ardent Onni the Illuminant Year Two's Winners Deimos the Reaper Faelene the (Undecided) Year Three's Winners Torleik the Bloodskald Confutatis the World Eater Year Four's Winners Oxy the Addict Year Five's Winners Cera the Golden Prince Lena the Songbird Year Six's Winners Mesec the Nightwind Roskuld the Sparklight Prizes - Character of the Month Prizes - Legend Title (earned from a prior experience as noted in form) Form 1. Character Nomination Name: 2. OOC Player: 3. Character Gender: 4. Character's Personality: 5. Actions done by this character that makes them deserving of a legend title: 6. External features of character that make them worthy of a legend title: 7. Why you feel this character would be a good choice: THE NOMINEES
RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 Quick Reminder!
You should absolutely have music on your profile and your posts! Especially if it sets a mood! However, it should NOT auto-play. This is because quite a few of us listen to our own music or access Helovia from places not at home and the volume differences and music style can be a distraction. Also, if someone else's character requires different mood music than what you posted, that makes posting difficult for them. Thank you! RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 CONGRATULATIONS TIME!
You may have noticed the admin team have been incredibly busy lately leading to a lull in the otherwise smoothly functioning site. Due to personal life and the fact that we are all at different places in our lives now than we were when this game started (so many years ago), we are bringing on an additional full admin, Time! Time has been invaluable in our battle board and judging. She's always available to help with anything and is a fantastic communicator. We look forward to welcoming her into a decision-making, plot level leadership position. SO HOLD YOUR HORSES. Shit's about to get real. With that said, look out for JA applications to go up soon! We are going to be looking for mythical and judging JAs to join our fantastic team! RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 After much deliberation and discussion, the admin team have chosen the following individuals to join our team as junior administrators. Congratulations to Bunnie, Jen and Sarah who have been chosen to join the Junior Admin Team. Smitty and Brit will continue to aid the administrative team as well. Thank you all for applying - this was a very difficult decision! RE: :: News Archive :: - Tamme - 06-19-2016 MAJOR MAY 2016 UPDATE
Welcome to Helovia and thank you so much for your patience! We now have a beautiful new layout with the banner by none other than our amazing Sarah. Here is her DA account, go watch: http://littlewillow-art.deviantart.com/ Cosmetic Changes: - Buttons on the top left give info! Check on the "exclamation point" for links and updates to important stuff - Our "FAQ" now works and is updated :D - The "active threads" link is now located in the member panel with your threadlog and new posts, etc - We have added the "Ranked Characters" page for all the officially ranked characters of our Helovian herds - Affiliates are now at the very bottom of the site in the footer - The memberlist has been revamped and you can now search by herd :D!! (thank you neo!) - The guidebook has yet to be styled but that is because I am still working on recoding that a little bit Major Changes: - We have now added the new invasion rules! They are called "Conquer Challenges" and you can see the details of those in the guidebook and on the new invasion thread - We have new JA who are awesome and we will be working on getting them set up - We will (very soon) have a new land guide and stuff will be reorganized! APPLICATIONS FOR THE DEAD LANDS: - If you are interested in applying for leadership of the deadlands to build up your empire and then invade one of the other herds, please hit up this thread here: http://helovia.net/showthread.php?tid=23780 - The new invasion rules will also be listed there for your review! - Any and all questions regarding the new invasions can be asked in the "Q&A" as per the usual Thank you so much! <333 your admin team RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 Hello Helovia! The admin team have made two small changes to our guidebook, regarding herd leaders and wishlists! HERD LEADERS Previously we had a rule which stipulated that herd leaders had to post weekly. However due to everyone's differing schedules, weekly unofficial absences from posting were not uncommon and this rule was never policed. Now with our new invasion system, we will be focused less on policing activity, as that will make it easier for new herds to invade others. However the 30 day herd leader rule still applies. If a herd leader is absent for more than 30 days or does not post within 30 days, they may be removed by herd vote or admin intervention. WISHLISTS The 30 day waiting limit on wishlists has been removed! Originally we created this rule because we wanted to encourage our members to actually think about the magic/companions they wanted for their characters, rather than just jumping at the first drop that they saw. You have all done a wonderful job of this - and now we see characters being created with a ton of thought behind them! So we are removing the 30 day waiting period. You do not need a wishlist, but if you don't have one, you can't be considered for random drops! So it's in your best interest! Thank you, The Admin Team. RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 A Reminder and Position!
Hello everyone and thank you for keeping with us as we make changes! We are VERY excited to try out these new conquer challenges (invasions) with a new herd team/herd land and can't wait to get applications in. It is our hope that this will be a really fun and exciting way to add some of that grittiness and uncertainty back into Helovia that we've been lacking during our lull. That being said, the admin want to point out our position on IC drama AND give a reminder! REMINDER ADMIN POSITION The admin position is that we will help, encourage and protect new groups or plots meant to shake up the status quo. We will help and protect our new Deadlands group (whoever they may be), and we will ensure a fair and good challenge to one of the herds. It is our goal to break up leadership bands and remove alliances so that each herd has to stand on its own. If you have a plot you want to implement and are worried about OOC repercussions, please talk to Tamme (who is in no herds), Aud (who is in a few herds) or Time (who is in all herds). We will do our best to help you navigate your plot and protect your group when and how we can! THE STATUS QUO IS VERY NOT QUO! Thank you for your help and participation, The Admin Team RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 Quick Note!
Hello Helovia! The admin team just wanted to remind everyone that, while we encourage excitement, plots, and foals, we also encourage you to place your early-created foal accounts into AA until closer to when the foal will be born (foal stats are rolled, or the conception thread is finished, etc). Thank you, The Admin Team RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 OOC COMMON KNOWLEDGE
Thing your character can know! 1. Legend Titles - Not the first name - Rough description of character 2. Herd Leaders - Their names - Rough description of character 3. After 1 season, Ascended Helovians - Just who they are - Not what ability they chose 4. After 2 seasons, who currently has your stolen character/item - Only the character's name and appearance - Date starts after final admin judgment on the stealth RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 Hello Helovia! The Admin team have decided to make an update to how companions affect battle stats. In the past, companion's numbers went up in age. However, now it will be that all mythical companions and regular companions WITH magic will be counted as an overall "2" and regular companions WITHOUT magic will be maxed at "1". Characters with a "2" companions will still go up to "3" with the Hunter battle buff, and characters with the "1" companions will increase to "2" with the Hunter battle buff. RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 09-03-2016 Hello all, Because of the delicate IC/OOC nature of stealths, the admin team have decided to enforce a 'default' time limit for stealths. If you create a stealth, you have 72 hours from the time someone blocks, to respond. Similarly, if for example, your stealth is for an outcast and 72 hours passes, you must post your reveal. If you pass the 72 hour period with no response, your stealth will default. You do not need to reveal who your stealth was for, and you can reuse it (though you'll be at a disadvantage since others will already have had time to think about it and/or make guesses). Importantly, this cannot be done intentionally. This rule was created so that characters would not be in limbo during extended stealths, NOT so that the effects of the stealth could be avoided. If the admin know that you have been online/are in a position to answer the stealth, you will be required to post your reveal. Anyone using this rule as a way of avoiding IC-stealth penalties will receive a warning. The admin team think this default time limit is only fair given the number of 'leave my herd alone' challenges, as well as the fact that allowing stealths to remain in limbo for days can be confusing for herd blocks ("well, they were an outcast when the stealth was made, but it's 2 weeks later and now they're in our herd?"), and also time lines. If you have any questions, please feel free to post below! Thank you, The Admin Team. Question. If the stealth has been successfully blocked, but the poster does not respond, does the herd not have any rights to know if the block was correct or not? No. Stealths are revealed after 48 hours of the target is an outcast. So if it's for an outcast, you must post the reveal after 72 hours, which is a full day after the time limit for outcasts to block anyways. RE: :: News Archive :: - Official - 02-05-2017 Hello all, We have made a few changes to the admin team! Time has decided to take a step back from her duties for a little while, due to some amazing things happening in her life and career! We thank Time so much for all of her hard work! In her place, we have asked Smitty to become a full administrator! Jen has also had to take a step back from her Jr. A duties. Everyone please congratulation SMITTY on her position as full administrator! |