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The Escapist has started their 2010 March Mayhem – Developer’s Showdown, where 64 developers go head-to-head to see who is coming out as the winner. Funcom is one of those 64 developers.

The elimination style tournament has started on 17th of March and won’t end until one developer remains and it’s up to every player and visiting communities to determine the outcome of each match-up through voting for your favorite developer.

You find all the details on The Escapist.

Sillirion wrote:

Back from GDC and a quick note today to mention something that you will see coming to the test server as part of the 1.07 update over the next few days.

As I have mentioned several times over the last few weeks while we had really wanted to get the new PVP feature, the Shrines of Bori, out onto the live servers prior to the expansion we hadn’t managed to achieve that, and the schedules hadn’t quite matched up. That resulted in us having to decide to release it instead immediately after the expansion.

This is something we have thought long and hard about over the last few weeks.

Given the passionate support for this feature in addition to our own opinion that we really did want to see this feature released if at all possible, we have moved some things around internally (and providing the final testing goes ok) and we do now intend to release this feature with the 1.07 update over the next few weeks.

It is important to stress that this has been the result of some great extra effort put in by the team and will not effect the schedule of the expansion. When we saw the More >

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Guild Rankings Are Up!

We’re continuing to show the weekly renown rankings from CROM, the biggest PVE General server in AOC and provide a brief commentary on the guilds’ progress/regress. You can also check numerical stats for current week globally at the official AOC Online Guild Rankings site, http://guilds.ageofconan.com/

Weekly Summary

The 6th week of Renown Rankings marked a struggle to retain 1st spots by the previous “ranking owners”, Band of Brothers, SolidLine and Tainted Souls. Several guilds tried assaulting their top 3 spots in Totals, Valor and Artistry – and succeeded in case of PVE and Crafting, but were unable to dethrone the first three as far as total count goes.

Numbers Speak

Objective amount of Valor has dropped a bit for the top guilds and quite severely for others. This marks a drop in PVE activity that draws most Valor points, i.e. running Instances and doing quests. On the other hand, this also means that there’s a bit more Raiding going on, which is always a nice thing for a general PVE server. Speaking of which, lower Glory numbers (PVP activity) were dreadfully low this week, probably signifying guilds’ ultimate dissatisfaction with a previously More >

Haven wrote:

* World map upgrade * Offline progression This new system will award players with additional levels accrued over time that can be allocated to your characters in character creation. * Fast travel system New Wagoner npcs to offer more speedy travel between notable locations within a playfield, and purchasable consumables to quickly bring you back to a playfield’s central hub area. * Claim revamped The will be a new window accessed via entering /claim, which will show all current/past claimed items. * Multiple quests in quest tracker You will be able to track individual quests on the map, as well as list the goals for several active quests on screen at the same time. * Revamped chat commands The chat commands available have now been documented with a better explanation as to what each command does. * Online preferences Window positions and hotkeys will be stored online, not on your local disk * The ability to quit to the character selection screen

GENERAL * Auto Target and Auto Facing are now disabled by default. * The sentry right inside Tortage will no longer occasionally let slaves inside the city. * Subscribing players now get a warning when messaging a More >