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May 17, 2008
I removed my monitor and I put my sister's monitor on my pc table. For the first time in how many days we were able to finish 1 round of ds hunting. Darn! Hahaha i must be losing my touch. I keep forgetting how low my life is and i how easy melee monsters can kill my fashih. I think i died around 4 times or so.
Ray showed us his test page and i must admit it really wowed us. It's just bad that wikidot doesn't allow css behavior (htc url), i can really use it to polish the transparency of PNG images not to mention the dynamic html hover format.
Think think think.. i can think of something eventually. I always do. ^_^
May 16, 2008
Today didn't start well. I got home, turned on my pc as usual, and BAM! my pc system made a popping noise and went off. Smoke came out of it so i pulled off my extension cord out of the electrical socket. Thank goodness it is just the monitor and not the CPU. Thank goodness also because we have 4 pcs here at home (3 desktops, 1 laptop) and i am now using my younger sister's pc monitor. It just looks weird coz the monitor is on the the other table and i'm actually looking sideways while i'm writing this entry.
Darn! Oh well.. i have 2 choices, 1) buy a new monitor (2nd hand worth P1,500 approximately), 2) take my monitor to the repair shop (could be costly).
We tried to DS hunt after i moved the keyboard and mouse to my sister's table but I am really uncomfortable with looking sideways with the keyboard and monitor on top of the same table. My keyboard is normally lower . We stopped and we decided to call it a day and just update the TW scheds. I can't wait for Monday so we can go out and buy a new 2nd hand monitor (kinda redundant).
May 15, 2008
Not our lucky day at all. I wasn't able to update anything. Rafi doesn't have any internet connection at home. Mine is very intermittent. It goes off every 5 mins or so. I started taking screenshots of fashion items and even got kaNne to model them but with the frequent disconnections i got, i decided to go to sleep early.
May 14, 2008
Valinaire posted in the feedback form of our previous event that she wanted a fashion show event. Unfortunately that is one event that we can not do at the moment. I can't say if we can hold that in the future. She also wanted to add info regarding fashion. Actually that is already in my list to do and i already started the pages for the fashion but i'm not releasing the pages yet because i was planning to incorporate it the future look of the site.
I have just finished editing the item mall and the dye guide areas to include the new set of fashions in PW ph.
Got a mail from JuVenile™ today telling me that the calling of the fox status affects MP and not HP. Rafi said that's true, i updated it. Ty.
I'm looking thru the frost equips and holy valley equips and it looks like both of those dungeons have equipment that can be broken down into molds of better equipment. We're planning something new for next week and hopefully we can translate some of the incoming equipment soon.
Browsing at different forums, i always see my rank equipment link in their suggested websites but after someone posts that link, somebody will always respond with "how can i increase my fame/reputation points?". So i edited the rank equipment area to include the answer to that question. Hopefully it will encourage people to check other pages in this site.
May 13, 2008
HAAAYYYZZZZ after 10 long years (exag) i was able to finish writing down serpent clans. I can't get a hold of their logos and if they are really active or not. Thank goodness for those who submitted their clan infos as i was able to get them without any hassle. The dye names are also being altered and will be posted before the end of this day.
Hm… I am thinking of something about the names but i'll probably do something about it in the near future depending on what will happen to this site.
May 12, 2008
12:30 am
I realized it has been a while ago since i last used the Auctioneer. Most of the time it would just be Rafi who would do ingot trading if we needed yuan in our quests. I normally don't check the auctioneer because it's kinda hard to find what i need even though i know how to navigate the options there. Dealing with squares [][][] instead of real names can be quite frustrating.
I didn't know that with the Dusk Palace patch, most names of the items in the auctioneer are now named properly (goodbye squares). Nice! I edited the names of the potions in the consumables, flight, mount and i am also going to change the dye names. :D Right now.. time to ds hunt.
Now with the Auctioneer here, here's my simple to do list. I wonder when all these will be finished.
Darn it! Ok so i did some image swapping but it looks like even my new images are hotlinked from me again. ARGH! Oh well, imageswap again…
8:45 pm
Heheh we were able to post the winner and the next theme of the screenshot contest before 9 pm. I posted the TW results and tw scores before we went out (for a date supposedly lolz) this afternoon. Rafi and I went to a meeting and hopefully something will come out of it soon.
May 11, 2008
I discovered something today. Image hotlinking. Actually i have already known this issue before. But today i found out that someone copied the exact source code of some of this site's pages. Since i don't have access to the wikidot's htaccess file, i did the next best thing i could think of.. image swapping. i put this image
in all of the images that were copied. Rafi said it would take me all night to do that since there are many images that i would need to manually change. Personally i don't care if it would take me hours to finish it. At least it would teach those people not to eat up my bandwidth with their hotlinking. I'll probably let that stay for a couple of days until they notice it. Then i would switch to plan b —> redirecting.
Hey, it's ok for me if they get information from my site. After all i put this up to provide info to players of perfect world. BUT they should think twice in getting the images from my site without uploading the images to another host. Ouch bandwidth. What is imageshack, photobucket and other free image hosting sites for? Hey they can even upload the same images in friendster for all i care. Just don't use up my bandwidth. >_< I'm done now. Let's wait and see what will happen in the next few days.
Ray pmed me awhile back regarding putting back the search within the wiki option. I removed that because i like the look of the google search not to mention people can use it to search google itself. Bad side about it is it opens in a new window. If you are using firefox (like what i recommend), it will open in a new tab. So ray said i should put the google search box in all pages if i would want to keep it this way. He's right. Hehehe ok i completed it. Except for some pages.. the google search box can now be seen in almost every page in this site. I tried putting it on the side bar so it would be easier, but it seems not possible.
May 10, 2008
Rafi and I were talking about the feedbacks we got from the bring me event. Most of the feedback were suggesting either a trivia/quiz event or an amazing race event. I originally suggested the amazing race event to him but we can't come up with any way of letting many people join the event. I had suggested that there will be teams and in each stop, they will get a crafted item from us as proof that they reached that certain pitstop. Unfortunately that will require sooo much time not to mention only a few people will get to join it. After a bit of brain-racking and debating (believe me.. we argued so much about how we're going to let many people join the game), we came up with a solution that will let many people join the game.
Right now.. i'm still thinking of what possible obstacles we could get in doing this event. Darn.. Oh well, i guess we'll just have to wait for people to make their comments.
May 9, 2008
We partied for DS hunting in TG. At around 3 am, my head started to nod.. Rafi said we should stop and i should go to sleep. I told him i still can't go to sleep coz i have to update the TW schedules. He volunteered to do all 3 servers and he said he's going to do the dusk bows chart that should've been completed many days ago. Hahaha he even said that if he wasn't able to finish all of those things, i should not speak to him anymore (lolz as if i can do that). Anyway, i checked the site this morning and wow.. he really made good to his promise. ^_^
Thanks honey. I love you.
May 8, 2008
We tried to DS hunt in Demon Land this morning. We're just going to check the drop rate of the DS. Hehehe as usual i wanted to try the monster for myself so without waiting for the rest, i attacked one monster. Woah! Let's see the damages to me: 1st damage 2k, 2nd damage 1.5k = dead fashih. So there i was, lying lifeless in the cold floor of demonland. Rafi invited Ray and he resurrected me. Rafi also invited someone named Ramar. We chatted for a while then Rafi kicked both of them so we can resume our DS hunting. By then joanne and cess got to demonland the long way (can't use the fairystone yet). Cess is not our usual partymate for ds hunting but i think either martin quitted or semi-quitted already.
After getting around 5 ds, i told rafi that i'm sleepy. We called it a day and then we decided that demon land is not yet for us. Tomorrow we'll go back to TG. Besides, we still don't have any lin yun's ring.
Yehey! I was able to finish the hall of dusk history. I hope some people can appreciate it. I will do the Frost City history next. ^_^
I'm reading through the websites regarding the Frost City patch and it looks like this patch contains not only the Frost City but also the Holy God's Valley. I don't know if i'm correct but every site that i go, they have put the 2 dungeons under one category unlike the hall of dusk which is in a category on its own.
Rafi called my attention to the thread in the pwboards regarding the future patch page that i created. People should be aware that this patch is really in the far future as it is still pending (was supposed to be out last april 29 but they decided to postphone the opening of the whole patch) in china and japan.
I also noticed GM Chagatai mentioned that he already knows the discrepancies in week 2 but due to time constraints, will update the images next week. I do hope so.
10:42 pm
I'm done posting the history of the frost city. Rafi said we should find out more about the new equipment. We saw new equipment information but we still can't fathom if those equipment came from quests or like the dusk palace, they are craftable. I will research on that eventually.. dunno when.
May 7, 2008
We changed the facade of this blog. It looks nicer now if i say so myself. Rafi said someone suggested we put the molds and their stats in this site too. Actually we already planned on doing that. But with all the hulabaloo on dusk palace, we were not able to do it earlier. Probably within this week or next week. Ray mentioned that we should also put up a dusk quest guide. O_o Shucks… we don't even hunt there. Up to know, Rafi and I are still DS hunting so we can get to rank 6 before level 89. But we went to the dusk palace this morning. We stopped after a while coz it was boring us. Yeah i know, to each his own but we can't help but feel bored. We don't have a goal there right now unlike our goal regarding rank 6 so i guess Dusk Palace will just have to wait. I wrote down the quests and if needed, we might add it later on.
Got a msg from GM Chagatai at pwboards today. Unfortunately it's still not about the scores. Oh well i guess we still need to wait regarding week 2. GM Chagatai posted week 3 scores and so far tiger week 3 scores are correct (total incorrect), total serpent score is correct, dragon week 3 scores are incorrect (total incorrect). It looks like GM chagatai and other higher bosses saw the similarities of the dusk guide found here and the dusk guide that they posted. Now they've given me the credits. YEY!
GM Chagatai posted that there will be x1.5 exp and x1.5 souls for this coming week as preparations for the incoming patch of Frost City and Marriage system. It got me excited about frost city so i asked rafi to finish the charts of the dusk weapons (he said he'll do it later).
I was supposed to update dusk-bosseses and the charts, but hehehe i decided to check out frost city too. Surprise there because other than frost city, future patches include valley of the gods and rubik's cube(?).
I love you honey Rafi. Muah!
May 6, 2008
2:00 am
We'll know later if the event was successful or not. I'm planning on putting a feedback area so we'll know if people would want us to host another event like that. … will add some more later.
1:00 pm
After the event yesterday, FsAngel won. She chose Seize the Day and the flight device looked nice. I wonder how i will look using that. Hahaha. Nevermind i can still use my brown wings, so why bother changing it. Right now i'm re-doing all charts so they can be seen more clearly. I still need to do the serpent clans section, translating the dusk bosses and oops i should update the scores. Should be done in an hour (or more.. ehehe i still need to finish duruo for my 2 characters and rafi's).
7:00 pm
Checked the site stats of yesterday.. whopee!!! success!! We broke the 3500 visitor/day barrier. I made a feedback form for the bring me event Here is the link. Hopefully many people will respond.
Got a reply from GM Chagatai, he said they're still checking on week 2's TW scores and will keep us posted. In the meantime rafi and I have been chatting about this and that when he saw the new dusk guide by LU. He said it looks VERY familiar. I went to check it out and ahahah of course it IS familiar because other than replacing the images, the info came from our own dusk guide. They even failed to change the wordings in the last part(Resetting the dungeon) coz it copied my words word for word. Rafi said we should post comments regarding plagiarism. Considering i also copied the Dusk Palace Sneak Peak word for word (although i gave them credit for it), i told him not to mind anymore. At least they know that our guide is very good to the point that they used it as somewhat the official guide. My sister actually coached me on what i should put in the discussion thread in pwboards.
I was browsing through kanbisekai's site for the charts of the dusk equipment and i came upon the PW2-expansion information. Wow! Wish we could also have this patch within the year. Check future patch for the details. I just wish my translations are correct.
May 5, 2008
2:00 pm
I updated the TW records of each server this morning but i'm still hesitating about updating the tw scores because there's still no feedback from GM Chagatai regarding the discrepancies of week 2. I said that i will post the scores every monday afternoon and probably i'll do that later this evening or tom.. I spoke with him but he's about to eat lunch so hopefully by later, GM Chagatai have already double checked it.
We chose the winner for last week's screenie event. I initially wanted the bug entry because it really looked like the owner was petting the pet but well i am not the only one who decides the winner out of all images. After i consulted with the twins, we reduced the entries into 2. One was the imposing Golem and the other one the frog prince entry. Since we can't decide between the two, 3 more people were asked to judge the two. In the end the frog prince won.
I'm having butterflies in my stomach thinking about the event later. I still need to go out by 3 pm so i have to be ready as soon as i get home. Meng said he will go to a computer shop early, i hope he finds an available pc. Ciao for now.
May 4, 2008
I was asking Rafi about the mold we got (the eva necklace that he said he can't use). To be quite honest, that mold was the reason why we are going to hold the bring me event tomorrow. We wanted to give it away but i told Rafi we can't create a contest for Dragon server only since our site caters to the whole ph-pw. So instead of giving the mold, we decided to give a flight device. Still… that darn mold kept haunting me. I kept bugging Rafi about what to do with it so this morning around 4:00 am, he suggested we do a "testrun" for the bring me event but they won't need to bring any item. They just need to find us (or him rather). So we positioned ourselves near the worn chest at the Sword City. I was getting ready to do a world chat but when i checked our location, i found out there was another person located in our vicinity. I rightclicked the name and was supposed to check if that person is near us but I clicked on Party instead. Boom! That guy now knows we're there. So we moved to Beast City and positioned ourselves near the Refining chest. Rafi said this is better since there are 3 Refining chests (first leap quests of newbies) in three different cities so it will really be a "find-me" event. So we used world chat and after around 3 mins, someone found us. A Yao Shou whose name was xXxKevsxXx or something (darn should've taken a screenshot). Around 30 secs later, a Yu Mang showed up. Unfortunately we already have the winner. We gave away that mold and that removed a load off my shoulders. Hahaha. I hope the winner can use it though.
Got a new mail today. It hurts knowing i don't do this kind of stuff.
A form with the following contents was submitted to you on 6:41 am Sunday May 4 2008:
name: pak u
email: moc.oohay|akrekcahgnakobob#moc.oohay|akrekcahgnakobob
message: ur son of a b1tch
subject: scammer boboThe visitor's IP address was: 121.1.43.46
I checked the IP address and it came from a smartbro user. Who do you think you are? I don't scam people and don't you dare judge my site to other sites giving away free stuffs but will take your arm and leg in return.
May 3, 2008
Got many entries for the screenie contest. I will have to start sorting out my mails into comments and suggestions, entries, questions.
We were not able to add new stuffs. I found out some errors in the dusk-materials page. For some reason, in the chinese fan site it shows that the 3 red items Ray put under three different bosses were dropped by the same boss. Ray said the info came from Lester. I pmed lester and he said that they were not able to get those said items yet so the chinese site that i found must be correct. Ray edited the page.
Actually the main reason why i was able to check on the drops.. i was looking for the icons for the 3 missing drops that we still don't have any images of. I found many sites providing the drops and who drops them, but not the icons. Hahaha found many sites to the point that i was able to update dusk-bosses to Ray's chagrin 'coz he was planning on putting maps of the bosses' locations there. I said we could still adjust the page to show the locations and the bosses. Hm.. come to think of it, maybe it would be difficult 'coz the bosses are located in different places in different modes and difficulty settings. Let's say we open another page like "dusk-boss:location" or something similar. Might work.
Unfortunately i wasn't able to speak to Ray regarding this thought because he immediately said "wtf. si lester nasa clan. teka interview ko lang". Lester in Maharot? That only means one thing.. Beast city has fallen. I was correct. It had fallen. Celestial now owns the territory.
Til next time..
May 2, 2008
Friday again. I updated the TW schedule before i went to sleep. Actually we divided the task. Rafi posted the schedule of dragon may TW, while i finished serpent may and tiger may. I consolidated the dragon clans and tiger clans based on the clan directories found in pwboards. It was unfortunate that KaiShen locked rafi's threads. Those infos are so outdated.
Phoenix has 2 forums. Don't know which one is more updated since both have new threads/posts for April 2008. Majesty doesn't exists anymore or does it? I don't know much about tiger and serpent servers. Looks like the Guardians in serpent already disintegrated but they posted their info in the clan listing. For such a young server, that clan was very short-lived.
I found out that GM Chagatai already posted the results week 2 TW scores. Unfortunately his scores doesn't match mine. Scrutinizing his table, i found out that he added Phoenix main and extension's scores into 1 Phoenix.. Holy Order's 1st and 2nd extensions were also added into one Holy0rder column.
Guardian's score got an extra subtraction of 5 points. Weird considering they only lost 1 major towns.. sword city is still intact.
I spoke with GM Chagatai regarding these errors, unfortunately i caught him in a bad time. He was getting ready to go home (9 pm) since he still needs to handle the D-wars tournament in Cavite tomorrow. I explained the corrections to him and he said he will check it. He thanked me and logged off. I wonder what will come out of that conversation? Last week it took 1 week to get Legacy™'s score corrected. Week 3 is already upon us and we still don't have the correct scores for week 2.
May 1, 2008
Ok.. i'm going to start my personal blog regarding this wiki.
I remember last April 27 around 2 am, rafi and i were in a dungeon when someone PMed me, his name was Chevalier. He said he has a suggestion regarding the site. He was suggesting we put the materials needed for the dusk weapons (special mention Wheel of Negation) since he still had to go to the furnace to check the materials needed. I got confused. I keep thinking it's already here. I have already added that. So i asked him to go to the mystics weapons and to click the name. That's when he realized he need to click the name. So i visited that page too. I remember adding a note at the top of the page to "click the weapon's name for the materials needed" or something like that. I thought i must've forgotten the mystic weapons section but.. NO i did not. So since he wasn't able to read my note, for sure other people also missed that same note. So i edited the message, made the font size bigger and centered the text. Thanks to this guy, at least we're learning on how to improve the site better.
Anyway back to the present. I got a mail from cranie saying stamp of solitude infos needed correcting. I don't know what that is so i went to Tiger server.. found him online but not responding so i went back to Dragon. I searched this site for that stamp chuchu and found it.. i edited it according to cranie.
This morning Ray asked me if i have a signature (for pwboards) that he can use to link back to this site. I said no but he can get a screenshot of Rafi and me. So we planned on meeting at DC south to get the said screenshot. Ray and i were talking in YM that time. When i got back to the game, Sathariel was talking to me asking if i know someone named Flakes. Of course i know ate sol! She was (and still is) my friend back in RO days. So Sathariel asked if i can join their party because they were just talking about me and he saw me beside him (standing lolz). Ate sol was surprised and we chatted for a while. She said she just talked to wilson and he mentioned that i created this site which surprised her because she didn't know that her friend in RO was the one who created the site that they always use for reference. Small world.
After chatting with ate sol, i met with rafi and ray at DC south and we met Huiniz. He said "wow kumpleto kayo ah". Ahahaha actually that was the first time we met Ray in game as well. Anyway Huiniz suggested adding a page for the active clans of each server. Not a bad idea. So at the end of this day, i added a "petition" sort of to get the details of each clan and i also asked rafi to add a thread in each of the server areas in pwboards. Let's see what will happen next.