More about clan's Xmas celebration party

As it was declared early and finally it happened, and clan had a wonderful Christmas party, having fun on top of Eferias castle (see online Youtube video, it's also available for download (245 MB) in original 1920x1080 video resolution in shader model 4 and stereo audio quality), and after that an extra fun warring for Syrtis (see online Youtube video, it's also available for download (398 MB) in original 1920x1080 video resolution in shader model 4 and stereo audio quality) - see pictures and videos below, and recall those great moments of our virtual life! :-) Merry Christmas and Happy New 2012 Year!

Christmas party of SWS clan
Part #1 "Celebration on the tower"

Christmas party of SWS clan
Part #2 "Xmas warring"

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2012 Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2012 Year!

Xmas celebration party

I, Titanium Axle, invite all clannies and our friends to take part in clan's Christmas celebration party online in Regnum Online on the top of the highest tower of our Eferias castle on Sun, December 25, 2011 at 7 PM (GMT), where we will celebrate together, socialize, drink cold Alsius beer and hot Ignis punch, do hot dance & flirt ;-) , fireworks, listen the sound of ocean wind and sea birds, will make amazing clan's pictures (and, will try video too), and later on together will go to warrr, i. e. shortly speaking, will have fun altogether as usual!.. :-)

Come on, come in - join us on online Xmas party!

Autumn Hot 2011

Hello, my clannies and friends. Here I wanna represent for you our brave war activities during the recent autumn season, where many of you will find yourself in good mood, having fun, and doing the best for Syrtis! So, enjoy great moments of our virtual life, add your comments, share your experience and ideas, and do not forget that Syrtis expects from us even more acts of bravery further! :-) And, thank you for making our common life better!

And, below is one more shared album from crystalx, our clannie and a supreme lock.

Come to Regnum Online, and join us for having even more fun and pleasure!

Happy Thanksgiving, Syrtis & Syrtis War Stalkers clan! ;-)

Roasted pig

Roasted goat

SWS IRL: Olivier from Ghana, amazing Africa

Hello SWS, my name is Olivier, I am french and live in Accra, Ghana.

I am presently working for a major (in fact the largest, find it yourself) oil and gas services company. I am based in West Africa as I am the person in charge of coordonating the actions with the national oil companies in West Africa.

I have to say my job is awesome, I travel a lot, relate with high level people, design some very interesting project, work also with universities and ministries as we do a lot of donations, conferences etc... to help these universities reaching the proper academic standards. For example, I am organizing a contest between all universities in West Africa to design a plugin for a scientific software which is doing geological 3D modeling. This will require them to establish collaboration between their IT, geology, geophysics and maybe maths depts. Learning to collaborate is key.

It's fascinating to see how fast West Africa is moving, especially countries like Ghana.
I travel every month at least once: Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Senegal, Liberia, Mali, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. Plus Europe, US, Dubai, etc... Basically, I use one passport per year. Also, salary is pretty attractive to say the least.

I am almost divorced, have a very beautiful gf and one teen daughter, pretty sharp in basically all school subjects, from maths to english through sport or music (she was in fact the winner for Nigeria of the best solo junior vocalist with a song of Nina Simone).

Because, yes, I was living before in Lagos, Nigeria. Incredible country which is at the same time, the richest and the poorest. It's a very irritating and fascinating place, bubbling with life, culture, tradition and pollution, crime, corruption. After a while, it makes you tired, so I had to change.

Accra and Ghana is simply beautiful. The town is pretty clean for a developing country capital with 2 millions people. It is safe, the beach is in town, a lot of restaurant and outing, supermarkets etc... Actually, Ghana had experienced for the first 9 months of 2011 a staggering net growth (growth-inflation) of 14%! When, in Europe or USA, we get 3%, everyone is happy. This is much higher than China and make Ghana the highest growth rate worldwide. Eh yes ! Always good to strangle the commonly accepted carricature of miserable starving and suffering Africa. Ghana is now turning to a middle class economy, with something looking like SE Asia 20 years ago.

There is a lot to see down there: for example, I visited Cape Coast and Elmina castles. They are big fortresses built by european powers 300 to 500 years ago. Very sad, a central point for slavery, you can see the dungeons where 2500 males slaves and 1500 female slaves where almost buried, the room for condemn slaves, 50 in a room of 10 by 4 m, not even executed, just left in total darkness to perish of hunger and thirst. For Regnum, it is interesting as we can see how castles were defended by forts (which is not our case).

I went to Regnum long ago, about 4 years I think. I played a bit till I reached level 38 knight and 35 warlock. But connectivity, lag was such an issue I gave up. Then I came back because of the souvenir of epic battles in wz. I am presently playing 2 characters: Makrock, a conj level 38, a bit dumb and pretty easy to kill (in fact, I think he enjoyed it) and Livero (oh, that sounds like the anagram of Oliver ?), a hunter, level 29, progressing very fast as I started it last week. I love Livero, he is smarter than Makrock, slick, deadly, fast and treacherous.

I love cooking, women, travelling, composing computer generated landscape, photos, ladies, swimming, girls... Ok, did I mention I have a passion for females generally?

I am sending here a couple of photos of various places I went.

The big waterfall is Agbokim, in Nigeria, amazing place. The river is a small river in a village in Eastern Nigeria, south of Enugu, called Nomeh. The women playing music as well.

The sunset beach is inside Accra, Labadi beach. This white fortress with canons is Cape Coast Castle. Finally, the paradise white sand beach is 30 min from Accra, a strip of white sand in the ocean, a pure paradise, Bojo beach.

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SWS IRL: a hot and fluffy story

Hi everyone, it's Zoli from Hungary again, and I’m here to share some hot and fluffy things with all of you, in the following few hundred pages… I will introduce Flaming Wolf team and its achievements. So where were everything begin?

All was beginning at the end of May 2011. When some foolish guy had enough courage and will to start working on one of his old dream. Which was to recreate one of his old and loved Quartz game. Around the end of May a stunning picture, also from the mind of this foolish guy, was created to serve as a team logo, and Flaming Wolf was founded.

Flaming Wolf

Soon after Flaming Wolf foundation it’s firs program was finished. It is Prince of Darkeness - Bloddy Saturday. I hope everyone get the "eastern egg" in the title, who play with the game…

Prince Of Darkness gameplay

That time the team leader thought not enough people know about his greatness, so as a next step my Byte Adventures. Programing and other things blog was created, and the first post Art Gallery was placed at the 8 of August.

The conqueror campaign was continued with an image viewer/browser program. Image Browser - Part 5 - Final release, which become the team’s most successful program from the first half year. Thanks to the wise goddess of programmers, the time was right for gain more fame through participate on a programming challenge. This was the 13th PyWeek, a one week long programming challenge. After a week of hard coding and drawing, Mutation 13 was finished - see it here. The team’s program was ranked as the 22nd best of among all the solo entries.

The team next move was to decided that a cool game must be written. So, Flaming Wolf started to develop the necessary skills and codes. Which result was the creation of Tech demo v01 and Tech demo v02.

Tech demo v01

Tech demo v02

But at the beginning of the Tech demo v03 the lead programmer realized his code is a real mess, a jungle full of bloodthirsty beasts. Fortunately his mentor and some books come to his aid, and the programmer decided to rewrite all of his game code from the scratch, to make a clean code and an awesome game.

That's the past, but as we all know, at least from an early film of Keanu Reeves, "The best place is here and the best time is now". Stay tuned on Flaming Wolf’s future. We need music composers as well as graphic artists. As last word lets say something about fluff.

Got fluff?

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NGD Studios interview

Few days ago one more NGD Studios Interview (report about previous one see here) has been published. As you all know, starting from yesterday new Bunch of Heroes first action game is available for buying, and all of us, Regnum Online users, might get an exclusive gift too, woo-hoo!

NGD Studios new logo

Short interesting facts from interview are below:

• About origin of NGD name: "NGD started as the fusion of three teams of game developers" and they "named with the placeholder name “Nuevo Grupo de Desarrollo” (New Development Group in English)", and "almost 6 months we fought to come up with a super-cool new name for the studio" and finally "in the end we settled for the [NGD] acronym".
• About development details of their new Bunch of Heroes game: "The development of the [Bunch of Heroes] game started two years ago when three of the most experienced developers at NGD, Gastón di Pasquo, Leonardo Benaducci and Javier Barreto, decided to do a shooter prototype to test a new engine Leo came up with on his spare time" - so, "core team was around 6 people, peaking at 12 people when finishing all of the game's content".
• About NGD plans: "Our next big thing might be a huge and original MMO that we are prototyping, but it’s a very ambitious project and we are still looking on how to fund it".

NGD Studios team

NGD and Regnum Online: past, present, and future

Few days ago an interesting NGD Studios’ Andrés Chilkowski on Bunch of Heroes, Regnum Online & Designing Game Engines interview with Andrés Chilkowski, one of the members of NGD’s management team, has been published. And, now we can clarify some historical details about both Regnum Online game and NGD Studios company, which created this wonderful game.

So, short story is next. They had started a game development in 2002 with only 20.000 dollars and with only 7 people, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and wanted to have beta version in 6 months, but in almost 5 years later they launched Regnum Online.

Right now NGD has 35 people working on various projects including Bunch of Heroes and Regnum Online games.

For Regnum Online game they are using own NG3D proprietary game engine, but have other game engines. Bunch of Heroes game was built using a new Perfection engine developed by Leonardo Benaducci. And, currently they "are halfway through the development of our third Engine code named Crush".

Approx 1,000,000 subscribers played NGD’s first major release of Regnum Online. On their hard development way they passed such early stages as "the servers would crash with more than 100 users online" and "2 years to make it work as a business -optimizing the premium items and monetization". So, current status is declared as: "game is just now reaching our original vision as we are continuously adding new features every month", and, it smells mature and sounds good! :-)

Among future NGD plans they "plan to continue working on it [i. e. Regnum Online] for another decade if we can", plus "have already started working on a prototype of our next big MMO", and ... now surprise: premier of their new Bunch of Heroes game for PC will be ... yep, just in 4 days, on September 21, 2011!

New Castle, Coming to Regnum Online Next Update

UPDATED (2011/09/22): also, see another interview here.

SWS IRL: Bence from Hungary

Hi Clannies, I’m Bence Erős, a 22 years old software developer and university student and study Software Engineering BSc. I live in Debrecen, the 2nd biggest city of Hungary, about 200.000 people live here - it's close to the eastern border of the country. In Regnum Online my primary character is crystalx, a lvl 49 warlock, and I also have a lvl 26 barbarian called hard reset, and a lvl 22 marksman (nega). I started playing Regnum Online around the middle of July.

Picture 1: hard reset and crystalx

To be honest, I’m not a gamer. I haven’t played any games in the recent years. Before that - long ago in the middle of my teen ages, I played mainly strategy games: Age of Empires, Heroes 3, Warcraft 3, Rise of Nations, Settlers and sometimes Starcraft. All were boring after sometimes, since I could only play in single player, we didn’t have internet connection at home that time (I just can’t imagine how I survived my first 16 years. :D )

But this summer after my exams I downloaded RO and I gave it a go. Aaand... I became addicted to it in a few days. So I spent most of my summer with playing RO; crystalx is now lvl 49, but sadly I’m a bit bored of grinding that guy, so in the recent days I have mainly played my barb, hard reset, and I log in with my lock only if there is some invasion.

When I don’t sit near my computer, I live the everyday life of university students. I’m with my beautiful girlfriend who I have gone out with for more than one years now, or I’m with my friends in a tavern or on a rock festival, or I’m watching a movie, whatever. In my teen ages I had read a lot of books too, but sadly I gave that up. I read mainly sci-fi novels, my favourite writers are Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and George Orwell. I also liked fantasy novels, eg. Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter (one of the reasons why I fell in love with Regnum is how similar its world is to LOTR. :) So that’s all about books, nowadays I read IT stuff when I have some time to do that, currently Refactoring by Martin Fowler. By the way, I’m not a read-only guy, I started a blog in English last winter, it is my "just another blog about software engineering" blog. You can find some more or less interesting programming-related articles here.

Picture 2: My girlfriend and myself

Picture 3: At a university bale

Picture 4: Factory festival at Miskolc

Picture 5: A more or less cultivated garden party with friends

Picture 6: Cutting the melon - when everybody knows better how to do that :)

Picture 7: Late-night coding fun :)

Picture 8: So.. question?

Picture 9: A long-haired Bence

During the university years I worked as a software engineer for several companies, but after all I have became fed up with them, so currently I try to get by as a freelancer. When I say "software engineer" I mean "programmer", but the latter one is a damn ugly word in my opinion, therefore I more prefer using the first one :) So, primarily I write smaller business applications, mainly in PHP, JavaScript (with jQuery) and I prefer using PostgreSQL as a database. If I don’t write such applications, I develop my PHP framework, which I will release as public, free software some time in this year (hopefully). When I become fed up with PHP, I sometimes play a bit with Java, Scala or C, but I’m not really professional in those technologies/languages. I’m a really open-source guy, I rarely work with any proprietary stuff. I use mainly Ubuntu Linux with Fluxbox on my desktop, and sometimes I try out Slackware or Slack-based Linux distributions too. As I mentioned above, I’m a university student too, but now I only have a very few subjects, studying is not a really important part of my life. To be honest, I should have finished the BSc 2 years ago - I’m very lazy with math subjects. :)

Picture 10:  Finally, a screenshot about my nerd desktop

That's all guys, have fun, enjoy my pictures, and defend me when I’m under a dizzy cast. ;D

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Purple Fever Event is finished - no infection anymore!

Finally epidemic Purple Fever Event has been finished! Uhh, everybody is tired to drink the cure and be infected from tons of purple poisonous spiders, to watch fully opened gates all three realms at the same time, catch enemies gems, and fight with the kidnappers of our gems. Syrtis War Stalkers clan received full satisfaction during this event. So, let's recall that nice time here, in pictures.

Hot Summer Season 2011

Hot Summer Season of 2011 was really hot, effective, and great for our Syrtis War Stalkers clan - the hottest moments, which are in our memory and you always can view and recall that brave time here! Enjoy!

Nemon visiting by Titanium Axle

Some time ago Titanium Axle decided to meet a good friend on French Regnum Online Nemon server. It was really funny and pleasure adventure to visit Syrtians on another world, where talk French language!

First surprise on that server was ... after unexpected meeting with alone and very friendly Ignis mage on our Herbred fort - we kissed and danced together, even she was an enemy player, in the center of our Syrtis war zone!

Finally, I met my good French friend, very sexy Bastet, a beautiful Wood Elf warlock 50th level. She played Nelfe character in our clan on Horus, and some in our clan can remember her as a very experienced player and fast gringer. During the long time Bastet was warlock #1 among Syrtians on Nemon!

We danced, chatted a lot, and had a wonderful time on French Nemon server in general, but ... finally Titanium Axle with big sadness had to return back to own world...

SWS IRL: Eragon from England

Greetings one and all, SWS and curious blog surfers alike.

I feel a formal introduction is in order: The name is Eragon Shadeslayer, well.. In game name I should say, my actual name is Isaac - you may call me Eragon, Isaac or That Posh Twat, it's all good.

Introduction aside, lets get to the meat of the matter as I'm aware what a very inquisitive lot you are to have read this far.

About Me.

Above is my primary character, Eragon Shadeslayer.

A half elf knight, warmaster, level 60 and all around general badass.

I do have an alternate account, a warlock named Metaphysical Being, who is humble level of 40.

Where to begin, Where to begin.. Hmm.

First off, I am the dictionary definition of "no-lifer" - I will sit down in front of a computer on an MMO and will not hit the off button for 10 hours OR more sometimes.

Of course, some brash types have a problem with this - to them I say, it is my life to do with what I will, just because I choose to sit in front of a screen all day does not make it any less of a life (Besides, I'm allergic to fresh air, I swear!).

Often if you see me in game by the CS I'm afk if I'm resting or I'm there and either not paying attention or lurking waiting for something to happen if I'm standing by the CS.

I'm a clear thinker, I tend to not let anything influence my judgement in any way.

I am also a bit of an optimist and grow weary of unnecessary negative attitudes fast in Regnum, pessimism is not helpful - especially if the situation is bad - I'm not saying you can't complain, hell I love to complain myself but I'm never entirely serious about it.

Despite all this, I'm not a serious kind of guy.. I like a laugh and I play to enjoy myself.

I do read, my favorite titles being the Inheritance series (My main Regnum character namesake.), Harry Potter, Three Men in a Boat, A Pattern of Islands and Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Don't really have any favourite movies, but the Pirates of the Caribbean series is brilliant.

As you might've heard prior to this in the clan chat, I'm from the "Green and Pleasant Land" of England.

I am 17 years of age, with my birthday being 19th of July and I am of the male variety.

Yes, I drink tea (2 and a half sugars please) and yes I tend to use the phrase "bloody hell".

I am also stereotypically cynical with a dry sense of humour (And dirty to at times unfortunately) often resorting to sarcasm.

I will not provide a self picture for my own reasons but here are some good photographs of the English countryside that I took while on holiday.

And a photograph of a 13th century monastery, as I'm feeling generous.

Moving on.

My PSN is Scaperstouch, I'm often on my Ps3 playing one game at a time until completion.

My Skype is IsaacL80, feel free to add me to your contacts but give me a heads up that it is you asking to be a contact in Regnum before you do, otherwise I'll probably ignore it if I don't know who it is.

My Youtube is isaacrulzrs2, feel free to browse the videos I've previously uploaded (I would like to do Regnum machinima but for reasons that would take to long to explain, I can't.)

I've only played Regnum since February 2011, but I first played during the Regnum beta back four years ago and quit after getting to level 21, which is why I have the year four anniversary clothes.

I play Regnum, but I've played RuneScape for far longer.

Currently, I am taking a break from RuneScape to play Regnum but I will alternate from time to time, so don't worry if I disappear for a while - I'm still here and will be sure to notify the clan if I quit one or the other indefinitely.

An avatar for my RuneScape character edited in GIMP by yours truly.

I think this pretty much covers everything I can think of to say about myself, sorry if it's a bit rambling but I've never had to write about myself in depth before (I don't own a Facebook account if you couldn't tell).

Thank you all for managing to read through this guff in its entirety, now if you'll excuse me I have some Realm points to gather so I'll leave you with these last screenshots (see my all screenshots).

Interrupted by Ignis at Daen Rha

Holding two gems with Ricksa while Ignis attempt to invade

A clear view of the Ignean capital

Laters!

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First anniversary of Syrtis War Stalkers clan

On 10th July, 2010, 1 year ago Syrtis War Stalkers clan has been created, and today clannies celebrate this bright event during whole the day: as on war as having rest and dancing or grinding - see pictures here.

SWS IRL: Zoli from Hungary

Hi everyone! This is my IRL section - so lets get stared. My name is Zoli, I'm from Hungary, a middle Europe country. I currently live at Budapest, the capital city. In Regnum Online I drive Babi, a half elf female hunter, which is my main character. She is a really sexy and cheeky girl, but also a good friend.

Picture 1. My Babi char

So when I'm not playing in RO I 'm a process engineer at a multinational company. We repair electronic stuff, like cellphones, motherboards and network devices. In my free time I play RO, but I have some other nice hobbies too.
I very like sports. I did several ones in the past, but nowadays I do rock-climbing. Here is some photos about the rocks and me (some routes are close to Budapest, but usually we need to travel for them - I climbed at Róka-hegy, Várgesztes and Tardosbánya).

Picture 2. Me on the wall

Picture 3. Looking up to the route

Also, I learn some cool martial art too. It's called Doce Pares. It's a Filipinos stick and knives fight self-defense combat sport. Below are my equipment:

• Twin of disperse: damage 823-945, 90% chance to can’t attack,
• Fang of silent death: damage 90-100/sec for 12 secs.

Picture 4: My Doce Pares equipment

My other hobby is drawing. I like mangas (manga is a Japanese comic book), animes and pretty young girls too, so they have a great influence on my arts. I made a websites for my arts, so I not just drew the pics, but I wrote site too. I used PHP and SQL programming languages for it - see it on chiharu.net46.net, where you can see examples of my vector-graphic arts. So if you are interested in vectorgraphic art, then check them and leave some comments or ratings there.

Nowadays a learning Python programming language, under the supervising of my friend. For Python programming I use Pygame, a Python game development environment for writing my 2D games. My first game is Prince of Darkness : Bloody Saturday, which is under a heavy development now, and which will play on both PC and on Android. Here is a picture about the game.

Picture 5. The main screen of my Prince of Darkness : Bloody Saturday game

This is what is in my present time, but I have several dreams for the future. Some of them are quite real ones and some of them for now live in my imagination. The most big my dream is to learn Japanese language. I really love Japan and Japanese culture, that's why I wanna learn Japanese language and of course I wanna visit Japan too, and even maybe work in this far country. And even to get married with some interesting Yakuza clan’s girl and join that way... no way, I just kidding. But when I will be there I wanna learn how to play on Shamisen witch, a Japanese music instrument. Next thing is to became the real Iron Man. I did the first step to it already!

Picture 6. First steps are done ... 

Unfortunately I lack of some resources, like money, a mini arc reactor inside my chest, and a huge company. But if I can't became Iron Man, it is enough for me to became Tony Stark and get all the chicks I want! :D At least I wanna be a good clan-mate in our marvelous clan, and get a lot of goat and pig skins in my backpack. lol

Also below you can see some my other pictures among whole my album too.

Picture 7. City-view from the castle of Buda witch is a famous place in Budapest 

Picture 8. Working with Android emulator

Thank you for reading. Have a nice day!

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Busy Spring Season 2011 (continuation)

Please hold on, the Busy Spring Season 2011 is not finished yet, and you have a great chance to see an update below in pictures and enjoy together with us by recalling of those great and unique moments of our Regnum Online life!

We congratulate Regnum Online with 4th Anniversary!

We congratulate NGD Studios and their wonderful Regnum Online game with 4th Anniversary! They made an amazing game, which we all play with pleasure and have fun to be together! We have to be ready to use new forts and other improvements in game soon!

4th Anniversary gift for Regnum Online players

P. S. By the way please pay attention on birthday party gift, which NGD Studios prepared for us (also, see more on Regnum Online on facebook.com)! ;-)

Syrtis met Golden Dragon

Yesterday, after multiply failed invasion attempts to capture all gems altogether on our Gem Portal we have got a success, and finally Syrtis met Golden Dragon - see pictures from those moments here.

Benkkus on Happy Friday

Previous Happy Friday came to us with tons of nice Benkku mounts, which totally flooded our Horus world - enjoy watching slideshow below to recall that cool time!

Busy Spring Season 2011

The progress report about Busy Spring Season 2011 of our Syrtis War Stalkers clan is below, in pictures - enjoy!

First 60th level in clan!

Good news about first clan member in clan, who had reached maximum 60th level! Woo hoo, let's congratulate altogether our Ricksa, our great and brave hunter!

In accordance with this event, it was decided to create a new special rank for 60th level, and after a quick discussion the new Son of Ares (Ares, the Greek God of War) rank was created, and, for the first time had been assigned to Ricksa!

Ricksa first had reached 60th level

By the way here is a simple Voting for the best 60th level rank name in SWS clan online form, where you can suggest your own rank name for 60th level - we will discuss and vote in clan. Thank you for your participation!

SWS IRL: Gabriel from Brazil

Hey there! My name is Gabriel, a 20-year old communications student, lover of Californication and Heavy Metal. I live in Brazil, I was born in São Paulo, a well know city to foreigns, but I live in a smaller city called Praia Grande, or in English, Long Beach.

The city is better know as a shadow of Santos, another great town, where we have a football stadium called Vila Belmiro. We have nice beaches, including a shipyard, where can be seen dozens of ships daily at the portuary area.

Where I live, though, is a little bit far from the ports. Santos is also where I study (now at the 3rd year of a period of four). Below is the view outside my window, at the 9th floor.

From SWS IRL: Gabriel from Brazil

Is California more or less like that? *-*

Online, my name is Sharkran, a barbarian. I was responsible for designing the logo for our clan together with our leader. I don't log on a lot, but I appear sometimes to see what's on. Sometimes my computer goes crazy and I can't play no matter what I try, but even with this problem, I can't leave Regnum behind. :D

I'm a Christian, I don't drink or smoke, and I'm completely in love with German tales and its mythology, the Nordic. I have also some pagan beliefs, besides my religion, of course.

From SWS IRL: Gabriel from Brazil

One of my three swords. That's the long one.

I always use to go to rock shows when my idols come to my country. The last one I've seen on stage was Bon Jovi, on Morumbi Stadium. The first one, Guns N' Roses. Sadly, I've lost the three greatest shows of this year: Iron Maiden, Ozzy and U2. But it was worthy. The money I would spend on the shows I spend on my little Georgia.

From SWS IRL: Gabriel from Brazil

Yeah, that's my little Georgia, a Michael Stratocaster named
Georgia because of the Joe Hill's book "Heart Shaped Box".

And finally, that's me. See you all in Regnum!

From SWS IRL: Gabriel from Brazil

Photo of me

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Naked in Regnum Online ;-)

This story is NOT an April Fools Day joke, it's not a fake, and it's nothing to do with Photoshop or GIMP graphics tools. It's a real story! A real, because ... of some bug, I guess! See below: naked in Regnum Online game, and have fun with us!.. ;-)

P. S. For me (how about you?) on my Radeon HD 5700 Series video card under Fedora 14 OS with the latest 11.2 ATI video driver, this bug might be reproduced quite easily after multiply switching from full-screen mode to windowed one, and back. So, it's really easy to strip everyone!.. ;-) Even Yeti or Orc!.. ;-)

SWS IRL: Philippe from France

Let me introduce myself :

Well, I'm very, very old ! Probably the oldest in the whole Syrtis Realm. :) Don't ask my age, I don't remember ...

I'm French, I love my country but I mainly love any people on earth in any country. I would like visit them all, take a chair with any people meet in streets or small roads, campaigns, whatever it is, have a beer and chat about their life and their hopes.

I love architecture and old monuments mainly if they represent the country where they are. I love taste any typical cooking.

I started my job life as engineer in electronics and worked on radio emetter/receivers and hyperfrequency radars.

But, developping some electronic boards with CPUs and peripheral components I had to program them (assembler, Pascal, C) ... it was the virus that makes me to switch to the software and exchange my oscilloscope to a computer screen.

I worked some time as a system engineer on SCO/HP/AIX/Solaris boxes (I always prefered Gnu/Linux which I began to work with releases < 1) (time of dinosaurs :) )

Now I work in Paris as a DBA (mainly Oracle, SQLserver, but all databases are in some of interest for me) and I'm still developping in C, PHP, U*x shells.

I love classical music and Opéras, jazz (mainly swing music like Django Reihnardt). I'm a baritone singer in a classical choir.

I play classical guitar (less and less but still bad).

I do photography and macro photography, trecking, reading, boating sailing (not so often as I would).

I never played in any online game before discovering ROL by chance.

I read an article about ROL in November 2008, because it was said the action was at middle age (this is my prefered historical period).

I tried and was captivated.

Now, I play ROL as soon as I have some spare time ... so not often unfortunately. :(

My chars are Soron knight 50, Vercingetorix hunter 36, Melusine warlock 35, Tux the barbarian 32, Miss Tick conju 30 and ????

Happy to be part of the SWS clan, I'll be happy to help any of you. Just ask !

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* All postings under current SWS IRL series might be found here.

SWS IRL: Mihai from Romania

Hey my friends,

Here we start new SWS IRL posting series on our blog, and as you should understand from the title above it's about us, Syrtis War Stalkers clannies, in real life on the Earth! Below is the first story of Alex, but ... be ready to prepare your own story too - we will read it with big pleasure too! :-)

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WBR, Titanium Axle,
founder of Syrtis War Stalkers clan.

Hi, I'm Mihai, a 27 years Romanian 50% country guy. I'm born in Alexandria, but now living in Bucharest the Romania's capitol. I'm a student, studying law at Romanian Police Academy 3rd year (out of 5), working as cocktail bartender in free time. I love space and everything inside it. Don't smoke and drink only sometimes.

In Regnum Online game I've been one of the youngest councilors of Syrtian Council, young not in age, but in time I've been in Syrtian Council clan.

In Syrtis War Stalkers clan I play Cnmne 50 lvl knight, but I have two another 50 lvl barbarian and marksman characters too.

Since the age of 15 I started to write lyrics, different shapes and sizes if you know what I mean. Saddest poetry I have written is this, maybe some of you will not understand it at first:

Don't head for the light,
Head to me,
Because the sun's light
You'll never see
Once again.
Life is a gift,
But not forever
Because of the path
We have choosen together.
This world is gone,
Its gone forever,
Even the moon long-time faded
Will never rise once again.

Last stanza was only translated from Romanian.

One of my happiest lirics is in this YouTube-hosted ROA (Rise Of Artificial) - We Like It song (Romanian version is ROA (Rise Of Artificial) - Ne place). You can read the words of this song below:

Verse 1:

In the morning, ping pong
We play our favourite song
Cuz we like it
In the evening round the block
Popping off caps non stop
Fillin big plastic bags
With water and dirty rags
From the top to the ground
Fallin from the top flour
On the sidewalk they pound

Bridge:

No number no numbers
Just the capital letters
Put the lyrics on the paper
As in exam for the semester
Simplicity 's the muse
Inhale, exhale them words
Them sentences all the
Wicked fantasies

Chorus:

Music is supreme, sublime and uplifting
Holding us together like a caring mother
Bass is like the milk drums are like the silk
The sweetest lullaby for the nights are passing by  

Verse 2: 

Bring amplification
Waking un the entire nation
Put a fifty cents coin
On the tracks and enjoy
Making tactical smoke bombs
Straight from accordions
Cuz you like it
We pretend we re grown ups
High class stupid shots
How you like it
But no no no no
We don't like it

Bridge

Chorus x2

See you online in Regnum Online game!

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* All postings under current SWS IRL series might be found here.

Syrtis War Stalkers clan immigrates to Ignis

After multiply consultations with "old" elite of Syrtis War Stalkers clan, and after hard and long deliberation, the founder of SWS clan, Titanium Axle, has decided to immigrate our clan to Ignis realm. Yes, we love red!

So, at the nearest future we will even try to transfer the entire our family-type clan at once from Syrtis to Ignis realms (on some forums has been rumored that this can be done with using next SQL command by NGD Studios (so, therefore our clannies, who work in database development industry, currently study SQL intensively!) and with a lot of premium Regnum Online currency, approx. 100k Ximerin).:

UPDATE clans SET clan_name = 'Ignis War Stalkers', clan_importance = 'VIP', realm_id = (SELECT id FROM realms WHERE realm_name = 'Ignis') WHERE realm_name = 'Syrtis War Stalkers';

Help us to migrate in any way! Please donate us!

At the very beginning we will build friendship relations with all major Ignis clan.

Unfortunately no more details for now, sorry (and, you should understand why!), but please stay tuned with us for more news, and wish us luck!

UPDATED (2011/04/02): of course, it was an April Fools' Day joke! We really hope that everybody had a fun during whole this great day! ;-)

SYRTIS WAR STALKERS CLAN DOES NOT GO NEITHER RED NOR BLUE, BUT STAYS GREEN ALWAYS!

About Regnum Online in Linux world, or, Linux in Regnum Online world

This post is about valorous Linux users which play Regnum Online. Playing this great online game, I have quickly enough understood that I'm not alone Linux/Unices user here, and us here the whole army! :-) And, for confirming this fact I ask all Linux users, who plays Regnum Online, to fill this simple form. The final result with statistics, based on your feedback, will be published soon. I bet we all will be surprised!

Also, I have one more big request to these Linux users. Please send remarkable Linux screenshots, when you play in Regnum Online, preferable with some valuable Linux attributes, like info about your PC, your game configuration/options, etc, directly to syrtiswarstalkers@gmail.com. I promise, all of them will be published on this site soon with big pleasure! If you want, we even can make some kind of competition with voting for the best screenshot! So, I begin - you continue! ;-) Good luck!

Warmasters visiting

Long awaited Warmasters update is right here - I've visited Amun server recently, where Titanium Axle had a nice adventure, starting from our invasion in Alsius, visiting nice places near Algaros fort, and Warmasters in Fisgail town, and successful defending of our realm from Alsius - see pictures below.

Exquisite views of Syrtis nature

Take a look on exquisite views of Syrtis nature in 1920x1080 high quality screen resolution with Shader Model 4.0, and enjoy!

P. S. The album will be filled further by other magnificent views of Syrtis nature.

Few momentous events: clan's half year anniversary and designed logo

There are few momentous events, happened on these days:

• On January 10th, 2011, our clan had celebrated half year anniversary:



Loving memory of Lisa clan is on captured Alsius's Trele fort

Unfortunately, we all were so busy defending our realm against Ignis horde and then took active part in our own invasion against Alsius, that we did not organize a proper celebration party on the ocean beach, but danced and did fireworks on each captured forts.

This event we are celebrating on:

• #9 rank by gold on whole horus world,
• #20 rank by experience on whole horus world,
• #19 by Regnum points among Syrtis clans - yes, we are still weak in Regnum points:

Ranks of our clan by gold and XP on horus world

• Finally we have our own designed official clan's logo - thanks to Sharkran, our great designer, who made this hard job (also, see Competition on the best clan emblem/logo design):

Logo of our clan