Happy new year and best wishes, Forklifters and guests !

No, the world isn't going to end by year's end, but hopefully we will see the long awaited new engine coming to Live!

2011 has been a great year, with the launch of our recruitment campaign to counter the loss of members. Sadly the server itself is being drained of its players thanks to Skyrim or SW: The Old Republic, but we shall remain strong and united for this upcoming year!
2011 has been the last year of Means as Game Director, 2012 will be the year of Lindelu, she has done a great job as Senior Designer and I trust her to do a great job as Game Director. She's really nice and she communicates a lot with us on Test Server, and she will keep on doing this as much as she can. The game is going to see a lot of changes with the rebalance so we need a strong director who can hear the players and the professionals like myself.

Let's make 2012 a great CFI year!

Malaxia
Still Alive

I hope you all had a great new years evening with family or friends, and I wish you the best for the upcoming year.

Here are some wise thoughts from my kung-fu teacher that I want to share with you :

For every mistake you made in the past year, there is a lesson learned.
For every friend or relative you've lost, there are good memories of everything you shared.
Laugh about everything, think positive, free your mind from bad thoughts that are otherwise stressing you and ruining your days.
A chinese saying tells us that every human is divided into two parts : the shell (body) and the energy (soul). Do not jugde the shell without knowing the energy, the ying without the yang, as those who shine from outside may be dark inside. Do not judge people without knowing them, without knowing what they came through.  Respect others and earn respect.

Life is what you make it to be, so make it better for you and everyone you love. Let 2011 be a great year !


Malaxia

Say bye to 2009 and welcome 2010 ! I wish you the best for this new year, friendship, love, success and health !
What to expect from this new year ?

- The new graphic engine will hopefully come out this year !
- Balance patch
- 14 professionals (including Technogen and myself) to assist FC with balance, bug hunt and more. All hail Kintaii
- Die Neu Welt (RK3) is going to merge with RK1 and RK2. From what I have seen on testlive, they have many good PvPers, so it will bring more activity on this side.
- Telbot and Cratbot will get a dedicated server which will work much better (faster connection, new computer)
- CFI will stay strong and united !

I hope you all had a great evening, now it is time to recover...

This is this time of the year when we see glittering trees with Santa Leets, gingerbread hecklers and ant leets ! This time when we eat too much and party with friends and family, exchange gifts and hugs.

MERRY XMAS

Oh well it was yesterday but I was with family, so I hope you had a great time too See you for new years evening !

The ingame mail system has hit TestLive dimension. Using good old reclaim terminals (transformed into mailboxes), you can send and receive up to 30 mails at a time, with 1 item per mail and some money. You can also request money for an item (if using C.O.D. option) that the user will pay before accepting.

The receiver will get it after 30 minutes in his own mailbox, or 2 minutes if you used the Express (but more expensive) option. You can easily transfer items and money to your alts on same account with this system for a small fee.

Feel free to test it out and report any bug you can find.


Note: Froobs can only receive mails.

This last Friday with(out) Means came with a good surprise about the revamp of Professional Program.

First of all, the application process has been completly changed into a nomination / voting process :

1. Players may submit a nominee for a Professional to the following email address: nominations@anarchy-online.com. When writing this email, the following format has to be used (nothing more) :
   
   (Subject) [PROFESSION] Professional Nomination - [CHARACTERFORUMNAME]
   (Body) [link]
   
   So an email would look like the following sample:
   
   (Subject): Bureaucrat Professional Nomination - Malaxia
   (Body): http://forums.anarchy-online.com/member.php?u=672355
   
   
2. After the nominations period is up, one week will be spent compiling the information and contacting the parties who have been successfully nominated. After this week period has finished, a Funcom-created thread will appear in each Profession-specific forum for "Campaign Speeches". Each candidate will have the opportunity to write up a biography and a message for the player-base as to why they should be elected as a Professional. These posts will be written by the candidates and posted by a Funcom representative.
   
   
3. A voting thread will be created by Funcom personnel. This thread will have all of the eligible nominees listed in a poll, which the player-base may then vote on. This voting process will last for ten days. After this ten day voting process has concluded, the two candidates with the most votes will go on to become the Professionals for their chosen Profession.
   
4. Every 3 months, the players will have the opportunity to vote one or both professional out if they were not convincing.
   
5. Every 9 months, the whole process restarts.

You can find more details here : http://www.anarchy-online.com/wsp/anarchy/frontend.cgi?func=publish.show&template=content&func_id=2551&table=CONTENT

Alright, it was posted last week that Test Live was getting Instanced Pande and an option to reset Map on your character. Also the new instanced org cities are being implemented. What does this mean for you? Well for one, Funcom is looking for people to help test the system. I know that we have many individuals that this will likely effect so it might be a good time to have your character copied to Test Live and go for some of these new goodies.

To transfer your character, just log into http://register.funcom.com and choose to use a Paid Service. Choose Test Live Transfer (Free) and your character gets moved. That simple. I have already done this for me so hopefully we can see all of you there as well!

~ Slack

Hey everybody, gonna start a new trend to try and post any news items once again on the forums. I hope that we can get some people back this way since the site is somewhat lonely. I will be buzzing around online here, on IRC and if you want to visit my other org site www.aounited.org since I am not ingame too often.

So with that said, in other news they are gearing up with the new graphics engine a bit more. Gonna post a screenie of the new character model concepts but hopefully we get to see that soon. Anyway drop a line and I hope to see you all again shortly!

~ Slack

May this year be full of phatz and good friendship in the org and in RL.