Current events
Scheduled Downtime Wednesday March 25 7am - 12pm Eastern - Link
All worlds will be down on Wednesday March 25th from 7am - 12pm Eastern. During this time we will be fixing an issue which caused us to remove some NPC's and adding additional logging to the game servers.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
--Tlosk 05:42, 25 March 2009 (CDT)
March Event 3/10/09 7:00am - 12:00pm Eastern - Link
The March event has been scheduled to go live this upcoming Tuesday March 10th from 7am Eastern - 12pm Eastern. The teaser images have been sent out, and the Release Notes/Fiction will go live on Monday.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
--Tlosk 20:10, 6 March 2009 (CST)
Conversion Rates on Alternate Currencies Discussion - Link
Turbine developer Django has started a discussion on what players think the relative values of the various alternative currencies are:
- As we've been adding quite a few items to the alternate currency vendors we wanted to get feedback on what our players believe to be the conversion rates between the various alternate currencies.
- For Instance:
- GY Coin = 1
- Colo Coin = 4
- Olthoi Sac = 2
- Meaning that a GY coin is the easiest to get and the smallest unit while Olthoi Sacs are worth twice as much as Colo Coins are worth 4 times as much. Converting this to buy prices would be the inverse of course. (for instance Colo items would end up costing 1/4 of that GY items in this case.)
- We can figure out the exact numbers of how often players would be able to get coins. However that would say 4 Colo Coins/hr which I'm sure nobody runs Colosseum for as many consecutive hours as someplace like the Graveyard and there's also prep time on the Colosseum. Obtaining information on the perceived value would help us add items across all alternate currency vendors.
- Thanks!
- **Note - We're not looking to make a conversion in game. This is for the purpose of adding the same items to the different vendors. Not all items are applicable as some are area specific however certain items would be best obtained in your favorite hunting spot (for instance if I were to say add a Noble Armor upgrade kit as an item). This month's items are on 3 vendors and pretty much have the same stats, so it would have been good to know for them as well
Head over to the Turbine message boards and join in on the discussion. --An Adventurer 16:32, 9 February 2009 (CST)
February Event Downtime 2/10/09 7:00am - 12:00pm Eastern - Link
All worlds will be down on Tuesday, February 10 from 7:00am - 12:00pm Eastern for the February event, Unfinished Business.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
--Tlosk 15:53, 7 February 2009 (CST)
Asheron's Call on Facebook - Link
Are you a fan of Asheron's Call? Do you spend entirely too much time on Facebook? Join the Asheron's Call group on Facebook and have the best of both worlds!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
--Tlosk 00:37, 29 January 2009 (CST)
Tenative Patch Date - Tuesday, January 13th - Link
As things stand right now we are tentatively scheduled for the January event to go live on Tuesday, January 13th. If for some reason we need to change the date I will make the appropriate posting about it.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
--Tlosk 12:16, 7 January 2009 (CST)
Live Events 12/12/08 - Link
Starting sometime after 7pm EST, new events will be taking place across all worlds. Make sure you are on around tonight to be part of all the fun!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
--An Adventurer 12:56, 12 December 2008 (CST)
Live Events! 12/11/08 - Link
As mentioned in the Release Notes this month, we will be beginning our Live events for this event tonight around 8pm EST.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
--Tlosk 15:15, 11 December 2008 (CST)
December Patch Date Set - Link
The next patch is scheduled for December 9th.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
--An Adventurer 16:17, 4 December 2008 (CST)
Django returns to AC Staff - Link
No AC staff was moved to work on other games. AC's staff is AC's staff (and LotRO's and DDO's tools are very different, it took me a few months to get completely used to DDO's tools).
On that note I'm back on the AC staff so I don't have to say things like "I don't work on AC right now." any more.
Welcome back Django.
--An Adventurer 15:26, 27 November 2008 (CST)
"November" Patch delayed until early December - Link
Frelorn has let us know that the patch intended for November is going to be pushed back into December.
We are still having a patch, though it does appear that it will be delayed until early December. With the upcoming holidays and other scheduling conflicts within Turbine, we would rather wait and put out a better product then rush it out the door for the sake of getting it out there.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
--An Adventurer 15:26, 27 November 2008 (CST)
Changes coming to ac.turbine - Link
So the new site has been live for some time now, and we are happy with how things turned out. As always there is room for more, so we will be adding a new Lore section to the site.
In the coming weeks we will be adding a series of images and background stories for some of our favorite characters in Asheron's Call history. Not only will these lore pages be a good place to reference information, but it will give us a place to showoff some really cool art.
As a preview here is one of the images we will be using in this upcoming section. Enjoy!
--An Adventurer 15:46, 21 November 2008 (CST)
Tubine Opens New West Coast Studio in Redwood City, CA - Link
“The opening of our West coast studio is a major milestone in Turbine’s long-term growth plans as it allows us to complement the outstanding talent we have on the East coast with the pool of extraordinary talent available on the West coast,” said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. “Turbine is fast becoming the place to be for those looking to create the new generation of cross platform MMOs. We are delighted that Dave, Jeff and Matt have joined us in this effort and we look forward to further announcements as we continue to expand this team.”
--Tlosk 09:09, 4 November 2008 (CST)