New site: DFOnews, bannerfall goes inactive

Another person has set up a more professional DFO news site and I’ve been invited to post over there. Since I don’t have the time to run a fan site by myself, to ensure its up dated on a regular basis, I’ll be posting over there. If the site ever gets taken down, this site will go active again and I’ll transpose all my articles from there to here. See you on the other side.

http://dfonews.com/

Welcome to the Banner

In the tradition of the Agon report and The Darkfall Tribune, Bannerfall is attempting to continue the journalistic spirit in Darkfall. However, unlike its predecessors, Bannerfall – named after the newspaper in Ayn Rand’s book The Fountainhead, hopes to contain not only political reports, but frequently updated tips/tricks, guides, individual stories, economic news, and other pieces of interest.

To your right you’ll see links to our newspages. Currently, we only have politics, tips & tricks listed, and editorials. In the future we hope to include a “historic” section, a guild/alliance of the month, economics, and individual player stories.

We hope that Bannerfall will become your one stop shop for everything DFO related, give newbies advice, sponsor events, and promote the game. Enjoy

Bannerfall: At a Glance

Due to the limited functionality of wordpress, or my own ineptness, Bannerfall will be split up into several sections to make finding post about various subjects easier. These sections are currently politics, editorials, and tip & tricks.  In addition to these sections, each post will be prefaced by an abbreviation annotating which section the post belongs to. Below is a brief guide. In addition all questions, advice, and letters to the editor can now be sent to bannerfall@gmail.com

(EU1/Pre/Edit) Best and Worst of the Pre-transfer era

The list provided below was put together by the forum member KingKongBanna, a player on the EU1 server.  I pretty much agree with everything that is listed because it highlights a lot of EU history in a simple method I haven’t made a post on here in a while. Without further adue:

Note anything I’ve added personally will be highlighted in green

(T&T) The Gold Grind: Knowing is Half the Battle

It can be said that power in Darkfall can be measured in Gold. The more gold one has the more powerful that player is.  Of course, if the player with the gold isn’t any good at the game then they won’t be as powerful as someone who is, but with the ability to chain high level AoEs and nukes that isn’t much of a hurdle to pass. This brief guide will explain how to get gold.

Note:  Pictures coming soon

Where I’ve been and Whats to Come

Sorry for the lack of updates. I had to put this project on hold while I got some real life issues resolved. Now that they are resolved, I’ll be back to posting on a simi-regular basis and in case you didn’t know I’ve been very active on the forums as of late. Anyways, the things you all can look forward to:  Newbie gold farming guide or intro, an after transfers recap of the EU politics, an overview of  the first major EU1 war after the launch of the NA server, and a critique on the mechanics of either debuff or buff spells. Once the next free content update goes live, Bannerfall will also have a detailed guide on how the various specialization options work, theory on to use them, and possible “OP” combinations.

(T&T) Leveling Magic: The Tedious Path to Greatness

In this issue of Tips and Tricks we’ll look at what it takes to level magic and what might be the best way to level magic.

(Edit) The Dream Series: Part I – The Givens

As promised in this article I am going to start sharing my dreams for a fantasy MMO. This may or may not be apparent, but these ideas are the product of decades of RPG and MMO experience and research and thought about their design. So without further ado, here is the first instalment in what I am calling The Dream Series.

(T&T) Passive Defense Skills and You: A guide

In this edition of DFO Tips and Tricks we’ll be looking at the passive defense skills that are available in Darkfall, what they do, and what may be the best ways to level them if you are a new or solo player

(Pre) Investigation: The Carebare Alliance and Collation of the Chillin Pact

The below post is my results of my investigation of the political alliance between the now defunct Carebare alliance, precariously known as Dusk, and the Collation of the Chillin.This research took about two weeks to compile the data, get in touch with most parties involved, and perform the meta analysis needed to come up with the below information.  It was oringally posted on the darkfall clan disucssion forums 06-03-2009 and contains some of the information that could, not taking credit for anything here just saying the same information was avaible to the eneimes of this alliance, have lead to both alliances spliting up.

(Edit) “Expansion Delayed”: Same shit different day

The following post says a lot about the company, but not the game which I like. Bold added for emphasis

(Edit) DFO’s “Expansion”

Today we’ll get a first look at the expansion promised by AV.  Copied directly from the expansion list below are some of the most exciting additions this game will see. You can expect full break down of this new system once our staff is able to test it out for themselves.  You can see the full expansion details here