User talk:Gaile Gray/Archive Community & Website/Jan - Dec 2008

Question about the New Xunlai House
Does it have to be a .DOC file(the file Word saves in) or can it be an .ODT(The file OpenOffice saves in?? --  The Warrior Of Timi 07:46, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OpenOffice can save in doc-format too. In the "Save As" window, there's a dropdown box just below the filename input box that allows you to select the format. &mdash; Galil [[Image:User Galil sig.png]] 12:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Weapons Design Winners -- Coming Soon?
is this true? and when will we get moar information about it? --Cursed Angel  19:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * probably with the upcoming skill balance I guess. Clan Yumemiru 22:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * John, our "Items Expert," say most likely some will be added this month. We may or may not mention it -- it could just be a cool surprise for players. I'll check with John on his thoughts on the matter. What I think we may do is say "Added some Design-A-Weapon items to the game" and then let players discover where. (Or is that just too evil? :) ) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 22:47, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe a tiny bit more publicized than the mini polar bear >:O - elviondale  (tahlk) 01:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OMG!!!! - B e X  [[Image:User BeXoR sig.gif|iawtc]] 02:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, as long as we can get them from then onwards, not a limited-time-we-won't-tell-you, then that's fine even if you don't say it at all. The fun is in the discovery. The not so fun is in finding out you missed something you can never have ever again. Alaris 02:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * heh the wiki will have every information in like 1 hour anyway :D --Cursed Angel [[Image:User Cursed Angel Signature.jpg|19px|talk]] 13:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, just like the polar bear...Nicky Silverstar 15:28, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

PAX 2008
are you guys going to be there again this year?
 * Yes, most decidedly! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 19:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Horray! You guys had the best booth (well, in terms of interaction in case anyone tries to argue me on flashy things) last year, I can't wait to see what you have planned for this one! [[Image:User_Purple_llama_sig.png]] purple llama 05:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * An announcement of some sort! Few story details perhaps? Wee! my imagination's on overdrive again. Renin 06:28, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's early days, yet. But I strongly encourage those of you who are able to come to PAX to do so. We have contests, giveaways, team member meet 'n' greets, artist signings, tournaments, and what was widely regard to be the best party at PAX. And yes, we'll have another Super Fan Contest, you can count on it, and I'm planning a VIP event for community members, too. Seriously, if you're in Seattle the last weekend in August, try to come visit us at PAX! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Had such a blast with you guys at PAX '07, I wouldn't dream of missing it in '08! Can't wait! - GenXer 23:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just talking to a fellow team member about our party for this year. *happy dance* -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 05:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * one complaint i did have about pax is i whanted to play in the closed tournament and wasn't able to. please make it some how so more people can plaY!!!
 * Where and what is PAX?
 * Penny Arcade Expo will take place in Seattle, at the Washington Convention and Trade Center, on the weekend of August 29, 2008. You can find out more on the PAX site. ArenaNet will be there in a big way -- including an after-hours VIP party -- and I hope that a lot of Guild Wars fans will be attending, as well! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 01:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

We're having a meeting on Monday to discuss our plans for PAX. We'll also discuss whether we will be attending GC in Leipzig this year, as well. I look forward to PAX and hope very much to be in Leipzig, too! I'll pass along any early information that we're able to share. I do love fan and gamer shows! :) :) -- Gaile  06:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know what all you've got on the discussion plate already, but I'd really like to see some merchandise for sale at PAX. Previous years have had lots of stuff available as prizes (I made out like a bandit last year, I'll admit) and last year you even had merchandise on display. (Some of which is now available in the PA store, but not the paper models yet! needs dooom...ok, I'm getting off topic here.) The issue is people who aren't there at the right time or aren't good at contests can't get any GW swag and that's no good! So, If you have that on the list already that's great, if not, please do consider it! [[Image:User_Purple_llama_sig.png]] purple llama 08:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I was wondering if you were going to have the trivia contest again this year? Nekozick 11:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds like fun, sigh y nothing like that ever happens in this stupid Island named Malta. --MageMontu 21:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahh, poor MM. It looks like a really nice place, though! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 18:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, Nekozick, trivia is a must! I was very impressed by how well people did last year. Yikes! That means I have to start coming up with questions! Or... hmmm... maybe get a little help on them. :D As the time gets closer I'm going to put out a request for emailed Q's and A's. Naturally, we cannot add the trivia here or that'll give away the game. :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 18:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe I can help if someone gentle enough care to explain me how to play it :P --MageMontu 21:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Explain what? PAX?  It's some kind of conference - you can find out more at http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/ It seems cool and I'd go if it was possible for me – [[Image:User Barinthus Magical Compass.png|19px]]  Barinthus  23:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The trivia at pax is a thing they do at their booth at set times throughout the conference. Last year we all crowded around the table they had there, they asked trivia questions and whoever got the answer first got to pick up a prize. Most of the prizes were things like T-shirts and posters, but on the last day they had fancy things like keyboards too. (I didn't get any of those!) The fancy prizes were for questions they deemed more difficult. It was a lot of fun, esp seeing all these random people who know all sorts of crazy things about GW. [[Image:User_Purple_llama_sig.png]] purple llama 01:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Meeting Gw Staff is my dream.. *sigh* too bad you are in America :'( The Legend
 * Well, we're not always in America. ArenaNet has been to GC in Leipzig, the Taipei Game Show in Taiwan, a media show in the UK, and Festival de Jeu Video in Paris. Maybe we can meet at a show like that sometime! (I'm personally hoping to attend at least GC, PAX, and FJV this year! :) ) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 08:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I hate to beg, but here's a small project if someone is looking for a new page to create! We could use a PAX 2008 page for the GWW. I like the one for 2007 very much, so that format would be super nice. I can fill in some of the information, like early ideas of what we have planned, but I wonder if someone would like to fashion the page? *insert cheesy grin here* -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 00:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Penny Arcade Expo (2008), Its just lacking a lot of info ~ SCobra [[Image:User-SuperCobra-Sig.png]] 21:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * BTW, i was thinking that maybe you could fill in the others too: 06, 05, 04

PvXwiki
Hello

Can you please post this on the community news page? Even prizes are Guild Wars related... Gcardinal 08:25, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * We have already received an email from PvX Wiki and and will be very happy post the news next Thursday. Community News needs to be sent to us by Sunday night in order to make that week's postings, since we need to have it localized into a dozen languages and then scheduled for synchronous publication. Thanks for understanding. P.S. Couldn't you shorten that URL just a shade? :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 08:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Use this one instead Gaile. It's the link on the PvX site detailing the event. &mdash; Rappy 15:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do I have a weird feeling that the pvp part will be implemented. Rhydeble 20:43, 1 February 2008 (UTC) (PS: I thought this would be a better way then just downright asking for it, but, PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS.)
 * URL is www.pvxwiki.com, the url with news is just a copy of a news that was posted on different websites around the web. I have also send a copy of it to the fansite email. PvXwiki is still not listed under fan sites and I never got a clear answer if it will be posted there and when. This is kinda of important contest so would be really nice to see some note about it on guildwars.com. Thank you. Gcardinal 21:40, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for posting news about out contest. However PvXwiki is still not listed as fan site. 193.215.6.253 09:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That is correct, and I apologize for the outsight. I believe we did receive your application form, is that correct? Given that we have, and that we feel that PvXwiki meets the objective of the GWCFP, I will ask for a quick review by my associate and, pending that input, should be able to add the site this week. Again, I am sorry that the press of other duties has delayed this process. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 00:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yupp I did send the application form and the google stats. let me know if there is anything I can do to help in this process. Gcardinal 10:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Update on this: The site is definitely on the review list, and I expect to have recommendations within a few days, at most. I am sorry for the delays, but we do a thorough job and, with many other projects underway, I'm afraid there is a time lapse. Thanks for your patience. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 06:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Gaile, just want to check the status on the PvXwiki. btw~ I did send email to fansites@... without getting any answer. Gcardinal 13:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter
I saw mention of a newsletter yesterday, how does one subscribe to it --Just One More Thing 18:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Since I signed in into the Xunlai house I get an Newsletter every 2-3 months --  The Warrior Of Timi 19:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have a PlayNC and Xunlai Tournament account and never had a Newsletter. The PlayNC account has a setting called "Receiving Newsletter", Ive always had this set to Yes. Somethings Broken. --Just One More Thing 05:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have the same problem, ah well. They've said for ages they're working on it.  Just get an intern and manually input all of emails or something, that's what they are for!  *whip crackling* ;) Barinthus 02:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I know the person who could answer this: Emily Diehl, who as you probably know is our website producer. Let me send her a little note and when she's back in town -- she is away for a few days -- I am sure that she will give you the information you need about signing up for the Guild Wars Newsletter! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 00:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, there, back again. According to Emily, we will soon have a sign-up page for the newsletter. We'll make an announcement about that, and hope you will sign up at that time. Thanks for asking! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 23:22, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

A New Competition
why dosnt anet have a Competition for armors for the past games? for the new classes i.e. kurzick and luxion paragon and derv armor. even if they just added a set that was the 1.5k corisponding and the elites i think this would be a grate way to do something that people want http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10260541 and wouldn't take to much of the team to do. you guys could even make a weekend of it and make certain armors 1/2 off or something cool like that. i just feel like there could be a lot of things done by the community via contests that would add to the game and get certain stuff done. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:75.165.119.138 (talk).


 * While the community would design them, it would still be ArenaNet developers who model and texture the armors. It wouldn't be all community at all and would detract from their GW2 making which is a pretty big deal for them. However, please make a Kurzick & Luxon Para & Derv armor plz rly need.  —ǥrɩɳsɧƴ ɖɩđđɭɘş  [[Image:User Grinshpon blinky cake.gif|19px]] 21:39, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * -_- the game is going to be deladed regardless if they put new stuff in gw1 or not. and they wont be able to use the exuce sorry working on gw2 for ever... from the sounds of it there are like 3 people who work there.
 * It would be great if all classes had access to the same number of skills, elites, armors, weapons, mods, etc as every other class. I don't think it's a priority, though. — ( ɔ \ ʇ ) uɐɥʇıǝɹ [[Image:Reithan_Sig.jpg|19px]] 22:44, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * mods are kind of even seeing as there not class posific and for skills to be the same number they would have to remove a lot of skills that don't do much of anything. or make huge buffs. i for one think that anet should do more these kinds of contests. were the people who play the game get to see stuff and ideas they thought of in the game. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:75.165.119.138 (talk).
 * At this time of development I'd expect the art department to be in full swing for GW2. They might even be having to bring on extra people. For that reason ... it wouldn't be surprising if they can't spare anyone for GW1. -- Sirius 23:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't even understand what the original poster is saying. If you want people to understand you use proper grammar and punctuation please! Also from what I did understand you want Anet to set up a contest for some armor designs? Definitely easier said than done. - nian [[Image:User Nian Sig.png|16px]] 00:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * first off Learn to read. 3 other people read it no complaints thus far.... sorry i didn't use as many ',' as i should have. regardless it dost take that much effort to organize a contest. the legal stuff stays the same. and secondly anet would be a bunch of fools if they don't have anyone working on any form of gw1 they need to keep the players who play gw1 happy. so they buy gw2 so they can have another five million to buy gw2 (a side note if everyone payed $50 for just one campaign and i bet most of that 5 mill got more then one then so far if everyone bought 1 campaign for $50 that equals to $250,000,000) --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:75.165.122.205 (talk).


 * I think the opening post is very much understandable; not the best, but far from being as bad you say it is, nian. -- ab.er. rant [[Image:User Ab.er.rant Sig.png| ]] 06:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't use the word "bad" and I wasn't kidding when I said I can't understand because I really can't. Imho if anyone wants to be taken seriously it is a good idea to type properly. I know there are people who can't but this just looks like a case of "can't be bothered" since they are actually using full stops but no capital letters and no commas. - nian [[Image:User Nian Sig.png|16px]] 06:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've asked (not complain) about this before, the problem with an design-an-armor contest are mostly clipping issues. Not all designs do work in-game. It is not as easy as it looks, or so I've been told. It also takes a long time for them recreate the art in-game as well since much editing has to be done. I wouldn't mind though, designing an armor! Maybe for GW2 whenever they come out with new classes, they should have armorers ready to craft new armors for them from previously released campaign. For example Splosh here and there Elonian Explorer NPC around Kryta bringing with them some of the elonian goods, knowledge and craftmanship. I'm just blabbing here. XD Renin 06:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

As I have explained many times, all teams -- including our art and animation teams -- are focusing primarily on Guild Wars 2. It would be unwise and impractical to hold a contest to design armour for Guild Wars, as implementing armour takes considerable time and effort by members of several teams in order to accomplish the process. Using that time in the existing games would take it away from Guild Wars 2, and that is not desirable in the overall scope of things. You will find details in a thread on this subject that began last year, on the Contests wiki page. -- Gaile 07:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * well that is very disappointing. though i think one of the main hopes, and wants of people and why this is asked about, and commented about, is 2 reasons, one a lot of people feel that, most of the GWEN armors were re-skins and i will admit just looking at the armors here http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Paragon_armor and look at the Nightfall vs GWEN armors they look very very similar, and same is the case for war, and a lot of other classes, and people feel jiped or lied to because of the promus that GWEN would have 'new armors' for all the classes and some of them do look different.... the other reason i think is that people want kurzick and luxion armor for there Dervish and paragon which at the max would be 8 armors, elite and 1.5k. i for one find most of those armors to be the best in the game. would there be any chance that you guys would add that? i understand that the proses takes a long time, but what if you had the contest have the vibe that the drawings and ideas people come up with would be the basis for the armors and that if something wasn't do able then it wouldn't be? (one small note about the person complaining about gamer, capital letters don't make a huge difference in how things are read in English the only time they are needed is when abbreviations, and stating a name, i know I's are suppose to be capitalized but most of us if not all of us are not writing a English paper. i am sorry for my spelling mistakes and gamer. i am dyslexic, so that stuff isn't the easiest for me.)75.165.122.205 09:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll take this opportunity to point out that nearly a third of the Prophecies armor sets are reskins. -- Gordon Ecker 10:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok maybe I'm just dumb on comprehension but the above post you(OP) just made makes a lot more sense than the before ones(to me) so I apologize since I came off rude but I wasn't being sarcastic or anything. The capital letters mark the start of a new sentence and it's a visual thing for me too so I have trouble reading text without them because my eyes can't see the periods and I miss where you start talking about a new thing and get confused. Spelling mistakes don't matter so much because the eyes tend to fix them.(Well I guess my english comprehension is a lot worse than my writing anyway) As for the contest idea, who wouldn't want to design some new armor ingame? I certainly would love to and GW fans tend to put a lot of thought in their contest entries from what I've seen. They think a lot about functionality and other issues and seeing all the designs would be really interesting too. There's some things to consider though: Fan designs tend to be a bit flamboyant, will they fit in the theme of GW or stand out looking completely different from the rest of the armors? The design team might have to work their asses off to make it fit into the game world and keep it functional and simple enough and also a set of armor has to fit it's surroundings and still look like the contest winners entry. Like Luxon armor has to look all turtleish with face paints, patchwork and bright colors etc. The armor designs can't be too far off from each other either. From an GW artist page I read once that the designers are under strict guidelines on what the armor has to look like depending on what area it's from ingame and so on. Re-skins on the other hand are a very common thing in almost every single videogame. There's that one lizard or blob monster that changes color everytime you find it in a new dungeon etc. So I don't really see anything weird in reskinning things as long as they look good. Even the core 1k armors are very similiar to their 15k enhanced versions. But yeah, seems like a very difficult theme for a contest since it would be a full set of armor and not just a festival headgear or a weapon that can blend into the game much easier. Ofc I would love to see especially the luxon/kurtzick versions of paragon and dervish armor myself if that was possible. - nian [[Image:User Nian Sig.png|16px]] 11:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Contest Idea
I have an idea for a contest to help tide us over until GW2: a create skill icons contest for all the monster skills that have no icon. Heck, with all the skills needing icons... you could make this a weekly thing nearly. Anyway thought it would be cool. --68.238.166.18 01:49, 26 February 2008 (UTC) (sigh, this was me... logged out by goblins at home again --Ravious 16:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC))
 * Hi, there. That's a nice idea. The challenge is, of course, getting time on the Art Team's incredibly busy schedule to add the images to the game. I will certainly check around, but I feel that it's unlikely we could make this work. Thank you for the creative thinking, though, and I definitely am thinking about a new contest, so keep the ideas coming! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 05:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a nice idea, although it would be even nicer if the rewards are in-game rewards rather real-world rewards, to make it more global in nature. -- ab.er. rant [[Image:User Ab.er.rant Sig.png| ]] 05:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, lately we've been doing a bit of both. For instance, perhaps a signed copy of the game, and a rare miniature, too. Like our recent Wintersday or Halloween contests. One thing you can be sure of: We'll offer our contests on as global a basis as we can -- legal requirements allowing. The Global, International, Worldwide Guild Wars Community is something I feel very passionate about!


 * I'd love to hear player's impressions of how the combination of real-world and in-game prizes has been working! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 06:22, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I get the warm fuzzies when I look at my box shelf *and* when I'm in-game! I like it a lot. In my opinion it makes sense to have an in-game prize since all of this is based on the game, but having a physical prize is great too, especially for the contests that ask us to work on physical (or at least out of game) things. [[Image:User_Purple_llama_sig.png]] purple llama 06:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * And no one does the "out of game" concepts like you do, PL! :) :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 06:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd love to join contest where I can actually join. I mean I'm from an asian country that is not listen as an able participant with most of the contest since shipping to where I live may be expensive or legislatively improbable. So I'm all for in-game prices! Renin 07:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * We offer the contests in any area in which we have legal counsel. The fact is, if we can't give a real-world prize, we can't offer an in-game prize, either. :( I am sad about that, but that is a reality. According to all that I have been told, offering only in-game prizes does not mean that we can broaden the contest, because the laws still apply. I will be asking about that tomorrow, though, just to be sure.
 * It's my hope that we can offer more contests, in more countries, with every passing year! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I love to enter a contest that doesn't require Art skills :P. Maybe a screenshot competition. Man I love taking pics around our beautiful Tyria. --MageMontu 07:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * One of our next contest ideas doesn't require artistic skills. It's from the other side of the brain, in fact. ;) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol, damn it gaile, your always such a tease ! :P Crazy 07:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's good to hear (^.^). But what's on the other side of the brain? {O.o} --MageMontu 09:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

The other side of the brain is used in analytical skills and thinking, so maybe it's thinking up new elites? (That's a joke... I think... o_O) Kokuou 10:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Designing new icons for monsters skills would be fun, and to bybass the Art Department as they're busy people all you would need to do is give us the suitable filetype and size requirements so all that needs to be done is for them to be approved by Anet and installed. House Of Furyan 10:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking, Gaile. I was hoping it would be as least intensive on the art crew as possible (especially in comparison to making weapon models and skins), but I can understand how they are busy.  I remember reading somewhere that a contemporary game will have 75-85%+ total development time in art and sound!  Anyway, can't wait to see what the next contest will be. --Ravious 16:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

RSS Feed
Dear Gaile,

the news link at the top of the GW News Feed isn't working properly. Shouldn't it be linked to http://www.guildwars.com/events/newsarchive/ ? Nicky Silverstar 11:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I asked one of the Web Team members, and he responded that the current link is correct. He assed, "The link is there with the little RSS icon so people can click on it and subscribe to the RSS feed. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 09:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

RSS Feed again
Dear Gaile,

I finally read your response, but it was about the wrong link. I meant the link at the top of the feedpage itself, not the link that points to the feed. This link points to the feed, and at the top of the feed itself stands Guild Wars - News, which points nowhere. Nicky Silverstar 21:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. I may be saying something very stupid here, but since the link at the top of your other feed does point somewhere meaningful, I get the feeling that it really IS an outdated link.
 * I have sent your further information to the Web Team. Thanks for those extra details; they will look into it right away, I'm sure. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 21:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sam tells me that this should be fixed now. Thanks again for the report. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 21:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it got fixed. Glad to have helped! Nicky Silverstar 07:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Typo on network news
Hey Gaile, there is a typo on the network news on the official site: The pm in the first line isn't right, EDT equals GMT-4 hours, I'm sure this is a typo because the hour is correct, but they use a 24 hour clock in GMT notification here, it doesn't make sense if you say start at 9:00 pm and finish at 13:00. Then you would say: start at 21:00 and finish at 13:00, which means the update would last for 16 hours ;-) The pm should just be erased and then everything is correct, because it has to be am and since you use 24 hour notification, it's not necessary to write am or pm. Hope I make a bit of sense here ^^ but indeed this confuses people^^ -- (Tribina  / talk) 20:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Planned Start: Monday 3/24/2008 2:00 am PDT (5:00 am EDT; 9:00 pm GMT)
 * Planned Finish: Monday 3/24/2008 6:00 am PDT (9:00 am EDT; 13:00 GMT)
 * Hello, Tribina, and thank you for pointing that out. I do understand the European time conventions -- I think that one just slipped through when someone was posting up that news. I wonder, did you happen to post a note about this on Bobby's or Emily's Page? Bobby is the one who handles text issues, and Emily is the website producer, so I imagine either of them would be able to effect a change. If you have not posted on their pages, that's ok, I can send an email, I just wanted to check before I did. Thanks again. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 23:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I haven't posted it on their pages yet ;-) thanks --[[Image:User_Tribina_base.png]] (Tribina  / talk) 01:41, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Statistics?
You've mentioned in the past you are investigating the possibility to add some statistics to the Guild Wars site.

Is it possible to give some insight in:

- how many eggs and bunnies have been farmed last weekend? - how many active guilds are there - how many gold has been gathered till now - how many dyes have been gathered - what is the most played dungeon - what is the cumulated play time of all players

- Who has farmed the most eggs and/or chocolate bunnies (this month title Farmer of the month as employee of the month title) - Which guild has the most achievements as for titles - Which is the oldest guild (roundup of all guilds sorted by date) - how many players have the several sub titles levels in the different titles (i.e. XX players have the title My guild hall smells like....)

Nice idea? --didis 10:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oldest guild = Zealots of Shiverpeak created before the game was released lol. A lot of that data you are asking for I would imagine to be quite sensitive as it can affect the economy. Stuff like eggs and bunnies farmed etc, play time is most irrelevant as people would just afk to get on top of it, and some people already probably do. And that just adds unnecessarily to server loads. -- Lemming [[Image:User Lemming64 sigicon.png]] 18:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I wrote up an extensive document in January with ideas about fun and informative features that we could offer on the website. I think it's a really cool idea to show different "Fun Facts" to those involved with our games. As far as I know, my suggestions were well received, and I anticipate that some of those suggested features -- including the statistics one -- will be included in the website in the future. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 18:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The future, it is a long way, too the future and the problem is the time goes fast. But I can't wait new website, statistics, event masksfun, guildwars2, etc :)  Death Sligher [[Image:User_Death_Sligher_Dragon_Eye.png|talk: Death Sligher]] 19:07, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Could do something like this...can't see how it would be harmful. --Deathwing 00:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * agreed, it would be usefull to have what skills are used most and just what a one person dose.75.165.99.118 03:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Contact You?
How would one go about contacting you privatly, concerning a planned GW matter? -User:Inquisition
 * Special:Emailuser/Gaile_Gray -- Lemming [[Image:User Lemming64 sigicon.png]] 13:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * thanks. i wrote a email, just to find out that were loosing gaile :`(. User:Inquisition
 * "losing" :P also, isn't it better to just wait until April 7th? If it's an April Fools thingy, then she's not going to tell you the truth. If it really is the truth, then we'll know it on the 7th. -- ab.er. rant [[Image:User Ab.er.rant Sig.png| ]] 01:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

gw.com
Hey Gaile, since you switched job roles, gw.com news hasnt been updated. There also hasnt been any visible presence of your CM replacement on the fan forums. is everything ok? We are starved for guildwars related news! --Just One More Thing 22:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * http://www.gw.com? &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  06:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Gw.com=www.guildwars.com its just to long to type all that Dominator Matrix  06:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, thought so, lol. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  18:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you serious Eloc? I hope not... -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 20:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like the website had a few design changes yesterday and there's a new article today, so I guess there's your answer. :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 02:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Partially. I was wondering more about GW2 news. I understand NCsoft isnt attending E3 this year, so we may have to wait until PAX (end of August, about 4 months away) until we hear anything about it? ty --Just One More Thing 16:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

PlayNC Support Page: Your Feedback?
Do you have suggestions about the Guild Wars Support system? Inspired by Jason, a fellow ArenaNet team member, and his desire to share some improvement ideas, I've created a section on the main Support Issues page to invite you to share your thoughts on how we might improve the PlayNC/Support System experience. Now, the system handles a tremendous number of issues for literally millions of players, and I think it does that quite well. But we're always eager to here your thoughts on making things even better. So join in the discussion and add you thoughts to the page! -- Gaile 03:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * We're having continued dialogue with the folks working on the PlayNC changes; we meet next week. No time is better than now to share your input! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 02:59, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Fansites Review?
Ello Gaile! I'm not sure who else to tell, but I knew you could point this to someone who could do something...anyway, can you get someone to look over the fansite links, particularly the 'ANZ Guild Wars Community' (Brings up some drug site...the site was before then dead, so I guess the domain expired, and someone picked up the domain for spam...), and 'Guild Cast' (It seems the site was truly gone down after there last podcast, or it may just be now....), and get the ones that aren't working, or not supposed to be the list anymore (like ANZ), off! This, I'm sure, would save many from the annoyance of instead seeing a GW Fansite, some raNDom website, as such in our example, TRYING to sell drugs... Oh, and I'm sure this question has been asked before, but if you will allow me to ask, why hasn't GW itself have a offical forum, and instead reply on fanistes to provide one for players/supporters? There are a few, if not most, MMOs that have them, so why not this great MMO also ;) Thanks Gaile!

Keeping the dream alive!

-Prince Tayuke --Tayuke 10:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * GuildCast still works, though they're not making any new podcasts, you can still get the old ones. But yeah, someone needs to look over these websites -_- &mdash; Poki#3 [[Image:User_Poki_Signature.jpg|19px|My Talk Page :o]] 13:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You all might want to take a look at User_talk:Regina_Buenaobra. :) [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 15:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Sweepstake
Hey Gaile, I think this is a Support thingie, if not pls direct me to the right person ^.^ I participated in the EU sweepstake, but this week I had to change the internet provider and obviously, with it the email address changed aswell. Even though I have my doubts about winning, what can I do to change the email of my participation form? -- M age M ontu  20:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, this is a Support thingie, yep, and I'm happy to help. :) (In fact, I also answered a support ticket about this very issue, as the team referred it to me.) I checked with Marden Kane, the company administering the sweepstakes in North America, and they tell me that all notifications to winners will be sent via postal mail and not via email. So don't worry, if you win you will be notified by mail to your home address. Oh, and if someone moves, he/she can simply submit a Change of Address order to the post office and that contestant will be fine, too! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 19:05, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh Okie Gaile ^^, and How did you know that I moved address aswell? You must be reading my mind oo GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! :P --M age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]M ontu 19:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Another question to bother you with :P Will the EU results be displayed on the site or the eu winners will be announced only by postal mail? --M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 19:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Also another question *covers himself* "Don't hit me". How can I change my Xunlai Tournament House email. thnx --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 21:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * On a similar note, I contacted Support two months ago to request a change as I entered the wrong email address when registering for the Tournament House. The last message I received said "Thank you very much for contacting the Guild Wars Customer Support Team. We are currently investigating the problem you have reported and we will contact you back as soon as we have any news regarding this issue, or in case we require further information from your side", on the 18th of April. I realise there's a subpage for support concerns and whatnot, but it seemed relevant after the last comment. --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|16px|]] Brains12 \ talk 21:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm just curious, how would they get my snail mail address based on my email address? I mean, when I registered at PlayNC to be able to use the in-game store, I did so from my old address, and I'm not sure if I can adjust my personal details anywhere on my PlayNC master account. (Given my previous grievances with PlayNC, it's no surprise that I never bothered to find out.) I'm not even sure if my PlayNC account is linked to the email address I entered (the one I entered is my GW account name), so this would provide some more difficulties. And what if I never registered with PlayNC at all? My account is almost 3 years old, I REALLY don't remember if I was ever required to give ANet my home address just to create a GW account... just curious. :) -- Elv 11:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Martin Kerstein confirmed that the EU results will be posted on the website early next week. ( Qanar | talk ) 11:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, but I'm still curious. :) [lures Gaile with a pot of Nutella to have her questions answered] -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 08:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * And if that doesn't work, I'll be happy to bake a nutella cake for the luring ;) --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 08:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case, would you mind saving me a piece? :) -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 12:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We can eat it in front of Gaile without giving her a piece, but nah, I'm not that evil, or am I? dam dam dam --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 23:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Doesn't look like it's working. Maybe we need to make a bigger cake? -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 17:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Did I hear cake? Fine, fine, I'll reset the indent and answer. You guys know really know how to catch my eye. :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 18:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

If I understand it, there's a question about "How would the sweepstakes folks get my street address?" Well, in North America, when you registered for the sweepstakes you were asked to provide your street address. (Woe the person who used fake information!) However, that's how it worked in NA, and I do not know how it worked in Europe -- perhaps they accepted an entry without a street address, in which case their notification system will obviously be different. (You can't send a postal letter to an address you don't have.) I would say that, again, this is a question for the European community team, in that I didn't read the sweepstakes rules in Europe to such a degree that I recall by what means the fulfillment house will be notifying their winners. I will ask Martin, and of course you are more than welcome to do the same. I'm sorry that I don't know more. -- Gaile 18:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well now the results are out and i was 1 of the unlucky un-winners :P But what about my second question, how can I change the email address of the xunlai house? cause recently i forgot my password and it's lucky that my brother has my old email address. --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 18:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, for the European Sweepstakes, they didn't ask for any information originally- they slipped up on that, and as one of the early birds I got to see it before they fixed it. After that, they just asked you to enter an email address. Because of that little mess, and because email addresses can sometimes be vague at best, I ended up with all those questions. :) -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 07:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, MM. To get your XTH information changed, at least in the near term, please submit a Support ticket. In the longterm, we have a few changes in mind that will make the system work better. For now, though, Support can help you with getting that change made. Thanks. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 04:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Yet again another party
Hiya again Gaile! It's Champion Cynthia, although my main char is now Queen Kylanf.This is another invite to 1 of my parties. [not just to Gaile either,anyone reading this is welcome to] But this time,it's hopefully gonna be bigger and better! So you can be prepared for this, I'll tell you the details early:

Place: Temple Of Balthazar, District: International 1, When: Saturday 28th June,

Hope you can come this time!


 * Hi, there. Thanks for letting me know. I never know what my weekends are going to be like, but it sounds fun. What time do you think this will kick off? -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 05:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah,forgot to add a time,lol, it'll start at about roughly 8:30pm GMT

3th year Contestant Winners Europe?
Hi Gaile, Do you know or can you ask when the 3th year contestant winners for europe will be announced. 12 days ago the us winners have been announced. Thanx... didis
 * User_talk:Gaile_Gray. &mdash; Poki#3 [[Image:User_Poki_Signature.jpg|19px|My Talk Page :o]] 21:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm awfully sorry, I don't know about that information. Have you asked Martin Kerstein about it? I'm happy to follow up for you, but I thought perhaps you may have spoken to Martin directly and you may know more than I about it. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 00:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, again! I asked Martin and he responded that the winners of the European sweepstakes were notified by email, not by postal mail. Hope that is helpful info! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

XTH Predictions Issue: 25 August 2008
I just posted a tip for working around a minor XTH prediction issue on the Support Issues page. If you're having difficulty getting your votes to "stick," here's the direct link to help you out. :) -- Gaile 21:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually checked your link before clicking it, out of fright you might RickRoll me... Jeez, I'm getting freaked out. :P DAMN YOU, RICKROLLERS! ;) -- Titus The Third [[Image:User titus the third.png| ]] 12:05, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * wiki-internal links are pretty surely not gonna be rickrolls. external links look different, except if you changed their formatting in your monobook.css. - <tt>Y0_ ich_halt </tt> [[Image:User Y0_ich_halt sig.jpg|18px]] 13:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, an external link would look like this- Warior Kronos [[Image:User_Warior_Kronos_Sig.jpg|18px|]] 18:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice freakin' try Kronos! xD -- Titus The Third [[Image:User titus the third.png| ]] 18:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Muahaha...I definately got you Titus :P- Warior Kronos [[Image:User_Warior_Kronos_Sig.jpg|18px|]] 20:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, I just figured that the XTH was having issues with me using Firefox or something. Nice to know it's not just me. (Even if I did already figure out the workaround)75.146.48.190 20:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Voting seems to be currently broke for 1vs1 predictions, as reported here. This will be fixed as voting closes soon? --Just One More Thing 18:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, there. We took a look at this issue and after some work by the website programmer, predictions for 1v1 are now working properly. Thanks for your patience. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 19:54, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ok thnx Gaile and webteam --Just One More Thing 20:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

EU 3rd year contest
Any news on the european guild wars 3rd anniversary contest? Or have I missed the list of the winners? -- Mepp 09:37, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh goodness, Meep, I'm sorry that I don't know this answer. The last time you and I discussed the subject (in July), I remember that  Martin Kerstein said the winners would be notified that very week. That was some time ago, though, and I don't know any additional information. Would you like to get in touch with Martin to ask him directly? I apologize that I do not know the details of this, and I wish you well in finding the answer to this question. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 19:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Here's the list. --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu
 * Thanks, MM! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 20:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks MM :) I just was curious if i had won anything :P -- Mepp 14:11, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Np, also if I'm correct, if you win something, your name won't be on the list until u confirm by replying to an email anet will send. Correct me if I'm wrong Gaile. --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 17:01, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, again MageMontu. I believe that the emails would have come from NCsoft Europe, as they were the sponsors of the contest. But yes, it does appear that those who received the email needed to confirm their information in order to be listed. I'm not sure about what happened to the prizes if those who were selected did not send a confirmation email but I imagine those details were covered in the rules for the European contest. In some contests, the sponsor moves down the list and chooses an alternate; in other cases, if the person does not confirm his/her details, the prize is not awarded. This is another matter about which Martin would have great familiarity than I would, so please do feel free to contact him. I agree with you, however, that a critical component appears to have been the confirmation email that the winner would need to send in response to the winners notification. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 04:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Art Resources
Well, I wasn't 100% sure who to bug about this, but I figured you could sent me in the right direction if you can't help me out here XD Anyway, I have a question concerning a certain graphic (I believe it's an alchemical circle) that seems to be showing up everywhere (Wiki background, lots of wallpapers, pics on the site, GW 3rd aniversy t-shirt, in-game animations, etc ect...). Does an isolated image of just this (what should I refer to it as?) already exist somewhere in the mass stores of images out and about? And if not, would it be possible to obtain one? Thanks in advance. &mdash; Wolf   19:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You mean this circle? --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 19:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Wolf. I don't know if that image is in the Fansite Kit but have you checked out all the offered downloads in that kit? It may be there. Good luck! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 20:00, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * @Mage: Yeah, that.
 * @Gaile: yup checked em all. &mdash; Wolf  [[Image:User Great Darkwolf User Image paw.png|19px| ]] 21:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I was kinda wondering if it has any meaning to tell the truth, although it kinda looks like the symbol on the bloodstones, --<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">age [[image:user MageMontu sig.png| ]]<font color="#CC0000">M <font color="#330000">ontu 21:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm 90% sure it is. &mdash; Wolf  [[Image:User Great Darkwolf User Image paw.png|19px| ]] 21:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nvm, It's not, but it looks kinda like it. &mdash; Wolf  [[Image:User Great Darkwolf User Image paw.png|19px| ]] 21:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * They're right on the website if you know how to find them: http://www.guildwars.com/images/spotimages/nightfallalchemy-big.jpg and http://www.guildwars.com/images/spotimages/alchemy-big.jpg — [[Image:User_Kyrasantae_Fin_sig.gif]] kyrasantae  23:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah but I didn't know how to find them. Than k you VERY much! Many 's for you! &mdash; Wolf  [[Image:User Great Darkwolf User Image paw.png|19px| ]] 04:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That's great, Kyrasantae. Thanks for helping out. :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 05:07, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Guild of The Week
I'm curious to know if there is a link between Gaile and Guild of The Week. The last Guild of The Week was published March 25th, and Gaile posted her plans to leave on March 31st. Is this a coincidence or does this explain why there hasn't been a GoTW since? Slayer essence 02:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's strange to see me referred to in the third person on my page, but I know you were just starting a discussion for everyone, rather than asking me directly, so that's fine. :) Yes, the Guild of the Week series was something I conceived and managed; I liked the feature very much. Most of the time I was only lightly involved in the week-to-week production and publication of the features; various folks wrote the articles over the years.
 * At this point, I don't think the series has concluded, but I really don't know. The people who would know about that are members of the current community team. They may have plans to continue the series, modify it, or drop it altogether. I'm sure any of the team members would welcome your inquiry, so do feel free to drop one of them a note, if you wish to do so. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 03:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Regina's comments on this can be found here. -- Inspired to ____ 20:06, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * That's really helpful, Inspired. Thanks for finding that June comment. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:32, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * With the answer of Regina i understand why my story driven GOTW entry never made it...to bad...it's quiet a way to advertise the guild...especially for the old dedicated PVE guilds for making the transfer to GW2 Didis 19:23, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Xunlai problem
Hey Gaile, sent you an email a time back about my password problem on the Guild Wars website, to which you replied. I was all set go for getting it sorted, but alas there has not been any word from any form of support on the issue since your email. I have tried to be patient but when said snowman has been waiting months now for some shiny Zaishan keys, it’s frustrating.I guess some things you just can’t predict! =)Frozenwind 13:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Daniel. One of the GMs wrote to you on October 19th to get some necessary information from you in order to work on a resolution of the problem. Looking at the ticket, it appears we never heard back from you. :I have updated the ticket by sending it to you with a note, so please check your emails. Once you've given that info (things like account name and XTH-preferred email address) I am sure that the team can get this fixed promptly. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Gaile, there are several things that currenctly make the prediction system a bit obscure for "Ze common and average player":
 * Predictions are opened while qualifications are still not finished yet/underway (ie: last month when I predicted there were only 9 guilds listed, several friend did their predictions 1 week after me and they said they had 2~3 full pages of guilds).
 * People (me included) do not want to do the math (or suck at doing math), it's kind of odd that you have to compute yourself how many points you have since basically the whole system is a good place where for automatization. The same applies when you are given your points in the game, the NPC does not really explain how you achieve that ammount of points...
 * Last month predictions (and other monthes before that) do not stay long on the page when the new prediction kick in so it is really really difficult to verify those information. Plus there is not one page in our own account where one can track the efficiency of his own prediction (trough time charts, tables, etc...) and not one page in the competitive area where one can see charts that resume the history and evolution of guild and 1v1 players for the whole season (not just last month's results) (ie : think of something like stats of a NLF team or player in a football match as a good example).
 * It's still hard to track 1v1 player in the tournament since they keep changing names as they change character...
 * So they are quite some rooms for improvement and most of them involve better automatization and information display from NCsoft and ArenaNet in the Xunlai House Account and the Automated Tournament pages. Though I understand that yes, result, page, etc... have to be localized, etc... which is not easy, and takes time and resources (= money) etc... I still find hard to believe that after all this monthes most of the updates to those page may involve manual interraction where the full automated tournament and Xunlai prediction area on the site(s), well, scream for automated content generation (no matter what language you are in). Jaxom 19:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * So they are quite some rooms for improvement and most of them involve better automatization and information display from NCsoft and ArenaNet in the Xunlai House Account and the Automated Tournament pages. Though I understand that yes, result, page, etc... have to be localized, etc... which is not easy, and takes time and resources (= money) etc... I still find hard to believe that after all this monthes most of the updates to those page may involve manual interraction where the full automated tournament and Xunlai prediction area on the site(s), well, scream for automated content generation (no matter what language you are in). Jaxom 19:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Fan fiction and the Terms of Use
Hi Gaile, I'm currently writing a short story in the GW-verse that follows the general Prophecies storyline, and I'd like to post it online when it's finished to share it with my friends and any GW-fan who feels like reading it. Obviously it's all just for fun and I won't be making money on it, but since I'm working with in-game content I've been looking at the Terms of Use again to make sure that I'm not somehow breaking any rules. I certainly don't intend to. Now I have some questions about the ToU that I thought you would be best able to answer, so I'm hoping you can clarify some points for me.<BR> I personally go by British spelling, so when inserting snippets of in-game dialogue I'll be bound to, say, add a "u" to words like "hono(u)r". I can't imagine that this would be a point ANet would take offense over, but best be sure. I'm also using the occasional bits of cutscene dialogue, and in one case a bit of text from completing a quest. Now I'm not adjusting these texts at all, but in one case, for instance, I have inserted a short line of my own for continuity. (E.g. the main character calling out "Rurik!" between his famous "Ah, my good and excellent friends" and "I got pinned down..." etc. lines.) In my eyes a change like this is non-intrusive and wouldn't be an issue, but I can't speak for ANet about these things.<BR> And just because I'm wondering... a lot of missions feature NPCs who, at some point, start talking at you. In a lot of cases the player's character doesn't actually engage in conversation, and that works well enough as an in-game device to set mission objectives. In a story however the preference would clearly go to some sort of dialogue that maintains the message but adds a story's continuity. That's a more drastic change than the above, but because it doesn't involve cutscenes, major characters or plot points it would seem less of an issue to me. Before I actually make an effort to write these things, I'd like to know if I'm allowed to. It would certainly help come the story to life and improve it, but I wouldn't want it to be against the policies.<BR> This confused me a little. I am essentially writing a short story (which is allowed if you look at the first bit of text, but not allowed when you look at the second bit) and when I'm done I'll most likely post it to a place like Writing.Com where I can post it for free and where people can read it without paying for it. To the best of my knowledge sites like these count as "non-profit" (I'm certainly not making any money off the work I post there!) but I guess that here, too, I want to be 100% sure about things. Now I've established that for me there is absolutely no commercial benefit involved, I'm just writing this because I love GW and I enjoy doing so. I just want to know if my desire to share my work and my approach to writing would be an issue for ANet. I can't be the only GW player / (fan fiction) author who is wondering about it. If you could clarify these points for me, I'd be very grateful. :) -- Elv 13:16, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * "You agree that you will not alter, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or in any other way modify the content."
 * "We permit the use of our game world and our characters in literary or musical pieces intended for personal use only, such as those posted on or released through a non-profit website, as long as such usage does not fall outside the parameters established in the first item on this document. We do not permit the unauthorized use of our game world, our characters, or any other elements of our game in any form that involves profit or commercial benefit, such as novels, short stories, articles, screenplays, action figures, theatrical productions, or other adaptations of our game."
 * Hi, Elveh. I don't see anything in what you are planning that steps beyond the permissions provided in the Terms of Use. The comments about not altering (etc.) are really related to code, not the story itself, and certainly are not related to using proper spelling. (Armour is spelled with a "u." You know it; I know it. ;) )


 * The placement of the story on a free site is fine, because you are not profiting. It's no different than those who post on a fansite, in my opinion, where the fansite also may have advertising to pay for its costs in bandwidth, etc.


 * If you would feel better about my directing this inquiry to the company attorney, I can do so, and you can send an email to me at SupportLiaison@Arena.Net. However, again, the descriptions you have provided about your project are aligned with other requests for permission in the past and I see nothing that would cause me to believe you would be in any way in breach of the Terms of Use. Best of luck with your project! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 04:46, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Gaile, thanks for clearing that up. My main concern was figuring out exactly what the ToU was trying to restrict, and I'm glad that ANet at least doesn't literally apply it to whatever they can think of. The last thing I'd want is to get into a lawyer war because some part of the ToU was unclear to me. :)
 * I've not yet decided where I'll be posting it, exactly (it's not yet done anyway), but I'm glad that a writing site using ads wouldn't be an issue, or seems not to be an issue. I don't think I'll need to address the ANet lawyers with my questions, given your response. If my request is basically just like that of others in the past, and their actions weren't an issue, then there is really no more reason for me to assume that mine would be.
 * Thanks for taking the time to clarify this for me, I'll be picking up the story where I left off when I posted here. (We'll teach people proper spelling yet! Honour with ou! [waves a little banner]) This little head's up will make it that little bit more enjoyable to write. :) -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 16:23, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Happy to help, Elveh, and best of luck with your project. -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not finished yet but the first part is up here. I added the copyright notice thing right at the top above the table of contents, so I think that should cover the main legal bit. Thanks again for the help. :) -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 23:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Texmod
I was looking at the texmod page and found a usefull link at the bottem to a youtube movie about moding yourself. Now I have two questions about modding:
 * 1. Is it ok to mod everything ingame? I want for example to change my eye's of my main my hair and color and some other stuff, Since there is no haircutter ingame ^^.
 * 2. Is it safe to mod yourself, I mean there are no virusses on it if you mod it yourself but is there a chance, a programme who looks for bots etc. ingame, thinks I am using a thirdparty program and bannes me? 145.53.242.142 21:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ANet's stance on modding can be found here. As far as I know, there are no virusses you can get from modding, and ANet will not ban you if you mod your game client, as the only real changes you can make using Texmod only show on your own client anyway, which means it isn't possible to cheat a couple of Ks or any other items into your storage using Texmod. &mdash; Why [[Image:User Why Are We Fighting BlackRose.PNG|User talk:Why Are We Fighting]] 23:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well here someone says he is banned for it, so i dont now maybe gaile gray can give us highlight about this. Was it a 1time case or why was he banned? http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Talk:Guide_to_modifying_in-game_graphics#Banning 62.133.217.205 10:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Have you actually read that section? That person was banned in error and re-instated. -- snog  rat [[Image:User Snograt signature.png]] 10:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think the policies on modding are pretty clear, and I don't imagine there is anything to add on it, really. I always encourage friends to use caution and make sure to only download from reputable sites to ensure they're not getting "bonus goods," like Trojans, keyloggers, etc. That's not to put a damper on modding -- modding is awesome! But caution related to all downloads is a good thing. As Why said, modding only changes what you see, so there's no impact on the game code itself. I've not seen a support ticket come through, nor have I been asked a question by the Support Team about modding in a long, long time and the one incident of the accidental ban was corrected very quickly, as Snograt noticed. Best of luck, and have fun! -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 07:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Can I post a screen of my modding here wenn I'm finsihed? 62.133.217.136 10:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It would be preferable to upload the image to a hosting service like Imageshack and link to it. Feel free to register on this wiki though - then you can happily upload that picture for display on your user page :) -- snog  rat [[Image:User Snograt signature.png]] 16:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Here is something I made yet http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4254/andereogenxp7.png 145.53.242.142 19:36, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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