User talk:TulipVorlax

Hi,
Dont be shy please and tell me if there is something wrong with the image i've just uploaded.
--TulipVorlax 01:38, 2 March 2007 (EST)

It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not really needed. Rather than the GuildWiki method of uploading screenshots, for the armor pictures, we've been using actual engine renders provided to us by ArenaNet, thanks to Emily =) Anyway, take a look at Assassin armor to see what I'm talking about. Pepe talk 01:51, 2 March 2007 (EST)

Yes, i've seen thoses images while "lurking" around to see how you where doing things. So, all screenies on the warior armor page will be replaced by thoses so well looking renders ? (Note that i know of 3D stuff. My friend do things with Wings 3D everyday and it's me who "teach" him ..... oh never mind, it's not the subject here.)

Good. At least you can erase no more wanted files here. On guildwiki.fr, we can't delete anything. Very annoying. --TulipVorlax 02:04, 2 March 2007 (EST)

My userboxe

I dont know if userboxes are supposed to be implemented here. If not, i can remove it from my page if needed. Otherwise, i permit anyone who need that perticular boxe to use it. And if needed, it could be converted to a template (altough i've remove the floating off the original design that i made on the french non official wiki). --TulipVorlax 02:14, 2 March 2007 (EST)

What i've been doing lately

• Image on ImageShack : http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/8101/screencapture750mc2.jpg

It's on my localy installed wiki... --TulipVorlax 05:17, 5 March 2007 (EST)

French Guild Wars Wikia

Finally! It's here :

• http://fr.guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Accueil

If any copyright are violated in any way, tell me so i can put the rights legals mentions (or delete things if really needed).
Thanks. --Tůζip Võrζąx 03:14, 8 March 2007 (EST)

http://guildwiki.fr has been around for a while, and ANet has said they will add multiple languages of official wikis once this one gets started (http://fr.wiki.guildwars.com was available for a short while), I wouldn't advise duplicating efforts — Skuld 04:25, 8 March 2007 (EST)

You don't understand. Most content on guildwiki.fr is base on content of gw.gamewikis.org but that's not all. Since guildwiki.fr move to a new hosting, it is bugged. Category doesn't work, cant edit image page, etc. But there's more. guildwiki.fr will disapear soon because we have no news from it's founder, Elenna. Last heard of, she was going at Dubai... Still, most thing at guildwiki.fr aren't useable anymore. Too many bugs and too many copyright conflict. And no one know what to do to have a french wiki aside from waiting for Anet to be satisfied with their first one. Who know how many months ? Dont you think french talking people have no rights to have their own site with a little more freedom of speach than on Anet site ? I think that you're well place to know what are the differencies between gw.gamewikis.org and Anet wiki. Thoses differencies will be on the french wikia too. Except that Wikia are GFDL. So it's not a waist of time. When the official french wiki will be up, we will already have content for it. Just sitting there waiting for Anet is not tolerable. That would be a waist of time.

Sorry to react that badly. BUt, you're not born in the right country to understand me well. You dont have difficulty to find web sites in your language. Do you know that in my french talking part of country we cant even find DVD with french audio track ? Having things in french is very important to me so i wont accept anyone saying it's a waist of time. Guild Wars is mostly the only computer game here that has french in it. And for that, it's my only computer game and i'm really gratefull(?) to Anet to have made it like that.

Sorry again. --Tůζip Võrζąx 16:46, 8 March 2007 (EST) PS: you have a problem in the notfication email......

Almost 500 pages... — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 07:56, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

Althought I am french, I have to admit that having multiple Guild Wars Wikis with different langages might not be the solution. Instead, maybe some links pointing to localized (translated) versions of an article would work (but who then would check if there are no vulgarity in the translated articles available? Would this option be allowed on Guild Wars Official Wiki ?), I dont know... As far as I am concerned I prefer to learn english, which is also a way to be heard by the majority. Serge Yseron 19:21, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

So, Microsoft should never have produce Windows in other languages than english then.

There should never have translated and adapted movies. Same for books. Who know if books that have been translated from english to french containt vugarities or insanities ?

No french or spanish Wikipedia neither... But i think it useless to try to convince people... They think because they prefer to learn english, everyone should do the same.

Guild Wars Wikia (in french) has now 1800 pages. Every weeks one of my administrators come by saying we should try to get more people to help us. When we have try to get more people, it was only so they says that it's futile to do this. But last time my admins asked for more users, i did not even try to get some. So your comment is presently not welcome. Sorry.

For the part about how language linking should work here, i think it should work as it is working on wikipedia. Exemple : fr:Discussion Utilisateur:TulipVorlax This is supposed to produce interlanguage link if that thing has been installed and configured properly.

See ya. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 20:40, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

I personally think you guys are doing a great job with the french Wikia. Hopefully ANet will open new wikis for other languages soon. Right now they've started posting some content in other languages, such as Localized skill names, but as you can see it's not a practical or too refined solution. =\ --Dirigible 21:02, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for the link. I didn't know. This can help us out in filling in some info in our skill templates... — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 00:55, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

We noticed that in the game some skills descriptions in French are incorrectly or inaccuratly translated (sometimes in both langages), for exemple: Shield Of Absorbtion. If someone was to write a french version of the skill description, should he left the in-game translation untouched and add a section using the correct translation or go straight for the correct one Serge Yseron 02:20, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

In the old guildwiki.fr (who's hosting expired), the rule was to keep the "error" and put some kind of note. In Guild Wars Wikia, users choosed to correct thing like missing accents and make use of the wonderfull redirect system that comes in standard in every MediaWiki wikis so that wrong in game spelling point to the same page.

We are well aware that french in game text (translations) are often changing for any reason. That is why, somes users have developed a lot and a lot of templates. When a skill has been renamed or retranslated, changing a single template change all occurencies. When descriptions of particular weapon stat change, we can change it easily.

But, there are still thing that demand more users. Like changing ranges of dammage or healing in skills description.

Feel free to ask more as you need. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 04:23, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

R.I.P to guildwiki.fr !

It is dead now : [1]

But, it's too soon... §: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 22:14, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

Progression formula reloaded !

I've managed to reprogram a progression template(s).
I've done it starting on paper with simple algebra.
Then i've put it in wikicode here : [2]
It's on the french Wikia. It's on GFDL.
Can someone confirm it working properly ? Maybe not.
Maybe more testing on the wikia.
But, if it works, i would really like to give it to you guys.
--§: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 00:15, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

Does not work well enough. It's sometimes off by 1 up or down. §: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 04:01, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

Error

Sorry to be a bug, or to intrude, I seen a spelling and grammar mistake in your userbox. I couldn't help but fix it. Sorry. :( - Drago 11:42, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

Héhé! I've corrected one typo myself on a page of an Anet guy some others day. Thanks. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 14:12, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

My crude bug

A few updates ago, when using -image parameter, the update process seem at first to run as always. It closed and then another window apeared saying it was trying to connect to Anet. Apparently, it failled. The text in the window updated to say that i migh not have the right to install the game or maybe there is not enough space.

That was the first occurence. I closed the windows and ran -image again. The game run correctly afterward.

Next update, same bug. But that time even doing -image over and over did not fixed it. I've try to reinstall the game with the client from Guild Wars official web site, downloading again ton of files (took to much time). The game worked.

Next update, same bug. This time, i've copied over the .dat file from another computer (it took 30 minutes or so). The game worked.

Last update, same bug. I've entirely uninstalled Guild Wars from my computer.

I really dont understand because the game dont do that bug on the laptop (wich have a too cheap graphic card to run GW properly and only 512M of ram). My comp have 1Go of ram, a good processor and a good GC. And there is enough disk space (9G free on my game partition). I dont know what to do... Should i try to reinstall using my CDs this time ? Did not contacted support yet. I dont think they would respond fast until monday anyway.

— TůζipVõrζąx Talk 19:03, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

At least one other person experienced the same thing. Others persons experienced others bugs. You can see a bit of a discussion in guildwiki.org on the Updates talk page. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 15:58, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

New update, same bug ! Why can't i play Guild Wars normally anymore ? Please, someone at Anet, find and solve that bug. I could help by providing more infos as needed. Just ask. And thanks in advance.

Erg! Forgot to sign last comment...

I've found some clues.

I've closed all open program. It seems that GW directory (or a file) is flag "in use" by another software. I'll reboot and try it by closing every app one at a time and trying GW after soing this. But, maybe i'll have to wait for another update.... — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 21:49, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

As i said on GuildWiki, it was the resident thing of Spybot that was causing me thoses troubles. But now i have a new computer (DualCore + SLI) and i did not had time to install Spybot yet. But i will surely test this some day. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 19:33, 18 May 2007 (EDT)

This need an update. It dont do the same thing with my new hardware. For now. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 19:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Account thief again !

He is back ! Wolfy is back.

He already managed to stole another account to our alliance. But maybe i should resume what happened the first time that thief visited our alliance.

It was last year in december. He manage to stole the GW account of my best GW friend. A mother of two children who never deserved to get her bests characters deleted and all of her stuff stolen. Anet has given back her account to her one or two weeks after that. But in the mean time, Wolfy had stolent many other account (stripping them in the proccess). At least three. But that's not all that he was doing. Aside comming to our password protected TeamSpeak server, he also manage to disrupt our guild forum.

One night, i've been talking to him a real lot in GuildWars. I might i've made him mad or so somehow. Next thing he do is giving me the password i was using on my guild forum. Ok, it was a dictionnairy word, but still... Thoses password are supposed to be encrypted in database and i dont know what sort of software could try every possibilities of password on a forum login page and come up with the right one in minutes. And you ? As it seems, he had access to our forum database and has been able to decifer the MD5 encryption somehow.

Why am i writing all this here ? As i said above, he has made a comeback. He has solen us another GuildWars account. He has been lurking in our TeamSpeak server again altough we changed password. But, it's no surprise for me. Wolfy said it many times to many of our members : he will get every single of ours account. And he want to «destroy» us all.

This is not just a kid stealing toys ! He is persecuting us ! This should be taken seriouly !

So, is Anet going to try and help us getting that juvenile offender in front of the judge ? I doubt it. All that Anet is doing when we use the support forum to talk about this is "we will send news passwords to yours friends, stop bothering us.." Not in thoses words tough.

I repeat : this is serious matter. It is harassement ! Make it end please. You can do it. You're the greatest game studio ever; i'm sure you can do this. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 05:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Or there could be a key logger your computer? Perhaps more likely. Ale_Jrb (talk) 06:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I think you and your friends' computers have been hacked and compromised. Might I suggest you get as many of your friends to format and reinstall everything? Also, since you took the trouble of typing it out, I hope you've also sent as much details as possible to Anet support. -- ab.er.rant 07:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Did not send anything to them (Anet) this time. They dont want us to. Only the person who has lost his/her account can ask for support. It's perfectly comprehsible. They cannot be sure who we are. And yes, the first time, my friend found a keyloguer and many nasty things. I'll ask that they investigate that way. See ya all. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 07:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, my computer never had any virus nor any kind of keylog that i can greatly assure you. So, that is not how he has found my forum password. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 07:26, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

For what it's worth, it's pretty easy to decrypt an MD5 hash code - I know of at least three different sites that host databases for reverse hashing. It's really a matter of copy-pasting, and you're done in seconds. MisterPepe talk 07:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

You were using a DICTIONARY WORD as your password, Tulip! A dictionary word! No offense, but doing so in this day and age is plain silly. Go and change your password right now, use something relatively complicated and NOT a dictionary word. Also, it's worth making sure that the forum software is salting the MD5 hashes in the database, because with rainbow tables having been around for ages accepting non-salted passwords is simply foolishness. And of course, don't use the same password on GW as on your forums or as on your TS server, keep them different and unique, so that even if one gets compromised the rest remain intact. If you have trouble remembering them, use software that helps you with that, such as KeePass (my personal recommendation) or PasswordSafe; both are open-source, free and helpful.

Also, if your accounts are being hacked this regularly and on different software, it means that you guys are somehow making it easy for him to figure out the passwords. Find out what you're doing wrong, ANet can't help you with that. They may at least ban the guy from GW, I guess, but nothing more than that. --Dirigible 07:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, a compromised computer doesn't announce itself as being hacked and compromised. But if you're relatively IT savvy, then you should know that the best passwords are a near random combination of alphabets, numbers, and symbols. As I mentioned on FireFox's page, ArenaNet cannot even consider to take action if you do not file a report. That must have a formal report before they can start investigating. That's how Support works. You can't expect Gaile to trump into the Support office and demand them to do something based on your comment in her talk page. Also, as a side note, could this troublemaker be someone known to you guys? -- ab.er.rant 07:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, i'm using Keepass since this occured the first time. But, it was not to get more security. More security was more like a side effect. No, it was that i needed a way to log on 3 GW accounts. I have 3 because, my friend and housemate (is this the right word?) has given me his account. That's make 2. The third one was a big mistake i made while trying to buy a second copy of Nightfall; i've buyed a third copy of Factions, duh! So, Keepass logon for me in guild Wars.

No! Dictionnairy word are perfectly fine, i continu to use them on many site that no one ever would have so much time to loose in hacking them. Sites not even related to GuildWars. But yes, after this happened in early december last year, i've changed many of them for what Keepass can come up with. There is only one problem. Sometimes we can't use Keepass password to it's fulliest potential (is this proper english?) because of restrictions like only 6 caracters long and only letter and number (excluding capitals letters) but even then, Keepass can use only thoses but that random password would not be really more secure then any 6 letters word. Could also use less letters and add some numbers...

And another thing. The Keepass database and key file are stored in the same place on the hard drive. No, i'm using Keepass everyting then minutes or so, but not always, yes. Still, i dont like thing been locked when i try to use them. So my Keepass load the database at startup and is never locked. If anyone would successfully gain access to my files trough my router that is also a hardware firewall (i dont use software firewall), they would have access to all of my pass for all of my differents vitual identities and all. That maybe any good hacker could do. But what's the benefit for him ? Credit card number ? I dont even have a credit card.

No, as this little hacker said himself, all he want to do is stripping every single of our accounts and causing big trouble in our guild/alliance hoping to causing our members to disband... i have troubles translatings my thoughs in english here, sorry.

Yes, maybe it is someone we have known at any moment earlier. I said this many many times to my guild leader. I doesn't beleive me on that matter. And it seems logical because everyone that got hacked are living far enough to each other and they dont have the same ISP and they we're not using the same email provider. If he has got their pass by their email account as my guild leader think, that would make at least 3 email provider that he had to hack in any way possible.

But, i'll stop right there. I'll go to my guild forum (that the hacker can read freely although it's a private forum) and ask more precise data about what they are doing. Yes, as if all are correct in stating that it is their fault they've been hacked. I'm sure they are not using hard to remember and type password in their everyday operation over the internet.

Is all of you using really secured password on everyting ? I doubt it.

PS: I've got interrupted many times while writing this so it does not reflect perfectly my mind. And please, dont be chocked by what i say, be chocked by what that hacker is doing. Internet security is like how people behave outside on the street; everyone do what they want until accident happen. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 19:19, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Tanks all for your comments.
I've just post on my guild forum that as badly i want to help them, i can't and i'm just making myself a bad reputation on this wiki. So...
Urgh! Sometimes i think i would return taking english lessons. I'm so often unable to find the proper words to express myself. It's frustrating...
Anyways... Feel free to comment again if needed but talking about this does not seem to be of any help and i feel overwhelm. Ho! And help me with my english as you please. ;-) — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 22:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I read your comment on FireFox's page, and I really think you should convince everyone to use the Anet support. Most people don't have a lot of faith in it (and generally with good reason) but if it is something this serious and widespread I am sure they will look into it for you all. It is better to do something and have the chance of him being in huge trouble and banned than to just let it go by because you cant be bothered/don't have faith support. I hope you can convince them! - BeX 04:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

First, they can't ban him really becaused he's alway talking to us trough stolens accounts but maybe... And yes, better to do something... That is why i've post here (and linked from Gaile). But it won't do any good. The last "stolen" account was easily recovered (with emptied inventories) because it was linked to an NCSoft account.

All i can tell you is that when my guild leader try to get support in the official way they say to him "we will get back the account of your friend but don't bother us anymore". But, that came from the french support because most guys (and girls) in my alliance live in France.

I've already resume in my guild forum all comments above. Simply put i said that most of you think it's their fault they got hacked because they can't use sercure enough password. Pretty harsh isn't it ? But maybe that will "motivated" them to be more secure in the future.

Now if you dont mind, i'll return to trying to get 100% of Elona map. See ya. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 05:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

My Account got Hacked...

Hey Tulip and everyone else! Well..its as simple as my account got hacked. Twice. In less than 10 days, i lost roughly 50-80k, plus a few perfect weapons...

After the first time, I didnt know what to do, so I contacted plaync....they didnt help me at all, I couldnt change my guild wars password...but my friend, after the 2nd hack, helped me get my password changed.

Now im scared to go farming or anything, cause I dont want to lose it. Again. And i was reading around, and I saw something about a Key logger, and was wondering about that, and what other steps i can take to secure my account from this hacker.

Thanks for reading, bye.

Devin --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:24.3.3.201 .

What measures were you taking to keep your account secure? For instance was your password something easy to guess? Were you using any third party programs? - BeX 03:33, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I dont use third party programs when it comes to Guid Wars, and I just now changed my password, and yes, it was not something that easy to guess, but it was nothing random. So far, I have a friend who is helping, he suggested that i check for a keylogger (to be safe), frequent if not daily scans from virus scanners, (i hae Mcafee, and Windows Defender, and a Firewall, not that the firewall will stop someone from getting on my account.) and too also maybe get a trusted friend to "store" the stuff that i get, leaving only a little on each character to see if it gets hacked into again, and im also taking pictures of my inventory andstorage, etc each day that i go farm or something. But this is really serious, and I dont think that A net can get me it back, but I really just want to see that they stop or at least make some kind of verification like if you give your friend your account for the day, that when they try to log on, they cant until you verify that their IP is the IP of someone you trust, and this would be done with email. Also Tulip, I like your ideas about seeing everying in the alliance/roster, and about health and energy bars just like the heros have. Thanks for helping again, I greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for sharing. But, as you have read up here, everybody will tell you to go on official support. And that is not to retreive your stolen goods. No. Anet never give back stolen things because anybody could pass their things to a friend and say they've been stolen...

Aside this, except in the case of the presence of any kind of malware (keylog, etc.), i really reccomend the use of KeePass. Ho! There's a new version ! Keepass can handle very complicated password for you. For exemple, the following password have been generated by KeePass :

s31,v@yPs>Q

C@kbm!>&Z-zePbwX

9@hY7;l='y%wzNj;YW9_

Those 3 have been generated on purpose just now and are not part of the passwords i use. And if an email service you are using have restriction over the type of caracter or the lenth of the password, KeePass handle that very easily. You can even use an USB flash drive to store the password database and make use of a 64 random bytes key file as database password.

It is indeed very secure unless the hacker can get both files.

Aside all this, sorry to read you are having trouble. Right now, i'm not into Guild Wars as much as i was because i've buyed a Wii, but, i comme back to it from time to time... — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 17:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

GWW:SIGN

Gww:sign says you're not allowed to use a shorter version of your name unless your register with that name and make it redirect to here ~ Kurd 08:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not a shorter version. TulipVorlax and TuζipVõrζąx have exactly the same amount of caracters. But, i saw somewhere that some of them are not showed correctly on systems where all language support isn't installed. So, i think i'll remove thoses caracters.

As for the redirection; i did not do one. Where did you see my nick without it pointing here ? Maybe it's just not me. TulipVorlax 14:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

No thats not what i meant. But nvm, its fine now. ~ Kurd 15:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes it's "fine" 'cause i've erase it. GuildWiki have more or less the exact same policy and no one there never complain. But, it's no big deal. Some dont like my sort of leet speak; TuζipVõrζąx is my nick in Messenger but it's not something that no one would be able to type even me that why i can't register that as of nickname on forums and wikis. If you search TulipVorlax with Google you should find a great deal of infos about me; i use it everywhere. And TuζipVõrζąx is just to make it look a littl more like alien language or something. Because my "avatar" on forums is this :

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/6225/vorlaxtransparent.gif

I put this image on ImageShack and when i register somewhere i just put the link of it in the profile... But, anyways, i'm getting a bit out of the subject here. See ya. TulipVorlax 15:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)