Warhammer Alliance Daily News: May 13

[samwise75]

Warhammer Alliance News
The latest happenings from your favorite WAR fansite!

PhoenixRed has given us more good lovin' from Games Day Baltimore. Be sure to check out these interviews, in-game movies and posts:

• Interview with Jeff Skalski (RvR System)
• Games Day Baltimore - "Lagwarhammer Alliance" Podcast Special
• Interview with Nate Levy (Combat and Careers)
• Interveiw with Andy Belford (Community Coordinator)
• Interview with Josh Drescher and Paul Barnett
• Video of (Most) Soveregin Order Sets
• Land of the Dead Hands-On Gameplay
• Thoughts on Land of the Dead and WAR

Finally, PhoenixRed wraps things up with an outstanding summary of Land of the Dead coverage from Warhammer Alliance and other sites. This is your one-stop shopping folks. Be sure to check it out!

• Summary of WAR and Land of the Dead Coverage

News From The Herald
News from the Herald compiles Herald posts from the day.

Emergency Network Maintenance 5.12.09 - 5.13.09: Network instability forced game services and servers down at just after midnight EDT on 5/13/09. Servers were brought back online at 5:00 AM EDT.

Downtime Explained: It seems the problems were due to faulty hardware at the offsite server host ISP. The staff at Mythic thanks all fansites and Warhammer Alliance for communicating these issues to the community.

Dark Crag Maintenance: Darg Crag was taken offline for maintenance at 2:00 PM EDT. The server was back online at 2:30 PM EDT.

Daily Devs
Daily Devs compiles all the important Dev Tracker posts from the day

Commuity Run In-Game Events: Checking on the Dev posts, it seems that Jess from the Community Team is encouraging players to post in game events on the Official Server Forums. Check on your server’s forums and start event planning!

[Schmapdi]

Are we ever going to get transcripts of these interviews - I'd like to know whats in them, but they are just impossible for me to listen to with all the background chatter.

I know it's very early 2000's of me - but in general I prefer transcriptions to video or audio interviews. I'd much rather read an interview in 2 minutes and skim by the boring parts than have to sit and listen/watch for 10.

[Helvetica-WHA]

Originally Posted by Schmapdi

Are we ever going to get transcripts of these interviews - I'd like to know whats in them, but they are just impossible for me to listen to with all the background chatter.

I know it's very early 2000's of me - but in general I prefer transcriptions to video or audio interviews. I'd much rather read an interview in 2 minutes and skim by the boring parts than have to sit and listen/watch for 10.

I know Frank has been wicked busy with concentrating on video editing and organizing content that he has. With everything he has been doing, I don't think there would be any transcripts written any time soon. Then again, I could be wrong, but it's just an observation.

[PhoenixRed]

Originally Posted by Schmapdi

Are we ever going to get transcripts of these interviews - I'd like to know whats in them, but they are just impossible for me to listen to with all the background chatter.

I know it's very early 2000's of me - but in general I prefer transcriptions to video or audio interviews. I'd much rather read an interview in 2 minutes and skim by the boring parts than have to sit and listen/watch for 10.

I may consider it for more of the louder interviews (like the Mark Davis one) but as Helvetica said, It's not likely to happen any time soon. Transcripts are extremely time-consuming and I have spent an already significant portion of time uploading everything and writing the main articles. I tuned the sound a little bit for slightly better quality, but that's the best I can do.

Unless someone wants to volunteer to do it, I really can't commit to creating transcripts for 7 interviews at 10-15 minutes each. Apologies for that, and the fact that my directional mic seemed to not work out, which is why I had to go without it.

[samwise75]

Frank-

Thanks for all the hard work you put in! I know you gave up a lot of your time, and took some time off at work, just to get us all this content. There is so much here to take in, I still haven't gotten to all of it. I appreciate it, and I know the entire community does too. You deserved to be wined and dined by Mythic. I'm just sorry you came back with ConFlu, a nastier strain of H1N1.

Killer work!

Joe

[Nataska]

Originally Posted by samwise75

Frank-

Thanks for all the hard work you put in! I know you gave up a lot of your time, and took some time off at work, just to get us all this content. There is so much here to take in, I still haven't gotten to all of it. I appreciate it, and I know the entire community does too. You deserved to be wined and dined by Mythic. I'm just sorry you came back with ConFlu, a nastier strain of H1N1.

Killer work!

Joe

THIS! your coverage has been nothing short of outstanding. Big thanks from me

[Gerd]

Originally Posted by Nataska

your coverage has been nothing short of outstanding. Big thanks from me

ditto this. WHA coverage completely destroyed any other coverage of the event I've seen.

I'm not sure if people thought about what a pain it would be to write transcripts for those interviews.

[Ariwyn-WHA]

...perhaps...we have thought about it...

But you get no more information than that!