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Welcome to the Alliance of Friends, a group of guilds, and individuals who wish to remain unguilded, rather than a guild unto itself. Our job here is to protect the rights of the independent smaller guild and individuals by providing opportunities to raid, quest, and grow at all levels of the game. We welcome all guilds and individuals that wish to share their time and are willing to help plan events. We need people who wish to become raid leaders and coaches. We have a chat channel on the server that you are welcome to join. Just type /join alliance and it will attach you to us in the game. There are no tags and no obligations. Please remember that basic civility is the responsiblity of everyone. Our organization is not a recruiting channel. The best policy for joining a guild is to go research many of them before chosing one. We are an association of many. All are welcome. There are no dues, there are no fees, and you don't have to wait in line. Expand your opportunities and come hunt with us. Groups, raids, and pickups at your service.

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Shawl Crawl wipes or reaps?

, Jan 8, 07 6:36 PM.

Apparantly there was a crawl this weekend. Since there is no news coming from the shawlers, we can only assume they were wiped out in a cloud of snow. =(

Spooooky Castle Follow-Up

, Oct 26, 05 11:08 PM.

On October 23rd, Eloween led a fun yet chilling raid upon the Coterie fortress, located deep in the Tenebrous Mountains. A brave ranger pulled each Vampire as it appeared, while the others managed to deal with surprise attacks or confronted the intended vampires directly. Coterie Centurions, Coterie Legionnaires, Coterie Generals, and Coterie Scouts all fell before the invaders. Even Xenithen Sterbla, Trilexior Aeridia, and Renaldok Masric were no match for Eloween's gathered band of attackers. The final escapade for the group was a daring plunge from the top most balcony of castle as they returned to their home base.
- Ringo, bard of The Village, roaming reporter.

Happy Holidays to All

, Dec 24, 04 8:10 AM.

Enjoy some family time. Take a walk in the real world. Look at the stars and ponder the questions many have asked. But mostly, have a happy holiday and go forward into the new year with my good wishes for health, happiness and prosperity.

CHAT CHANNELS OPEN

, Dec 3, 04 7:29 PM.

See the post in the forums about the chat channels being open. Type /join alliance to join the channel. Then type /1 and your message and you get to join in the fun. /autojoin alliance will sign you in automatically when you sign on each time. HAVE FUN CHATTING!!

Raiding vs. Spontaneous Pick Up Groups

, Oct 8, 04 9:03 AM.

A raid is very different than a pickup group or raid. Planning, maps, and commitments to positions occur when planning a raid. Spontaneous calls of "Let's go kill something" with little knowledge of the area happen in a pickup. Both types of grouping are fun and some people respond more to one type or another. We'll send out calls of pickup over /gu chat. Raids will be posted on our calendar. Have fun, kill often.

GuildPortal News

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Raid/Op Groups and More

Welcome Letters and Idle Monitor

Mass Move and More

Multi-Choice Voting, SWTOR Server Status and More

Many, Many Updates

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
12/9/2011 7:10 AM

Widgets sometimes only adding to the home page (regardless of what page you select) has been fixed.
Newest Members widget displaying incorrect data has been fixed.
You can now specify a custom favicon (the icon that appears in the browser when people are visiting your site) to be used instead of the default GuildPortal ones. The place to specify the icon to use is in Control Panel > Style Tools > General > Layout.
Story chapters will now display in order of chapter number instead of the order in which they were entered.
New widget: Torhead Search goes live! For those using the Mod, you no longer need to (but you still can).
In the forum display options, you may now specify that the most recent posts to show should be 0. If you do, the most recent posts will not be displayed at all. Some may find this useful, especially if used in combination with the Most Recent Topics widget.
Bank items with "Display to Members" un-checked no longer show in the bank widget.
Guilds with subscriptions expiring soon will now receive a more informative e-mail reminder.
Guild Events/Raids can now be set to "Block Signups" when entering them. Doing so prevents members from signing up to the event.
Application Questions may now be edited, although once the type is saved (multiple choice vs. text entry), that cannot be changed.
The maximum number of Recent Posts to Show in the forums has been raised from 20 to 50.
The signature generator should now always update your profile with the new image.
A new page in the Control Panel, called Raid Points Tools (under Member Management), provides quick and easy ways to mass adjust everyone's raid points/DKP by a set amount (either deducting or adding), reset everyone's DKP to 0, and individually edit member DKP without having to enter an adjustment.
ATT/AP were dropped from the Raid Points Standings widget. The data was essentially meaningless, and became only moreso over time.

Torhead Integration and More Texting

Customizable Recruiting

Rally Widget, Image Editor and Upgrades

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
11/4/2011 9:19 AM

A new widget called "Rally the Guild" goes live today! This beta widget operates much like a shout box, except instead of just adding a line of text to your site, it will send the text to members via either their cell phone or e-mail. For cell phone delivery, members will need to configure texting in their Profile (the widget itself provides a direct link to configure it, as well). Only those with officer level or higher access to your site may send out rallies, and only those marked as associate or higher receive them.

Also, images uploaded since the new file storage system was brought online (images that show as being located on a path that begins with /GuildImages) now show an Edit link next to them in the File Manager. Clicking it brings up a new web-based image editor that gives you the ability to crop, add text to, and otherwise manipulate images. The functionality of this editor already has planned enhancements, coming soon. It is also available from the Gallery widgets upon upload of new images, if the uploader has Images Admin rights on the site.

Over the past couple days, we ran across a hardware problem with one of the drives on our database server, causing some downtime. We apologize for this. The good news is, however, that we have replaced the drive with a mirrored array that has twice the space. Also, while they had the system open at the data center, we had them double the RAM as well, which should have a positive impact on performance.

To make things run even better, we have also brought in a company that specializes in the optimization of databases specific to the platform that GuildPortal runs on. They have completed their initial monitoring phase, and we will be working closely with them to implement their recommendations.

Other stuff addressed in this push:

Aion armory tooltips are fixed.
LoTRO Integration now allows manual entry of your guild name, in case your actual guild name was already taken for your server and you had to use a different one when creating your site.
Approving/denying item requests in the bank now visually updates the visibility of the approve/deny links, giving a better indicator that the command was performed.
A bug causing only one item to show when viewing item requests has been squished.
SuperAdmins can now delete crafting orders from the main display of the Crafting Marketplace.
Spotter's Order was nerfed in Rift. (Okay, so we had nothing to do with that -- we're just very, very angry about it)

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And no negativity on the eqmac forums! *giggle*

No! Don't use Customer Service! You'll cause the server to be shut down!!!!!

Gassy there is a link there for them to email you to reset it.

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