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Bye Bye Pwn Depot? Not Quite! |
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Oct 02, 2009 - 7:46 PM - by Comicus
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Hey folks. Since I made the announcement that we would be shutting down PwnDepot.com, I've received a lot of really nice posts, emails and PMs. I really appreciate the love and wanted to pass along some good news. Although I will be turning off the ability to post on the forums or register as a new user, I will go ahead and keep the site open as a point of reference for past, current and future twinks.
Please feel free to send me a message or an email (at ComicusTPD at hotmail.com or Comicus at PwnDepot.com).
Thanks again for all the kind words. Keep in touch!
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Pwn Depot/BG Forums Signing Off |
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Sep 26, 2009 - 12:48 AM - by Comicus
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Hey everyone. After much consideration, the time has come to shut PwnDepot/BattlegroundForums down. I'm still amazed when I think that over 3 years ago, we started off as the only WoW twink site with just a handful of members. Over the past few years, we've grown to a community of nearly 10,000 twinks.
I'm very proud to have been able to provide a place for twinks to call home for all these years. However, my work and other aspects of RL are demanding more and more of my "free" time these days, so it's really time for me to move on. The site will fade to black in the next few days.
I'd like to thank some folks for all their dedication, hard work, support, friendship and fun from the first days of Battleground Forums to the final days of Pwn Depot. I *will* forget some people, so if you think you should be listed here and you're not....then thank you, too!
Special thanks to:
Twinkle Twinkle Baby
Murder By Numbers
Doorhandle
Zoombie
Owren and Gwen and the rest of the old school Spinebreaker Alliance "rivals"
Fjerk (sp?). I'm not sure if I ever mentioned this, but he was the main inspiration for Krooki and I to start twinking.
Cry More Noob (originally from Wildhammer)
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Possible Solution for Long Twink Queue Times |
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Aug 16, 2009 - 12:52 PM - by Comicus
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First off, I know twinks have been asking for this type of change (exp locking and twink vs twink BGs) for quite some time now. I also agree that the recent changes have revealed that a large percentage of those twinks' true colors have come out. Many of them don't truly want competitive twink vs twink games. Rather, they still prefer to roll in with a group of twinks and steamroll those who just play BGs to have a little fun.
That being said, there is still a large contingency (myself included) that absolutely loves the idea of twink vs twink-only BGs. While there are obviously massive technological issues that would make it difficult to have all twinks from all battlegroups dumped in the same queue/server, I would like to suggest something as an alternate or at least interim solution.
I would like to see Blizzard allow people to queue up for a BG and then log on to another character on that same account and then receive a notification window or popup when the other character is eligible to join a game. The person could then choose to either decline the game invitation, or accept and be given 1 minute to relog to the original character and accept the game invitation.
Granted, this might slightly extend the time to start games, but I think this would benefit the entire BG community and not just twinks that are upset about the newly-discovered horrible queue times. It would allow all of us to queue up for a BG and actually have... [Read More]
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Blue Response to 3.2's Impact on Queue Times |
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Aug 11, 2009 - 9:03 AM - by Comicus
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I stumbled upon the following Blizzard Poster's ("Blue") response to someone asking about the excessive queue times for those with exp turned off. Here's what he had to say:
Blizzard Entertainment
Zarhym
Blizzard Poster
* 18. Re: Blizz: Non-XP Battlegrounds 08/10/2009 09:16:08 PM PDT
Q u o t e:
All across the board people are complaining about the lack of games available to people with experience turned off, is anyone looking into this?
For a long time we've wanted to allow players to gain experience through Battlegrounds. One major issue with this though, is that we cannot have those players entering twink matches where they just get rolled over and over again, gaining virtually no experience. We don't want players who are participating in Battlegrounds while continuing their leveling experience on the same playing field as those who make the most of their character in a given level bracket and want to stay there.
If there are a lack of matches launching for those with experience gains turned off, it just shows that this isn't an exceedingly popular form of game play, at least not on some Battlegroups.
Q u o t e:
Have they thrown around the idea of pooling everyone with xp turned off into the same battlegroup ques?
Unfortunately, there are massive technical limitations that... [Read More]
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Patch 3.2 Goes Live- Interesting changes for twinks! |
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Aug 04, 2009 - 9:00 AM - by Comicus
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Well, I have to admit that I wasn't buying the rumors that patch 3.2 would come out today, but here we are! This isn't a complete list of patch notes, but rather some key items that will have a direct impact on the world of warcraft twink community. For the complete patch notes, please visit WoW -> Patch Notes -> Current Patch Notes. I'm sure Blizzard will get around to throwing them up there sometime today.
Now, on to the good stuff!
# Battlegrounds
* Battleground experience has arrived!
o Players will now be awarded experience for completing objectives and actions that yield honor in Battlegrounds (honorable kills not included).
o Players who do not wish to gain experience through PvP can visit Behsten in Stormwind or Slahtz in Orgrimmar - both located near the Battlemasters in either city - and turn off all experience accumulation for the cost of 10 gold.
o Disabling experience gains will prevent a player from gaining experience through any means available in the game.
o Players with experience gains turned off who compete in Battlegrounds will face off only against other players with experience gains turned off.
o Behsten and Slahtz can reinstate experience gains for players, for a 10 gold fee of course. Any experience that would've been accumulated if... [Read More]
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