30th August 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxyW7RCla0


Introduction

This system has been designed as a direct replacement for Graal's Global Guild system, which has not been maintained properly for a number of years now.

One of the main goals of this system is to eliminate multi-guilding issues on a competitive level, however the flexibility to create non-competitive or "Flavour of the Month" guilds is also offered.

This Control Panel can be opened my quickly by saying the command '/g' which can be customised within the main Options menu.

Those within an activated guild can set their desired tag either by using the Tag Selector item provided with the Control Panel, or by saying 'setguild NameOfGuildTag'. When using the setguild command, a guild name which contains spaces must be wrapped in quotes, "like this".


Guild Activation

Upon creating a new Guild it must first be approved by a member of staff in order for it to become activated.

In addition to staff approval, it is also required to recruit a certain number of guild members before the tag can become wearable. These numbers vary according to the type of guild, which can be seen by browsing to the Guild Types tab.

Upon member count decreasing below the required minimum, a Guild will become deactivated but will not face further penalty. Should it raise its number of members to the required minimum it will become re-activated.


Multi-Guilding

The amount of Guilds which can be joined varies according to guild type. While competitive Guilds are restricted to being able to join one only, non-competitive Guilds offer greater flexibility. The exact numbers can be seen by browsing to the Guild Types tab.

As there are multiple guild types, a significant difference to global guilds is that you can create one guild of each type, though it is not possible to transfer guild leadership to a member who already leads a guild of the same type.

When attempting to create or apply to a new Guild, your current pending applications will be factored in, which means you can not create a competitive guild when you have already applied to one.


Guild Rights Information

Similarly to global guilds, rights are assigned to a Guild Rank, which are then inherited by members of the relevant guild rank.

Hierarchy also works in the same manner as global guilds, with it only being possible to affect members who are either part of a lower rank, or are part of the same rank but joined the guild at a later date.

One right offered by this system is the ability to edit rights, however those with this privilege will only be able to modify rights which are enabled for their own rank. For example, if a rank is permitted to edit rights but not permitted to recruit, members of this rank will not be able to modify the recruitment right for other ranks.

Another right offered by this system is the ability to remove players from the blacklist, which for global guilds is restricted to the Leader.

All email addresses stored on this system are only viewable by members of the same guild.


Global Guilds Policy

Global guilds can be created within this system, however on the condition that the registrant is within the top two ranks of the global guild.

When creating a new guild, both the guild's full name and tag are checked for a match with a global guild.

For global guilds created in this system, it is not required that players be a member of the global guild in order to apply for membership. It is also possible to transfer leadership to a player who is not a member of the global guild.


Recruitment Options

Copied over from global guilds is the ability to set a password for membership applications, which if desired can effectively prevent applications from those who have not been given prior permission to join.

In addition to passwords there are two other optional ways to restrict membership applications:

• Minimum Hours - Require players to have reached a set number of online hours before being able to apply
• Minimum Kills - Require players to have obtained a set number of kills before being able to apply

*The Guilds Control panel can be obtained within the building to the left of SuperNick's Battle Arena, aka the pyramid located in the North of Graal City


Competitive Guild Prizes

A thread detailing the ability for competitive guilds to obtain prizes can be seen here - http://www.graalians.com/forums/show...723#post583723  

18th December 2014

The first archery minigame has been released within the Graal City Castle, from which there are 2 prizes available. Talk to King Tristam or Commander Cyrus to begin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13OtUkLDZpI

For this mode points are obtained by shooting Gelats, which award their equivalent color value, so hitting a Gold Gelat is worth 100 Points. Be careful to avoid hitting Chickens, Baddies and Newbies, as these do not award points. There is also a limit on how many Arrows you can shoot.

*Note the preview video does not fully reflect the final release. Archery also occurs within level instances in order to avoid multiplayer conflict.

16th January 2015

The second archery minigame has been released within Abermose's House, located in the East of Graal City.



In addition to offering a special weapon as a prize, this mode of archery doubles up as a new form of monthly ranking, where those with the highest score of the month shall receive a trophy, statue, special guild tag, and have their character appear as an obstacle within the archery minigames.

For this mode points are calculated from the time it takes to shoot all targets as well as your accuracy, failing to shoot all targets will result in a score of 0.

It is required to first obtain the Wallet through questing in order to play this. Due to a change in the way we would like Gelat to work, everybody has been reset to the amount of Gelat they have obtained through Questing. It is also no longer possible to transfer Gelat between accounts, though Gelats can spawn from cutting bushes again.

Boomerang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UsAfVMxSM

Might this release somehow be of relevance to archery?  

Introduction

Pending a successful relaunch of Graal the Adventure on both the PC platform and Facebook/Flash, it is planned for competitive guilds to be able to obtain a Guild Points currency.

An example of a prepared method for obtaining Guild Points is a revamped Mod Fort, which is currently prepared to work as follows:

• The fort will open once a day, but the time at which it opens is rotated among the evenings of Europe, US East Coast, US West Coast and Australia/Asia
• The fort remains open for 30 minutes, in which it is up to guilds to try and accumulate as much "points" as possible
• "Points" are calculated from hits and kills within the vicinity of the fort
• Once the set time has ended, Guild Points currency is awarded to the guild with the most fort "points", as well as a smaller number to runner ups
• As this is a competitive environment, players are restricted to 3 hearts, and also receive temporary Bow & Bomb weapons if they have not obtained them already
• GC events would not be hosted while the fort is open

With Guild Points it is possible to purchase guild prizes. The prizes which are currently prepared are as follows:


Custom Tag Color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAjIg4qsbk

Unlock the ability to set your guild tag to a customisable color.


Upload Guild Logo



Unlock the ability to upload a guild logo, which appears within guild information, on forts and points interface.


Upload Guild Exclusive Graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4N4xa52bn8

Unlock the ability to upload outfit graphics that are exclusive to your guild members.


Family Guild Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCLndQnzeo

Unlock the ability to form an alliance with a family guild, who will then not be able to damage your on tag members. This can be purchased multiple times for multiple alliances.  

For those who are not yet aware, approximately 4 months ago Classic/Graal the Adventure gained approval from both Carlito and Unixmad to eventually become launched on Facebook/Flash, -officially under the name of Graal the Adventure-, and this approval has since been re-iterated to me on multiple occasions.

First I would like to apologise for the delay in providing an explanation as to what exactly is going on. The reason for the delay is simply that I am still yet to receive development access to the flash app, and therefore can not guarantee 100% that this shall go ahead, as I can not be sure how much fixes will be necessary.

Last I heard there is a delay in upgrading the Facebook API to v2, which by pure coincidence of the result of my profession the PHP package for which is something I have recently become familiar with. Although I had taken about one hour to get the hang of it, I am not aware of the extent this requires re-working for Graal and I did find the documentation to be highly fragmented.

Moving forward, my previous thread concerning guild prizes may demonstrate that our current primary development focus is towards bolstering the server's options for in-game transactions. I am however keen to bring some life back to the server throughout its ongoing downtime, and therefore propose the return of scheduled event hosting nights.

When carried out beforehand, our event hosting nights yielded between 12 - 30 players. Although is is fair to say the server no longer has the advantage of hype and freshness, GC Tickets can once again be rewarded in order to obtain prizes, and Graal is now without the dreaded observer mode . It may also be good to carry out some test runs of the new fort system where successful participants can receive Guild Points.

With this thread not being the grand announcement that I had initially planned, I thought I would squeeze this tiny little teaser in as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRi2nnbqLk  

 

What I'm getting from this is Graal The Adventure is getting revamped?  

keep it to a single thread big news  

^---hater



Any PC guild needs a beastmode GOAT?  

pretty big news Kappa  

Oooo ur taking a good directionnnn
like ol west guild activity is promoted!

Hope to continue the story line, thenew gta is much more story oriented than it was before  

I need this on iOS nowwww  

hey that looks like iClassic  

Posted by Wolfie

I need this on iOS nowwww

Don't hold your breath.

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I think just having it connected with FB is good enough. Server should be fun with a 30-60 player count.  

Posted by GOAT

Don't hold your breath.

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At least it's accurate. One mobile device for every player who has thrown away iClassic to play Graal the Adventure instead.  

Posted by Thor

For those who are not yet aware, approximately 4 months ago Classic/Graal the Adventure gained approval from both Carlito and Unixmad to eventually become launched on Facebook/Flash, -officially under the name of Graal the Adventure-, and this approval has since been re-iterated to me on multiple occasions.

Requesting Burger Refuge is converted into a chicken restaurant named Yando's with Fung Si Yan as mascot.