Lots of little green plants are now occupying Legacy as account shrubbing has come in to practice. Basically instead of banning accounts pending deletion accounts can now be shrubbed, which will allow them to login, make a ticket, send messages to staff, but nothing else for 30 days after which they'll be deleted. We cleared out all the old jailed players so that list should be short and useful again now.

Although I'm pressing on with the new combat system, it looks like it may be further away than I'm willing to wait so advertisements have started again in full force on our top 100 sites, facebook and other places.

I'm also re-evaluating some of the changes listed before in the rebuild to try and limit the impact on current players. Things like assigning stat points as you level are going to be simplified but will remain.

Well... Awesome Hour was a big difference to the events I usually hold. 30 questions in total as the first was void because of my first copy and paste fail. Anyway... dk16 will be hosting the next one as I was pretty much a "stand-in" for this one.

The Results!
1st: Lavender Lightning, 13 Points,
2nd: The Loaners, 10 Points,
3rd: The Chamber of Elders, 9 Points,
Teams that quit: Sexy Mexicans

All Prizes have been handed out and the wiki pages will be updated tomorrow, remember we have a photo contest going on! So go read the stickie in the Main forum

Very eventful week for myself and it's going to get better! I've noticed our last photo contest was last year, so what better time to launch another! This is the time where you can let your creative juices flow and try impress us with the best photo you can take. It must contain your username and "legacy-game.net" somewhere in the image. I will put last years winners and a link to the wiki page below!

Check out the Main forum for more details, there will be a submit thread so you can submit your entries to us and a talk thread - just so we don't have to spend hours finding your entries. Prizes will be posted in the Main Forum as well as extra rules, however be warned I may be horrible at photo shop but Zorg isn't and makes it his goal to work out if an image is true or false so don't try your luck

Link 1:Last Years Winner!
Link 2: Legacy Photo Page

Other Events that are coming up will be Newbie hour, Flag Contest, Halloween Hunt and maybe another follow up LegCon in November. More will be posted later closer to the time of these however but for now whip out your cameras and head to the Main Forum as entries close on the 1st July 2010!!

The smilies system has been reworked, smilies sorrounded by silly { and } brackets have been removed. All smilies that include words are now sorrounded by a single colon either side. I had to remove a couple of smilies like the 83 smiley, as that clearly wouldn't work in this new system.

Also the regex that replaces smilies in text has been improved and will now only inject smilies if the smiley in question does not have an alphanumeric character on either side of it. So you will not get a smiley in the middle of silly words like ExDeath anymore!

A full list of the new smiley codes can be found by clicking here.