New GM! Introductory post.

[Secrets]

Lillu and I have been in talks for quite a while about this position, and I am glad to say I am becoming the fourth and final member of the development team.

I will be overseeing the players as Public Relations manager for the server as well. I look forward to working with the team and working with you!

I also do content development. Here is a list of what we have planned for everyone in the next coming weeks:

• Achievement Tracking System (Project ATS) -- Counts how many mobs you kill, what quests you did and how many times, and special bosses that you kill can be displayed on the website. You may find information coming soon to the website about all of this, and tracking will start very soon for NPC kills, with a website leaderboard coming later.
• LDON Adventure System -- Venture into the depths of the hidden forest for various rewards, challenges, amongst other things!
• Tradeskill Group Zone -- Craft your way to the top! Depending on how many bane weapons you have, you can progress through a zone with unique challenges, twists, and turns!
• More Tiers! -- Guided by Tyler and myself, we will be making content for the higher tiers of grouping and raiding. There will be a mix of both within these.
• Balanced Donation rewards -- Want an incenitive to donate? Within the coming weeks, we will be releases perks for donating. They will not unbalance gameplay unlike other servers. Example: 50% more exp useable once per day.

I look forward to working with and for you all in the coming days. Who knows what will be coming to the Hidden Forest after these features? We will see!

[Koeril]

Glad to have you aboard Secrets! I loved reading your post about how things have become on EQEmu and while we both agree and disagree in various ways, I am looking forward to seeing the various changes that will be implemented.

On these plans you have for the server, all I can say is: awesome! Curious about this ATS though, does that mean we'll be able to use the raid function?

[Secrets]

Glad to have you aboard Secrets! I loved reading your post about how things have become on EQEmu and while we both agree and disagree in various ways, I am looking forward to seeing the various changes that will be implemented.

On these plans you have for the server, all I can say is: awesome! Curious about this ATS though, does that mean we'll be able to use the raid function?

The raid function should be in and working, minus bots. Whatever functionality is in the game for raids will be applied to the ATS. That's the clearest I can put it. I'm trying to put it in at the hate list level, so anything on the NPC's hate list will be counted for that player.

[Lola]

As I already said to you in game, welcome aboard =)

That's a great news for THF server and that also means that all the efforts Lillu, tyler and Striat put into THF for our pleasure has also won your preference!

I do not know much more about Eqemu team members but I was reading your post on eqemu foruls today about custom servers and thought you should come here and see how it can be a great place for both GM team & players, I think it was a premonition

Hope you will enjoy your ride here =)

[Secrets]

Hope you will enjoy your ride here =)

It's not just a ride for me, or a visit, it's a long term stay. I look forward to being creative to the fullest of my extent here.

[Medes]

Hello Secrets

Welcome to this great server and i hope you enjoy your stay

[Lola]

Very glad to hear!

[Jeido]

Hey there Secrets, it's really great news that you're here to help develop this server! The dev team is very passionate about this server, and are great people. If you're as good as they say then I think this server is going to near perfection very soon. With a full team, theirs nothing stopping Lillu and Tyler from having their ideas implemented, as well as other ideas from Striat and yourself.

As for the raid issue...well it is buggy (even without bots it has some bugs). I'll make a post that I feel has been long overdue, and hopefully it will lead to a fix in groups/raids Here's a link to one you may not have seen yet, which has details on raid bugs viewtopic.php?f=4&t=343&p=1122#p1122

Welcome to the server, and I'm looking forward to the changes you can help bring about which will allow the server to continue to be great!

[sarcon]

welcome to the server secrets, i ussualy have alot of meaningless junk to say but at the moment im at a loss for words so just WELCOME!

<Insert anti dwarf propaganda here>

[TheBloodmoon]

I've been quiet on the eqemu forums, but I've been a long term member and have enjoyed wasting many hours reading coding crap that I haven't the slightest clue of understanding. But I've always seen you around, and am glad you're part of our server! With your knowledge and experience, I think this server is going to be impossible to top! Thanks for the work you've already done, and the work you will be doing in the future. I look forward to it!