I've just chosen a completely false compound for the title of this sample blog. It rained in Hollywood for the last two days. I drank during the day yesterday, slept with my female daydrinking partner, then got some 11 odd hours of sleep. I have been practicing voice over and character acting for voice every time I think about it, which is often. I still have no website. I was at Disney on Sunday, where I ate cannibis-infused cupcakes while in line for Space Mountain; the ride being done... [Read More]

Bot Registrations have long been a problem with running a forum. The Nova Forums generally see between 2-4 bot registrations per day which takes up time by having to ban / delete their accounts and IP's, not to mention all of the annoying ads for Viagra, WoW Gold and Aion Accounts.

Since our forum has reCAPTCHA enabled creating a Human Verification Question / Answer is not supported by vBulletin "out of the box", here is a workaround for this problem:

AdminCP -> User Profile Field... [Read More]

This guide explains how to add Aion Character information into the Postbit on your vBulletin forum. You could use a similar hack for just about any modern day MMORPG that has a profile system in place.

We will be creating a Custom User Profile Field and inserting it into our vBulletin Template.


Creating the User Profile Fields

User Profile Fields are just variables that your forum's users can assign values to through their User Control Panel. Login to your vBulletin Admin pane... [Read More]

This is all my personal experience of PvPing on the Chinese Aion server in the mid 3x range. My character is currently level 36. The vast majority of my experience is 1v1 or 1v2 (with me being the 1) skirmishes in the Abyss. I have never played with a flying pet and this has not hindered me at all. The tips given in this guide are what I learned and what worked for me. Of course, every player has a different style and you may not agree with some of my strategies or they may feel awkward to use,... [Read More]