sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!!

[Tim]

*cue overly enthusiastic commercial voiceover guy*

This Sunday (3/14/2010) at approximately 7PM CST (it's about 11AM CST as I'm writing this for those of you who are time zone impared), the Official release of GoS V5 will open.

For those of you who haven't been following along, changes to V5 include:

• Newly overhauled class and skill system, allowing for much more customization and variety among the players.
  
• Choose your character's nationality, which has minor effects on your stats against certain enemies or in certain areas.
  
• Choose a weapon focus for your character and receive skill bonuses for that weapon type.
  
• New stats: First Strike and Wound
  
• A brand new Global Chat system, which real-time updates and stores the last 200 posts. Same system also used for clan chats.
  
• Updates to the Quest system, including improved Item quests and Find Quests. Also much more unique quests offered by NPCs whose names match those of Wheel of Time characters that may live in that area.
  
• More detailed character statistics, such as wins broken down by duels, NPCs, and even types of NPCs.
  

The new version will take the place of the current V4 site: gos.talij.com/

The test site for V5 which is currently open right now will go offline at this point as well, as it is transitioned to the new official version. The test site can be found here: high5.talij.com/

Unlike previous releases, the V4 site will be moved to another address and continue on for a few more weeks. The V4 site will likely go offline sometime Sunday in order to make way for the new version.

Any questions or concerns about the new release, feel free to post them on the forum: gosos.proboards.com/

Hope to see you in V5!

[Hugh Longshanks]

*and there was much rejoicing*

Loving V5, Tim!

[Tim]

Stupid Daylight Savings Time!

Figured there might be some confusion on the launch time tonight, since I forgot Daylight Savings Time started in a lot of places last night. Most places in the Central Standard Timezone are now in Central Daylight Time (including here), so clocks all got moved forward an hour. So the question is, is the launch at 7PM CST or 7PM CDT (an hour earlier)?

Since I said CST in the original post and message, I'm going to stick with that. Plus that way even if people are confused, they'll show up an hour early instead of late. So if you changed your clocks last night, the launch will seem likes it's an hour later.

As of this writing, we are just over 7 hours from launch. Sorry for any confusion.

[Tim]

Moved the test site to the official address: gos.talij.com.

Reset coming in about 15 minutes.

[devindrangdorak]

Loving it so far and some intense town battles already going on!!!