Extra Life

[Smedbox]

I'm going to multibox the 24-hour Extra Life event on Saturday with a new team of five clerics. I have a blog about it at http://boxofchocolate.smedis.com and I just created a YouTube channel on http://www.youtube.com/user/RiftBox. Hopefully I'll be awake enough to keep posting during the 24 hours. :)

Anyone else participating? I'm going Guardian for this team, since I've never played Guardian before. It could be fun to roam around with other multiboxers, or do some open world PvP - one team against another team! :)

http://www.smedis.com/boxofchocolate/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BoxOfChocolate.jpg

[Krago]

I am going to be doing the event as well, Guardian side.
Contemplating five clerics or five rogues.

We should try and get the award for most planarite by tearing the Rifts a new one :)

[Smedbox]

Cool, the names of my characters will be Dansa, Domona, Dannya, Despoina and Dimma. What are you character names going to be?

I think we should be able to get the win for things like most-planarite, highest-level, most-dungeons, most-honor, etc, but to do that we would have to pick one of them and grind just that one thing for 24 hours straight, and do absolutely nothing else. I'm not sure I'm willing to do that....... ;)

I'm thinking more of trying a little bit of everything - dungeons, rifts, pvp, and keep posting to the blog and YouTube channel throughout the event to show how it is to multibox 5 clerics in Rift, and multiboxing in general.

But it would be cool to swarm down on high level Rifts with an army of lower-level multiboxed characters!

One of my characters is going to be an Outfitter, to make bags for everyone. Let me know if you want bags! :)

[Krago]

I will come up with some names tonight as I want to preconfigure some ISB settings.

Hopefully, they will release the name of the server tomorrow sometime and then I can hope the names are not taken. :)

I am up for trying a bit of everything as well and pick up foraging/mining/???

Not sure if I wanna level a crafting trade up yet.

[leroyreborn]

have they said what server there going to have the guild and events on?

[Smedbox]

have they said what server there going to have the guild and events on?

Check out my event information post on http://boxofchocolate.smedis.com.

[leroyreborn]

you do not to be able to get the prizes you have to be lvl 1 at the start of the event

[Smedbox]

you do not to be able to get the prizes you have to be lvl 1 at the start of the event

To be eligible for what they call the "special achievement prizes" (rewards for highest level gained, most planarite, most favor earned, etc) you have to be level 1 or 2 at 8:00 am PDT on Saturday.

However, this will only affect a very small number of people. Almost no one will get those prizes anyway. To get the two in-game titles that everyone can get, you can be any level.

[wyofiddler]

Hmm, Trion's info page says no transferred items can be used, but does that include the Exp potions from Veteran rewards? They are not transferred, they show up in that characters mailbox :)

[Smedbox]

Hmm, Trion's info page says no transferred items can be used, but does that include the Exp potions from Veteran rewards? They are not transferred, they show up in that characters mailbox :)

That's only if you want to win one of the special achievement prizes. If you're going for the highest level achieved of all the thousands (?) of people participating, they will check the logs that you haven't cheated. This includes XP potions or getting help to power level from a high-level friend, etc. They will only check the logs on the potential winners, of course, since it wouldn't matter if you didn't win anyway.

If you just want to participate in the event and get the two titles, there are no restrictions.

[leroyreborn]

I'm going to multibox the 24-hour Extra Life event on Saturday with a new team of five clerics. I have a blog about it at http://boxofchocolate.smedis.com and I just created a YouTube channel on http://www.youtube.com/user/RiftBox. Hopefully I'll be awake enough to keep posting during the 24 hours. :)

Anyone else participating? I'm going Guardian for this team, since I've never played Guardian before. It could be fun to roam around with other multiboxers, or do some open world PvP - one team against another team! :)

http://www.smedis.com/boxofchocolate/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BoxOfChocolate.jpg

btw great job on the site. like the pictures and the little stores that go with them =)

[Smedbox]

Thanks. I hope to write a virtual torrent of posts and videos throughout the event tomorrow. :) If anything, even if no one in the universe cares about my blog, it'll be a fun memory of the 24-hour adventure.

[Krago]

I'll be reading it, hopefully be included in it. ;)

[Krago]

I will come up with some names tonight as I want to preconfigure some ISB settings.

Hopefully, they will release the name of the server tomorrow sometime and then I can hope the names are not taken. :)

I am up for trying a bit of everything as well and pick up foraging/mining/???

Not sure if I wanna level a crafting trade up yet.

I'm thinking of going with a bodily fluids named team, too much? :)

Rheum
Phlegm
Bile
Chyle
Mucus

[MiRai]

I'm thinking of going with a bodily fluids named team, too much? :)

Rheum
Phlegm
Bile
Chyle
Mucus
...

[Krago]

...


Thought so.

How about Norse mythology?

[MiRai]

Thought so.

How about Norse mythology?
Much more friendly. :)

Guess I should say... much less repulsive.

[Norrin]

Since I am not taking part in the actual event, I am looking forward to your blog.

[Smedbox]

The shard has been revealed! It's actually going to be two shards - Atrophinius and Belmont.

Let's choose Belmont! (For no particular reason than that it's easier to pronounce.)

Event details from Trion (http://community.riftgame.com/en/2011/10/14/extra-life-event-details/)

[leroyreborn]

sounds good think going to transfer over my rogue team for the event. unless they are having really cool low lvl zone events then might make a new team. see you guys there

[Krago]

The shard has been revealed! It's actually going to be two shards - Atrophinius and Belmont.

Let's choose Belmont! (For no particular reason than that it's easier to pronounce.)

Event details from Trion (http://community.riftgame.com/en/2011/10/14/extra-life-event-details/)

I was just coming on to ask which shard.

hopefully i can find and hour or so to login and premake my characters and get macros stuff setup, so I can start at 11am sharp.


i will send an update when i figure out my names.

[drarkan]

Norse names are my favorite choice myself recently on my new teams in wow. Suitable for the fantasy element, bodily fluids however, thats the first time i've seen that tossed up as a name concept :p but hey, everyone has their preference.

[Smedbox]

I've now (re)created Dansa, Dimma, Despoine, Dimma and Domona on the Belmont shard, guardian side. Will set up all the macros, keybindings and UI layout later tonight so they're all ready to go tomorrow.

[Krago]

All done, five new clerics.

Sybo
Tanula
Raigan
Iderla
Heia

[Smedbox]

All done, five new clerics.

Sybo
Tanula
Raigan
Iderla
Heia

Added all your characters to Dansa's friendslists. :)

[Krago]

Cool!

Didn't get a chance for macros, doing it now.

[Krago]

cannot even create a macro or respond to our whispers, way too much lag

[wyofiddler]

cannot even create a macro or respond to our whispers, way too much lag

Aww shucks... Great to hear there is that much participation though! I'll be keeping up with your blog posts as well, hopefully it smoothes out quickly for ya.

[Krago]

Lots o multibox hate this morning.

you could cut it with a dagger

[Smedbox]

Heh, it wasn't so bad for me. One guy asked in guild chat how you report a multiboxer (me). 10 people responded: "You don't. It's not against the rules to multibox." :)

Today when I logged in, I actually met that guy in Gloamwood and he apologized to me. I explained the difference between a multiboxer and a ranger bot in Shimmersand or an AFK bot in warfronts.

[Smedbox]

Btw, it seems I _was_ reported quite a few times after all... ;) I sent my Extra Life blog URL to Trion and got this tweet from them:

"Oh, so that was YOU who kept getting reported for "botting"! Another mystery is history! Hahaha. Thanks for sharing! :)"