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Broadband
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:02 am |
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Website: http://www.obsidianshard.com
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Sadly Obsidian uses over 100gigs of bandwidth a month between all its servers to offer this service. While overwhelming and costly to us, players continue to ignore it and take advantage of our free server by attacking a large array of different monsters and animals. While this may be fun and game to you, this is a huge load on the server as it has to keep track of so many different looking creatures!
Because of this and the low percentage of people who have donated, we are now changing Obsidian to be less system intensive for our server. Instead of loading up thousands images of monsters and creatures both costing memory and CPU time we have decided to simplify things.
We had a poll awhile back and results showed that the favorite monster of you players in Obsidian are Daemons. The most voted animal was the goat (you sickos). So to continue giving you what you guys want while saving server load and bandwidth we have decided to make a small change benifitting all.
From now on all monsters will look like goats and all undead like daemons. You can tell who they are by their names so it shouldn't make things any more difficult.
Hopefully we'll get more donations to rectify this issue, but in the meantime no complaining telling us that we don't give you what you want. You voted Daemons and goats and by god Obsidian delivered!
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hephaestus
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:37 am |
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is this an april first joke or something, well i hope it is
heph
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ZtingeR
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:21 am |
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Yeah, sounds a lot like it, but just to make sure im logging in
(Hehe realy changing every animal in the game to goats just for today would be cool though  )
But i guess changing all the animals sprites would be far to much work.
EDIT: Hmm, this seems to be halfway true. I've already seen an frost spider and a ice serpent that looked like goats. 
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Nemnoch
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:12 am |
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hahahaha. He really did it. Here is a screen of Cove Graveyard.
Some of the goats are nasty monsters too.. had a few kill me earlier.

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daffy duck
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:32 am |
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Broadband
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:35 am |
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Website: http://www.obsidianshard.com
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ZtingeR wrote:Yeah, sounds a lot like it, but just to make sure im logging in
(Hehe realy changing every animal in the game to goats just for today would be cool though  )
But i guess changing all the animals sprites would be far to much work.
EDIT: Hmm, this seems to be halfway true. I've already seen an frost spider and a ice serpent that looked like goats. 
I like how he acts all excited at the idea if it really happened. Then when he finds out it was a reality he suddenly becomes a little less happy.
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Cetrocet
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:07 am |
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I almost crapped my pants after my smith came through one of the moongates and ran straight into a daemon  .
Turned out to be a skeleton
Good job, BB 
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Musleman
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:38 am |
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Nice april fool 
I was falling for it until you spoke of changing monsters body, great catch tho  .
[edited]...goats everywhere...lol
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ZtingeR
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:40 am |
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Broadband wrote:ZtingeR wrote:Yeah, sounds a lot like it, but just to make sure im logging in
(Hehe realy changing every animal in the game to goats just for today would be cool though  )
But i guess changing all the animals sprites would be far to much work.
EDIT: Hmm, this seems to be halfway true. I've already seen an frost spider and a ice serpent that looked like goats. 
I like how he acts all excited at the idea if it really happened. Then when he finds out it was a reality he suddenly becomes a little less happy.
Well, not less happy, but it gets boring after ur 10th daemon-looking zombie. Plus the fact that most animals still look normal. Only animals that looked like goat was some monsters on ice isle, the only ones outside cove that looks like goats is, well, goats.
Cool idea none the less. 
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Valor
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:57 am |
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LMAO
FREAKIN HILARIOUS!!!!
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Lister
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:06 am |
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lol....damn funny imo.
lmao
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BowDown
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:23 am |
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APRIL FOOLS! IM A FOOL LIKE YOU FOOLS! Lol j/k I'm just really bored... sounds fine to me I just like the game... I dont mind changes!
You wanna see what is under my name?
BowDown
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(Donated) 
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king
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:21 am |
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ArkAngelDuo
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:05 am |
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I am 99% sure this is an april fools joke, because unless broadband runs a custom done engine to host the shard, which he doesn't last i checked, then there is no way the server would have to load graphics, because all it loads are hex numbers, and there is no difference in size or load between 0x0021 and 0x7B3C.
Great joke though, i'm gonna go kill alot of slime!
_________________ Ano hi chikatta makenai koto.
"Give me an inch, and you've given me too much of a head start.  "
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mosfet
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:59 am |
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HAHAHAHAHAA!!!!
THATS Freaking Hilarious!
LMAO!
BB is evil! 
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