Locating our Forum

Things have been crazy with the new forum set up. It will take a while to settle down there. I am hoping people give it a go before throwing hands up in the air.

We now access the forum through the game, and everyone's forum account is now linked to their game player account. New players will have an account automatically made for them. Us old characters must link our old accounts to the new system.

Click on 'forum' in bottom left of game screen. This will lead you to a screen with three major choices, beneath a 'box' which has to do with 'NPC's (Non Player Character).

To 'activate' your old forum account, click on the THIRD option. It will then ask you five simple questions to link your game character to your forum account. You should only have to do this once. Once you've activated your account you should be able to access forums.

If you click the FIRST option on the 'forum' screen from which you chose to activate your account you will be taken to a small forum board which contains those public forums to which you have access. In theory this will be Highlands Hall, your County Inn and your Town forums (plus FAQ and a few others). Please note, our forum is NOT under 'The Gathering of the Clans' in this forum.

If you click on the SECOND (French) option on the 'forum' screen from which you chose to activate account you will be taken to the much larger 'second' forum board, containing all the private subforums. You will only have access, of course, to some of these. Our clan forum is about half way down the (huge and chaotic) list of private forums. Still in the 'Kingdom of Scotland' section (about a dozen entries down).

NB among the various 'glitches' are the following:
- your avi has dissappeared, will be back later
- you will have to set up your 'profile' again for your account, adding back your banner/sig
- the 'second' forum is a strange blue colour, change it back if you want (through profile)
- the link between your character and your town isn't always correct if you are travelling. This is a big bug I think they will try and fix very quickly.

There are lots of things to complain about the new system. I'm not trying to stop you, but please be careful on the forums to complain if you must about the changes, rather than admin.

Message Board Down

The message board just went down, just as bugs struck pubs in whithorn. Hope the two aren't connected! This has been the first failure of the Message Board in nearly two months, so it is pretty reliable overall.

Piper Tom

I hope you have enjoyed hearing Piper Tom and wee Roddy playing the pipes in Hut and Hearth. I have given them a bit of a break in here, too many people have visited and have stretched the down/upload limit of the site PiperTom is at.

I don't wish to harm anyone with my use of their band, so I have made it optional to hear him play 'Scotland the Brave' on this site. Just click once to activate the control on the sidebar, and again to ask him to play.

Hope this helps, Soltario!

MacTavish Subforum Opens!

We now have our official Clan MacTavish subforum under the 'Gathering of the Clans' forum (click here for link). I think that this is a major milestone. All of us can sign in to use it, except for Soltario and Minuet who don't have forum accounts, or at least don't have them under their own ig names.

I've never moderated a forum before, so my adventure in cyberscottish self development continues apace!

Hope you don't mind the subforum motto I put up, btw - "For a Stong, Free and Independent Scotland!"

Dealing with the noise complaint

Soltario left a comment at the hut that he'll be gone a few days. He also said that the site was a bit 'cranky'. I told him I'll make the music 'optional' in near future, as I think that might be the problem.

Unless it is a problem for everyone, in which case I'll do it very soon. I'll look for some feedback.

But I want to leave the music up for awhile as it creates quite an impact for first time visitors. And that is important for our standing as a clan in the minds of others.