News and Updates

UPDATE 12:35pm SL April 8th

We’ve figured out why the Curse issue arose last night, and it should be solved going forward now.

We’re still working on optimization / getting the site up to full speed on the new servers. Thanks again for your patience!

UPDATE 8:40am SL April 8th

While we did solve our slow server issues, we had an issue with the Curse last night, and it ran more than once.

We apologize for any confusion, and we’re is in the process of correcting this! Anyone who was unnecessarily destroyed has been restored. Anyone who lost extra metrics, we’ve replaced them in your body. If there was no room in your body, we replaced them into your reserve.

Anyone with a remaining issue you feel might be related, please file a ticket in the Support System:

http://slbloodlines.com/support

Thanks for your patience while we make it over this road bump in the upgrade of our hosting!

UPDATE 12:30am SL April 7th

The HUDs, containers, vendors and all in-world items and sales are live and working. We’ve had some issues with the website changeover, and it will be running slowly while we work to complete the maintenance. Thanks again for your patience!

ORIGINAL POST 8pm SL April 6th

Just a heads up to everyone, Bloodlines will be undergoing scheduled maintenance starting at 8:00 pm SL time tonight, Friday April 6th. We expect it to be about 15 minutes. Thanks for your patience as we work to build a better Bloodlines!

We’re excited to announce another official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The St. Patrick’s Pub Crawl! It will start on March 3rd and run to March 30th.

The St. Patrick’s Pub Crawl is an event for bars in Second Life. Anyone owning a Bloodlines Haunt can opt-in, and anyone with a HUD will be able to participate in the crawl.

What specifically does this mean for Bloodlines players? It means during the next month we’ll be connecting participating Haunts up via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from bar to bar, and meet up for a drink with people while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations.

For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to get your bar or club on the map! The Crawl will provide an influx of new visitors, as well as give you a chance to network with other Bloodlines friendly locations. Players will be able to vote on their favorite Bars, and prizes will be awarded at the end. Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top Bars, and we hope to see you there! On the final day (Friday March 30th) we’ll be having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes.

Voting will start immediately and run through the 30th. During that time, all you need to do to vote is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the Pub Crawl icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes (Awarded at the end of the event):

Pub Crawl Participation Rare – Given to anyone who opted-in their Bar to the event. (Limit one per avatar)

10 Runner-Up Rares (Silver Crown) – Given to the best 10 Bars

3 Top Bar Rares (Gold Crown) – Given to the top 3 Bars. These will also receive a banner on the Bloodlines homepage for a week following the event.

Getting involved is simple:

Location Owners – If you already have a Haunt, just log into your profile, Edit Haunts, and opt-in via the radio button for the Pub Crawl Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events.

Bloodlines players – On March 3rd the Pub Crawl will automatically generate locations in your HUD, under the Haunt button. We’ll also make it clear on the website which locations are participating, so you should be able to easily find the next great location to visit!

At the end of the month on March 30th, we’ll wrap it up with an official party / awards ceremony on the Bloodlines sims where we’ll deliver all the prizes, so be sure to stop by. See you there!

This is just a heads up that the Bloodlines Hunts down in the RP areas are concluded! Anyone who recently purchased the HUDs will be able to complete them and the trophy givers will still work etc., but no more HUDs will be sold. Thanks to everyone who participated and made the adventures a success.

Bloodlines Hunts will return, however, as Bloodlines Quests in the upcoming RPG Expansion! When we have more information we’ll post it here on the blog, so stay tuned.

The Bloodlines University campus has moved to a new location. This was necessary to make room for the construction of the Angel RP area, which will be part of the upcoming Angel / Demon / RPG Expansion releases.

The new University is located here.

Thanks for your patience during this time of transition!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve created a new system for dealing with customer support! Now when you have an issue with any aspect of Bloodlines – be it a missed delivery, stats issue, or anything in between – you can log into our Support system via the website and file a ticket.

Why is this better? First off, there will no longer be the chance of your notecard or IM getting capped / lost when you try to contact us. This basic limitation of SL has created a lot of response delays, and this new ticket system should help speed things up. Your problems can also immediately get routed to the avatar here whose expertise will be needed to solve your problem, so there will be less delays involving Bloodlines employees passing notecards back and forth to each other. The system will in general allow us (and you) to keep better track of the progress of your solution.

The system can also be used to file suggestions or feature requests, which we value and would love to keep better track of! So feel free to file tickets for that purpose.

There is also a section for Abuse Reports, however we’d like to remind everyone that if they are facing immediate griefing or abuse issues on our sims or in the official Bloodlines groups, then they should contact a Liaison in-world to deal with that; by the time we read the support ticket the issue is likely to be over and we’ll miss our window to help you.

You can access this new support system just by clicking the red “Support” link at the top of the Bloodlines website. Or you can use this link: http://slbloodlines.com/support

Your ticket will be responded to in the order in which it is received, and we’ll strive to solve your issue in 24 hours or less.

Thanks for your patience as we transition to this new system, and happy hunting!

The December Soul War is complete, and we have delivered all the Rare textures. The winners can be found listed below:

Month Records   |   Top Individuals   |   Top Families

Congrats to all the Soul Warriors!

For more details on the monthly Soul War gifts, see our original posting here.

Since the Vial textures came out prior to the release of the Rare Library or Gacha, we’ve had requests to re-release this set of textures. So for 2 weeks (December 11th – December 25th) they will be available again.

With the purchase of a Vial 10 Pack you will receive either the Iron Prism and Blood Tank version of the Limited Vial texture (appropriate to which pack you bought) as a free gift!

We want to thank everyone for their patience as we rearrange and redesign the Bloodlines sims in preparation for the upcoming RPG Expansion!

The sims have been moved already, and will shortly be renamed, but construction will be ongoing. The search and maps will be off for a few days while they catch up to the changes. LMs should all still work fine ongoing, but you will have to re-point your Picks to the new sims if you want them accurate.

Thanks again for bearing with us!

The November Soul War is complete, and we will shortly be delivering all the Rare textures. The winners can be found listed below:

Month Records   |   Top Individuals   |   Top Families

Congrats to all the Soul Warriors!

For more details on the monthly Soul War gifts, see our original posting here.

Happy Friday!! Tonight we’re feeling lighter than air; it’s just like heaven. Please come and enjoy our angelic evening of music, costume prizes and Rare giveaways.

When: Friday, December 1st 2-5pm

Suggested Attire: Heavenly / angel garb! Or perhaps the newly dead arrived at the pearly gates…

Where: Liquid South/Badlands Border

Music: DJ Lord Halostar | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host: Zeldonix