Hello All! Ahh Spring…The sun is shining and birds are chirping! Do you feel the warm breeze and smell the blooming flowers? Come to our Spring Fling this Saturday and dance the day away! Great music and giveaways throughout the event!
When: Saturday April 11th, 1pm-4pm SL
Suggested Attire: Formal attire, Spring attire, anything that makes you feel spring has sprung!
Where: Bloodlines West
Music: DJ Candi | Decor: Fawn | Host: TBD
We made an update today so that clan leaders may choose the type of family they are leading. Previously, this was determined by the race of the clan leader (a vampire led a clan, a lycan led a pack, etc.) but now the choice an be made manually depending on the leader’s preference.
The choice can be made in the family profile editor in the web profiles after logging in, in the same area where you choose the font and fill in the ‘about’ section for the profiles.
Happy naming!
Greetings Legends! We’re delighted to announce a new quest. Gil-Man, a mer-creature under the local water is concerned that someone is trying to harm his fellow water folk. The quest rewards are listed above. This quest starts with Gil-Man on Bloodlines West.
We’re really excited to be bringing more quests to you very soon. Thanks for your patience while we were getting more quests together and let us know if you have any questions or comments! Hope you guys have fun!
Today we have a fun little release for the Legends game – you can go to any of the 3 sims that have live quests (West, South, and Midlands) and click on any of the characters (they can be alive, dead, animal, or human, but they won’t be inanimate objects) and they may give you a piece of candy. There are 26 pieces to find in all and each piece gives you 10 stamina. This mini game is only available for a limited time, so get the candies while you can!
Due to all the traffic on Bloodlines Midland, we’ve had requests for a backup set of refill stations to be made available. And now they are! We have set up one of each station, along with a Bloodlines dome with a redelivery terminal and the usual information boards. The refill station location is here. Feel free to visit, landmark it, and share the news!
Today we made an update to the way that account names that have been deactivated by the Garlic Necklace are displayed on the website. The Garlic Necklace is an item provided by Bloodlines that allows people to deactivate their accounts if they wish, so their avatar names no longer appear on the public site at slbloodlines.com. Every person who is under Garlic has been assigned an automatically-generated “secret identity” name, and this is the name that will appear in lists on the website such as soul and minion lists. So, deactivated accounts will no longer appear as “(name removed)” on the website, they will appear as the auto-generated secret name. The secret names will appear in “Firstname Lastname” format, and you can identify them because they will have one of the following five last names: Immortalus, Maleficus, Damarchus, Grimm, or Miasmador.
There are several purposes to this:
Every account is assigned a single secret name only once. If you go in and out of garlic, the secret name remains the same, you don’t get a new secret name each time. If you own a soul that belongs to a deactivated account, you can view the legacy name of that soul by logging into slbloodlines.com and look at your own profile, then hover your mouse over the secret name, and you’ll see a tooltip with the legacy name displayed. To clarify this, ONLY the soul owner can see the tooltip with the legacy name of the deactivated account, and ONLY if they are logged into the website and looking at their own profile. Legacy names of deactivated accounts still will not be publicly displayed on the site. If you have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to contact Lyle Maeterlinck directly.
Introducing a new game feature: Rarity! Every player in Bloodlines now has a new metric and meter displayed on their profile for how “rare” their character is. In general, the more you have done or achieved in Bloodlines, the more rare you are. There are five possible Rarity ratings: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ultra-rare, and Legendary. You’ll also see the Rarity meter appear under each name in your soul list. Then, at the top of your soul list, you will see a new total of points that reflects the total rarity of the souls you own. Please note, this does not affect any other current stats or rankings, it is an entirely new stat that you can strive for. The new Soul Rarity stat ranking is under the stats section, and lists people not by the rarity of their own souls, but by the rarity point total of the souls that they own.
You can try to get the rarest collection of souls, and you can also strive to increase the rarity of your own soul by collecting items, getting achievements, and increasing your game status.
In addition, you will notice a new control on your profile editor that determines how your soul list is ordered. You can order it by rarity, or by newest souls at the top, or by oldest souls at the top. Once you set this ranking, your souls will be ordered that way for anyone who visits your profile, and you can change how they are ordered at any time.
We hope you have a great time building a collection of the rarest souls, and seeing if you can get to Legendary!
We’re excited to announce an official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Bloodlines 7th Anniversary Party! It’s been a fantastic 7 years, and we’d like to celebrate. The theme of this Anniversary event will be “Halloween In May”, because let’s be honest, Halloween really should come twice a year.
The event will start on May 1st 2015, and run for 1 week. During that week we’ll be connecting participating Haunts up via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from event to event, while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations. Mars, Lyle, and Noire will be visiting participating locations, and we hope to see you there!
For Haunt owners, this event means a chance to raise awareness of your clan land, club, bar or RP area! The Anniversary Event 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 top 3 favorite Haunts they visited during the week, and the top 3 Haunts will get banners that will run on the Bloodlines homepage. Voting will start on May 1. During that time, all you need to do to vote is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the 7-year anniversary icon on the profile of participating haunts.
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 7th Anniversary Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events.
Bloodlines players – On May 1st, The 7th Anniversary Event 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 week on May 6th, there we’ll wrap it up with an official party on the Bloodlines sims, so be sure to stop by. See you there, and thanks to everyone for making Bloodlines a vibrant RP community for 7 years running!
We’ve recently banned some accounts as a result of terms violations. There seems to be a lot of speculation going on, so we’d like to take a moment to review some of our standard policies, terms, and answer some questions surrounding bans and impartiality of Bloodlines leadership.
Terms of Service
If you’re at all confused about what’s ok and not ok in Bloodlines, the terms of service that you agree to when you wear your HUD is always available at slbloodlines.com/terms, which can be accessed from the footer of every page on this site. Please note that the terms state a requirement that users of Bloodlines products adhere to the general Second Life terms of service and community standards. Also note that the Bloodlines terms state that Bloodlines accounts can be terminated for the breach of any provision of the terms.
Impartiality
Here at Liquid Designs, we strive to remain impartial and to avoid even the appearance of partiality. We strive to give everyone the same level of service, and in our communications with Bloodlines members, what family they are a part of or how familiar we are with them is never considered. Honestly, we could not care less what family you’re in, we consider Bloodlines to be one big (somewhat crazy) family. We also don’t concern ourselves with the internal dramas between clans, packs, hordes, and guilds. We are focused on keeping the Bloodlines community thriving for everyone and designing new products and features.
Account Termination Policies & Privacy
Our policy is to only discuss account terminations with the account that was terminated, and with no other parties. If your account gets terminated, you wouldn’t want us announcing it to everyone and throwing an account termination party for you. So, please don’t ask us whether someone is, was, or is going to be terminated or why or for how long. That is simply between us and the person who was terminated. Also, we can’t ban people in response to petitions. We wouldn’t ban someone who had done nothing wrong just because everyone wants them banned, and we wouldn’t reverse a ban on an offender in response to popular opinion either. Account terminations are the result of the application of our routine policy, our terms of service, and our judgment that the termination is warranted.
Tinfoil Hats & Rumors
Sometimes, the tinfoil hats come out, and you hear some wild theories. These can be entertaining, but they’re usually nonsense. Misinformation, lies, and rumors are sometimes the tools that players use to keep others (including their own families) under control. You don’t have to tolerate someone who tries to manipulate you.
If someone tries to convince you of a conspiracy theory, we urge you to consider their motives for doing so, which may include:
A) making themselves look better
B) distracting you from something negative they’ve done
C) trying to ruin the game for you and others once it’s been ruined for them (“If I can’t win, no one can win! I’ll break the game!”)
D) scare you into quitting to benefit themselves somehow (cheaper souls, stealing your minions, etc.)
To be clear, there has never been any manipulation of the game or “hacking” by the Bloodlines leadership, and there never will be. See our previous post about rumors. Misery loves company, and we advise you not to join it.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, and Happy Hunting!
There have always been rumors going around the Bloodlines community about various things, and the vast majority of you have learned not to believe everything you hear. However, we thought we might post this handy flowchart that you can use to determine whether a given rumor is true or false. In general, we recommend being skeptical about anything that you hear out there, and remember that the more shocking the rumor is, the greater the likelihood that it is false.
Now, here are a few things that are true:
There’s more news on the way, stay tuned to this blog for all official updates.
