News and Updates

A number of players have reported a some problems to us when doing achievements on the new HUD versions, specifically with those achievements counting for the Soul War. We wanted to let you know that we are aware of these problems, and they have been fixed for all new achievements going forward. However, we need some time to retroactively apply Soul War counts to some accounts that missed them during the days that they were not correctly counting.

These are the problems that we have identified and fixed:

1. “Hunting” achievements, such as Blood River / Blood Storm, Moon River / Howling, and Human Charmer / Blood Doll collector were all working properly, but they were not updating the linked Soul Keeper achievements. The logging issue was fixed on May 10, but there may still be some people where we need to fix their Soul Keeper Achievements. If your Soul Keeper achievement is incorrect, it will soon be repaired.
2. Berserk achievements were counting for overall achievements, but not counting correctly for the Soul War. This problem was fixed on May 11.
3. For daily achievements, daily maximums were not counting correctly. This is the routine that keeps track of your highest daily count during the soul war, and increases it if your current daily count exceeds it. This problem was fixed this morning, 5/14. Daily maximums are now counting correctly, and we are going to rebuild the daily maximums from our logs for anyone whose daily maximum didn’t update

We appreciate your patience while we build the routines that will repair these issues. We will update this blog post with more information.

To be clear though – any attacks made with the Angel and Demon HUDs do not yet count towards achievements (Embracer, Enrager, etc.). We do plan on integrating these HUDs and attacks into achievements (as well as creating new specific achievements for Angels and Demons) but for the time being be aware that they do not generally count. An exception is the Determined achievement, which will tally with the new HUDs.

If you see any other problems with your stats or achievements, please create a support ticket at slbloodlines.com/support, and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!

Well, last night, we had a problem in our family rebuild routine that caused everyone’s status to be set to destroyed, and for soul totals to not be updated correctly. The good news is that this is 100% fixable, and we have routines chewing through the necessary fixes now. We should have everyone’s status and soul total updated correctly within the next hour.

We’re very sorry for the inconvenience on this, and we thank you for your patience with us while we get this fixed.

It was a long night, but the Liquid Designs team managed to get the Angel and Demon races released in the wee hours. Thanks to all the players who patiently waited in the stores, you are real troopers.

As with any release, there are some bugs, but thanks to users reporting in we are getting them fixed! A few known ones are listed below:

Containers:

• Default textures in the menu not accessible (fixed)
• Error on Rez for some users (fixed)
• Turning from drinking from a container not working (fixed)

All containers currently being sold are fixed, but for Ether or Ichor containers purchased prior to noon SL time Saturday the 5th, users must trade them in to get fixed ones. So if you have any of those issues with your container, put it into a folder with your name on it, and pass it to LiquidDesigns Resident. He will get you a replacement.

There were also some HUD issues, listed below. You should not have to get a new HUD, these were server-side issues:

HUDs:

• Scanning having issues with certain people / statuses (fixed)
• HUD Registration errors (fixed)
• Torment and Ascent HUD crates were not inviting to groups, because there were no groups! (fixed, ask a Liaison for an invite)

Website:

This is the big one. The current website does not properly reflect Angel and Demon status changes. We are working on getting the new website up, but that’s going to come in stages over the next week or two. We ask for patience while we work through this transition. Just know that all your stats, metrics, achievements, and royalty ranks are being tracked and are working fine, it’s just the website and profiles which are not going to fully reflect everything until we get the final new website launched. We’ll be keeping the old website up and running until the new one is 100% solid, so any of your non-Angel or Demon activities should be reflecting just fine.

On a side note: the Angel and Demon HUDs do not count towards any achievements at all right now other than Determined. So do not plan on using them for purposes of any previously released achievements; we will release updates as we go.

Once again, thanks for your patience! And thanks to everyone who made the 10th Anniversary Event and this launch a success, we’re grateful and excited to move forward.

Update 5/6/18:

Electrum:

We were made aware that the Electrum potion wasn’t working for the new races, but we have resolved this and it should be working fine now!

Reaper: 

Apparently there was an issue with the Reaper not always working for Angels and Demons. Fixed! No update needed.

Upon release of the Angel and Demon “undo” potions (Brimstone and Holy Water), we also made a small update to the Nightshade and Wolfsbane. We have made it so that when you drink them, that side of your nature is removed, but you are not destroyed for the purposes of Soul ownership. This means you will not lose your souls now, when you drink any of these 4 potions.

Why did we do this? Basically, we recognized that people weren’t losing souls anyway – whenever anyone wanted to change their race, they just moved their souls over to a friend or another account. Also, even if you’re destroying yourself all the way back to Human, being that race does not prohibit you from soul ownership. And finally, since this is a self-administered potion, we trust that even in a role-play sense, nobody would intentionally dump their souls into the Abyss.

So, henceforth, you can drink the Nightshade, Wolfsbane, Holy Water or Brimstone without fear of Abyssing your souls!

** Also: any of these potions you already own will work the new way, no need to by new ones.

We had an overwhelming amount of Bloodlines members opt their Haunt locations into our 10th Bloodlines Anniversary special event, and we have tremendous gratitude towards everyone who participated by decorating, holding events, and engaging the Second Life community with Bloodlines, not to mention the hundreds of avatars who attended events and voted on their favorite locations!

Everyone who opted in their haunts to the 10th Anniversary Event will receive a special limited-edition tank and prism texture that they can apply to their blood tanks or lumen prisms.

Our 3 winners, who will receive an additional limited-edition texture, and have their haunts featured on the Bloodlines homepage for a week are as follows:

Ascent or Torment – Choose Sides

Angels – Demons 10 Anniversary

Angel or Demon -Infinity Gate-

And our 11 runners-up, who will also all receive an additional limited-edition texture:

DarkStars Angels V Demons

Ex Vita Un Nex Gateway to Heaven

EVE RageHeart Land

Illuminati – Angels & Demons

Evolved Heaven

Redemption

Bloodlines 10th Anniversary **

Rapture @ House of Jenvieve

V E R I T A S Torment & Ascent

Judgement

CROSSROADS

Time sure flies when you’re having fun, and these past ten years have really been amazing. We appreciate you all growing with us and helping us make Bloodlines into the amazing community it has become. We couldn’t have done this without you! So with that said, let’s party! We have so many things to celebrate, our first ten years, the release of our new Ascent and Torment HUDs, and we’ll announce the winners of our Grid-Wide Haunt contest! We hope you will all join us to celebrate this crazy journey. Please join us this Friday for a night full of costume contests, giveaways, and awesome music!

When: Friday, May 4th, 1-7 pm

Suggested Attire: Formal Angels and Demons

Where: Bloodlines South

Music: DJ Lord Halostar & DJ Gothy | Decor: Bylthecakes | Host: Aimee & Fawn

This Friday we are dreaming of the crisp renewal of spring!  It’s been cold and dreary and we are ready for some new beginnings and fresh spring flowers! Florals for spring? Groundbreaking! Please join us this Friday for a night full of costume contests, rare texture giveaways, and awesome music!

When: Friday, April 27, 3-6 pm

Suggested Attire: Pastel colors, florals, anything that says Spring!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Syn | Decor: Bylthecakes | Host: AphroditeStarr

On Bloodlines East we’ve set a vendor loaded with this month’s Rare Zodiac Texture, “Taurus 2”. It will be available until May 20th, and then retired forever! Make sure and check it out!

We’re excited to announce an official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Bloodlines 10th Anniversary Party! It’s been an amazing 10 years, and we’d like to celebrate. In addition, we’ll also be releasing the long awaited Angel and Demon HUDs that day!

In celebration of these two events, we’ll be holding a grid-wide Haunt contest. The theme will be Angels and Demons, however you don’t have to be planning on changing races to enter. Winners could just as easily be Vampire, Human, or Lycan – as long as the Haunt location is themed towards the arrival and welcoming of Angel and Demon races to the Bloodlines world.

Starting April 18th we’ll be connecting participating Haunts up via the website and the HUDs, that you can easily travel from event to event, while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations. Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations over the next 3 weeks to help with the final judging of the top Haunts, and we hope to see you there!

As usual, 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 favorite Haunts they visited. On the final day (Friday May 4th) we’ll be having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes.

Voting will start on April 18th and run up until the party on May 4th. During that time, all you need to do to vote is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the 10-year anniversary icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes:

Anniversary Participation Rares – Given to anyone who opted-in their Haunt to the event. (Limit one set per avatar)

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

3 Top Haunt Rares (Gold Crown) – Given to the top 3 Haunts. 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 10th Anniversary Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events.

Bloodlines players – On April 18th, The 10th Anniversary Event will automatically start generating 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 4th from 1-7PM SL, we’ll wrap it up with an official party / awards ceremony on the Bloodlines sims where we’ll deliver all the prizes, and officially release the Angel and Demon races, so be sure to stop by (location will be revealed as we get closer to the date so watch the blog!).

See you there, and thanks to everyone for making Bloodlines a vibrant RP community for an epic 10 years running!

This Friday we are putting on our very best glam disco duds and dusting off our dancing shoes to dance the night away at Bloodlines’ version of Studio 54.  Channel your inner Andy Warhol and join us this Friday for a night full of costume contests, rare texture giveaways, and awesome music!

When: Friday, April 13, 4-7 pm

Suggested Attire: late 70s attire, big hair, glitter, disco glam!

Where: Bloodlines West

Music: DJ Gothy | Decor: Fawn Madrigal | Host:Fawn Madrigal