News and Updates

We’re excited to announce an official grid-wide Bloodlines Event – The Bloodlines 12th Anniversary Party! It’s been a wild 12 years and we’d like to celebrate.

You can tp to the party here: Anniversary Party!

The event starts now (April 21st) and runs through Saturday May 9th. We’ll immediately be connecting participating Haunts via the website and the HUDs, so that you can easily travel from event to event, while discovering new Bloodlines-friendly locations. In the last week before the party, Mars and Lyle will be visiting participating locations to help with the final judging of the top Haunts, 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 favorite Haunts they visited during the week. On the final day (Saturday May 9th) we’ll be having an event on the Bloodlines sims, and we’ll give away the prizes.

To vote on your favorite Haunts, all you need to do is press the ‘Vote’ link next to the 12-year anniversary icon on the profile of participating haunts.

Prizes:

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

Runner-Up Rares (Silver Crown) – Given to the best 20 Haunts (may be more or less depending on the quality of entries)

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 12th Anniversary Event. Make sure to use the Haunt Events calendar to schedule specific times for your events. We’re keeping the theme wide open – as long as your space is Bloodlines (or Legends) themed in some way, we’re excited to check it out!

Bloodlines players – The 12th 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!

On May 9th, 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, and thanks to everyone for making Bloodlines a vibrant RP community for 12 years running!

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, one of the first in the Vampire Islands RP area.

Mayor Velorina Hargrave is seeking adventurers to assist the denizens of Bridgetown, an island stuck in the middle of various warring families.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.

This quest starts with Velorina Hargrave on Bloodlines East.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, one of the first in the Vampire Islands RP area.

Queen Sabrina Dragomir is seeking civic-minded adventurers to assist the denizens of Nightville Castle and the crypt-town around it – and she’ll reward you handsomely for your efforts.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.

This quest starts with Sabrina Dragomir on Bloodlines East.

*Note: The Vampire Wizard Tower (and tutorial quest) are also now open, which means unique Vampire wands and Vampire wand parts are available! And more Vampire Islands quests will be out over the next few weeks.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, one of the first in the Vampire Islands RP area.

Grace is living a quiet life as a one-person Family on a remote island – but she sure could use some new treats for her trusty companion Horace. By offering to help her find some you end up on a minor odyssey, doing favors across the islands.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Grace Ravenwood on Bloodlines East.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Angel Havens RP area.

The rhinoceros Pharout’s son has disappeared! Work to help solve the mystery and reunite mother and son. Learn a recipe in the process and craft another of the mesh uni-horn tonics!

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This adventure starts with Pharout in Bloodlines North.

Greetings everyone! We’re about a week away from opening the Vampire RP area and initial Quests, and we are going to have an event to celebrate.

Come Friday to our event area to relax with your fellow Families and Legends and enjoy music, a costume contest and rare giveaways.

There will be a Summoning Station (that will eventually be moved to the Vampire Islands landing area) where you can summon a copy of the new Islands Explorer Satchel.

When: Friday May 1st, 12pm-3pm SLT

Suggested Attire: Anything vampire, creatures of the night, medieval themed

Where: Bloodlines West

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

Linden Labs recently released a new feature that allows you to change your legacy name. Bloodlines detects your legacy name by reading the name reported by the Second Life region that you’re on when requests are sent to our server by your HUD. Because of a SL server bug that has existed for some time, if your legacy name changes, your old name will continue to be cached and reported by some regions for an unknown amount of time. For avatars that have had their names changed by Linden Labs for various reasons before this feature was available (such as people who created objectionable names), we have seen some regions continue to report the old names for over a month.

Bloodlines was updated to account for changing legacy names over a year ago, but because of the bug mentioned above, if you changed your name, some sims might report your new name, and some might report your old name. Your account was still being identified correctly by your UUID, but your name might have been getting changed back and forth between your old and new name depending on how it was being reported to us by the region.

We’ve just made an update to all of our HUDs that attempts to implement a workaround for this problem. If you have changed your legacy name, and you don’t see your new name reflected on the Bloodlines website, please get a redelivery of your HUDs from the update terminal and wear them, and it should update your name correctly, but may not work for some people. If it doesn’t work for you, please file a support ticket, and we will get your name corrected.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce a new quest, another in the Angel Havens RP area, with a little crossover to Mortal Crossroads.

Vincent Montague has lost touch with a close friend, but when he sends you to investigate you end up getting wrongfully accused of murder! Work to clear your name, solve the mystery and help the people of Angel Havens.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer. This quest starts with Vincent Montague in Bloodlines Midland.

Greetings Legends! We’ve made a few small additions that should add fun going forward: Hidden Quests and Randomization.

Hidden Quests will be smaller tasks or adventures that may not show up in your Quest Journal, but will give repeatable rewards for those in-the-know. The first of these has been launched today. In the Telescopic Troubles quest where you craft the mesh Root Elixir bottle and create a Root Elixir resource to heal a tree, afterwards the tree reports to you that, “if you try the elixir on random trees in the world, sometimes it will work and they will reward you”.

The first tree has been activated on Angel Havens. You must use wand-waving to reveal it, and then use a crafted Root Elixir to heal it, and it will reward you. This hidden quest is repeatable occasionally, and we will likely add a few more trees around once we’re sure this new mechanic is working smoothly.

Which brings us to the second small update: we’ve added randomization of loot to the reward that the tree offers, so that it varies how large or small the rewards is based on a random spin. Thus far in Legends the rewards have been predictable, and we’ll still have many quests where the reward is consistent. However for various things – damage, loot, some conversations – we’re hoping some randomization will make the adventures even more interesting and realistic.

So feel free to wander the forests of Angel Havens waving your wand, with a Root Elixir at the ready – and keep an eye out for more Hidden Quests and randomization mechanics in the future!

A few days ago we made a couple of adjustments to the way attacks on fresh victims work. It became apparent that some players were logging in thousands of alts a day to game fresh victim achievements and farm free blood. This presented a risk that a) the achievements would become meaningless and b) metrics would be come worthless. As always we commend people on their creativity and motivation in getting these achievements, but we obviously have to take the measures we can in order to prevent cheating, gaming, and exploits.

The two changes we’ve made are as follows:

• Without Payment Info Used (not just “On File, but “Used”) in a profile, that player will be unable to gain metrics from attacks on fresh victims. All other attacks and achievements will continue to work fine for these players.
• While any player with Payment Info Used will be able to make as many attacks / achievement attacks a day as they like on Fresh Victims, they will get a max of 50 attacks worth of metrics for that day from fresh victim attacks. Normal attacks on non-fresh victims will works as normal.

Hopefully for most of you these changes will not affect you at all. We do realize that by preventing the extremely bad actors from being able to game the system, this will affect some who did not intend to harm the community. All we can say is that in order to protect the integrity of Achievements and the value of metrics in the system, we have to shut off avenues where exploitation is possible.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this policy change, please file a ticket in our support system and we’ll respond: http://slbloodlines.com/support