The Picto Blog

No News....Again

2009-04-30T16:02:00.003+01:00

Man, this is a dry spell, while your waiting for something to happen on eo, check out this game, it's quite addicting after lvl 10 ;) but get ready for a long run...

Defend Your Castle

I'll try and unearth some news...

Big News Up Ahead?

2009-04-26T12:49:00.002+01:00

I've been told repeatedley whilst online and from other sources that eo is definitely worth watching at the moment and in the near future tipping that a big announcement, one which is certainly due, is on the horizon.

Not really sure what this could mean, but it could be one of a number of things :

Total Wipe
Item + Stats Wipe
Another Server (this is one that's been going for a while)
New Version or mass updates
Game Shut Down

Yeh 5 is drastic. Lets face it all of them have been heard beofre and speculated over, and as far as admin attention goes recently it's been few and far between, infact i haven't seen an admin on in a while but couldn't that mean they are working on something big? Hmm, i'm not making any promises and i'm extremely uncertain myself however i will say it's worth keeping an eye on for now, just anything to bring a little fun and excitement back into our EO lives.

Eo Forums Taken Over By Zechooff

2009-04-24T07:17:00.002+01:00

Yeah more forum news, sorry but endless really is running dry at the moment, seriously if anyone has any ideas for my posts then please feel welcome to comment.

However it seems as at the moment the forums are once again under attack, but this guy looks as if he means business, Zechooff or "¿δZⁿÉ±ΩIî◘46046☺651♠165¿δZⁿÉ±ΩIî◘46046☺651♠165" by his full name is simple reposting threads containing 3 pictures of Xzibit smiling or laughing, i must say one of the best spammers to be fair. Of course what he's doing is automated and the forums have seen this before, but to be fair he's actually completely consumed general discussion and is now beginning on Trading.

It'll all pass eventually but it's always funny when a spammer moves in and livens things up a bit, strange they never wipe out the lounge section isn't it? Get a glimpse of the madness here.

Thanks people.

Recent Server Downtimes

2009-04-21T07:44:00.001+01:00

Seems as if the server has been acting up recently, it usually does around this time of year, if you get the connection message just be paitent as it's usually up within the next hour.

Larger post tomorrow ;)

Stat Whores Vs. Casuals

2009-04-18T08:44:00.002+01:00

It seems to me at the moment that endless is sepereate into 2 classes of people, and no i don't mean actual 'classes' i mean there are some which go for the whole "training and kickass armour" routine and some who just laze about doing nothing, this is the war of the stat whores vs the casuals.

STAT-WHORES

These guys can get really annoying. Granted i spend a lot of my time being a stat whore myself, especially when new things are released or there are new things to see due to a level up i'm all over getting the best stuff and leveling up like mad, but the bitter fact is if you're a stat whore you need to be higher than lvl 10 which i am not, infact you need to be higher than 20, or 30 or whatever. At the end of the day you're determined as a stat whore not always by how you dress (we're not that prejudice) but by the way you act, are you constantly training, or getting the most powerful weapons, or would you care if you KSed some and got a big drop? Or lead monsters to someone else in order to wipe them out so you could have all the training? You do? Well then you may just be a stat whore, and these guys go around like big moneyn kicking ass and taking names, usually in the PK zone making it inaccessible to the rest of the world and its this arrogant behaviour which whilst deserved due to their commitment annoys people like us that just enjoy playing the game.

CASUALS

These guys flood the streets, often sitting down, and will also cheese off a lot of people. Again i'm gonna through my hat in and say i do spend a lot of my time being an EO Casual seeing as i'm a reporter and there's a lot more talk and a lot less do but i don't approach it in the same style. Do you laze aroud aeven or stronghold or anywhere else all day just chatting? Do you not ever level up? Would you miss you name more than your items or levels if you got hacked? Well welcome to the casual club, and unfortuneately it's getting bigger. With less updates and less chance of competing for the big prizes, the amount of casuals in the game has risen to the point where they're practically everywhere 'just chatting' while the rest of us are either trying to play the game or stat fest our way to the top, but themz the breakz.

I can't really call between these 2 seeing as they both have their annoyances, overall though i'd go as far as saying that perhaps stat whores are better because they're out of our way and atleast they're playing the game, but you can't argue with their dominace of practicaly everythign training related and that's iriitating, and as for casuals, need i say more? So i'm not gonna opt for either side i'll let you decide whose the most irritating, take your pick they're both poison.

The rise and fall of Endless Oracle

2009-04-15T16:09:00.003+01:00

A couple of weeks ago i reported to you about Ducci's new server which could be connected to with the IP adress ducci.terminalx.info and using the port 8079, i said it was empty, deprived of members and needed updating however in that same post i reflected on the fun aspects including the choice of character names, the new radical approach to adminship and the ability of a whole new world to play with, sure it wasn't great but it was moving and i was willing to give it a chance.

I saw it through, logged on quite a few times and said hello, chatted with admins and actually attempted to play the game as best i could and overall i thought the admins were in good spirits and ducci did seem determined to continue with development, however this was to be short lived.

It soon surfaced that development was slowing, the admins were becoming less frequent and not as friendly, heard all this before? Yes i thought you had seeing as it's exactly what happened to endless online itself and you could see it coming from a mile off. With all small online game the enthusiasm is enough to drive development and attention at first and response may be good but eventually the admins realise they're losing interest and also how much work it really is to run a game, and slowly the game disintergrates and unfortuneately endless oracles was no exception.

Eventually Oracle's admins lost interest and got distracted and moved on to other servers and other friends, ducci found it hard to cope and people found holes in the server and slowly yet surely the server began to collapse, fortuneately and regrettably i say this, there wasn't much to collapse but it still stood to be taken down, and now it seems as if Oracle's days are numbered. Accusations have been made about Ducci's programming capability's which i'd like to dismiss in retrospect and ideas have been thrown out there which attempt to demerit the server orducci's work, but at the end of the day Ducci went and did something and it didn't work and there's nothing lost overall, i'm still behind him and the server through and through but it seems in vain now due to this hopeless situation.

Is this an omen for servers to come? Surely this is all that can come of private servers due to the frailities of poor programming and lack of attention but i suppose we'll see. For now this one's floating in the water, bring on DF's server the next lamb to the slaughter.

Happy Easter!

2009-04-12T10:44:00.003+01:00

The news has been coming slow and thin recently, and i'm sorry that my posts haven't been very regular this week but i've had a lot to keep on top of (work), however, i promise a stronger approach to posting this week and i'd like to start by wishing everyone a happy easter!

The only news i can bring you at the moment is that the eo forums have been thrown into turmoil, the genereal discussion section is practically just full of spammers and spam bots and the admins just don't seem to care, it's a real shame to see especially considering a couple of months ago, with new updates and more amdins active it was seeming really positive, now we've gone down even further than before.

Well, that's all for now, enjoy easter and your chocolate and i'll see you during the week.

Back

2009-04-08T14:42:00.002+01:00

Yeh i'm back slightly later than expected as we missed the home flight and were stuck in berlin till tuesday morning, fortuneately we did have a bit more fun though given our 2 extra days in the capital.

I'm just adjusting to whatever it is that has happened since i've been gone but it seems fair to say that not much has taken place. However if you want to keep abreast of all the developments of the Project Atlas Eo server (DF's Private server currently in development) then visit "blackwood studio's" home page here so you know what point they're at, looking at some of the things they've already accomplished on this new server it all seems to be moving positiviely.

Hey, if anyone wants me to post about anything specifically then please do let me knoiw, i'm finding it difficult without too much news to keep posts regular so if anyone wants me to report on anything including making little guides or stuff then leave a comment, other than that i'll try to dig out some news but don't be dissappointed if i don't bring you as much as usual, and if i post more about casual-internet-based activites and not specifically endless.

Cheers.

120 Posts - Going Away - MegaPost!

2009-04-01T16:29:00.004+01:00

Yeh i just thought 120 posts was pretty cool, anyway welcome to the MEGAPOST. As you should already know i'm heading off for a bit, nothing "vacation" like , just a trip to Berlin, i leave at 2am GMT tonight =0 so yeh no sleep for me and i'll be gone until hmmm, sunday morning perhaps? So it'll just be you lot by yourselves until then, so i thought i'd give you a megapost to keep you guys occupied for a while, so lets get going!

First things first, head over to the eo forums and sign up if you want to stay on top of the latest news, and also to check out the craziness which is currently taking place on there, i mean seriously, yungstunna has returned and "waged war" on the forums, ressurecting old threads and spamming continuosly, i'm not in on the facts totally so i'm not sure if it's someone different on the account, but it's caused a bit of much-needed mayhem to keep us interested, bare in mind the strong langauge and if rob fox gets his way crude images but other than that the forums are good for a laugh so yeah check it out.

Next, to make sure you're in on the know-how then keep up to date on Nezlo's and Wikky's blog, not to mention the other great links in my links drop down on the right which also includes an email thingy in case you want to get in touch.

Next, i've added a subscribe button, so basically if you want to be kept up to date on the blog then just click the RSS button on the right and at the top of the loaded page just click the subscribe button and bam you're hooked up without any registration or anything, however if you feel like a more personal touch hook me up and become a follower of the picto-blog on blogger, not that there will be much to follow until sunday.

Ok, next thing, if you wnat to check out any of the servers i've been talking about recently then here are you're IPs and respective servers, i'm certain you know how to alter IPs, if not just ask or go searching on other blogs and you'll find out soon enough...

EO Oracle (Ducci's Server) : ducci.terminalx.info + PORT 8079

Rena's Server : renazaras.no-ip.org

Project Atlas (DF's Server (in development)) : Read about it here , looking really good.

So yeh knock yourselves out if you feel like a change of pace...

Awesome training up next, if you're gonna stay on your real server account then fair played help yourself to a cookie, and if you're looking for decent training then here's my suggestions...

Desert - Not the whole place but that select area (a massive square) where there a gnomes and rock golemns, seriously this is awesome training for any level but especially those under ten, i mean it's practically always empty and you've got you're big hitters for exp with the golemns, and continuos and decent exp from easy-to-kill gnomes, check it out.

Biters + Reapers Room (Room 2) - Not sure how to get there? Well check my massive update guide which is still getting hits here. A higher level for this and preferably a bow of some sort but still amazing stuff, biters are easy to kill if you get them early enough, they give decent exp, you don't have to move because of the constant spawns, the reapers are your big exps with some great drops, worth a looky but BRING POTS.

Yeti (1st Spawn) - This is slightly slower granted, but just as rewarding/ The yeti's come in pairs and fairly frequently compared to other bosses, plus you've got penguins to keep you filled up until the spawns happen. The place is practically empty half the time and you have a good chance of bagging yourself a valueable ketova for restoring some of your pot money.

Apozen Overlord Room - Not when it's pakced but when it's empty, honestly. When there's no-one there grab yourself a bow again and get going, since the spiders are passive until you attack apozen just stay clear of him and get a good distance form the spiders with your bow and pump them full of arrows. 4-5 should bring one down depending on level and it's 92exp in the bag, the spawns never stop so you've got plenty to attack just make sure you don't get into a close fight as they deal tough damage.

Ok, some more fun stuff now and a while ago i told you about that tower defence game Onslaught, well i hope some of you played it and here's another great game which is slighty easier and but just as enjoyable and a bit more deep called Vector TD check it out for some good strong fun.

Ok, and another game you should try and get hooked on (i know i did) called super crazy guitar maniac deluxe 2 or something crazy like that. Basically it's a stripped down guitar hero playable with the arrow keys and A,S and D, it sounds simple but it becomes a challenge later on has some decent choons for you to beat along to, go have a good go at it here, awesome for a browser based game.

Feel in the mood for a good laugh? I'm sure you've seen it all before but please head over to Chuck Norris Facts and check out some absolutely hilarious (at times) made up facts, some of them had me in stiches, some just made me... worry? They really are good and worth a good look over so head here to enjoy them and look out for Vin Diesel and Mr.T facts aswell.

In the mood for someting funny but your eyes are tired? Well listen to what will be tieing me over on my trip, the ricky gervais show, this collection of podcasts is absolutely classic, with Ricky Gervais, Steven Merchant, and the idiot genius that is Karl Pilkington, some of the shows have has me literally rolling in laughter and i'd suggest them to absolutely anyone to atleast give them a try becuase they're really that funny, you can probably torrent / download for free somewhere, but they're also avaliable on itunes and some for free (1st season?), visit the official website here.

Feel like a change in style? Then visit ZeroPunctuation and watch his library of hilarious game reviews, it's such a unique style but really effective and contains the sort of humour you don't get until a second after it's passed,they're only about 4-5 minutes long but it's still interesting and worth a good laugh sometimes, check out the massive library here.

I've been watching Danny recently, this amazing guitar hero "phenom" on youtube who has full combo'd (100%) pretty much every tough song, including through the fire and flames on expert, perhaps not everyone will appreciate this, but seriously check it out to be amazed for guitar hero fans and non-fans alike (the videos show his hands playing it aswell!). Link to TTFAF here and then sub links follow to other videos.

It sounds weird but i've been listening to loads of Metallica recenty, yeh, just thought i'd mention it ;D.

Hey it's april fools (well it may not be anymore depends when you're reading), i contemplated an april fools joke to play but i couldn't be bothered / that cruel so i just left it for you lot to come up with your own, enjoy.

I've been doing a lot of drawing for things recently, lots of landscapes and i can tell you i'm sick of seeing trees, so if anyone's got some artwork they'd like to share just post it in a comment (link or whatever) and i'll give it a look over and maybe post it.

Well that's it, i'll see you on sunday and until the enjoy yourselves! Thanks.

Going On A Trip, Megapost Tomorrow!

2009-03-31T20:11:00.003+01:00

Yeh i'll go in to more detail on the next post, but basically i'm off for like 3 1/2 days (leaving thurdasy 2am) and won't be able to update until sunday, so i'll be leaving you a MEGA-POST filled to the birm with info for you to enjoy until i get back tomorrow, thanks.

Server Migration

2009-03-29T12:17:00.004+01:00

Nothing like a major update, but i finally found out why the online number has been so low recently on the eo website. It's because vult had once again moved the server, reason? I have no idea there must of been some minor complications with the old one or a contract ran out or something so we get a brand new server to play on and it's not private for once!

However this does come coupled with some bad news, unfortuneately everything which you've done on the old server since he opened the new server will all be in vain as when he finally gets around to deleting the old server which some people may still of been playing, all the stuff they'd accomplished in those days will be erased only to find themselves back to when the new server was made when they finally logg on to the new one, so yeh if anyone hasn't changed their IP since the move and has leveled, unlucky.

However, don't get to sad just yet, there's some good news related to that point, if you were already playing with the IP GAME.ENDLESS-ONLINE.COM then there's no worries for you you're fine, same goes with TEST.ENDLESS-ONLINE.COM because he's migrated test aswell. I can already hear people breathing sigh's of relief as they discover they've been IP'd to GAME.END... all this time and are not affected as a result, so for all you people get on with it, however for those unfortunate few here are the new IPs to conenct..

MAIN : 72.232.197.74

TEST : 72.232.197.82

Yeh, go knock yourselves out and sorry if you've lost anything...

And one more thing Vult posted another interesting thread in the annoucnements section on the forum yesterday as well warning people about using private servers, check it out for a good laugh here.

Well that's all, try and have a bearable week at work / school.

Disaster Struck + Rena Info

2009-03-27T15:37:00.010Z

Unfortuneately last night my computer contracted a virus and it started messing things up bad time and i had to erase pretty much everything on my hard-drive that wasn't executable, suffice to say i lost all the pictures i'd taken of rena's server not to mention some of my favourites snaps from my internet's past, meaning i won't be reporting as in depth as usual, however i can still shed some light on it.

First of all the server is practically useless, i'd go as far as to say it's nearly down at least half the time you try to logg on, and i'm not exagerating, if this is a server you want to play you need to be prepared for constant downtimes. This stems's from rena's server actually being just that, it's self served so whenever she's offline, it's offline, and as you can imagine this happens a lot and obviously that this can get very irritating especially when you just want to get online, only to be greeted with...

Secondly, this is a server with more holes than swiss chesse. Seriously, it's basically anything goes - mob rules - on this server, there are no real admins and pretty much all hacks can run well, speeding, death hacks, and most recently that walk anywhere thingy, where you'd normally get D/Ced on the main server, on rena's you're almost met with congratulations as you seeminglessly glide over water and through walls, it all sounds like fun, but in actuall fact this just turns the eo world into a playground, there's no objective or point of being on the server, you just go anywhere anytime.

Thridly, there's no direction or need to play, you can generate clothes with a simple command and pressing i think F12 or F11 you can automatically gain admin atire to strut around the water in, it's all good for a cheap laugh, and shooting your gun can produce small nuggets of fun, but eventually it just gets repetetive and you find yourself asking why on earth you're doing this when you stand to gain nothing from it. As you may well know you start in Estaq so there's not even any reason to attempt anything but walking around because you don't even have to level off newb island, as soon as you logg on it's just one big playground and that's a big problem.

Fourthly, the lagg is horrendous. As soon as you logg on get ready to be bombarded with admin spells and balls of electricity and crap, and all this is going to do is slow down you connection and clutter up your bandwidth, to be honest standing still and being blasted over and over again with admin heal isn't very much fun. And this is another point, there's no hireachy, which some people may see as a good point, meaning everyone is equal, but when there's no goal no-one needs to be equal.

Imagine being in a race but some people have their legs tied together, now when you un-tie them that makes the race fairer right? But now imagine you're told there's no finish line, so what do you do? You've gained no advantage and you're lost in a world with endless possibilities.

As soon as everyone is kitted out with admin robes and devils, you suddenly realise this is a waste of time, there are no perks to earn you're just messing about and it reminds me more of an experiment than an actual game.

I suppose you could draw some positives, just like the other servers you can logg on with a great name you've always wanted, and i suppose for the most part, walking around shooting guns and wearing turtles can be some fun and good for screenshots. Furthermore, i commend rena's server for being the first to actually get out there and online, showing there is a possibility and some good can actually come from this experiment but a clear lack of direction and / or need means it's always just going to be one massive playground, and hacks and exploits are just going to make it worse.

renazaras.no-ip.org

There's the IP you need if you want to give it a run, assuming you can connect, otherwise i'd say stay away.

Sorry this post wasn't as bright and colourful, but it's true-facts and that's that, hope you're all enjoying yourselves and i'll post a non-server related post over the weekend hopefully.

* NEW POST UP TONIGHT *

2009-03-26T07:17:00.003Z

I've been on rena's server practically constantly getting pictures and finding out news, so i'll be making a post on that tonight, but after we'll be back to normal endless stuff yet again so just hold on you private server haters, but to be perfectly honest there is more to rena's server than i first thought, our at least there is whenever you can actually connect to the server =P.

Until then here's a very addictive and fun game from a range of Tower defence games, where spawns of enemies run through a track and you can place towers along side them to kill the enemies before they reach the other end of the track. It originated on Warcraft (Real Time Stragety not "World Of") online and has since gone on to become huge, including making it's way on to ipods and it's more fun than it sounds. Play what is in my opinion the best version here.

That should keep you occupied, check out the new post later, thanks.

Costumes - Good Or Strong Bad?

2009-03-23T17:22:00.004Z

This is a touchy subject, i can honestly say that opinion on whether or not costumes should be obtainable in the game is 50-50 split; so lets take a look at the pros and cons shall we?

Pros :

1. Everyone has a chance of getting a costume which they've always wanted...

2. It introduces another rare into the community which was pretty short on rares after the dupe made chefs and cooks easily accessible.

3. They're difficult to get and so act as rewards for those who have worked hard enough to get them.

4. Since they're so desireable people will spend on lots of pots to get there, thus deleting duped money from the economy slowly.

5. It's practically a large update considering these items weren't really in the game before now, which is a positive step for eo.

6. The items are lore so not everyone will be able to buy them.

Cons :

1. People who deserved the speciality of having a costume now find they're joined in those ranks by losers and cheaters.

2. People spent considerable amounts of in game and real money on costumes before-hand, now to find they're avaliable in game.

3. It has eliminated several super-rare items (costumes) meaning they're less valueable and other items in the game become less valueable (complicated).

4. Speeders and cheaters will mainly dominate the drops and spawns.

5. Due to these items being lore, they will soon become worthless and stacked up multiple times on accounts.

6. Removes the prestige and achievement from people who had owned them for many years.

So yeh it's totally split, i myself was first sceptical about having them in the game but if i got a turtle i'd sure be happy they are there, so it depends on your position. Olbies with costumes will clearly be hurt by finding themselves worthless now, whereas hard trainers who finally get their long-earnt drop at the apozen overlord will relish the chance to flaunt their sucess so it's completely two-sided and the jury is still out. But what do you think, let me know your side and opinion...

And just as an extra, here's a site i sort of recently found out / decided to take an interest in about the famous internet charcter Strong Bad which i'm sure you've heard about, his e-mail toons are short and sweet with some decent clean humour injected, i personally like the series but i suppose it's down to opinion just like everything is at the moment, if you feel like a good chuckle check out all 200 episodes here.

First Impressions

2009-03-21T08:00:00.008Z

So i finally got a crack at Ducci's server today which has now gone public for alpha testing, i followed the instructions to connect here and then bam i was away! So what did i think? Well honestly it's still broken and ducci could've been more careful releasing a server which isn't really ready to play with yet. You start with all stats on 100 and all spells suped up but you're on newb island and it's empty so there isn't much fun to be had, although rcently the amdisn have introduced items into the community which has sprused the place up a bit, but there is some DCing for just trying to add a stat point (you start with 6) or trying to cast a spell (i attempted admin heal). There are barely any players (which is understandable) however i did run into the other guy online, Kidchatoic, to be fair i thought you'd aim for better names that that with the whole world of names to choose from (like i did), oh well, he was justing speeding around...

You can head over to an empty aeven as well via the shop door on newb island, weird i know, i haven't checked all of aeven's doors yet so who knows where you can get to...

I went exploring with Roythebest and Estargo, and we formed the Nudists group since we had no clothes, it was all good for a laugh and reminds me of very evry very early eo.

I suppose a good thing is that it's a start, i managed to create about 3 accounts, got some decent names under my belt, i've mainly been using the name "Admin" (above) ;D and i suppose that's the fun of playing on one of these new servers, they will never be proper or official, no matter what you win or lose or kill or trade it's all just fake really, it doesn't mean anything in relation to the real game, so i see these servers as a sort of fantasy world, where you can create the name you always dreamed of having, logg on, hopefully eventually go crazy at like dragons or banshees or something with awesome spells, get a special costumes, and just have fun, becuase these were never really intended to be taken seriously, even though ducci and his team are promising updates and exstensions to the game, so clearly they're after a real online gaming world. The server runs fine, and down-time is minimal currently, fortuneately the server capacity is 200, so i can't see any advanced down-time in the near future (i've only ever seen 2 online max) which is a good thing for the server...

As i said though, if you want to hook up and see for yourself all the instructions are in this here thread on the eo forums, all it requires is an IP change (endless ip that is) and a port change of only a single digit, very simple to do. I'm not expecting an uproar of people to leap over to ducci's server, but it's worth logging on and mooching about , especially with the prospect of it actually having proper attention and mechanics in the not so distant future.

We've been server heavy recently, so tomorrow a return to other issues and subjects, thanks.

When The Levee Breaks

2009-03-17T16:40:00.004Z

ONLY A FEW MORE CHANCES TO VIEW THE MASSIVE UPDATES GUIDE! CLICK HERE.

A nice zeppelin-inspired title there but anway, i've covered some pretty heavy sujects recently, so i thought i'd take a break and just give you a low down of happenings in nice brief sections and keep it all a bit casual as well.

So firstly i'd just like to say in response to my last post, thanks for all the comments, all were well thought out and i enjoyed hearing other's opinions; and a lot of people brought up some big thinking points about these new servers, and to extend on my last post, i'd like to bring to your attention 2 new eo player-owned servers which are visible in the near future...

DF's server - Atlas

Ducci's Server - Un-named

Now i'm not suggesting you head straight over to those and start bombarding the creators with questions or comments but in case anyone is interested or has any serious questions you can read up about them there, baring in mind these are forums so the info and posts are a little rough around the edges, but my point is that these server's seem to be coming a long well, and it's suprising to see the response and dedication that they're recieving, i look forward to seeing how they turn out...

Ok, second, the endless report is starting to stagger a bit more, as i said before i don't condemn or dislike the report, i think it's a nice site and it has a legacy, but wikky barely even checks it now and these new reporters aren't really doing all that well, infact one of them quit quite recently. It's a shame to see such a successful blog not even mention the massive updates of recent weeks or have any active attention besides these amateur bloggers (no offence), but i hope it can restore some of it's former glory in it's new regime, check it out in my links drop down on the right.

The more observent of you may of noticed i've linked to the browsers which best display this website as well, if you're still using IE or other old browsers i'd seriosuly suggest following one of these links and downloading a decent one, if not for the good of this site then for your personal browsing experience.

Finally, i've recently signed up to google analytics so this wbesite is now being tracked, and i can see that although i recieve a lot of direct traffic through www.pictoking.blogspot.com i'm also finding that a lot of my hits are coming through search engines and alike so please try to rememebr my URL, and also thanks to nezlo, the report and eoSky who have all contributed hits via links on their site, i'm really glad to see the picto-blog up and running again now a month or two after re-opening and seeing it going so strongly, so thankyou readers!

Comment if you have any questions / opinions, i love to hear from my readers! Thanks.

Are you Being Served?

2009-03-15T12:57:00.006Z

STILL VIEW THE MASSIVE UPDATES GUIDE - CLICK HERE!

It seems as if the new fad is creating and running your own endless online server, something which has become possible since Sasauge's Eoserv emulator thingy, i'm not sure of the specifics myself and nor am i that fussed but if anyone really wants to read in to it just go searching on forums or eohax and details will surface before too long. I'm not sure exactly how illegal this is, but it must be up there and for now Vult can do nothing about it, because there is a new server every day, the original was Rena's whose you've probably heard a lot about on global recently, she became famous for making or at least helping some of the biggest exploits in eo history, and now she has her own server where you can dress as an admin and level to like 30 in 1 day and now everyone is on board.

Furthermore, i know DF and Ducci have ideas of setting servers up, not to mention another 3 owned by eohax memebrs, but they're completely useless as of now, it's just strange to see so many people wanting to do this seeing as it has no purpose.

Anyway, in other news, i went over the price drops yesterday but this is really getting weird now. Things are dropping all over the board, weapons, clothes, shoes you name it it's lost value. And that's just weird, because i know this could be a result of massive deflation in the economy, but seriously, Baru has dropped from 2.2m to 1.4m in less than 24hrs and that just ain't right.

To build on that point, i have the feverish feeling that there's something going on, i was in the bank today when a scammer put up 990 billion gold for my knob, obviously he changed it to a love potion trying to scam me, and no doubt this cash is illegitimate, but seriously, how could 990 billion gold go un-noticed for so long? Something fishy is happening...

Reporters and price drops.

2009-03-14T08:27:00.007Z

YOU CAN STILL VIEW THE MASSIVE UPDATES GUIDE BY CLICKING HERE!

Yes, it seems that ol' wikky has now ran out of time to run his own blog and has employed 4 volunteer "reporters" do posting for him. Taking a look at the first page of introductions and first posts i can see already this will be a bad idea, no offence to the endless report, it's a blog i've much respected over the years and has also been a fierce competitior at times, but seriously, if you don't run your own blog then it isn't your own blog it becomes just like another forum. I look forward to seeing how this will turn out...

http://endlessreport.blogspot.com/

Rest assured i will always be the number 1 reporter for the Picto-Blog.

In other news, the prices of EO have taken a staggering fall today and no-one is really quite sure why. We're starting to see Knobs going under 350, chefs taking a drastic collapse (due to their chest spawns) and scavs and arrows have also taken a hit. No wonder this may all be part of Vult's master plan but if you're not on the same page as me at the moment, let me lay it out for you...

1. Vult updates with a place then needs LOTS of potions to get to.

2. Since only high level people can get there the people more likely to go are those with lots / duped money.

3. Everyone wants to go to this place becuase of the costume chests, which whilst real are incredibley rare.

4. If you die or logg out in there you have to go buy more pots and travel there again.

5. It's a really tough place to survive in meaning lots of pots trips.

Result = Everyone blowing their money on pots = Less duped money = Prices come down as well.

Of course this could all be a mega coincidence although i find that hard to beleive, and well all i can say is well done vult-r and co. you've come up witha great idea. As always i'm encouraging commenting, are you happy with the prices drops and what do you think about the endless report hiring reporters?

EDIT :

I felt as if i had to post this, basically, i was walking through the hall of pain normally, when all of a sudden is stopped loosing hp on spikes, i kept walking then the arena horns blasted out and bam i end up in the aeven hairdresser with full HP in like 2 seconds.

Weird 0.o

Thanks.

Big Changes On the Way

2009-03-11T16:47:00.006Z

TO VIEW THE UPDATES GUIDE CLICK HERE!

It seems as if vult is keeping is cards very close to his chest at the moment, not even a hint was given about these updates, and yet here we stand, 5 days later and fully impressed with the startling manner in which both adminship and the game have advanced so quickly, but it seems as if Vult and his 4 man team have more up their sleeves, lets assess the options then shall we?

1. Complete Wipe - Seems more unlikely then 2...

2. Item And Stats Wipe - Yeh this is were i will do most of the discussion about a wipe. Depending no the time of week my opinion on a wipe seems to alter, some days i think "yeh that'd be great and fair! Giving everyone the same chance would rock and goodbye to all dupes!" and then on other days i think "i don't want to loose my stuff" but in reality what we're looking at is a good idea smeared with bad results. Think, if Vult were to wipe and everyone became lvl 0, the first thing to happen would be that all the speeders start owning, correct? They'll be taking all the drops, all the kills, all the chests, everything. Second, all the non-speeders will now have to start speeding in order to keep up. And the final result is a large speeding game in which vult may aswell of just turned up the game speed to "OH WOW" himself to save everyone the trouble, and a very small minority sitting in the corner wearing burk clothes, attacking wolf-men with spears and complaining about "them darn cheaters" (i would probably be the leader of this group). So as you can see this idea has more holes than swiss cheese, however, introduce a working anti-speed (which vult has talked about) in to the equation, and this idea suddenly becomes very interesting.

3. Speed Fix - This one really needs to be done fast (no pun intended). Those of you with memories will recall around the new year vult created a hell event in aeven and also created an anti-speed, but alas this didn't work, it was littered with bugs, causing incorrect bannings and d/cing every where which led to him removing it. Thing is, if he could actually get a proper one up a running this not only becomes a decent idea but a game-saving one at that.

4. All unlore costumes get deleted / turn in to useless items - This is the harshest option, but somehow it seems a possibility. I myself have been informed by a friend - Ducci and other costumes-cled people that this apparently could happen soon. This obviously would get rid of all duped costumes and lower the economy, but at the same time it is punishing people that earnt or bought these items properly and are now having them snatched away (some unlore costumes still exsist form the old days). I don't think this should or will happen but it could and it would be a massive mistake.

5. New Version - I know what people are thinking, new updates could mean a new version right? Well your wrong, sorry, but i still refuse to swallow my pride and accept that a new version is a distinct possibility, because as far as i'm aware, 2 updates in as many years just isn't "updating" form, i mean sure what they've given us has been great, but a new version is a lot more than a few new rooms and monsters, i'd like to think this could happen, but it still seems a way off.

6. Light Guides - This is another which has been going around a while, but recently someone has fanned the flames and people are starting to accept that light guides could be just around the corner. I mean think about it, it would solve speeding / scamming problems if the people chosen are honest enough, and it could mean arvid and vult can spend more time in development and less time in the jail. But this is where the problems originate, because if you pick the wrong people you're done for and in a worse situation then you were before. However, I know i'd certainly be up for the challenge ;D.

Well that's all i can think of for now, i hope you've formed your own opinions from this because what happens to eo depends on what the people want, do soemthing wrong and people won't play, do soemthing right and the admins become gods, let me know what you think and post a comment.

Thanks.

Updates At Last! - Apozen, Doors And Updates Guide!

2009-03-06T08:41:00.074Z

Yeah it seems all my competitors aren't blogging right now, so i thought i'd take it upon myself to tell everyone about the new updates vult added. My guides to versions 26, 27 and 28 (and repective version updates) were all succesful and heavily praised for detail and reliability, so please enjoy.

UPDATE : GUIDE TO TOILETS IS IN SECTION 9 - MAZE FROM HELL

1. The Ice Cavern In Biters

Remember that out of place ice area at the biters before, well it seems as if it's had a lick of pixels and has finally been turned in to brickwork by vult, good show.

2. First Room

Go up from there and you'll find yourselves 2 newly created stairs, take the furthest ones which lead to room 1. This room is empty besides 2 staircases and some very bizare noises every 30 seconds (like star trek) and this noise is draining your TP you'll be glad to know, very frustrating, seems without pots this place is a no-go. The right stairs take you back out to the biters again.

3. Room 2

If you enter the left pillar in room 1, you'll come out in a room with a spike-covered floor and a constant biters respawn, pretty hardcore training if you ask me. The stairs you appear next to take you back to the first room, but continue up and there are yet more stairs on the far wall.

And yes those are 2 reapers.

FROM THIS POINT ON, LOGGING OR D/CING WILL RESTART YOU FROM THE BEGINNING - CONFIRMED BY TOLERANT.

4. Is this some sort of maze?

Manage to get through that room of hell? Well you'll be glad to know you'll find yet another room crammed with biters, and this rooms also holds 4 more stairways.

All stairs but 1 lead you back to the beginning room 1, so, to continue take the second stairs in from the right (the one i'm next to) and you're finally there.

5. Hall Of Pain

You thought i meant apozen? Heavens no, you've got plenty of pots to get though before then. The hall of pain is exactly what it says on the tin, a very, very long hallway crammed to the brim with spikes, it is in essence, a death trap, but it's passable, it took me somewhere around 30 big health pots to transverse, but i'm only lvl 8, so i don't know, heal spells aren't any good as your TP is drained...

Hint provided Kyleto : Get naked in the Hall Of Pain! Without armour you take less damage!

Of course, i somehow made it, and boy was it a relief... The hall is good for one reason though, it's anti speed, since there is so much loss of health so quickly, it means that speeding along it will make you disconnect, of course if you get to the other side then people can speed their brains out.

Continue along this room which is uninhabited, and you'll find yet some more stairs, enter them...

6. Hall Of More Pain

Ok as soon as you enter this room you'll see 2 doors, one which you came in through and another leading down, the once circled below (the down stairs) will take you to the artist room (Chapter 7).

If you want to carry on to apozen you'll have another hall of pain to endure, but this one is passable without pots, just good timing.

They are all time release spikes, there's a perfectly good path which is passable as i said without pots, but it takes a bit of skill.

7. Artist Room - Thanks Deadwil And Anonymous Commenters

And there's your artist room, only very recently discovered. And as you may be able to see it also has the famous artist monster in it. Quite a chubby fellow, he moves and attacks slowly and has around about half the Kings HP. It's been reported that he could hit very high rarely, because most of the time he'll miss. The problem is he's not a boss, so only 1 person is allowed to attack him at a time, which can make killing very long winded, however, the spawn rate is quick and healthy. There are also Vitamans in this room, but we'll get to those in the Maze section further down.

Artist Exp Earnt : 1216exp

Artist Drop :Pencil

Pencils are just random objects like apples and bouqets with no real purpose yet, they'll run you 50-100k though becuase they're new, just wait.

The artist room also has yet another chest, but this one is more valueable. It's really there of course but it's contents are unknown. According to a lot of people Vult himself said it would spawn chefs but i didn't see it so it's not confirmed yet, rumours also suggest it spawns pandas and turtles just like the original chest room, but again this need confirmation. i know myslef it spawn 100g a lot but who really cares? The chest is surrounded by Time release spikes so be quick when checking.

8. The Spike Room (Fake Chest Room)

Come off the hall and your in the spike room, many would think this was the famous "Chest Room", but it's no such thing. The first thing you'll see is a single door on your left, that will lead you to the maze from hell, so avoid it for now, to read more about the Maze From hell and continue to the toilets, check section 9. You can see the mystery single door in the picture below.

Further on, the only visible chest here is a fake one that will warp you back to the front of the hall of more pain. A pity the old chest room was removed, it was cosier, this is as close to a new chest room as we'll get now, shame, but i suppose it's replacements is fine...

Yeh, and here's the chest...

THE INVISIBLE CHEST

Also in the fake chest room is the lucrative Hidden Chest, whcih according to many sources, and including vult's word, spawns chef costumes on rare occasions. It's a little tricky to find but it'll show up on your map...

See the blue square, there it is...

Where the circle is...

And there is your proof, as i said, nothing officially confirmed for spawning in it yet as i didn't see vult actually say it had chefs, but there is strong suspicion.

As you can see there are a whole lotta doors, and i mean A LOT (10+) .They all lead to different areas, some fowards some backwards, some to hell and some to... erm, suicide? (SEE DOOR GUIDE BELOW)

DOOR GUIDE

1. DANGER - SPIKE BOARD

2. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

3. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

4. DANGER - SPIKE BOARD

5. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

6. GOOD - Maze

7. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

8. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

9. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

10. Beginning of Hall Of More Pain.

11. GOOD - Maze

12. DANGER - SPIKE BOARD

9. Maze FromHell

Feeling adventurous then? Well welcome to the Maze From hell. People hve already explored this, including myself, but it's just so random that it's near impossible to find your way around.

In here there are also more new monsters! Warbears...

You'll barely run in to them, but if you do don't worry, they're passive and have about 22hp, they can easily be killed with one hit.

WarBear Exp Earnt : 3exp

WarBear Drops: Nothing

THE TOILETS! - THANKYOU TO SWORNBROTHER

Yes, we've finally found our way to the elusive toilets, and thankyou so much to SwornBrother who led me to them. Basically, as SOON as you enter the maze from hell don't move an inch, just follow these directions...

A word Before ...

D = Down , L = Left , U = Up, R = Right , The number represents the number of steps taken the that direction. (Right 3 = Walk 3 steps right (not squares, steps))

Ok, so to the directions, as i said, from exactly where you were standing when you entered...

1. Down 3

2. Right 1 Into The Floor Stairs (You'll Warp)

3. Down 1 (You'll Warp)

4. Right 5 (No Warp) , Up 1 (No Warp) , Right 4 (No Warp) , Up 4 (No Warp) , Right 2 (No Warp)

5. Walk Down1 Into Floor Stairs (You'll Warp)

Here is where you end up, the bedroom, on your left are 5 doors which i've numbered 1 through 5, here's a guide for you.

1. DANGER - SPIKE BOARD

2. Boulder Maze

3. DANGER - SPIKE BOARD

4. Boulder Maze

5. Boulder Maze

Assuming you want to continue to the toilets, you'll take adoor to the boulder maze...

This place may look simple at first, but it's tricky without guidence. In the centre is a chest with only 1 known spawn : 25g, but as usual we'll assume the best (Costumes) do aswell ;D, to get to it just walk right and through the first stairs you see in the maze and bam that was quick wasn't it?

To continue to the toilets follow these instructions...

1. Go Straight Down through Stairs.

2. Go Straight Up through Stairs.

3. Go Up past 1 floor stairs and then right through Stairs at the top of this section.

4. Go left then immediately down at the corner then right at the bottom along the edge, then up through the stairs.

5. Finally go right through stairs.

Hurrah! Your in the toilets! In here two hell guardians are near the entrance but easy to bypass. They can come around to the other side but as long as you stay far enough left they probably won't. The middle toilet is actually a chest,it spawns the follwing :

2'000G , 100G , Event Items , Doctor Costume. Confirmed

10. Spike Board

This is a grim place, come through an unlucky door and it's a dead end, the spike board is just hell and there's only one way out...suicide.

11. Maze

Take a maze door and here's where you end up, a maze...

So basically, just walk over some spikes (MORE POTS =0) and there are some stairs (THE FIRST ONES YOU SEE), go through them, you'll come out near some floor stairs, take these to enter another room.

The maze is also where you'll find our first new monster, the Vitaman. These little buggers are killable, although they'll hit 30+ on occasions, upon death you'll recieve a healthy 146exp for your efforts, no drops confirmed as of yet. They're agressive natured and they're everywhere in here so watch out.

Vitaman Exp Earnt : 146exp

Vitaman Drop : Nothing

12. Apozen Overlord's Lair -

This is the big one, the room you enter through the floor stairs brings you into a massive room with the new Apozen Overlord monster. The overlord himself is not as tricky a customer as the original apozen but will still require teaming, however, it's the spiders that are dangerous as hell and need avoiding, reports suggest hits passing 50s from the spiders on lvl 50+'s so be careful. The spawn is absolutely ages (about 10 minutes) and all creatures appear together like the samurai.

Apozen Exp Earnt : 4500exp

Apozen Drops : Gold 15k+ , LORE DEVIL COSTUME (IMPOSSIBLY RARE)

Apozen's Taraduda Exp Earnt : 92exp

Apozen's Taraduda Drops: Nothing

Ring Of Death - Thanks to Deadwil For Alerting Me To This

This is a new feature by vult, as the center of the room now features spikes, dubbed the ring of death, they're avoidable but if apozen spawns near them it could make atatcking tricky as finding positions to hit him from without stepping on spikes could be tough. All spikes are time release.

HOW TO SURVIVE AT APOZEN

Obviously pots are still neccesary, but here are the best tips for surviving at the apozen overlord.

1. Stick to the middle : Get as close to apozen as possible and stay there, this is why a lens of truth is better for apozen, there is then less chance of spiders coming to attack you and they may not make it to you becuase your surrounded by so many people.

2. Have Pots : This isn't joke, i know you've already gone through so many pots, but seriously, if you're gonna survive you need more pots.

3. Keep an eye on your health : Seems obvious but really do, and be ready to pot as soon as you drop even below half HP.

4. Kill Spiders = No. 1 Priority : If your lucky people will take the spiders out for you, especially if your near apozen at the middle, but make sure if a spider does start attacking you, kill it ASAP, becuase it'll just keep chipping away at your health and they're so easy to kill.

5. Bide Your Time : The new apozen is much like every other boss spot, and if there's no-one there then your luck is running out. I seriously suggest saving your pots by waiting until you know the room is brimming before going as you'll stand a better chance of surviving.

6. Avoid the spikes : Both on the outside and the ring of death, keep away if possible, more hp loss is the last thing you need.

13. Further Updates?

It's true that vult has been constantly tweaking and updating these rooms since they were released, and they've certianly come a long way sicne the original "Chest Room", i'm sure vult will continue to keep us on our toes aswell, just look for yourself :

I think we all know the answer to that question =/.

That's what you need to see, as i said, any info i've missed or you can add (ARTISTS!!!) please leave in a comment and i'll make sure it's out there with full recognition to you.

Special Thanks :

Deadwil - Eddjjjjjj - Shnarp - All the guys that checked doors and PM'd me - SwornBrother

Thanks.

Whole Lotta Love

2009-03-04T14:28:00.002Z

Hey, i took a break, it was my birthday so i stayed away from the computer.

Anyway, it seems as if the admins are really pulling together now. Granted, only arvid is actually walling or banning a lot, but amazingly we've seen rexor and teror both online within the past 24 hours, and i never though we'd see either of them two again.

Eo seems to be taking a nice turn at the moment, if only a new version was actually a possibility, then with the return of maybe another admin (Aengie perhaps?) i would seriously consider saying that the game really is moving, alas, it seems as if a new version is as far off as ever and the addition of any more admins seems faint considering how lucky we've already been to recieve 4 in 1 day.

Anyway, they all seem to be doing their job as well altohught i don't really know what it is that vult even does when he's online, walling and banning has gone up thought, where as smallcrimes like scamming and speeding a bit have dropped, it's been a while since i've seen a full blown speeder and i've been to the hot-spots. So yeh, keep your fingers crossed, this could be a productive year for eo.

Walling Goes Up ; Happiness Goes Down

2009-03-01T07:52:00.004Z

Although that may not account for everyone, there are many peple who love the increase in walling, especially myself, but i think it tends to be the current trend for eo players, that being that the majority of eo players are speeders...

But what i mean is that the admin's attention to eo at the moment really has been suprising, with it only being a very short time ago that all 3 admins (rexor , vult-r and arvid) were on at once which is something we haven't seen in a while, it seems as if this new found enthusiasm is really starting to help the game. More speeders are walled; lest scammers get away with it; more inappropriate behaviour is stopped, and all this is resulting in a better experience for the honest members of the community like you and me, the only problem is that all this has one tiny side effect which makes us unhappy and it's the direct result of so much walling, and that is whining.

Suffice to say, i'm not saying walling should be dropped, but what really gets to me is when an admin loggs on to the game, or the forums, and almost immediately global is spammed with "PLZ L3T ME OOUT ARVID I DID NUFFIN WRONG =( " and when they realize that clearly isn't doing anything they swith to the "LUL ARVID SUCKS NOB" comment, so to be honest i'm not really sure what point they're trying to make, thing is they eventually realize nothing works and they go back to their hole in the maze and stew over for another week. I'm not sugegsting these players should be remvoed from the game, but surely something like a global block for people in the wall could be accomplished?

Thanks.

This "David Vs. Wikky" Spat

2009-02-26T18:05:00.003Z

Yeh if no-one else ahd already noticed, wickedfrost, resident blogger and eo veteran, and david a.k.a mister x, lover of elephants, have gone at it, in a little internet war whichhas resulted in one very long, very boring and very sad post by Mister X in which not only does he insult wikky, but he actually "calls him out" and lists his USA adress and zip, check it out here it's pretty funny stuff.

Endless-related news tomorrow, thanks.

Duping Is Good

2009-02-24T18:00:00.004Z

As hard as it is to imagine, i really do think that duping is good for endless, and here's 3 reasons why...

1) More money in the economy - Ok, this is the most obvious reason, and even though it's all fake money, and cna have some negative effects (read last post), overall, having more money in the economy is beneficial: it puts the prices of items up making the game harder, it makes the poor richer and the wealthy less rich, making the gulf between "newbs" and "teh mega winnars" seem less which is good for the community, and it can make the game more interesting with plenty of inflations and recessions.

2) Makes the Game more interesting - Yeh i mean come on, if it weren't for dupes nothing would ever happen and the place would go stale, at least mishaps like these keep the game fresh and exciting.

3) It fixes the game - I have no intention of implying that the game itself is or ever will move forward, i think version 28 or possibly 29 is the furthest the game will ever go, but whenever a little hole is exploited by a dupe, it means vult has to fix it and slowly but surely the game is being patched up. I know it sounds stupid, but this is really the number 1 reason why dupes are good, because once they've come and gone, they're never coming back.

Thanks.

The Economy

2009-02-22T20:18:00.003Z

The economy in endless often seems to reflect the real world economy, and certianly as the situation gets worse all around the world, so does eo, but at least endless' economy will recover sooner than later.

You see, at the moment in time endless' economy is still trying to recover from a dupe, yeh that sounds crazy seeing as it's been what, 1-2 months now? But seriously, these things do take time to get back to normal, and seeing as i've experienced so many of these little "Inflations" in the past then i know what i'm talking about.

To be fair, i can understand that some people may want things right now , and may even need some items now, but if you can just try to wait, it'll seem to last forever but eventually the prices will come back down as the amount of items to money in the active economy steadily increases. You may not even notice these slight changes but believe me you'll be glad you waited a few weeks to buy that armour instead of dishing out twice the price now. Until it comes down, i suggest people use this inflation to their advantage, if you can get out there and train your ass off, i mean train on anything that drops, because if you bag a ketova from a yeti which is easy to kill, then bam that's 300k in your pocket, as oppose to in a month or so when it'll only go for about 200k, seriously.

And this inflation applies to chefs, doctors and costumes as well. It seems as if there's no end to the amount of new costumes and specials in the economy due to the dupe, and with hackers promising more on the way, the situation can only get worse. I mean sure it's great for those lucky few who can afford to buy one, especially if they can buy them honestly, but having more in eo is just gonna wreck the value of the costumes and make them more common, which will annoy old gamers who have got their costumes properly and mean that undeserving cheaters will think they're cool going around in hacked items.

It's a shame but it can't be stopped so i suppose we've just gotta get on with it and accept the more and more costumes and specials.

Anyway, as i said the economy is just a little screwed up at the moment, it'll settle down, you just need to wait and please try to be wise with your money in the upcoming weeks...

Thanks.

Arvid Recommends

2009-02-20T19:21:00.004Z

Seems as if he think this blog is awesome as well, becuase he took some time out to give everyone a message about it on the special admin speech on eo, so yeh thanks for that arvid. I think this could be a big thing in making this blog big again, and if you want to read the last post then just use the archive on the right. 300 Hits in 1 minute for the win.

Free Guitars and Arvid is On Form

2009-02-20T18:21:00.004Z

Yeh, that's a slightly more...erm, literal title, not much disguising what the post is about, however, for those who think i'm talking about eo pixel-guitars your wrong, i mean guitar hero guitars.

It seems that someone really screwed up at Redoctane, maker of guitar hero world tour equipment, because the warranty website which allows people with broken equipment to get replacemnts has really become something of an internet phenonimia overnight because of it's big problem which allows anybody to ask for a replacement guitar / mic or drum set for free with no questiosn asked, yes, you heard me.

Basically, if you live, well, anywhere, and your interested in getting a free guitar (like i was) head over to this EO thread on the forums where it's all kindly explained, i've already ordered myself a mic and a guitar for my new 360, and i'm hoping all will be as smooth as i've read on other forums, but be quick because i'm sure redoctane will wise up sooner or later.

Now normally i wouldn't adivse this sort of trouble, but i don't know, this just seems different...

Anyway, on eo-related news, arvid was once again up to his tricks, walling and such, and this time he's even respected requests, yeh, one from our very own Ducci, who has been thrown a few insults, and kidnly asked arvid to wall the person responsible and was i can only assume delighted when the criminal saw punsihment in return, so maybe thigns are starting to look up for endless and it's admin userbase.

Cheers.

Guilded Tags

2009-02-19T17:46:00.003Z

To be honest, this is getting out of hand.

Let me take you back to the start of this rant though, because a week ago i realised that my remaining person in my guild DOV was leader, however, the character in question Picto could not do absolutely anything leader-related. This is strange, but due to the considerably rare circumstances the character ahs been involved in over the past few years, it's not all that surprising that he'd be glitched out.

Anyway, i had to leave DOV unfortunately because of these problems, and i spent about 5 days trying to make a new guild called "BTT - Back to the future", i eventually did so only to realise that Picto could still not do anything leader like, he's officially glitched. And so i also couldn’t let one of my alts join and make them leader either, because i couldn’t change ranks with picto. Eventually though, i realised that my original character, the 5 year old "Pictoking", who had just been recruited and was rank 0 in the guild, could do everything leader related, yes, you heard me right. Turns out if he joins any guild that Picto is also a member of, he gets all the leader abilities regardless of rank - tried and tested, amazing i know.

So anyway, i then removed picto form the guild to try my hand at re-recruiting picto and making him a leader, to see if that made any difference, in my haste i forgot to realize that in doing so, picto as no longer in the guild and thus Pictoking had lost all his abilities, yeh, it sucks.

Anyway, i then scrapped BTT and spent another 5 days making HIH - High, which, using Pictoking as the maker, i eventually got to make, and now I’m happy. However, what I was angry about is just how many inactive guilds there are without any god damn members in that are eating up valuable guild tags, ones such as III and VAV and DOV (yeh i know that was my fault), but i still think that a guild without any members should be automatically deleted by the server, it's just common sense, i spent 3 of the 5 days making HIH just trying desperately to find a tag that wasn't swallowed up by an inactive guild, a task which was difficult, more difficult than it seems, so please, this could do with a fix, although saying that seems hopeless considering the admin's affection to the game at the moment.

Oh well, thanks.

100th post

2009-02-17T17:37:00.002Z

Well in actual fact, if you include my old freebwes blog before this i could well be over 200, but as far as the new picto blog goes, this is officially my 100th post, and boy has it been a long 100.

I've seen some pretty weird happenings, heard some pretty strange rumours and met some good friends, but even though it's all behind us now, we can always look forward to tomorrow and what it may bring in terms of enjoyment and surprise, although looking and eo at the moment, it seems as if there may not be much to anticipate.

Still, we can hope and wait, arvid is certainly stepping up his activeness and vult will hopefully follow suit, i wouldn't bank on a new version, but maybe some more interesting events in the future.

So that's just about it, I’ll reveal the winner of the raffle next post (that is assuming enough people have entered), as always, head to the first post and leave me a comment and your username to go in tot he draw, or even just post here, on the lucky 100th post, to be in to win a lucky 100k.

Thanks for reading.

Out of control?

2009-02-16T08:35:00.003Z

Last night endless online finally saw Arvid in the flesh for once, and he stuck around as well.

Turns out, Arvid must've been hella bored because he just went round teleporting random people and walling and banning people as well, but this wasn't just any normal walling session, he was out in force, and certainly wasn't watching global, because I’ve never seen so many people asking him so many different requests, and he just wasn't answering any of them.

That being said, he was certainly doing the community a few favours, cleaning up with walls and banns, but i still feel as if banning is just to weak a punishment to stop someone form coming back with a vengeance and hacking even more next time, i think if you're caught speeding or scamming or anything, it's the wall. Which reminds me, everyone is perfectly welcome to make there way over to the blacklist (link on the right) and, with the right evidence, submit a name; now i find it easily to get evidence form speeders, because if you just ask them to say "I'm a speeder" there arrogance will take over, and bam, there's your evidence in a screenshot, so yeah.

You can still win 100k by the way, just go to the first post and leave a comment.

Anyway, that's just about it, try and have a bearable week at school / work.

Things going up...and down.

2009-02-15T10:19:00.003Z

Ok, so all the mushy welcome back stuff aside, I’ve actually had a nice reception. All the comments have been positive, and I’m pleased to see people asking me questions about the blog whilst online, and to extend on that point; due to popular demand I’ve added a chat box to my website on the right hand side so people can freely chat about the game and anything they want whilst online or checking the blog, but please don't let this chat box discourage you form leaving me a comment.

Anyway, now on to the down, and mainly speaking, the test server. It seems as if arvid was all pretty much all day and all night going around the server cleaning up, depending on how warranted this was form vult-r, this is quite a weird thing to have happen seeing as the admins aren’t the most helpful people, and now it seems as if test server is down, a reboot? A rollback? HAVE THEY SHUT IT DOWN?! Unlikely, in my opinion he's just been going round tidying up the server of idiots, and it now seems as if they're taking a break in order to get everything up to scratch, there may be some hardware issues or glitches which need checking on, and after all it is the weekend, what better time to do so. It seems farfetched that a new version would just pop up out the blue, so i'm willing to rule that option out.But what i find quite weird is that the test server online player list lists some people as being online, so the general consensus is that people that we're on at the time are still online, whereas people that have logged off cannot logg back on, although this needs confirmation, it seems as if that is the case. So if this were the case, a logg in barricade, then what is it for? Obviously, i don't have the answers, no-one but arvid and vult do, all we can do is wait it out, so please everyone try to remain clam, I’m sure everything will be clear soon.

Another down would be the latest hack going round, in which these 'dupers' can replicate skins and in occasions items by warping packets after dieing in arena to go to a special area in which all people's data resides until they respawn, in doing this you can actually gain someone else's paperdoll once you scroll out of there. Of course, i have no interest in learning how to do this, and for thee good of the economy i don't intend on telling you lot how to do it either, but it is a problem and maybe the fixing of it is why arivd and vult have temporarily shut test down in order to perform some tests, after all, that's what the server is for.

By the way, if anyone still wants to enter themselves in for the prize draw (100k) go to the first post of my new regime (don't send me flowers...) and post a comment there, we currently have 5 people in the running and only a couple days to go =0.

Thanks

Don't send me flowers when i'm dead, send them to me now if you like me...

2009-02-14T09:15:00.004Z

Well i must say, this sure has been a long time coming.

It feels so great to finally be back at the keyboard, fresh and ready to get the picto-blog running once more, and what better day to re-open than the day of love itself, so happy valentine's day to all!

After the dizzying heights that i reached back in the mists of time, and then the spiralling downturn which lead me to close; I have finally returned to you, the readers, in search of interest, excitement and journalism.
I was well renowned before for my insight and the way i viewed endless online via my viewpoint and spoke only my opinion solely, but due to lack of posting in a dark miserable winter, i was forced to close, however, only in my closing have i managed to have my latest rebirth.

As you may be able to see, i have kitted out the blog, dressed it all in fancy new logos and buttons, made it brighter in places; made it darker in others, but i am happy with the appearance and i'd love to hear what you think of it as well, so please open up and let me hear your thoughts!

Also, most will be happy to hear that the coveted blacklist is back, to help track down and nail those pesky scammers, hackers and speeders although now with tighter regulations, all the rules of how you can submit someone and what is need to get this dirty cheater on the blacklist for all to see, can be found on the blacklist page, a link to which Is situated on the right of this post.

Well there is really not much more I can say other that i am overwhelmed with opening this blog, something which i may not of been convinced to do without Ducci's advice, and i can reassure you that whenever something goes amiss, or wrong, or is released or exploited, you can count on me to be there first to let you know exactly what is happening.

And just one more thing, as a celebration of my first post back, i am holding a little competition. The winner of which will receive 100k EOG , and all you have to do to win this is leave a comment telling me about what you think bout the blog, my homecoming, or anything, and post it and your name will be entered into a hat to win the 100k gold, and please include your EO username, the winner will be revealed in 2 posts time, but just remember you have to comment on this post to be entered in to the draw. So please comment and you could be the lucky one.

Thankyou.

The Official Endless Online Blacklist

2009-02-03T18:35:00.002Z

Welcome. On this blacklist, people can submit the names of any scammers, speeders or hackers that they see or come in contact with, and coupled with sufficient evidence or enough word to back it up from multiple individuals, then the name given will be listed on the blacklist as a warning to other members of the Endless Online community and perhaps even arvid if he's out looking for people to wall.

The original blacklist has well over 300 comments, emails and submissions, so please try to stay on subject if posting, and remeber to provide eveidence, such as pictures or videos that can prove that the given person is guilty or they will not be proven guilty and are therefore innocent and cannot be blacklisted.

Each name given must be categorized, either :

Scammer
Speeder
Hacker

So let me know which unless it's obvious from your evidence, so they can be listed a long with their crimes.

BLACKLIST :

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Farewell.

2008-04-05T18:31:00.004+01:00

Well, plus the old blog, some 145 posts later, I'm bowing out, I have and still do love writing on this blog, but there is no need for me to continue. Nothing happens on endless online any more and my popularity, after a failed attempt to publicise the blog, has hit an all time low, especially considering how long it has been since i posted.

I haven't been on endless online in some time either, I've moved on, i still knock about on the forums for a chat, and occasionally i logg on to see if anything has changed, or if any of my friends from these wonderful years have logged on, and apart from the new quest nothing else has.

So until i deem it either worthy or possible to reinvent this blog, i'm deeming this blog deefunct.

But I've had a great and enjoyable time writing on it, issuing guides about the new versions, letting people know about events and happenings, documenting my day to day activities whilst viewing the endless online world and community from my view point. And even though i can recall countless memories in which I've enjoyed endless online, such as the blue room, the Christmas event, the release of dragons at last, discovering new versions with friends, the addition of Atlantis and more, i have recently found myself lacking any interest in the humdrum activities that endless online revolve around, not that i don't enjoy the community, but lack of depth into characters, infrequent updates and moderation, and hacking have all pushed me away from this game.

It all began with the winter period, where someone i knew became very ill and attention became more devoted to that issue as oppose to blogging. Even though at the peak of Novemeber i was brining around about 200-300 hits a day and plenty of comments. And i stopped posting completely at one point, up until the new year which brought new interest, which quickly faded as i realised how little interest there was in my blog now.

Back when i started this blog, on freewebs, i didn't see many visits, however, after i decided to move to blogger, i was in a period of time, after the release of v27 where it was easy to gain attention and readers, within a week, this period had ended, but fortunately i had gained just enough people to keep my blog going so the word could spread, and soon become a well-known blog, which was once quoted by Wickedfrost as one of three of the ''Only blogs you need''. However, now without that special time, and with Nezlo's and Wikky's blogs posing so much competition, it is near IMPOSSIBLE to launch or relaunch a blog that remained dormant for such a long period of time.

And so, knowing that there is no chance of regaining my past glory days, and knowing that endless online may not have many more of them itself, I'm giving in. I'm going to strip the page of most elements, however, still feel free to browse the archives, although the freewebs archive is long since gone.
Maybe, one day I'll find interest again, maybe i'll find an urge, or a need to post, maybe there will be on of those, time periods again, in which i'll find my way back to this blog, and to you readers, but until then it is farewell, and thank you for reading.

-Picto
Nick Moss

Current Changes

2008-03-13T19:48:00.004Z

I'm currently editing the layout of the website, which may take a while. I'm hoping to completely change the look and feel of the site buy building it via photoshop, to fireworks, to dreamweaver etc. As you can probably currently see there has already been some changes, and even though the site may look a little tacky at the moment you'll have to bare with me whilst i edit and upload the actual template, a preview of which can be seen here.

I Think you'll agree it looks better.
Thanks
-Picto

Another boring day in boringville.

2008-03-09T08:37:00.003Z

*Yawns*, nothing...nothing is happening, not a single thing. Eo's community has levelled out, speeders are still gallivanting about, Pk is owned by high levels, people are in the wall, just another same ol' same ol' day in endless online, unfortunately. All i can say is a little excitement for the forum users / people that visit the endless online website, plus, i suppose this could vult is paying attention, but apparently for the past few days and few days forthcoming vult has been working on a new layout and forum design for the website + forums. This is yet to be officially confirmed, but a lot of speculation, and hints for avamy, suggest that it is all too real. Ok, this may not be a new version or a transformation to a new server or anything, but hey, at least he's willing tog et off his ass and do something with this game. Read up about it here.

-Picto

TFG!

2008-03-03T15:51:00.002Z

Well, i used to be on the forums of a little game project known as the forbidden gates, and with the link being in my nav bar, i decided to pay it a little visit. To find out they've released a very small, very very small, sort of demo client. Although the test version was due to be released on Halloween last year if i remember correctly. It's OK, nothing to do but walk, just 1 small room, no-one online usually, and it can be a little slow. But you're allowed to make an account, a couple of characters (with different hair, races and genders) and just chat. I suppose it'd be quite fun with several people online, but oh well, it's a start.

Check it out and join the forums at : http://forbiddengates.com/
-Picto

Problems

2008-02-24T15:39:00.000Z

Sorry, but the page colour and a couple other problems have recently occurred, and are screwing up at the moment, I'll get them sorted and have things back ship shape soon.

90th Post

2008-02-18T15:40:00.002Z

Almost at the big 100, for blogger anyway, i made at least 50 posts on the old free webs site before anyway, but still. And, as usual, the forums are down, a quick visit to the site will greet you with a SERVICE UNAVAILABLE message on a blank page, looks as though it's all really hitting the fan, since vult has made no move to straighten this out or let us know what's going on, but oh well. We'll have to wait until things are up and running again, until then there doesn't seem to be any news to report, certainly not about endless online, however, all of you valiant readers since early 2007 will remember that my birthday is now within 8 days. I don't do anything spectacular, but it's always a nice feeling when you've lived another year longer, February 26th is the big day, get it in your planners.

-Picto.

ITT: D0\^/NT1M3

2008-02-17T10:58:00.002Z

Forums came back up earlier this week, after that little incident, however, they went back down again yesterday, now you can get on cut they're running really slowly.

Not much to mention in terms of endless online however, it's pretty much rolling the same as it has for a while now, and there really isn't much to report.

In light of this, I'm still not receiving as many hits as i once hoped, but this is life, and I'll still try to advertise if possible. However, that is more than can be said for endless online, whom except for the occasional (and rather frustrating) forum downtime is remaining, well, boring, overall. Nothing seems to be sparking interest nowadays, and the great year we had once hoped would shake endless online back up again, is still trying to get started, and we're what? 1 and 1/2 months in? So perhaps this year won't all be about excitement, or new versions. Having said that there hasn't been a new version for some 6 months now, and there weren't any events over the holidays or anything, it so seems as though the attention is slowly dying, but this is just how it goes i suppose, ah well.

-Picto

Inb4.

2008-02-11T08:12:00.000Z

Forums are currently down, don't know why, probably just a server problem or something, otherwise i wouldn't worry too much, i should imagine they'll be back up, probably by the time you've read this.

In other news, there really isn't any, except for (as you may already know) , avamy got scammed for some $550, after attempting to sell money over pay pal. I know she's trustworthy, but you should never buy or sell any eo gold, or any other game's money, over pay pal. Looks like avamy is taking this one to the cleaners, full story here.

-Picto

Speeders - The Official Thread

2008-01-30T17:54:00.000Z

Here.

Very good thread, lots of trustworthy information and I'm backing it 100%, it's about time we help out endless online.

Check It out.
-Picto

It came from outer space...

2008-01-23T18:58:00.000Z

Well i try to keep my blog well balanced between endless online, and real life happenings, and when i saw this on the tv earlier i knew it was worth blogging about. Look at the left side of this picture...

Can't see it? Here's a close up...

Yes that's right, you, like millions of other people, are probably wondering what that strange figure is, well, some people entertain the idea that it is a actual living creature, working around on the landscape of mars, whereas other people seem to draw that conclusions that it is probably just some ol' rocks and shadow, creating a nice illusion, what do you see, you decide...

In endless online related new,s there is nothing much to report, ever since these brief quotes form Rexor and Teror were published, although, quite an interesting things is that little race between Old favourite Number 1 Medusa and newcomer Marlina, who has caught up to Medusa's level INSANELY fast.

Marlina
Lvl: 81
EXP: 73,219,784

Medusa
Lvl: 81
EXP: 73,338,120

Considering what a head start Medusa got that's pretty good from Marlina, she obviously has no life, so kudos to her.

Thanks.

Vult-R

2008-01-20T17:46:00.000Z

It's the topic of the day,and so far, the year. Some ''Statements'' have been issued by teror and rexor about adminship, development and light guides. Now i am not the sort of person to plagiarise, so I'll point you in the direction of Nezlo and avamy's blogs, where it all kicked off :

www.avamay.blogspot.com
www.nezlo.blogspot.com

Good sources, so perhaps the future is bright for endless online?
-Picto

Uhm.....

2008-01-17T20:04:00.000Z

A couple of things to report, basically, teror logged on for some unknown reason a couple miunutes ago, i think he's still online, but i'm not sure, regardless, he's done nothing major, actually, i don't evne know where he is, proof, as if i ever needed it :

In any other news, I've also swore myself to continue the screen shot catalogue on the endless online forums, which can be found, here. Depending on continued popularity i may add it to the links section.

And finally, I'd recommend you check out EO Wikki, a nice idea that can work if nurtured properly, but that's just it, it'll need plenty of exposure in order to work. Find it, here.

Oh, and one final comment, please don't let the chat box discourage you from making comments...

Thanks.

Keegan Has It!

2008-01-16T16:22:00.000Z

I've been keeping up with the news obviously over the past few days, of the Newcastle manager role, ever since Sam Allardyce was sacked. And I've been keeping up with the odds as well, and just as i sat down and named this new post ''next Newcastle manager...?'' i heard the voice of the sky sports news presenter coming from the room next to me, and he announced that Kevin keegan, the man that made Newcastle United the team it is, has been appointed as Newcastle manager just now, whilst i write this I've changed the title and have turned the sound up so i can hear it form the other room. The odds have been fluctuating over the past few days, but just as it looked as though the Frenchman Dider Deschamps, keegan is the new/old man to lead Newcastle forward!

In endless onlien related news, the downtime has finished and you can log on freely, and no, nothing has changed, more good news later hopefully!

Thanks
-Picto

Downtime

2008-01-15T18:31:00.000Z

It's Currently....

6:33pm , Here in England, and the server is down. Don't know how long it'll be, but Vult-R has posted in the announcement section on the forum here. Something electrical apparently, nice to see the admins noticing however, still, could be a while depending. We'll Just Have To wait.

Thanks.
-Picto

Welcome Back...

2008-01-14T17:19:00.000Z

Well, sorry for the downtime, but I've finished all the changes and updates (finally), including changing the address as you probably know if you found your way here; we're now based at www.thepicblog.blogspot.com just in case someone forgot, I'll keep that other page up at www.pictokingblog.blogspot.com for a while though so people can find their way if they don't know.

Anyway, after some long, annoying sessions in front of the PC screen, I've finally got the site done, and in pursuit of gradually making the blog look more professional (ever since I've moved to blogger) , i think I'm almost, if not, am, there.

I've changed the colour again , I've added a chat box on the side, a clock (GMT) and a news feed at the bottom. Only one post per page now, changed that little bar at the top, changed the logo (and at one point the name, supreme kudos to anyone that can guess what it changed too also ;) ), I've changed the favicon (little image next to the name in the tab).
The Picto Blog now no longer has a hyphen in between, changed the contact me link, the links picture and I've cleared and added some links. Removed the picture for the blog archive. Changed the text and title colour. Changed the blacklist image and finally (*takes deep inhale*), I've altered the copyright name to Picto.

And That's just about it, expect some more new posts in the new year, and hopefully some great thing to blog about and a great year ahead, thank you.

-Picto

80 Posts

2008-01-11T21:18:00.000Z

We're still only getting 20-40 hits er day which isn't really that good, i wouldn't mind if it coul;d reach it's former glory soon, considering wikky barely posted over the holidays and he still got 800+ hit a day.

Regardless, I've been making a few, minor changes to the blog, alot of them are behind the blog though, encrypting, backing up, web space, storage etc. Still, I'll make sure i get in some proper changes soon, and no, contrary to what i said last time, i probably won't change the blog name, i just felt like sprucing things up a bit and that seemed a bit drastic yet doable, anyway, i won't so nothing to worry about.

Nice to see people reading and commenting especially, thank you to you lot. So, i suppose it#s just back on with the usual, I've managed to get back into DOV, my guild, but i can't make myself the leader (an alt is currently leader), so i suppose I'll get on my laptop later and on my computer and do it that way, just trying to get my hands on some items in game at the moment, but i'm currently happy with what I've got, just waiting for baru to go lore ;).

-Picto

Changes

2008-01-09T17:54:00.000Z

We got about 60 hits yesterday, and finally a comment which i haven't in ages, so it's nice to see that it's slowly become general knowledge that I'm posting again. Anyway, I'm going to be making some changes, including :

-Changed ContactPicto. To ''ContactMe''
-Removing Headlines Section, may replace with some sort of feedburner.
-Change Number of Posts Per Page.
-Change Text Under PICTO-BLOG at the top.
-May Change Colour.
-May even change the name, Maybe...

That's it for now, all other changes won't be noticeable, plus I'll be clearing out some of the links in that link drop-down, because some are defunk or out of date.
Thanks for the patience and for visiting.
-Picto

Word Of Mouth

2008-01-08T17:21:00.000Z

Seems as though a few more people are noticing again, we got bout 40 hits yesterday as oppose to the usual 10-20 that i have been having, so thank you to anyone that's been letting others know I'm posting again, and thank you to those of you that have stuck with us and still remain reading even though i posted once every fortnight, for which i am sorry by the way.

It's still difficult to get us out there anyway, much like starting a new blog, but this one at least had a bit of a reputation before, but thankfully my link + latest post is still on that thing on wikky's site so people can see I've posted and check it out, so thanks to wickedfrost for that, and thank you to however has been letting people know of the reposting.

I'm gonna go on eo and let global know now, thanks.
-Picto

20 Hits + Clean Sweep

2008-01-07T16:22:00.000Z

Yesterday we got 20 hits in total, as oppose to the 200 hits i used to get. Know i can understand considering i haven't posted in a while, so i'm going to try my best effort to get the blog back out there again, I'll drop some hints on the forums (Much to the hatred of the other forumers) and advertise on global (if i don't get DCed), because i really want this blog to be getting 200+ hits again like it used to.

Anyway, a couple changes :
- I've removed the Adsense, i couldn't be bothered any longer.
- Got rid of that silly start up page.
- Moved all the links etc. back onto the side of this page again like normal.
-Blacklist Cleansweep

Just minor things.Bar that last one. I Have completely swiped the blacklist of all submitted names, and all names given now require evidence really, or some sort of back up, to prevent what may of happened last time where names were on there that shouldn't of been, and for that i am sorry. So if you have any names to submit please remember, evidence, or a couple of back ups, thanks.

But anyway, as i said before, i'll try and get people's attention again, but if you do still visit, be sure to tell your mates when they're online to check us out.

Thanks.
-Picto

Dull blog was / is dull

2008-01-05T19:33:00.000Z

Nice little quote that is ^ . Maybe I'll start taking random quotes and making them post titles more often, ah well.

The new year sucks, to kick it off i stubbed my damn toe. Logged on to eo and no-one was selling orons in the bank, got bored and checked global, very frustrating. Forum account got hacked on another forum (not eo), wasn't particularly helpful.

Bar that it's been a half decent new year, looking forward to seeing what surprises and events this year will chuck up.

I suppose one good thing is that I've just bought a new mouse pad with all that jello in, pretty good, wrist feels fine at the moment.

Regardless i just wanted to let you all know that the screen shot catalogue will be in working order once again, so cheers for the patience of whoever posts on those, I'll check it and update every now and then, link is here. Still gotta make some changes however, so hold on.

Thanks for reading, enjoy the new year.
-Picto

Sorry, haven't posted in AGES.

2008-01-04T12:28:00.000Z

There's been nothing to talk about, and on top of that it's been a very busy time of year, not only for me but everyone.
When the new year really gets going I'll be sure to update more frequently, of course 8 days ago (the 26th i think?) was the one ear birthday of the blog, so happy last week birthday and what have you.
I don't get nearly as many readers now, and i have only myself to blame considering, i haven't been posting so it's only natural to assume that people would loose interest.
On top of that i haven't logged into endless online in quite a while, due to there being absolutely nothing to do or talk about at the moment, however i may logg on later and try bag myself an oron now the prices have dropped.

Oh also, I'd give a link to a previous post about barus and them being discontinued for good some time around summer, but i can't be bothered, however i have to say i told you so, there was no event, and so baru's rarity becomes increasingly higher. So i would recommend buying before they sky-rocket in price and in turn may even go lore, just a word of advise, as i already have mine.

There may be some minor changes happening to the blog very soon, so stay tuned for those.

Happy new year, and please come back often, I'll post a bit more soon, cheers.
-Picto

Though The Weather Outside Is Frightful, And The Warmth Inside Is So delightful, And Since We've No Place To Go, Let it snow let it snow let it snow!

2007-12-11T17:03:00.000Z

Longest. Title. Ever.

Well yet again I've had no point to be posting, much due to this drought of events these days, contrary to the weather in EO. It seems Snow Has happened to fall upon our town of aeven, and even though it has missed the occasional spots by the water, it's produces a nice thick covering, and even transformed the aeven square a bit, I'm assuming this is magic snow. Regardless, it's nice to see the admins still realise the game exists, and as we approach, ever so slowly towards the holy day, anticipation seems to be up roaring in endless online. No, not over the new England manager or the summit meeting on climate change, but to whether we're going to see a Christmas event this year, or not.

Some say yes, the admins will have the decency to see to their players, and some say no, that the admins just can't be arsed.

Once again, Regardless, I'm sure we'll all be in for a good Christmas this year, and, despite how uneventful as eo has been lately, I'm sure something will kick off this holiday, surely?

Well anyway, it's nice to see admins paying some attention, perhaps in the new year arvid will be right in saying that vult will have "More time", and perhaps his assumptions about light guides will also be true, I, and we, will just have to wait, but until then, merry Christmas...

Cheesy? I know, anyway, I'll see you in aeven...
-Picto

40'000

2007-12-06T16:25:00.000Z

Not sure if ANY of you noticed, however, we've currently sauntered, rather unawareingly past the 40'000 hits line. Quite a worthy accomplishment if i do say so myslef. Troubled, however, as i haven't been posting lately, and thus have lost viewers, but there's just so little to talk about in endless online.

I'm still pulling out for a big hack, scamm or some sort of arena block that'll shake things up, until them, I'm sorta just wasting away my life on pro evo 08...

Gonna stick the crimbo tree up, may as well ''get in the mood''..
That's more than can be said for eo, they haven't even bothered with snow this year, so don't hold your breath for a Christmas event. This lack of attention clearly spells errors for eo, if they're forgetting to update for Christmas they can't be paying to much attention, I'm sure they all realise that it's December now. So either vult is too smashed to update or they really can't be bothered.

Regardless, nothing is happening, only one thing, and that is what wikky already covered.
People are selling accounts over Ebay now for R/L money, seriously, don't do it, if you want to go waste $350 on some pixels, and end up getting scammed anyway be my guest. But on that note, emphasis on the word R/L MONEY, this is the big time we're talking about, so don't by accounts, or cash, for r/l money, unless you're willing to loose alot...

No snow....Just like England i suppose....
-Picto

Christmas On Eo.

2007-11-29T16:48:00.000Z

I'm assuming like every other Christmas, there will be snow in EO as usual, just a light sprinkling around aeven, where you can still see grass at the edge of the maps etc. However, if it doesn't get updated (30-1 odds) then i think it'd be fair to say that eo is fading away. At the moment however, i think it's safe to assume we'll be seeing a nice white Christmas on eo, hopefully with no baru drops (most likely), that will break through to the new year on eo. Of course, what will that year hold? it is still undecided? Cutbacks on updates? An advance into Beta? Eo being shut down? We'll have to wait and see, but that's still long away, for now let's focus on Christmas, and the count down on endless online, it's a jolly time of year, so if you see someone, say hello, not ''U!!!!1111''...

Merry Almost Christmas =D

-Picto

Manager Race

2007-11-24T09:32:00.000Z

This post is not revolved around endless online, and may not concern many readers.

For anyone who is English, or anyway that reads the sports recently, you'll know that England were knocked out of the Euro 2008 qualifiers, and along with them went our manager, Steve maclaren.

Twas a sad match to watch, and even sadder were the consequences, there won't be anything in terms of football for us Englishmen to cheer about next year, but I'll still watch Euro, I'll be supporting Germany =D.

However, with Mr. Maclaren now out of the job, it leaves the gap for you can replace him. Most fans want jose mourinho, the bookies favourite was martin o'neill (who recently said he didn't want it), and so many more names have been thrown in to the hat that you could start a league with them. However, with this Capello character, whom managed AC Milan, Juventus, Roma and Real Madrid, now at first to be picked it raises serious alarm bells for our country. Do we really want this stupid, almost unheard of, forgien club manager that never played the game himself running our team for us? I say no.

Personally, i would back the following :

Alan Shearer : Has a great mind of the game and a unique perspective, including the ability to watch and analyse a match whilst it's being played, and can make great decisions.

Jurgen Klinsmann : Great German player in his day, spent time at an English club, managed Germany to the world cup final in his first year. Said he's love the job. Contains almsot the same abilities as shearer.

I see one of these two as the way forward for England, not some fruity tooty club manager that's no-ones heard of, or someone that doesn't even want the job just the money (Mourinho), let's get in the talent.

-Picto

Inb4 News

2007-11-14T15:33:00.000Z

Oh

My

God....

Truly, this has been the most boring, dried out week of endless online in history. Seriously, absolutely nothing has happened...

I mean come on, give me a new hack, or someone getting scammed, or a blockade, or, anything! Seriously every morning when i logg on i spend 5 minutes at my pc screen, 4:50 minutes waiting for it to load, and 10 seconds seeing that nothing has happened and logging off.

And it's not just me, all bloggers seem to be going through a dry spell, as with the forums, there just seems to be nothing happening for anyone to post about, and so people loose interest =P

I'll try to post more often but there's no need if there's nothing to post about, and you'll see this happening to a lot of bloggs (all except nez who always seems to have something to say) unless something comes along and spices things up, and quick...

-picto

Haven't posted lately...

2007-11-04T08:22:00.000Z

Been playing on PES2008, Halloween, bonfire night (UK), and just enjoying other things outside of endless online. And you should too, don't spend whole days strapped down to your computer trying to get that drop you want, try 1 more time, and if it doesn't happen, logg off, turn off, and go do something other than sitting at a pc all day, you'll thank me for it =D.

-Picto

How it brakes down

2007-10-23T17:33:00.000+01:00

1. Speeding , Scamming , Hacking etc.

2. Arvid and rexor logg on and go hunting for people and wall them.

3. It was going successfully.

4. Vult-r Released all the speeders / scammers / hackers for no reason.

5. Arvid and rexor go round trying to wall as many of the original walled as they cna.

6. Arvid and rexor logg on and go hunting for people and wall them.

7. It's going successfully.

8. Wikky tells people to speed / scamm although he's playing on dofus at the moment...

C+C Please.

The Vikings

2007-10-21T17:41:00.000+01:00

Quote :

I have resurrected ''Vikings Of Legend'' In the new guild ''The Vikings'', forumers, friends, or olbies are free to join, but we will not be accepting newbs or people we don't know. This will not be a scamming guild as we attempt to give it a good name.We also use the old recruiting system. We need recruits!

Basically, we only accept forumers, olbies, or close friends into the guild which will make it stick well. Remember this is a non-scamming guild now, so don't join thinking you can scamm. But we WILL be a nuisance in order to rebirth some of the Viking's old traditions, we'll block areas and the arena and spam global etc.

Please feel free to join if you are a forumer, an olbie or a close friend of a co-existing member. And let this guild grow to is past glory!

The History Of EO - Wolfdog

2007-10-20T09:35:00.000+01:00

The History Of Endless Online as written By - Wolfdog
Added Analogue (Final Section) - Picto.

This is truly a great read, it was incomplete so i added a bit, but it is truly worth reading, and you'll get that warm fuzzy feeling inside, as you take a step by step journey through endless online's history, as it were.

The History of Endless-Online as it stands can be divided into four distinct periods. These periods are the pre-v12 stage (The Period of Growth), v12-v14 (The reign of the oldbies/Golden Ages), v15-v18 (The change in era), and v19-the present (Recent History or Revenge of the Newbs).

The Period of Growth (pre-v12)

The events in this time frame were few and scarce. Clothing was added near the end of this era, but one needed to use the Dressbot service to use the clothing. The community was very small and tightly knit. It ranged from 9-12 people, which showed that the game was still getting started, and hadn't even gained much publicity.

The Reign of the Oldbies/Golden Ages (v12-v14)

The game slowly and steadily gained momentum. A basic battle system was introduced in v12, and with it came the paperdoll (ability to change your character's clothes by dragging and dropping clothes from your inventory onto the paperdoll). Monsters were now killable, and they dropped clothing and other items (some which were useless at the time [Potions, skulls, etc]). Monsters also gave experience, but levels weren't enabled at the time, so killing monsters for experience was useless.

Scamming came hand in hand with the growth in population. The Vikings (an official unofficial guild of scammers) made it their job to scam as many people as they could. They succeeded in scamming a good portion of the EO players, but their success rate died down when Mediators were introduced to the game. Mediators were ordinary players that were trusted by admins. Their job was to help the players of Endless Online by completing trades for them (Every mediator had their own method, but in the end it still prevented scams). Out of the ~20 mediators that were appointed, only 1 was corrupt, so the project was a success.

When v14 came out in October 2004, a very crucial update came with it: a trade system. This eliminated the need for Mediators, so they were disbanded. Skilled scammers were able to manipulate the trade system, but their new scams were shortlived because an upgrade was implemented shortly thereafter.

Endless Online grew more and more by the day, to the point where signups needed to be closed (v12) for a period of time. This resulted in angry forum members that were not able to sign up for the game. They stuck around on the forums for a bit, then either left, or cooperated.

Throughout this entire era, player run guilds were formed. Memorable guilds include The Vikings and Fallen Angels. They were groups of people that were joined by a common purpose. They communicated using free message boards (phpBB, InvisionFree, etc) and the ingame chat. There was a number of unofficial guilds near the end of v14, but only a handful stood the test of time. Those that survived were made official in v15 (read on to learn more).

Nearing the end of v14, EndlessRadio was created. It was an online radio station run by a few players of EO. It quickly became very popular, and eventually had DJs that were ingame admins and developers. The peak was 40 listeners, while there were only 60-70 players online. Some of the Disc Jockeys for this settlement included Mizzy, Sakurakur, Rexor, Myriad, Tale, Paper and many more less noteable players.

The Change in Era (v15-v18)

The introduction of version 15 represents a major shift in the community dynamics of Endless-Online. An increase in server capacity and an arguably unwarranted overpromotion of the game led to a drastic increase in the number of players. This created a lot of tension between the older players and the new players since the former were unable to absorb such a large group into their ranks.

Version 16 can be considered the Dark Age for Endless-Online. The version release coincided with the introduction of a brand new server hosting company. The server capacity was again increased and more functions were added to the game. This new version was short-lived, however, when the new server company walked away from its contractual agreements and approximately $800 of Vult-R's money. During this time there was a greater emphasis placed on the Endless-Online forums and the IRC where the Oldbie/Newbie community continued their hostilities.

Version 17 marked the return of Endless-Online after over a month. The return marked a number of changes to the game but a diminished server capacity. One of the features of this version was the guild option which allowed players to congregate. This development allowed for a couple of important developments. The first of these was the Organization (ORG). Started by the player Marluxia in version 15 it was the second guild to organize under the new system. The ORG represented the first new player uprising where many joined for the sense of belonging that the Oldbies would not afford them. The Organization would eventually crumble under the internal politics of the guild and the undermining of Marluxia's cult of personality.

The second important development was the Esgares Empire (EE). This guild was organized under the player Zemeckis and consisted of a core group of loyal players dedicated to pointing out the flaws in the game. The Empire took pride in finding the faults in the game and exploiting them for their own amusement. Most notable is their use of blocking to cause massive traffic jams within the game. This direct protest led to the introduction of the walkthrough function in the game. The Empire has since disbanded but some of the members are now considered to be legends within the community.

Certain other guilds (Fallen Angels, The Vikings) from previous versions were made official in this era. The Vikings didn't last long, due to the fact that scamming wasn't easy anymore, though they were successful in some instances. Members of the Vikings stuck around in the guild and used the Guild Chat to talk to their friends, and the guild turned into a shadow of what it once was. The Fallen Angels guild (an association of players that had been with the game since early on) lasted for a long time (v19) and some members spent most of their ingame time helping newer players (showing them places, giving them items to start off with, etc.), giving the guild a good reputation for a while.

Version 18 represented the end of this era. The Empire and the Organization were dwindling. The server situation was working itself out. The Revival of version 19 and the subsequent turmoil were just around the corner.

Version 19

Version 20 was kicked off with a nice summer event hosted by Tale and Laine. The event was the arrival of the Kitty Hat and The Toad Hat, both being very rare and valued items for quite some time. Many new areas were available which made the community skyrocket. Yet again, causing a hefty amount of social status between the "Newbies" and the "Oldbies".

Though, this was a great revolutionary time, as many ideas from the players of Endless-Online were taken into consideration.

A New Age Begins (v21 - Present) (By Picto.)

Shuddering away from what had been left behind, scamming, duping, glitches, endless online finally grew into the game it would become, as development took a turn from being about making the game playable, to adding new items and such. Arenabot left, devil costumes were but a mere memory, and endless online started to spread its wings, ready to leave it's nest and fly out into the world of online gaming. And as it became more advertised and successful, more joined, and so marked the beginning of the new age ; The coming of the newbs.

There were still many changes that endless online had yet to go through, such as new places and items. Admins left, people complained, blogs were set up, as endless online established itself as a proper game. And so the history died, no longer were the days of small communities were everyone knew everyone else, and the MMORPG effect came into play, as endless' players slowly drifted apart, and finally left.

And as they did, and new people came, the game fell into turmoil over and over. Sabanthrea died, Sakurakur left, arvid was hacked, and the new age signalled the most exciting and eventful period in eo's history ever. And as darkplug got deleted, and berdy and debstar left, endless finaly began to become what it now is, and will probably always be, until they day we look back at the duping, and the blue room, and see ourselves making the history, the history of the new age, of endless online...

-Picto, with great great thanks to Wolfdog

Wall

2007-10-16T17:20:00.000+01:00

I've found a new hangout, the wall...

It's true, arvid logged on yesterday and i asked whether he'd teleport me to near the wall (in maze) and he did. So i spent some time, talking with these guys, and with arvid, about this wall situation, and it all seems to be going well. And one thing i noticed is that most of the people are rightly accused, they are still genuinely good people, who should be treated same as everyone else, yes still they deserve punishment, but socially, they are no different from you or me.
perhaps this punishment is a little cruel, but if this si what is needed in order to keep the peace, then it is what happens, and there is nothing that can change.

Now, i love hanging around here, but unfortunately i get a lot of ''Picto get me out plx'', and unless i know you are wrongly accused, I'm not even going to try.

Anyway, i thought i may as well point some things out about the wall :

1) You can't scroll out, don't buy scrolls.
2) Don't plee to arvid for freedom, it won't work.
3) People claiming to be admins are not.
4) I'm not in a walk around jail, I'm just hanging about.
5) Don't ask me to release you
6) Don't kiss ass.
7) Being a snitch won't get you out.
8) Don't complain
9) I don't know how long you're walled for.

If you are walled, i suggest either making a new character, or just trying to enjoy your time , in guild chat, global, or with fellow walled, or with me =D, and don't beat yourself up about it.

Perhaps, this is a new golden age of endless, perhaps finally we're going to see some discipline, and 2008 i happen to know will bring some BIG discipline changes, but until then, arvid is a one man army, and it seems to be doing its job.

If you wanna come chill with me, head down to maze 32 in the castle maze, top right corner, i never leave, and i have a hoot, cheers.

Oh and hi to the following :

Kingachilles
Provocative
Golatho
Rjbarles
Giralieon

Good guys.

-Picto

Adsense.

2007-10-09T15:25:00.000+01:00

As I'm assuming you can clearly see, i have added various adverts to both the opening page and the blog, true, this is adsense, a system in which you earn money by page impressions and clicks of ads. I finally decided after all this time i wanted to start being paid for the blog, but didn't want to take donations =D, so i thought I'd see how this goes, and don't worry, these ads won't disrupt the page or get in your way,and the blog will continue as normal, and after about 48 hours they'll become a bit more relevant to the blog, thanks.

-Picto

A Guide to not getting scammed

2007-10-07T11:21:00.000+01:00

Here's the baseline, you're not supposed to buy currency or accounts form other games, or other servers, or different accounts, or just anything in general, but i know it'll never end, so i may as well make sure you all do it safe ...

1. Making sure you don't find scammers :

When you're buying or selling different game items or accounts, such as runescape, don't use global, global is a breeding ground fro scammers. Pathetic losers that sit there all day watching that little box, just waiting for someone to be buying runescape gold or accounts so they can spring on you and scamm you for all you have.
Instead, go to places like the forums, guild members or aeven square. Now aeven square is were i would normally do shopping if buying for a different game, as people there are newbs and really don't grasp the idea of people begin able to scamm them easily, they also believe that people are genuine on the game, and so will most likely let you go first or some other method meaning this is beneficial. And newbs are less likely to scamm you as well as they do not know how, it's a good way, and often cheap as they have no real grasp on prices, of getting items or accounts from other games.

2. Talk to them

Scammers will often show obvious symptoms if they're going to scamm, these include :

Letting the price drop without a fight
Acting innocent and stupid (''i'm no good at computers'')
Saying they've been scam me out of alot of gold (like 3m+)
If they are wearing very expensive items
Saying ''I'm not gonna scamm you''
Saying ''You can report me if i scamm''
Saying ''I talk to arvid''
Players that tell you to follow instead doff just talking in group chat

Symptoms of honest players :

Players that tend to bend to your demands
Players that will only take a certain price
Players that don't mention scamming.
Players that appear to be wearing crappy clothes and don't have much knowledge of real world trading.
Other various symptoms suggesting nervousness.
People determined to sell.

Still can't tell, check the blacklist to see if they are scammers, ask global or others, and if you still can't tell, just walk away.

3. Not sure?

Always suggest a simultaneous trade to see if they are honest, by explaining the fact that they can have endless open in a window and have the other game open in a browser, if they deny that option they will most likely scamm. There is no reason they wouldn't want to do a perfectly safe method now is there?

4. Always play in a window.

It's just common sense, it gives you the ability to check things whilst in trade to make sure you're not going to get scammed, e.g. If someone is selling you an account for say, runescape, have the name of the account already typed in, and get them to say the pass before you accept on endless, if playing in a window, u can quickly type the password din on runescape and make sure before accepting.

5. Not sure?

Just don't go throguh with it, only ever trade if you're 100% certain.

6. Get a trustworthy middleman

If you're going to be buying an endless online account, get someone you know you can trust, either a very close friend, or someone that everyone knows :

Nezlo
Avamay (Not sure if these two are middlemening again yet)
Me
Trustworthy forum members.

And if not, download endless proxy for just the trade so you can check the account while in trade using the multi-client.

7. HALVES DO NOT WORK

Never do the half, details, half method, honestly, it's a 100% scamm.

8.Don't break first.

Never give in. If you're debating on who goes first never break and go ''ok i will'', this is exactly what a scammer wants you to do, they have more patience than you do, because if this scammed doesn't work they can just do another, where as you want whatever it is you're trading, so you can snap eventually. If it comes down to you and him in a simultaneous trade, just waiting for one of you to accept on one of the trades, wait for him, never accept first, because they'll just cancel their trade, and kapow, you're scammed.

9.Get proof.

Always get proof that they have the money, or items, or account, don't just take their word for it.

10. Don't do it

Alot of the time it isn't even worth it anyway

11.Don't trust anyone

In this game, it's hard to trust anyone you don't know / can beat up in r/l. Mya divs is try to sya personasl.

12. Don't scamm.

I suppose that this guide could be reversed to be a guide of how to scamm and what to look out for, but seriously, don't scamm, it's not good, you'll get reported, and walled, and that little mark will lie on your concious forever, you know how painful it is to be scammed yourself don't you, but every time you scamm someone they have to go through the same feeling.

Well, that's all the help i can give you, it's still your choice if you want to to out and buy things , risking you money, but remember, there are always gonna be pathetic losers out there, that only care about he money in your pocket.

Earlier i got scammed again out of 10k, and as the person left the room, she actually said ''sorry'', it would seem as though this person didn't actually want to scamm, more like she had to, so please, try to resist, and try not to get scammed yourselves. And if you do get scammed, report their names, they will get punished for their crimes.

-Picto

Makeover

2007-10-03T18:38:00.000+01:00

This is the first time I've ever posted twice in one day, anyway, I'm assuming you all know by now, but there have been some HUGE changes to the picto-blog.

No this was not spontaneous, I've been photoshopping / writing / coding for almost a fortnight now, i didn't tell anyone though, thought it would be a nice surprise. So I've attempted to make the blog alot more professional and grown up, by removign some silly images and texts, and replacing them with more stylish, subtle images or texts.

But haste, there is still more to come than what you have seen so far, including replacing ALOT of images for links etc. Also i need to work out some kinks and improve certain things, until it is finally complete.

I will list below the changes :

[+] = Added
[%] = Changed
[-] = Removed

Without Further Ado :

[+] = A Completely New Opening Page For The Blog.
[%] = Top Image For The Picto-Blog.
[%] = Image Leading To The Blacklist
[%] = Location Of Counter
[%] = Location Of Links Drop-Down
[-] = Removed A Few Links From The Drop-down
[+] = Top Current Flash Games
[-] = removed The Chat Box From The Blog
[+] = Added Chat Box To Opening Page
[%] = Changed Opening Page's URL To www.pictoking.blogspot.com And Blog's URL To www.pictokingblog.blogspot.com
[%] = Background Colour Is Now Darker (But Not Black)
[%] = Text Colour And Link Colour
[%] = Font (Hopefully)
[%] = Location Of 'Contact Picto' Link
[%] = Location Of Headlines Section
[-] = Counter From Blog Page
[+] = Faster Page Loading Time.
[%%%] = Several Other minor Appearance Changes.
[+] = Sub-Directory.

So thanks for sticking with us, and remember, the opening page and blog are not complete yet, so hang in there, got a couple more bumps in the road...

-Picto

Everybody's Changing

2007-10-03T17:08:00.000+01:00

As you can already see, there have been plenty of changes to the blog, as i try to make it more professional and easier on they eyes, bare in mind there are alot more to come and you'll see alot more changes within the next 3 hours, thanks.

-Picto

Changes.

2007-10-02T17:04:00.001+01:00

There are some changes coming in the next week, I'll be adding / taking things form the page, things like little tools and stuff, and i also may be joining adsense so you'll end up seeing some adverts here and there, course, I'm just waiting for that e-mail confirmation ^^.

I already removed the big chat box at the bottom due to lack of visitors, it'd be better off with one of this small ones by flash that just settle neatly into the side.

Also, one last thing, i may be adding an opening page to house all of these things as i am running out of space on the right, a layout like this :

Title at top
Tools etc. at sides.
Some sorta large tool in the middle

But that is just future for now, and if anyone knows a decent page builder as such BESIDES awardspace, then please don't hesitate to say so.

So thanks, hope i can get going with some changes.

* I've Been Walling On The Railroad, All The Livelong day... *

2007-09-30T09:24:00.000+01:00

Indeed, it seems walling, like celebrity's getting cancer, is all the rage nowadays. And arvid just can't help himself from a decent walling every now and then, in fact, it's all the time, and each person that gets walled is just another step towards bringing justice and peace to this game, and no, Medusa did not get walled.

To be honest though, if you did get walled you did deserve and so don't complain, especially not to me wikky, nezlo or the endless online forums, because people won't listen or care about you, you are cheaters that should be walled.

I feel just a little grateful though, that arivd has apparently been using my blacklist, as a tour guide to jailing endless online players. This may also be why i have received a number of threats on my pc recently, all of the complete BS.

Also, there really hasn't been so much of an influx of people being added to the blacklist recently, so please feel free to submit some more if you see or know of them, thanks.

-Picto

Some day in history.

2007-09-27T17:35:00.000+01:00

This happened.

Now, who said endless online was boring?

Memories

2007-09-26T18:00:00.000+01:00

If there is one thing that Nezlo is amazing at, it is this, making you look back and think, ''god, i remember that, it was so fun'' And so, i present to you , Nezlo's little slide show , here.

Well that isn't the slide show, but it's sorta the collection of all the images in a big, easy to view folder. I'd personally like to thank Nezlo for resurrecting some of the good times from eo's and my past, including :

Paperclip hacking arvid (One of my favourite memories)
Vult + arvid trying out the new spells.
Chaos spawn invasion.
The old arena.
Other various old times in eo.
Dressbot.
Darkplug being deleted (absolute favourite memory of endless)
The old creation.

Nezlo's pictures are great at that effect where you see the images and it gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside, when you relive the events and get swallowed in reminiscing.

I advise you all take a scroll through his screen shots, I'm sure i'll add alot of the to the thread on the forums, and of course, alot of these thanks goes to DF / knight.

Those pictures are possibly the greatest thing about endless online at the moment, it's not just about leveling or chilling out, it's about memories...

-Picto

Lol

2007-09-25T19:42:00.001+01:00

Comment Below =D

-Picto

Dawn Of Stupidity.

2007-09-23T15:45:00.000+01:00

Well, i created a new guild named Dawn Of Victory, and of course, unlike my previous guild,s this one is actually going to last this time. It's only small at the moment, and is reserved for :

Lvl 5+
Forum Members
Close Friends of existing members

I'm aiming high this time, i want a big guild, so if you want to join pm me in game, and if you're under level 5, just ask nicely ; D.

1 More thing, hence the ''stupidity'' in the title, that someone is spreading rumours that i hack and scam on my alts, including guildhouse, of course, this is really not the case. I've heard it was jie-1, but also that other people are catching on just for laughs, this is not true, the closest i ever came to scamming was trying to scam the guy that scammed me out of 400k, but that's just justice.

Have a nice day -Picto

Contact me.

2007-09-22T18:04:00.000+01:00

Erm, due to recent requests, I've added a little image link on the right that allows you to send e-mail directly to me for private messaging or submitions to the blog. Took ages to locate the correct code for how to get a link to an e-mail writing page but i cracked it =D.

Thanks.

Scammed again.

2007-09-19T17:11:00.000+01:00

Guess what, i just got scammed, again, that's 500k in one god damn week....

Basically, same as last time, i went in to trade, someone put up 95k for a TB, so naturally i thought I'd accept, i waited ages for him to accept, and he did. So then i accepted but after i only had 1g from the deal, where in trade it CLEARLY said 95000. Obviously it's the same trick as last time, with deadly effects, with this trick they can get whatever they want.

I seriously urge you not to trust ANYONE nowadays, offers that seems too good, or even just normally , may probably be a scam, this is seriously getting out of control now and it is not good at all. I fear this type of trade scam is only just re-emerging , and Will continue to get more and more serious until you can't trust anyone, but especially not ''Mgmgrand'', my scammer, the stupid twisted freak should be jailed scammed / hacked / jailed as soon as some important people see this.

We are getting to a point where eo becomes more secures so hacks become more dangerous, 500k in one week is quite a record, but just wait until someone looses 1mil+ or something, absolutely god damn ridiculous...

-picto

Me and my alts.

2007-09-17T17:31:00.000+01:00

I have a lot of alternate players / names on endless online, that i will regularly go on instead of just 'Picto', so here are all of them in a picture, please do not hesitate to pm them with questions etc. if either of them are online, because it is me, not just some random dud =P

Ok, cheers -Picto

THE PICTO AWARDS! - RESULTS!

2007-09-15T17:47:00.000+01:00

Finally, after many a vote and many a joke, it had finally ended, and now, there is only but to announce our grateful winners, and so, without further ado, the winners!

'Welcome' - Best New Member Award (January 2007 +) - Nominations :

Honk
Qwertyjoe.
Nightvision
Davidz

Congratulations to nightvision!

'orly?' - Most helpful member award - Nominations :

DF
Honk
Vanhawk
Chance

Congratulations to DF!

'Music-Man' - Best Musician Award - Nominations :

Gaffar
Chaos
Sedaime
Badboyerk

Congratulations to Chaos!

'I Make Piccys Move' - Greatest Animator Award - Nominations :

DannyPoloskei
Honk
Davidz
Hisho Hiro

Congratulations to DannyPoloskei!

'Me Ish Funny' - Funniest Member Award - Nominations :

Mr. Cosby
Midori
Nyuu
Marauding
Nianne
Pyr0

Congratulations to Nianne!

'Be There Numbers? Good' - Most Technical Award - Nominations :

Vult-r
Cascade
Dhex
Megamoogle

Congratulations to Vult-R!

'Spam!!!!11111' - Most Spam Award - Nominations :

Qwertjoe.
Download
Onewarrior
Nianne

Congratulations to Qwertyjoe.!

'Awwwwwww' - Worst Cock up of the year award - Nominations :

Room Of Doom
Chaos, Calan + Addy Get Mils.
8 Months For version 28
Calan Gets A Devil
Vult Unjails

The worst cock up of the year : The room of doom!

'I wooted' - Greatest moment of the year award - Nominations :

Marauding chokes on a cheesy puff Live on air.
Version 28 Is Released
YFL Returns!
Onyxfalcon Junks 80 Barus!
30 Hours And Still blocking - Malone.
Ice Radio Returns!

The best moment of the year in endless online : Ice radio returns!

'Datawhat?' - Worst site award - Nominations :

Enldess Archive
Endlessgame.piczo.com (Shut Down)
FreeEoMoney.piczo.com (Shut Down)

The crappest eo-related site of the year : Endless Archive!

'You need how much? Ok' - Kindest Player Award - Nominations :

Sanouske
Locojoe
Kooky
Onyxfalcon

Congratulations to Sanouske!

'If you look to your left' - Most resourceful site award - Nominations :

www.eomaze.tk
Endless Report
Everything Endless
Eo-Times
DF's eo guide site.

Congratulations to The endless report!

'i wanna be a star' - Best upcoming site award - Nominations :

Eo-Times
Hell's Newest edition
Vegaz' Blog (brought back so considered new)
Sky's the limit
www.maxcfood.googlepages.com/home

Congratulations to Eo-Times!

'Mwuhahahahahah' - Worst hacker award - Nominations :

Calan
Chaosdog
Addyrulez
Barrier (and all of his alts etc.)

EO's Worst hacker, well done Calan!

'Custom ranks' - Best Guild Award - Nominations :

SKY
YFL
RA
BLA
TRL

Congratulations to EO's best guild, YFL!

The Big Ones :

'I'ma bopping n' a rockin' -Best Ice radio Dj - Nominations :

Marauding
Kate (Vampira)
Badboyerk
Yonder

Congratulations to marauding, our favourite ice radio DJ!

'I Can Draw k?' - Best Artist Award - Nominations :

Vanhawk
Drear
Honk
Nyuu

Congratulations to Vanhawk, our best artist!

'From Blog To Infinity' - Greatest website Award - Nominations :

SKY's The Limit
Picto-Blog
Nezlo's Source
Endless - Times

Well done to Nezlo's Source!

'Pple liek me' - Greatest Player (In Game) Award - Nominations :

Medusa
Monkfiter
Pwincessxxx
Calan
Wickedfrost

Well done to wickedfrost!

'Um, Crafting Ingredients are...' - Most knowledgeable - Nominations :

DF
Wickedfrost
Picto.
Nezlo

Congratulations to DF!

'This is the one!' - Person Of The Year Award! - Nominations :

This is it, our greatest member / player of the year 2006-2007 is!

*Drum roll*

Demonsweat
Cruise
Megamoogle
DannyPoloskei
Sterling Fox
Nezlo
Chance
Marauding

Nezlo! Congratulations! A truly deserved winner, although all deserved to take home to gold, nezlo was a clear cut winner with an astonishing 28 votes collected form in game and on the forums, thanks!

So thank you all for voting and participating, from the nomiantons to the polls, we've had some great and close polls, and some great and well-deserved winners! I'm hoping that next year we can vote again for some new winners and get some new badges for the winners, until then, thanks for voting and goodbye!

-Picto

Eo's Blacklist - Scammers / Hackers / Speeders.

2007-09-14T16:00:00.000+01:00

Due to recent events, i have decided to turn this very page into a page of scammers / hackers so they all get what they deserve, any scammers / hackers / speeders that you know of, feel free to pm me their names etc. so we can get some attention.

All Names MUST Have Evidence.

Remember never to trust / trade any of these people, they cannot be trusted and will attempt to scam.This also means they will be punished by the community.

HACKERS / SCAMMERS/ SPEEDERS :

Watch Out For :

A-Z

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Endless online, the way it should be.

2007-09-13T18:06:00.000+01:00

Genuinely, today i had the most fun i have ever had on endless online.

The day started with me standing in the guild house trying to buy title account or runescape cash or accounts and slowly, after about 1 hour i grew bored, and then i moved out back behind the guild house so i could see PMs more easily, and after a long discussion, in which the trader ended up not showing up for the trade, i was rather sad, it was only then, that some people came walking past, 2 players, deadwil and lancie, who turned this day around.

while i continued to advertise they just stood around talking and enjoying the game, and then it hit me, this game isn't what it used to be for me, i don't take it competevily, i'm not trying to complete quests or start guilds, or have the newest item, i just stand around, usually alone, talking on global or writing in the blog.

But not today, eventually, i got bored of trying to buy stuff, and eventually gave up, but to my suprise, it was a turn for the better. I turned my speakers down and played some quality music, and sat back watching endless online roll on. I gave some gold to a new player that passed by, i had a couple laughs wathcing these two insult speeders on global, and realised how good they had eo figured, they logged on, without a care, and just enjoyed it, and had fun, something that i haven't done since monkfiter moved to test back in v 24.

So i took a note from these two, and i sat back, used a couple of emotions and started enjoying endless online the way it should be enjoyed, hanging out with your friends, laughing, and talking about the world, and of course makign fun of speeders.

So much did this make me happy, that from now on, this is what i want, either just a friend to hang about with, or just random people, so i can meet new people, and enjoy it.

Truly, today taught me alot about the way i, and alot of other people play this game, and it told me to enjoy the game, really. I have truly never been so happy on eo than today when lancie and deadwill merged and said ''i think this may be too awkward for picto >_>'' ''=D''. Truly, this is what endless online, and online gaming, is about, thanks you two.

I urge all of you to take some time from leveling, and sit back and enjoy endless online, the way it was created.

-picto

Shopping Spree!

2007-09-10T17:35:00.001+01:00

I'm buying some things by the way, I'll list them below :

In game name of ''Dragoon''
In game name of ''Fry'' Or ''Pan''
In game name of ''Fryingpan''
A Turtle Account for 350k lol
A Runescape account, lvl100+, white (no offence), warrior preferred, can be rich or poor, must have an acceptable name (no numbers or ''xx...''). I'm offering once again up to 350k cash depending.
Endless account with good name and good title.

Also, I'd like to say that the voting for the picto-awards is going smoothly, and i already have some winners, thanks.

Nomiantions Done

2007-09-09T10:16:00.000+01:00

Final Nominated :

'Welcome' - Best New Member Award (january 2007 +) - Nomiantions :

Honk
Qwertyjoe.
Nightvision
Davidz

'orly?' - Most helpful member award - Nomiantions :

DF
Honk (Help In Art)
Vanhawk (Help In Art)
Chance (Created Official Rules)

'Music-Man' - Best Musician Award - Nomiantions :

Gaffar
Chaos
Sedaime
Badboyerk

'I Make Piccys Move' - Greatest Animater Award - Nominations :

Danno
Honk
Davidz
Hisho Hiro

'Me Ish Funny' - Funniest Member Award - Nominations :

Mr. Cosby
Midori
Nyuu
Marauding
Nianne
Pyr0

'Be There Numbers? Good' - Most Technical Award - Nominations :

Vult-r
Cascade
Dhex
Megamoogle

'Spam!!!!11111' - Most Spam Award - Nominations :

Qwertjoe.
Download (Bluetails)
Onewarrior
Ntyr Mssn (It is I, everto / banishedz)
Nianne

'Awwwwwww' - Worst Cock up of the year award - Nomiantions :

Room Of Doom
Chaos, Calan + Addy Get Mils.
8 Months For version 28
Calan Gets A Devil
Vult Unjails

'I wooted' - Greatest moment of the year award - Nomiantions :

Marauding chokes on a cheesey puff Live on air.
Version 28 Is Released
YFL Returns!
Onyxfalcon Junks 80 Barus!
30 Hours And Still blocking - Malone.
Ice Radio Returns!

'Datawhat?' - Worst site award - Nominations :

Enldess Archive
Endlessgame.piczo.com (Shut Down)
FreeEoMoney.piczo.com (Shut Down)

'You need how much? Ok' - Kindest Player Award - Nomiantions :

Sanouske
Locojoe
Kooky
Onyxfalcon

'If you look to your left' - Most resourceful site award - Nominations :

www.eomaze.tk
Endless Report
Everything Endless
Eo-Times
DF's eo guide site.

'i wanna be a star' - Best upcoming site award - Nomiantions :

Eo-Times
Hell's Newest edition
Vegaz' Blog (brought back so considered new)
Sky's the limit
www.maxcfood.googlepages.com/home

'Mwuhahahahahah' - Worst hacker award - Nominations :

Calan
Chaosdog
Addyrulez
Barrier (and all of his alts etc.)

'Custom ranks' - Best Guild Award - Nominations :

SKY
YFL
RA
BLA
TRL

The Big Ones :

'I'ma bopping n' a rockin' -Best Ice radio Dj - Nomiantions :

Marauding
Kate (Vampira)
Badboyerk
Yonder

'I Can Draw k?' - Best Artist Award - Nominations :

Vanhawk
Drear
Honk
Nyuu

'From Blog To Infinity' - Greatest website Award - Nominations :

SKY's The Limit
Picto-Blog
Nezlo's Source
Endless - Times

'Pple liek me' - Greatest Player (In Game) Award - Nomiantions :

Medusa
Monkfiter
Pwincessxxx
Calan
Wickedfrost

'Um, Crafting Ingredients are...' - Most knowledgeable - Nominations :

DF
Wickedfrost
Picto.
Nezlo

'This is the one!' - Person Of The Year Award! - Nomiantions :

Demonsweat
Cruise
Megamoogle
DannyPoloskei
Sterling Fox
Nezlo
Chance
Marauding

There you have it, the nominations are complete, i will now hold votes every day on the forums to see who will win which category, i would also like to thank everyone for their support and nominations, and lets have some fun , close polls to reveal our champs!

-Picto

Picto-Awards : Nominations

2007-09-07T18:21:00.001+01:00

Well They're here, the first ever Picto-Awards for the season 2006-2007, this celebrates and congradulates some of the finest of us all, and some of the greatest moets of the past year, this thread will include all nomiantions for each award, then the actual vote will be at another time during the month :

'Welcome' - Best New Member Award (May 2007+) - Nomiantions :

'orly?' - Most helpful member award - Nomiantions :

DF
Honk

'Music-Man' - Best Musician Award - Nomiantions :

Gaffar
Chaos
Sedaime

'I Make Piccys Move' - Greatest Animater Award - Nominations :

Danno
Honk
Davidz
Hisho Hiro

'Me Ish Funny' - Funniest Member Award - Nominations :

Mr. Cosby
Midori
Nyuu

'Be There Numbers? Good' - Most Technical Award (coder) - Nominations :

Vult-r
Cascade

'Spam!!!!11111' - Most Spam Award - Nominations :

Qwertjoe.
Download (Bluetails)

'Awwwwwww' - Worst Cock up of the year award - Nomiantions :

Room Of Doom
Chaos, Calan + Addy Get Bills.
8 Months For version 28
Calan Gets A Devil

'I wooted' - Greatest moment of the year award - Nomiantions :

Marauding chokes on a cheesey puff Live on air.
Version 28 Is Released
YFL Returns!
Onyxfalcon Junks 80 Barus!
30 Hours And Still blocking - Malone.

'Datawhat?' - Worst site award - Nominations :

Enldess Archive

'You need how much? Ok' - Kindest Player Award - Nomiantions :

Sanouske
Locojoe

'If you look to your left' - Most resourceful site award - Nominations :
www.eomaze.tk
Endless Report

'i wanna be a star' - Best upcoming site award - Nomiantions :

Eo-Times

'Mwuhahahahahah' - Worst hacker award - Nominations :

Calan
Chaosdog
Addyrulez

'Custom ranks' - Best Guild Award - Nominations :

SKY
YFL
RA

The Big Ones :

'I'ma bopping n' a rockin' -Best Ice radio Dj - Nomiantions :

Marauding
Kate (Vampira)
Badboyerk

'I Can Draw k?' - Best Artist Award - Nominations :

Vanhawk
Drear
Honk
Nyuu

'From Blog To Infinity' - Greatest website Award - Nominations :

SKY's The Limit
Nezlo's Source
Picto-Blog
Everything-Endless

'Pple liek me' - Greatest Player (In Game) Award - Nomiantions :

Medusa

'Um, Crafting Ingredients are...' - Most knowledgeable - Nominations :

DF
Wickedfrost
Picto.

'This is the one!' - Person Of The Year Award! - Nomiantions :

Demonsweat
Cruise
Megamoogle
DannyPoloskei

So, if you have any nominations you would like to suggest feel fre,e we need about 5 things / people for each, oh, and i can easily guess that about 4 of these awards will be ''wickedfrost'' or ''the endless report'' so the blog + player will be entered into 2 categorys only, unlucky wikky, but other people need awards too

Thankyou!

Jail Fever!

2007-09-05T17:55:00.000+01:00

While obviously wickedfrost fever is tearing through endless online, i offer you this advice, get the injection.

I know wickedfrost wants his revenge, but seriously, he's going about it all wrong. Letting hackers and speeders out of jail will not help save this community, nor punish vult. Arvid jailed all those people, and then vult let some free, but the majority of people in jail deserve it, they are speeders, hackers, scammers, and don't deserve freedom. I understand that wikky is hurt, hell, we all have our beef with how the admins treat us and this game, but seriously wikky, get a grip. I got many nasty complaints after posting a comment on hiss blog complaining about his current actions, and I'm sure I'll be flamed for this, but i stand by my views, and i through this logic at anyone that supports this :

1. A hacker is jailed for hacking several account
2. Wikky helps release the hacker to get back at vult
3. The hacker is now loose and up to no good, but you are happy that wikky is doing something.
4. You logg on a couple days later and your account has been hacked by the released hacker, you now disagree with wikky.

Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean this won't happen.
A block is a peaceful way to get a message through to an admin, whereas releasing a spawn of evil, underhanded players upon the community because you're feeling angry about an admin, is not. This is ,most likely not get admin attention to do anything, he'll just fix it, maybe try to jail a couple players, and probably end up banning or jailing wikky when the glitch is fixed. I know wickedfrost is just trying to do good, but this is all wrong, this will only destroy the community and come back to bite you all in the arse, i seriously suggest the next time you see this message :

Please refrain from yelling ''GO WIKKY'' and heading down there to help, this will be fixed, and it can only destroy the community more than it is already. Question me, flame me if you will, i stand by my morals and decision. -Picto

Wickedfrost : "ENDLESS-ONLINE SUCKS"

Prices, Links And A Cat On The Mat.

2007-09-04T11:37:00.000+01:00

Firstly, i would just like to direct your attention to the little ''Headlines'' thing on your right, i took a leaf from every other blog's books and decided to make it easier for people to find the latest posts form all the major blog, so now all the information they need is just click away. Of course it is not feedburner and is coded manually, so every time i logg on i have to check the blogs and then update the little headlines thing so people know if there has been a new post before they have to go check for themselves.

I would also like to say that we're almost at 30'000 hits and going strong, considering i only moved to blogger back in June and I've already had 25'000 more hits than i had had after 6 months on freewebs, i must say i am truly proud.

Either way, i would like to address the following issue : prices. Thank you to bongboy for drawing my full attention to this matter and causing me to post this, perhaps not all of endless online read this everyday, but those who do will leave with this knowledge, and they may tell someone, and then slowly, like ripples on a pond, it will spread throughout the community, so what is this information? PRICES ARE TOO HIGH. Now i understand economics myself, new items are in less mass as they haven't been out as long, and so not as many have been crafted / dropped etc. And because they are new they are in high demand , airgo, High prices.

However, i find ti stupid that we are currently paying 115k for TBs when this time 2 weeks ago they were 50k, and that we're paying 1mil for an armour that will be 100k in a months time, this sort of stupidity by the community baffles me, and when you ask someone why they're willing to pay so high now, even though they know it will be cheap later, their response is : ''cos i want it'', ugh..... Seriously, take my advice from past posts, either try to buy low, get it yourself, or just wait for endless online to do some class A economising and lower the price.

One more note, BARU's should not be less than oron =,=''. People tend to forget that these armours are in fact very rare nowadays, and are discontinued, and are never being release,d if you're not convinced, check my post form about 1 1/2 months ago : Baru

Either way, thanks for reading, enjoy v28. -Picto

Btw, i would like to let you all know that giacomo is a scammer.

Videos On Toast.

2007-09-03T17:23:00.000+01:00

Why that title, i don't know, all i do know is that everyone needs to see this little gem i found on the forums this morning, made by the one and only DannyPoloskei, it features is funny and true to life adventures through the world of endless online with surprising realism and awesome cameos. He says it isn't finished, but i think that it's perfect as it is, well done danno, and if you're reading, try to slip in a picto. cameo, I'm always in GH. ; D

From the perfect animation to buzzing retarded storyline it all just feels like one great big laugh watching it through. And you can't help but feeling as though you wanna start up endless online and go round Aeven looking for funny stories of your own.

A true masterpiece, and can only get better, cheers danno!

Link : Here

It gets my first ever, seal of approval :

Mild Comic Violence , Swears Often : 14+

I'm also currently creating a new series of my own, in which i record In game footage of my daily life on endless online, PKing, going to arena, recruiting some people, flaming on global, or just hanging about. So there is every chance you could pop down when I'm recording and be in the episode! I have aptly dubbed the series ''Just 4 Lolz'', and the first 3 episodes will be premiered and added to the blog by the end of this week, make sure you don't miss it!

-Picto

Sob

2007-09-01T08:37:00.000+01:00

I'm still sitting here, unfortunately, i alone cannot do much.

On lighter news, OARE has sent in this picture of me raising a pirate flag and him looking very much down in the dumps :

-Picto

BANK BLOCK

2007-08-31T11:09:00.000+01:00

I am now inf favour of moving into another block. I am fighting for all you that get hacked and don't get helped, or get scammed and can't report, or all of you beaten countless times by speeders and hackers, well no more, i, and anyone else that wishes to join, we'll be infront of both banks, blocking the doors, cutting off the blood to the economy, fighting for admin attention to make this game a better place.

Back in the years of yonder, this game was nice and filled with joy, admins had a crucial part in the community, nowadays , we're lucky if arvid loggs on to jail 1 or 2 people just for the hell of it, what has become of this, i demand moderators, light guides, admin attention, i demand that this game is saved from falling, plunging into a deep dark hole of no return, where hackers and speeders rule, I'm not talking about chaosdog or calan, I'm talking about every person who ever turned on a speeder of a ghost hack, i demand that this game is turned around for its own good.

Vult, arvid, you may have your own lives, but if you have any respect for the players that make this game what it is, then you'll do something about it, the pure irony of admins not being online to stop the block is genius, and together, or alone i will fight until i see there changes we deserve!

If your inf favour of this block, come down or leave some support as a comment ; In favour of the block list :

Oare
Lightfalzer
Knightnick
Taloney
Calan
Sedaime
Matau
Dreargirl
Kingosiris
Jeswin
Maikeruu
Supergokai
Mistermanson
Longekes
Quikflare
Kongster
Revertskater
Banksi
Kurisuitan
Eights
Bluemanropbb
Ajkron
Deefunx
Impwizard
Ddateme

And the more we grow, there more we will block, not just the bank, but also the bridge, and then HH, then the dragons, and then more!

Next time you come to the bank, you can go around and use the bakc entrance, like all you oblivious gamers, or, you can stand united and demand what we deserve. I'll be standing at the bank for the next few days, will you?

£££

2007-08-29T09:42:00.000+01:00

There is really only one topic to address at the moment, that being the fact that all new items are through the roof priced. So some words of advice :

1.Try get the item through killing / crafting etc : It may be difficult and take a while, but you'll save alot of money and standing around waiting for trades, if you think you can get a draco drop, head over to the dragon for a while and try get some kills!

2. Barter : Try to get a worth-while deal by bartering with them, in some cases you can barter 500k out of people that really need a sale.

Buyer : BUYING ICE ARROWS!
Seller : Offer?
Buyer : No you say how much.
Seller : Ok, 1.5mil
Buyer : 1mil
Seller: 1.4mil
Buyer : 1mil
Seller : ... 1.3mil
Buyer : 1mil!
Seller : 1.2mil final
Buyer : Nty

*Couple minutes later*

Seller : Ok, 1mil for ice?
Buyer : 900k
Seller : UGH! fine.

Trust me, if you REALLY need to get the item now, then try bartering.

3.Wait :

Within a couple weeks, new items will drop to below 1mil and continue dropping as more come into the economy and there is less demand. When bucanee was first released (good times) it was selling for 1-2mil+ for a week or two, but slowly dropped, until they were about 300k after a month, then finally, at current times, they're not worth 1g. This is by far the best way to get new items, let the items lower themselves.

Thanks for reading, and i hope i see alot of my readers walking around in draco and a saw sword fairly soon, or maybe in a month or some. =D

-Picto

Server Is Currently Down

2007-08-25T08:02:00.000+01:00

That's just a title really, it has nothing to do with the post, however if you are reading currently, the server will be back up within 30 minutes.

In more interesting news, I received a number of PMs on the forums and in game recently saying they loved the blog but didn't like how they had to scroll down and find the player to stop it. One person recalled me of the story of their mom walking in when he had just turned on the picto-blog , and couldn't stop the radio in time for her mom not to hear the rapper swearing, andI apologized, anyway, it would appear as though a link would be in proper order, so i made a little annoying GIF to go at the top over on your right, as you can see the drummer drums and the text flashes, to get people's attention to listen to this awesome radio.

Either way, i still currently need a little window that contains the player, yet i have no idea where to get one, i need a link that once clicked will open a small box containing the radio player, something much like the forum's, however the forum is down currently so that is out of the question, and all major blogs and website don't have any either, so I'm stuck for a while, ah well....

-Picto

EDIT : Well i decided to create another web page and embed the player instead as it was easier, also, i figured i could add little elements to the page for people that get bored etc. Finally, i gave the page a favicon of a music note, just like the PK next the the name of my blog on IE or FireFox.

Pathetic.

2007-08-23T17:05:00.000+01:00

On the agenda of rubbish, this website :

www.archiveeo.co.nr

Is hot at the moment, and it's also complete crap. This ''Annaconda'' (Who i am aware of in game), has put together a crappy blog, and started to use chaos' original music without permission ; shamelessly just copied and pasted entire blog posts from other websites without permission or recognition ; created a fake interview with Vult-R to benefit himself, and all together created a crappy website.

I seriously suggest you don't visit it, and i am sure it will be closed soon for hotlinking and breach in copyright laws, nuff said.

On a lighter not, i'm currently recruiting for my new guild ''Programmers'', or PRG, which is currently rather small, so patriotxkyle, this is for you...

-Picto

I Bet You've Seen This Before.

2007-08-22T17:36:00.000+01:00

Considering i wasn't here when the actual version was released i have just copied and pasted sections from older posts about the releases on test so i am sorry if some of it doesn't make sense,and i have also took some information from another blog and given full credit, so thank you ''EOTIMES'' , oh , and also ''KARGH'' however, you can visit this link if you want some more detail not included...

Endless Times - Knight , Xtremepunkx , Megamoogle. <- Awesome Guide, Thanks Guys.

Oh, and thanks for adding the picto-blog as a link.

Aeven Forest

After you come of the boat from newb island you can go straight forward then left down the path in to a new area..In this new area there are four different entrances to different parts of the forest, all containing weird new monsters.

Upper Left Area

In this location you'll find some flowy's, which are new monsters that are big flowers with faces and legs...They give 58exp and have about medium health, but are easy to kill, there attacks looks awesome and they are slow moving and passive.Up in the top left corner of this areas you'll find some new sprites and some beautifully designed cliffs which fit perfectly with the colour of this place...the flowys don't drop yet...

Second Top Left Area

This area is just infested with more flowys but also another new monster, the Espring.They drop gold and have about the same amount of health as as flowy, and will give 77exp upon death, they also have a cool attack animation...

Second Bottom Left Area

Nothing Here but some more esprings and a couple nutvipers which will be explained in the next section...

Lower Bottom Area

Now here's an interesting location, some more nice pixel work, and a another new monster, but more secrets. First of all, it's a lvl 15 barrier to enter, and once in side you'll find nutvipers, that drop , yes you know correctly, jack spears! Another new weapon, which looks pretty cool in actual fact, and has ok stats :

2-3damage
1 accuaracy

They are dropped by nutvipers currently but also by another monster i think (you'll find out later), so here are the nutvipers,they give 96exp, their attack isn't all ther impressive:

But It Keeps Going? Next Stop, Dragon cave....

So you continue through the nutviper place and through a few more paths until you see lava like this:

This means you're very lucky, because it means you are level 15 and cna now enter DRAGON CAVE! Yes, feel very privileged, as you can now fight with an almighty dragon, and probably end up dieing...So continue round and through the cave entrance and voila! Your in dragon cave, it's a fairly big cave infested with biters and, dragons of course. So the first thing you'll notice is lots of people fighting a dragon...

Then the second thing you'll notice is lots of people fighting lots of dragons...

That's right, there can be up to 6 dragons in the cave at any one time, all ready to fight, and kill, they hit highs of 50 and are not ks protected, and for good reason, they are very powerful and have lots of health, so when teaming it comes back down to kill stealinh again, and snatching that 1224exp and a possible chnace to get one of the following :

Scav Bow
Jack Spear
Saw Sword
Draco Armour
Gold

And that's just about it, and yes, your right, i did say scav bow, see :

Stats For the scav bow :

2-2 damage
2 accuracy

Yes, but it's a rather rare drop by the dragons, but if your lucky you'll scoop one up, next on the list, the jack sword has already been mentioned...so then, the saw sword, a rather nice weapon with some nice stats...

Smexy aye? Now here's the lowdown on thee stats :

1-8 attack
9 accuracy

And a new armour, the Draco / Dracota armour which is dropped by the dragon, you'll be very lucky to be caught wearing this...

Current stats are :

6 Defence
3 Evade
2 STR

And ThenThere Was More...

Ok, so they exist and that's done and dusted, but there's still more to be seen, let's keep going with glasses!

These can currently only be bought from newb island for 1.2k so i suppose you'd have to do some sorta transfer to get them, however, I'm sure in the future they will become available from another shop...they have no stats...

Also, you can now get the oak shield as a drop from the swamp temple, they aren't worth very much now, they are dropped by Flombies so go kill a couple of them and you'll get something...

Current information suggests stats of : 2 defence, 1 Con and 11hp...

Mole Farm

Just right of the goat farm is a new area including some farm patches, an inaccessable house and ofcourse, some moles.They don't drop and only give 1 exp, poor things...

Pig House

Not anything special to be honest, but the house in the pig farm is now accessible, it's empty except for some furniture that is sittable, a bit of fun to have a quiet chat in, but nothing else...Also, you may notice loads'a big books knocking about, they have no reason as of yet except for the stupid farmer and hamster just recently added.

Skyland Castle

This place is a little more interesting, there is more to do and see, and it has been inhabited by phoenixes for now, which is why everyone is there trying to get a fan or a bazzar staff.

Don't underestimate the size of this are,a it's much bigger than you think. There is a way to access the upper floors of the castle also, but I'm not quite sure on that just yet...

Phoenix
Here's a nice good update, the new monster Phoenix. It hangs about at the sky castle, respawning in several different locations, they have a rather high amount of hp, but they don't hit particularly high, also, when they attack they breath fire ^^. They can be killed and deposit a nice 175exp, and you may end up getting one of the following :

Gold (Little Amount)
Bazzar Staff
Fan (Very Rare)
Light Katana

And so Here are a couple of the rewards :
Bazzar Staff

The most common new item, they are dropped by the Phoenix or are currently sold from 30-45k , and they are worth getting. They give you :

3int
6 wis
2 acc
3-3 damage
166tp
10hp

Which is rather nice to be perfectly hones,t but if your planning on buying the i would suggest you wait a week or two until the price is around 5-10k.

And thank you to Meiresthai for a huge help on that information.

Fan

The second of our new items, and what a lovely little thing it is,. they certainly are a rare drop and you'd be hard done to find someone selling one cheap. So, as before, i would wait until the price has lowered. there Stats are :

8 Charisma

That's it, more of a display weapon aye?

Cactusaur

Facts: They Replace beetles everywhere in the game.
They Drop : Beetle Fangs And dragon masks.
Location : Nomad Desert, Vulture Island, Sand secret.

Fish

Facts : A Simple NPC in Atlantis, no meaning.
They Drop : Fish
Location : Atlantis

And so, they are all the creatures and such that have been uploaded so far, not much to write home about, but I'm sure we'll get more eventually.

So, here are some main features of the update:

Disco:

There is a band now and some funky new music if you have background music on whilst you play, it is worth heading down there, they do nothing but play, however, you Can stand in the drummer and make rude remarks if you wish, from left to right:

Piano panda (On Piano)
Rock Daddy (Wise Man On Lead Guitar)
Rock Star (Both Wrestlers on base guitars)
Drummer (On the Drums)

V THANKS TO ENDLESS TIMES V

The stats on fire arrows are 2-6 damage and 4 accuracy, and the stats for frost arrows are 2-2 damage and 4 accuracy.

Frost Arrow Ingredients
10 Normal Arrows
32 Ice Gems
42 Ice Cubes

Fire Arrow Ingredients
10 Normal Arrow
25 Fire Crystals
6 Dragon Claws
6 Dragon Wings

^ THANKS TO ENDLESS TIMES ^

V THANKS TO KARGH V

Well, As you may have noticed.. there's an EXTRA room in the HH that leads to a new quest.

You gotta kill all the major bosses then collect stuff.
I'll tell you this NOW.

DO NOT BOTHER.

Just let medusa get the first key. The door to there is glitched and basically anyone can walk in.

When you first walk in the map is basically a giant checkerboard filled with spikes. No to mention the wraiths have the same exp and DEf as dragons.

And If it wasnt enough, the room is a pk room. So anyone with a key can control who enters and who does not.

Also, the drops rates are similar to reaper, when it comes to scavs. And they usully drop around 1k in cash.
So, this is whats in it in nutshell,
-Pk
-scav drop
-ancient wraiths that gang up on you
-and a spike filed room.

Also, Anyone below level 20 will be killed on entry.

^ THANKS TO KARGH ^

Statues At Temple

This is genuinely just creepy, the admins have adde dliek a merman and beauty queen statue set to the king triddian temple...

Ok?

So that's it, a huge collage of old posts have turned into a guide of of version 28, but be sure to go to endless times, as their guide is far more informative as far as items etc. goes, thanks, and yes, i had a nice holiday.

V28C Hits Test!

2007-08-14T09:17:00.001+01:00

EDIT : To Get Around The Current Guild Glitch Download And Install This (v28c) and install it, then, change the IP adress to main, this will not install version 28 on main, however, it will fix the stupid guild glitch, finaly! Now if only i didn't have to leave =(.

That's right, version 28C has been released for the test server, which has obviously resulted in a lot of happiness and commotion, now normally, I'd be first to snap up the chance and go get you all the information, but what with all the packing and preparing, The PC just isn't in time for me, and so i won't be able to.

I leave on holiday tomorrow morning (4am) and so this will most likely be my final post for this term, I'll return a week tomorrow ready to starting blogging again, ofcourse, enthusiasm hasn't been roaring lately considering there isn't much going on, I'm hoping I'll go on holiday, and return with the guild glitch fixed and everything in order, if not, well that's just annoying isn't it, but hey, you gotta take it with a pinch of salt.

Either way, don't try PMing me or anything, in fact the most you could do is wish me a happy holiday, i know I'll try to enjoy, despite the fact that i haven't been able to share my reporter - like sarcasm on the new updates, either way, if it's info you want this guy will fill you in :

Endless Times

Long link, either way, it's off to sunny Rome for a week myself, have fun with the new version, and flaming on the forums, and please, try to resist braking into my house while I'm gone.

-Picto

Epilogue

2007-08-10T14:06:00.000+01:00

This post, i write,in dedication to my most dearest and beloved rabbit, 'Rodney'.
Whom is recently deceased on this day : 10th August 2007.
He died at the age of 4 after 4 wonderful years surrounded by a caring family that loved him very much. He died of a cancerous tumour in his stomach which was irreversible, and thus.

Was put down.

I had already said goodbye the night before when he was ill, and so i found it not fitting to watch him slowly fade into the inevitable sleep that consumes our consciousness - death. And so i have decided to stay home, and write this message, informing the world of my massive grief and loss.
He, being my second rabbit, was truly a great companion and friend through the 4 years that he lived, and i loved him very much throughout, and so, he makes, his final journey, deep, down, into the dark unknown of death, where he will lay forever more.
For the rabbit is so exceedingly loved, i wish you this, thank you for making these past 4 years truly amazing, and for always being there when i needed someone to talk to that wouldn't answer back, and now your fate as come, neither i nor anyone could reverse it.
I hope you can solemnly rest in peace, as you lived in peace, and so you will be in my heart, forever more...

Thank you.

Version 28 is upon us.

2007-08-09T09:40:00.000+01:00

EDIT : I've recently been told (thank you thexphantom) that the version history v28 has been there rather a while, ad so does not necessarily mean that version 28 is imminent, sorry, but please do continue to read.

Check it out in version history, this is usually a clear sign of the version release being immanent, he's updates with details about things being fixed. I see the word guild and so i am happy.

I'm assuming that means that the stupid glitch will also be fixed, here's hoping, and here's hoping it gets released before i go away for a week, in the destination, that has now been picked, Rome.I'll be jetting off the Rome for a whole week, not as expensive as usual holidays, but you gotta make cut-backs now and then, after all, we're making some improvements to the house. Either way, I'll be back and fresh to get going again, no more packing or anything. I am hoping version 28 is released either before or after i go away so i can keep you all up to date, however, if not, I'll have some catching up to do.

I'll keep you informed up until my last day before going away, stay tuned. -Picto

Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playthings.

2007-08-08T08:48:00.000+01:00

Wow, i haven't posted in a while, but I've been doing else, whilst I'm waiting for the guild glitch to be fixed, which will also home my return, as i haven't played in a couple days. Either way, i would just like to Say that i will be leaving on holiday within the next couple weeks, I'm not quite sure where yet, but it'll be out of these...

Italy
Egypt
Dubai
America (C'mon!)
Canada <3
La Francias ; )

Not sure yet but either way I'll be shopping and packing my bags for an awesome holiday.
I'll be posting tomorrow on a topic revolving endless online, but i thought it fit to let you know that I'll be going away for 2 weeks.
Lets hope the guild thing gets fixed soon =( -Picto

Kitty hat for 20k.

2007-08-05T09:19:00.000+01:00

Erm, i'd like to start off by saying that the provider of the fan art pages has decided to delete those pages because i didn't submit something or i don't know, either way, the account was forcefully deleted and now there are no pages left, so i will leave that for a while and focus on the times, i recently capsized 20'000 hits and now 21'000 and I'm getting faster, averaging anywhere from 300-500 hits a day now, i have finally built up an empire of viewers of which i sit on a little pedestal at the top, proudly parading my hand in circles to thank the onlookers.

But enough about that, i would just like to say that i may be making some sort or podcasts finally, with me some weeks and maybe me and a friend some other weeks, if, i can find a podcast uploader that is, so if anyone knows where you can upload sound tracks up to 35minutes long then please leave a comment, cheers...

-Picto

Big Grey...

2007-08-04T21:22:00.000+01:00

If your using AOL or a different ISP that doesn't support non-backgrounded layered images such as GIF's or PNG's, then you may see that the images above the drop down menus below etc. will be encased in a rather large grey square, if you are fed up of this i SERIOUSLY suggest you switch to FireFox, no just because of this, but the FireFox browser makes ISP browsers (AOL, blueyonder etc.) look like total crap. Seriously, for you, and the health of others, please download and use FireFox... Here

The download and install the Picto-Bar from here...

Seriously, get with the know, and also, don't forget that you Can submit images for fan art in a comment to any post, so please feel free to...

Cheers, and get some mozilla-medicine... -Picto

Fanzor Art

2007-08-03T09:15:00.000+01:00

Erm, in order to sproose things up around here and get it kicking again (cos there hasn't been that much news lately0 i thought , what the hell, and i me the requests of several forumers and chatters in the chat box, and I'm going to open up a fan art section. Where, by PMing me the link in game, on the forums, or leaving it in a comment, i will decide whether it is worthy and i will put it in to it's respectable gallery, from these :

Endless Online
Manipulation
EO Comedy
Random
Hand Drawn

Endless Online : will consist of pictures showing perhaps, events, or seeing 8 turtles on the theatre stage, or going to reaper and finding no-one there.

Manipulation : The modding of sprites or locations, this includes changing say, the statue in aeven to that of a vary tall man waving.

EO Comedy : Features all the pictures that are comedic from endless online, perhaps someone saying something stupid on global, or even acting something out, like the many comics of the forums , for example, is what i would like.

Random : Random pictures, maybe saying ''GTFO'' or ''o w8 i c wut u did thar'' , and please, your made pictures only, i know which are yours and which have been copied.

Hand Drawn : I think this section speaks for itself, this will feature pictures drawn by hand and either scanned on your made in something like paint.

So, if you would like to appear in either of these galleries, starting today, just make a picture or upload one to perhaps Tinypic Image Hosting and then PM me in Game, forums or leave the link in a comment to any post, I'll check it, and then decide where to put it, thanks...

-Picto

THAR B NUW FORUMZ !111

2007-08-02T09:08:00.000+01:00

The forums are back up, on a new address i think, either way, you can locate them all here :

Eo Forums

All your post counts and information is there, don't worry, everything is fine, as are the downloads to my recollection, and yes, you'll just have to wait for Version 28...

Other sightly different news, i disbanded My old guild 'The wasted chefs' and have just scrapped enough money for a new guild ''Programmers'' or PRG, so be sure to hit em up in game if you want to join, cheers... -Picto

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