I tried to get all of Celest's guards chasing me as Bobbins, but I think some of them got bored and went back to their posts.

Can someone post what IP I need to connect to for the Beta server? I can't log on tonight, so I'm unable to find out, and in case I wake up late tomorrow, I didn't want to have to go find out.

beta.ironrealms.com
port 2003

Why don't we all just make a friendship pact and collect hamsters in the 'natural' way?

Because then someone is bound to backstab you.

That is what makes it -fun-

I get the feeling things aren't going to go as planned/unplanned.
My money is on:

A. Viravain starts zapping everyone in the world for the hell of it, then just creates 50,000 hamsters for herself. She wins 1st place out of 1 people competing, and no one even gets their 10 bound credits.

or

B. Spindle and Bobbins bring out a can of whoopass with borrowed weapons and , steal all the hamsters, then cower in Havens until it's over.

or

C. Someone makes an unheard-of alt, lends it 3000 credits, a Gem, and a Cubix, and proceeds to win a horrid upstart victory.

or

D. Matt comes in to personally assume control of His Order. He then informs all gathered folk that there is an (until now) unheard of rule banning hamsters from IRE (oh, and rice-making) and revokes our right to run Rapture.


Any other predictions?

Is this the type of hamsterhunt where you get a point as soon as you pick up a hamster, or where you have to be holding some at the end?

I expect it's the type where you need to hold them at the end.

I'm gonna get so pwned! It'll kind of be funny.

I can't log in to the beta server with my username and password. I also can't create a new character there... Is something going on at the moment?

It says:

Error: Connection refused: connect.

They're rebooting all test servers, currently. Updating it to the most recent time.

Edit:

------------------------------------( 2007/01/06 17:52:15 )---
The Achaea beta (beta.ironrealms.com port 2000) is closed at the moment for
maintenance and preparation. We'll tell you when it'
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2578h, 2605m, 11790e, 16815w ex-
------------------------------------( 2007/01/06 17:52:22 )---
It's ready for the big event!
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Guess it's for all.

They're resetting it so all our character info is up to date, I think.

I'm certain there are hundreds of players trying to connect to the beta server every second now. Makes putting it up slightly trickier.

Eh, I doubt hundreds, very much. Maybe A hundred.

Maybe. Or maybe everyone is at work and only the 17 people looking at this topic will be there.

Frickin doubleposts. It doesn't bode well for me that my connection I'm using sucks... Bad.

Starting to get nervous, the event begins in about a minute, and I still can't connect...

Same thing Achaea's doing. Only...

10% the people. 5% the jerks.

Me also....