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Ashen Empires Heroes (PvP) Rule Changes

Pixel Mine — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:02:54 +0000

The following changes were made to the Heroes Server:

Experience gain increased
Loot chance increased
Stamina regeneration increased
PVP Flag mx level reduced to level 25 (from 106)
Paperdoll drop rate changed to better represent alignment:
- crusader 0%
- divine 10%
- good 20%
- neutral 30%
- evil 40%
- criminal 50%
- scourge 75%
- wanted 100%

Dransik Free to Play Change

admin — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:16:03 +0000

Dransik is now even more free to play. The backpack size limitation has been removed! VIP members will continue to get fantastic grab bags each month. Now there is no reason you shouldn’t be playing!

Download the Pixel Mine Launcher today!

Ashen Empires Updated

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:12:29 +0000

Ashen Empires had several big changes and fixes over the past week.

Changes/Fixes:
Reverted the previous fix to mage casting that many were referring to as the “mage bug”
Made the ToF Savannah Quests repeatable
Made several more SoC Quests repeatable
Oil of Jandros Potion now provides stamina pool boost
Totem of Hardiness now provides stamina pool boost
Totem of Thunderstike now works with Thunder Strike, Thunder Bolt and Cloud Burst and works the entire duration of the totem
Added the following creatures to DTM/Kill Counts:
-Guardians of Kuthos
-Grasping Tenticle
-Lightning Slug
-Balron
-Stag
-Ancient Ogre
Added level pre-requisite for Dragon DTM/kill credit (80)
Greater Dragons now have no tolerance for players who fight them before the Master quest has been completed.
Bonesnarl can now be killed more times
Fixed many spelling errors in SoC and ToF quests
Re-worked summoning for high level creatures
White Fang can now pounce
Increased special power of Lance of the North
Gave Razor Sharp Basilisk Tooth the ability to special on all creatures
Increased the damage of the Body spell – Retribution.

nFringe 1.2 update official

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:56:04 +0000

The long awaited nFringe 1.2 update has gone gold!

Features: Text Editor

Initial IntelliSense for asset packages

Added a ‘Go To Configuration’ command for config and globalconfig variables

Live local variable analysis – locals are usable as soon as they’re typed

Improved support for script interfaces and operators

Preferred case for keywords can be specified in ScriptModifiers.xml

Support the All Margins extension for Visual Studio 2010

Support the new Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010

Bugs Fixed: Text Editor

Improved modifier parsing for classes, vars, functions, states, and structs (new or differing keywords shouldn’t break IntelliSense)

Fix Navigate To… feature (VS 2010)

Fix missing keywords in IntelliSense lists

Improved INI file support

Fixed the ‘override’ function feature

Fixed method tips

Fixed Class View not properly refreshing

Many other IntelliSense performance and accuracy fixes

Build System

Compile errors are properly reported

Support incremental builds without the -full flag

Allow underscores and dashes in package names

Project System

Removed support for non-standard project structures (including UT3) in favor of UDK/UE3 licensees’ consistent structure.

Substantial performance improvements to project load time and Show All Files when using Visual Studio 2010.

Find out more and download or update here:

http://wiki.pixelminegames.com/index.php?title=Tools:nFringe:Releases

Servers back online

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:28:04 +0000

All servers are now back online.

10/22 Server Outage

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:20:04 +0000

We are experiencing an extended server outage today. All game servers are currently unavilable. We are working very hard to remedy the situation. We apologize for the inconvenience.

New nFringe Indie License Terms Announced

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:56:31 +0000

Great news Indies! We listened to your feedback and removed the royalty from the nFringe Indie license.

Independent game developer can now have a way to use all of the features of nFringe with Epic’s Unreal Developer Kit (UDK) for a single yearly fee. The $349.00 (US) nFringe Indie License grants the developer full use of the nFringe product to develop a commercial game or application using the UDK.

The nFringe Indie License can be purchased directly from the Pixel Mine Secure Web Store – Login HERE.

New nFringe Developers should use ‘create enterprise account’ to access the nFringe store.

nFringe 1.1 Update Released!

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:20:08 +0000

Pixel Mine, Inc. today announced a series of major updates to its popular nFringe Tool Suite for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 (UE3). Unreal Engine 3 is the industry leading game engine for cross-platform game development.

New features included in the 1.1 nFringe Update include:

Debugger
Added the option to “Break on Accessed None” during script debugging
Added debugging support for 64-bit builds
Breakpoints can now be set in PostBeginPlay (and other methods called during the first ticks of the engine starting)
Added support for the Memory windows
Values of items in the Watch and Autos windows can be edited while debugging (previously read only)

Text Editor
New IntelliSense completion modes – in addition to significant improvements in overall typing speed, there’s no more having to remember variable prefixes or exact naming
-Substring matching
-CamelCase matching
-Mixed matching
Brace matching and code folding
Keywords configured through an XML file which can be shared among a team
Several bug fixes and performance improvements

Licensing
New and much easier to use license manager

Visual Studio 2010
Added support for Visual Studio 2010
Supports the new Navigate To… feature of Visual Studio 2010

Read the full release here:
http://pixelminegames.com/press/press-release-nfringe_11/

Ashen Empires: Player Spotlight – Siabhra

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:32:28 +0000

Player Name: Siabhra
IRL Location: Ontario, Canada.
Member Since: 2005
Server: Legends
Guild: League of Legends
Character Description: Elf Battlemage crafter and a guild leader
Orb Build: 100 STR, 101 INT, 30 DEX, 5 CON
Weapon of Choice: Staff of Elemental Master
Alignment: Divine
Faction: Lotorian
Level: 107
Favorite Mob: Siabhra likes all of the Tides of Fate animals
Favorite Area: Whisperdale and Tides of Fate
Favorite thing to do in AE: “Help people”
Favorite thing to do IRL: Making graphics
Favorite Craft: Carpentry
If you could change one thing in AE… “Some kind of timer so they can’t do so many Spawn Increases. “

Underworlds climbing the charts!

Pixel Mine — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:17:07 +0000

A little more than a half day after a FREE FOR A DAY promotion with http://www.freeappaday.com, Underworlds for the iphone/itouch has reached some lofty standing in the App Store. Currently the game stands at:

#2 in RPG, #2 in Adventure, #12 in Games and #18 Overall

Edit – The game reached #1 in RPG, #1 in Adventure, #4 in Games and #5 Overall!

Here a SimpleViewer Flash gallery should be displayed. Click here to open the post in your browser to see the gallery.

You can get the game free for today only by clicking the button below!

Check out all the info about the game, including movies here: Underworlds Page