News/2007/August

August

August 28th - Computer Account Locking

Graal has added a new feature that allows you to lock your account to a specific computer. If someone wants to connect to your account using a different computer then you will receive an e-mail where you need to click on a link to approve the new computer; This should make it harder to hack or steal accounts. To enable this protection, click on the "Protect" button in the serverlist screen.

August 26th - Atlantis Relaunched

A new Atlantis has been released - with a story, quests and guides, a new interface and a completely new world with several islands which you can discover on your travel. The staff is also working on making the server available in English (default language is German).

August 19th - Graal Skills Weekend Tournaments

We were again holding several tournaments, and started the first tournaments for Gelats! The winners for the tournaments at this weekend are:

Poker Gelat tournaments: Viper Vanduergan (ViperZakuto), Stefan
Poker big tournament: 1. Silver_Metal, 2. Storm Leonhart (StormYs), 3. MajinDragon
BomberMad: Marius (MegakuribohEXE), Zero (zokemon), Compulsar FairyNightmare (knightmare1)
Pool 8-Ball: Stefan
Pool Straight: Wolfey Xanadu (Wolfey)

Players were also hunting for highscores, here the scores of the best players:

Mahjongg: 86035 by Burn (dNeonb)
Marble Flip: 33795 by Burn (dNeonb)
Marble Maze: 2200 by Zero (zokemon)
Asteroids: 50560 by Burn (dNeonb)
Invaders X: 6220 by Burn (dNeonb)

August 19th - Zone Metallic Rifle

The traders sell a new weapon: the metallic rifle, which is shooting either a powerful 4-bullet shot (S-key), or a combo of 4 independent bullets which split on impact (D-key). It's not a rapid-fire rifle, but can be effective against groups of enemies or enemies hiding behind thin walls.

August 18th - Zone Flame Bombs and Scifi Pistol

New weapons have been added: the flame bomb which is a bottle that is thrown, explodes on impact and places some fire on the ground. The flame bombs are available from the traders. In the Shop window you can purchase a new pistol: the Scifi Pistol which is similar to the AP Ripper, but can also shoot sidewards when pressing the D-key, and has a higher fire rate in single pistol mode. We hope you enjoy the new weapons!

August 18th - Zone Reapers Event

This weekend on Saturday at 11 PM GMT + 1 (5 PM United States eastern time) a reaper will be given away on Zone by the events staff Crono (Gerami) . We hope that many players will show up and participate!

August 17th - Graal Skills Highscores

We have added a highscore system on Graal Skill games, currently it is tracking the high scores for Mahjongg, Asteroids, Marble Flip and Marble Maze. You can watch the high scores by clicking on "All Games" or by clicking on the game, and scrolling down in the description window. This highscore is not displayed inside the game (Mahjongg sometimes says "new highscore" which is your personal score in the current game but not the online high score).

August 14th - First Graal Kingdoms Poker Tournament

Today we had the first Graal Kingdoms Poker Tournament. Everyone was invited to join the tournament with 1000 platinum coins. After 18 rounds we had a winner, sage_scooby won in a heads up against Ravenblade1979. Besides the money he also one an unique trophy with an engraving.

We are preparing more tournaments for Graal Kingdom prizes so stay tuned.

August 12th - Graal Skills More Tournaments

More tournaments were hold on the Graal Skills server, the winners are this time:

BomberMad: Stefan (of course!)
8-Ball: Burn (Björn)
Poker: Ziro (xXZiroXx)

Next week we will do more events, we also plan tournaments for Graal Kingdoms items, so check out and prepare for more fun events!

August 12th - Zone New Inventory

We have added a new inventory using GUI controls. It can easier be navigated with mouse (left click for S weapon, right click for D weapon), but still works the same like the old inventory when controlled with keyboard. It offers more space for new weapons and its look can easily be customized using the new v5 GUI styles.

In the next few days we will release cool new weapons!

August 11th - Graal Skills Tournament Winners

Many players participated in the Graal Skills Tournaments, here the winners for Staturday:

BomberMad: Storm Leonhart (StormYs)
8-Ball Pool Billiard: Storm Leonhart (StormYs)
Poker: Galapogos (Twinny)

More tournaments will come tomorrow!

August 11th - Zone Event Weapon Match

This Saturday, Anubis (Anubis_Wing) zone events team member hosted a prize event for blue pistoles. After a heated battle with the crossbow bolts flying every direction and gravitron bullets penetrating through barrels the winner was finally decided. The winner was Shadow (IXIs_Last_Stand) who won using the gravitron. Over 15 players participated in the event! Congrats to those who particpated! Next months event date will be announced shortly!

August 9th - Graal Skills Tournaments

This weekend we will hold several free tournaments and tournaments where you can win Gelats - play Poker, Pool Billiard, BomberMad and more against other players! We have also improved the skill games to make the playing more fun:

The game window is bigger, we removed the clouds-header
The tournament announcement PM leads you directly to the tournament list
When a tournament is added then a blinking link will appear in the Log window for easily joining the tournament
When inviting a player to a game then it is automatically selecting the best rule for the selected game (Bombermad: 3 Rounds) to make things easier
You can bet up to 50 gelats in Poker (might be increased later)
Nicknames are filtered (some special characters being removed) to avoid problems in multiplayer flash games
Easier navigation with keyboard: 'Space' starts a game, card games automatically select the first button in the start screen, when closing a game then it is automatically focussing the game list