PIF Silvergate News Page

Restructuring for Star Wars - The Old Republic

Posted By
Kailef
06 Dec 2011

From 2002 through 2005 PIF Silvergate's primary game was Asheron's Call 2. Sadly, at the end of 2005, Asheron's Call 2 closed it's doors for the last time, leaving PIF members without a game. PIF Silvergate then turned it's collective eyes to the future and the launch of World of Warcraft. The website was revamped and updated to reflect the change, and for the last seven years, PIF Silvergate has played World of Warcraft almost exclusively.

Now, for the first time since then, a MMORPG has been introduced which has sparked the interest of a good number of PIF Silvergate members, presenting enough of a draw that PIF will become a multi-game guild. Star Wars: The Old Republic, even pre-launch, has twelve PIF members who are planning to play.

Starting today, I have begun to modify our website to more properly reflect who we are, rather than focusing only on World of Warcraft. Our website can now be accessed both by www.wowguild.com as well as www.pifsilvergate.com, for example. I have removed some of the references to our being only a "World of Warcraft" guild, and will soon be making other changes to our charter and resources section.

One of the challenges in a multi-game guild is leadership - It is difficult - Nearly impossible, really - for a single person to manage events in multiple MMO games at the same time. As such, I will begin considering individuals whom might wish to step up and take a more active management role in the guild, with a specific emphasis on one of our two primary games, WoW or SW:TOR.

nUI Addon

Posted By
Kailef
13 Jul 2011

In case anyone is wondering, nUI is the best addon in WoW. You should Click Here to go and join the website and get the full version.

The developer has been consistently maintaining and updating nUI for three years, and has reliably and quickly updated the mod for every patch, usually BEFORE the patch goes live. I strongly recommend it. Those used to a more traditional interface might be a little surprised by the 'panel' based setup, but it takes very little time to get used to it. It does the job of like fifteen different mods at the same time.

The only other mods I use are Recount (which integrates directly into nUI), Incognito, MozzFullWorldMap (Which the nUI author also maintains) and a bag mod.

So, anyhow - Click Here already.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Posted By
Kailef
09 Mar 2011

I went ahead and pre-launched the guild over at the Star Wars: The Old Republic website. It looks pretty cool - Guilds actually get their own site with a forum and everything.

If you are interested in playing SW:tOR when it comes out (and who isn't?) head over and sign up for PIF Silvergate using THIS LINK.

Personally, I can't wait. Everything BioWare has ever made has been fantastic, and I believe that this will be no exception.

Guildie of the Month - November and December

Posted By
Shanni
08 Dec 2010

Guildie of the Month - November - Mark

Guildie of the Month - December - A1

Congratulations to both of you! You guys make me proud to be a part of PIF Silvergate!!!

Guild Level Set Back

Posted By
Killraven
07 Dec 2010

Blizzard decided within the first 16 hours or so of play in Cataclysm that the increment of guild experience by Guild Achivements was allowing some guilds a distinct advantage. Around 3-4 pm server time they moved back our guild level to be a little short of level 2. So we won't get to fully realize the Fast Track perk until sometime tomorrow. Here is the URL for a forum post which explains Blizzard's position: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1306052109

Bumpy Cataclysm Release

Posted By
Killraven
07 Dec 2010

Several members of PIF experienced the bumpy ride which is referred to as the release as Cataclysm. While not nearly as bad as it could have been (as in hours of down time followed by horrible lag), it could have gone smoother. While Blizzard claimed you'd be able to play Cataclysm at one minute after midnight PST, it was realistically more like 15-30 minutes. Ultimately it required restarting WoW. After which the mad dash to level began in earnest.

Shattering to occur week of 11/22.

Posted By
Killraven
22 Nov 2010

Don't get too full on turkey for Thanksgiving, you don't want to fall asleep and miss any time exploring the world after Deathwing rises.

Cataclysm Beta Closed

Posted By
Killraven
22 Nov 2010

Blizzard announced today that the beta for Cataclysm is now closed. The official post is located here: Official Post

Starcraft 2

Posted By
Kailef
23 Jul 2010

Starcraft 2 is out very soon, so in preparation for that, I've added a few new Starcraft boards to the forums to give us a place to chat about it.

The forums were dead, and we couldn't find a priest....

Posted By
Kailef
21 Jul 2010

After a long and rather unpleasant fight with our old, horrible web host, I was able to salvage the broken pieces of our website and re-code what was missing, making it work once again. We'd put so much time and effort into our old site, and I have always missed having it since we moved away to Guild Portal after it crashed.

Despite it being fixed, mind you, I don't trust the near-criminals over at our former provider to keep us up in the future. As such, I've moved our hosting to another company that guarantees 99.9% up time and site backups once each week. It took a chunk of cash but it's good for three years.

There are a few things that aren't working, like our links page and chat section, and I have to get our news archives fixed. Still, those are secondary to our forums which appear to be working perfectly at long last!

I hope everyone enjoys having our old site back as much as I do. smile