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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: January 31, 2008 - 3:38 am

Forum upgrades on February 15th

Every Basin forum is being upgraded starting at 9 PM left coast time on Friday, February 15th. The boards will be taken offline when the upgrades begin and will remain offline during the database and forum software upgrades. If all goes well, everything should be up and running within a few hours.

I'll be working on new skins from now until the 15th, so I may be out of touch a bit during that time.

A huge thanks goes to nlx3647 for the hard work. He's the one doing all the work. He'll be downloading forum databases, upgrading forum software on his local machine for testing, upgrading the forum databases - all on his own time. I can't thank him enough for this.

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: January 23, 2008 - 2:15 am

The paint is still wet on our WAR guild

The Basin's new Warhammer Online guild is up and running! If you've got some interest in the game, head on over and give our new digs the once over. Lots of great discussions going on already on what will likely be a very popular game here. We're laying the ground work for a slightly different guild than what most have come to expect around here, but rest assured, there will be plenty of activities and gaming for everyone.

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Posted By: Sailboat
Posted On: December 25, 2007 - 5:22 pm

Happy Holidays!

The Basin is multicutural and multinational. At the risk of being too generic for some readers and too specific for others, permit me extend my personal, and the Basin's formal, best wishes for everyone in this season and the coming year.

The Amazon Basin isn't one of the world's great achievements; we're just a bunch of folks playing well together. I'm sure it's a simplistic and easy sentiment to say this, but...what a change it would be if eveyone in the world learned to "play nice and show some class."

Sailboat

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: October 27, 2007 - 2:04 am

The Amazon Basin is running very low on funds

It's time for me to do what I hate the most - ask for money. I'm lucky to run a vibrant and well respected community of people that always seem ready to help those in need. I don't like to 'ask' for people to help us stay afloat, but as probably all of you realize by now, our decision to leave advertisements off our site forces me to pass the hat every now and then.

Our last server fund drive was in early 2006. It kept us going for almost 2 years! I can't thank you folks enough for that. I understand we held another one about a year ago for a (close to) destitute ABM - and asking you again so soon wasn't my plan. I hope everyone understands.

Right now, the best way to help is with a donation through PayPal. I am working on getting our BasinWear site back up and running, so I should have that ready in the next few days. Once it is up, you can use it to purchase 1337 items like cracked sashes and mongolian pr0n. Heck, you can even purchase a sweet embroidered polo or Basin mouse pad!

If you are in a financial position to help us, please visit our donation page. If you'd rather not go the subscription route (on that page), you can just use the single 'PayPal Donate' button below that row of 'subscription' icons. I'll have the BasinWear site up soon, so if you'd rather use it, just hang in there please.

Thanks everyone.

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Posted By: Sailboat
Posted On: August 12, 2007 - 12:50 am

Lucky Seven!

August 11, 2000 is what we consider our founding date...the date the first online presence was created for the Amazon Basin.

Read about the Basin's early days on our History page, and see some names from the ancient days of yore.

Seven years, huh? Who'd a thunk it?

The Basin currently operates five full-fledged Game Guilds and has smaller (but active!) presences in numerous other games. Future game guilds are almost always under consideration. We have occasional real-life meetings too, in which lies are told, music is performed, and general game-geek boasting and mayhem prevail. And maybe a little bit of partying occurs.

What holds it all together? The vision of our founder, TPJ -- that somewhere out there were people who still yearned to play games without cheating, without rudeness, and still have fun? The behind-the-scenes efforts of our many volunteers? The shared web presence that forms a community, both of conversation and gaming? Or is it our philosophy of playing well together in a friendly environment?

Form your own opinion. If you're new here, poke around, read, say hi -- see if you like us! If you've been here a long time, I have a different message for you: Thank you! You're the reason it's worked so well for so long.

Have fun out there!

Sailboat

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: August 10, 2007 - 7:29 pm

A couple of Flagship Studios news bits

I'm very pleased to report that The Amazon Basin has been actively testing Hellgate:London as part of the closed alpha phase. Although the Flagship Studios' NDA prohibits me (or anyone else) from discussing what we're seeing or doing, I can say that we're in and we're testing. We've got about 15 people in there right now.

Also, those of you interested in helping test Mythos (FSS's free online RPG) can now receive invites from those of us already testing. If you're interested in helping out, make sure you reply in that thread and let us know!

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: May 18, 2007 - 12:52 am

The Basin returns from the Hellgate:London Community Day

Laughing God and I have returned from visiting Flagship Studios offices in San Francisco during FSS's first ever Community Day. We had a complete blast meeting up with the great folks over at Hellgate Guru and other HGL fansites from all over the globe. All in all there were about 22 or so fansite folks invited to participate in this event. Every bill and every tab was picked up by either Flagship Studios or Electronic Arts - including food, alcohol, hotel, flights, etc. Yeah, I can't complain.

The lowdown? We got to talk tech with Bill Roper, Peter Hu, Tyler Thompson, Lee Dotson, and other notable Shippers, we were shown EVERY SINGLE skill for EVERY SINGLE class in the game, we got to play the multi-player build for the first time, and received a hella cool goody bag that included a phat Intel QX6800 quad core processor, an Intel D975X BX2 motherboard, and a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate. Enough of the tangible tech items - we also got a look at the unique named items in the game that Bill Roper himself named after each of us. Yeah, you heard that right - there is a pair of TPJ's Gauntlets in the game. Suh-Weet!

I haven't completed writing up all of my thoughts yet, but for the time being, head over to our HGL boards and follow a few of the important links to see what everyone else thought of the trip.

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: May 3, 2007 - 11:11 pm

Win a trip to Flagship Studios in San Francisco

The Basin has been chosen as one of the community sites to participate in a contest to win a trip to Flagship Studios (developers of Hellgate:London) in San Francisco! They'll pay for your round trip airfare and put you up in a snazzy hotel for a couple of nights just so you can say hello to the developers and play Hellgate:London way before anyone else! Not a bad deal, huh? If you're interested, make sure you take a peek at the details on our HGL boards.

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: April 10, 2007 - 12:39 am

Vol. 1, Issue 2 of the Basin News has arrived

Erinye's team of journalists have completed work on Vol. 1, Issue 2 of the Basin newsletter. This is the easiest way to keep up with the goings on around here on both a gaming and personal level. Do yourself a favor and read up!

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Posted By: TPJ
Posted On: January 18, 2007 - 1:26 pm

The first ever Basin Newsletter is here!

After a quick discussion about starting a community newsletter, ABM Erinye decided to grab the reigns and don the �editor� hat. She requested input from various game representatives here in the Basin to help her cover the bases and was able to produce our first ever Basin Community Newsletter! (pdf)

The debut issue contains little bits of news from each of our �official� guilds as well as minor notes of general interest. It is my hope that future issues will be produced and distributed on a regular basis and help keep everyone up to date on what goes on in this great place we spend so much time in.

My thanks to Erinye and her staff for taking the lead in this project and seeing it through.

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