Getting Ready for Thrane- The Portable Hole

Griglok (Karatemack)

Griglok (Karatemack)

Leader- The Casual Obsession (Khyber)
I hope most of the DDO community is as excited about the move to 64-bit servers as I am. Specifically, I am really excited about all of the old friends and new we will get to play with once the merger is complete. In that spirit... I wanted to start to compile a list of all of the raid guilds who are currently planning to come to Thrane. If your guild is coming, and I didn't mention it, please post in a reply below and I'll add your guild name to the bottom of this post!

For years now, I have participated as an admin on various discord servers dedicated to DDO. The two most recent were The Jungles of Khyber (started and run by LD as a community server for DDO Khyber players) and The Den of Dice and Draugr (a personal discord run for my guild in DDO and a few other games I play). Sometime last year, I made the decision to merge the two into one and make the place much more friendly to all players of DDO... hence The Portable Hole was born. To any players/guilds coming to Thrane- I'd like to offer to put together a calendar of sorts to map out when the various guilds host raid nights. I also have a bot that allows for raid signups by class/role to help organize things.

In the past year I've also started hosting a stream on Monday's at 8 PM EST called Fixer Upper. One of my goals is to make more builds accessible to the community and to highlight the creative folks behind the builds by interviewing them to describe their build choices and playstyle. In the discord, I have a build repository that gives a description of the build, provides the build file and links to a video of the build creator walking you step by step through the build. I'd love to continue this and to feature new builders from Thrane.

If you have a chance, pop by The Portable Hole and let me know what you think of what we've built and if there are any enhanced features you'd love to have as we all consolidate servers.
 
Griglok (Karatemack)

Griglok (Karatemack)

Leader- The Casual Obsession (Khyber)
List of Guilds Coming to Thrane


Lava DiversSurprised PikachuThe Casual ObsessionDalmatian of FaustThe Band of One
Crimson EaglesDark BringersDrawn by FateTyrs PaladiumEvensong
Plausible DeniabilityPandora's BoxRogues of ArgonessonWicked BaconElite by Nature
Has BeerKnights of the Round TableThe FloydinatorsArmament of ShadowsLowered Expectations
SubparUCAThe Circle of NightNoble Order of the UnicornsSword and Siren
High Rollers+5Cals Guild of MisfitsThe Riders of ApocalypseThe Undying Court
The Epic RaidersThe Dead Poets SocietySacred Order of Shaolin TempleSibylline CabalPnP Rules
Order of the Never Empty MugsEpik PooLeague of Misfit ToonsActa SanctorumWanderlust
CBTCrimson BeaglesCavalier CavalryBluelightMajestics
Soulhaven of KhyberMurder Hobos IncThe Final DestinationRubbins n'CoDDO Korea
Roll for InitiativeObliteradores de OrienToy SoldiersMindflayer TheaterFaith in Others
Sanguine ShadowsnUberC.L.A.W.Homeboys of StormreachThe Paper Dolls
Phoenix CrusadersMature Adventurers ClubRaven NationMagefire CannonNew Outriders
The Helpers GuildThe Lost VikingsReaper CasualThe DeadPestilence
The Horned SocietyElite RaidersThe Dendarii Free Mercenaries
 
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Tádhg

Tádhg

Magically Delicious
I will be moving my guild, Psycho Circus, to Thrane. While we do try to run organised weekly raids it is mostly in-house shortman runs just for the guildies to spend time together we do have plenty of members that enjoy running all sorts of raids with others too! We tend to enjoy our daily R10 runs and while we are still a young guild (10 months old) we have plans to be around for a long time and very much so look forward to meeting all the new folk on Thrane!

Anyone that knows us will know that we offer zero drama and are more than happy to help others out wherever we can! :)
 
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_fully_carroted_

Well-known member
I really wanted to go to Cormyr because it’s a Forgotten Realms name (I don’t care about Oerth or Eberron settings). But it looks as if Thane is the place to go if you want casual raids and large LFM population.

So… what will Oerik and Cormyr become?
 
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erethizon1

Well-known member
_fully_carroted_ said:
I really wanted to go to Cormyr because it’s a Forgotten Realms name (I don’t care about Oerth or Eberron settings). But it looks as if Thane is the place to go if you want casual raids and large LFM population.

So… what will Oerik and Cormyr become?
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It's really a question of whether those two servers can come up with a theme in the next month that will attract specific types of players to them. Otherwise, they will just be the servers people go to because they specifically don't want to be on Thrane (most likely either because it is perceived to be too crowded or there is someone they don't like going to Thrane).
 
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erethizon1

Well-known member
_fully_carroted_ said:
That’s a problem I’d love to have again.

Playing on Khyber after US East goes to bed, you might have two LFMs up, neither of which are in your level range.

The crowds are my favourite thing about hardcore.

As long as they don’t repeat rare loot, I’m excited to move to a busy place!
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Agreed. The only reason I won't pick the most crowded US server is if queues to log in actually become a serious problem (which seems quite unlikely). Even if lag becomes a problem from having so many people on at once, I know other DDO players have a much lower tolerance than I do (as evidenced by the years of lag whining we've seen on these forums), which means they will log out in frustration long before I do and as they log out the lag will get better!
 
Griglok (Karatemack)

Griglok (Karatemack)

Leader- The Casual Obsession (Khyber)
Alright... I just spent some time scrubbing through various forum posts and discord messages and have updated the running list of guilds that are moving to Thrane. If I missed anyone or listed any that have since changed, please let me know! I'll be reaching out to more of the folks on Khyber to continue fleshing out the full list.
 
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Jasparius

Well-known member
_fully_carroted_ said:
That’s a problem I’d love to have again.

Playing on Khyber after US East goes to bed, you might have two LFMs up, neither of which are in your level range.

The crowds are my favourite thing about hardcore.

As long as they don’t repeat rare loot, I’m excited to move to a busy place!
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Seeing LFMs pop up and fill instantly used to be a frustration, but then you just had to wait another minute and another LFM would pop up.

The good old days.
 
Indyanna

Indyanna

Pied Piper
Jasparius said:
Seeing LFMs pop up and fill instantly used to be a frustration, but then you just had to wait another minute and another LFM would pop up.

The good old days.
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I'll just be excited to have people actually join my LFM's when I'm TRing/Raiding. I put LFM's up as like a community service like "hey let's have fun and group!" but Khyber is quite slow for that now.
 
FaustianBargain

FaustianBargain

Well-known member
Indyanna said:
I'll just be excited to have people actually join my LFM's when I'm TRing/Raiding. I put LFM's up as like a community service like "hey let's have fun and group!" but Khyber is quite slow for that now.
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Yeah I’ve basically given up looking for or starting LFMs from learned helplessness.
 
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Elharith

Active member
Indyanna said:
I'll just be excited to have people actually join my LFM's when I'm TRing/Raiding. I put LFM's up as like a community service like "hey let's have fun and group!" but Khyber is quite slow for that now.
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Unfortunately, I'm not aligned with you in my leveling right now, or I so would. I saw you on earlier, but Elharith is 6, and I have a bunch at 12/13, but not 10. Go figure.
 
LokiFrost

LokiFrost

#NeverTrump
Griglok (Karatemack) said:
I hope most of the DDO community is as excited about the move to 64-bit servers as I am. Specifically, I am really excited about all of the old friends and new we will get to play with once the merger is complete. In that spirit... I wanted to start to compile a list of all of the raid guilds who are currently planning to come to Thrane. If your guild is coming, and I didn't mention it, please post in a reply below and I'll add your guild name to the bottom of this post!

For years now, I have participated as an admin on various discord servers dedicated to DDO. The two most recent were The Jungles of Khyber (started and run by LD as a community server for DDO Khyber players) and The Den of Dice and Draugr (a personal discord run for my guild in DDO and a few other games I play). Sometime last year, I made the decision to merge the two into one and make the place much more friendly to all players of DDO... hence The Portable Hole was born. To any players/guilds coming to Thrane- I'd like to offer to put together a calendar of sorts to map out when the various guilds host raid nights. I also have a bot that allows for raid signups by class/role to help organize things.

In the past year I've also started hosting a stream on Monday's at 8 PM EST called Fixer Upper. One of my goals is to make more builds accessible to the community and to highlight the creative folks behind the builds by interviewing them to describe their build choices and playstyle. In the discord, I have a build repository that gives a description of the build, provides the build file and links to a video of the build creator walking you step by step through the build. I'd love to continue this and to feature new builders from Thrane.

If you have a chance, pop by The Portable Hole and let me know what you think of what we've built and if there are any enhanced features you'd love to have as we all consolidate servers.
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Murder Hobos Inc are moving to Thrane.
 
Griglok (Karatemack)

Griglok (Karatemack)

Leader- The Casual Obsession (Khyber)
Silverhilt said:
link wont let me in Discord. I will be on Thrane as well.
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this link should get you there: The Portable Hole

Also, for anyone who has joined the discord and is a Guild Leader or who streams on the DDO Stream account, ping me once you arrive and I'll give you the roles for those.

I would also love feedback on how to make the discord better at its intended purpose.
 
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