Off and On

As usual in summertime, Foxx spends less time on OSgrid, and more time elsewhere. As a fanatic gamer I've spent quite some time in LOTRO ( The lord of the rings Online ) which you can play for free. (also available via Steam btw).
Red Dragon now also exists as a kinship in LOTRO, located on withylwindle server. You can find our kinship webpage here :  http://red-dragon.theonekinship.net/ Since Riders of  Rohan will be released in 3 weeks, my summer abcense might be a bit longer than usual. ( Mounted combat and fresh Trolls to whack).

In case your dutch, and like to be in a dutch kinship, try http://dutchberzerkers.guildportal.com in which my "main" character (a level 75 champion) is officer and webmaster. Next to LOTRO we also play Battelfield ( Still BC2 ), Skyrim (cool), Civilisation (for old times sake), the GTA series, World of Tanks (gotta love Tanks! )  and some other games (days seriously need more hours....).  So far for the heads up on my "Missing Avatar".

In the few hours i am online in OSG (mainly weekends) you can likely find me hanging at LBSA, D&J's friday party on close encounters region, or building on Red Dragon club. (still 3 floors to fill).

OSG is almost back at 10.000 sims, of which you can be sure they were online in the past 3 weeks. (else they would have been purged from the map). Make sure to checkout the machinima Vid of OSG5B by Cyberbohemia in case you missed all the party's. Also grab a copy of the latest OSgazet which reports on the OSG5b celebrations. You can still join the weekly town hall meetings for the latest news, or compete in the speed building contest or primwords. Info on those events can be found at LBSA plaza, or by talking to one of the admins. Fresh updates on OSG related stuff will follow soon.

OSG5B

Happy B-day OSG !
Its the OSGrids 5th brithday, which means clelebrations and Partytime !

Here's the full Party - schedule :

FRIDAY, 20 JULY 2012

Fri 20th at 4.00 pm PDT: ‘monologues’ – Em Jannings: Call me Ishmael – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast - a live-voice performance by Avatar Repertory Theater
Fri 20th at 11.30 pm PDT: D&J OSG5B Party at region Close Encounter with DJ JayMaze – all different styles of music.

SATURDAY, 21 JULY 2012

Sat 21st at noon PDT: Opening and welcome speech by Osgrid president Nebadon Izumi at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st immediately after the speech: Live music with Greybeard Thinker and friends with guest stars “Just Us” at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st 2.30 pm PDT: Live-voice performances by Avatar Repertory Theater – Mr. Nakamura (Corwyn), a scene from Zoo Story (Thunder and Em) and a dramatization of The Child a story (Pip) – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast
Sat 21st 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm PDT: Live music with fritz clawtooth at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st 9.00 pm PDT to late: Saturday Night Dance Party with music mix from the 60’s to the 00’s and live performances by Walter Balazic / Littlefield Authority (and possibly Hiro Protaganist) at Speakeasy Club at region Speakeasy.

SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2012

Sun 22nd 1.00 pm PDT to late: The Belfast Maritime Club "on the road" featuring Truelie Ellen, Casias Faltas, Kitzie Lane, and special guests at region OSG5B Central
Sun 22nd 5.00 pm PDT: Avatar Repertory Theater – Affairs of the Smart - a short play by Kayden Oconnell (Rowan & Em), a Two Person Conversation from the Short Play Buffet (Em & Kayden) – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast

MONDAY, 23 JULY 2012

Mon 23rd from 1.00 pm PDT: Techno Music with DJ Tommy Jonas at region OSG5B Central
Mon 23rd 6.00 pm PDT: Live-voice performances by Avatar Repertory Theater – No Exit revisited – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast

Also make sure to visit the OSG5B regions, that have many displays of various sims & builders on the grid. Loads of cool new stuff there, in wide varieties. Also an excellent moment to harvest landmarks so you can  do some sightseeing and hopping & shopping later. You can reach the sims via LBSA plaza which has a sign setup to teleport there. For more info, hit the Forums

Photo Studio's

Today we had our Picture taken at Marty's Art Gallery. You can find the sim right next to wright plaza. Make sure to go check it out, and find pictures of all the (Famoush) OSG residents in it's gallery's.

To have your own portrait taken, you can visit martin's studios, and IM him to have your pictures taken. (Martin Spiritor). You can also request your picca's to be snapped at your sim of preference.

For more  photostudio's, check wright plaza, Red Dragons Studios at FBI AR, or any of the OSG sweetspots that make excellent background for photoshoots. You can easily find such spots allover the grid. (Check pictures from eralier articles to find some quickly, else try hitting one of the Travel centres ).

Red Dragon Regions on Voice

Hi all

OSG voice from Vivox is available for a while now, and they greatly simplyfied the voice application procedure. So as of today all Red Dragon regions run voice by vivox. If you want voice on your region aswell, you can try follow the information below :



3 simple steps (this whole procedure took us less than 10 minutes) :

1. Apply for Voice from Vivox with the form below :
http://support.vivox.com/opensim/
Mind it requires you to use Real life credentials. After filing the form, you will get a verification email. Click the link, and wait for the next mail which contains the data you need to edit in your opensim.ini to arrive.

2. Edit your opensim.ini, and enter the code snippet you recieved via Email into opensim.ini
If unsure where to put it, find "Freeswitch" and place the snippet directly above it. Save file and boot / restart the simulator.

3. Once started, login to your sim, and enable voice in your estate(s) and sim(s). To do so, click the menu - world -region/estate - estate tab & enable  the tickbox to allow voice chat. You have to do this for every region you want to use voice on. Also on each region open the about land (world / about land / Audio tab)
and tick the checkbox from disabled to either parcel or estate channel.
A step by step guide by Kitely on can be found on the link below (includes screenshots):
http://blog.kitely.com/2011/12/23/happy-holidays-kitely-supports-vivox-voice/

4. restart sims and test. If it doesnt work immediately, possibly your router / firewall needs some ports opened up. You can find the various ports below.

# Port 80 and 443 - TCP - for Web server (HTTP/HTTPS)
# Ports 5060 and 5062 - UDP - for voice control signals (SIP)
# Ports 3478 and 3479 - UDP - to aid in setting up voice with NAT (STUN)

If it still fails after opening all required ports, and restarting everything, try the hints on this link :
http://www.vivox.com/troubleshooting.php

If you need further assistance, you can usually find all the OSG guru's on good old IRC (find direct access to it at the bottom of this page), the OSG forums, and LBSA plaza when inworld. The excellent community on OSG is generally helpful, patient and friendly.

In the rare case that all of the above if that doesn't provide "joy", you either need to hire a voodoo man, or ask KJ from Vivox if he can assist you. (You can get in touch with him by replying to the mail you recieved, with your Vivox credentials).

 Do mind Vivox offers this as a temporary free service at the moment, so please be understanding if you cant get "immediate assistance". If you have high demands, you can also always consider purchasing the software, and get full support on it.