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The Forums are Live!

Update #13 · Apr 30, 2012 · 35 comments

The Banner Saga forums are now officially live and include a special forum just for backers. Make sure you create an forums account using the same email address tied to your Kickstarter account, otherwise we won't be able to track you down and make sure you get the special permissions.

Head on over by clicking the new "Forums" button on The Banner Saga website or get there directly by clicking HERE.

Here's a quick overview: We've got a news and off-topic section where we'll be keeping you up-to-date with any good interviews or previews that come up. There's the special Backer-only subforum just for you, and the general discussion Longhouse, where we've already started a discussion about guild crests. The beginner's circle is where we'll be answering all the basic stuff- what's the game about, who are we, etc.

We'll be answering the boards as much as possible, but we've also gotten some help from a few guys who will be doing some moderating for us- Sean (from The Old Republic), Scott and Stelly, so if you see them answering questions it's because we asked them to :)

Bear with us as we'll inevitably hit a few snags. We've never launched a forum for 20,000 people before so we'll do our best to keep things chugging along and iron our problems as they arise.

And as always, thanks from all of us at Stoic! We realize there's probably a lot of speculation about the details for now but we'll be adding more content about the game as quick as we can. We're pretty approachable nice guys, so help us keep the same tone for the forums. Talk to you soon!

Alex, Arnie and John

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      Creator albert on May 2, 2012

      Hey Stoic, I changed my kickstarter email recently, should I register with the new one or old one?

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      Creator Thilo Bayer on May 1, 2012

      Hi Stoic team, you should offer a different way to register as Facebook Login is not accepted at your forums.

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      Creator Alain Alphonse Khoury on April 30, 2012

      Hrm. I made my forum account and used my e-mail, but since I was accessing kickstarter through my facebook account it isn't letting me go to the kickstarter forum. >_<

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      Creator Timothy Chan on April 30, 2012

      I can't access the kickstarter exclusive forum /: Must I tag it to my kickstarter account or something?

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      Creator KEK7go - Obsidian Order on April 30, 2012

      Ha! I managed to make a post before forums became unusable.

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      Creator Alain Alphonse Khoury on April 30, 2012

      What if I signed up using the facebook link? I'm assuming to just use that one, but are you still able to track it like you can with a regular kickstarter account?

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      Creator Benjamin on April 30, 2012

      I'm getting this when clicking the Register button:

      Internal Server Error

      The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

      Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@stoicstudio.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

      More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

      Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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      Creator Dominik Dalek on April 30, 2012

      500 ISR here as well.

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      Creator Jeremy Huntink on April 30, 2012

      Hah, getting errors. No big deal though. More as expected. ;) I'll try to sign up tomorrow in stead when things have cooled down.

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      Creator Stoic on April 30, 2012

      Okay, our web admin seems to have given us some breathing room on the forums. They're up now.
      Heya, Martin!
      -Arnie

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      Creator Martin Castaldo on April 30, 2012

      Yay!

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      Creator Ola Hansson on April 30, 2012

      I hope that the existence of forums won't mean the end of Kickstarter updates - not all of us want more websites to follow... if I read the forums for every game I've kickstarted, I would not have any time left over!

      But I would still like to be up to date on the progress, and be able to take part in surveys, etc. - so I hope for continuing regular (possibly backer-only) kickstarter updates!

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      Creator Rob Beckett on April 30, 2012

      Will register in the morning. :)

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      Creator Gábor Avadí on April 30, 2012

      Forums are getting hammered, will check back in a day or two :D

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      Creator Jeremie Lariviere on April 30, 2012

      vBulletin Message
      Sorry, the board is unavailable at the moment while we are testing some functionality.
      We will be back soon...
      ---

      I'll be patient :)

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      Creator Ken Edwards on April 30, 2012

      Wow that is so awesome. I click on the forum and click register and it is not taking registrations. So awesome! Hope you guys have this whole forum thing figured out soon.

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      Creator Paweł K. on April 30, 2012

      It went down right after update notification, btw I didn't found option to upload my own avatar.

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      Creator James Yee on April 30, 2012

      LOL And another forum dies thanks to Kickstarter. I love it! :)

      Just take some time fixing this forum issue so I have more time to do my crest. :D

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      Creator Suzie Q Sailaway on April 30, 2012

      Forum suffering from over-enthusiasm. Hah. :)

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      Creator MarcieAlana on April 30, 2012

      "500 Internal Server Error" -- It seems to have gone down with the load.

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      Creator Joe on April 30, 2012

      hehehe... looks like the server didn't like the kickstarter update.

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      Creator Philip-Arthur Campbell on April 30, 2012

      Hey everyone create an account at once, make those forums cry!

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      Creator Stoic on April 30, 2012

      Oops...uh. Seems we have a lot of people interested in the forums. Please be patient. :)
      -Arnie

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      Creator Michael Matzat on April 30, 2012

      And the boards first crash in it´s very first seconds. :D

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      Creator Max Reiter on April 30, 2012

      Yeah, little technical hiccups are inevetable this early on though. I'll pop back and visit tomorrow :)

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      Creator David Hannah on April 30, 2012

      My message

      The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

      Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@stoicstudio.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

      More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

      Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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      Creator Jason Olsan on April 30, 2012

      I just got a 500 int server error. Just letting you know to help track down the issues.

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      Creator Paweł K. on April 30, 2012

      Before this update it was running fine :)

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      Creator Thomas Mon on April 30, 2012

      I think we need to upgrade our cyberdeck.

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      Creator David How on April 30, 2012

      Kickstarter crashes another forum! :)
      It's almost like getting slash dotted

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      Creator Eric Johnson on April 30, 2012

      yup, same here. Plus and additional 404 Not Found error. Two errors for the price of one! Must be a kickstarter bonus ;-)

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      Creator Stoic on April 30, 2012

      We got a database error as well. Then it worked again. We're trying to find out what's what.
      -Arnie

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      Creator David Hannah on April 30, 2012

      Yea I'm getting a database error while trying to check my e-mail for completing the registration

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      Creator Martin Aigner on April 30, 2012

      guys! dont flood the forum all at the same time... thats why we can't have nice things xD

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      Creator Alesander Simancas on April 30, 2012

      Forum returns a database error

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