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After a recent review of our forum activity, Clan leadership has made some alterations to the user base. These changes have to deal with individuals who have long since departed the Clan for any of a number of reasons - mostly without a reason given. The Snowhawk Clan remains a tightly knit community of gamers and friends, and to maintain this it was decided that a prune to the roster was overdue. In accordance with the review, the following individuals have been moved to basic registered users, to retain guest permissions.

• Amra The Lion
• Angrakhan
• Agett
• Aluuvian
• Alastar
• Alewolf                          ...

Finally after a long long long long long long long long time of having that damn 1024 image size limit, I bit the bullet and looked into that image resize script. It was soooooooooooo easy to install! Just make sure you have jave enabled for the site and now they resize automatically. I shoved the limit up to 3000px, so post to your little heart's content.

I would like to again welcome those who have applied to the clan and made the effort to be part of our community. The following people have shown that not only are they worth having around but are indeed a valued addition to the Snowhawk Clan. For those who did not make it through the process, while it is always sad to see people fall out of interest before they got to really know anyone it is always for the best.

With that said, please join me in congratulating Rimaek and Cataline as our new brother and sister in virtual arms!

Cataline is not currently able to participate due to natural disasters where she lives, previous to this however she proved herself a person we all enjoyed having around to converse and play with. Our best wishes of recovery and safe return to normality are yours Cat.

Rimaek has shown continued interest in being a part of our community with activity both in and out of game, he is a welcome addition and has contributed to our team in multiple games. He has earned the rank of Snowhawk through his efforts and we are happy to have him on board.

Given his service to, and leadership of the Snowhawk Clan over the years, it is with great joy that I announce Vingnir Clan Elder and leader of Snowhawk!

Vingnir has been a pillar of this community since his joining in 2008. Among many things, I consider Vingnir one of the first of a "new class" of Snowhawks. One which paved the way to making a great community out of this Clan within Age of Conan, and later still, contributing to push this Clan towards greatness through it's exploits in the Border Kingdoms. In this regard our unrivaled dominance can in large part be attributed to his might and foresight, not only as a warrior for, but as a leader of Snowhawk.

And as our days as Cimmerian warriors become bittersweet memories to be reminisced about, Vingnir is still here, passionate about the Clan, and taking charge to see that it continues to thrive as a community of friends and gamers. He is long overdo, so join me in congratulating Vingnir as Elder & Leader of Snowhawk!

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Hello one and all! It's time to welcome your newest promoted brethren to the fold!

Koten is now a full blooded Snowhawk as he should have been a while ago! Welcome Koten!

Draggon has been promoted to Scar Bearer!

Reash has been promoted to Scar Bearer!

Salticus has been demoted to Scar Bearer! (we love you Salti, come play with us!)

Hakon has been promoted to War Chief!

Wulfghard has been promoted to War Chief!

Their hard work and dedication to the clan has been recognized today!

It's solid, polished, finished and fun game.

It's really hard to point at any one particular thing that's great about this game, but the sum of all of the elements work in such a way that it makes the game fun.

1. Social Interaction

There are a lot of subtle aspects to this game that at first seem meaningless and unimportant but in fact have huge impact on the gaming experience. One of the most glaring one is public grouping. While some people might have experienced this in some way in some other game, I have not. This is the first time I'm playing a game where grouping and cooperation is encouraged and very beneficial, and at the same time it's hassle free. Doing a quest in an area where there are a lot of other people? No problem. In all other games, people would compete against each other to get the kills, in Rift, you just click on the person and join them. The more people in the group, the more exp you get, and not less like in other games (compared to if u were soloing). On top of that, everybody in the group gets a quest kill or item.

For me, that is huge. I don't go 'fuck, somebody is here again' when I see people at my grinding spot or questing area, and that is exactly what I would say in other games. Instead I'm glad to see people there, we group up (sometimes we/out the other person even realizing it) and finish the quest in half the time or faster, because one person can kill mobs on one end and the other person on the other end of the camp and we...