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  • 0. In-Game Knowledge Base   06-Dec-2006 07:08:13 PST
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Hail, gamers!

We’re very pleased to announce the implementation of our first-ever in-game Knowledge Base! As we continue to add pertinent articles to this exciting new feature, we’d love for each of you to explore the depths of information we’ve provided and offer us feedback via this thread.

The idea of this Knowledge Base is to grant players the proper resources to examine “Top Issues” which should help spread awareness about issues which may be generating a good deal of petitions for our Game Master staff. In addition, we have scores of articles based on frequently asked questions our support departments have been receiving which will arm players with the cognizance of several aspects of the game’s functionality and our underlying policies and procedures.

Although the Knowledge Base is made to be very user-friendly, I’d like to briefly provide a run-down of its setup and functionality:

The Knowledge Base can be accessed by selecting the red question mark (Help Request) in the lower right portion of the game’s standard interface, similarly to the way one would ordinarily go about submitting an in-game petition.

Knowledge Base layout:

  • ”Top Issues” button – Selecting this button will instantly provide players with a listing of the Knowledge Base top issues in the search field (the top issues will display when first opening the Knowledge Base). The results from this category are generated automatically based on the rate at which players are reviewing specific articles.

  • Search field – Players may input any keywords into this search function in order to retrieve related articles.

  • Category & Subcategory – Preset categories can be chosen if one wishes to browse articles pertaining to specific aspects of the game (example: one may choose to search for articles relating to “combat & PvP” with “battlegrounds” as a subcategory to view all related articles to this genre).

  • Search Results – Results on your search will be displayed in the big box in the middle. Clicking on any article will take one to the full body of that article.

  • Open a ticket – If at any time you are unable to find the article for which you’re searching and have questions about an aspect of the game, feel free to use this button to submit a ticket as normal.


Important Features:

Performing a mouseover of any found articles or Messages of the Day will display the full subject text in a separate window.

A “Hot Issue” will sometimes be noted with a little flame icon which indicates the article provides insight into a topic about which we are receiving many reported questions or concerns. An article will be flagged (or un-flagged) as such by our department manually.

A yellow exclamation mark next to any article means it has been recently updated.

Please provide us, via this thread, constructive feedback on improvements/suggestions you’d like to see made to this new feature! We’re very excited about having the ability to spread awareness in-game of our most common issues, and welcome your ideas for the future of this Knowledge Base.

[ Post edited by Thuiljos ]


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  • 5. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   08-Dec-2006 08:03:05 PST
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It's just a shame it doesnt work :(

Always comes up with "Knowledge base is not avaliable" or something like that
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  • 6. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   11-Dec-2006 04:00:13 PST
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Sadly some of the information is also out of date, pity such a great system could not be lauched "Working" and "with correct data"
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  • 8. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   14-Dec-2006 23:29:54 PST
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Is this a GM run Data-Base?

If so, could you please show that this is an RP server on Moonglade,

If not, well I'm off to suggestions.

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  • 9. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   22-Dec-2006 08:59:57 PST
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The Knowledge Base is currently unavailable.

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  • 10. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   09-Jan-2007 10:31:21 PST
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If you feel any of the information is out of date, please reply to this post with the ID number of the article (found at the bottom of every article) so that we can look into it.

Similarly, if anyone feels an article needs to be looked over again, let us know!

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  • 11. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   09-Jan-2007 15:18:50 PST
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There is 1 thing I still miss; bots and gold sellers.

There are hundreds of thousands of players out there, wishing to help out, but I didn't find any article on how to do this in-game. I have found an excellent add-on, called SpamSentry, which auto-generates tickets to send to the GM's for players you mark as spammers, but many of us think this should be made easier.

Could a question called 'What is the best way to report illegal activities to do with out-of-game money?' be added to tell us what the GM's need to solve the problem as quickly as possible? The WoW players would greatly appreciate it.
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  • 12. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   09-Jan-2007 23:54:16 PST
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Q u o t e:
If you feel any of the information is out of date, please reply to this post with the ID number of the article (found at the bottom of every article) so that we can look into it.

Similarly, if anyone feels an article needs to be looked over again, let us know!


I have not yet seen this feature in-game, but had a brief look at the screenshot on the homepage and I was wondering if it would be possible to add the item links in the help as well? It might help the new players as well if the item mentioned in the help was click able and that player could view what does it do.
Then, it would be clear if someone asked "what level do I need to be to equip XXXX?" and could immediately see the answer himself.

What I was thinking was little more interactivity in this potentially great tool.

Also, I've also got a question - is it "self learning" system? Meaning, are the most-frequent questions be at the top of the list?

Hello and good luck!
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  • 13. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   11-Jan-2007 04:09:08 PST
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Jake, the team behind the in-game knowledge base liked the idea of having guidance reporting gold farmers and bot users so will be creating an article which will be published in the near future.

Yoghurtcz, unfortunately item links are not possible to search within the knowledgebase. The goal of the tool is to help players more with common customer support issues they have rather than game mechanic questions. Questions about the level or stats on an item can be answered by the player, just be checking the tooltip of the item in question.

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  • 19. Re: Patch 2.0.1 - In-Game Knowledge Base Live   09-Mar-2007 10:09:41 PST
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Q u o t e:
It's just a shame it doesnt work :(

Always comes up with "Knowledge base is not avaliable" or something like that
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