Generation
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The term 'generation' is used to divide the Avlissian player population into groups by joining date and/or main character creation date.
The first few generations are set apart by the availability of magic items on Avlis. In the first months of Avlis, items of +3 or greater would drop regulary for characters above level 18, and that continued for a long time in the underdark.
After the first few, a new generation usually starts when Avlis gets some major attention by advertising.
One Percenters
These are the first few characters made in Avlis in July 2002, and are joined together in an adventuring band called the One Percenters. They are the most powerful characters around in terms of PC power and are rarely seen in Avlis today. Their names are:
- Feeb Ironfist
- Harthgrepa Daemonsbane
- Sammy Valorian
- Tri'as Ju'eir
- Vian Valorian
Second Generation
These characters joined just after the One Percenters, around mid-august/september 2002. The start of this generation is not clearly defined, the end is considered to be the cut-off of the so-called 'Balor Loot.'
Examples are Alladorn, Amonien, Green Raven, Peregryne, and Timo Karr.
Third Generation
Characters in this generation could get their hands on +3 items quite easily from random chest drops, for example in the underdark. The end of his generation is when the custom loot script was put into place, in July 2003. Another group of people belonging to this generation are the players who came from Mythos: Avlis was linked to the Mythos PW from May 22 2003 until July 21 2003.
Fourth Generation
When the chests no longer dropped loot according to Bioware's tables, but Avlis' own loot script and tables, powerful items were becoming increasingly difficult to find. While the Third Generation could easily get their hands on multiple +3 items, this was difficult for the 4th.
The end of this generation is September 2003. Several loot nerfs were made at the time: hordes of +1 items were no longer dropped, removing the exploit that made some PCs able to obtain millions of gold easily.
Fifth Generation
This generation is the first group of players able to go to other CoPaP worlds: links to Hala (Sep. 2003) and Rockhome (Nov. 2003) were made. Like Avlis a year ago then, those two worlds were relativily new, and suffering from the same 'childhood diseases' as Avlis: Some things like loot/gold were still very broken on those servers, and many took advantage of it, obtaining gear like only First/Second generation people on Avlis had at the time.
BioWedders
On wednesday, june 02 2004, the World of Avlis was featured on Bioware Wednesday, a weekly feature on http://nwn.bioware.com . On Avlis Bioware Wednesday - 'BioWedders' - Wednesday, Jun 02 2004 7. CoPaP Bioware Wednesday - Wednesday Sep 01 2004 and Sep 08 2004. 8. NWNX2 Bioware Wednesay - Wednesday, Jan 05 2005 8. Goobs (The official name!) - After Avlis started advertising on Google Ads.