We’ve also decided to introduce a new role to function as an interim between mod & rep with the end goal of polishing an existing rep into being Nutty Moderator ready: Nuttier Rep. This role will have the ability to view modmail tickets and discuss with the current mod team in a designated channel. It is intended mainly for worlds that have no or inactive mods. Moving into this role is:
Mid: Win Sarun Sarg: Jazzy Lo-fi
Feel free to swing by our Nutty Team page to see what your new rep looks like and get to know a little about them!
This is your reminder that trains, primarily EW trains, will most likely be going back to local only. This means conductors across all worlds will not be calling their Hunt Trains in #📢-train-announcements as often, and will instead restrict them to calling them only in their respective tavern announcement channels, or not in AH at all. This is your reminder that you have local announcement channels (for ex:#🚂-jenova-local-announcements) where conductors will call trains instead of the usual spot. So if you’ve muted/hidden the one for your world, now is the time to turn it back on.
This is a decision that AH formally stands by, as many mods/reps help run trains on their worlds, and will be running local. If you’re new to the community, and don’t know why conductors choose to run local:
1️⃣ Just from local attendance alone (ppl only belonging to that world server) on a new patch, there can be hundreds of players trying to crowd into a zone. This number goes up when crossworld players try to attend as well. As this is a patch where you can get tome gear upgrades, attendance will be higher for a longer time. 2️⃣ As we’ve experienced, the bigger the train, the longer we’re stuck waiting at the aetheryte waiting to switch instances/zones. Whether they let up on throttling zone changing will remain to be seen. (rumors are throttling has eased up some) 3️⃣It makes trains more manageable for conductors. 4️⃣ Conductors from different worlds may run at the same time. This is to allow more crossworlders a chance to catch a train, but also help split the load.
While we have answered this question multiple times in the past, no, you cannot see into another tavern, even if you have an alt. As the mod team has said, we will be standing by our conductors in these instances of where they try to make pleasant train experiences for everyone, and will not aid in adding more unnecessary traffic. If you are found posting any trains anywhere in the server when the conductor specifically said it was local, no matter the expansion, administrative action will be taken. We will be looking for both conductors and riders to be courteous to one another and ask both to remember our #📖-trains-guidelines .
Aether Hunts is currently hosting our double glam contest featuring both cosplay glams and general seasonal glams! Entry is open to all Aether Hunts members, but please be sure to read the rules carefully so we don’t have to disqualify any awesome glams.
Additionally, this year we have a haunted house directory! Did you decorate your apartment? Your personal? Your fc house?! Drop a link and a couple screenshots in our #haunted-houses channel! It should be obvious, but this is for your IN GAME HOUSES ONLY. Please don’t doxx yourself!
As usual you can join our event #discussion channel to discuss the contests or share pics of your real life crafts and talk about your Halloween plans!
Calendar
🎃 October 2, 2023 8:00 PM EDT – Both glam contest open for entry ☠ October 16, 2023 11:59 PM EDT – Entries close and public voting begins 🦇 October 23, 2023 10:00 PM EDT – Public voting ends and Nutty Choice voting begins 👻 October 31, 2023 8:00 PM EDT – Both winners announced and tickets opened for prize claim
Hello! We are taking the time to squish a few announcements into one big one.
First, Othelia Emeraldsong has been working hard on updating how you all activate roles in the server. We present #🔴hunt-roles. These feature drop down menus instead of buttons which we hope is cleaner and easier to parse for the new user experience. If you yourself, or have friends that are new to discord, we will work on providing a tutorial on how hunt roles work on our website. Also, thanks to the efforts of Mutebard, the unban bot is once again functional (mostly). If you have any friends who may have attempted to join with new accounts while it down, please send in a ticket and we’ll get it sorted.
Next, If you are not aware, Hawai’i has unfortunately been ravaged by wildfires on one of their larger islands, Maui. There are dozens of people confirmed dead as well as hundreds still missing. AH acknowledges the devastation in Maui, and the impact that it has made to those affected especially those within our community. If you would like to donate to support those affected, please follow these links: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
Next, our biannual rep review has come and gone and we’d like to welcome our two new reps, Dhen Sunblade and Toaster Stroodel from Jenova! We’re happy to have them. 😊
Welcome to our first post! While long overdue, it would be unfair to not highlight how well our Pride Month activities went for us this year.
As usual, we plan many activities like our Pride Mega Train, Pride Parade, and Glamour Contests, all for charity. And boy did everyone show up and show out this year! We raised just over 14,000 dollars!
We had more than exceeded our humble goal of 5,000 dollars. We are truly grateful to those who donated to the cause.
For our activities, we had our annual glamour contest where people can glam to represent whatever sexuality or gender identity they so choose. Here are our winners!
We also had our pride mega train! Each world was assigned a color of the progress flag at random, and asked to wear the corresponding colors on their glams, as well as their mounts. Here you can see part of the Jenova train who had green!
Jenova with green mounts by the Labyrinthos Aetheryte.
Gilgamesh with Blue Mounts in Garlemald. Picture by Zomi Rose @ Cactuar.
Cactuar with Purple Mounts in Garlemald. Picture by Zomi Rose @ Cactuar.
We wrapped things up with our pride parade, where people still wore the chosen colors from the mega train and paraded across Eorzea. We’ve got a few pictures to share. If you’d like to see more, check out the hashtag #AHPRIDEPARADE on twitter (while it’s still up anyway)!
We also wrap it up with our conductor/spawner/scouter photo! This photo session gets voted on to become the new banner for our website as well as our discord invite link. This year’s winner was Lilaea Celaeno @ Faerie, one of our Admins!
Conductors and Spawners come dressed in their server’s chosen color for the year and get together for one big group photo. While the hunt community itself has grown in the past years, so has our crossworld hunt team.
Green for Jenova
Blue for Gilgamesh
Purple for Cactuar
Pink for Midgardsormr
White for Sarg
Yellow for Siren
Orange for Faerie
Red for Adamantoise
Once again we are so, so, so grateful for everyone’s participation in celebrating Pride this year. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
leadership review has concluded! You’re gonna see some new faces in new colors and old faces in new colors!
