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EcchiDreams has had a few optimizations and updates that were done the other day at 17:00 - 17:30GMT. In just half-an-hour Ero-Neko brought about the following bug fixes and updates:

More Profile Information
We have given members the ability to add more to their profiles (And there is more to come), including sexuality, gender, and secondary niché. Because this could be seen as personal information, we also have given the option for users to select "...Prefer not to disclose."

Better Profile Layout
The layout of the profile looked a little stuffed with information under the About Me section. Now users profiles have some information along the side the About Me section... After all it was looking a little bit... Bare. This includes the new and the old profile options. We have made room for more groups later on, too.

Location Information (Malformed Code) has been fixed in post
The section next to a users post, that contains the username, post count, avatar and location information... Well remember the location information being... Malformed? Well we fixed it, we finally located the problem, and fixed it. Would you believe it was a simple case of removing "<span>" and "</span>"... No neither could we...

EcchiDreams is 88%* Faster
Depending if your browser supports prefeching, and caching. But Ero-Neko has activated some mods, and optimized some code that could reduce the page loading time, upto 88%. This is almost, click a link, and the page loads instantly. Almost anyway.

Thread Summery in Reply to Topic
Taken away because there was a bug in the code, we have recently brought this feature back. At long last. You can view 10 previous posts when replying. This is a feature that the roleplayers wanted desperately and has been fixed and restored. Thank you for your inputs!

Now More Secure!
Won't tell you what we did for security reasons, but several security patches and the such have been made. You can now be rest assured, in realizing EcchiDreams is more secure than ever.

Re-Written Rules
The rules were re-written, because the links were wrong. This has been fixed, thank you for reporting it.

Roleplay Guides!
Are you bad at roleplaying? Or do you need advice, on how to better yourself slightly? Neptune has completely written a guide on EcchiDreams, we're proud to present them to you all.

• Emotional Response Guide:- To help people better understand, emotions, and how to put them down into a post.
• General Roleplay Guide:- How to roleplay, lesson description, realism and a very detailed section on sex! A must read!

Staff Wanted
We are looking for staff. If you are interested, please read these two threads!

• General Forum Moderator
• Thorndown Roleplay Moderator

Last but not Least
Ero-Neko our resident programmer, is returning on Monday 22nd February 2010 as Thorndown RP Administrator. RaiWolfGirl simply has too much going on, and she'll be staying with us, as a Forum Moderator.


We would like to point out that users, using Opera Browser, may experience some problems, while browsing EcchiDreams.

Hello and welcome to EcchiDreams. We have recently abolished the Email Validation system for a trail period of 3 months, in favour for a new Anti-Spam Service that determins if you're a spammer or not at registration!

In some cases, small cases, your account may need to be approved by an administrator before you get started and posting. But for the most of you, you can register and start posting immedately.

Why have we done this?
We noticed that alot of users weren't getting the Validation emails. So instead of requiring action on your end, we now do all the work, so you don't have to prove a thing. We are making it much easier for our members to join.

What about the security system- Error 10245?
Disabled, for now. So when you register, you will be able to use the PM system, and view your own/ other people's profiles.

Can I leave feedback on this?
Sure. If you have any problems, you can email our support department as well - support@ecchidreams.com or you can leave feedback in the feedback forums.

Thank you for you time, and from EcchiDreams-

Happy New Year!

Due to some input from one of our members, Sex Kitty, a couple of features have been added to make your RolePlay experience a little easier.

In the first post of the RolePlay [That appears on each RolePlay page.] the set out for the links is more organised and in an order that inable new RolePlayers to fill everything out in a nice, organised order and a lot quicker so that you can get on with your RolePlaying experience!

Also, in the Student Info/Teacher info thread, there is now a list of room numbers that have been claimed. So if you have developed a new character, you can check to see what rooms there are available so that you don't accidently claim a room that someone else has got! If you wish, when you have filled out a Info sheet, you can PM me with your claimed room number so that we are immediately alerted, or leave it as the threads will be checked daily for new characters.

If there are any other suggestions to make the RolePlay a better and easier experience, please contact me, Neptune, by sending me a Private Message. All feedback is welcome.

Kind regards,

Neptune
EcchiDreams Forum Moderator.

If you're seeing this on the portal page. Welcome to EcchiDreams.

EcchiDreams is a community that is both relaxing and warm. We're a new community that have started very recently and the turn out already has been amazing. I want to personally thank all the users that have registered to EcchiDreams for being apart of the growing community.

The old forums (before we had to restart, moving from vBulletin to Invision Power Board) had lots of users on it, and it's a shame that most haven't returned. The ones that have returned, welcome back and thank you for coming back. Everyone was given a code, to give them three months free premium membership. As promised we have kept this end of the bargin. Any users coming back with the code have recieved the premium membership. No cost. Unfortuneatly these codes have ran out, and therefore expired. So if you have a code from the old forums, it'll no longer work, and I apologize about that.

But when one opertunity closes, another opens.

So now that welcomes and thanks are out the way. I'd like to tell you about a competition.

The 100th user to register to EcchiDreams [Providing it's not a spam bot] will recieve 6 months of Premium Membership, free of charge.

Also. From here till 25th December 2009, there is another free competition for all members. To enter the competition, all you need to do is post. You'll get one entry into the draw. You can enter as many times as you like, as long as you post. Without getting into the details of it. A random number is drawn, and the winner gets 1 year free premium membership for free.


We have made several updates.

• Ero-Neko has uploaded his private Neko Collection which he has decided to share with the community. It's 1.08GB but I'd say it's worth it. Feel free to check it out if you like.
• We've also made some secuirty enhancements and have increased the ammount of Private Messages that Premium Members can store.
• User Reputation has been enabled. You can rate a users' reputation simply by clicking the "+" or "-" buttons on the post. This will effect the overall user reputation. You can't rep yourself, and you are limited to how many times a day you can give someone "+" rep and "-" rep. Lastly. Silver Premium Members have a slightly higher number of the ammount of times a day they can rep, and so does gold members.
• User profiles have been updated. Now you can enter more information about yourself (If you so wish) in order for more people to know more about you.
• Pre-Members can not view profiles. [Security reasons]

When you go into the RolePlay Forums, you will notice that there has been a new Sub-Forum added, 'Extra Information.' This is a forum where you can post extra information about your plots and characters so that others can read and understand your ideas a lot more and enable members to work closer to create a better RolePlaying experience.

Users are able to post their original ideas in this Forum for others to read. The ideas will be protected by the staff on the forums so that other users cannot steal or use your ideas without permission.

All the details are provided here,

Thorndown: http://www.ecchidrea...st=0&#entry2888

Mercury: http://www.ecchidrea...st=0&#entry2889

Pandora's Box: http://www.ecchidrea...st=0&#entry2890

The Cold Winter: http://www.ecchidrea...p?showtopic=176


In addition to the new Sub-Forums, there have been a couple of rules changed in the University RolePlays. It is outlined that Characters are allowed to become pregnant and have children, however they are NPCs and are not to be used in adult situations if they are under the age of 17. In the Mercury [Yaoi], users are allowed to have Mpreg as long as they have a good theory as to why [You can place your theories in the Extra Informations Forum.] Again, the rule that children are NPCs and cannot be used in adult situations is applied.

For those who did not read, there has been a change in the format for phone numbers to prevent users giving out personal information on the site. For more information, read the rules;

Thorndown: http://www.ecchidrea...hp?showtopic=27

Mercury: http://www.ecchidrea...php?showtopic=7

Thank you for taking your time to read this update,

Regards,

Neptune,
EcchiDreams Forum Moderator.

Welcome to EcchiDreams.

You may have noticed that the site has changed drastically. The forums are no longer at http://www.ecchidreams.com/forums/ they are now on the main domain name, with a portal. As soon as you come on to EcchiDreams you'll see the latest news, and soon to be latest threads and you'll see online users, calender, and the whole community as a whole.

I hope you enjoy the new EcchiDreams.


Kind Regards,

EcchiDreams Staff
www.ecchidreams.com

We have preformed some minor updates to the site, that fixed some bugs, we've also added Google Adsense adverts, which serve to pay for EcchiDreams web hosting. So if you get time, click on some ad's. You don't pay anything and it will help us to keep EcchiDreams online. It was a hard decision to make as we wanted EcchiDreams to remain free for everyone, and with the current recession, and credit crunch, we've come short for the past six months, which resulted in minor downtime. These adverts will not effect you, and in the long run, and are practically out of the way and hidden.

This doesn't effect Premium Membership, as the adverts are hidden.

The forums will also be opened back up for unregistered users, previously some of the forums were hidden from Non-Registered users/ Visitors, as we think this is a little unfair, and by popular vote, the forums will be re-opened.

Please note; as always, EcchiDreams is a pop-up advertising free zone. We do not allow popup advertising.

Also the buttons at the bottom of the pages [That ALL users see] are our link exchangers. If you're interested in becoming a link exchanger with us, and would like to advertise your site on EcchiDreams, then please see our web masters page.

We do not sell/ lease/ loan/ give or otherwise your private or public information, to these advertisers or link exchangers. Never have. Never will.

Just to inform members that the Premium Membership feature is back online today. We'd also like to inform members that prices have been lowered by upto 50% and you also get 12 months instead of 6 months. This is a fixed price and is not a special offer. Premium Membership prices will be reviewed yearly from 27th July 2009 (So the next time we change the price will be 27th July 2010)*.

	Gold Premium Members	Silver Premium Members	Members	Pre-Members
Private Message Space	10,000	2,500	200	0
Number of Characters in RPs	10	8	6	2
RP Scenarios**	5	4	2	2
Custom User Title - 800 Posts				N/A
Premium Member Forums
No Adverts on the Forums
Immunity to the rules

* As our finances department is in the United Kingdom, the fixed rate of £15.00 for Gold Premium Membership or £10.00 Silver Premium Membership will stay the same. Prices in other currencies will not stay the same, only this will change, as exchange rates change. We do not guarantee it will be higher one week and lower the next, as the economic system isn't stable. See http://en.wikipedia....i/Exchange_rate for details.

** Roleplay Scenarios are access to certain roleplay forums. The following are the scenarios:

• Thorndown University and College - EcchiDreams, first ever role-playing area. A University under American and British law. Life there is very interesting and people from all walks of life enter the university. This doesn't require any membership, and it's completely free, and quite popular.
• Mercury University and College [Yaoi] - Mercury [Yaoi] University and College - Basically similar to Thorndown, except it's 100% Yaoi. Again, this doesn't require any membership, and it's completely free and also popular.
• Pandora's Box Research Station - Silver and Gold Premium Members only. Set in the year 2530, this is a futuristic RP on a research space station.
• Blackberry Falls - Silver and Gold Premium Members only. The most free ranged Roleplay on EcchiDreams. Based in a city where the sky is the limits... Or is it?
• The Cold Winter - Gold Premium Member Role-play, only. A survival RP where your characters must survive in a period of Nuclear War. Anything goes, but watch out, because anything comes...

Well. We thought we'd be going offline on the 28th July to the 4th August. Turns out, we went offline on Thursday 23rd and came back the next day. xD

That was a quick and painless install of Invision. We thought it was going to take a week, because it would of with the other software we were using.

The forums are back online, please report any bugs to us, if there are any. We'd be happily able to fix them. I acknowledge that there are a few things missing, such as the Arcade, and that'll all be back soon, don't worry.

If you were a member on the old forums or have a code that was sent to you, can you give me a PM with your old username or the code, so I can put you all in the list of people to be upgraded to FREE Premium Membership.

[This includes members that did not have Premium Membership, this is your chance to get it for free!]

Any bugs, spelling errors, errors in general, please post either in a PM, or in the Tech Support or Suggestions, Comments and Feedback forums.

A few things are to be done over the next few days:

• Load our massive smiley collection
  
  
• Upload the 2,500+ Neko Pictures
  
• Arcade
  
• Dark Skin
  
• Premium Membership Setup
  
• Forum Clean up

Items struck off, means I have done it.
[EDIT, 27th July 2009]= I've just got two more things to do, which I will do later when I am awake, as I was up all night with Neptune building the Arcade up and getting the games.

Hopefully by the end of August, we'll be running at 100% again. But if it's anything like over the past few days, then it could very well be by the end of next week. xD

I have been up for over 84 hours now. I'm now off to bed. I think I deserve the rest.

Thank you for returning, and happy EcchiDreaming ^^