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About the site

This is a collection of material related to the erotic roleplayers of the World of Warcraft realm Argent Dawn EU consisting of screenshots and character/alt information, also including some unrelated material to provide contrast and act as a baseline.

The files are preserved in Arweave - a blockchain designed for long-term data storage - and are accessed by the site using the gateway set in the topleft corner.

The site has not been designed with mobile devices in mind; for the best experience, use a proper desktop computer.

Goals

The primary goal of the project is to bring long-term consequences to the promiscuous players by archiving material of their actions in public into a blockchain where it should remain for hundreds of years to come, accessible by anyone who might want to know what kind of people they're dealing with.

As such, the main focus is on those who are part of the so-called RP-community that seems to continue maintaining a facade of shunning ERP, though I've been a bit lazy in recent times, going for the easy targets in Goldshire and The Bazaar instead. Still, it might be that even the ones found in those places might end regretting their deeds later on in life.

The project also acts as an archival operation of this particular subculture that I doubt anyone else is working to preserve.

Targets

The project is targeting lust-driven players on Argent Dawn EU that frequently engage in erotic interaction devoid of romance or commitment with the emphasis on the act instead of the other person - the type of people who seek to sate their primal urges with anyone who happens to be around and willing with no strings attached.

Though I am quick to classify most of the ERPers along with ones encountered in the three zones as male trash, some of them may be self-proclaimed females or even biological ones.

Monogamous couples are not targeted by the project, yet some of them may be included to act as a contrast to the core material or for future reference. Players playing on other realms than Argent Dawn EU are outside its scope as well.

The material

Most of the files and data on the site originate from the project maintainer, some have been contributed by the visitors. The material has been obtained via observation within the public game areas of World of Warcraft. The data used for alt-matching originates from the functionality provided by the developer of the game, Blizzard, including but not limited to the Armory, ingame /who-queries and the addon-API.

While some of the files have been uploaded as-is (with the exception of adding EXIF-metadata), many have been cropped to relevant areas to cut down upload costs, while some have edited for the sake of redaction of personal information; the latter are generally marked with the suffix '-edit' in the filename, yet some modified files may have slipped through without this. Files originating from external sources (contributed by others) are sometimes (but not always) denoted with an "EXT-" prefix.

The resolution/graphical fidelity of the recent screenhots is significantly lower than the prevalent standards of the current era; these files have been either taken with a game client running in a VM or in xephyr. Though some detail is lost, it does reflect positively on the upload costs.

Alt-finding

Characters are connected to one another by comparing account-wide variables such as pets and global achievements (denoted with a blue stripe in the screenshots) - it should be noted that this heuristics-based approach may result in false positives; manual verification should be performed by comparing the armory-pages of the characters or the achievements in the screenshots included in the compilation.

Certainty

The certainty-levels Low and Medium are designated by the automatic matching logic. It's possible that the characters of the same player are distributed between two or more player-entities in the database. Furthermore, as the characters are tracked by names, it is possible that a character that used to belong to a certain player currently belongs to someone else.

Matching by pets

The companion pets displayed in the Armory are account-wide and are updated to all of the characters of the player whenever any one of them logs out. A quick way to determine if two characters belong to the same player is to compare the Battle Pet Slots along with the number of Unique Pets in Collections -> Pet Journal of the Armory for as long as the player has a sufficient amount (5+ or so) pets. Armory, however, tends to give an error 500 when trying to access the pet data - this seems to mostly happen when the player is currently online.

Matching by achievements

The account-wide achievements can be used by comparing their dates on two characters; the more identical achievements they have, the more certain one can be that they belong to the same player. These achievements are marked with a blue stripe in ingame-screenshots and with blue text in the Armory. It should, however, be noted that sometimes the dates of even account-wide achievements can differ if the player has achieved the same feat on multiple different characters - for this reason, it is best to compare ones that can be achieved only once, such as "Quintessential Quintet" and "Double Agent" in Characters or "It's Over Nine Thousand!" in Feats of Strength.

Matching by honor level

Unlike pets and achievements, the honor level updates only when the character in question logs out so there can be a lot of variation in this number across the characters of the player. It can, however, be used to gain some further certainty or to quickly rule out characters if the difference in their honor level is absurdly large (in hundreds).

Other information

The source of the matching data (pets, achievements and activity) is my proprietary data-collecting / tracking system that gathers it from various sources. The data present in this gallery is a small subset of the actual database - inquire if you have a need for activity-logs such as this.

The Armory-page updates when the character logs out. The rendered image of the character may take some additional time to update.

If a character that is currently online is added to the friendlist, its status will not update until the next time the character logs on - this is a bug that has existed for years now.

The player names that the characters are grouped under are arbitrary; I generally use the name of the character that prompted me to add the player entry to the database.

Dates

In general, the times present in filenames are one hour ahead of Argent Dawn realm time, while the ingame-clock present in the topright corner of the screenshots is in realm time.

It is possible for a discrepancy to exist between the time seen in the upper-right corner of ingame-screenshots and the date at the bottomleft corner - the former is in realm time, while the latter displays the local time and is not frequently updated; if the realm time is between 00:00 and 00:59, it may be that the date displayed at the bottomleft corner is one day too early (as local time in most of the screenshots is one hour before realm time).

Most of the files have been processed and uploaded in batches, resulting to a group of files having similar upload times (aka. block times), though the most interesting content has been mined right away to have the block time closer to the time the material was captured. I've also started to get into a habit of uploading the content sooner, if not immediately after being captured, as the metadata can now be retroactively added (as opposed to embedding it into the EXIF-data - continuing to do that wouldn't hurt).

Questions and Answers

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Contact

Got some material that would make a fine addition to the collection, spotted some incorrect information, or perhaps you experience a fervent desire to throw some insults at me?

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