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From time to time at Trion Worlds, we like to highlight players who go above and beyond with their fandom and create incredible art, fansites, videos, and guides. This week, we’re highlighting the folks at Telara DB!

Fan sites are an important part of any video game. They find and curate content that developers don’t give players directly. Often, they create these sites as labors of love because they are deeply invested in the games that they play. This holds true for Telara DB.

Telara DB

Telara DB is a RIFT fan site that holds item and appearance data from RIFT. You can search thousands of items and appearances and get the stats and descriptions for those items. What’s great about the Appearance section is you can see a full 3D view of the items. This is perfect for trying to figure out the appearances of items want for your character before collecting them. Later, the team hopes to implement the full databases for RIFT recipes, quests, NPCs, and achievements.

The Telara DB Team

This kind of massive undertaking couldn’t be done alone. The team includes data miners, tool creators, and database makers.

• JosuaLackhand is the site developer for Telara DB. He aggregates the data mining team’s data and presents it in the UI.
  “I was looking for an alternate way to search and explore the RIFTdata. I spent some time digging through the Discoveries XML files and brainstorming on what I could do with the data, and how I wanted to do it. I built and launched an early alpha version of the site, and shared it over at the Ghar Station’s Discord. From there, I got connected with Clowd, Deathbeams, and Imathrowback. Together we worked together to take the site in directions I couldn’t have foreseen when I…started. We do amazing things like extract and show 3D models with the help of Imathrowback’s Telarafly, display the iLvl and affix information based on the deep-diving math that Clowd has done, and have searchable appearances and links between equipment and appearances that come from Deathbeam’s hard work.”
• Clowd is the owner of The Ghar Station. On the Telara DB side, he data mines, provides formulas for the other data miners, as well as provides insight on how to read the data.
  “I had already resolved the iLvl calculations for RIFT and had been researching the affix system…to produce the final numbers on items…I pitched the idea of including the iLvl calculations into the site. ‘It’ integrated well into the site and gives extra info and insight into items that aren’t available…elsewhere.”
• Imathrowback is the lead data miner for RIFT. His modern tools are used to datamine patches from both Live and PTS.
• Deathbeams is a data miner and memory scraper. On Telara DB, he provides the connections between appearances and items, making it possible to view the items in 3D.
  “RIFT’s wardrobe system is the best in the industry in my opinion. I wanted to collect as many appearances as I could, but appearances and items weren’t connected which made it hard to figure out where to get them. I decided to find a way to connect them and share the data with the community.”

Learn more about Telara DB by checking out their website https://telaradb.com, their Trello Board, and their public Discord channel at The Ghar Station.

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This Friday, July 27, 2018, join us live on Twitch for our weekly RIFTstream.

This week we’re hosting Trion Creator and epic data-miner, Clowd! You may remember him from one of the most famous RIFT fansites, The Ghar Station, where he tirelessly works on datamining RIFT to bring players the latest RIFT game news. On this week’s stream, he’ll be showing off things via Telarafly, discuss his datamining process, and play some RIFT on the live servers. We’ve given him some goodies to give out so watch live for a chance to win! But, remember, you have to be on Clowd’s Twitch chat in order to qualify to win.

RIFT LIVESTREAM
Friday, July 27, 2018
11:30 AM PDT: Hosting Clowd
https://www.twitch.tv/clowd81

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DeadSimon did not think it could be done, but the Ascended have proven him wrong! The Seeker has been SOLVED on both Live and Prime. Want help finishing yours? Read on!

We were thrilled to see so many players banding together to share information on The Seeker. Locations started to pour into the forums and Discord from all corners, and the first completion happened on May 20th, just four days after The Seeker event went live!

This is an ongoing achievement available on both Live and Prime from now until the Plane of Fire freezes over. That means you have plenty of time to tackle it, and if you are stuck or want to get on the fast track, our friends at The Ghar Station have assembled a full guide for you!

Clowd recognizes the many contributors to the task, “Special Thanks to Kitasia (who started this list, it’s part her insanity) & the members of the Rift Dimensions Addicts Discord, especially Artemesea, Furyo, Tomba, Hersh, and anyone else I hopefully haven’t forgotten!”

Click here for the Ghar Station Contraptions Guide!

Winners of the Live and Prime Seeker challenges will be announced later this week.
SIDE NOTE: We are counting ONE entry per account for the Silver Tier challenge raffle on Live. One your account is on the list, further alt completions do not add to the count.
You’ll still get the achievements on alts and of course rack up a tidy bit of coin while doing so, but ONE entry per account. Don’t grind it!

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We love our Trion Creators, and admire their creativity and drive. Clowd at The Ghar Station has just launched a new feature, “Telarafly,” the RIFT Model & World Viewer!

You just never know what lies just under the surface, or around hidden corners in Telara. RIFT Dev has given their blessing for Clowd to share a very different view of Telara with all of you. Some of this is just plain weird, but certainly fascinating!

Learn more on The Ghar Station!

Thanks, Clowd!
Join the discussion about the feature here on our official forums!