Scream112, the founder of MO Radio, has organized an awards event for Mortal Online and the overall community. The awards cover a wide spectrum of categories, from your favorite developer, to the most annoying player in the beta, and everything else in between. There has been much that has transpired this year in the greater MO community and awards and possibly a few tomatoes are certainly due. The deadline for making your nominations is Sunday, December 20th, at 10:00 PM GMT. To submit your nominations simply email them to, bestof2009@mo-radio.com.

The award categories are as follows.

Dev You Would Most Like to Have Babies With (Your favorite developer)

Worst Troll on MOFO

Most Helpful Poster on MOFO

Most Epic MOFO Thread

Most Annoying Player in Beta

Most Helpful Player in Beta

Best PvPer in Beta

Best Bug Report

The Best Fan Art

Most Successful Guild

Mortal of 2009 (You can nominate anyone, simply provide a reason why)

For more information about the Best of 2009 Awards, please check out the designated forum thread located within the Mortal Online Forum Boards. You can find a link to the thread, here. If you have comments or questions regarding this article, please leave a comment below. As results pour in, we will continue to follow the award process and will make sure to give you the results here, on NNN.

A thread has been created in the politics forum on MOFO detailing that forums inactivity level. Riddle of The Drunken Beggars Clan was the threads original poster and writes his views about the level of activity. He goes on to mention that despite the hard work that went in to creating the forum in the first place, it is highly underused.

Listen up.

We need to rethink the way we’re treating each other. Theres not enough smack talk going on for my liking. I hate to harp on about that utter dross of a game Darkfall but if there was one thing it did have was a pre-release e-peen swinging arena which was really fun.

St Judas and the other red shirts spent an awfully long time trying to get this forum for us and the least we can do is create posts for him to moderate!

Entertainment levels goes up, or else. Be ye warned.

His post is overall very tongue in cheek, but in the opinion of this writer, he brings up some solid points as do the other posters in the thread. A sandbox survives on it’s community. If there is no community interaction, you will not have a successful sandbox MMO. Admittedly you cannot force someone to create drama or bring up something to talk about, but as he says, “Entertainment levels go up, or else. Be ye warned.” The success of MO will depend on it’s community and time will tell.

For more information about this thread or others in the politics forum, please check it out on the Mortal Online Forum Boards. If you have any comments about this article, please leave them below!

Finally after weeks of work, The Nave News Network is being released to the Mortal Online Community. It is our intention to make this website and newspaper the most in-depth and unbiased source of player originated MO news on the web. While other news websites focus and adhere to game developer news and game information, we intend to delve deep into the community of the game. We want those stories that really shape a sandbox game, the stories of intrigue, betrayal and triumph. These are our focus.

The staff of NNN have was always been inspired by the great stories that come out of sandbox games. Stories such as these can rival anything that happens in the real-world. My biggest inspiration in this regard is EVE Online. EVE Online is currently the ultimate sandbox MMO in my opinion, and what has come out of that game over the years is truly awesome. To facilitate coverage of these alliance, corporation, and pilot news topics, CCP, the developers of EVE, initiated something known as The Interstellar Correspondents. It is The IC, that NNN hopes to live up to the standards of.

A global (in the case of IC, galactic) news reporting organization. Finding those stories scattered across Nave that matter to the guilds and players of The Mortal Online World. Breaking news: alliance reporting, war declarations and coverage, economic take-overs, event news and coverage, shifts in power and etc. In-game event and situation analysis from community experts. Various opinion pieces from prominent Nave denizens. The news that matters the most to the players, to the players with an invested interest in the happenings of their fellow Nave denizens, that is what we bring to the masses.

We don’t care about the best build or what kind of ores there are. We care about who you killed yesterday and how it is going to affect tomorrow.