Rift: Tracking News and Solving Problems

Here's the link to the official Rift forum for technical issues.  This is the place to go for help if you are constantly disconnected, experience constant lag, etc.
http://forums.riftgame.com/forumdisplay.php?64-Technical-Discussions

This site has tidbits from the developers about downtimes, updates, etc.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/dev-tracker/

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Rift: PvP and Role Play Sites

This website is devoted to PvP and Realm Versus Realm (RvR) play.
http://www.riftrvr.com/

There are warfront strategy guides, an article about UI and interface settings for PvP, etc.  If you are interested in versus play, you'll want to explore this site.
http://www.riftrvr.com/2011/03/30/ui-and-interface-settings-for-pvp/

Thanks to IGN's Rift Kingdom, I found this site with PvP-specific settings.
http://www.thetelaran.com/2011/03/29/settings-for-a-better-pvp-experience/

If role playing is your thing, you'll want to explore this website which has a database of players, a forum, and online role play (public and private).
http://rift-legends.com/

Here's an article to spark debate on how to structure role play in Rift.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?1148-Roleplaying-in-Rift-how-to-make-it-happen

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Rift: Banks (and Guild Banks)

Guardian players can find their bank in Sanctum while Defiant players' bank is in Meridan.  Here is a bit of information about bank basics.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Bank_(Rift)

There are no guild banks right now but they seem to be on the way.
http://rift.zam.com/story.html?story=25802

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Rift: Meridian Guide (Defiant)

This two page article is a guide to navigating Meridian, with an explanation of where to find various vendors, the bank, where to buy a guild charter, etc.
http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/articles/111057.aspx

http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/articles/111057.aspx?p=2

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Rift: Porticulum Locations

A good map of all the proticulum (i.e., portal) locations.  It is color coded as to whether each is neutral, Defiant or Guardian portal.
http://rift.incgamers.com/guides/Porticulum_map

A map of all the porticulum locations for Defiant players.
http://www.lotd.org/showthread.php?t=31203

A list of all porticulums.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Porticulum

Another
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Transportation_%28Rift%29

I found a list of porticulum masters here.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Porticulum_Master

There is an interactive map with porticulums listed you can download here but I can't say how safe this is.
http://drakkashi.com/rift/map.html

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