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A new feature has just been added on the server: "Anti-mobs-pull". From now on, if a monster does pass the 7x7 range of his initial spot, it will be teleported back to its initial coordonates where it was spawned first time. This will *hopefully* stop several unhealthy mechanics: Pulling monsters from other spots to your own party spot to gain extra EXP, increasing the gap by a lot between very active players and less active players. Pulling monsters from other persons spots (by accident or intended) that would cause exp lose to that party. Mobs running out from their spots so newbies being confused when they reach a place where a spot should be, but no monsters can be found. Pulling "harder" monsters to other persons spots to get the spot "for free", after the mobs does kill them. Note: This feature is disabled for events monsters, invasions monsters, bosses, etc. It only works for basic spot monsters. We believe that this feature will make our gameplay more healthier for everyone involved, very active or not. Please let us know if you find anything wrong related to this. Extra: Don't forget to register to our Soccer Night #1! Registrations will close tomorrow. Read here: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/4014-soccer-night-1-10102020/ Happy gaming!

Hello everyone. I wanted an open discussion about this new feature, because the original topic, which tells us to "Please let us know if you find anything wrong related to this. " is Locked. I cant help but feel like this is favoritism towards the small elite group of top people, that have been abusing this pull tactic a lot, letting them reach ranking top spots and have more time to focus on events now, instead of tiring them selfs out, pulling multiple spots. its not like this mechanic is new, some people used it on last database as well to get ahead of others. Now that i see more and more people catching on to how its done, trying to catch the top players, suddenly its no longer an option, but the damage has already been done, and people who abused it a lot(for pretty much 12 days now), are now having huge leads and making impossible to catch up to now. I mean, from the original post, it seemed like this feature got added to make the gameplay more fair, and if so, wouldn't it be fair to downgrade the few elite players who abused the hell out of this to get a huge lead , making them pretty much unrivelable for golden invasions, PvP raids, CCs , WWs , and getting BC rewards, to an extent. So pretty much almost all the early events. So how can we fix the issue at hand , because with the stage system, the problem would resolve it self after 3 or 4 weeks, but until then , they have a hard earned, but unfair lead. So , my suggestions are these. 1)Down grading them a reset, so they are still a head, but not by that much. 2)Decreasing their xp until some other parties can catch up 3)Temporary restricting access to events on their chars. Thanks for reading my rant, i know the biased will dismiss this as crying or what ever, but i want to hear other peoples opinions and suggestions. P.S. This new feature is messing with BC and golden mobs.

When everybody was struggling to survive on a weak spot, we were pulling mobs. Most of you couldn't pull mobs, even if you wanted or tried it, because you were not using proper items, buffs, builds, positions, coordinations or party build. It's about thinking of everything, not just pulling. Those pulls were not an abuse, but a well planned and developed strategy.

We do believe that we tweaked the feature up, which means things like mobs disappearing from BC/DS/CC, kalima gates disappearing after usage or goldens getting their coords bugged should be fixed. At least as we're seeing on test-server, where we sadly can't simulate 700+ users online that can "complicate" things up. We'll give it a new shot on official somewhere around 23:00-00:00 Server Time, after the entries reset. If we'll notice something wrong after we put it back live we'll disable it again ASAP. So keep this in mind if you plan to go on the events after the feature is back up, to make some screens in case it fails again, so we can refund you! Cheers.

I agree with enkegg. My suggestion is to extend the 5rr cap a while to let some others catch up. Something should be done to balance things out! Regardless. They did it fair and square. Other than potentially using 3rd party software to their benefit but that’s for another day 😉

@Deadcat You do realise that people that are in top have higher maps free of other people, there before would be able to pull 5-6 spots at the same time without anyone contesting them, wile the rest of the playerbase would be lucky to get a free spot that they could pull. Everybody knew about the pulls from other DB's, but everybody was silent. It would not be fair or ethical in my opinion to remove a reset, decrease XP or remove them from doing events because in order to reach that advantage, work was put in. And yes, i'm one of the partys that did pulls, and trust me, the reason i tottaly agree with this change is because the gap between casuals and ppl that can do pulls in high maps will just continue to get bigger.

Hello Deadcat, Great points your raise. I raised very similar points in the forum chat also. The general thoughts were, the top few have trained very hard to get where they are, they just got their easier because of the fact they were 'ahead of the pack'. This is what allowed them the space to pull mobs and gain a further advantage over the crowd behind. I believe this type of advantage destroys the player base, and goes against everything the admin try's to achieve here, which is why he fixed it (albeit temporarily at the moment). I'm sure he will figure it out, and kudo's for doing so. How to handle the lead already achieved is an extremely touchy subject, removing rr's might be a bit harsh. My thoughts in the forum chat was to make the end of stage 1 penalty larger than curranty budgeted for. This would allow us all to enter stage 2 a bit closer together at least. IMO stage 1 is lost now. Regards, Roidsbru / Enk