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1 hour ago, Shuryk said:
EE in Vine +13 W2+15 can stay in CW if he have minim 400lvl+ 50 ML, and mobs hit her 110-140
CW mobs have same stats like similar level mobs (for example, Condras).
We can't balance mobs DMG around EE, that would mean defence would be useless for all chars except EE.
But, because we increased Def from AGI for most classes and because EE doesn't have anything to raise her survival, we will give her the soldier buff automatically even after level 250+ (for EE's only, based on the same EE rule like for PvP).
No, we nerfed DMG buff more than DEF buff, as the dmg it matters more when it comes to PvP / Hunt / etc. between ppl with buff and people without buff. Also, dmg was nerfed more due to other reasons like global pvp dmg increase, etc.
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20 hours ago, Shuryk said:
About Kalima, never i dont see this location populated but if u want to join u need to find a tiket, its little dificult in comparation to basic maps, mb make Kalima little better ? Decrease little range attack, mb better drop,exp or add +1 monster ?
After the rework of spots/mobs Kalima is nice. The advantage is that you are safer from PK compared to other maps. Spots/drops/mobs are the same like any monsters of their levels.
19 hours ago, Shuryk said:WW ring, mb make possible to drop down this ring ? no store, valut only drop down ?
CW, in non rr edition its non populated map, very stronger monsters and low drop ingredients from Fenrir make this map usles. Rise more drop of ingredients from Fenrir and make mobs little weak. In non res edition i think no one no make fenrir from CW, all its from OSGM events and old+4. In x30 mb 5-10% of fenrirs its farm on CW
@ADMIN ?
Not sure if I can do that with ww ring, but I'll try.
About CW - mobs should be better after the mobs rework (you can test). Also ingredients drops were boosted a little.
7 hours ago, rikihz17 said:Make it so when you get dced on an event you can go back in. So annoying when someone dc's in IT or BC and they relog and you're left with one less member. I'd appreciate a lot if you fixed it for phoenix.
It is already, on NonReset as well, but only for BC and DS it's possible and you also lose the event participation, you can only come back for the exp/drops after reconnect.
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15 minutes ago, iQon said:
I actually said this the day they announced phoenix is coming and even though they said some bs about non rr being long term it took 2 weeks and they lost more than half of their people. If their next server - Phoenix wont be long term he will lose the trust of the players so it has to be long term or people wont be able to trust management anymore. I hope admin takes this into account.
It's funny how you still trash-talk here.
Do you see any of our servers closed before 8-12 months? That is LONG-TERM. We can control how much server is online but we will never control how much people CHOOSE to play. Keep trash-talking and I promise you're out from here. Kisses.
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First to make a reset:
ME: Lilith
BK: WhiteBK (First reset from the server)
SM: Merc
SUM: hAse
DL: UzzY
MG: Cash
RF: darkyo
Stage 1 Unlocker: Takeshi
Stage 2 Unlocker: Legion
Stage 3 Unlocker: ProBSB
Stage 4 Unlocker: RoanMG
Stage 5 Unlocker: Neby1
First to get 30 resets:
ME: Tuesday
BK: PsYcHo2you
SM: Litecoin
SUM: Beren
DL: Neby1 (First to get 30 RR from the server)
MG: Symphonia
RF: TakenTotal Accounts: 21389
Total Characters: 9617
Record Online: 794Final Ranks of the Edition
Normal Top:
Blood Castle:
Devil Square:
Chaos Castle:
Arena Tournament:
Castle Siege:
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avee
in Say Hello!
Welcome back @aveee
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Hello,
The Public Test Server for Phoenix has been released.
You can download the client from here:
https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/2919-phoenix-downloads/The documentation for commands available on test server can be found here:
https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/2921-phoenix-test-server-commands/
You should know that the characters/skills haven't been touched yet (so chars settings are similar to nonrr for now). Also some things aren't finished yet, as we are still working hard to finish everything before the grand opening.But you can test up to 80% of content, so enjoy!
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Helpers are needed as they are. Why? Because server is designed to be progressed in a full party, and after some time the amount of new people is low, so much harder to have a 24/24 party of newbies in order to progress.
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Hello, start by reading this guide:
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Set multiple of 5 value on helper settings for buff.
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All fine here. If error persists contact us on fb page and I'll make you a patch.
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6 hours ago, Mynd33 said:
The fact that some people get to use it and some don't is pay2win for many people that can't/don't want to leave their PC on for 24/7.
First time you argued about farmer-bots, but after my suggestion you have nothing more to say besides some silly thing about electric paybill. Even you understand how stupid it is to not have such feature baseline that would actually help people to save money and frustrations. Implementing this would not cost you a cent, it is not you personal invention and it is literally first server I see that charges money for it.
I see the only reason why you did what you did is to make people buy VIP and I think you won't deny that, like its not enough with other 20 bonuses they get. I feel like money is becoming more of a focus than I thought.
As for VIP's 15€ for a week = 60€ a month. Thats actually 4x the cost of monthly subscription to any triple AAA title MMO game. No wonder people stop to buy them after first few weeks. And lets be real 90% of people will be lucky even if they can earn credits to get VIP every 4th/5th week. Best way is to add subscription 5€-7€/month and remove all this donating p2w stuff. This amount of money is more than enough to sustain such non-damanding game server if you compare it to huge mmo server like wow which asks for only 13€/month. A lot of people are ready to pay sensible amount of money to play on well maintained and not pay2win server. In the end it will support server with more money in total and improve game environment.
I hope eventually things will get sorted out and we won't see new servers opening every 3 months just to get money, because it doesn't seem to be working as for now.
Again, let's talk shit because why not = ).
I understand that you have some personal frustrations, but I'm not forced to swallow them.
Of course that the offattack access was only added to make VIP more attractive under the circumstances where exp for VIP was reduced.
Ofc that I argued about farmer-bots, it's the main reason that I don't wanna see autopick abused no matter what(not even hunter got it). The VIP attraction is the 2nd reason.
I'm really amused by you and your friends for how trashy you speak about VIP price. 15e? 20e? It's 10e like always, in the conditions where you STAY AFK 24/24 FOR 7 DAYS. In any other condition where you play at least few hours per day, you can reduce its cost a lot. (even to 0 if you are hardcore, like ppl proved so many times).
Again talking without any clue, you compare WoW and other MMO's that had millions of players where 100% of them were paying with a private MU server with few hundreds of players where 5-10% of them are donating. You have some real problems I guess.
Prices are high because they can be reduced/cut to 0 just by playing (which no other game offer this). Sure, you want lower prices? No problem, but we'll remove any credits from game/web and leave vip/credits for donors only, with a lower price.
It's my last reply for you, I lost valuable time already handling your frustrations. I can accept anything but trash-talk.
Gud lack.
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42 minutes ago, Mynd33 said:
I guess you will not make off-attack baseline, with added benefits for VIP (auto-pick) which also would counter afking-farmers? Is there any legit reason against my suggestion, because I posted it like a week ago and noone from staff replied.
Could you please explain what is the difference between players leaving mu to run in background while they are afk-leveling with auto-clicker VS off-attack feature. In both cases people are afk and you can't change it, people will always be 90% afk while they are leveling, its not WoW or other game where you have to play all the time. I just want to tell that those both cases are the same and its been like that forever. If you are truly against afkers/boters then remove auto-clicker and make everyone hold that mouse button for 24/7, although people will still find ways to make it work.
Said all that I can't justify any other reason against it.
Uhm, so you're arguing with yourself, firstly you said it's "PAY2WIN" feature, now you say it's the same like any normal player. So, what is the "PAY2WIN" from it? If it's the same like any other player?
Ofc there is nothing P2W in it, LOL, but you have an economy advantage if you have it.
Simple, you are a casual that plays only AFK? Np, you either pay the electricity bills like normally or donate and get your offattack access to save up.We're not changing credits/vip systems except to what's already changed. Take it or leave it.
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5 minutes ago, Selphie said:
For Golden Fenrir how i can take?
I wrote example of command, will give both fenrir and the seeds for 1st place.
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Hello,
The third OSGM edition of NonReset is over. Winners:
- 1st Place: Selphie - 215 OSP - Golden Fenrir + Legends Group + 2 Seeds at choice (in sphere level 5).
- 2nd Place: SuperDry - 145 OSP - Feather of Condor + 1 Seed at choice (not in sphere).
- 3rd Place: BlackRose - 140 OSP - Feather of Condor + 20x Jewel of Chaos.Rewards for having 85+ OSP:
- tmpRF - 125 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 20x Jewel of Chaos.
- Itanlian0w - 100 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 20x Jewel of Chaos.
- Cthae - 100 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 20x Jewel of Chaos.
- Rothgar - 90 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 20x Jewel of Chaos.In order to get your reward you must go to Server20 (Crywolf,LoT,Valley) and write the following command:
For 1st place: /getreward SeedName1 SeedName 2 - where SeedName1 = name of first seed and SeedName2 = name of second seed. (ref,hp,edr,crit,dd).
Example: /getreward ref dd (seed with ref and seed with dd).
For 2nd place: /getreward SeedName - where SeedName = name of the seed (ref,hp,edr,crit,dd).
Example: /getreward edr (seed with edr).
For 3rd place & consolations: /getrewardThe fourth edition is starting from 02.03.2019 until 31.03.2019.
Prizes for this new edition:
- 1st Place: Golden Fenrir + Legends Group + 3 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).
- 2nd Place: Feather of Condor + 2 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5)
- 3rd Place: Feather of Condor + 1 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).Anyone who will reach 85+ OSP but not in Top3 will win 30x Jewel of Bless and 30x Jewel of Chaos.
Weekly Events Rewards for this edition (not changed compared to last one):
- 1st Place: 50 OSP + 9x Jewel of Chaos + 6x BoK+4 + 6x BoK+5.
- 2nd Place: 35 OSP + 8x Jewel of Chaos + 5x BoK+4 + 5x BoK+5.
- 3rd Place: 25 OSP + 7x Jewel of Chaos + 4x BoK+4 + 4x BoK+5.
- 4th Place: 15 OSP + 6x Jewel of Chaos + 3x BoK+4 + 3x BoK+5.
- 5th Place: 10 OSP + 5x Jewel of Chaos + 2x BoK+4 + 2x BoK+5.
- Consolations: 5 OSP + 4x Jewel of Chaos + 2x BoK+4 + 1x BoK+5All info about OSGM:
Enjoy!
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All services are back functional.
Some chars got stucked as connected but we'll fix it tonight (if you rejoin yourself it will be fixed for you).
Let us know if you have any issue.
Everyone will receive 2 silver vip days as compensation (starting from tomorrow morning). Whoever does have it already will have an extension.
Thanks for your patience!
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Hello,
Today at around 7:30 Server Time there was an intervention at the OVH datacenter that is hosting our community.
After it was completed it seems that the generation of network cards that we use aren't recognized anymore. Right now we are waiting for our host support to either fix the network card problem or replace it with a new generation. After it's done our services will be back online.
ETA: : 40 minutes from now for the servers (forum is back), site will be back later.
We're sorry for the inconveniences but it doesn't always depend on us.
There will be a compensation for the offline time.
Cheers!
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Release date: 28.02.2019
Changelog:
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Now Illusion of Kundun (Lorencia PVP) drop will be neutral. That means now doesn't matter who kill the Illusion, the item that will be dropped will have the normal item protection (10-15s) then can be picked up by anyone.
- You must also protect your item now, and anyone have a chance for it, not only the big PVM damage killers.
- Added a rule that after 4 minutes after CC starts, mobs will be moved to the center of CC every 30 seconds (trying to fix those situations when a monster is stucked outside of the zone) - not sure it will fix it but worth trying.
- Fixed PVP invasion (to respawn killed ppl correctly and clear the PK correctly for killers).
- Added the same treatment for Teleport Ally just like Summon (you need to have at least 1 guild mate in the same party to use it).
- Now players that are eliminated from Royal Rumble or leave it by relog/disconnect will also have the pk & kills cleared.
- Other small fixes/adjustments.
Updates are up starting from now.
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Now Illusion of Kundun (Lorencia PVP) drop will be neutral. That means now doesn't matter who kill the Illusion, the item that will be dropped will have the normal item protection (10-15s) then can be picked up by anyone.
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On 2/22/2019 at 12:29 AM, salam said:
I just look more closely at the two VIP plans (Farmer & Hunter) and to be honest i think they're not very balanced.
Hunter has so much more useful stuff, that i think the number of people buying Farmer will be low.
EXP:
8% Farmer / 15% Hunter
DROP:
15% Farmer / 5% Hunter - not really useful, since you need the whole party to have VIP to get the effects, while solo hunting is very ineffective (that's a good thing)
MAX ELF BUFF:
+25 Farmer / +40 Hunter
MARKET LIMIT:
+200% Farmer / +50% Hunter - if the limit will be the same as NonRR, it's pretty hard to hit that limit and it's not a signifiant advantage anyway
ZEN:
+150% Zen and lower cost-delay for Post Farmer / lower RR cost Hunter - while the extra zen drop can be useful, it's situational (only applies to highest/dmg on mob afaik) and it's offset by the large RR cost discount for Hunter
Post cost/delay on farmer aren't much of an advantage
CM AND JWLS%
The Farmer has a slight advantage here, with 5% S/JoL/JoH and 3% for +10-15. This is especially helpful only in later stages of the game, though. The Hunter has a small perk with +5% for invitations
OFFLEVEL/OFFSTORE:
Farmer gets OffStore and Store - pretty useless, when we have a very functional and active web market
Hunter gets OffLevel and extra entries for events - large advantage, allows you to have a larger number of support chars.
My idea about this would be:
Farmer gets larger leveling bonuses, lower item related bonuses
- High Exp boost (15%)
- Low Drop boost (8%)
- low elf buff lvl increase (+25)
- Jewels chance increase (Soul/Joh/JoL) - goes along well with jwl hunting on mobs
- Lower MuBot zen cost (i think you should make the bot cost zen)
- Offattack
Hunter gets larger bonuses related to items and hunting/events, lower exp/zen bonuses
- Lower Exp boost (8%)
- Larger Drop boost (15%)
- Zen boost
- higher elf buff (40)
- CM% increase for invitations and items
- Lower zen RR cost
- +1 extra entries
- +5% damage on bosses (if possible)
I think the idea of having two plans for different player types is amazing, and you should definitely keep it but work on the balance.
I've came with a modification of VIP levels based on your suggestions, in order to be balanced in the same way, and attractive by their own unique advantages, while not one feeling much better than the other.
This is what we think of:
QuoteVIP-Farmer:
- DL,RF,MG from Level 1. (Default: Level 200)
- +15% EXP. (Default: 100%)
- +15% ML EXP. (Default: 100%)
- +8% drop. (Default: 35%)
- Max Elf Buff Level: + 25 levels. (Default: 250)
- Module Discounts: 3%. (Default: 0%)
- Market Sell Limit: + 50%.
- +5% chance for Soul, Life & Harmony in items.
- Lower level mobs for ML exp. (90 instead of default 95)
- Lower zen for resets - 60% of the default price. (Default: 100% - based on each reset)
- OffAttack access (attack/buff while offline) - Max 5 hours (shared IP with other active IP's) - No Autopick.VIP-Hunter:
- DL,RF, MG from Level 1. (Default: Level 200)
- +8% EXP. (Default: 100%)
- +8% ML EXP. (Default: 100%)
- +15% drop. (Default: 35%)
- Max Elf Buff Level: + 40 levels. (Default: 250)
- Module Discounts: 3%. (Default: 0%)
- Market Sell Limit: + 200%.
- +3% chance for +10 -> +15 chaos machine mixes.
- +150% Zen Dropped.
- Extra rate for DS/BC/IT invitations mix + 5%.
- Max entries per day +1 for all events except Illusion Temple.
- Lower zen/delay for post - 40.000 zen & 5s delay. (Default: 100.000 zen & 10s delay)
- Custom pack zen reduced - 800.000 (Default: 1.800.000)
- Custom Store access (sell for bless/soul/chaos/creation/harmony in store).
- Custom OffStore access (keep store online while you are offline) - Max 8 hours. -
2 hours ago, Cerberus said:
@ADMIN Consider turning on the Auction again since you will be limiting the non-active gain of credits.
The 2 abusive methods to gain credits were nerfed/removed just to make sure everything is running safe and fair on the new system, which is letting you to trade credits on market apart from the normal jewels/zen. - Auction is still having some bugs where items dissapear after trade in some cases, so we won't use any extra problematic plugins anymore.
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5 minutes ago, Mynd33 said:
I fully support this new project ''Phoenix'' and hope it will be the best release we had, BUT there is 1 thing that really bothers me the most. I do understand that all VIP bonus benefits can be debatable and might have their right to be (xp-bonus, drop bonus, zen bonus), BUT why ''Off-attack'' system is just VIP exclusive and even then there is such silly hour limitation. Don't get me wrong I am really happy that you finally decided to add this feature that many players have asked for years, but I see it to be fundamental and same as ''auto-clicker'' so why would you charge money for one of them. Imagine how players would feel if you added ''auto-clicker'' only for VIP's, it's the same story. I have played many servers with both of those features and they are really helpful, so its HUGE bonus for server to have them, but it's first time I see one of them locked behind ''paywall''. I can bet that 95% of players would not play MU if there was no ''auto-clicker'' because its simply not fun/useful to stare at screen and hold 1 button for whole day. Same story with ''off-attack'' as you now don't have to leave your PC on 24/7 just because your characters are leveling afk.. People who work/study and don't sit home 24/7 would have a huge benefit from it and would not fall behind that much which in return would attract more players. It's such a beautiful and needed thing and I see no justification to charge additional cost for it, because this system has already been used for years and for FREE. As much as I respect this project I was surprised for OS to be the one that charges money for such things and as for now I see it as pretty huge Pay2Win.
It's really simple, by having access to such feature for everyone, it will just turn into a lot of bots from multiple machines, which we never encouraged and which we never promoted. Now it's added to make the VIP more attractive, while not making entire server full of bots. You are speaking about credits/VIP like they are locked only for 'money', but you're totally wrong, do a simple math from credits info and see how many credits are available each day just by PLAYING, then add it to the new trade possible on market which donors can support non-donors, apart from trading those farmed credits at the level of server (not only for ppl that win) and you'll have your answer.
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12 hours ago, salam said:
I just look more closely at the two VIP plans (Farmer & Hunter) and to be honest i think they're not very balanced.
Hunter has so much more useful stuff, that i think the number of people buying Farmer will be low.
EXP:
8% Farmer / 15% Hunter
DROP:
15% Farmer / 5% Hunter - not really useful, since you need the whole party to have VIP to get the effects, while solo hunting is very ineffective (that's a good thing)
MAX ELF BUFF:
+25 Farmer / +40 Hunter
MARKET LIMIT:
+200% Farmer / +50% Hunter - if the limit will be the same as NonRR, it's pretty hard to hit that limit and it's not a signifiant advantage anyway
ZEN:
+150% Zen and lower cost-delay for Post Farmer / lower RR cost Hunter - while the extra zen drop can be useful, it's situational (only applies to highest/dmg on mob afaik) and it's offset by the large RR cost discount for Hunter
Post cost/delay on farmer aren't much of an advantage
CM AND JWLS%
The Farmer has a slight advantage here, with 5% S/JoL/JoH and 3% for +10-15. This is especially helpful only in later stages of the game, though. The Hunter has a small perk with +5% for invitations
OFFLEVEL/OFFSTORE:
Farmer gets OffStore and Store - pretty useless, when we have a very functional and active web market
Hunter gets OffLevel and extra entries for events - large advantage, allows you to have a larger number of support chars.
My idea about this would be:
Farmer gets larger leveling bonuses, lower item related bonuses
- High Exp boost (15%)
- Low Drop boost (8%)
- low elf buff lvl increase (+25)
- Jewels chance increase (Soul/Joh/JoL) - goes along well with jwl hunting on mobs
- Lower MuBot zen cost (i think you should make the bot cost zen)
- Offattack
Hunter gets larger bonuses related to items and hunting/events, lower exp/zen bonuses
- Lower Exp boost (8%)
- Larger Drop boost (15%)
- Zen boost
- higher elf buff (40)
- CM% increase for invitations and items
- Lower zen RR cost
- +1 extra entries
- +5% damage on bosses (if possible)
I think the idea of having two plans for different player types is amazing, and you should definitely keep it but work on the balance.
Good input! Waiting more opinions on this one.
Helper zen is increased a lot on Phoenix (not possible for VIP to have lower zen, as your suggestion).
Not possible the thing with "+5% dmg on bosses".
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1 hour ago, KostisPoutou said:
Who said that NonRR is a failure? i dont think so. there are some small mistakes made but none can say that it was failure.
btw Admin why u still thinking that lvl up should be even harder?? i mean after 5 months none is max yet. and after 131ml u getting like 1 lvl per day. how harder can it be? like taking 1 lvl per week? and then u say that server has a life for 8-12months. so i am guessing u r making server that none can reach max lvl and enjoy game.
about items and donations u are 100% right. items should be harder.. goblin too. but u know that already cause many players said it many times.. i mean it cant be right players got full anc set from 2nd week that server opened. and be able adding luck and make 12 with credits and then got even more % in machine for 13..15. i see this right now.. none buying good anc items anymore.. everyone got them.. they just searching only noob anc items for seeds.
if u want my opinion.. this non rr server was sooooooo good that it could still have 500+++ members. the biggest "mistake" that faked up the server a little was the dupes.. many people left game cause they saw other players (mostly afkers) getting sets+15 + yel opt etc etc + u banned like 25-30 players.
and OFC u had to ban them and delete as many dupes u could but still.. was too late.. game was already faked up.. maybe u could at least punish Grom, delete all their acc, but let them play again (if they wanted it) and not ban their IPs too. but i can also understand why u did that and i can say i am with u on this.. cause they may try do shitty things again.
thats just my opinion. i would prefer if we had no market on site and these shits and having a safer game than this. ofc this isnt 100% your mistake but still.. this dupes thing "destroyed" game like 80%. cause server is still active with 2-3 guilds.. imagine if Grom were also here..
but after all server was and is very good.. i wish u best luck what ever u do.
I'm not talking about last 50-60 ML levels (they are made in the way that you can't complete them without playing for the full duration of server). I am talking about the level 1-400 which was too easy than expected (you had 200+ in first 2 days, then first stage over in first week, etc.). First 100 ML levels as well, too easy than expected, it should have been much more challenging (overall level 1-500). Take the last non reset edition as an example, it took like 3-4 months for first players to reach level 400, then 2-3 more for max ML, that's how it should have been again, but we failed with it this time, making it like 2-3 months for level 1-500 and then 4-5 months for last 100 levels.
Items, ancients, etc. what you say I already stated in my last reply, those are the 'minor' fails that caused the overall fail, small things, sumed up, destroyed the long-term progression (and, the motivation).
Yes, the problem that was with dupe was also an important factor, but not that much as the rest of things. GROM is banished from this community, and it's really healthy for the future (they caused a lot of problems, abusive events - see pvp arena, cs double guilds, non fair-play competition, and ofc, bug abuses). So, it was and it is actually a positive thing that they were/are out, for everyone involved. -
3 hours ago, iQon said:
Thanks for tagging me in your reply as one of the people complaining but trust me i didn't say anything i feel about this because first of all i know you dont like me and you dont like criticism so il just keep my mouth shut but making a new server before there is even 1 player that has maxed ML yet is a joke.You said previously that there are players who have finished the game and are bored which is also not true only player who is almost finished his set in game is TwojPan and even that is due to questionable tactics and cheating in events rest of us are nowhere near. Its your server we just play here who cares what we think anyway.Good luck with the new project.
You didn't read my post or you didn't understand what I wrote. I specifically wrote that by 'ending game' doesn't mean having max level / max items. By ending game means not having any 'bigger' motivation to continue (not enough competition, not enough long term goals/objectives apart from few extra ML levels and the last set completions from the end-game set).
2 hours ago, Mynd33 said:OS is hands-down an outstanding project. Even though I have played here just for 2 months on NonRR server before leaving it, it was still the best experience I had and no other server can compare with this. The reason I left was my mates stopped playing due to lack of PVP after GROM got banned and fact that many players got decked out in full ancient sets so fast .Few weeks after we left there was pvp-based update for events that got me really excited but unfortunately I decided to not come back because I felt I would not be able to catch up. I can honestly say I regret leaving this server and wanted to return when new non-rr server is released.
Regarding current Non-RR server it was great experience but it had some flaws for ''Hard-core'' server. I would like to point some of them out so maybe we can improve its next edition.
1) Gearing was too easy- There were some people who got decked out in full ancient set too fast even before stepping into Land of Trials. Some SM got Enis+Anubis in 2-3 days and solo-carried every event boss from then on so I guess ancient drop in DS was too high. You could farm Maya every day without any competition (pvp was dead there) and it dropped 3 top-tier weapons every day. It would make more sense if Maya was dropping 1 weapon, same for CW event where every Dark Elf monster could drop top weapon too was just too generous. Regarding IT it was heavily abused half of the time with anti-gaming and rewards (Flame/Feather of Condor) were too great. Just by entering event you had 50% chance to be winner and get reagents for 3rd level wings. I think Feathers for 3rd wings should only be made by players or given as rewards for big-events, regarding flames they can be farmed in Swamp with really-low drop chance. Last but not least is Blacksmith (+9 ---> +12) for credits. Whole upgrade system was turned up-side down to force people use credits for upgrading, because instead of chances decreasing the higher level item is, it was actually increasing, making +10 less success chance than +15. I understand you have to make money, but after few weeks of server release seeing people in +12 or even more on a hard-core server is just wrong. In addition Medals were dropping +11 items that many semi-active/casual players used for 1-1,5 months, I think making them drop max +9 would stimulate people to upgrade items to +11/+12 thus increasing these items value and also giving some micro-gear progression to work towards instead of equiping full +11 and forgetting about gear for a month. I also heard about people killing Cursed Dragon at night/morning and getting 3lvl Wings from OldBox+5, which is absurd.
2) Events/PvP- last PVP-event update was step in right direction, BUT I wish it was implemented at start or atleast earlier. It is impossible to take any boss and out-damage fully equiped Summoner, so the only way to not make it boring dps-race that you eventually gonna lose is to add PVP which brings tactical elements and strategies for fights. Some players with worse gear/lower level say that pvp events leave them no chances, BUT they have no chance to out-dps those players on KS race without pvp too. Also regarding bosses ( Golden Knights/ Great Golden Dragon) I think they should be harder to kill thus giving more time for players to contest/fight for them and make it challenging experience.
Everything I wrote is my personal opinion and vision how I see real ''Hard-core'' server. As always I wish you luck with upcoming projects and never stop improving!
Thanks for the feedback. As I stated, we already knew the mistakes, and the feedback from players confirmed them, that's why we are reworking a big part of gameplay for phoenix.
The idea behind CM rates was up a long time before we even had this current website with such premium modules (in our first legacy s4). It was started from the simple fact that we wanted to reduce the loss/frustration of players losing items at high +, and to move those to lower +, to at least lose a little less than normal.
Yes, in the long run it seemed to be much easier to complete the +15 sets, especially by using modules for the harder rates, that's why on Phoenix rates are back on their normal state (from high to low).
You can blame my brain for not coming faster with such great idea for invasions, but inspiration needs time and ideas comes involuntary.
11 minutes ago, Titanium said:funny how someone can complain about bitching by bitching himself.
We just wanted some info about how things are going to move on considering this came as a surprise the launch of a new server i mean even tho as stated before people havent reached max lvl or gear on nonrr not even close. And nobody is contesting the need for cash on a private server its only natural. However if the play2win notion is something this server prides itself with there shouldnt even be a discussion about donating in here.Let those who want to donate do it and stop asking those who arent to do it. A game needs both donators and free2play people.Donators provide the cash needed and free2play people provide a better gaming environment for all so both are equally important. Im not against opening a new server by all means i wish you the best of luck with it even tho nonrr is going to loose some population maybe we'll get lucky and have the annoying people leave and the real nonrr dedicated players stay. We just wanted some clear information about how things gonna end up because this popped out of nowhere. I still dont understand the need to rr a server after 8-12 months because the way i see it(maybe im wrong) a brand becomes a brand by being steady. You dont see Levis jeans sell pants one year then shoes the next year then hats the next year and so on prolly not the best comparison but you get the point. Resetting is most likely the fastest way to get cash flowing even tho in a long run i do believe cash would flow either way because seeing a private server being steady which doesnt happen to often that will attract more people to it meaning more donating possibilities. But yes we do enjoy a free service and its not up to us to contest these things were just giving player feedback as it was asked of us.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't bitched anything at all, and I never said you (ones that I tagged) are bitching, you were just complaining without seeing the bigger image, which I had to make it clear in order to have constructive conversations, not just you guys coming to act like victims and make us feel like we ended your lives with our announcement and plans.
Nobody said resetting is mandatory, no, of course if there would be 200 online after 1 year there would be no need for a reset, but in most cases, after 8 months there are like 20-30 online left, which of course makes no point for both us to not reset it and also the left players to play alone) - I have the impression that you are coming from GMO, and not played any private MU server in last 2 years - that 80% are closed/reset after 1-3 months.
Most of you (by checking your chars and forum accounts) are really new even to this nonreset server (not speaking about entire community since 3 years ago). So, I need to make it clear for you as well, how things does stay and why in our Community (as most of veterns already know it, that's why you don't see them here complaining).
Thanks for any input anyway, I personally really appreciate it, as it means you actually care about what's happening here, but I hope you understand things like grown adults.
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And why is that? Because no more donations / enough people after x months :). Everyone can dream of 1-2 years servers, but useless if they leave after few months (you're the same case). Idk why ppl talk about years when they play few months no matter what. Play how much you want, we find our own ways to survive despite leavers. Yes, we release new servers so we survive. We don't depend on anyone at all, whoever wants to play will play, we will do our things no matter what people do. If we consider that we can keep a server up for more than 8-12 months we'll do it, if we consider that we want to release new servers we'll do it. It's our own time and work and we decide what we do with it depending on how things work, not anyone else's decision :).
Ppl are here to 'consume' what we offer and that's it. If they don't like how we do things or what we offer they'll find other things, in their place will come new ppl from marketing and on new editions, everyone is happy.