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Hello,
I have few announcements to make and I'll try to keep them short enough.
Firstly, I would like to introduce you our new Administrator - Community Manager - @Gion.
Gion has been part of our Community as a Head Admin since a long time.
He did his job in a good manner until now so he's ready to take the next step in our Community as an Administrator.
Basically he is getting my current position as a Community Manager, which means he will cover the entire non-technical community support as well as few new mini-projects.
You may have noticed a slow response-time from my side as well as a lower forum activity compared to normal. This was because I'm stepping out from public relationships for now (reason: "burnt-out") and I'll remain to work in the backstage for the technical/creative aspect as well as the game design of our current and future projects.
I will still be active on facebook for technical support - which I ask you to use it exclusively for technical support. For any other kind of support you'll have to contact @Gion in the usual places (forum,game,facebook). He'll pass me the message/inquiry if needed.
Secondly, soon we'll have a rework of the forum that will imply changes in the process of submitting bugs/suggestions to make them more efficient, as well as other forum tweaks.
Thirdly, @Gion will be handling 2 of our new mini-projects:
- Community Council - This will be a new forum & discord group where we'll select some active players, which will represent the community of players, in order to facilitate a good relationship between us as staff and players.
Our goal is to have at least 1 player from each of the "big" guilds, as well as different type of extra players (newbies,old players,etc.)
We'll use the discord group to communicate for improvements/bugs and anything related for both current and future projects.
More info soon.
- Soccer Night - Some of you know, most of you don't. We do have a very nice custom soccer system that we've developed on Inception but we failed to put it in use (lack of players interested) in it's previous forms of organization.
We'll try to put it again in use, but this time under a totally new structure that we do hope will assure that any participant does have real chances no matter if he has friends to play with or not.
More info: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3851-soccer-night/

Cheers!

It is already Sunday, a special Sunday for all those of Orthodox religion who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and in this way I wish everyone a Happy Easter! I hope you share the warmth and love with your families !
This Sunday has also something else special, the first fight for server supremacy will take place today and I expect to see a clean fight between now 4 big guilds that have professional players and will have a lot of fun, ADMIN eliminating for the first CS the admin's guild, making room for the 4th guild.
This first fight that seems lacking in stakes because the Land of Trials will be empty next week and Lord Mix will be unlocked a little bit later, but this lacking of rewards is only an appearance because it's all about the pride, isn't it ? 
(~14:45)
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the warriors:
Introducing first, from Romania, with a total weight of 5906 "lbs" (Score), their average level is 347 and they are led by ArdeLeaNu, THEEEEE OuTLaWs !
Coming in the 2nd, mostly from Romania, but mixed, weighing in 9403 "lbs" and with an average level of 376, they are led by mafy, HAAAARDCOOORE ! 
Making their way to the top, led by Fane, a guild coming from Europe, but it is a tight bond between them, weighing in 9133 "lbs", having 365 as reference level, Aaaaattaaaaack !
And their opponent, represented by Trippy, gathering the members from all around the world, with an average level of 376, they are currently ranked as NUMBER 1 GUILD with a weight of 9418 "lbs", Squaaaadrooon !
I wish you all a Happy Easter and a lot of fun tonight and the best-organized and most powerful fighters will win the supremacy and climb their leader to the great throne, bringing them the highest and most desired title, "King Phoenix" !
Let the Fight begin !
 
 

two sub-servers only first sub-server to have invasions (golden inv, rabbits, ww etc.) second sub-server to have no invasion but 20% bonus exp for 1-250 lvl for example so newbies can catch up second sub-server to have 20% more zen drop (or even jewel?) to attract all alts here

Phoenix#2 had a fabulous start last Friday and the light truly came on, it was an almost perfect server ( except the attacks that were successfully rejected by our staff members), over 600 characters online in the first 24 hours and now, after one week from the start of this most desired server we are approaching to a new "all time record" of online players on phoenix, a barrier (800 chars on) that will soon be broken, since we already had 750+ online chars just in the first week. 
As for the server supremacy, the pieces begin to move on this big chessboard, the guilds begin to take shape, the ones that have been rehearsed so far and which seems to have the highest chances because they have confirmed in the past, are the following : 
ATTACK guild, a guild that started to grow on Inception, they confirmed at the end of the mid-game period, managing to win the fight for Inception supremacy , dominating the server for a long time (with short interruptions) they have imposed their respect. On Phoenix # 2, ATTACK lost a bit of ground on top, at the beginning, but now they are in the graph, aiming, again, the supremacy, even if compared to Inception there are fewer players. Some voices say that a part of them left because they didn't believe they could continue to fight on a high level server and that they are only mid-end game "pro players" , anyway, ATTACK survived and came to top and now I look forward to see them counting in the battle for Phoenix Supremacy .
Squadron, a legendary guild that survived for years, a legendary guild that amazed us all for years on OldSquad, this guild had only several months of lack of activity here,  it's a guild that always aims for supremacy and always counts. They have high standards and a strong core, we hope that this time we have them until the end of the data base, because the same voices are telling me that they were feeling unsafe looking at the ATTACK's army growing, on Inception. This guild has already made first move on the chessboard, choosing to weaken a top party from Hardcore.
Hardcore, a guild that, same as ATTACK, came to life on Inception, this guild is born from Squadron because the founders of this guild were part of the Squadron for a long time. In the beginning it seems that after some misunderstandings they left the guild and started building a new one, Hardcore. They had an major impact in the fight for the supremacy of Inception, they managed to build a guild to fight with the Squadron during the early game periods, sometimes even defeating them, then continuing the fight against the ATTACK, they returned in force on Phoenix # 2. Started with 5 top parties (but one lost already in Squadron's favor), this is a guild with a lot of controversy and it seems to have been most affected by the curse on Inception, and the beginning of Phoenix shows that they haven't escaped to be hunted by it.
RPCitaly is a new guild on OldSquad, a guild where the majority of players are from Italy. It looks interesting, we don't know them yet, but I hope that they enjoy their journey on OldSquad and that they will have a word to say in the fight for Supremacy. They are already ranked as no 4 on Old Squad top guilds, so let's wish them good luck and have fun ! 
FANATIC, the guild ranked no 5 seems to be led by players from Lithuania, as far as I know Lithuanian players are very active and pro players, they already made alliance with HellBoys, maybe together they can climb up in top ranks and show us their force in the Valley of Loren's battlefield. 
Elite, OuTLaWs, and Brasil are also there competing with RPCitaly and FANATIC for occupying the rank no 4 guild at this moment and I hope to see them all fighting for the Supremacy.
 I wish you all to have fun and enjoy Old Squad Phoenix #2 !
 

It was expected by many of us, it was desired, and in the end it came !! Phoenix, a project created for the revival of Old Squad community, has been amazingly successful in its first edition and has achieved its goal by bringing Old Squad to a higher level of game play quality and lots of fun.
Now, this project is going to be reborn in a new era, an era in which we live dark times, in which we are kept (almost by force) inside our homes, Phoenix was reborn last year to give a refresh to our community and this year it is meant to bring into the hearts of the members that are part of this wonderful community hope, love and especially the LIGHT which will, eventually, pierce the darkness that came upon us. Until then, since we all should stay in home, as isolated as possible, Phoenix will make this isolation much easier for everyone.
The beginning of this long awaited server is very close and I have some tips that I hope will be useful for all of you:
Put your hand on the phone or on the keyboard and call all your friends to play, my advice for you is to be at least 4 so you can develop a startup strategy, but if you do not have friends who want to join the adventure, do not worry, in time you will find lots of friends in our community who are looking for a permanent party member !
If you haven't been to shopping yet, I suggest you do so, buy plenty of coffee, teas, spare mouse and keyboard and everything else you need for a longer period of time because you only have a day left until the madness unfolds on us. Phoenix will keep you inside your house because this server will be an intense one with a lot of fun but difficult at the same time, a battle for supremacy is announced, one that has not been seen for a long time in muonline servers.
Test server has already been released, all you have to do is to enter and test everything : spots (hint: analyze the best route from devias to karutan2) , test stats build, study all topics linked in the end of the article because they are the most important ones, topics that you should not miss! After reading all  that information you should  be up to date on how to build your favorite characters, and you can choose the one that suits your style.
On Phoenix server every point does count, every buff / potion can make the difference against your enemy, you don't have to think twice before you start building if you test ahead, test everything that can help you on your way to the top!
Link for the must "know" information : 
https://oldsquad.ro/forum/forum/159-info-rules/

After reading the most important information, after you have succeeded in testing everything you could, and, of course, after your strategy is built, here are some interesting articles that will make you understand how the fight for Phoenix's supremacy was in its first edition, and many other interesting things in the interviews that I managed to get from Admin, Legion, or some of the most important players in the Old Squad community, (I say "some" because this community has a lot of very good players and I wanted and I will still want to interview as many as possible). 
https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3453-phoenix-curse-history-of-castle-lords-and-guilds/
https://oldsquad.ro/forum/forum/177-official-interviews/
Have fun reading and be ready to get into NewsPaper Spot Light!

New article !
GL & HF on Phoenix !
Wish you the best !

Hello,
The fourth OSGM edition of NonReset is over. Winners:
- 1st Place: Might - 145 OSP - Golden Fenrir + Legends Group + 3 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).
- 2nd Place: Vinginal - 125 OSP - Feather of Condor + 2 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).
- 3rd Place: StrongBK - 105 OSP - Feather of Condor + 1 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).
Rewards for having 85+ OSP:
- PinkWutong - 95 OSP - 30x Jewel of Bless and 30x Jewel of Chaos.
- BuLdozeR - 90 OSP - 30x Jewel of Bless and 30x Jewel of Chaos.
- Kalafior - 90 OSP - 30x Jewel of Bless and 30x Jewel of Chaos.
- JessE - 90 OSP - 30x Jewel of Bless and 30x 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 SeedName2 SeedName3 - where SeedName1 = name of first seed, SeedName2 = name of second seed and SeedName3 = name of third seed. (ref,hp,edr,crit,dd)
Example: /getreward ref dd hp (seed with ref, seed with dd and seed with hp)

For 2nd place: /getreward SeedName1 SeedName2 - where SeedName1 = name of first seed, SeedName2 = name of second seed. (ref,hp,edr,crit,dd)
Example: /getreward edr crit (seed with edr and seed with crit).

For 3rd place: /getreward SeedName - where SeedName = name of the seed. (ref,hp,edr,crit,dd)
Example: /getreward ref (seed with ref).

For consolations: /getreward
 
Due to the lack of interest from players for this last month OSGM events (barely 5-9 players at any Event), the OSGM is canceled.
Thanks for participation.

The VIP has been delivered!
It looks like the problem didn't appeared again after moving to the new machine, despite passing the previous record of 510-515 online when it started to happen (553) .
We're still monitoring things out, but so far looks good.
Cheers!

Hello,
Since yesterday at around 16:30 we've noticed that our data server kept failing for around 4-5 hours, every 20-60 minutes.
We've been troubleshooting the problem for the last 24 hours along with our devs and our host manager.
Unfortunately we tried everything to find and fix the problem (and we thought we did it, as it stopped yesterday evening) but it seems that it appeared again today.
We've also turned off 60% of our scripts/systems in the process of troubleshooting, which will be back shortly.
We also noticed that it happens only when we reach a certain amount of players online (around 510-515). So we have blocked slots at 505 for now (and it seems that it stopped) and we'll manually disconnect AFK chars (dead players from cities) when the limit will be reached.
Our only solution left is to migrate to a new machine on a fresh windows as it is most likely something from windows (nothing else left untried or unchecked).
The migration will take some time as we have to configure the machine and reinstall everything we have for all of our servers.
We're really sorry for the discomfort created but be sure that we're doing our best to make sure that you have a great gaming environment.
There will be some compensation for this situation but we'll speak more after we make sure everything is fine.
Thanks for understanding and for your patience!

Hello,
The second OSGM edition of NonReset is over. Winners:
- 1st Place: DajBuzi - 180 OSP - Golden Fenrir + Legends Group + 1 Seed at choice (not in sphere).
- 2nd Place: BlackRose - 125 OSP - Feather of Condor + Flame of Condor.
- 3rd Place: PanPrezes - 115 OSP - 30x Jewel of Chaos + 30x Jewel of Soul + 30x Jewel of Bless.
Rewards for having 70+ OSP:
- NoisyBoy - 95 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 10x Jewel of Chaos.
- NorthStar - 95 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 10x Jewel of Chaos.
- Reckless - 85 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 10x Jewel of Chaos.
- StrongBK - 80 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 10x Jewel of Chaos.
- Catarina - 70 OSP - 20x Jewel of Bless and 10x Jewel of Chaos.
All rewards have been delivered into the vault of the winners (waiting the seed choice from first place on PM).
The third edition is starting from 01.02.2019 until 28.02.2019.
Prizes for this new edition:
- 1st Place: Golden Fenrir + Legends Group + 2 Seed at choice (in sphere level 5).
- 2nd Place: Feather of Condor + 1 Seed at choice (not in sphere)
- 3rd Place: Feather of Condor + 20x Jewel of Chaos.
Anyone who will reach 85+ OSP but not in Top3 will win 20x Jewel of Bless and 20x Jewel of Chaos.
Weekly Events Rewards for this edition:
- 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+5
 
All info about OSGM: 
 
Enjoy!