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just a mistake of the admin and a bit of luck

As you probably already expected, when you saw the title of this article, this is the first chapter in the history of the top guilds fighting for Inception supremacy. That being said, let me tell you what has happened so far since Inception started : 
 
Squadron guild easily took the first castle siege and relaxed, the main party members didn't even show their views inside Valey of Loren at this first siege. I have asked here and there and this is what I heard: some people say that they aren't actually inside guild since darkyo didn't joined Squadron yet, these voices say that they are selfish and full of experience, knowing that no guild on the server will even be able to scratch the force that Squadron has, they have remained relaxed on the spot, especially since Land of Trial has no value at this time.
Other gossips and rumors say that the second party in this guild is nothing worse, being selfish and not expecting members of the same party after giving reset, just to reach the others from the top, even if they are from the same guild. But always all the jealous mouths speak evil of the powerful and it is clear that the Squadron can only be defeated by being caught on the wrong foot, otherwise the only chance is for the Assassins and Legends guilds to unite. Saying these I reach, and I agree with the Chukundah who said in the previous article that any guild is likely to recover the not-so-big difference between the Squadron and the others.
Assassins are doing well, they are already climbing to the most important top rankings and are becoming stronger, but I do not believe the whispers that are heard and I do not think that Legends and Assassins are thinking of uniting, from what I know. Although fewer in number than Squadron, they are very well organized and very active, some whispers I have caught flying say that some of them are truck drivers, and that they play remotely from tablets or directly from laptops, so, they are active, united and experienced "old" players on OldSquad, all they have to do is continue to ambitiously climb to the top and they will be serious competitors for Squadron. 
PRiME guild kept its core from Phoenix, but had a slow start, we will see how it will evolve in the near future.  Latin and TheRiper guilds are newly formed and, as you can see, they started having reset players. These are good signs that show that they will strengthen and that they will probably have a word to say in the battle for the server  supremacy.
Related to the guild LegendS, I can say that at this Castle Siege came 3 or 4 players, who probably got bored and tried some little "pvp fun", but without having any hope that they could take the castle from the hands of the Squadron. I heard rumors that they have players in the guild with a lot of experience, I think this guild has a healthy start and that we will hear from them for a long time from now on and that they have the opportunity to recruit and develop the top players.
Immortal guild seems to have missed the start but grows steadily and surely, it is the first server they play from the beginning so they still have to learn, but I am confident that in the future they will fight the titans and will probably become one among the guilds that move the pieces on this chessboard called Castle Siege.
I hope these guilds will reach Squadron's power, and I hope to see a permanent fight between at least three guilds with similar powers, and the best to join the laurels of victory and the riches of the land of trials. 
Regarding The Curse, so far, the following questions are seeking answers, which surely time will gradually reveal to us: Will this arrogance not shake Squadron from the ground? Do these brave warriors not invoke the curse of the castle thinking they can defeat it? Are they sufficiently united? Does Voyager have the antidote?

Hello again,
 
    This interview is a about RedBuLL, he is the first player to achieve the most desired thing at the moment on Inception, the first Reset! This interview had two sessions, so if some questions doesn't seem up to date that is the main reason   and I think I could talk to him endlessly .
Reporter: " You are the first player to get a reset on Inception server. Congratulations!!! "
RedBuLL : " Thanks, mate! You should also congratulate Makiavelli and Rusuletz. They were almost all the time online. " 
Reporter: " How did you manage to achieve this first reset, can you reveal us "the secret"?  "
RedBuLL : "Its not a big deal. I play with 4 good and old players of this server. We make a good team.
And it's not about me, it's about all the party. I was the 1st player because I was the most inactive from the party haha. " 
Reporter : "Did you expect, a week ago when you started playing, you to get the first place and to be the first to reset ? " 
RedBuLL : "I was expecting to be in top 10 because, as I said, I play with Makiavelli in party 😂 😂 " 
Reporter: " So, you have a permanent party ...  How many members (real players ) does it have? Can you name them?"
RedBuLL : "My mates are Rusuletz, Makiavelli, Sparkle and Darkyo. " 
Reporter : " So, five individual players, no alts in party?"
RedBuLL : "Yes, we didn't used alts, just when some of us were off for rr " 
Reporter : "Can you reveal the names of those alts from your permanent party ?"
RedBuLL: " Clemence is mine, but I can't reveal you their alts. Ask them if youu want to know  .They are nice guys, so you might get an answer."
Reporter: " Can you tell us a short story about how you guys got together?"
RedBuLL : " The first time when I heard a new server will start, I talked to Makiavelli, I asked him if will play, he said yes and he told me that we will going to play with some old friends of him: darkyo, No1L1v3r and I don't remember the other name atm. , anyway ...those friends of him didn't joined, except darkyo, so in the day before server start we wanted to join Sparkle and weew , they already wanted to play with us but in the last day before server start, Rusuletz contacted me and asked if he can join my permanent party , I said yes and here comes the fifth member.  Me , Rusuletz and Makiavelli already played in same permanent party on last NonReset server, but me, Maki and Sparkle played mu since 97d season on same server, we had known each other for many years ." 
Reporter: " You was ranked as number one for at least 4 days in a row, you did the first reset on the server, then you were overtaken by FKinGCunT, Trippy and Zutto. What happened? "
RedBuLL : "I was waiting my mates to get rr. We wanted to stay at the same lvl, to enter in the same ds/bc. darkyo was 1 or 2 lvl behind me , so we had to step back and wait. "
Reporter: " So you sacrificed the first places in the top to wait for your friends, why do you think the others did not do the same as you?
RedBuLL : " Yes we are a team and I don't want to be somewhere I don't belong. That place is for Makiavelli, and I think the gap between them and the others from perma was much higher then ours, and they knew that their friends will rr in the night and they cannot be online at that hour (my opinion... I don't know for sure)."
Reporter: "How much time do you spend/day playing mu OldSquad (average)? "
RedBuLL :"I work 2 days and 2 days I'm free. So when I'm free I spend 4-5 hours maybe at pc, but to be honest, at this beginning I spent more than that." 
Reporter :"What about the members of your party? Did you had any "dead" moments (times when no one was in a permanent party) this week?"
RedBuLL :"Yes, in one of the nights, after returning from 12 hours of work, I had to be on guard, after taking over the reins of the party, at no 30 minutes I fell asleep  😂😂 a few hours later Makiavelli woke up and found all the characters in safe areas " ....But dead moments except that are maximum 2 hours/day. "
Reporter :"When did you started to play Mu Online? "
RedBuLL : "I play mu from 2003 or 2004, in any case the first db of former mudex. In 2007 I purchased a PC that, maybe you can not believe, but did not go without mu   if we do not put the mu at least in the bar, it blocks in about 30min. This is why I was forced to play mu without wanting it    "
Reporter : "How you found OldSquad ?"
RedBuLL :"I searched Google for mu servers, and after I entered on OldSquad also found Psyke with whom I also know in reality life...So I stayed to play this srv. " 
Reporter : "When did you started to play Mu OldSquad?"
RedBuLL :"In springtime of 2016." 
Reporter :"What nicknames you had in past?""
RedBuLL :"I started to play with MuMaster on mudex, and after few years I switched to this one. On Pheonix I was Endorphin and other nicks for alts were Clemence and SunShine. " 
Reporter: "Do you have any VIP activated? You have this VIP since you started Inception?"
RedBuLL :"Yes, all from our party got hunter vip from 1st day. " 
Reporter :"Because you are the first player on the server to reset, can you reveal us a few tips about DarkLord starting build? Can you reveal your stats ?"
RedBuLL :"Yes, I'm ene dl. This is all I can say.(If someone got critical dmg I want to buy). 😂😂   " 
Reporter :"What advice would you give to a player playing on this server for the first time, what should he do to get to the top places?"
RedBuLL :"He should be friend with Makiavelli, not with Psyke " 
Reporter :"What strategy do you have for the future?"
RedBuLL : "We can't reveal something that we don't know 😂  😂 "  
Reporter :"Do you have any enemies in game? "
RedBuLL :"No, I don't have enemies(except Psyke, ofc).  " 
Reporter: "Did you had any in past ?"
RedBuLL :" No, I didn't. Of course, I may have quarreled with some people sometimes, but I didn't hold the hatred against them." 
Reporter :" Which is your favorite character in game ?"
RedBuLL :"BK, for sure, but Zutto didn't quit yet, so I made DL. "  
Reporter :"And why not play BK?" 
RedBuLL :"Because he is too good. I didn't beat him yet as bk. Maybe this is my chance. @Admin pls make DL stronger haha "
Reporter :"Who is the player, or players, which you dislike the most, in this server ?"
RedBuLL :"I can't say that about no one. I dislike just when someone is using bad language. These guys should be banned. Not just to get warns. " 
Reporter :"I see that you and your party members are in Squadron guild, how did you managed to get in ?"
RedBuLL :"I am playing with them from NonRR srv, 2 DBs ago. Rusuletz and Makiavelli were also in this guild. "  
Reporter: "From what I see, there are many players with different personalities in the Squadron, have you had any conflicts in the guild?"
RedBuLL :" Yes, I had a conflict with Twoochecks, about a very good item. He doesn't play now, but probably he will play at many CS. (We didn't insult ourselves, just because each one had different opinions)."
Reporter :" Does Squadron have an enemy guild?"
RedBuLL :" Maybe GROM, it was the only one."
Reporter :"As you can see, there are several guilds registered, but none of them have reset players(yet), except Squadron, do you think you will have a fight?"
RedBuLL : "I don't know. If will not gathering many players on and up for CS we can have problems. "
Reporter :" Does Squadron guild have rules related to drop, invasion, sharing/selling things, etc. ?"
RedBuLL :"We currently do not have any rule written on our discord channel, but we usually give free items or charge a symbolic fee.Regarding the lot we usually do not sell outside the guild until most have finished sets. "
Reporter :" Do you read the News Paper? "
RedBuLL :"Yes , I read all the news. Are you a real journalist? Every article is amazing. "
Reporter : " Thank you, I am not a real journalist, I discovered this side of mine here on OldSquad, I will tell you a short story about how i got this "job" : When I read the announcement about the Reporter project, many ideas came to my mind and I said to try (although I tried after a few weeks after seeing the announcement), Gion contacted me the next day, I had some kind of interview of engagement with him and with Admin, where I shared my ideas which, with Gion's help, I managed to write these articles you see in NewsPaper."  
Reporter :"I do not want to bore readers too much with details about me and my job so we can continue the interview,  of course if you please. " 
RedBuLL : "Sure, ty for answer."
Reporter :" Did you play on the Phoenix server? "
RedBuLL :" As I said when you asked me about nicknames, yes I played with a bk, Endorphin"
Reporter : "Have you read the Castle is Cursed chapters?"
RedBuLL :"I read all the articles😄:"
Reporter :"Do you believe in superstitions? Do you think that the Castle is Cursed?"
RedBuLL : " No, I don't believe this. "
Reporter :"But did you see what happened to the guilds that held the castle? If it is not the "curse" (which can be defined by greed, selfishness and pride) what could it be to destroy the most of the guilds in that way?"
RedBuLL :"I think the sale of very good items outside the guild creates some internal conflicts."
Reporter :" Do you think that after the ancient items will appear in the Land of Trial and the Squadron will be the owner of the Land of Trial, will there be battles inside the guild?"
RedBuLL :"Maybe, I can't say no or all the ppl will be happy, but we are not at first DB together and we share almost all items. And about me, if someone need an item from me, I'll give it with pleasure, no doubt."
Reporter :"What do you suggest to improve on NewsPaper?"
RedBuLL : You should make a topic Gossip girl, where to post rumors and gossip. "
Reporter : "This is a nice idea, I will think about it   Ty for Tip " 
Reporter: "On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you like this server?"
RedBuLL :" 8 " 
Reporter :"What do you like the most in our server, and what you dislike? "
RedBuLL :"I like that these exp steps have been set so that the top ones do not go too far and in everything the admin did on the server. It was somewhat innovative. "
Reporter :"If you could ask ADMIN any questions, what would be the most important ones that comes through your mind ? "
RedBuLL :" Admin, when season 14 will be released?" 
    Thank you for time and for answers, and I wish u good luck !
     As you would expect and as I've already gotten used to on the Phoenix server, this is the first of many interviews I plan to take on players who have a major impact on the server's life and come to light like the sun's rays at sunrise.
 

Hello everyone, 
 
   
  A few days have passed since Inception "Back to Origins" started, and, as you can see, we already have 500 + online players , but taking a single look at the rankings,  Squadron guild dominates this server start, a start that seems to be pretty hard, because Icarus is a map that only players with reset will be able to fill, and the wings level 2 will not appear on the server too soon ... That means even more fun for the top players who are trying hard to reach the top ranks. 
 As for the guilds, as I said, the legendary guild Squadron, led by Voyager, has the fastest "ranking climbers" and the most active players on server, until now,  this guild has taught us over time that it can reborn from its own dust like a Phoenix  and that at any time it can fight with the top guilds. In past databases, Squadron was the only guild to rise and face GROM  (another legendary guild that dominated the server in the past).  
  Now with GR0M banned from the server, will be there a guild to rise and face Squadron? Will we see enough brave fighters to stand in their way? As far as I see, maybe LegendS or Templars, but if they will not start recruiting the guildless players from our top I don't see any chance for them , because, honestly, those guilds look good, but they need more power if they want to kick Squadron or even scratch them at the next castle sieges. Squadron seems united, I think they developed a good strategy on this start because I see in this guild top 10 players on our ranking, in top 20 they have 3 permanent parties and many names that already are legends in OldSquad history, one of them being ProtoType, a great leader who led a guild that measured its forces with the titans of the server. This guild name was DEADCATS, and despite the name, it was very "alive" and very powerful.
 Talking about top guilds, I was wondering what happened to NONE? (this guild was the best on Phoenix server and if I remember right, they said on forum that they will restart on this new data base), also some time ago there were rumors that another guild will come to light, MrChristians, Levis and Papi`s guild (used to be named Alliance on Max50 and defeated GROM with DEADCATS`s  power boost after those guilds merged )  but what happened? Only false rumors it seems...
  I am waiting with interest to see what happens next, and I will let you know in next articles with the hope you will all enjoy The Newspaper. 
 

If you're fighting with punches you need strenght. He's training you for street fight🤣🤣

So I insisted, or remove the buff altogether, or to leave standard. Because I am 100% sure that there are people with the ability to create a EE and ruin the game for everyone else.

Thanks for your votes guys.
We have a winner, Inception will be the first place where EE's won't be mandatory for the gameplay so everyone can have fun without depending on an alt-char or on other players alts in order to progress.
It's a huge step towards a good direction, in my opinion, in a direction where alts will be slowly but surely out of gameplay so everyone can focus on his main char, raising both activity and economy.
The following changes will be applied for Inception:
- Maximum of accounts per IP+HWID will be 2 instead of 3.
- Heal & SD Rec. skills are out of the game (you won't be able to find them anymore).
- Greater fortitude & Greater defense will only increase dmg/deff with 1 on Server1 (basically, useless).
- Ice Arrow now requires at least 7000 energy in order to be used.
- Greater fortitude & Greater defense will have a decent power on Server20 (CS,Crywolf,LoT). But they are still nerfed to around 50% of their normal power from previous editions.
- Elves now have 3 different directions to build up:
1. Pure PvM build based on AGI+STR for max dps.
2. PvM-PvP build based on AGI+VIT.
3. PvM-Support build based on AGI+ENE with ice arrow as stun in PvP/PvM and with buffs for CS/Balgass for their teams.
- All mobs/bosses will be adjusted in terms of damage & hp to match the new concept.
 
We're really excited to see how everything will play out on Inception and we hope that you'll enjoy it!
#MakeMUGreatAgain!
 
 

On the eve of a new max30 i want to ask @ADMIN and community, opinion about EE in future projects.I think it's time we give up this class in the future, because it only brings discomfort to the game. We are all different people, with different desires and capabilities, someone can play in 3 acc, someone on turnover are not willing to work so hard and want to play only in 1 window. And in the end, the winner is the one who at the right moment has Buff. And this greatly affects the balance, many do not realize that strong character is the sum of all aspects: class, items, party and buff which can also be better or worse. 
What its ur opinione about that? 

Current arena reward is reflecting stage 1, on stage 2 we may add jewels as well for 1st place.
BWQ is boosted from that aspect in order to raise the amount of sets made from her.
2 items dropped from 1.
60% chance for 2 options (from 20% as it was).
Info about options chances for everything can be found on Drops & Economy System.
380 items will only be achieved on Senior Mix (as well boosted to 2 boxes instead of 1).
380 non exc will remain with a lower drop on Swamp but W4 mix will be made from Exc 380 items (any 380 item except RF ones, both set items and weapons).
This will assure that CS rewards will remain important even in the latest stages of game, so you'll have to make senior mixes as well for W4.
Due to that, the difficulty was also tuned down on the other part (wings level to +12 instead of +13), and it may be tuned down more depending on game progress, when w4 will be released.

Swamp, like Max30 edition I think. 

On the eve of a new max30 i want to ask @ADMIN and community, opinion about EE in future projects.I think it's time we give up this class in the future, because it only brings discomfort to the game. We are all different people, with different desires and capabilities, someone can play in 3 acc, someone on turnover are not willing to work so hard and want to play only in 1 window. And in the end, the winner is the one who at the right moment has Buff. And this greatly affects the balance, many do not realize that strong character is the sum of all aspects: class, items, party and buff which can also be better or worse. 
What its ur opinione about that? 

Our next project will start somewhere at the beginning of September.
OldSquad - Inception - The 3rd edition of the old Max30RR server.
Inception is the server where everything started in our community, and we're working on a bigger revamp of it, bringing new systems and features for you to enjoy.
A fixed date for the start will be announced at the end of August, along with full info about the server.
So, make sure to be free at the beginning of September to start a new journey in our world!
Stay tunned on our site & forum for news.
 
OldSquad Team.
#MakeMUGreatAgain!

This interview is about Aqvila, the guild master of NONE . I have interviewed him because he created the most powerful guild on Phoenix and because he is a top DarkLord on our server.
Reporter: " At this moment you are the best master guild on the server! Congratulations!"
Aqvila : " Thank you, but 90% of the merit is to our members." 
Reporter: " Can you tell us the story of this guild?  "
Aqvila  : " It all started on Non-Reset server, when me and CowsGoMu wanted to exp together, for a long while we were very few but our policy of recruiting people for their character, not lvl or items paid off and most of our members from non rr are still here now. On Phoenix we were one of the first guilds , we took a slow start but after a month our core was so strong we started to compete for top bosses and CS, and we still gold the Castle." 
Reporter: " So, you and CowsGoMu are the founders of NONE? " 
Aqvila : "Yes, we are the founders, Cows came up with the name if I remember correctly"
Reporter : "which was the moment when you started to compete with top GUILDS? What made it? " 
Aqvila: "The moment we started to shine was when we allied with HOSTILE. I'm srry that the ally broke after I quit game. HOSTILE was a very good ally, our alliance with HOSTILE was Coco merit , he went to a lot of BC's with Ganja and negotiate our alliance ."
Reporter: "When you won the first Castle Siege? What happened then? "
Aqvila : "We won it right after we made the alliance with HOSTILE, to be honest, we didn't expect to win.  "
Reporter: "What guild defended? "
Aqvila : " MuPPeTs were the holders, but they were just a shadow of their former guild then."
Reporter: "Do you think that the Castle is Cursed?
Aqvila : " It is definetly cursed, but that curse can be avoided with a secret recipe."
Reporter: " Have you ever been almost overcome by the curse?"
Aqvila :" I think no, but unfortunately our allies felt into the curse at some point."
Reporter: "But I know you had struggles between the members right after you won the first siege. "
Aqvila:" I think that is inevitable for any guild, but part of our secret recipe is exactly that we talk and figure out a solution, in the end. That happened many times."
Reporter : "When did you started to play Mu Online? "
Aqvila : "2003, in a smoke filled internet cafe . "
Reporter: "How you found us and when did you started to play Mu OldSquad??"
Aqvila : "On extremetop100, last autumn during no reset, I was looking for a no rr server and OS server seemed the best on that list. That proved true. "
Reporter: " What nicknames you had in past?""
Aqvila : "NorthStar, Silence and Sasha ."
Reporter: " Have you ever bought VIP on PHOENIX?"
Aqvila : "Yes, I did, 3 times Hunter VIP. "
Reporter: " Have you donated since Phoenix started? "
Aqvila : "Yes. "
Reporter : " Do you think donating can make a difference between players? "
Aqvila : "It does, but especially at the server beginning, and it's quite nicely balanced. "
Reporter:" So a player who wants to be a top guild master have to donate?"
Aqvila :" No, it is not necessary ."
Reporter : " Can you give us some tips about Dark Lord stats build to be a strong Guild Master ? Can you reveal yours?"
Aqvila : "I won't reveal mine, but the main thing for a GM is to have a very high defense and hp, also, command for summon is very important. "
Reporter : " What are best excellent options for a Dark Lord as Guild Master?  "
Aqvila : "I prefere DD+HP+DDI for excellent set, but Sunlight set is a very good alternative ."
Reporter: "Why you don't play active anymore?"
Aqvila:" Unfortunately I am very busy with a project and simply I don't have enough time to play."
Reporter:"  Did you had (or do you have) any enemies in game? "
Aqvila : "Enemies is a strong word, but I had some rivals over the time. "
Reporter: " Can you name them? " 
Aqvila : "DIEEEEEEEE is one of them, ironically, this rivalry made me respect him very much, and now he's one of our top members  Another one would be Trau, him I don't respect so much "
Reporter : " What made you and DIEEEEEEEE enemies? " 
Aqvila : " With DIEEEEEEE it all started during the Icarus wars, Icarus was a battlefield back then, also DIEEEEEEE had the balls to fight a whole guild alone , he even stole a few bosses by himself. "
Reporter :" And what about Trau?"
Aqvila :" Trau is .... insane, maybe in a good way. "
Reporter:" What happened, why you two became enemies?"
Aqvila : " At one point he decided to pk the top guild while afk. Unfortunately he never showed up for any bosses or important events."
Reporter: " Which is your favorite character in game ?"
Aqvila : "I'd say Coco, CowsGoMu and WhiteRaven."
Reporter: "What you like about them? "
Aqvila :" Coco is hand down the strongest char here, and also a very nice person. Cows is probably the most friendly player here, and WhiteRaven I respect him for being a good SM, probably the most skilled SM."
Reporter : "Everyone talks about NONE's guild core, can you name us the most important players in this guild core? "
Aqvila :" Coco, Cows , Trust, Krass, Selphie, Hana, Noisy, Tool they've been in NONE forever and will stay in NONE, and let's not forget Youpi, cutest of them all."
Reporter: "Can you tell us a short story about each? How you recruited them ?
Aqvila :" Cows is my cofounder, as I said , he's always the voice of reason, Coco was one of the first guys to join us pro from very first week, Thrust joined us when Phoenix started and he quickly became one of the elders of the guild, Noisy also joined us on non rr ,the story of his life is looking for Anubis ring , Selphie and Hana, we recruited on no rr as well."
Reporter: "But NoisyBoy was in BDSM2, if I remember right....."
Aqvila " He was a spy! "
Reporter: "Oooo, a spicy info, can you tell us a short story about that?"
Aqvila :" At that point , BDSM dominated every boss, and held CS for a couple of weeks. We decided that we need to evaluate their strength, and, why not, loot some ancients. Noisy was the man for the job, interesting thing he has 3 chars, BDSM asked him to remove all alts from NONE, but a little EE stayed. The most interesting thing tho is he didn't have much to spy on."
Reporter: "Do you know what happened to BDSM? Why this guild disbanded? "
Aqvila :" I'm not familiar with the details, but a little bird told me smth about greed."
Reporter: "The Curse ripped them?"
Aqvila: "Probably, the castle brings out the worst in us." 
Reporter :" What do you need to have in order to handle the challenges of a master guild to become the server leader ?"
Aqvila:" Most important, patience, a cool head and the ability to listen to your guild members, and, last but not least , respect for rivals."
Reporter:" So you need to be a top psychologist and a good strategist? Something like" keep your friends close but your enemies closer"?"
Aqvila :" That's right, matters more than gear or lvl."
Reporter: "Have you ever had a moment in wanting to quit being a Guild Master?
Aqvila :" To be honest, once or twice, but I am happy I didn't."
Reporter: "What happened?"
Aqvila :" Land of Trial drama once, and a condor feather dropped from Medusa, but always, we found a way to solve them."
Reporter: "How did you managed those situations?"
Aqvila :" We solved lot issue by letting our guys enforce, our only two rules and now that I think about it that medusa incident sparked our ally break, even if we settled it for the moment. I don't really like rules, so we had 2 for LoT always re auto and no more then 1 char in LoT, apart from that we didn't had any guild rule, just don't be a dick (too much)."
Reporter: " Do you read the newspaper? "
Aqvila : "Yea , I never missed an article , even after I stopped playing, drama is too juicy to miss."
Reporter: "What do you suggest to improve on it?"
Aqvila : " You should join the main events, CS, evening IT, CW and record videos to report on them, you already do that for CS actually, but the other events are very interesting. Another idea would be to make short interviews randomly just to random event/spot, and find out about a random player."
Reporter:" Thank you for tips!"
Reporter: "On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you like this server?"
Aqvila : " Phoenix, 9/10."
Reporter: " What do you like the most in our server, and what do you dislike? "
Aqvila : "I think the best features are the xp stages... Dislike , I think the pvp formulas should be kept close to the original principle, something like :SM should be high dmg but squishy, the pvp balance here is not bad, but not what you expect if you played regular mu before, and can you add in your interviews a print screen with the interviewed players?"
Reporter :" So , basically you say that tanks should be tanks and the damage dealers to be damage dealers. "
Aqvila :" Exactly, tweaked, but keep the basic principle."
Reporter: " If you could ask ADMIN any questions, what would be the most important ones that comes through your mind ? "
Aqvila : " When will the next non reset edition come? Admin plays the game as a regular player? Did Admin had any servers before OldSquad? "
Reporter: "  Who do you want me to interview next, from OldSquad rankings (top number one) ?  "
Aqvila : " I will name Krass , but he is not top ranked 1 on any rankings so I would like to hear Zutto (both most skilled with BK)."
Reporter :" Do you have any questions or message for the last interviewed VIPs?"
Aqvila : "I just want to thank friend and rivals for the best edition of mu I have ever played ! "
   Thank you very much for your time and patience, and, as I promised, I will start to add a picture on all the interviews !

 

Some interesting moves were made last week on the "chess boards" of the leaders involved in the battle for the server supremacy. Those who want to preserve and defend the throne have tried and prepared defensive moves, and those who yearn for this throne that brings glory but, at the same time, a ruthless curse,  have prepared the offensive, an offensive that has not been seen on the battlefield in Valley of Loren for a long time....
  Last week, a new guild came to light over the grave of the guilds who took part in the last castle siege. WhiteRaven created the guild PRiME, and initially recruited most of the Smurf/Void members, the guild of which he was a part, in the past.
 After that, next move on the "chess table" made by PRiME was absorbing the most active members of Lemuria, including their guild master killua, which led to the dissolution of this guild, a guild that seemed to be just a ray of hope for server balance. 
 NONE has received fresh forces recruiting Javaraya, having the same strong guild core that we have already got used to. They prepared a defensive strategy which was based on at least 4 parties, and on something like defending all on one switch ...this strategy didn't worked so well, so they changed their mind and went for defending the crown. All NONE Agility Elf's where targeting WhiteRaven's  vitality, the Rage Fighters where sent to hunt and kill all Energy Elf's enemies (trying to break PRiME's main defensive powns from the chess table ), and Summoners were sending Zutto to sleep which made this attack .. less powerful.
 On the other side, PRiME , leaded by WhiteRaven and DarkMaster, started a little bit late, as they are a new Guild , they lost precious time while organizing , they had many Energy Elf's( like Smurf had when kicked NONE last time), but this time this strategy was a weakness for them: "one Agility Elf is not enough, and it is too hard to kill WhiteRaven with many Energy Elfs..."(at least that is what Joli Garcon said). Also, a strategy was to hunt Aqvila, but some players went to fight for switches, so the power was divided and precious time was lost. Another mistake was regrouping too slow after losing the crown , it took too much time to get back in throne room, and NONE warriors were faster.
  The Crown was switched between guilds more than 5 times, during this Castle Siege, but the guild with the most points at the end was NONE. They were more solid and more organized this time, and once again proved their guild core can fight vs anything and anyone, as Coco said : "Castle is Cursed!!!! But we have an antidote, and the antidote is that we are from start together and we never split like BDSM, MuPPeTs or Smurf, tbh we are not having any problems in guild now ." 
  PRiME proved to us that they have the resources to face NONE, and with a better organization maybe they can win. 
  As you all could saw on forum, both sides complained about the "damage vs defense balance" as no one couldn't kill Aqvila and WhiteRaven died maximum two times during this fight so Admin, listening to what people wants, as always,  made some new interesting updates. Check them out here : https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3258-patch-1760-04072019/
 But my questions for the players who are taking part on this major event are  : 
Castle Siege can be fun even with immortal guild masters?Can guilds evolve making different strategies not that simple as "lets kill the guild master" ?

A lot of ppls see that situation on CS, when 20 ppls can't kill one guy, like Raid boss. (WhiteRaben, Aqvila). 
I think need to change something  if we want to keep playing. 

You know you can edit your original post right instead of spamming once you remember something every 10minutes? Meeeh. 

Hello,
Based on this previous topic discussions (https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3170-new-pvp-idea/), we tried to combine both @Gion's idea and @Legion's idea with your own feedback into a new PvP system that I'll present below, and you can still bring your feedback before actually implementing it.
Mercenary Squad is a new OPTIONAL PvP System where anyone who wants more PvP can join.

The system works in the following ways:
You can register into the squad by writing /registerpvp. After you join you need to wait at least 24 hours before leaving it. In order to leave you need to write /unregisterpvp. You can join/leave for any number of times you want. There are 2 types of registration: Normal Level & ML, that will reflect only the reward. There will be a PvP Ranking on website for those registered. Features for those that register:
There are 3 levels of seals that you get by registering, which will upgrade in time: First Seal is automatically given after you register, it will increase your Normal Exp (if you register for normal exp) or Master Exp (if you register for ML exp) with 8%. Second seal will give you 14% exp. Third seal will give you 20% exp. All seals will also have a visual effect on your character so people will know that you're part of the Mercenary Squad. You will bypass Fairness Gaps versus other Mercenaries. You will bypass PK Limit vs other Mercenaries. You will bypass Non-PvP invasions vs other Mercenaries. You will bypass Non-PvP maps vs other Mercenaries. There are 3 options that we thought of about PK between Mercenaries and will let you choose the best one: 1. Free PK between Mercenaries on any place (not getting murderer). 2. Normal PK between Mercenaries (you get murderer as usual). 3. Free PK between Mercenaries on 2-4 random maps selected each week from the highest ones, while on rest of maps will be normal PK. There is also a Mercenary Quest system that can be accessed once every 12 hours with the command /pvpquest. This command will assign you a random ONLINE player from the Mercenary Squad that you need to kill in the next 15 minutes in order to finish the quest. If you fail the quest nothing will happen. If the target goes offline during those 15 minutes you will be assigned with another target and another 15 minutes. Other aspects of Mercenary Squad:
There is a Point System in order to decide rankings for Mercenaries: You will get 1 point for every 10 minutes of ONLINE TIME while you are registered on the squad. You will get 25 points for every succesfull quest you make as well as 2x Jewel of Harmony. When you reach certain number of points & quests you will be rewarded: 720 points & 8 finished quests will upgrade your seal to the 2nd one. 2500 points & 20 finished quests will upgrade your seal to 3rd one. Extra rewards based on points & quests that will be added at a later stage. IMPORTANT! If you unregister from the Mercenary Squad you will LOSE all your ACCUMULATED POINTS! So, the higher the risk the higher the reward.
Waiting your feedback before starting the implementation.

NONE is not far away, as they lost again The Castle, and now they are probably confused as they where so confident that no one can take "The Crown" from them, and some of them are probably asking themselves "Why HOSTILE had to leave? " .
 Signs of future shows dark clouds above both guilds and a Curse which seems to have no sleep until victims are buried .
 Last week, the Smurf guild has become weaker than ever, losing some of the major players, only a few brave warriors have prepared to defend Yami's crown.
 On the other side, NONE members had a quiet week in which they bandaged their wounds and prepared for the next fight, without having any major losses of strength . The Curse seems to focus on the other guilds, and avoids them at the moment.
 Few weeks ago a new guild began to rise and shine, this guild got my attention because a few players from the former HOSTILE , led by killua, created it and moved fast in recruiting top warriors, the power of this guild was growing day by day from the day it was created, but it came to light at the end of the week when they registered to Castle Siege to test their strength. The name of this guild is Lemuria, and this name is predestined for conquerors.
 Sunday came, as well as the time of this major Event, in which the most important guilds on the server are fighting for supremacy in the game, and for the treasures that Castle and the Land of Trials brings for the winners of the Siege. 
 Smurf brought one party, without hoping too much to be able to defend the crown until the end, but these remaining guild guards just did refused to let NONE warriors having an easy win. The warriors from NONE have stormed the gates of the castle (a Castle that seemed just a ruin), smashing everything in their way as a hurricane. They took the crown very easy and once again put it on Aqvila's head. Smurf's few warriors didn't gave up, even without a guild master(Yami was offline all the time during this Castle Siege), and attacked NONE until the end.
 Lemuria, the new guild led by killua, started assault after about 15 minutes since Castle Siege started, and brought only few of their warriors. They fought well but they just need more members if they want to compete with NONE, this is why I said it before, it was just a test of strength for them, and they seem to have "nerve" for this . Signs of future looks good for this guild if they keep recruiting top warriors and bring them to the Castle Siege.
 NONE guild won again the supremacy on server this week, maybe easier than ever, and they seem to have a strong CORE of players which this Curse cannot brake, at least until now, because they survived it even without HOSTILE on their side.
 The Smurf guild seems to collapse and looks like it's close to its end ...Did the Curse already added them to the list of buried Guilds? Just like it already did with BDSM, MuPPeTs and last but not least, HOSTILE? (After disbanding alliance with NONE, HOSTILE  became another ex top guild name in Phoenix History , because now it is just a "cemetery" for players who were once involved in the most important guilds that dominated this server)
 With Smurf been almost history, will Lemuria challenge NONE next week?Will they bring enough forces to get a balanced fight and maybe take the crown from them?  One thing is sure, NONE will not give up easy, as they never did. If anyone dares to challenge them needs more then 2 parties, and an united team. 
   Here are some screens with the most important moments from this Castle Siege :
NONE preparing the assault


NONE guild assaulting throne room and taking the crown fighting vs Smurf's few guards...  



Lemuria`s first assault :

 
 Score before last 30 minutes:

Hello !
Many of you are asking / complaining about the chances in the game. I would like to explain how these are working.
For example, you want to create Wings level 2 at the Chaos Goblin in Noria, you already have the items, you place them into the Goblin's "hands", and it shows you a rate of let's say 80%. This 80 per cent is a decent rate for a chaos combination, compared to the rate of feather of condor, wings level 3, or upgrading an item to +15. Still you can get like 10 fails in a row with this 80% chance. This is because the computer can not generate the true randomness, but it has a smart way to "randomize" the chances. First of all, you have to know that when you see an 80% chance, this chance is took out of 10000. The sample is 10000, so you are guaranteed to obtain 2000 fails out of 10000 tries.
Now, how the computer / game decides if it is a fail or not ? Just like I said, there is no true randomness in computers, at least not yet, and the computer uses his X-bit clock to generate the randomness. When you hit the "combine" button, the computer takes as input the current hour: 10[hour] : 30[minute] : 25[second] : 13[millisecond]. Well, his input and randomizing value will be the milliseconds, or even a smaller division in some cases. The system will always give you 2000 fails out of 10000 tries at the end of the day, no matter in which order. The way you can test it yourself is to go on test-server and make the same combination for at least 50-100 times and note down results. While the sample is very low, it will give you some insights about the rate. But the higher the sample is (more tries) the higher the accuracy is. 
The clock thing took as input happens like everywhere, in chaos machine like I said, in chances for hitting critical damages or ignore, luck, and so on, and not only in MU online, but in most random codes made by devs.
Now, the sample of 10000 is what is unique in MU, so basically with a chance of 99%, you can still have 100 fails in a row, but I guess this won't happen, or if this happens, go to lottery that day!
Some of you may say that ADMIN didn't put the real rates showing, but why he would ever 'lie' to his players without any reason? Some of you may remember the good old times when wings level 3 had 100% success rate. I doubt ADMIN would ever be shy to show you true rates no matter how high or low they are, taking into account his mentality.
And btw, the same sample applies to all players, not for each one. 
Hope I helped with this article, have a wonderful day, oldsquaders !

I make a little event for newbies on this Saturday between 20:00-22:00. Requirements : need to be a new player and need to have 1 PK( i need to check if u rly newbie)
Prize is: x3Pendant +edr , x2Rings +ref,   x3Magic Backpack , 3 Chaos pack x10. maybe something else.
Good luck.

Many things happened since Chapter V was written, so I will start to say that there were fights disputed on 2 major fronts , one front was forum, and the other one was in game. In game, HOSTILE disbanded alliance and NONE got weaker (or at least this was what I thought), but on the other side, in game, Smurf guild was more silent than ever (they replied to NONE attacks on forum) ,but in game, they barely got 1 party active on most of Big Bosses, and even when they were more than one party, they still lost most of the fights vs NONE...
 Even so, it was an active week for both guilds, with all the noise, especially on forum,  NONE waked up a sleepy giant... rumors says that this was their intention, to wake up Smurf guild provoking, and trying to humiliate them on forum, on bosses fights, and on all possible ways, they made even a funny video (the best I ever saw), check it out here :https://www.captiongenerator.com/1427602/Yami-wants-to-win-CS
 But Sunday came fast and Castle Siege started ... 
 After taking all jokes and humiliations from NONE players, Smurf assaulted Castle with more than 3 parties; I never saw that much force coming from their side for a long time, and crushed NONE defense in like 30 minutes, killing NONE warriors like they were flies. They took the crown and then prepared for NONE attacks. On the other side, NONE seemed shocked by this Smurf attack that paralyzed them, they waked up only after 30 more minutes when they sealed successfully and took back the crown. Smurf tried second attack even harder than the first one, and in like 10 minutes, the crown was again on Yami's head . Last 45 minutes NONE seemed to be so confused about what was happening, as they assaulted castle again and again, but they couldn't do much, as most of their strategies were blocked in the throne room, where they were hitting a solid "wall".
 NONE didn't had the force to protect the Castle this Sunday, after their arrogance waked up Smurf, and ended up losing castle after an unbalanced fight, as Smurf dominated this Castle Siege from the beginning to the end. And now they have an inactive King, even without a Crown .... On the other side, Smurf proved that with balanced number of active players they can dominate NONE, and silenced them up. At least for a while ...
 The thing to broke balance and made Smurf win this fight, was the power of Energy Elfs , as they were at least 3 on Smurf side, and they were active like crazy. I barely saw one or two EEs on NONE side. Also, Smurf used main damage dealers focusing on Aqvila, they did not seemed to be to interested in defending switches. "All on Aqvila" was their strategy. And it damn worked !
 Right after the Castle Siege, I saw important members of Smurf outside of guild. This kind of sign shows us that something is still rotten there, and that they are still trying to find the antidote for The Curse.....
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   Here you can see some prints I took on this Castle Siege , fight was really nice and i think all the players had fun!!!
 

I didn't made my self clear, which was my bad, but my overall post wasn't targeted to your points (though not specifying anything about ms or etc.) but as a general objective opinion outside of your discussions and from the point of view of us as staff, related to any character discussions/topics. I do stated however that we take things as feedback, and while I didn't said it is bad or good (speaking about MS), I also said that we're not touching chars during ongoing editions, but that doesn't mean it won't be noted for future.
Again, you're speaking strictly from your point of view as a SMG, while agi does of course benefit you, let's think about the VRF then, where agility barely helps him at all (speed is useless for VRF due to CD on chain drive) and the amount of def gained is just like the AE, very low. DDI is usually the main thing that can keep them alive in fights (yea, they have high hp pool, but on 1v1 as I stated previously, once the sd is gone health is barely helping you to survive few more attacks, taking into account that most classes have up to 180% damage vs RF).
You speak about damage as it's something overlooked, but you forget that your entire damage is also amplified with different things (main thing to look out is up to 18% from resets, just as pure damage, excepting extra points), then you have chars that does have % rise of damage from weapons, that again benefit much more from damage. Then you have full socketed weapons that brings in another extra % damages, not speaking about ancient sets with DD or % damage increase. The buff from 55% to 60% of DDI is a minor one compared to an 18% increase in damage just from resets. And even there, how many ppl does achieve that max dd%? It's not something easily achievable, at least not for everyone and not that fast (looking to newbies/late comers).
There are enough methods to counter AE's thing in CC, starting from chasing her since start (you know which one is elf, due to bow) and burst her down on start, being in her range when she starts ice-ing you, up to indirect methods like letting her die to mobs/other ranged players from CC. It's not something that grants her a 100% win, but the only thing that gives skilled elves a chance to win the CC on their own power (how many AE's does even know to play with ice, 4, 5?). 
I didn't wanted to give playing advice at all, everyone should play his own game and find the best solutions, but I can't keep my mouth, because you're assuming things without even testing before, JUST take 10 minutes from your time, go on test server, put 20 points in ice resistance on skill tree and then try to hit yourself with an AE ice arrow, then you'll maybe understand what Ice resistance truly means and will stop telling that there are no counters. Want to counter AE, sure, you'll lose 20 points for them, but you will be almost safe. Let's test before writing or complaining, you have all the tools you need to test anything in few minutes, only use few commands and you have everything you need, then we can speak on the same subject knowing most of things that game offers, not just by speculating.

I like to see people involved in discussions, but you should know that this things are counted just as feedback.
We are never touching characters during an ongoing edition.
Everyone wants its character to be the best, of course, and if possible at any stage of the game. That will never happen and it's not even possible from technical point of view.
Every character is designed differently, having its own strengths and weaknesses depending on build, gear, stage of the game, event, and even the player itself.
We are developing and tweaking characters of this game for more than 3 years, adjusting formulas, damages, pvp, class vs class rates, etc. The default state of the characters (Webzen) was just a joke. But again, despite our continuous efforts it will never reach a "perfect state", it's simply not possible. You're expecting too much from such a game, if you want 100% PvP MU is not the game for that, if we think at a larger scale, not even a game like WoW is 100% on PvP (neither PvM), where differences between classes, characters and specs are huge, favoring only some of them at different things. But, just like in WoW where a Hunter (in an easy way) can make almost double DPS at PvM compared to many of other classes, the rest of them brings something different to table on each situation.
The same idea we brought for MU to have an 'overall balance' apart from class vs class things, where BALANCE doesn't mean a class is not better than the other BUT all classes are more or less equal and BRINGS different things at different moments/situations.
If we just browse all the existing tops from Phoenix we'll see all classes in the top at most of the things, ofc, some better at some points and it's not an 100% accurate view because most of the tops depends on the player (and how active he is).
If we look at some (considered by public) good players from our server they can all make their class look OP in different situations, examples can be Zutto for BK, Catarina for SUM, Ganja for AE, Coco for SM, DIEE for SMG, etc.
Are all characters playable at a decent level? Yes, they are. Are there better chars than others? Yes, they are, at different stages and at different things. Do some characters have specific tricks that can be "abused" by their class? Yes, they have (Ice arrow, Weapon skill for bosses, etc.) Is their right to use them and profit by being smart and knowing their class as it was designed by the Webzen, in the first place, without our direct impact? Yes, it's their right, as long as the impact is purely for their own interest without disturbing important things (IT, for example).
Apart from doing everything we can to ensure a fair environment to all the characters as much as we consider, we will never rework entire game or all the tricks and things that game does offer just to satisfy different individuals. 
We are running on the same core since 3 years, many of you played here multiple editions and already knew how most of the things work (or not). Everything we do is well documented pre-launch as well as post-launch. You had all the formulas (and even personal tips) of all the characters available before server launch. You had beta period as well as a permanent test-server pre and post-launch to test all characters and builds you want on any situation and gear/resets/builds. You even had 4 resets to change your class if you didn't like it. Coming here and crying about your own character or other's character is not making you look good, taking into account all the things you had in your asset to choose your character carefully.
As a conclusion we'll always adjust characters and things we consider that can be improved based on feedback, but never during an ongoing edition (and I'm speaking strictly about individual characters power/assets).
Cheers.

when we were 4+ parties and we won, noone said a word. when CS lost because lack of people, everyone become so loud ..