Endorphin

Hopping in just to "deny" such rumor that especially Glowa "helped" HARDCORE, just because I hate when people always try to find excuses when they lose instead of simply taking the lose and say GG.

Last 9 minutes a lot of def points up, HARDCORE are attacking, PURGE are defenders, still Glowa is keeping the switch like a maniac, while Diamond tries to register at least one more time.
Then let's look at total stamper time: 

Glowa - 1679 seconds.
1st from PURGE - 1023 seconds.
1st from HARDCORE - 1108 seconds.
Mathematically, if Glowa (Diamond) would help HARDCORE then Glowa would not have a single chance to have such stamp time only keeping switch 50% of the time, when HC would be defenders. Because both guilds were defenders 50% of time.
For realistic people, you have the answer to at least one of the questions, rest are just excuses.
Congrats to all 3 teams though, impressive fight.

A great battle between the most important guilds on the server took place, PURGE and Diamond finally signed up on Saturday evening, so, I had the privilege of watching our warrior masters in action again.
Hardcore started as defenders with a handicap of 2000 points, due to the fact that this great guild is undefeated, so far, and owns the castle for 3 consecutive weeks. They prepared the gates and statues again, in order to recover a little score , out of the -2000 handicap, they used mostly the same strategy that paid off for last week, all darklods on 1 switch, and on the other they put all the cannons. 
Purge, the strongest attacking guild had an incredible performance in the first part of the siege, managing to keep the advantage and even increase it sometimes, they managed to conquer the castle very quickly in this first part, much better organized than last week, and all focused on victory.
Diamond warriors also came to take part in this war and they didn't do it badly, they managed to register once, the beginning of the fight was a formidable one for them, in the first hour they had at least managed to accumulate ~ 1000 points and, also, registered once. 
The battle was balanced in the first hour between all three guilds, followed by 30 minutes in which Diamond seemed to have lost their focus, the battle being largely between Purge and HARDCORE, but, sadly, only one single star is shining like a diamond in this small guild with big aspirations (Diamonds), that star is called Glowa and he manages to shine on the switch and to confuse both guilds when registering.
We are approaching the last half hour and the balance is tilted in favor of PURGE, those from Diamond no longer seem to focus on the fight except for the "glowing" Glowa, the fight for the bottom switch was the fiercest, the crown on No1LiveEr's head starts to shake because Purge shows clarity, they are even faster when they return to the castle and register, but on the last 30 minutes Hardcore wakes up, recovers from the shock and starts to gather, they manage to approach Purge step by step and sometimes even to overtake them. There are 10 minutes left and they manage to take the lead, Purge seems demoralized, they start accusing Diamond of playing anti-game in favor of Hardcore, instead of focusing on taking the switches and everything falls apart for them.
Diamond did a nice fight at the beginning and their major weakness was just another stamper, one like Glowa to be able to register more often, also HVMAN needs to take care of set or build cause he died few times and that is achile's heal for a guild. 
Purge made 13223 points and received 4 free lord boxes, that's really good, thinking that Hardcore can have max 7 Lord Boxes. 
As for the invincibles from HARDCORE, they keep the crown on No1LiveEr's head, hardly, but they have succeeded, this guild remained undefeated on Castle Siege and continue to hold the supremacy of Inception , they won the chance to do 7 lord box (if for those in Purge they were free, HC has to pay the price of 30b / 30s / 30jog and 1kkk zen per day) but they also benefit from the invaluable antiques that will fall at their feet for another 7 consecutive days, and will also benefit from the spot that will propel them to the top.
Many questions arose as a result of this epic battle, but I will reveal only the most relevant ones: 
Did Diamond really helped HARDCORE? They finished with 1800 points and if they did this they certainly didn't do it for free, giving up the remaining 700 points to get a Lord Box so what HARDCORE promised to them if the rumors that come from Purge are right? 
The Next Castle Siege will probably be played in the exp stage, Purge will recover even more from the resets and HARDCORE will start with a disadvantage of 3500 points, will they be able to continue to keep the crown on No1LiveErs head? 
Will FORMOZA actually come to fight? They didn't show up last Sunday, they don't want top items with 3 Opts? 
Due to the fact that I heard many  "voices" from Purge saying that Diamond helped HARDCORE, I went in game to investigate and tried to obtain the answers for the questions that players can give, got in contact with HVMAN's party member  and No1LiveEr's and that is what I received : 
Reporter : "Hello, guys (referring to HVAMAN's party) " 
TaleSp1N :" Hello" 
Reporter:" Did you helped HARDCORE last CS?" 
TaleSp1N: "No, we didn't, we prefer Purge to win, but we won't help any team, everyone for himself ,we work hard to win for our self and we did  good! 
Then I went to No1lveEr's party: 
Reporter:" Hello, guys, how do you comment the rumors that Diamond helped you to win this fight?"
RuSuLeTzZz : "If that rumor is true .. then the fact that Trippy stole from Collison ( his guild mate ) , Chukundah is a scammer and pk his guild mate Manyak , Oklahoma stole all items from Snajper .. are all false. Cheers!"
Now I wait as a reply to this article the pro and contra arguments from PURGE, DIAMOND and HARDCORE, OR EVEN FORMZA!

Hello,
There is currently a problem with the guild-chat & alliance-chat that was extended from Guild Masters only to members as well, after the update from today, when we've tried to fix the Guild Masters problem.
If we can't try a new fix for it in the next 1-2 hours you'll have to survive until tomorrow without this chat functions.
We don't want to do another server restart today without trying a new fix, so in the worst case we'll do a server restart tomorrow for either trying out a new fix or roll-back-ing to previous update where the problem was only for Guild Masters, until we have a new fix to try.
Happy leveling!

Hello,
As you may have noticed already, we've reworked the forum structure in order to spread the information more accurately as well as improving the ways of handling suggestions/reports.
We've also archived all the topics older than 1-1.5 years old across all sections.
All sections can now be seen by both guests and members.
Important changes:
We're trying to revive the guides section with fresh content, so starting from our next edition, any good & accepted guide can grant you 100~300 credits. Note: New guides must be manually accepted by staff. More info: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3949-submitting-a-guide Now Suggestions must pass a stricter model in order to appear and be discussed. In order to encourage them, starting from our next edition any good, accepted & implemented suggestion does earn you 30~80 credits. Note: New suggestion must be manually accepted by staff, they must follow the model. More info: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3948-submitting-a-suggestion-model Now Bug Reports must pass a stricter model in order to appear and be checked. There's also a list of unfixable bugs presented with work-arounds. If there's a bug report that shows an already existing & confirmed problem it will be rejected. Note: New bug reports must be manually accepted by staff, they must follow the model. More info: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3946-reporting-a-bug-model List of known unfixable bugs: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3947-known-unfixable-bugs-work-arounds
Cheers!

Crucify is a player who seems to have appeared "out of nowhere" and in a relatively short time he managed to amaze us all, creating a Rage Fighter that is by far the best at Castle Siege Pvp, also he currently is ranked as 1st in the overall voter rankings, he has voted 246 times so far, and ranks 1st in the Gens rankings, in the past 7 days he has managed to make 180 raid kills and to accumulate 7257 points.
Reporter : "Hello, Crucify ! Welcome to The News Paper Hall of Fame! " 
Crucify :" Hi    "  
Reporter: " Can you, please, give us a description of yourself? Name, age, occupation, etc. " 
Crucify :"My name is Turgut, I'm from Istanbul, Turkey. 21 y/o and computer engineering student(6th term). I like traveling, still traveling cities in Turkey but I want travel between countries soon (I'll go Oulu university, Finland for study next year if we can get over this covid shit :P), also I like swimming. "  
Reporter: " Oooh, 21 y/o that makes you the youngest player from News Paper Hall of Fame! When did you start playing Mu Online? What nicknames you had in past? " 
Crucify :"Hahaha, yea :)). I started before, 7 or 8 years ago on a season 2 server with my cousin and played season 2 for long time (he's 28 y/o and he was playing over 10 years, unfortunately he is not playing on OldSquad because he don't have much free time), it's my 3rd or 4th higher season server than season 2. I used Lykia, Tr0uble, Hargreave, Prophet but last 4-5 years I use Crucify on every game. "    
Reporter: "How did you find OldSquad? Can you tell us a short story about your first steps on our server? Have you came alone? What was your first permanent party, what was your first guild, etc ? "
Crucify :"I found Oldsquad on Xtremetop100. I checked first 10-15 servers(specially depends to webshops/services) and I saw that it's the only Play2win server. I started with my cousin and his friends on this year's Inception after 150-160 days server starts(we give a break like 1y and just wanted to play mu without for rank) then we see new server Phoenix coming. My first guild was Vikings at Inception. But even we were not in same guild, AlmightySM and Odyssey helped me and my friends too much. On Inception I was at stable party with my friends. But on phoenix they didn't play at beginning because they had no time so i was alone. My first permanent party is with Peps-Reborn-Deave-Arya but it didn't last long. Then we make stable party with Azir-Arseling-StrongOne-Skippy and now I'm in stable party with Azir-livy0u-Sosu-5GSP0RT and playing with Azir all the time(on events,bosses etc) "  
Reporter: "What do you think about this server and community?" 
Crucify :"Inception was good but I think admin is too busy to deal with Phoenix (pvp invasions fixed after 50days, disconnect problem took long too and there are always another bug). But I like this server, characters are balanced(hope admin solve ctrl bug soon) and if you are active you don't need to donate for credits. About community, mostly good, but there some toxic players "  
Reporter :" Did you started to play on Phoenix since day 1?"
Crucify: "Yes" 
Reporter: "Do you have any VIP activated?"
Crucify :"Not for now, I started without vip and make 150lvl sm for create rf, I usually buy vip when I got more than 3-4k credits before reset. Otherwise, I keep them for some upgrade. I buy hunter if I'm going to afk for couple days and pro for weeks that I play active(if i had credits :)) "  
Reporter: " How much time do you spend /day playing Mu Online? "
Crucify :"It was like 4-5 hours, but in this covid situation and my father has some issues with his lungs I'm at home 7/24 for 40-50 days(also my university start to online lessons) so i spend like 8-10 hours for mu and watching some tv series when I'm not playing mu "  
Reporter :" Oh, sorry to hear that about your father, I hope he gets well!" 
Crucify :" Thanks , he needs to stop smoking for 'go better', but he doesn't" 
Reporter :"What advice would you give to a player who recently joined the server? What should he do to get to the top places or to get inside a top guild?"
Crucify :"First of all they have to play active for all events specially BC/DS, for faster growth. When they are active for events they can join most of guilds and it becomes easier to hunt and they can find stable party in guild. "  
Reporter: "You said earlier that you joined Old Squad for its real play2win concept, whats your opinion now? There are many players, especially the new ones, but not only those, who say that they have no chance to reach the top because they do not donate, how do you comment on these statements?"
Crucify :"Not 100% play2win, but it's much more better than other servers, someone can still donate a lot of money and get set easily but they always stay noob, even if they have full set, there are so many players like that in server, also so many top player without donate even single cent :)). All they have to do is play active."  
Reporter: "Isn't that all the play2win concept definition?"
Crucify : "When you say play2win people think that there are no credits/vip/premium services, that's why I said not 100%, but pretty close"
Reporter : " You are 1 reset behind Alex, the RF ranked no 1 in general main rankings, what happened? How come you're so far away?"
Crucify :"As I said, before covid I was playing like 4-5 hours per day sometimes less and didn't join events so much, and I was really behind when I start to play-hard, that's why I didn't participate at the first 2 CS."  
Reporter:" What classes have you played in the past? Is Rage Fighter your favorite class?" 
Crucify :"I play Dark Lord usually on season 2, I tried Rage Fighter on my first season 6 server and i liked it. After that i always play Rage Fighter when it's available on server, and yes, looks like my new favorite class  "  
Reporter: "You are currently the No. 1 Rage Fighter in the following major Old Squad ranks: Castle Siege pvp rankings, general vote rankings, and gens pvp rankings, how did you accomplish this?
Crucify :"For Castle Siege, I tried so many combinations for str/vit ratio on test server, I think it's the most important reason because I was wearing plate set luck dd (which is not really good compared to my opponents) on third cs and I was the best RF, again. For gens rank I wait raid most of time and thanks to my friend Azir for calling me on raid if I sleep or afk for some reason. For vote just put an alarm "  
Reporter:" Can you reveal us a few tips about Rage Fighters pvp build? Can you reveal your stats and/or ML skill tree? 
Crucify :"If I give my stats away, every rage fighter will use them, so only advice that i can give is to find best str/vit ratio with your weapon ^^ "
Reporter :" Speaking of permanent party, do you have one ? Can you tell us a few words about each member and a short story about how you guys met and got in a perma?" 
Crucify :"Like I said before, I was in a permanent party with Peps-Arya-Reborn-Deave, but Peps left us because we were not active as he wants, then we all split. After that, I saw that Azir was looking for a member for his party so I joined them. After few players left/joined, it became a really good party. Azir is a really funny guy and really active on events, like me, he is the reason for my fast growth :). Livy0u is a really nice guy and he really likes to help ppl. Sosu and 5GSP0RT is in our party for just 1 week, so I don't know them very good but they both seem nice too. "  
Reporter: "How important is, in your opinion, a permanent party on OldSquad?" 
Crucify :"If you want to be in top, you have to be in permanent party with shared anydesk/teamviewer information for remote control(or give phone number, like I did at first times:)) " 
Reporter: "Tell us about Hardcore, how were you and your party recruited in this guild?"
Crucify :"Actually, I found my party in Hardcore. I started Inception after 150-160 days and I remember Maki, mafy and few more player from Old-style(I wasn't in guild, I just saw them on top). On Phoenix I saw them again and I wanted to join because they were strong on Inception   "  
Reporter:" There are rumors that the Hardcore leaders and members are greedy, this being the main reason why many players left this guild, how do you comment these rumors ? "
Crucify :"Not the leaders, just members that left/were kicked from guild were greedy (not all, but most of them). If the leaders were greedy, they wouldn't make Senior set for player that they didn't play together before :)). We share everything in guild. If more than 1 people ask for the same item, it doesn't matter if they are in their party or not, they give that item to more active one "  
Reporter:" Hardcore, 2 weeks ago, lost the fight for supremacy with a big difference of points in favor of Squadron, what happened? "
Crucify :"So many ppl from our main guild were busy for that day, and we took some players that don't have set from alt guild Alliance. But still 3 players didn't come and 2 players were afk at CS, so we play with 20. "  
Reporter: " Wiggle and Squadron, the guilds you've been fighting with for so long have been disbanded, do you think the players of these two guilds will unite against yours?"
Crucify :" I'm sure that they will, otherwise game will become really boring :))"  
Reporter: " What do you think that are the reasons why these two guilds were disbanded? "
Crucify :"For Squadron, I'm sure that most toxic player, Chukundah (or his another personality Tokyo that he uses now), is the one of reasons. For Wiggle, they call us greedy but I think they are the greedy ones, because 380 weapon for guild master is not the best option atm, it could be better if they gave boxes to one of rage fighters or blade knights. "  
Reporter:" So, do you think that The Curse hit them so bad that they disbanded? Wiggle and Squadron are the latest victims of this cruel Curse ?
Crucify :" What is The Curse ? Defeat on CS maybe?  I mean I know what curse means but The Curse looks like something special "
Reporter :" The curse is defined by the greed and inside scandals that comes with the fight for supremacy, also spoil share between guild members, those are the main reasons that usually most of the guilds that held Castle disbanded, for more details please start reading this: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/3453-phoenix-curse-history-of-castle-lords-and-guilds/ "
Crucify : "Yea, looks like this Curse hit them "
Reporter :"During last Sunday, your guild easily won the fight for supremacy, what did you do differently? "
Crucify: "Participation was better for that CS, we played as 25. Also some ppl from EliteS came to our guild before couple days and some of them participate CS, they did a great job too.
Reporter:" How do you comment on rumors that your guild is copying Squadron in developing strategies on each battle? "
Crucify :"They always have excuses :)) "  
Reporter:" It is rumored on the server that you are the main weapon of the guild, that without you Hardcore would not have managed to win some of previous battles because you found Trippy's "Achilles' heel", managing to kill him most of the time. How do you comment on these rumors?"
Crucify:" They won before I participate CS, so I doubt about it. In my opinion Rusu is the most important person on cs because he directing everyone on voice. Sorry about stun on last cs, bro :))"
Reporter : "Related to Lord Mix, from what I've seen, you're the only Hardcore Rage Fighter with a Lord Mix set, but you aren't  the biggest in the guild. How were you chosen for the first set? Did the other Rage Fighters players from the guild agree to let you have this first set?
Crucify: " Yes, they voted about it, the reason that I got the first set is because I was the most active rage fighter in guild and I am the best rage fighter in server even with plate set, you can see on third CS ^^" 
Reporter:" Who is taking the decisions in Hardcore? " 
Crucify: "Council. 1 people from every permanent party(some parties 2-3, if they are active most of time) in council so we take decisions together "
Reporter:" Hmmm, it sounds like the newest project of Admin, so, do you already have a council where guild decisions are made? Can you name the members of this Hardcore Council?" 
Crucify: " Redbull, Shady, Maki, No1, Rusu, Mafy, Azir, Darkyo, Fane, Moonlight, Takeshi "
Reporter:" Lately, more and more players are complaining that they have been scammed in the game, trying to buy items at prices that the market does not allow, thus being tricked. They are outraged on the forum and ask the admins to take action, what is your opinion about these events?"
Crucify: " Admin is right about it, in my opinion, because this is a limit for prevent pay2win and make jewels more valuable. But still scamming is for dishonorable guys, like Chukundah. Rusu shouldn't trust him at first but I think he thinks that chuku has honor :)). Hope no one trusts him anymore."
Reporter : "Do you have any enemies in the game?" 
Crucify :"No, I'm really new on OldSquad Community. I just don't like few toxic players but they are not strong enough to be 'my enemy'. "  
Reporter:" Can you tell us about the funniest moments you've experienced on OldSquad?" 
Crucify :"We played Inception with my friend, WhoAmI, and AlmightySM helped us so much, as I said before. When we started on Phoenix, we thought that we can join Attack guild with AlmightySM. Anyway on first day of server, WhoAmI, me and 3 other friends (that are not playing anymore) were leveling in Devias 4 and another party came and tried to KS us. WhoAmI really got pissed off and started to argue with them, then they ask us which guild we will join and WhoAmI says we will join Attack and 'kick your asses'. The funny part is he argued with Speedy(Wanheda) and his party. Only after we realized that he is one of the founders of ATTACK :)) "  
Reporter:" The number of online players started to decrease lately on Phoenix, what do you think that are the main reasons?" 
Crucify :"I think main reason is that Admin is not active and there are always another bug, i just got 3 warn from IT today morningm but I didn't participate. I was going to BC and I was warned. Also server is not easy, so new players get bored and leave. "  
Reporter:" Do you accept a few challenges?" 
Crucify :"If I understand right, you ask about players on challenges and I don't know players, I just know players in Hardcore. Am i right? "  
Reporter:" Well, first of all you need to accept the challenges. Who knows? It might get tricky. There will be several questions and one request, and I need details on each answer of yours."
Crucify :" Nvm, I am in :))))) " 
Reporter :" Challenge no 1: Tell us the names of the 3 players you respect the most on OldSquad and the names of the 3 most toxic persons on Old Squad."
Crucify :"I respect most Azir, mafy and Rusu and 3 most toxic players are Chuku, TrueSquad and gimiurhelm "  
Reporter: "Challenge no 2: Tell me 3 things you like most about the staff team of this server, and 3 things you don't like about them!"
Crucify :"Admin is not active, i don't like it like everyone. Gion being too soft about bad langauge, he should give more warn/ban for swearing at family values. And Reporter looks like Squadron fan instead of neutral (no offence but everyone who can read newspaper about cs can understand that :)) "  
Reporter:" Challenge no 3: Give us the name of the 3 best pvp players on OldSquad !" 
Crucify :"Rusu, Zutto(only if he's not using macro, I don't understand about macros) and me, ofc ^^ "  
Reporter:" Challenge no 4 : What do you like most and what you dislike on Old Squad game play"
Crucify :"Events are so important, you cant do any shit with 7/24 afk. Dynamic exp is amazing for encourage new players. Alliances can't participate on CS, so it's good, you have to make strategy instead of bringing so many ppl in the Siege. I don't like website blacksmith, especially add luck to items. There are always bugs, as I've said before. And Non-pvp events are annoying :)) "  
Reporter:"Challenge no 5(the in game request) :Give us a print screen with you ML skill tree build!" 
Crucify :" "  
Reporter:" Did you register for the Soccer Event tonight?"
Crucify:" Yes, I was registered, but I wasn't lucky enough to be chosen" 
Reporter:" So, would you like Gion to increase the limit of participants?" 
Crucify :" Yes, it would be better i think. More players = more competition "
Reporter:" Do you read the News Paper?" 
Crucify :" I did it only for this DB"  
Reporter:" What would you improve on NewsPaper ?
Crucify :"Hmm, maybe you can start new series like daily things for every week, only top guild players read The War for Supremacy series. For example someone get banned today for selling item for real money. "  
Reporter:" Well, now I will argue about the lack of time, imagine that I am a player too and I spend 60% of my free time doing reporter job, so i am focusing on what I think that really adds '+' value for The News Paper " 
Crucify :"Yes, but I think that players can report to you for that daily things, with screenshots maybe, but yes, it requires so much time, it was just idea :)) "  
Reporter:" Since you already told us what should be improved, what do you say about all the unique and futuristic things added by Admin to a season 6 server (merecenary squad, all the / invasion, / entries, / info etc.)? Do you know that no one says anything about the cool things and only the bad ones are in the forums spotlights ?
Crucify :" Except non pvp invasions, they are all useful, but I hate non-pvp invasions. "
Reporter:" But not when you where a newbie and you will not stand a chance to hunt a gold
when someone stronger comes and you already 60% killed it " 
Crucify :" Good point ! "
Reporter: "Thank you very much for your time, patience and for the pure honest answers ! Now it is the time to let you send a message to the staff and to the friends/enemies !" 
Crucify :"Thanks to you too, I really appreciate it :)). To staff, pls feedback more on bugs. To my friends, let's destroy OneStepy too. And to my enemies, I don't have enemies :)) "   
This was Crucify's interview, a young player on our community, a player who has created the strongest Rage Fighter so far, and also a really nice guy, the interview lasted much more then I expected because he is a really nice guy and we also chit chat about a lot of things! Thank you again, Crucify! Wish you all the best, and I hope your father will stop smoking and he will get better!! 
 

So, I came up with this idea to create a Python script(which I will use for personal use only, unless you actually want me to post it here, so everyone can use it), which scans the website market regularly to figure out if items matching a given criteria are available for sale(example: it will check if legendary helm +7 or above, with option DD is for sale for less than X credits/jewels, etc). Yeah, I sometimes do stuff like this in my free time when I am bored.
To clarify, this will basically automate the task of me pressing refresh every 30 seconds(I can make it less frequent, if server load is an issue), and check if a particular item is available for sale.
Is there a problem with this? I won't be doing it if this is considered cheating(even though there would probably be no way to prove I'm using the script, I still won't, out of fairness).

and that guy who gave the phone number is the seller ? coz I dont get it
ps: if my mates will give my phone number to someone else, thats means I can be banned ? 😮
 

Hi guys,   ThaiBinh is my character in game, who had the wing3 DL and get banned from the Admin by selling items for real money. The reason why I'm here NOT TO CLAIM that problem to get back the Wing or my Account, I just want to make everything clear with my team and have some messages for player and Admin as well. I hope you guys will take some time to read my post.   That's true, I sold it for real money, I am totally wrong and I don't make any excuse for that stuff. But the problem here is TrueSquad tried to trap me on his plan, on his purpose. Somebody(Fane, mafy, Halifax,...) is already PM me in game and sent me a letter to offer my wing as well after I posted it on the market, but I never get back. Then I also bought a character DL name is eLySioN, then changed its name to ThaiBinh after I made the Wing success. All of the things that I mention above to prove that I want to use not for selling it, everyone can see....... Otherwise, TrueSquad intended and tried to text my teammate to get my private contact, to trap me on his plan. All of his purpose is having my Wing without any efforts. You guys can banned me, and took the wing that is fine with me, I agreed with your decision but it is NOT CLEAR AND FAIR if you give it to him. There are some mistakes that I did, but i think it also have from the player and Admin as well. When you make the rule to ban the people, who sell items for real money, It's inadvertent make players try to find some bad ways to get items from others, the game will be worse and has more and more scammers nowadays. I don't think it will be good if you guys still keep that rule. PLEASE take your time to think about it again and have some solutions to solve the problem, I am really appreciate!!!   TO Players: Learn a lesson from me, please be careful with all the people. We still have some of guys in the dark side that we never know.   TO TrueSquad: I also have some messages for you. It is just a game, it's okay to do that to me, and everyone in here can see what you did.....Out there still have a lot of things to do in our life, so I hope you are not gonna trap or do anything bad with people in our real life. Please think of everything before you do.  "WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND". Remember it!!   Thank you very much for taking time to read my topic guys. Hope all of you and your family will be good, and stay safe at this time            

Fix please drop ingredients in BC/DS/ and mobs. For example in BC 6 dropped DS 2-3, BC 4-5, IT 3-4.
From monsters of the same level fall different levels of ingredients, in volcano with 110 LVL mobs drop BC 7 and 8, etc.

+++ on this
 

In Inception each of us has a rebuild during cs. What about if only the gm will have here? or maybe 2-3 players more.
@ADMIN @Gion @Legion 

No, the guild master should have that rebuild. Its better for who play as gm, but 25 chars with rebuild at cs, I think its too much.

i agree , only guild master and 3 players ( battle masters ) should be able to rebuild

A suggestion would be : The characters that are banned,sell them to other players for credits.This will help new players get 'competitive' characters .Same time ,the one that has been banned for bad language or for hack ,will be IP banned ,and some1 else can use his character(new player) .Or maybe make this available in mid-end game ,so in end game people start to compete more.
 

When will be the test server open?

Hello,
Due to the current global outbreak, we've decided to increase Inception's EXP for its remaining life, so people can have a bit easier time playing it while they're at home.
Normal EXP: Doubled.
ML EXP: +50%.
We're also working hard to bring you the new Phoenix edition as soon as possible.
Happy gaming and stay safe!

Anyway I hope the new patch for cs will solve many problems. Whatever happened, happened. Its too late now. We can learn even from mistakes. 

recap:
The server starts. My party with Makiavelli, Sparkle, RuSuLeTzZz and darkyo climbs to the top and settles there. We are followed by  Voyager’s party and mafy's party. Squadron is formed. Because I was playing with them and most of them are great people, we decide to join them. mafy also comes with his party at my invitation. Surprised by the fact that the NONE guild from max10rr does not enter, the Squadron dominates the top 50. The first 2 cs are definitely won by the Squadron even without the contribution of my party. Vision problems arise in the guild gameplay. Chukundah and Rusuletz are using bad language in guild chat (we believe it is entirely Chukundah's fault and we was not subjective). Voyager decides to expel them both. We decide to leave. Mafy is following us few days after. RAMPAGE is formed. We treated with indifference the next cs, the one in which the ancients start dropping, thinking that we could easily win. We are not organized and we lose with any doubt. The next cs is the one where the lordmix can be used. Rusuletz being very active organizes everything in detail. We are 25 players at cs. Everything was balanced between us and the Squadron in the first hour. Rusuletz asks us on discord voice to gather all  the mg on a switch. Instantly I realize that if he wants all the mg on one sw, I should stay with the other dl’s on the other and spamming horse skill. This was pure luck coz I choose to have many dl’s in guild to have sumon in the room. Looks like it's the winning move. In this way we gain 3 cs. In this time Chukundah cried all day on the forum under different users. As far as I remember, Voyager was complaining about horse skill, as the range should be reduced for horse skill. I offended him, after I got home nervously. After a few hours I realize that it is not ok, delete the message and apologize in pm. The day of the cs is coming. Sk0pt appears at cs under another guild. They win 2 or 3 cs immoral. The next 1-2 cs after that  they was better than us, but at one of them and with the help of Zazax who received some promises. Next was agilityrf era when Oklahoma beats the entire server. Yes, we had rf’s, but ours could die easily. At least 2 cs followed  ATTACK made us antigame. At one i was playing stamper (darkyo was gm) I was continually insulted by FAITH aka mad4ever on their voice chat. A friend told me that.( Me and FAITH was growing up in the same neightborhood and we know each other) Wanting to take the switch from me, they misunderstanding that they have no chance with a dying Speedy gm. I didn't even play at cs later. In all this time I broke few times the guild. I didnt liked few things in guild and because im many times I act emotional I made big mistakes.  Overall I want to congratulate Voyager (not dead at all cs) zutto, Fuckingcunt, Hase, Trippy, Exillia. I also congratulate my friends Makiavelli, Sparkle, darkyo, mafy and Mu3rte. I should have congratulated either Rusuletz or Devex, but they gave up too early). I also want to thank Backa for joining me in the guild from the beginning. I knew he could destroy the server with his combo😂) Going over that, you guys who were in ATTACK don't be so proud because you didn't does anything. Yoi were the ones who always strove to ally with one or the others. Or trolling here on forum. The big boys was always in Squadron or Rampage/Hardcore.
After all if there was not Sk0pt or agilityRf era, the battles from castel siege was much more balanced. Squadron yes, was better than us overall, but the difference wasnt so big.
I hope in next server will be rules for Castel Siege  and if is posible at each stage chars to be balanced again.
Cheers!
 

@ZaZaX interlopul de pe @oldsquad care in timpul liber face memeuri despre jucatorii pe care ii admira 🤣😂 
 
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This interview is about Makiavelli, one of the best Magic Gladiator players that Old Squad has ever had , he is ranked top number one on Magic Gladiator reset ranking, Blood Castle rankings, and second ranked on hall of fame main (he owns 10 Hall of Fame trophies at this moment), and he is also a stage breaker. 
Reporter: "Hello, Makiavelli ! At this moment you are ranked as number one on MG reset rankings, on Blood Castle and second ranked on hall of fame, congratulations! "

Makiavelli: " Hello, Reporter, and thank you! "
Reporter : " Can you reveal us your name and age? "
Makiavelli : " Of course, my name is Marius and  I`m 28  ."
Reporter: "How much time do you spend/day playing mu OldSquad (average)? "
Makiavelli : "  When I play mu I`m very dedicated and I play it a lot, that`s why after every DB I play I usually take a break for atleast a few months in which I don't even touch the PC "
Reporter: "What do you do in real life for a living?"
Makiavelli: "I`m a dentist. "
Reporter : "When did you start to play Mu Online? "
Makiavelli: "I can`t remember exactly, but I think around 2004. "
Reporter : "How did you find OldSquad ?"
Makiavelli: "I think my friend RedBuLL was the one who told me about OS in 2015 or 2016. "
Reporter :"What nicknames did you have in the past?"" 
Makiavelli:" I`ve had Makiavelli for years, krazee before that, many others in the past."
Reporter: "Since 2015 when you started to play OS, have you played on any other servers? 
Makiavelli:"I only had an attempt to play other server which opened while i was waiting for OS and as soon as OS was ready i played them both at the same time. There was a conflict in the antihacks of the servers or something like that and sometimes my client would get closed so I couldn`t afk properly. The decision was very easy to make, i quit the other server and stayed on OS, which is the only server that i would play now. "
Reporter :"Why did you choose this server?"
Makiavelli:" There`s a lot of work put in this servers since it started and I like the settings more than any other server I`ve ever played
and even though I`d very much like to play a S14 I only enjoy mu on OS in the last years so im willing to play it even on S6"
Reporter: "Do you have any VIP activated? You have this VIP since you started Inception?"
Makiavelli:"Yes, I have PRO vip activated since it first came up, before that i juggled between dealer and hunter, depending on the stage of the game. "
Reporter: " How did you manage to achieve so many hall of fame trophies? Can you reveal us "the secret"?  "
Makiavelli: "You just have to be active and have proper builds/gameplay: either for PVP (arena) or PVE (BC/DS/CC). Testing is the key to everything, someone beat you in something, either pve or pvp event, go to test server and find out what happened - you can at least do as good as he did . "
Reporter :"Since you are top one Magic Gladiator player on the server, can you reveal us a few tips about Magic Gladiator pvp build? Can you reveal your stats ?"
Makiavelli: "My stats were constantly changing untill I found what I think is the perfect stats build for sMG , a build that allows  me to do proper PVE/PVP and also hold a switch at CS  and I think its fair on servers with reset limit or non-reset that players make their own builds. I`ve never asked anybody about their build and I don`t want to reveal mine either. About pvp build, it`s easy to find the best one by testing builds in duels on pvp servers."
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? How should he build stats on Magic Gladiator in the beginning  ?"
Makiavelli:"sMG can be better than eMG in everything, except holding a spot, so my advice is to go sMG since you can find a nice party to take care of the spot killing, also considering there is a bonus xp in party. To get to the top places you should find a stable party with people that you trust so you can share your accounts and try having somebody online to take care of the party most of the time. You should not skip any bc`s/ds`s, you got 3/24h so it shouldn`t be so hard if you organise your time properly, and if that is not enough, you should get a PRO vip that let`s you go 4 times into these events. If you can't find a stable party you can still do it on your own, it`s gonna take more of your time but it can be done. "
Reporter :"What characters do you think are the best on pvp ? 
Makiavelli:" "In my oppinion any character that is played well can be very good in pvp but if I have to choose 1 class, it`s gonna be BK."
Reporter :"You are number one on Blood Castle rankings, can you tell us how have you accomplished that?"
Makiavelli: "Well, I`ve only missed very few  BCs since the server started and I`ve always been high ranked in resets so my damage was always above average, allowing me to take the statue many times."
Reporter: "Several weeks ago you were ranked number on on main reset rankings with a decent gap between rest of server, what happened?"
Makiavelli: "I`ve had some time off, had a long vacation in which I lost a lot in ranks, but the gap you`re talking about helped, so I never got far from the first places."
Reporter: " Do you still have have a permanent party ? 
Makiavelli:"Yes, I still do have a permanent party with @Sparkle, @mafy, @Mu3rte,  but it's not like it was in the beginning. Some are doing resets, some are doing ML, but we help each other, and I see it as a stable party. "
Reporter: " What happened to your old mates, RedBuLL, RuSuLeTzZz, TzaPusHH , MasSacre and Obraznic ?"
Makiavelli:" RedBuLL had a lot of work to do from the beginning of the server, he just wanted to play it with us cause he loves this server and he likes playing with us, as I do with him, but not long ago he decided it`s not worth to spend the little time that he has for himself staying on a PC, but he is still around to help whenever we ask for it.  Rusuletz quit game because of many reasons that I don`t want to speak about, but mainly because he started working and he is the kind of player that either plays active or doesn`t play at all. I`m that kind of player too. Tzapush ... you would have to ask him, I have no idea what happened there, temporary insanity or something. Obraznic tryied to sell a set for real money and he got banned, he did not have the approval of any of us and that`s all I have to say about this. Massacre didn`t have much time from the begining, but he started playing after I`ve asked him to several times so his presence here was shady from the start."
Reporter :"Why Rampage disbanded? "
Makiavelli: "A lot of players quit, some players tried to sell for real money and got banned, the energy there wasn`t good anymore. We disbanded it and choose to take it easy for a while, now we have a very nice group, here in H4RDC0RE the energy is really nice, and it`s a pleasure for me to play with these guys. We are not as strong as we were when we were winning the castle siege, but we are getting there, we didn`t abandon the fight for castle, nor will we. "
Reporter : " Do you read the News Paper ? "
Makiavelli:"Yes, I enjoy reading the newspaper, it`s something special that I haven`t seen anywhere else. "
Reporter : " Do you believe in superstitions? Do you think that the Castle is Cursed? "
Makiavelli:"I don`t believe in superstitions, but I find this amusing and I enjoy reading the posts though. "
Reporter : " 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?"
Makiavelli: "The more you win it, the less you want it. The more you lose it, the more you want it.That`s how i see it. "
Reporter: " Squadron is your enemy guild now?"
Makiavelli:"Yes, they are our enemy guild this database, even though we have played together in the past. I still have friends and people I respect in that guild, even thought they did not take attitude when the administration of Squadron did some very shitty things like show 0 respect to my party, which helped them before and this database too, or steal items and credits from Snajper when they found out he was going to join us. After these events, and others, and losing CS several times to us, what they did is even more mind blowing to me - they allied with ATTACK and then deny several times that they did until Colossus confessed it all on forum and they didn`t even pay them what they promised for their help from what I know. It was not even only the normal help to come and play against us ,they were killing their GM and the GM of their secondary guild to make points.Everything is allowed at CS so we never said that this is not fair, but these are some stains on their chicks and I`d like people to remember it. "
Reporter : "There are rumors that the ATTACK guild is allied with HARDCORE, are they true?"
 Makiavelli :" We are not allied and we never were, I remember some of them wanted to help us after Squadron mocked them and they offered their services but nothing synthesized."
Reporter: " Do  you think that your guild can win next Castle Siege? "
Makiavelli : "I know they can be defeated in the next siege, we beat them before and we could have beat them a lot more times. They did not win because they were too good, they won because we messed up big time on so many different occasions, and it is only our fault we lost but server`s still up and going, as I said before, we have a nice team now and I have high hopes that we`re gonna win the next castle siege. Nobody is crying for the castle but it's a thing of honor."
Reporter :"What do you suggest to improve on NewsPaper ?"
Makiavelli: "I don`t see myself in any capacity to give advice on how to improve a newspaper. You are doing a great job, just keep on doing what you`re doing and all is good,or at least that`s how I feel about it. "
Reporter: "On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you like Inception?"
Makiavelli:"I like non-reset servers and I`ve played an amazing non-reset here on OS that I'd give 10. I`ve had bad thoughts of Inception at times, like when the aRF was 2hitting everybody and at an immense range, but watching the big picture now I see some very interesting stuff made with builds. Many people are crying that some chars are OP but if you pay attention you will see that they are OP only in front of other classes, or even if they outpower all other classes is just for a limited amount of time. For example at first was BK and MG, after that it was aRF, updates made and now is vRF instead of him, SM also got really strong, people already got some + 15 sockets and once slots will be filled with seeds, vRF will take a step back, and DL/SM/Summ era will begin. BK will always be at least a good tank. I don`t want to miss this opportunity to congratulate all OS team for their hard work with an accent on mercenary and gens systems, I like them a lot. "
Reporter: " What would you change to this server? What do you expect from the following servers?"
Makiavelli:"I guess I`d eliminate some of the Premium options on website like Change class/Change Name, I`d make the online Blacksmith at a max item upgrading of + 11, remove the add luck option completely, cause in my opinion,
it makes one of the best options in game be worthless to any very active or willing to donate some money players in game. Some new systems were installed this db and although they are very nice they created a few bugs, some of which were already solved fast or a compromise solution has been found for them for example the case of BC bug, so what I expect from the following servers is  two things : 1:the same dedication of the team to solve major problems and 2: Season 14 as fast as possible on OS.
Reporter: " What do you think about this new rule related to the sale of items / accounts for real money? The buyer receives free of charge what the seller offers if he reports to Admin."
Makiavelli :" This rule can be very unpleasant for some players who have done nothing wrong and I know this for a fact because it has happened to me when some players from our team got banned for this reason and all the items,even a very high character at that time ended up in the hands of the players who we were playing against. Some would say that it is my fault for choosing the wrong guys to play with but everybody should know by now that people can hide their true faces very well so I don`t consider it my fault. Although this rule can be unpleasant for people who don't deserve it, I fully agree with it because I don't see a better way to stop this real money market." 
Reporter: "So you are against "black market" ?
Makiavelli :"  I don't have anything against someone who would sell/buy character/items on black market but these are the rules and I think it would be best for everybody if there wasn't a black market." 
Reporter: "There are some rumors on the server that say VIP affects the concept of "play-to-win gameplay", what do you think of these rumors? Can a player who is active reach the top without donating? " 
Makiavelli :" I don't think VIP affects the concept of "play-to-win gameplay", first of all because the stages system help a lot all the players who are behind and secondly because there is a market where you can trade basically anything for credits or consumables, so if you are a good merchant you can always have VIP without spending any money. When someone spends years on a project that he shares, I find it normal that he should receive some compensation for his work and I know that these days very few people would give something if they don't receive something in return, for example they like some artists but they have never bought an album to support the guy, online is so easy and cheap. I buy albums of my favourite artists just to support them even though I got all the songs in playlists on Youtube and I also donate when my VIP period is over,even if i have credits, because I see it as a support to the server, and I can also use the credits I already have for other stuff that I need." 
Reporter: "Thanks for this interview, Marius, I wish you a Happy New Year, filled with health and accomplishments on all plans!" 
Makiavelli: " Thank you! It has been a privilege for me, and I wish you and all OS players a Happy New Year!" 
This was one of the most complex interviews I ever took !!!  It could compete with Ganja's or Zutto`s ( I followed Ganja more then 6 hours into all events and I was waiting for Zutto's interview since Phoenix mid game until Inception mid start ), so he deserves the room in NewsPaper Hall of Fame because he is one of all time best  Magic Gladiator players that Old Squad Ever Had!!!
I wish to all News Paper readers a Happy New Year and I hope that the Goddess of Fortune will bring them all the luck and  to fulfill their pure desires !!
 

Increasing CS damage is not a feasible solution for this, it will just make the gap even higher between "team" concept and "individual" concept.
I didn't wanted to reveal what we're planning for this on CS V2 but I'll share with you in the sake of Christmas.
There are 2 "problems" that are touched with our plans:
1. Tanks to be killable without making non-tanks easier to be killed.
2. Players to be encouraged to take GM roles for CS into consideration (or CS tank roles) without having to sacrifice 99% of individual gameplay (by going full tank builds).
So, in order to "fix" such problems and also add new attractions/motivations for players/guilds to join CS fights we are adding a new system.
Basically, with this new system, players will be able to play ANY BUILD during CS, and only there.
That means, DLs/BKs can play a normal build in general and have fun in this game without being forced to be full vit/agi just to have fun 1 timer per week.
This does apply also to other PvM/Support builds like EMG can join CS as SMGs, AEs as EAE's, ARF's as VRF's, etc.
Basically on each CS you will have a free rebuild only for the duration of CS, if you'll go back to Server1 you will have your normal build back.
Along with this, characters (especially DLs/BKs) will have a restriction of max VIT added during CS to fix our unkillable tanks problem without affecting normal builds.
In my opinion this system will bring only good things, from quality of life improvememts for DLs/BKs that can finally play the game normally, up to new strategies, organisations for CS based on guild members and what build they can play, motivation for new guilds to arise for CS even with PvM players, etc.
It's a huge step in the right direction, playing the game for FUN.

Stop doing lvl, make ml 😂😂

Stop doing lvl, make ml 😂😂

1. The only advantage of those boxes is that they help players to "bypass" normal farm until socket. For either the good players or later, for new guild people.
There is close to 0 difference (on PvP especially) between a 380 DD HP/DD REF set vs BoK1/2/3/4/5 set DD HP/DD REF. Yea, when lucky enough to get DD REF HP it is a difference, but pretty hard to get that based on options rates (which are lower for good options). Except of that, the advantage is simply skipping endless farm to get those 2 opt items for a character, nothing else. 
2. There won't be any LOT spots, so no point for the /grant function to exists. Erohim will basically replace the "24/7 alt farm on LoT spots", for those same amount of ancients (or lower) than spots would make in one day. As I said on the "Extra" part, there will be 2-4 mobs spawning random in LoT that will 100% drop JoGs. Guilds must give duties to players daily who farm them to have the JoGs needed.
3. That's exactly what handicap system will try to assure (in one way or another), making it harder and harder for the same Guild to keep the CS multiple weeks.
The new rewards system won't be live on current edition, most probably, but they will be on next editions/projects for sure.

+5% exp is not attractive at all, as you don't have neither Gens bonus exp or mercenary bonus exp on LoT, so any value under +20%/+25% is not enough advantage to surpass gens bonus/merc bonus in LoT.

Release date: 05.12.2019 at around 17:35 - There will be a small server restart. Reconnect is not guaranteed so make sure to be online.
After thousands of lines of code and hundreds of tests we are ready to bring you a reworked from scratch Mercenary Squad system, that we would like to simply call it Mercenary Squad V2.
Special thanks to @minimal.ro for his feedback and suggestions that inspired the V2 rework.
Note: A full reset to Mercenaries will be made.
Note2: Don't forget to update the client after the patch is live!
Mercenary System V2:
New Features: [ADDED] Mute List Feature Now when you start a quest you will receive Mute on characters online & on any new character you try to log in as well as disabling the option to open a store. Mute will be removed when Quest is failed, retried, repelled or finished, along with the store access restore. This will prevent "friendly quests" as we got used to. [ADDED] Black List Feature Whenever you finish a quest with a Target (kill or repel), the target will be added to the blacklist. Blacklist targets can't appear as quest targets for up to 7 days since they were added to the blacklist. [ADDED] Challenge Feature Now when you are being targeted in a Quest, you will receive a global message, "You are being Hunted!", every 1 minute, in first 5 minutes from quest. During these 5 minutes, you can type /challenge. If you do this, you and your Target (which you don't know) will be moved to a Colosseum Arena, each one in a different side. The first one that will die will lose (means Target will successfully Repel or Hunter will successfully finish the Quest). Both players won't be able to move from the Map until the "duel" is over, or one of them will exit game. If Hunter leave the game before any of them dying, he will fail the quest & lose 50 points.  If Target leave the game before any of them dying, he will lose 100 Points and Hunter will get to retry the quest. In Colosseum, both Repel points reward and Quest points reward are increased, for the Challenge. You won't gain any PK level in the Colosseum. [ADDED] Quest Normalizer Feature Now Mercenary Quest will first try to assign you targets based on resets interval as following: It will look 5 times for Target with same reset like you. It will look 6 times for Target with -1/+1 reset compared to you. It will look 7 times for Target with -2/+2 resets compared to you. It will look 8 times for Target with -3/+3 resets compared to you. It will look 9 times for Target with -4/+4 resets compared to you. It will look 10 times for Target with -5/+5 resets compared to you. If it doesn't find any target during this 45 tries, it will look for Target with any reset. [ADDED] PvP Info From now you can see anyone's PvP info (including yourself) when writing /info CharName. By default it will show only PK Kills. If the player is part of Gens it will also show Gens Family. If the player is part of Mercenary Squad it will also show Mercenary Points, Quests and Repels. [ADDED] Mercenary Bounty The old reward (gemstones) is now replaced with Mercenary Bounty. Mercenary Bounty can only be gained from Quests & Repels. Mercenary Bounty drops can be adjusted in time based on economy & stage. Mercenary Bounty drops: 82% chance for Gemstone, Jewel of Harmony, Jewel of Creation. 15% chance for IT Ticket(1), EDR/CRIT/DMG/SPEED Scrolls, 100 Antidotes. 3% chance for TOCA, Flame of Condor. Updates: [UPDATED] Now when you are in Battle Maps you won't gain Mercenary Points. [UPDATED] Now when you are in Battle Maps you won't be targeted for Quests. [UPDATED] Now you will gain Mercenary Points only out of safe-zones. [UPDATED] Now you won't gain Mercenary Points in Events maps & other inaccessible quest locations. [UPDATED] Now you will gain 1 Mercenary Point every 7 minutes instead of every 10 minutes. [UPDATED] Now if you leave game or go to Server 20 during quest time you will fail the quest. [UPDATED] Now Points earned from Quests/Repels are Dynamic: Now Points are based on the kill type (normal or challenge), repel (normal or challenge) and reset difference. Now Default *Normal* Quest Points reward is 35 Points. Now Default *Challenge* Quest Points reward is 45 Points. Now Default *Normal* Repel Points reward is 45 Points. Now Default *Challenge* Repel Points reward is 65 Points. Now the formula of points added is DefaultValue +- ResetDifference*2. Minimum points gained: 10. Maximum points gained: 85. [UPDATED] Now you will lose Mercenary Points when you are being killed as Quest Target (and only Quest Target, not for Repel).  Formula: 1% of current Mercenary Points. Minimum points lost: 5 Points. Maximum points lost: 60 Points. Note: If you already passed the Seal Upgrade requirements you won't lose the Upgrade no matter if you go back under Points requirement. Note2: Points lost by dying as quest target or by leaving the Challenge can't go under 0 (minimum points value is 0). [UPDATED] Quest Retarget won't happen automatically anymore. You can retry by typing again /pvpquest when your target is gone/inaccessible. In this way you can choose for how many times you retry. [UPDATED] Now Quest extra reward is progressive: You gain 0 Mercenary Bounties as extra reward when you have < 500 Points. You gain 1 Mercenary Bounty as extra reward when you have between 500 and 999 Points. You gain 2 Mercenary Bounties as extra reward when you have between 1000 and 1999 Points. You gain 3 Mercenary Bounties as extra reward when you have over 2000 Points. You gain +1 Mercenary Bounty for every extra 1500 Points after 2000 (at 3500,5000,etc.). [UPDATED] Now Repel extra reward will always be the same amount of Mercenary Bounties that the Hunter would get based on his Points (if target has 0 Bounties as reward Repel will be 0 Bounties, etc.). [UPDATED] Seals System: Now you will have both ML Seal & Normal Seal active in the same time. Now each Seal will show you current seal level & bonuses. Normal 3rd level seal and ML 2nd level seal visuals are different. Now Normal Seal will give you +5%/+10%/+15% EXP based on level. Now ML Seal has only 2 levels: Level 1 = +6% ML EXP, and it is gained when Normal Seal reach Level 2. Level 2 = +12% ML EXP, and it is gained when Normal Seal reach Level 3. Requirements for Level 2 changed from 1200 Points & 10 Quests to 1600 Points, 8 Quests & 4 Repels. Requirements for Level 3 changed from 3500 Points & 30 Quests to 4500 Points, 25 Quests & 12 Repels. [UPDATED] Bonus EXP on Battle Maps is now +12% instead of +15%. [UPDATED] Mercenaries no longer gain Gens Points from online time in Battle Maps (only from RAIDs). The new Merc System will try to make sure that the playerbase is split in both Battle Maps and normal maps.
In our vision, the new changes should make the gameplay balanced for 3 types of players:
Casuals can play normally (without battle-maps and merc squad) with 100% EXP and no extra rewards. Semi-Casuals can play normally + battle maps when they are active, for extra 12% EXP and chance for Gens Rewards. Active players can play fully with Merc Squad (higher gain in long term). Advantages & Disadvantages between Battle Maps & Merc Squad:
Advantages for Battle Maps:
Battle Maps are giving constant high EXP bonus without any effort except online time. Battle Maps are safer than being Merc, as there are only 3 RAIDS per day to motivate killing AFKs. Chance for good rewards. Can be killed only by "half" of players (different Gens). Disadvantages for Battle Maps:
Less maps/spots to play around. Harder to find/make party due to Gens Family restriction. First levels can't be played in Battle Maps as there are no very low Battle Maps. Lower ML exp in Vulcanus (even with the extra 12%) compared to Swamp Merc. Not guaranteed rewards & unscalable rewards. Monthly Contribution resets. Advantages for Merc Squad:
High amount of maps and spots to play around. Easier to find/create party due to no Gens restriction & enough casuals playing in the normal maps. EXP bonus can help you in first Maps. EXP bonus has impact on Events (BC/DS). Higher ML EXP compared to Gens (in Swamp). Guaranteed rewards that are scaling. No further Merc resets. FUN. Disadvantages for Merc Squad:
You need to reach at least Seal Level 2 to surpass Gens Bonus (with BC/DS extra EXP). Never safe AFK except in Crywolf. All PvP restrictions are removed versus other Mercenaries (for some this is an advantage I guess). No short-term gain. You need good effort to progress in the Merc System that will pay-off only in the long-term.
  We hope that you'll love the Mercenary Squad V2 as much as we loved to work on it!