Inception Announcing Inception - #5 Edition - Back to Origins

[ADMIN]

Hello OldSquaders & Guests,

It's something else that marks the beginning of autumn, outside of the weather, the (re) start of school / studies and so on and that's our INCEPTION!

We are eager and proud in the same time to officially announce the 5th edition of our signature server - Inception, the server where everything started, the server that is so loved by many of you that are waiting every single year to experience it once again, to conquer our world and to fight once again for supremacy.

Edition after edition, patch after patch, we've all been witness to the beautiful evolution of this server, to the high level it reached in terms of gameplay and the unique things it offers to be considered one of the best international *resets* server.

Never aiming for anything less but greatness, this edition is coming stronger than ever, with even more changes towards a balanced gameplay and a high level competition as you're all used to.

Inception # 5 - Back to Origins - Starting officially on Friday, 10 September 2021 at 19:00 GMT+3 (mobs spawning at 20:00 GMT+3).

Public Test Server will be opened for public with 5 ~ 8 days before the start.

So, spread the word, gather your teams, and prepare for a new journey! The crown is waiting for its kings!

Some of the new things / changes that this edition will have:

• Now there will be a ML limit on each Stage as following:
  • When ML is released after 10rr Stage, maximum ML is 30.
  • After 15rr Stage is done, maximum ML is raised to 70.
  • After 20rr Stage is done, maximum ML is raised to 110.
  • After 25rr Stage is done, maximum ML is raised to 200+30 (really slow extra 30 ML).
• Instead of raising with +25%/+20% based on each ML interval, the ML experience will instead raise with +15/+10%.
• Jewel of Creation will no longer be dropped from monsters (only events / part of rewards from the existing alternatives).
  • Instead, Jewel of Creation will be released on drop from monsters only when Sockets are also released.
  • The same will apply for Spheres (they will only be released to drop from monsters - Vulcanus - only when Sockets are released).
• Guild System is reworked:
  • All characters classes can now have the same amount of Members in Guild (no longer DL advantage).
  • Maximum number of players in guild will now change with Stages as following:
    • Maximum number of players in guild at start: 20
    • Maximum number of players in guild after Stage1.1 (5rr): 22
    • Maximum number of players in guild after Stage 2 (10rr): 25 
    • Maximum number of players in guild after Stage 2.1 (15rr): 27 
    • Maximum number of players in guild after Stage 3 (20rr): 30
    • Maximum number of players in guild after Stage 3.1 (25rr): 35
• Introducing World Bosses Invasions:
  • While Medusa had her own "army", into Cursed Dragon & Bloody Witch Queen, Selupan thought he's strong enough alone, but the past has proven him wrong.
  • Learning from his own mistakes, he has built a new army of himself, that will attack our world 2 times per day, 1 set time (evening) and 1 random time (any period outside of evening).
  • He has 4 minions: Dark Mammoth, Dark Giant, Dark Coolutin & Dark Iron Knight.
  • They will all invade in the same time, each of them on a different map (yet to be decided).
  • They are harder to beat and they offer World Drop (anyone can pick their drop) as well as credits for everyone in their range when they die.
    • Dark Iron Knight - Very high damage, lower HP / DEF, can have special abilities, spawns in a normal map (free PK near them).
    • Dark Mammoth - Low damage, very high HP / DEF, can have special abilities, spawns in a normal map (free PK near them). 
    • Dark Giant - Medium damage & HP / DEF, can have special abilities, spawns in a Gens map.
    • Dark Coolutin - Medium damage & HP / DEF, can have special abilities, in his 25x25 space, the zone is NON-PVP (no matter mercenaries or not).
  • World Bosses will be released after Stage 2.1 (15rr).
    • More info about them later on.
• Minimum 2 Fridays/Saturdays per month there will be a special event organized by Gion:
  • Soccer Night (free for all, random teams with registered participants).
  • Guild War (2v2 / 3v3 / 5v5 between teams/guilds).
• Except of Kundun, first bosses will only be released after the BoK+5 Goldens are also released (compared to last edition when they were released before BoK+5) - which means after Stage 1.1 (5rr).
• Gens Raids will only be released when Mercenary Squad is released as well (5rr Stage). The EXP bonus on Gens Maps will be only 5% instead of 12% until Gens Raids are released.
• Now there's a cooldown on the Warp Character from website, you can only warp once every 30 minutes.
  • Exception: You can warp any time to Lorencia, without a cooldown (but it will reset your cooldown for rest of maps).
• Stage Rewards improved: Now except of the items won on Stage 2 & 3 (10rr & 20rr), the winners will also get the stage progress reward.
• 2 options items from BoKs will be more rare than they were, while luck will be seen more often instead.
• Instead of having a higher chance for luck but a lower one for 2 options on higher BoKs, there's now a higher chance for luck and lower chance for 2 options on lower BoKs, and vice-versa for higher BoKs.
• All BoKs now have a 2% chance of dropping items with 3 options.
• First part of Quest 3 has been reworked:
  • Instead of being based on luck (some people farming it too much while others finish it really fast) the items dropped for quest will be gathered only from a "special" invasion, where mobs will drop the quest item with 100% chance.
    • More info later on.
• Handicap from CS has been increased. We feel like it was too low as it was, not having too much impact on making the win harder multiple times in a row, as it should have. New Handicap:
  • 1st win: On next CS the team starts with -1500 points.
  • 2nd win (consecutive): On next CS the team starts with -3500 points.
  • 3rd win (consecutive): On next CS the team starts with -6000 points.
  • 4th win (consecutive): On next CS the team starts with -6000 points and 2/3 of VIT limit for GM (if limit is 15000 the GM will have a limit of 10000 VIT).
  • 5th win (consecutive) and onwards: On next CS the team starts with -9000 points and 2/3 of VIT limit for GM.
  • Maximum number points that can be reduced (by doing the upgrades) is now 25% of total Handicap points (instead of 40%).
• All maps (except of starting maps) will have -10 levels restriction when going "by walk" (something that didn't worked correctly until now).
• We've added 2 new (custom) gates in game, to the maps that lacked them from WebZen:
  • You can now travel "by walk" from Kanturu Relics to Vulcanus (with -10 levels restriction) as well as from Vulcanus to Kanturu Relics (same gate).
  • You can now travel "by walk" from Vulcanus to Swamp of Peace (same restriction, level 380 and 10+ resets) as well as from Swamp of Peace to Vulcanus (same gate).
• In order to discourage "same class stacking" in early game while also keeping the advantage of DL/RF/MG classes for "non-vip" players the following change is added:
  • Until first "non-vip" player reaches level 200, DL/MG/RF will be able to go in maps at the same levels like rest of classes. After first "non-vip" player reaches level 200, the restriction will be lifted back. This is only for 0rr, where restriction is normally disabled. For 1rr+ restriction to maps is always up.
    • Devias: Minimum level 15.
    • Elbeland: Minimum level 20.
    • Rest of 0rr maps: The "by walk" level of normal classes (-10 levels compared to the Move list of normal classes).
• Party EXP updated:
  • Solo: 100% EXP
  • 2 Players: 102% EXP.
  • 3 Players: 104% EXP.
  • 4 Players: 107% EXP.
  • 5 Players: 110% EXP.
  • 4 Players Gold (different races): 114%.
  • 5 Players Gold (different races): 117%.
  • The following exp rates will be applied no matter the races that are in party:
    • Solo = 100%.
    • 2 Players = 102%.
    • 3 Players = 105%.
    • 4 Players = 108%.
    • 5 Players = 112%.
    • Now, when there are ONLY 4 people in party, but all of them different races (Perfect Party):
      • Everyone gets a "seal" with +5% EXP from the 4 man base exp (108%).
    • If there are 5 people in party, and all of them different races (Perfect Party):
      • Everyone gets a "seal" with +7% EXP from the 5 man base exp (112%).
    • In order to apply the seal, a player from party must be in the 10x10 range of PM.
    • If PM hasn't at least 1 other player from party in his 10x10 range, he won't get the seal alone.
      • So: Leaving from the spot means losing your seal, but others on spot near PM does not lose it.
      • If PM leaves spot and he's alone, nobody have a seal anymore, including the PM.
• Reduced the number of Giants from Lorencia to avoid "hot-spots" early game.
• More early game spots have been added:
  • 6 spots in Devias (Devias4 -> down).
  • 7 spots in Dungeon (3x Dungeon1, 4x Dungeon2).
  • 4 spots in Elbeland (2x Elbeland2, 2x Elbeland3).

Along with this specific changes, there are few more things that were updated during Phoenix and will be seen on Inception as well, apart from the fixes and improvements, as well as some unwritten changes (adjustments/improvements/small tweaks).
The official info topic has been updated with the 5# edition information.
Note: Keep in mind that the information isn't 100% final and it may suffer changes until the launch day, as we will receive your feedback.
Official Info Topic: https://oldsquad.ro/forum/topic/993-inception-official-information-everything-you-need-to-know/

And if you're curious about Arena Tournament - we hate that we still couldn't stop the "guild stacking" on the previous implementation, which destroys the fun that this event should offer. We have some new ideas for it (like randomly assigned players from Arena that will give extra points if killed during x seconds, which may help in forcing guild-mates to kill each-others as well) or going even further as virtually registering your character's guild when going at CS as your Main guild (no matter if you stay guildless or on different guild during the next week) and creating restrictions / bonuses based on Main guild and so on.
But again, we're afraid that we'll spend again a lot of time on it and the result will be the same. Unless people start playing such Event for fun and quit tryharding, or unless you have real ideas that can prevent this things, we'll most probably hold on Arena Tournament.
There's another option of transforming it into a guild/team based event, with teams and same tournament style, or, an option to transform it in fully 1v1 double elimination event.

 

Also we're building the new Council group for this edition, if you want to be part of it feel free to contact either me or Gion. More info: https://discord.com/channels/364735762907922442/367652192821444608/874984233922330643

Cheers!

#MakeMUGreatAgain!

[ADMIN]

Since we've released our Inception #5 announcement we've received a lot of feedback from both council members as well as random players.

There are a lot of things planned for this edition, that will be worked & released during its lifespan, but I'll put here a wall of text with most of the changes that have been done so far since our initial announcement, that are currently live on Test Server as well as on official server:

Chars:

• All classes have been balanced for start & early game in terms of Hunt & PvM. They are pretty close compared to how they used to be on early.
• We didn't focused too much on PvP aspect (they're based on 30rr balance), things will be tweaked there after first Stage.
• Rageful Blow is now the main PvM skill for BK early on (has been buffed).
• Same can be said about Summoner and Lightning Shock.
• EMG no longer has the extra defence buff.
• Dragon Roar is now a level 100 skill (from 150).
• Dark Side is now a level 120 skill (from 180).
• AG cost reduced for Rageful Blow, Fire Slash and Lightning Shock.

Improvements:

• Max Mana option (excellent) is now 15% instead of 4%.
• %Mana per mob option (excellent) is now 7% per mob instead of 12% per mob.
• Pendant of Ability now increases AG by +10%/+20%/+30% instead of +1%/+2%/+3%.
• Pendant of Ability (non exc) can drop with only +10% AG.
• Pendant of Ability (exc) can drop with +10~30% AG.
• Ring of Magic now increases Mana by +10%/+20%/+30% instead of +1%/+2%/+3%.
• Ring of Magic (non exc) can drop with only +10% Mana.
• Ring of Magic (exc) can drop with +10~30% Mana.
• Excellent Shields can no longer have ZEN option.
• Party EXP system reworked from a default system to a custom system:
  • The following exp rates will be applied no matter the races that are in party:
    • Solo = 100%.
    • 2 Players = 102%.
    • 3 Players = 105%.
    • 4 Players = 108%.
    • 5 Players = 112%.
  • Now, when there are ONLY 4 people in party, but all of them different races (Perfect Party):
  • Everyone gets a "seal" with +5% EXP from the 4 man base exp (108%).
    • If there are 5 people in party, and all of them different races (Perfect Party):
  • Everyone gets a "seal" with +7% EXP from the 5 man base exp (112%).
    • In order to apply the seal, a player from party must be in the 10x10 range of PM.
  • If PM hasn't at least 1 other player from party in his 10x10 range, he won't get the seal alone.
    • So: Leaving from the spot means losing your seal, but others on spot near PM does not lose it.
    • If PM leaves spot and he's alone, nobody have a seal anymore, including the PM.

Extras:

• You can type /dice and it will generate a random number from 1-100, as a system message, that everyone from your range can see it.
  • You can type /dice xxx where xxx = any number < 10000, it will generate a random number from 1 to your number, that everyone from your range can see it.
    • Note: There is a 5 seconds cooldown between each use.
  • This idea is borrowed from WoW, let the deathrolls begin!
• Reward of Quiz is now 2x Bless instead of 1x Bless & 1x Chaos.
• Wings level 1 are now harder to obtain, changes:
  • Chaos Item (Goblin) will now always come +0.
  • Chaos Item (Goblin) will now have 12% chance for ADD4, and 88% chance for ADD+0.
  • Jewel of Life removed for early game from WW drop table.
  • Jewel of Life drop rate from mobs that can be farmed early on is slightly reduced.
• Reset price early on has been increased a little. New table:
  • Resets cost starts from 60kk (from 40kk) and goes up as following:
    • Each extra reset until 6 resets = + 15.000.000 zen per reset (from + 10.000.000 per reset).
      • The 6th reset = 135.000.000 zen (from 90.000.000)
    • Each extra reset until 10 resets = + 25.000.000 zen per reset (from + 15.000.000 per reset).
      • The 10th reset = 235.000.000 zen (from  150.000.000)
    • Each extra reset until 20 resets = + 50.000.000 zen per reset.
      • The 20th reset = 735.000.000 zen (from 650.000.000)
    • Each extra reset until 30 resets = + 80.000.000 zen per reset.
• Early market cost for adding an item has been reduced:
  • Cost is now 800k from 2kk. May be raised as game progress.
• The Zen value of JoG is now 2.5kk instead of 6kk.
• The Zen value of Creation is now 3kk instead of 5kk.

For future (patches) we'll have a look at:

• New ways of getting OB1/OB2.
• Reduce the "luck" part of getting Fenrir.
• New Zen system.
• Maybe a que for IT, with random selected people that can join from the registered pool.
• A(nother) rework on Arena Tournament.
• & other interesting changes/improvements.

We'll keep this topic updated if there will be any more *impactful* changes until the start.

Cheers.