What's going on with this update

[Blue Tiger]

I played alittle today, was fun until I started getting picked on and wasnt even able to hunt and mess around without being hunted down by 3 people... They shall die!!! lol
Runs smooth.

[Tseiga]

The game is alright. Everything is really disorganized: (no order, safe ground, etc.) I know this is due to the fact that all we are doing is testing to discover bugs or suggest anything we feel needs to change. I saw some other comments saying how it was "unbalanced crap" and how "alpha was more fun" but I know everything is still in the works. There are a lot of great ideas floating around on there, and it certainly is different. The constant player killing got annoying though.

[Blue Tiger]

Yea i havnt been able to even log out for over 30 mins now because Horas just sits at respawn point and kills everyone over and over.. Immature xen kids at their finest. Played an hour, only got to kill about 10 monsters in the whole hour, was being hunted down by people the whole time. Didnt get to test anything except respawn.

[Vapore]

I keep logging on when nobody is around... Haha.

Should really add a safe area though!

[strafe of x2]

lol i have an adept to take care of ppl that sit at square and kill. i just poison them and then they die lol

[Tseiga]

Should really add a safe area though!

Very much agreed.

[Karl G.]

A safe square is on the list.

For now, the server is offline while I am fixing bugs since most of the "testing" is finished.

[strafe of x2]

that was my entertainment

P.S. Dont get discouraged by ppl saying they were hoping for more. i can see this being kickass in the very near future

[ven]

lol too bad i wasn't on for that pker.. i have all classes at lvl 10.. could have chose which one to use to kill him... but yea i just moved back up to college so i won't be on very much

[Joe M.]

The server has been taken down until the next update.

I'm not certain how long it will be until it's released (I haven't asked Karl), but here are the changes that you can expect to see:

• New Server - We finally upgraded to a better server!
• New Map - The current map was put together to test certain functions of the game. The new map will be built with an eye toward a more playable area.
  
  • Safe Square
  • Arena Area - for pvp without dropping items or losing alignment
  • NPC guard(s) (maybe)
• New Spells - and fewer of them, 'cause this is just ridiculous
• Lower Spawnrate - so that we all have a chance to breathe
• New and Simpler Geonite System - the current one is overly complicated and doesn't feel right in-game, so we're simplifying things.
• Humans

[strafe of x2]

nice. and btw if more of the spells just had lvls it would be nice. and ven i had all my 10s too problem was the problem with bow speed. 10x arrows at once on the spawn u couldnt move to fight back

[marzuku]

lol i have an adept to take care of ppl that sit at square and kill. i just poison them and then they die lol

which reminds me of maybe adding an antidote spell somewhere along the road to beta?

like strafe said, poison cant really be dodged etc, you most likely die of someone spams venemous stare on you twice

[Tseiga]

The exterude/extrudere (however you spell it) was a nice armor bonus and something to work for seeing the definition of the "egg" at later levels. Something like that would be cool. Also there were the differences mages/druid like characters having the higher levels, with fighter classes having the maximus as their highest level.

[XpLiCiT]

servers down then?

i just got back from a cruise (which was crap) and i missed all the fun (which is also crap)

[strafe of x2]

i think he said they're down untill next update

[Karl G.]

Yes, the server will be down until Monday--I hope to have the next version ready for testing at that point. I'm going to work all weekend.

[marzuku]

Noes.. a whole weekend even when ive got friday off!?

[strafe of x2]

it should be worth it tho

[ven]

lol great classes start monday

[Karl G.]

lol great classes start monday

Just in time to destroy your productivity


So far the update is going well. I've simplified a bunch of stuff, chaos is much less annoying, the geosids make sense and I can control monster spawning a lot more easily. I have finished the spell sets for the Adept and Sorcerer, and the Warrior and Hunter are coming along nicely.

[strafe of x2]

so are we gonna restart from nothing in this update?

[Joe M.]

Yes. As was mentioned in the first post (and in a post or two since then), you can expect character resets for a little while here while we work on basic issues such as stability and balance. This stage will not last long.

[strafe of x2]

not a big deal. i will be more than happy to get all of them to 10 again hopefully 20 and be able to use some stuff lol

[ven]

i'll probably get no time to play until weekends because of track and classes but i'm still looking forward to seeing the changes

[strafe of x2]

hows it comin karl?