2nd Age Downtime

[Prometheus]

Tomorrow morning the shard will be taken off-line for a few days whilst me and the staff work on the changes that will bring us into the 2nd Age.

Expected Return: Wednesday Evening GMT


The 1st Age has been a learning experience which has seen lots of updates and improvements and the 2nd Age has arrived at almost exactly the time I had expected it would - just when big changes need to be made!
Our playerbase has been decreasing recently and, although a lot of you have pointed towards improvements that can still be made in certain areas (notably blackrock/casting weapons and the level of prots), there still remains the central core problem of our existing playerbase being spread too thin across the world.

The changes we make over the next few days, before we launch into the 2nd Age, will address that central issue: both veteran players and newbies are leaving because they are playing in a world in which the playerbase is spread too thin - even when we had 50 unique IPs online.

More information on exactly how we will deal with these issues will be released over the next few days - keep checking back here to the forum or see the website - but to be honest it will almost certainly involve an item wipe.

Also on the agenda before we're back online on Wednesday is:

• Remaking the website to look sexier and contain more/better information.
  
• Making blackrock/casting weapons available.
  
• Setting all new players as [2nd Age] in their profiles by editing the racegates.
  
• Making the spawning of some dungeons a bit more interesting, and finishing the spawning of the world and T2A.
  
• Re-write the conditions required to start a town (it will be a lot more difficult!).
  
• Complete the immense newbie dungeon I'm working on.
  
• Make GM items a lot more difficult to find and address loot in general.

[lorth]

Making blackrock/casting weapons available.

Is it possible to see the Slayer weapons back like :

Assassin - Undead slayer - Dragon Slayer - etc

Is it also possible to have leechers like :

Bloody - Leech's and the other one i cant remember

[imoldgregg]

what other things r gonna change

[mcfly]

Just thought of something that may congest people. Maybe speed up spawn time of high level mobs and reduce locations of them as well. That way even though you wait for the spawn to re-spawn loot is lowered so it wont affect that, but you may end up fighting over the spawn.

[lorth]

No spawns of highloot mobs outside dongeons would be great.

[mcfly]

And no high loot spawns where you can place a friggin boat right next to it.

[Prometheus]

That's already been done (the high level spawns).

[Simon Grey |Legion|]

IMHO hight lvl monster spawns should be clustered - 1-3 high lvl monsters, long spawntime and a lot of lesser monsters that would act as distaction and guardians for Big Bad Dude
also, depending on type of monster, there should be limitations on spawn placement - casters should have a lot of room, while melee oriented( like GD) should be spawned in small rooms, which would make killing them harder
and yes, that boat killing is crap
btw, ffs, fix balrons and balrogs targeting scripts - their tend to lose target in the middle of the fight, while i stand 3 away tiles from them

[imoldgregg]

things i would like

-take away the time limit it takes to kill a monster(it dosn't help ne thing)
-bring recall back but make it take like 10 seconds to actually recall
-make player towns a lot harder to get and make players upkeep them as far as vendors n such
-benefits for people who would like to role play
-knight of darkness and harder monsters
-dye room
-safe zone at bank in one town... Britain
-sparr room but only open for a few hours a day
-quest quest quest
-house building
-new dungons
-events for different classes
-breedable mounts
-houses u can place in the water


these things all can not be done by the second age and i do understand with this type of shard all of them should not be done but id be cool if they did

[rastamanasjr]

hmm seems like someone wants Up to be like Cartoon
im not gonna ven post my ieas ans i know that they wont work out

[mastasook]

Please do not change the loot because now that certyain people have shit tons of mods and loot is lessened we will never be able to compete

[mcfly]

doesn't item wipe make your point invalid?

[mastasook]

didnt know of an item wipe but i hear its happening now so excellent

[Dutten]

so is Zhfactions comeing up again today or is it gonna take longer ?? any news ??

[Prometheus]

Today.