Update February 1st! Olympiad changes and more.
Finally we can show you what we've been working on, this update will take place on 1st of February after the restart.
- Many players have been asking for this since L2Vanir opened and now we have found a way to restrict players from registering more than one character in Olympiad whereas not denying players who share the same IP from playing Olympiads simultaneously.
That means that now you won't be able to register more than one character in the Olympiad Manager queue. There will be a restriction, if you try to skip the restriction you will be violating the server rules. - The bug in Chamber of Delusion that prevented players from teleporting out has been fixed and now works correctly.
- We've balanced the Donation prices so that items with a unbalanced value now have a more competitive price in comparsion to other items.
- Forgotten Scrolls are cheaper in general but Olympiad ones have got an increase of 400 Golden Apiga.
- Noblesse and Subclass quest prices have been reduced by half.
- We've also removed CP Potions from the Donation Shop and lowered the price of Blessed Scroll of Escape, Blessed Scroll of Resurrection, Giant Codex and Giant Codex Mastery, Life Stones, Zaken's Earring (15 days), Queen Ant's Ring (15 days) and Soul Crystals.
- We've fixed the NPC Kegor from the Freya Quest Acquisition of Divine Sword, there was a small probability that if Kegor last hitted one of the spawned mobs the game wouldn't count it as a dead mob, and you would get stuck on that part of the quest, having you to do it again.
- We have changed something in the code of colour/stage changing of Seed of Annihilation because there was a small probability that the colours would repeat from one week to the next.
- Fixed a bug where you couldn't change the case of a letter of your nick name in the Donation Manager.
- Fixed a bug with the quest Possesor Of a Precious Soul 3 where if you abandoned the quest you would lose the Virgil's Letter, therefore not being able to finish the quest.
- Fixed a minor issue on a dialog of the NPC Kier of the quest Request of Ice Merchant.
- We have changed the teleport location when teleporting to Schuttgart because sometimes you would teleport behind a wall.
- Fixed bosses Flamestone Giant and Gwindorr so you can attack them freely.
- Implemented a new GeoEngine that fixes many geodata bugs and makes the auto pathing smoother.
- We have been working on advertisement and we hope it will bring more players within the near future.
We have been working hard to bring you these changes, we hope you're as happy as we are with them. Also, remember to use the forums to suggest and report bugs, so we have more stuff to work on!
Thank you for choosing L2Vanir, happy gaming!
Remember that these changes will become active after the restart of February 1st.
Comments
nastymateo
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 00:56
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Really
So i guess that is keeping retail like. Im thinking this is no longer a server of retail like anymore
Sekai
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 02:39
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Hello Nasty,
Hello Nasty,
I'm sorry if you don't like the changes and I invite you to suggest something better. We like to keep the server as retail as possible, that's why we removed the posibility of regging multiple characters from the same PC in Olympiad.
Essentialy the Olympiad System is something to prove your strenght against other players, we think that is not good having "boxed" characters there and we also think everyone should register only one character at a time.
Also in the retail version of this game an account had a monthly subscription cost so that the majority of the players would have one single account. Here in L2Vanir we allow multiboxing but we don't like the way it has been used in the past at Olympiads.
As a part of the Staff I can say that we don't agree on the feeding some players do in the server, but we don't have a rule for it yet, alos we can't prevent it as easy as it seems.
Regards,
Sekai.
Phlo
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 01:30
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Since l2vanir has opened and now, this is what you come up with?
I will start with, Im not mocking your work! If you wanted to make olympiad fair, set the maximum enchant to +6 of all armors and weapons(so you remove the effect of enchanting randomness) and most importantly make all the chars that go in oly unknown. So if a character teleports inside the coliseum at olympiad, their name should be hidden, and any accesory that might show their identity. I doubt this is the place to talk about this, but still restricting IP count is not the best solution, its the easiest. I know enchanting is a part of L2, but hey so is PvPing at Barakiel.
Sekai
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 02:47
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Hello BrainChild,
Hello BrainChild,
Don't worry, we take criticism as something to improve, so personally I wouldn't ever think that you are mocking on our work. About the enchant +6 we see it a bit restrictive for those players that are new and can't afford those items yet. I think they should be able to do their fights even if their win ratio is low, many of them will just do the fights for fun/practice/tokens.
About to make the names of characters unknown I have to say it's a good idea so I will take it into account. Although I can see its downsides like if someone would just want to observe certain fights.
About the IP thing you should read it again!
What we are doing is a restriction of one char registration per machine.
Regards,
Sekai.
Damien Dark
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 02:52
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.... master feeders start ....
sorry ppl, but feeding is not really something good for any server and u know it also. 99% of the servers have some kind of a anti-feed policy. coz oly is not about feeding ... point !
... another day another problem ...
nastymateo
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 06:24
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sorry who is your main?
sorry who is your main?
nastymateo
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 06:27
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nvm found you Axime
nvm found you Axime
Damien Dark
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 17:57
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yes, it's me
Yes, it's me! Good or bad ?
... another day another problem ...
nastymateo
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 06:24
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What we are doing is a restriction of one char registration per
What we are doing is a restriction of one char registration per machine
I play on 4 comps so does that mean I can still box 4 toons i can upload a pic of my set up if u like
Ignis
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 12:54
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It's a shame you think that.
It's a shame you think that. We all know that autofeeding in oly is not competitive, if you enter olympiad and let your other characters to lose while your main always win, getting points is like "cheating" the system. The anti-feed system already works with PVP and the reputation system since the server was opened.
I hope you understand and accept our point of view.
Regards.
Sherry
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 11:32
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Bug Fixing, or System Alteration?
Congratulations, L2Vanir Admin for these changes and update!
Glad that my little concern ingame were integrated within. But, was it really a bug-fix or an alteration of system code?
If this was really a bug, then I assume it is safe to SUGGEST that we should be allowed to create a new character (of the same name with difference only on cases) within the New Character Creation option. And if, it was just a system modification/alteration - then it ain't bug-fixing. I'm well aware that it would possibly generate revenue through donations - of course from those players who can affford. Too bad for me 100€ Donation is a month-worth of grocery already - which I find too much for a simple 1-letter nickname change in case.
Nonetheless, I highly praise and admire you mods/admins for your hardwork on these changes.
Kudos!
Sherry
sherry
Ignis
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 12:36
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Is a bug fix, you can't still
Is a bug fix, you can't still make characters with the same name and different cases, but you can change your name from sherry to ShErrY for example, so not only one letter, also you can still change your name completely.
The price of changing your name is not 100€, is about 11k Golden Apigas, wich is about 10€.
Lithuenne
Sat, 01/31/2015 - 12:07
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Update
Awesome! Thanks for your hard work guys.. Much appreciated!
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sdouvvv
Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:48
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about olympiad,
There are players (like me) that we work and we play only when we are "able". For example today i can play from 18:00 - 21:00 (server time) but other days i can after 23:00. That means actually i cant play oly cause noone will reg against me anyway (except some players) or noone will reg that times.
We are not a so big community so players can participate in oly anytime and find enemies.
With that way i wont even finish my 9 matches that month, cause of not participating from other players. Also some of the players that i see on the topics about oly feed, they are not even participating in oly, they dont even try to play or feed or anything in oly, so why the oly change? Cause of some players that are not ok with the feeding way? the players that they wont reg even for the 9 matches?
About what Sekai said "Also in the retail version of this game an account had a monthly subscription cost so that the majority of the players would have one single account. Here in L2Vanir we allow multiboxing but we don't like the way it has been used in the past at Olympiads." thats not anymore... official servers are free to play and they based to the donation system.
Imo that change about oly fixed nothing, the only thing that did its to make oly never start, and oly is a place to show strenght as Sekai said before so if someone doesnt agree with they way that some players playing (feed) he can always reg and stop them, but the only thing that they do is to talk, QQing and try to stab those who cant kill.
Regards,
RoraN.
makiem
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 04:29
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system alteration
please inform us if you have system alteration or bug fixing.. thanks
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