Dear friends! We follow the updates from NCsoft and we promised you to make 2.0. But we are very cautious of these updates and we believe that they are not correct and bringing a great disbalance in the gameplay. For example, a scroll that will be available only for clans who own a castle, which increases experience and SP rate by 45%. Or again, for clans with castle, almost epic jewelry. We don't think it's right to add these changes to our server, and dutifully follow updates from NCsoft. We want to go our own way, but all of you came to the Classic and this "our way" this should be considering your opinion. Our main tasks we highlight in a few points: 1) The server must continue to be hardcore. 2) Skills and mechanics must continue to follow the Classic (except for very strange decisions as the transformation of the character giving stats). 3) Addition of new items shouldn't give an advantage to someone special. The first important step on the way to update our server will be v. 1.5 update launch. We have resumed work on it after we solved one of the main problems with the groups. It is also possible to add to the Olympiad in 1.5, but has not yet decided what criteria needed to qualify for the Olympiad. But again, the question arises as to produce an update. For this that poll was created. We see three options on how updates can be made: 1) Completing v.1.3 and installing it, then completing version 1.5 and installing it. Installing agreed with users. 2) Mixing 2 updates and putting them by subgroups. Example of subgroups: a) Opening of Aden. b) Adding zones in the city of Aden. c) Addition of Clan Halls in Aden. d) Addition of Aden Castle and it's siege. And as soon as the subgroup is fully prepared and all the tests are completed - we are introducing changes to the server. 3) Creating a full update to 1.5, and releasing it after agreeing with the users. Each option has its own "time to be done". For example, when choosing №1, wait until next update will take longer than №2, but faster than №3 etc. Below we have written important aspects of the upgrade to 1.5 (All that is not included in this list is not unimportant. It means only that the changes are a subset of the global update and will be made according to how they are made at NCsoft). On the left you see updates from NCsoft, on the right what will be added to the server. 1.3 Update Castle sieges “Seal of Light” / “Seal of Darkness” 4 Castles: Gludio Castle, Dion Castle, Giran Castle and Oren Castle. Experience is being lost as usual Switching between sides after capturing Pluses and minuses of Light and Darkness sides Coins for Castle owners New skills and books for them Changes in old skills New zones Changes in old zones Epic jewellery Changed amount of used shots Enchant scroll added to the shop Sword of Paagrio added to the shop New quests Drop/Spoil/Adena amount Other changes Exp loss when dead changed from 10% to 4% Castle sieges “Seal of Light” / “Seal of Darkness” 5 Castles: Gludio Castle, Dion Castle, Giran Castle and Oren Castle No experience loss in the siege ground Switching between sides after capturing Pluses and minuses of Light and Darkness sides Won't be added as well as all items connected with it. New skills and books for them Changes in old skills New zones Changes in old zones Epic jewellery Epic jewels levels Changed amount of used shots Won't be added Sword of Paagrio added to the shop New quests Drop/Spoil/Adena amount as in v. 1.5 Not all other changes will be added. Exp loss when dead changed from 10% to 4% 1.5 Update New skills and books for them Transformation skills Changes in skills B armor 70% + 100% recipes Dualsword Craft Stamp added Changes in items Levels for Epic jewels are added New zones Aden city is added Was not in update New Raid Bosses New Aden zones Changes in zones Amount of monsters in starting locations decreased, their respawn time decreased Decreased respawn time for monsters near: Gludio, Dion, Talking Island Village and Gludin. New quests New quest “Moon knight” for D grade armor Enchant scroll fragments Changes in quests Increased experience for first class change Increased experience in party Changed the pose of the char with the sword Clan skill changes Interface changes Other changes Free teleports till level 40 Add Aden Castle Siege New skills and books for them Will be added but in different form and without stats Changes in skills B armor Will have only 70% recipes. Dualsword Craft Stamp added Changes in items Will be added with Epic jewelery New zones Aden city is added Aden clan halls added New Raid Bosses New Aden zones Changes in zones Amount and respawn time will stay the same Respawn time will stay the same. New quests Quest “Moon knight” for D grade armor won't be added Enchant scroll fragments Changes in quests Won't be changed (experience on NCsoft = 50% on level 20. Increased experience in party Changed the pose of the char with the sword Clan skill changes Interface changes Other changes At this moment we don't see the need to do it We also are working on the questions from this thread, and we believe that they are very important in creating a better and comfortable server, but we need your response. The topic of the discussion: https://4gameforum.com/threads/534942/ Your comments and suggestions, based on this thread, you can leave here: http://l2classic.club/forum/index.php?/topic/7049-additional-updates-discussion/ If any of the positions will be approved by both you and us - it will be included in the final updates .
