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Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, September 16, 2009-
LOCATION RESET
In order to solve a number of "black hole" problems that have built up in the past month, we did a location reset on all characters today. Everyone should be logged in at the Naratar temple now, this may require you to reset your hometowns.
We do apologize for any inconvience!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, August 26, 2009-
POWER OUTAGE
The server region had a power failure that lasted about 2 hours this morning from 6-8 AM EST. The issue has been resolved and we are back up and running. Sorry for any inconvienence!
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, July 26, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #8
This vocation balance update focuses primarily on our down and dirty physical classes.
The first thing that players will notice is a 12% damage increase to their melee and distance autoattacks. In addition, the mechanics of the haste spells have been changed. Haste now lasts 90 seconds, strong haste lasts 60 seconds, and vigorous haste lasts 180 seconds. In addition, all haste spells now grant 100 levels of run speed, no matter what level you are. Low levels will enjoy this change as they can speed around much faster than normal with haste up. On the high end, the maximum benefit of the haste spells has been changed to make players move slightly slower. This will greatly improve the PVP experience by allowing melee classes to better keep in touch with their opponents, as well as allowing players more time to react as characters will move a bit slower.
Next up, a few particular classes got some direct attention:
* Knights now receive a new "rage" spell at magic level 13. This powerful spell increases the knight's melee attack speed by 3 times for a short duration.
* Pirates have improved range on both hand cannon and long cannon, as well as higher damage on long cannon.
* Berserk has improved damage
* Paladins divine supremacy has been lowered in damage.
* Archers have a new spell, "sniper shockwave" that deals significant damage in a ring around the archer, dealing better damage while maintaining range.
* Full healing will restore slightly more hp
Finally, a few non-balance improvements have been made. Now when you look at an item, the game will tell you how many of that item you are carrying. This is very handy for quickly selling loot, or checking how many fluids, runes, and so forth you are carrying.
You see a boots of haste.
It weighs 7.50 oz. (You have: 7)
The experience selling orb should now be functional once again. The experience orb will automatically lower your character's level when your experience falls below the amount needed for that level.
Items that provide a boost to magic damage will now display that boost as MgAtk. A few new lower level items have received attack and magic attack bonuses, such as the devil helmet and blue robe.
A bug was fixed with both death rings and the golden bow. These items should now properly increase the physical damage you deal by 10% each.
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, July 21, 2009-
UPDATE!
A new town has been added, the jungle-styled town of Marika. This new town provides an interesting twist: the entire region is no-loss PVP - a veritable bloodbath of fighting in a fun town setting!
The regions around Marika feature new creatures and hunting grounds - higher levels should enjoy the new underwater hunting grounds, while lower levels will enjoy the cavernous underground. In addition, you may find new caverns, passages, and hunting grounds in the lands under southern Avia.
We have also rebalanced the loot of several monsters, such as Quara, Pirates and Dragons. In addition, you may find new rares on certain Epic creatures, such as Swordmasters, Infernals, Dark Torturers, and more!
Finally, a few minor balance adjustments have been made.
* The range of violent hatred has been slightly decreased
* The damage of fierce berserk has been increased and normalized
* Archer damage has been increased by 5.8%
* The damage of Death and Holy turrets has been lowered significantly
* The damage of all other turrets has been raised slightly
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, July 18, 2009-
PVP WINNERS, CUPIES = MORE, AND A SMALL MAP UPDATE
Congratulations to our PVP tournament winners:
1st - rep
2nd - Crux
3rd - Hellsnarc
In addition, cupies will now get you more for your hard-earned cash! Spend cupies on our newly discounted items and gold!
You can also take advantage of two new services: Name Change and Gender Change!
Last but not least, we've presented a smaller map update while you're waiting for the next big one: head to western Elician and see what you can find!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, July 15, 2009-
PVP TOURNAMENT SATURDAY!
The PVP tournament previously scheduled to appear on our One Year Anniversary test server will finally be happening this Saturday, on July 18th!
Saturday, July 18th at 1:00 PM EST.
Here are the details:
The tournament will feature 1v1 matches in "season" style, followed by a ladder elimination best of 3 playoff series. To break it down:
* You must be rank-level 1000 or above
* You will fight in the Naratar Mini Arena, southeast of temple. Deaths do not count.
* Most special amulets/rings will not be allowed. The only allowed amulets/rings with a duration or number of charges are: life rings and death rings
* You will fight every other player once, 1v1
* If you are one of the top 4/8/16 (depending on number of participants) players, you will go on to the playoffs
* In the playoffs you will fight your opponent in up to three fights, whoever wins two of them will win
* If you're the winner, you will proceed to fight the next opponent, until everyone is eliminated!
* Then you win!
First place will receive a golden trophy for display inside their house - they will be able to keep this trophy until the next PVP tournament! First place will also receive 10 million gold and 20 cupies in prize money.
Second place will receive a silver trophy for the same time. Second place will receive 5 million gold and 5 cupies.
Third place (technically the finals loser with the best record) will receive a bronze trophy and 3 million gold.
All playoff participants will receive 2 million gold.
All participants will receive 100 legendary medallions.
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, July 15, 2009-
SELL YOUR EXPERIENCE
New at the Garden of Avatars, all characters can sell their experience. In addition, rank-level 350 characters can now exceed the 10 billion experience cap, in order to sell experience of their own. Here are the rates:
* Normal - 10k per 1 million experience
* Diehards - 70k per 1 million experience
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, July 14, 2009-
IMPROVED PARTIES AND BUG FIXES!
Many players have requested an important party update, and now it is finally here. Players in parties will no longer have to worry about harming each other while hunting, regardless of their PVP status! This will make it much more appealing to be a PVP player, as you will not suffer any additional negatives beyond PVP itself - you will be able to hunt with your friends in a team just like anyone else.
Important note: Actual PVP zones still allow partied players to hurt each other. These zones are treated like REAL PVP zones and require careful hunting!
In addition, we've expanded the party commands. Here is a full list:
!invite
!join
!kick
!leave
All of these commands are accessable at any time, so you can now leave parties at any time, with no need to wait for your "combat swords" to drop.
In addition, a bug has been fixed that prevented summons from working in PVP outside of the arena. This was thought previously fixed, however it should be fixed for sure now.
The new command !bless was added, allowing you to view the blessings you currently have. Need to make sure you're protected before you go out to hunt? Simply use !bless.
Posted by Solus
-Friday, July 10, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #7 - NEW VOCATION: Engineer!
Today was a big vocation balance update. The full details of which you can see with the link at the end of the post...
The most important addition today however was...
Engineers!
A brand new vocation, engineers play as a solo class with strong and versatile support options. They lay traps and summon turrets to help them fend off their foes, as well as using handy gadgets and other supportive magic! Engineers can use every weapon type in the game including wands, however they are not proficient at any of them.
Hopefully you will have as much fun trying out the new engineer class as I did making it. Enjoy!
Update notes
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, July 01, 2009-
SMALL UPDATE
From feedback on the forums and internal discussions, PVP damage has been adjusted to 33% instead of 40%.
Diehards will now cap out at level 100. This should provide a better level for PVP and balance.
Finally, you may have noticed your characters moving slightly slower. This is part of some adjustments to movement speed and paralyze to provide a little less frantic PVP environment.
Numerous bugs related to PVP/diehard/experience abuse have been fixed, in addition to quite a few characters being punished for abuse.
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, July 01, 2009-
OFFICIAL FURY SHUTDOWN
The official shutdown of the Fury server will happen on Friday, July 3rd around 7-8 PM EST.
We welcome everyone to join us on Phoenix for the official closing "ceremony".
Let's see how Fury goes out!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, June 29, 2009-
BLESSINGS
Ever felt like you could use a little extra "oomph"?
Now is your chance! Visit Diviner Jacob at the Naratar Chapel and you can purchase blessings. Blessings currently come in three flavors: life, lesser power, lesser protection. A blessing of life will shield you from all loss on death, the same exact way that the classic amulet of life will. Lesser power will slightly increase your damage, while lesser protection will decrease the damage that you receive.
The downside is that blessings WILL fade away when you die!
These blessings, and more in the future, are available now! Take your wallet and get enchanted!
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, June 27, 2009-
PVP FOR ALL!
Our initial success with the Fury server taught us that PVP is a fun and desireable part of SolusOT. Using what we learned from the Fury server, we decided to create a new option that would allow ALL players to choose whether or not they would like to join PVP!
This means that you can enjoy PVP-enforced gameplay on the Phoenix server. To become a PVP player you may talk to the PVP Master west of the Naratar depot. Think hard before you make your decision! At this time the change is irreversable (and may stay that way forever)!
With this, however, we have other somewhat sad news.
In order to maintain the speed and reduce lag, we have decided to close the Fury server. Since all players can play PVP on Phoenix if they desire, there is no real reason to have the Fury server running any longer.
With this change, we will allow you to move your characters from Fury to Phoenix if they are rank-level 150 or above. In order to begin the transfer process, you can submit a support ticket. Tell us what your Fury character is, and what account you would like it to be added to on Phoenix. Please provide the account number of both the Fury character and the Phoenix account.
Important notes: Players that come from Fury will be automatically flagged for PVP. In addition, only the items on your character and in your depot will be transferred. Clean out your houses before you submit a ticket.
...but wait, there's more!
We've also added a special feature called "diehard" characters. If you choose to be a diehard character (at the same NPC) your character will max out at rank-level 50, but receive a few special bonuses.
* Nothing bad will happen when you die, you won't lose experience or skills
* You can travel to the Garden of Avatars and SELL any experience you earn for gold!
Once you become diehard, you can never go past rank-level 50 - so this is only for players who really love to PVP and want to PVP at a nice low level where things move a little bit slower than normal.
Posted by Solus
-Monday, June 22, 2009-
HIGHSCORES FOR YOU!
We all know that every server has a highscores page. But have you ever wondered how good you are compared to people that started when YOU did, instead of people that started half a year ago?
Well now is your chance. We've improved our highscores page. Now you can see how you stack up against characters that created at the same time you did! And if you've forgotten, you can use the character lookup to see when you created your character, and click the handy link to compare yourself right away. Now you have the chance to be the best as well!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, June 22, 2009-
NECROMANCER UPDATES
While the main portion of the anniversary update already happened, the necromancer portion took a little extra time. But now it's here too!
Necromancers will enjoy summons in PVP on Phoenix now. In addition, necromancers will receive some pretty big bonuses:
* Summons will only cost 40% of their listed cost. You still need the max mana that the list says in order to be ABLE to summon them, it just won't use up all that mana every time. This allows a necromancer to quickly bring back fallen allies in the midst of combat.
* Summons will enjoy exhaustion-free summon casting, be able to instantly recover a summon without risking death by not healing, or sacrificing too much damage. This should help greatly in balancing out the damage decrease that necromancers took with the rest of the update.
* The !res ability will now place summons around the necromancer in a square, instead of all going to the necromancers location, causing debugs. This is subject to change if abuse mechanisms are found!
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, June 21, 2009-
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY - SUMMER UPDATE!
Our one year anniversary is finally here - and so is our summer update!
This update features dozens of new skills and spells for all the vocations, as well as numerous other changes.
After the demon attack on Avia, all citizens fled with the help of the GMs creating a safe path to the Avia boat. Citizens sailed to Naratar, seeking safety from the demon hordes. Naratar is now the main town where new players are created, and Naratar has been revised with new quests, new hunting grounds, and more!
New combat formulas have resulted in damage changes for all players, as well as improved damage reduction from all armor.
And of course... the legendary medallions! Finally, explore to discover what they are used for!
Posted by Solus
-Friday, June 19, 2009-
TEST SERVER PVP TOURNAMENT
During our test server for the SolusOT One Year Anniversary update we will be hosting a full-fledged PVP tournament!
All test server participants are welcome to join (and if you're not a participant, complete the scavenger hunt below... get cracking!)
The tournament will feature 1v1 matches in "season" style, followed by a ladder elimination best of 3 playoff series. To break it down:
* You will fight every other player once, 1v1
* If you are one of the top 4/8 (depending on test server size) players, you will go on to the playoffs
* In the playoffs you will fight your opponent in up to three fights, whoever wins two of them will win
* If you're the winner, you will proceed to fight the next opponent, until everyone is eliminated!
* Then you win!
First place will receive a golden trophy for display inside their house - they will be able to keep this trophy until the next PVP tournament! First place will also receive 10 million gold and 20 cupies in prize money.
Second place will receive a silver trophy for the same time. Second place will receive 5 million gold and 5 cupies.
Third place (technically the finals loser with the best record) will receive a bronze trophy and 3 million gold.
All playoff participants will receive 2 million gold.
All participants will receive 100 legendary medallions.
And of course, all your winnings will be on the REAL server!
Minor side note: all those new class abilities will be available for this tournament.
Scavenger hunt/test server forum thread
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, June 17, 2009-
UPDATE TEASER #2
As part of our One Year Anniversary update, we've revisited many of the formulas and balance issues surrounding the vocations.
An enhanced armor formula will ensure you're getting the most out of your armor, and every point will be all the more valuable in the update - in our tests a standard ranklevel 1050 knight was able to block two Epic Infernals without any aid whatsoever using the powerful armor upgrades.
The effect of boosting equipment, such as boots of arcane furor, golden bow, and death plate will be increased, allowing your equipment to help you inflict even more pain on the enemy.
Well over 30 new spells and skills take advantage of all new features - expect new spells to do things never before seen!
Set your hometown to any of the major cities, and start new characters in alternate cities! Explore the entire SolusOT map with ease!
And don't forget to trade in the bulk of those legendary medallions for a massive upgrade in ...
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, June 17, 2009-
TEST SERVER SCAVENGER HUNT!
Are you interested in playing the new update before everyone else? Here's your chance!
Complete this scavenger hunt and mail the items to:
GM Solus
Avia City
Include your character name that will participate on the test server.
Here's the items, good luck!
4 Hydra Eggs
1 Golden Sickle
1 Might Ring
1 Platinum Amulet
1 Frost Shard
1 Candy Cane
1 Venom Star
1 Grave Flower
5 Lyres
1 Big Bone
10 Turtle Shells
1 Battlehammer
1 Copper Shield
5 Scale Armor
2 Pendants of Fury
1 Helmet of the Ancients
8 Knight Axes
30 Small Rubies
30 Small Sapphires
30 Small Emeralds
1 Wooden Shield
1 Death Ring
1 Magic Plate Armor
1 Death Legs
1 Pendant of Energy
100 Skulls
200 Blueberries
All test server participants will receive 10 million gold and a special surprise!
Scavenger hunt/test server forum thread
Have a great summer!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, June 17, 2009-
UPDATE TEASER #1
Our summer game update is just around the corner, and to think of all the goodies we have for you!
It'll be like Christmas in June!
Every vocation is going to have something new to smile about in the update, with numerous new spells and abilities to enjoy! We'll list just a few of the many abilities that are coming in!
Knights
Challenge monsters fearlessly with two new improved challenge spells - a challenge that heals your party and yourself while calling the enemies forward - or cast a challenge that is gauranteed to keep the enemies on you for a while!
Paladins
Utilize your divine supremacy to dish out damage while simultaneously recovering your mana! Or imbue an area with a holy aura dealing damage over time to all enemies that stay inside.
Archers
Put your health regeneration to good use with the guardian spell, sending 25% of your damage to your hp and the rest to your mana, allowing your regeneration to keep you alive longer!
Necromancers
Heal your summons with the new draw mass darkness spell, healing everything in the area for a large amount!
Pirates
Talk like a pirate with revised spell words for all your favorite spells. In addition, fire your blunderbuss or hand cannon for solid ranged damage, or use your taunt to challenge the enemy to come forward while simultaneously dealing damage!
Sorcerers
Destroy targets with your ultimate explosion with improved range, and call down utter destruction dealing MASSIVE damage over time to all enemies in the area.
Samurai
Destroy your enemies with violent hatred, dealing massive damage in a sizable area, or give your enemies a flashback of pain, rapidly cutting them 20 times with ethereal blades!
Druids
Spread a vile plague dealing massive physical damage as well as poisoning your victims for outrageous poison damage. Or play the good guy and heal your friends with the improved healing wind spell.
SolusOT is the place to be this summer. Stick around to find out what epic changes the legendary medallions will unlock, and see just how much more we have in store.
Call your friends, this is going to be a big one.
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, June 07, 2009-
BONUS GOLD FOR YOUR DONATION!
Starting now, for the entire month of June whenever you donate $10 or more you will receive an extra 1 million gold! Yep, 1 million gold in addition to all your cupies! If you donate $35 or more, you'll receive 2 million gold!
Have a great summer!
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, June 07, 2009-
FORUMS MOVED AND MORE
Today we moved the forums to our parent forum system over at http://www.polatrite.com/forums/ You can sign up for a new account there as well as find other games produced by our same development team. The old forums will remain accessable for a limited time so that you may reference/import your old topics to the new boards. You can access the old forums here.
In addition, the raffle was unfortunately cancelled because not enough tickets sold. The people who bought tickets have been either refunded their money or given cupies (their choice). If you still haven't received your refund/cupies, simply submit a support ticket. Some e-mail addresses were invalid for contacting two donators.
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, May 23, 2009-
COMING SOON - CHARACTER TRANSFERS
Coming soon we will be allowing automatic character transfers. You will be allowed to transfer your characters between Phoenix and Fury using the website for a small price in cupies. The system will be so easy to use that you could transfer a character back and forth as much as you want, if you'd like!
More details will emerge soon - as more players reach ranklevel 1050 on Fury. One rule is currently known for sure: you must sell your house before you transfer a character. Keep an eye out!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, May 20, 2009-
YOUR OWN CUSTOM HOUSE!
The custom house program has hit the streets! Build your very own completely custom house - lay it out just like you want it, and add all sorts of cool things to it from training monks to monster spawns to secret portals!
Learn more about how you can build your own custom house here!
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, May 16, 2009-
THE AMAZING 20 MILLION GOLD RAFFLE, ROUND 2
Ever wanted 20 million gold to fall in your lap?
Well, here's your chance. We're hosting a 20 million gold raffle to go towards our connection upgrade! (Raffle applies to ALL servers)
The raffle works like this:
* There are 10 tickets available
* Each ticket costs 10 dollars (PayPal)
* The first place prize is 20 million gold!
* Two runner-ups will receive 2 million gold each
* Limit 2 tickets per person.
Don't miss out on your chance! Get a ticket now!
(Be sure to include your character name and server)
Ticket #1:
Ticket #2:
Ticket #3:
Ticket #4:
Ticket #5:
Ticket #6:
Ticket #7:
Ticket #8:
Ticket #9:
Ticket #10:
If you would like to keep your donation private, please let me know with an e-mail to admin.solus !AT! gmail.com.
The drawing will be held on May 30th, unless all tickets are purchased before then!
Keep the updates coming and the lag away, buy a ticket and improve our connection!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, May 13, 2009-
THE AMAZING MAY MAP UPDATE!
The map update you've all been waiting for is here! Featuring more new hunting areas than you can shake a stick at...
Southwest of Naratar opens a whole new land mass - everything from dwarves to elves, epic creatures and brand new creatures. What can you find?
Deep on Mystic Island you can find a new threat. Crafty, dedicated exploration will lead you to the new changes.
A girl named Maria wants to speak with you...
And what mysteries could the Avia Magic Academy help you with?
Don't forget the new bosses... you definitely don't want to be caught unprepared!
And a new city? A HUGE new city?!
Posted by Solus
-Wednesday, May 13, 2009-
IMPROVED RUNE MERGE AND NEW RUMORS
Today we added a new rune merging option for characters who have reached ranklevel 1050. The spell "adeta gran mas" will allow these players to merge their runes into huge stacks of 250x, instead of 100x.
In addition, rumors abound about custom home manufacturing... what could these rumors be talking about? Find out soon!
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, May 05, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #6
Some significant changes were made today, primarily involving non-magical vocations.
* Divine caldera and arrow rain have had their power decreased
* Meteor arrow and blitz shot have had their power increased
* Berserk has had its power increased
* The speed bonus of vigorous haste has been increased. Archers and pirates now learn vigorous haste
* New spell: Healing wind will automatically heal you each second for 10 seconds after you cast it. The heals are not quite as powerful as an ultimate healing, and will not remove paralyze, but the spell is useful for keeping you alive in tough situations. This spell is learnable by sorcerers and druids
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, May 05, 2009-
NEW PVP SERVER - FURY
Today we proudly present the opening of our new PVP server - Fury! This new PVP server features 8x experience gains and full PVP. The server will start from scratch, with all new achievements available for those daring players that take up the gauntlet.
We encourage you to check out Fury if you enjoy the competitive PVP experience. It adds a whole new dimension to the Solus experience... an OT experience like none other!
A custom client update will be coming soon. For now you can connect using port 7172 and an IP changer. 
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, May 02, 2009-
HIGHSCORES IMPROVEMENT
The highscores pages have been updated to show up to 250 players, instead of 100.
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, April 07, 2009-
MONSTER ARENA
Ever wanted to fight an endless horde of monsters? Now is your chance. Visit the new Monster Arena below Avia City, near the location of Utopia. For a pull on the lever and a small price in gold, you too can battle to the death with a constant stream of vicious monsters.
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, April 05, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #5
More interesting balance changes have been made today. Some of these new changes should greatly balance some of the primary problems certain vocations have been experiencing, especially melee vocations.
* Paladin's divine caldera and arrow rain have been lowered about 10% in damage
* Violent will has been slightly increased in power
* Pirates and knights now have access to a new spell: paralysis shockwave, an explosion of paralysis causing damage
* Samurais now have access to a new spell: paralysis wave, a wave of paralysis inducing damage
Posted by Solus
-Friday, April 03, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #4
Some significant changes were made today for vocation balance.
* The mana shield penalty for samurais has been removed
* Violent will has been lowered significantly in power
* Pirates will now gain magic level faster than knights, unfortunately this will not apply fully to existing characters (meaning pirates will have to train their magic level to receive the full bonuses)
* For shielding above 100, maximum hp gains have been increased to 50 points
* For magic level above 100, maximum mana gains have been increased to 80 points
Posted by Solus
-Thursday, April 02, 2009-
MASSIVE SUMMONS UPDATE
Necromancers everywhere can rejoice, as today we've installed a massive update to summons. New summons will be available and existing summons have been lowered in cost. In addition, epic summons are finally available! Enjoy!
Posted by Solus
-Thursday, April 02, 2009-
UPDATE TO PARTY EXPERIENCE
Rank 10+ parties will no longer share experience with players who are less than rank 10. Players rank 9 and lower can still share experience when partied together, however.
In addition, the bonus experience given through guild membership has been slightly changed.
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, March 21, 2009-
MINI BALANCE UPDATE
Another balance update has been implemented today!
* Pirates damage has been increased by 10%
* Archers damage has been increased by 10%
* Sorcerers damage has been increased by 8%
* Druids damage has been increased by 8%
* Samurais damage has been increased by 6%
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, March 17, 2009-
A USE FOR PEARLS? AND BUG FIXES
The mystery of pearls will finally be revealed. Search Cerebus for the Disciple of Witchcraft, an NPC that will exchange your pearls for special goodies. Two clue keywords: death ring, pendant of energy. You must figure out the rest yourself!
The death ring has been substantially improved, and now provides the following bonuses:
* 10 of all fighting skills
* 10% increase in physical damage
* -10 to shielding
* 10 minute duration
The life ring has also been improved, and now provides a 10% boost to magic damage.
In addition, a very important bug was fixed today which will cause a number of players to receive damage bonuses. Mages especially will now deal more damage.
The bug that was fixed makes it so that equipment that increases your physical damage by a percentage (such as the arbalest and death legs) or your magic damage by a percentage (hood of the warlocks, boots of arcane furor, and high-end wands) now function properly.
Enjoy!
Posted by Solus
-Tuesday, March 17, 2009-
SERVER UPGRADES
We have upgraded the RAM in the server to 6 gigabytes.
Enjoy faster load times, quicker reboots, and swifter server saves!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, March 16, 2009-
MAP UPDATE
Again?! Yes! We have GM Solus and the rest of the sweatshop kids hard at work bringing these updates as quickly as possible. (Actually it's mostly just GM Solus =()
Our latest update features the island of Elician. Elician is an island fully composed of Epic monsters. Enjoy!
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, March 14, 2009-
NEW SUPPORT SYSTEM
The new support system is live! Send in your support ticket using the link in the sidebar.
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, March 14, 2009-
MAP UPDATE
A nice large expansion to the map was added today, northeast of Avia. New mountains bear new monsters and other interesting surprises!
Posted by Solus
-Saturday, March 14, 2009-
PLAYER MESSAGES
Players can now share their messages with the entire world, using the broadcasted red text that GMs do. Simply find the Cupie Trader and ask to send a "message"! It costs a mere 2 cupies per message. Enjoy!
Posted by Solus
-Friday, March 13, 2009-
PLAYER RESEARCH COMPLETED!
Congratulations on completing the Hilatia scarabs player research.
The update has been implemented and you can find the caverns beneath the scarabs crawling with new dangers!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, March 09, 2009-
VOCATION BALANCE UPDATE #3
The third in our vocation balance series is here!
* Increased mana regeneration based on level/rank for all vocations!
* Fist skill now adds a bonus to ranged damage
* Archers gain fisting quicker than before
* Paladins and pirates no longer gain fisting as quickly as before
* Most pirates have had their fisting significantly lowered
* New pirate spell: ransack
* All players will notice a small increase in damage, between 3-5%
* All players will notice a small decrease in damage that they take from monsters, between 2-3%
* All players now receive 20 hp per shielding (above 10) and 30 mana per magic level
In addition, one other change was made as part of an upcoming change: when you gain more than 1 billion experience, it shows up as 1 million in your client. This is so that you can see your full experience, rounded a little bit, even as you increase up past 1 billion.
Posted by Solus
-Sunday, March 08, 2009-
CLIENT UPDATE!
Download the new client now!
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Posted by Solus
-Monday, March 02, 2009-
MARCH CUPIE MADNESS!
For the entire month of March, we're offering a cupie promotion.
50 cupies FREE with EVERY donation $20 or more!!
Because... this is SOLUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, March 02, 2009-
TEST SERVER TODAY!
We will be hosting the PVP test server tonight on the new hardware! Join in!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, March 02, 2009-
MASSIVE SERVER UPGRADE!
The parts for the new server upgrades are finally in! We'll be moving back to our traditional (and far superior) hosting method that was used in the first 5 months - however now we've juiced up our host computer!
* Quad-core 2.66ghz 6MB cache Intel Core 2 Quad
* 6 gigs of RAM
* Dedicated 14mbps download/2.4mbps upload line (over 4x more upload)
* A brand new dedicated file and web management server!
In addition to these hardware upgrades, I need to purchase some additional networking equipment including 200 feet of CAT6, two gigabit ethernet switches. I'll also be updating the access point firmware and ensuring that all running hardware has the latest firmware during our update downtime.
Now the big question: How much did it all cost?
Only $439!
I'm going to run a special promotional fundraiser to help pay for the new parts - AFTER you already get to enjoy them! Look for the special Cupie fundraiser in the next couple days.
Posted by Solus
-Friday, February 27, 2009-
IMPROVED WAND DAMAGE
The damage for the top wands has been increased so that mages should do more with wands than distance weapons. Magic level was made much more important for these higher end wands.
Posted by Solus
-Thursday, February 26, 2009-
HOUSE CLEANING
Thanks to the hard work from GM Eventide and myself, many houses have been cleaned out and are now available for your purchase!
Posted by Solus
-Thursday, February 26, 2009-
MAP UPDATE
We've added another beautiful map update! The vast new addition of Upper Avia City will provide numerous new houses to live in, as well as a few new spawns. In addition, the cultists have expanded their grasp in their underground hideout. Other new epic monsters have been added, and the Epic Annihilator can be seen for the first time!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, February 15, 2009-
AUTOMATIC RESTARTS
Automatic restarts are now in the game! Every 16-18 hours the game will automatically reboot with a 15 minute warning. This will give everyone a chance to acquire the daily spawns!
Posted by Solus
-Monday, February 2, 2009-
MOVING!
I am currently in the process of moving to Indiana, which has been an extremely involved effort over the last 3 weeks. Unfortunately I haven't been too attentive to the server, but I hope that within 2 weeks time from today I will be back to 100% capacity. Next week during the week, SolusOT will likely move to a new server machine that will have far superior upload bandwidth and better processing power, which should eliminate some lag.
The cupie changes are still coming up, I have everything written up I simply need to get time to add the items to the Cupie Trader NPC and actually fully roll-out the new system.
Additionally, other improvements are coming up such as automatic reboots every 16-24 hours. I am working on some website improvements, and of course we will have continued game improvements such as the quest-heavy new map update that is coming in soon.
Don't forget about player research! There isn't much left to do, so get cracking on those scarabs and unlock the new content!