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T4C Bible News
 Official Server News Thursday, 2009 July the 02nd |
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The WIPE will happen
Hello Folks !
We had a quite difficult week on this server, since the proposal of the wipe was done.
But it was worth it
As today I will work actively on preparing the settings of what will be Abomination - Act 2, this shall get started on Wednesday July, 8th
My works is now to :
1. Set up an antiplug system (to log off without risks for your toon, you'll have to wait 30 secs without any thing happening, no move, no attack, not attacked)
2. Remove red dots on the radar minimap
3. Lower weapons price at the Shadow seller
4. Slightly reduce the drop rates of HE items on the Lich
5. Sligtly raise the respawn delay for Oracle bonus chests and try to have a random delay set up at server restart
6. Set the maximum for Seraph reborns to X2 (or maybe X1)
7. Delete Sirroco spell
8. Easy island accesses quests by raising the droprates of quest items
9. Review entirely the moderation policy, in order to get into a 0 tolerance mode toward insults
10. Improve the website
11. Motivate Chaotik and Mestoph (4T4C developpers) to speed up the coding process in order we can install 4T4C quickly after the wipe
How will the WIPE be planned ?
This week end, I hope arbiters will be available to plan the last PVP tournament of Act 1, to win this time : some collector cardgames with special mention for Abomination wipe !
After this week end, probably on monday, I will switch off the server, in order to be able to work on it.
I will invite the staff members -arbiters/moderators- to connecte in "beta" mode, to check antiplug system and some other technical points.
If these tests are concluding, then we can open on July 8th with as much noise as we can on all forums and emailing!
What about purchased seraphs ?
From August the 8th, that's to say 1 month later, I will start deliveries for seraphs purchased via website or de-deliveries for people who bought seraphs over the last 6 months before wipe.
No more wipe please !
It's an awful work to plana Wipe, so I really RELY on players NOT to abuse any bugs that they might eventually find, I am thinking about offering some bonus goodies to players who help fixing a new bug.
The wipe wont solve everything
The wipe is maybe not the best solution to our problems, because these problems are on a MAJOR part linked to players behaviors, toward bugs and toward insulting.
What we're offering now, is to propose a new challenged based on safe ground, empowered with teachings from the past experience.
We will have a strong and balanced new base, which is following the majority of current and past players desires. The pollings shows a very high participation regarding this Wipe choice, and even after I excluded all double/triple votes from same IP and using fake accounts, I can see that 71% of players voted yes for wipe.
Conclusions
It only depends on you to take benefit of this new start, and to morph your behavior into some more competitive and respectfull challenge with your opponents.
Black lemming
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| Official Server News Monday, 2009 June the 29th |
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ABOT4C - Shall we wipe ?
Hello Players,
Please find below, the content of an emailing which I hope have reached your mailbox by midnight :
It has been a long time since the last big news !
I hope you can enjoy how few I am spamming you.
I come to you today because I need your advice. Regarding a topic which is quite important : "Why not Abomination : ACT II" ? let me explain.
Over the last 2 years abomination met almost all its expectations ! This was possible so far because of the huge players involvment at many stages of the server preparation, beta testing and go live. Although I personnally involved myself at 110% I was unable to monitor every aspects of the server's health, that is to say that I was not able to predict its future (by the way, if you know someone who would have, please feel free to arrange an appointment for me =] i'll ask for his next predictions).
So what ? Okay, here we go. Over the last 2 years, I had to perform a few adjustments on the server's balance, items, skills (Armor Piercing, Parry etc.), Spells ( Sirroco) and maybe a couple other things I just forgot about. But these little tweaks were not able to insure a real balance in our server's economy (HE weapons prize is simply, totally not acceptable and leads to some un-interresting PVP).
The server have come into a quite frozen status of : new players not really motivated to come, and old players not really motivated to play/PVP. Some of the high level players used some former bugs to level easierly, these bugs being fixed since quite a while now, there is a balance problem since new players cannot level up using the same bug (lich abuse, time protectors abuse, ethereal rats abuse).
Today after a very -very very- long meditation upon these topics and how to fix, I have decided to consider the possibility to propose a server WIPE. (This means, a total deletion of all players, accounts, items, mules, tops BUT of course under certain circumstances which I will detail here after :).
In the case of a wipe, here would be what will change :
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[*]Total deletion of all characters, items, mules, and accounts.
[*]Limiting the server to X2 instead of X3 like it is now
[*]Easing the islands and Oracle access quests for spending less time questing and more time PVPing !
[*]Allowing the merchants to buy all the droppable equipment (HE weapons could be sold a couple Millions for example)
[*]Lowering back to normal value the ACP AC bonus
[*]Lowering a bit the Unstable belt of protection AC bonus, to encourage the use of more various items
[*]Addition of an Anti-plug system (you'll have to wait at least 20 seconds without any combat or movments to be able to log off)
[*]Removal of the "red dots" which shows players positions on the radar map
[*]Removal/Nerving of spell Sirroco (In Abomination act I, this spell is way too powerful, was not supposed to be)
[*]Will start selling seraphs X1 only after 3 weeks
[*]Will start selling seraphs X2 only after 5 weeks
[*]( if ready yet) installing 4T4C version get more information here : 4T4C.me[/LIST]You may wonder : what about my paid seraph/feature ?
Right, if you are playing a seraph or any other paid feature which was purchased from the server within the last 6 months, I will reconduct the delivery into the ACT II for you not to loose any money. For people who had purchased something more than 6 months ago, I will not be able to reconduct the deliveries for seraphs.
Now, time for you to give your feeling and vote about this possibility, in order to do that, please go to this page :
Polling center (you might have to log in) and choose "YES" if you would like the server to wipe or choose "NO" if you do not would like to see the server to wipe.
This post is ONLY about discussion and collecting player's feelings, the choice of wiping or not is still mine.
I really hope you appreciate my efforts to take your input in consideration,
Your devoted,
Black lemming
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| Official Server News Sunday, 2009 June the 28th |
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4GE Net - New area, misc and transfer campaign
Rainya's coven
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Nestled within a crater formed long ago is a lair forged inside the volcanic expanse. The rumor is that the only one who knows about it is Yuriel the storyteller located in Lushwood.
Misc.
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-Starshade armor and shield found within Rainya's coven on various new monsters req: 300 str, 180 end
-Starshade spear found within Rainya's coven on Devout servant req: 492 str
-Mini-boss Princess Rainya found in Rainya's coven and drops Starshade armor
-Fire forged armor found within Rainya's coven on Devout servant req 500 str, 25 end, 40 agi, 25 wis, 25 int, 1250 attack
-NPC Yuriel added to Lushwood
-NPC Landrus added to Lushwood
Transfer Campaign
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4GE Net is still running their transfer campaign for more details please go here.
Craigory
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 T4C Bible news Thursday, 2009 June the 11th |
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Craigory
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| T4C Bible news Friday, 2009 May the 22nd |
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Welcome a new Bible Admin : Craigory
Great news folks !
Today T4CBible just welcomed Craigory as a new Bible Administration team member.
His mission will focus on "content" of the website and on the constitution of a neutral and objective "redaction team" composed of players (of course if gifted with a nice writing style !)
Warm welcome him. If you have any desire to help improving the bible's content. (Updating quests pages, items or whatever you might think need to be updated) Please join on the forum named : Participate to Bible
In T4C we Trust.
Black lemming
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| T4C Bible news Thursday, 2008 December the 25th |
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Merry Christmas!
On the behalf of all the staff here at T4CBible, we wish you all a very merry Christmas! We hope Santa brought you everything you asked for =)
Stinga
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