Archive 2011 — Dark Swords

2011-03-04: Some fixes. (Updates)

Till the fate of combining combat abilities was not determined the triggering of Axe Swing will be possible even if a character wielding an axe in his/her left hand.
Axe Swing and Stun skills now can be viewed in the SKILLS window and in Guilds (also you can get the info on their chances of triggering and the duration of Stun).
The messages about gathered experience on Ares altar was fixed.
The skill 'Sleight of hands' will not be possible in Personal shops and exchangers under no circumstances (its a temporary measure).

2011-03-04: Server Time (Updates)

Note: the server is running by Moscow time GMT+3. There is no summer time in Russia, so the server time is shifted one hour ago compared to the summer period. Use the \info command to check the current server time.

2011-03-03: How experience accumulates on the altar of God of War. (Updates)

The experience on the Altar - a sum of lost religion experience by players. In case when a character is not losing an experience in the lost battle the altar receives a minimum amount of 1 exp. When the God of War choses someone the reward is deducted from the experience on the altar.

2011-03-03: The favor of God of War, fixes. (Updates)

The character that reached 540th combat level will be receiving gold instead of the experience for completing auto-quests that offering combat experience as a reward.
Dispel Magic spell is now cost 5% of base of character's MP.
Every time a character receives religious experience for the victory over enemy-player there is a small chance that the god of war Ares himself will notice the bravery shown by you and will reward you with an experience that accumulated on his altars. The final blow on the enemy is not needed in order to receive the reward, the religious status or effects, that increase the amount of gained experience, don't have any effect. At the moment the cap on the gained religious experience this way is 1500 and soon it will be lifted.
The 'Axe Swing' skill is now correctly checks for an axe in the right hand of the character.

2011-03-03: 15 years of DarkSwords!!! (Client)

Dear friends, 15 years ago, October 21th, 2004, the first DarkSwords server was opened at Alkar game-platform(Ukraine). From this date we had to consider the beginning of our game history. Congratulate all players with this significant event! We are doing our best for the further game development. Thank you for staying with us. Hope, our work and project will bring you more positive emotions.

In honor of the holiday, all players received a new promo code, which gives 1000 Mogash Marks, 2000 Virtual Platinum and 8 weeks of subscription to 1.0 arts. To find out your personal code, follow this link
From 19th to 21th of October get 25% more of the platinum purchased from dealers!
On 19th, 20th and 21th of October, the holiday bonuses are ON: x2 Religion EXP, x2 EXP from monsters, x2 profession EXP, x2 bulletin boards EXP, x2 Damage to monsters.
From October 19th to October 21th in Arkijah meet a new questgiver: Programmer with several quests and special gifts (extra Mogash Marks and prisms with rare weapon).
On October 19th - all day Dark Soul event.
On October 20th - all day Wanted Dead event.
On October 21th - all day both events.
All players who entered the game on October 19, 20 or 21 will receive a memorable gift in the gift slot after the celebrations
On October 21th at 20:30 (server time) you can get a piece of festive cake. All players who will be online at this time will get a special gift: “A piece of festive cake”. It gives HP/MP bonus (not included in the spheres limit, can be used only one it the same time and non-soulbound). Lets see how many characters you have ;)

2011-03-03: No Doppel (Updates)

The ability to purchase the Doppelganger effect is disabled from Monday restart to Friday restart. All purchased effects continue to work until the end of the term.

2011-03-02: Correction. (Updates)

Corrections and clarifications were implemented in some of the messages, such as the amount of absorbed damage by hitting a shield or triggered ability 'Reflection shield'.
The bug was fixed with displaying a wrong amount of HP of some characters.
Changes were implemented in order to fix malfunctions in the weekly Poker Quest.

2011-03-02: Priests of the Temple of the Snake (Updates)

Now the priests choose up to 5 victims. Each offering of the victim increases the time until the next ritual: from 20 minutes to 2 hours. The player who was invited to take part in the sacrifice will not be selected by the priests until the next restart.

2011-03-01: Religious Guild level reset. (Updates)

Characters that have at list one religious Guild level are given the one time opportunity to reset religion levels free of charge. The change can be made at the main page Store at the Religion Control panel.

2011-03-01: Religious Skills, bug fixes. (Updates)

Improved distribution of Chance of effect and Chance to resist of religious skills by levels. Till the update of information in the library changes, the numbers can be found on this page or in the chat of the game by clicking on the 'Skills' of the character 'Stat' section. Related Guilds in calculating the chance are:

The Guild of Critical, Double, Triple Magic and Mental Hit;
The Guild of Critical, Double, Triple Hit and Surprise Hit;
The Guild of Critical, Double, Triple Resistance and Mental defense;
The Guild of Critical, Double, Triple Protection and Precognition.

Fixed several bugs, that were allowing characters to equip gear with higher level than theirs.