Archive 2011

While the frost and snow have occupied streets, DarkSwords warms you with hot discounts and events. Do you want celebrate Christmas holidays with us? Just join!

• Removed achievements for visiting events. They can no longer be obtained.
• A City in the Clouds and Sky Frontier is added to achieve "Moon Empire Conqueror".

• Chance of success for casting Sanctuary and Mana shield spells on yourself are 100%.
• The cost of Sanctuary and Mana shield spells are equal to 75% of character's maximum mana base (equipment is not counted).

It is snowing outside the windows, and we, in warm apartments, are starting to remember: "My God, a month is left before the New Year!". Its time to get ready for the most beloved and warm holiday of childhood with DarkSwords. We are launching a big event called “New Years Efforts”. Rules: every day new tasks will appear on a special page and you should have time to complete them within 24 hours. The more tasks you complete, the more prizes you will receive. Remove the mittens, breathe on the frozen fingers and start! Winter is coming!

Participate!

Updates:

• looted equipment from the world inhabitance will no longer be damaged, unless a modification on destruction was used in this battle.
• loss of armor's and weapon's durability are brought to the same level. That means that a weapon will decay faster then a gear only in cases when Catalysts or Grindstones are applied.
• with a destruction of momentary artifacts, which mod level was +1, a soulbound Magical Shard will be placed in characters inventory with corresponding modification (with condition that there is a free space in the inventory). It has the same properties as the Godly Quintessence but can only be applied on the momentary artifacts.
• a minimal amount of gold transfer was set to 20,000 gold pieces.
• now on the Arena you cannot attack a player that didn't announce his/her readiness.
• all items have lost their base stat requirements.

Some changes that effects gear and weapon trophies:
Durability
Durability of all trophy gear and weapons was raised x2,5.
Destruction
Gear and weapon trophies are completely destroyed when their durability reaches zero (same as craft and Zodiac items).
Selling to the local shops
Selling damaged gear or weapon to the shop will decrease a value of the item according to it's current and maximum durability.
Additional parameters
A subtype will be given to each trophy wear item, which will convert a half of their basic defense and armor values in to a certain parameter. This subtype will be marked in the item's name with words like "[item name] of the...". Same goes for items that are created from Zodiac blueprints, in this case a subtype is given randomly on the moment of item creation in the laboratory.

Added:

• a new maul was discovered that restores 50..100% durability of Zodiac items.
• unique items and quest rewards (items that have # in their names) are particularly durable and their decaying process is 7 times slower then of normal items. Soon the list of all this items will be available at the library.
• a new repeatable quest was added for the Zodiac area.
• the price for summoning Hunters and Shamans during Wanted Dead and Dark Soul events was lowered from 10 to 3pt. To remind you that in order to gather this sum you need to use these two commands \skip_hunt and \skip_soul. The price of the command is still the same - 1pt. You can find the detailed description of this commands on quest pages.
• there is a new command in game that will allow players to block private messages from a certain player (up to 20 player). Type \ignore "name" to block a player, \unignore "name" to unblock a player and \ignorelist to see all the players that are currently on this list. This list will be cleared every time you are log out more then 15 minutes from the game. Please keep in mind that blocked messages will not be shown by a command \reply.

Moderators are recommended to use this command to block private messages from aggressive players to avoid spam and harassment.

Fixed:

• billboards for players with 540 combat level will contain only cash rewarded quests.
• if a player who is in the group killed a religious creature the calculation of gaining the religious experience based on religious level of the character from 1 to 14 lvl even if player is above 14 level.
• fixed an error that leaded to incorrect display of the message when a player did not meet the requirements to take on a quest.
• fixed glitches with burning effects.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. So, we share you a new event. We offer you to cook a delicious turkey with cranberry sauce (look for the recipe in the shops) and give to other inhabitants of the world. There are 12 mobs in the game, who were still in the game and gave out other quests (you need to find them yourself). Now they have a quest "The Spirit of Thanksgiving". Each has its own special gift for you. Quests will be available on November 21, 22 and 23.

The formula of the Testament of Life returned to its previous state. Everyone who used free redistribution - returned attempts.

On November 1, not all updates from the announced ones got to the server, therefore:

• Ingredient prices raised significantly
• The sell prices for artifact equipment obtained from monsters is planned to be increased tomorrow
• Privately-owned shops will have been forcefully expired. The rent extension price has been temporarily lowered to 1 pt so the owners can fix the prices during the week

Now religious guilds are studied endlessly. We changed the formulas for the chance of passing religious skills and removed the dependencies of cults from each other. The first levels in cults give the most, and then their influence diminishes. We also reworked the formulas of testaments and added a similar progression to them. All players received a free change of religion, and you can look at specific changes in this calculator: here