Updates

We are happy to present an update - the biggest in last 3 years of Dark Swords – to the content. All recent changes such as Cloud City update, new quest system and so on have actually been done as preparation for the upcoming systems overhaul. We would certainly love to do it all at once, but the plentiful Dark Swords mechanics and features are all connected in a living breathing game system and whenever you do something about one part of it, the rest may very well break. Rest assured this won’t be the end all be all update but it will help us start on a path of frequent and massive changes. Lots of work have been done to get this all ready, and the users as well may want to prepare for this update (see below) and try and understand the underlying reasoning.

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We'd like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who took part in testing of new client application. There've been many comments on the forums. We are going to draw obvious conclusions and withhold the release of new client until some more changes are made. We will still release new versions of client application based on the older source code, though. After we complete the changes deemed necessary by the public we will publish another beta for testing. Please note, if you have the opportunity to continue playing on the current beta version of client, this is really appreciated, please make sure to contact us about all and any issues you stumble upon when using it. Thank you for your active position.

A beta version of newest client revision 1.2.8.4 is available for public testing. We strongly recommend setting it up into a separate folder and remove the folder after the update is released officially.

Changes:

• World Map window can now be resized;
• The map is initially covered and areas require exploration to be revealed. There is a command \show_map that can be used to reveal whole map. It will be discountinued come Autumn;
• The region that the players character is in currently will be highlighted on the map;
• Changed the icon representing player character on the map;
• Fixed an issue with map going haywire and showing grey boxes;
• Removed "Players List" window. The button will instead open chat window.

Download the beta version of client application here.
Please let us know about any bugs or issues in the forums thread dedicated to this update.

All quests in Gale Doamin were localized.

We are proud to present a brand-new quest engine! It will now be possible to pick up some of the quests without needless talk to NPCs by simply entering a region the quests are bound to. When your charcter enters such a region you will be met with a dialog "cloud" window with a picture of quest-giver. You will then be able to browse and select some quests to take part in. The quests of this kind will be automatically turned in when completed.

Please be advised that the minimum supported revision of client app for this quest system is 1.2.8.3.

Over 40 quests will be available at the launch of the system in the following regions:

• Sky Frontier (fully localized)
• Zodiac Gates (fully localized)
• Zodiac Perimeter (fully localized)
• All regions in Gale Domain (to be fully localized tomorrow)

We've also switched some existing quests to the new system, such as "Serving the Cult". You will now simply have to travel to your religion Altar zone to pick up such a quest. It is still possible to turn in older quests in the Snake Temple.

Have fun playing!

Change Log:

• Price in stores is divided by spaces into categories (eg 1 000 000);
• The bank amount is also divided by spaces into categories;
• You can can store in bank more than 1 billion of gold now;
• You can conduct transactions in amount of more than 1 billion of gold now;
• Fixed private shops with more than 1 billion of gold transfer;
• In the "Guild" window the correct amount to the next level is shown;

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• City in Clouds becomes a part of the Moon Empire!
• The Harbor of Flying Ships appeared at Dino Valley, Flame River and Last Harbor.
• You can buy a ticket on board for 1 mln of gold.
• The price for teleport to City of Clouds is lowered to 2 pt, but teleport still remains cross-continental.
• Meet a new “star” at the City of Clouds!
• You can locate new private stores and manage them to your shop network, but no more than one store from network in town. Hurry up, the number of locations is limited!
• New Bulletin Boards appear in City of Clouds.
• The Arkijah Dock will runs until July 15. Warning! Don’t forget that you will cannot take a quest for ticket after this date.
• From the next week the City in Clouds became a capital of the Moon Empire, accordingly Heralds and Towers for sieges will appear there;
  All updates (except for the last two points) will come into force after the morning restart at July 10, 2014.

From July 5 (after the morning restart) you can change platinum for gold in exchanger.

Genes for gold are added to the store page. You can turn on the genetics for the term from 1 day.

Due to the recent changes and there being no way at this moment to sell platinum into Exchange Posts we have lowered 1% tax on platinum transactions to 0% indefinitely. For the time being you can use trade chat to conduct your platinum exchanges and find buyers for your platinum.