Hozzászólások - Miklos

I would like to inform you about some developments which are live on the original servers, and will be patched and translated to the international servers soon.

1.) New levels and new effects to many clan buildings, and a completely new building, alchemy labor, which makes possible to acquire essences when squeezing creatures. These essences can be used to boost skills, revive pets and other functions. In addition, if you collect all essences, you can convert them to ultraessences which give special permanent bonuses.

2.) The new Alternate Advancement system offers a large number of unique alternate abilties to the players. Whenever you receive experience points after level 60, you will receive AA points as well. You can use them to purchase these abilities. Due to the sheer number of these abilities, players will have access to numerous tactics to further configure their characters.

3.) Numerous smaller comfort functions and small developments. List coming soon.

Hopefully, these changes will go live on these servers in 2 weeks.

To be more precise, secondary attack is not a direct percentage of your damage. Instead, it gives diminishing returns. Something like level 1-10 gives 1% each, level 11-20 gives 0,5% each etc. So for example a level 20 secondary attack will deal approx. 15% of your damage to the pet. Hard skin's reduction is linear, not exponential, it is in direct ratio with your skill. It also gives protection versus secondary spell (twice as much as versus melee damage).

I forwarded this to the programmer, hopefully it will be fixed when he patches up the game with the newest version.

The lady of the soul-hucksters, Lady Alvariel decided to reward the most devoted doomlords and doomladies. She announces a contest. Doomlords and doomladies can participate regardless of their level. Each contest begins after the championship, and lasts until the next championship. You can participate in the following categories:

Most challenges win (only the ones you initiate)
Most duels win (only the ones you initiate)
Most adventures completed
Most missions completed
Highest skill total increase
Highest ability total increase
Highest acquired soul-difference increase

The results are always evaluated for the given period, so it only matters how many duels, adventures etc. you win during the contest period.
Prizes are awarded on each world. In each category, the top 3 players receive the medallion of Lady Alvariel. The medals effect will work only for 1 month, but you will keep the medals afterwards as well as a proof of your achievement.
golden medal: +15 pet training, +15 charisma
silver medal: +10 pet training, +10 charisma
bronze medal: +5 pet training, +5 charisma

The first contest begins tomorrow, after the championship.

Customer service is of maximum priority to us!
Please, If you have a suggestion, question, or anything else, that you want a direct answer from us, write us an email. This is our customer service (as you can see under the Help button).

info{kukk}doomlord{ponty}net

The forum is for general game discussion. Don't expect an answer from me to each post, I can't do that. Regularly I read the forum, and I answer some posts, but I can't provide customer service through a forum. Kethios is here to help you and he can help in most questions, he is the admin here. But he can't do much with bug reports.
If you find a bug, please send us a bug report

bug{kukk}doomlord{ponty}net

Please include the world you play on, character name and as much details as you can. Be assured, we correct bugs quite quickly.

About adventures evaluation: earlier on, there were very few adventures submitted. (This surprised us as well.) It was more than enough to check them only once every 3-4 days, there were 1 or none. Now as we have more and more adventures submitted, we are switching to more regular evalution. However, please note, it is not just a click (yes or no). The entire adventure must be read, corrected, and in case of too many errors, it have to be returned and explained. So please be more patient on this. Also it helps a great deal if you read the explanation if your adventure was rejected, and try to correct the errors before resubmitting it. Thanks for your patience with this.

Idézet: Hrus - 2010.10.01. 05:19:35
This is not a bug, the program always tries to list you players who are at 100%. If you filter to specific hordes, there might be not enough 100% players to fill up the duel window so the program will lists you some who are at 20-80% instead.

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2010.10.04. 21:18:39
The info bar on the top shows how much people you dragged into the torture chamber, and how many "rooms" you have left. There is no info on how many dragged you away, because technically, being dragged means no advantage or disadvantage to you. Actually, if you check previous battles, probably those who defeated you also dragged you to the chamber.

Thank you, we will correct that tomorrow!

We considered all the options, and the simplest and fairest one is to reverse the reward which was given out too early as if nothing happened. At the end of the event, everyone will get their reward normally. Hopefully we can do this tomorrow.

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2010.08.30. 20:16:57
No, if you lose a duel, the APs you used do not counts towards the final reward.

Idézet: Maintzunun - 2010.08.31. 01:49:25
Do not worry, the locket of tireless and the 3rd phase reward stacks!

Because it was weekend, I couldnt do much, Boar, but on Monday, we will check the possibilities. The partial reward gave some advantage for a limited time to a few players. But this was not because they exploited or something, it was purely our fault. Still, I will consider to reverse the bonus given out to ensure fairness.

Idézet: Demo - 2010.08.28. 11:37:08

Thanks! Will pass it to the programmer.

The Adventure system works fine, if you have any problem with a specific one which causes database error, please write the name of the adventure to info{kukk}doomlord{ponty}net and the programmer will check it.

The quest evaluator was away for a convention, but he is catching up with the work now, thanks for your patience!

It seems there was a glitch in the script on world 1: it triggered the finish immediately after phase 1 ended. I immediately contacted the programmer and he corrected it, and phase 2 begun, and everyone will have the opportunity to grab the relics. We apologize for the inconvenience.

About the rewards:

Some players get some reward, based on phase 1 before phase 2 begun. (like +10 to all stats, and 5% infection decrease). Reward is supposed to be awarded only at the end. For those who get reward now, it will be subtracted from the final reward. (So if the final reward would be +30 to all stats, and you already got +10, you will get only +20 more). Same for infection decrease.

Horde / personal awards (medalion of doom and +10 ducats) are also given out only at the end of the event, based on the total performance. There is no mini-reward for each phase. (text said you get it, but it was only the text you get at the end).

To anyone who still have problem killing the kobolds although having good equipment: read the combat description. You will see that if you duelled a couple times before, you will get the same penalty like when you duel 3 times or more in a row. So duel only twice before charging so you dont get a penalty to your stats!

Also I see the debate if it worth doing the event or not. I said the designers spent effort to make sure it worth it, you get stat increases, in ratio with the SE AND APs you spend on it. The potions, the pet xp and morale, the relics are just a bonus to this. Of course you can still choose not to do it - but as long as Zarknod has bad dream, his dreams has some unfortunate effects...

Actually, its not the horde, but the players. Several ultra-active players can tip the balance. But the event is far from over yet...

Also, the horde reward is small, compared to the reward which everyone gets.

There is another topic which describes all the benefits in detail:
http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,86.0

The soulwells slower fill rate is well explained in the story.

Idézet: Viridel - 2010.08.16. 18:16:07
The multiplier (effectiveness of SE you spent) depends on the number of active players from that horde. So if the emerald has twice as much active players as ruby, for example, then the emeralds have to charge twice as much as well. About level and quality - the SE you need to charge depends on your level as well, this is to help to make the event less level-dependant.

Idézet: Cezann - 2010.08.17. 04:31:19
We tried to balance the opponents that an average player can win the majority of the duels. However, the key to this that you have a decent equipment. Not necessarily premium, but at least things you can buy at your level, with a fair trade skill. The opponent's level is important only for one thing, the items they can use. If you get opponents 6 levels higher than you, it means only that they use items your level+6. So if you have a trade skill of 60 at least (with turbo), then you can have the same items, but you will have better base stats, so you will probably win.

Relics work this way:
each time you kill a goblin, there is a small chance you find a relic. With each kill, this chance increases. So the more you kill, the higher the chance. You can find the 2nd relic in the second phase, the 3rd in the third. (But if you didn't find the first relic in the first phase, if you kill a lot in the second, you can get both the first and second).
About the dilemma if it worth or not. At the end of the event, you get several rewards, the biggest one is increase to your stats, in the ratio of Action Points and SE you spent. We tried to balance this so it worth for everyone, but in any case this is a decision you have to make. If you spend all SE during the event on charging the pylon, you might find yourself falling back in stats, so you have to find a balance. The event is a long one, so be warned, you have to wait for the big reward for a long time!
There are mini-rewards during the event, such as the relics or the top10 of the two categories get a small gift.

A new event started today: Zarknod's awakening. The event is available on all 3 worlds for characters level 3 and up. To access the event, log into the game, and click on the Misc button. The event consist of 3 phases, each phase takes a few weeks to complete, depending on the activity of players. The rewards will be awarded only at the end of the entire event, but we hope you will find that is is well worth it. During the event itself, you may find rare unique artifacts.
Good luck with awakening legendary creature!

Yes I can confirm that, the Zarknod event is coming next Monday!

Nice ideas, thank you, will look into it if we can implement some!

Maybe your pet is too weak, wait with completing the quest until your pet levels up a bit.