Hozzászólások - Miklos

I just got home, checked all payments. I added the stones for Oryu. Dolp13, if you still dont see the stones, drop me a pm here in forum, with world, char name and under what name you made the paypal payment, and I will fix that in the morning. Thank you for your patience. I contacted paypal already but I got no anwer yet. Prolly chrismas puts a big pressure on their server. Looks like they still register 4 payment out of 5, but that does not comfort me... if you are in the 20% contact us and I'll help you ASAP.

Okay, I will try to explain the problem in more detail...

I tried quite a few browser games. General solution is, you have to type up the target's name, or you attack someone from the top list and the computer decides if you can do it or so. Or its just a simple system, you can attack anyone at any time. So all these solutions are very primitive

We tried to create a system as sophisticated as possible. We list players, who:
- are in a specified level range (depending on your level and your settings)
- were not attacked in the last 5 minutes
- you did not attack them in a specified interval depending on your skill
- are not at peace with your clan and are not a member of your clan
- we try to select targets which have the highest % yield
- we do not look for one target but instantly offer a couple valid targets
- are not hinding in the catacombs and are not suspended
- are not protected by the 5 seconds aa ability
The sql query which does this is a half screen size, it's mere sight can feeblemind weaker minded people and the guy who created is a real programmer genius.
And the problem is not even it's complexity. When calculating attack times, at some point it must use some kind of approximation, otherwise it would be too slow.
But anyway, I will ask him if we can post the sql query here and take it apart and optimize it further

About doing quick-multi attacks using the middle button: I don't want to forbid that, far from it, it's not an exploit, and we tried to prepare the program for it as much as possible. I only say that if you do that all the time, sometimes it MIGHT cause problems. For example, your browser begins generating pages A0...A1, B0...B1 ... K0 ... K1 (A0, B0 .. K0 is starting the page, and A1, B1 .. K1 is finishing it). If you click really really fast, and the server is lagging (which is fortunately rare) the CPU might process it in this order: A0, B0, ... K0, A1, B1 ... K1. In this case, processes running parallel to each other are modifying your character sheet simultaneously. Data modification is in most cases relative and not absolute, so as I said, we are protecting against problems from this, but... if you drive your Lamborghini on terrain instead of asphalt, it might get hurt.

You welcome!

Sometimes paypal payments are delayed. Please, send me your details here, on the forum, in private: character name, world, and the name you used for paypal payment, and I will check it asap and write back to you.

Edit: found Kalann and Sbart and added the stones, still looking For Cruel's. btw Paypal's page is logging horribly, I guess everyone is paying via them now due to Xmas, this could be the reason of the problems, because most payments still get thru but no worries if your stones don't arrive immediately I check it and add manually.

Edit2: Added AS for Cruel too.

Borecdan: what you describe is not a server-side problem. Something is wrong with your browser. You accidentally disabled javascript or something like that... Check the browser settings. If all fails, test it with another browser or on a different computer. It will work.

Valkyre: the bug you describe, I never heard about it from anyone. How did you produce it? Maybe you are using the middle mouse button to attack quickly several players without confirmation? Don't do that. Left click on attack, choose yes, then choose next opponent etc.

About attacking someone and then getting the report that you can't attack him. This can sometimes happen. The SQL query which looks for players to attack is incredibly complex, in some cases it MUST use a kind of approximation or it would take too much time to complete. If you get the report, you can't attack him because you attacked him recently, just choose someone else.

Surprise your friend or your family! Buy ancient stones between 16th and 31th of Dec, and send a present to a choosen character!

If you buy ancient stones during this period, you will have the option under the Ancient stones menu to specify a present and a character to receive it (same world only). If you like, you can surprise your own self! One character can get only one present.
List of items (from the huckster event):
Necklace of bargain (+10/+20/+30 bonus to trade)
Dagger of knowledge (1/2/3% bonus to improving skills)
Horn of power (+1/+2/+3% SE for hunt)
Belt of specialization (1/2/3% bonus to impr. spec. ability)
Shielf of wisdom (2/4/6% bonus to AA pts level 60+)
Talisman of luck (2/4/6% bonus to improving luck)
You can give a bronze, a silver or a gold item, depending on the amount of stones you purchased. If you give a gold item to someone who already have that item, he gets platinum instead.

The opportunity is alive from 16th of Dec (GMT+1 time, check the time on the bottom of the page). If you use an instant payment (bank card, paypal, onebip) you will have the option to give the present immediately. For delayed payment methods (bank transfer) you get the option when the money arrives. The bank transfer have to arrive between 16th of Dec and 3th of Jan to be eligible to give a present.
You can give the present when you like, so even if you purchase the stones on 19th of Dec, you may opt to give the present only on 24th.

The motivation scepters (xeno event reward) have been reviewed and improved.
The enery crystallizer clan building's maximum level has been increased from 20 to 30.

Idézet: ardent - 2011.11.18. 08:34:57

I am bugging the programmer about this, but he is still busy with the xeno event. I hope he can add the quests next week, finally.

About the rewards, thanks for the notice, we are aware of the problem, it is being fixed now, no worries, everyone will get the reward! Sorry for the wait.

I talked to Baraty tomorrow morning. He already fixed the problem with the luck AA ability (plus the megaessence luck ability, that didn't work either on the prison building as I tested out).

I also asked him about the spectral manipulation. I owe you an apology here, I was mistaken. Spectral manipulation level DOES matter during the kills (as does Quiz Medals and everything else). Whenever you kill a xeno for APt, the program calculates the SE EXACTLY the same way as it calculates it when you go hunting. So you should boost your SP if its not maxed during xeno kills.

Btw, about quests, we added a quest "kill 50 xeno for APts" to help those who use APts to be able to finish quests during the event.

Mosquito, you mean the Quiz questions button on the Hunt page? I just tested it, it works fine. I started answering questions, when I said no more questions, it stopped. Maybe there problem is with your browser or browser plugin? If you mean questions during hunt instead, well, you have to answer quiz questions equal to the number of hunts you started. You cant skip stop before that. Cancel the hunts if you dont want to answer more.

Cruel: yes, you can get a 2nd medal from this event.

Borecdan: I will have the programmer check this about the luck factor tomorrow, and we will repair it asap. Having spectral manipulation mindboosted during xeno kills has no effect whatsoever, opposed to the Landragor event. You get a static/fix SE depending only on your level. About quests. well, there were some which we simply couldn't connect to the xeno kills. You weren't finding boas, so we couldn't connect that quest, and xeno has no tiny small or other size, so that didn't work either. Sorry for that.

Please note that our GM is out of house this way, I am replacing her in answering emails. If you sent email to her yesterday, please re-send it again to the same email, now I will get it and able to answer it.

We added a new relic to the game, memory box, available from level 40. You can use it to store 200 APts in it and release it later when you need it.

We are re-launching the all-successful xeno event. All players who are at least level 3 can participate. The event starts on 2nd of November, 14 pm CET (13pm GMT, 8am EST, 5am PST), and lasts for up to 3 weeks.
During the event, you can attack the xeno queens under the Misc button (left menu). You can attack using either an Action Point or a Duel Point. Each attack weakens the xeno queen. For each successful attack you might get reward (if you used APts, the reward is equivalent to what you would get for a hunt, if you used DPts, and have energy harness, the reward is equivalent what you would get for a duel). In addition to that, after each 12th victory you get a small item reward as well.
In addition to fighting, you may contruct magical prisons to prevent the queens from regenerating. Building the prison improves your luck, and increases your clan's soul-well's maximum size like normal clan building.
There are multiple xeno queens for different levels of players. If a queen dies but it's prison is not ready yet, it will regenerate back to 25% life! The event ends when all queens are permanently killed or the 3 weeks expire.
At the end of the event, in case of victory, each participant may choose one prize for fighting, and one prize for building. The power of the reward depends on the number of victories / builds. You will be able to see the list of rewards after the event starts.
Also there will be top lists where the top 10 will receive a unique medal reward.

Improvements compared to the previous event:
- Building increases the clan' soul-well's maximum size.
- The xeno queen's regeneration rate will be more balanced.
- Trap building multiplier will depend on the trap's size compared to the time passed.
- We add 3 new rewards:
for half year, a.) bonus to pet's XP, b.) bonus to magic absorption, and c.) decrease opponent pets absorption in duels.

We hope you will enjoy this event!

At the moment, I dont know what was the problem, I am consulting with the programmer. We can fix this by tomorrow, if necessary, we shall restart the olympics, so no one will miss it. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

This is the same W4 as the previous one: clans compete for supremacy, building Tower of Power and killing epics. Unfortunately, we couldn't finish the code for the level 50 version yet. The next one after this will be a level 50, I promise.

The Russian beta test is up and running now!

During the Landragor event people did not hunt, but were killing dracons instead, including the quiz admins. So I ask your patience, I am sure things will be back to normal in 1-2 days and your question will be evaluated.

Well, if a new player could find and get everything instantly and for free what others worked hard and accumulated for 1-2 years, then what would be the point in building and developing your character? If everyone could get every artifact and relic easily and without effort, how could we call them artifacts and relics? Items of the heroic ages are indeed rare and hard to find nowadays - does it sound familiar? That's the basic concept of every fantasy game...

We have added a new potion under Misc category, available from level 40, named spacerift potion. It allows players to switch between energy harness and disadvanced development.

Well, you get the medal from Zarknod for helping re-imprisoning Landragor, hence the name "Zarknod medal".

Eukar said some wise words, we will add the orb of duel to the auction house so people who do not want to purchase it can still have a way to acquire it for free. I hope you find this a satisfactory solution.

Looks like there are too many versions of Doomlord, many versions of each event, no wonder sometimes I get confused too

So the orb of duel was dropping during the first Zarknod event on the original Hu Doomlord world. Because many people complained they couldn't get it, we made it possible that people buy it under relics. After a while, we figured that Zarknod was a successful event, so we repeated it with a twist: this was the Landragor event. Because at that time many people purchased the orb, it would have been unfair to give it out for free again. So we made a new items with identical function (LoT) and that was dropping during the second event, Landragor.

Now to the ENG Doomlord worlds Here was a Zarknod event too, and it seems the orb was dropping during that event like on the original world. Then came the Relics option, where you could buy the orb the same way. And now came the Landragor event, where the orb wasn't dropping for the same reason as on the original world. So, currently, there are two items which increase the number of duels: orb and locket. The only way to get the orb is to purchase it under relics. There are 2 ways to get the locket, you can get it immediately when you start a new character, and use it from level 1, or you can wait for the next Landragor event - which happens approx every 6-8 months.

I am sorry but we do not plan on introducing a 3rd item which also increases number of duels in a row. Maybe it would be good to change the initial bonus item from LoT to orb, but many players would prefer a chance to get both items when they start playing, event at a cost, than waiting for one of the items for a half year.

I hope this clears things up.