NC Soft officially announced that to reflect based on the gamer's comment, Episode U will be initiated as of August 8, 2007.
Episode U's main goal is to make changes based on the gamer's comment and this will be a year wide project. The U stands for "You or User" . For the upcoming months, each month will have an update or changes to the current game based on the discussion by the gamers and will be put into Test Server for testing.
The In Game Updates:
On August 8, 2007 , the following updates will occur on Korea Test Server
- the introduction of horses (mentioned before)
- new hunting grounds for 45-51 players
This is just an introduction, we plan to make more changes as issues arises in the official boards.
Service Updates:
Not on in game will have updates, NC plan to introduce new service plan as well during this project.
During this time, NC has implemented the following services add to Lineage 1
- Immigration, change of ID, change of gender ( August 1 started)
- A event server where there's always event going on (July 4 started)
- Lineage Tournament has been updated with some sort of event.
Many more coming up.
Upcoming:
- updates will be based on the player's comment whether the are about event, services, in-game plan or anything related to lineage
- something about Lineage Pro Schumer which i have no idea what it is about
Sources: In My Lineage
Remark about my previous posts:
There's some mistakes regarding what i said about Episode U and i am sorry about it . ^^;
- A event server where
- A event server where there's always event going on (July 4 started)
how do i get to this server?
is it run off of test server?
If only I could play on the
If only I could play on the Korean servers lol
Lets hope we get some of the
Lets hope we get some of the changes we suggested!
Quote:- Immigration, change
mmm...
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"During this time, NC has
"During this time, NC has implemented the following services add to Lineage 1
- Immigration, change of ID, change of gender ( August 1 started)
- A event server where there's always event going on (July 4 started)
- Lineage Tournament has been updated with some sort of event."
if they can implement immigration and change of ID on a huge server like korea, i don't see why this is such a problem on a small market server like NCA.....
While it would be cool for
While it would be cool for some....
I think its good that there isnt an option to just change your name any time you want to, even if you pay for it...
It just gives one more tool to the cheaters to hide their cheating. Makes it that much easier to buy a bot account and hide that you did. It makes it that much easier to buy a well known account, and hide that you did.
At least when people buy accounts, people can tell its not the original, and they are shunned for it and they have to live and play with a tarnished name for the entire time they use that account.
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That's simple... Number of
That's simple...
Number of GM staff in Korea: 20 billion
Number of GM staff in US: umm... 2? *shrugs*
I'd imagine they also have much flashier and more up-to-date tools.
I would like to change my
I would like to change my name! Granted it is only 2 characters different than the one I currently have! I know its possible to change the name as it is only a database and it is quite possible to rename a record!
i agree with sk8 theres
i agree with sk8 theres enough hackers and bots this just gives the the opertunity to hide better. i dont like that idea at all.. theres to many changes going on some are good some arent. there was chat on global about loosing "stacking" with haste holywalk moving acceleration, braves wafers essence etc. everything being cut back to 600 seconds a pop. well im telling you what if that happens. i will quit lineage and will never play another PlayNC Soft game again. i will be finished. as far as im concerened ppl will have to be more worried about buffing, and keeping haste braves wafers what ever they use up so they can hunt. i always said that longer time on mana pots would be nice but if they are going to cut everything down to the same as poppin a mana pot i will be done. i dont want to have to worry about that stuff in mid hunt. too much time is taken in buffing as it is. so i say this one last time if this stuff happens im done good bye, i will go back to FFXI or everquest or find some other game to play.
MuddyWater
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It is happening, Itll be on
It is happening, Itll be on Test server soon. But dont let it discourage you, it isnt that bad =) Also, this is actually how it is in Korea already, we have been babied to allow us to stack things like Holywalk.
But it really isnt as bad as it seems, take a look at the thread on it for more info.
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We don't need no stinkin'
We don't need no stinkin' name changes, even though with my line change to water my name to some seems a bit off :P
....and we certainly don't need any changes that drive away my hunting buddies! Nononono thats just crazy talk, we can't have a change that causes Muddy to quit q.q
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thats the point this isnt
thats the point this isnt Korea this is AMERICAN server.. why change an already good thing? why mess it up. not too long ago str dex and bw used to last as long as ur haste did. they cut all that in half.. they are making it harder and harder and harder to play..
MuddyWater
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I mean not to argue, but I
I mean not to argue, but I feel a correction is in order.
Str/Dex/Bw actually had their durations increased. As well as the MP cost increased. Str/Dex used to last 15minutes if I remember correctly, now they are 30?
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agreed. The haste SPELL also
agreed.
The haste SPELL also had it's duration INCREASED.
The one thing I did find to
The one thing I did find to be a huge mana drain was trying to provide buffs (str/dex) to members of my pledge during the boss hunt event. After providing such buffs to 4-6 people in a party would put a HUGE dent in your mana pool. It got to the point where I asked the elves to provide this buff while I did the i2h'ing (if necessary), zerk, wep break, silence and a few occasional heals.
We made the elves do it
We made the elves do it to.
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....and we elves did it
....and we elves did it happily :P
the mp costs are very high
the mp costs are very high my mage has has almost 500 mp at lvl 48, but that means every 5 min if i was to play mage i would have to go threw rounds of buffs for the ppl in my party. THink about it by time a mage goes threw around of buffs and regens its time for buffs again... not every one has 700+ mp and to buff ever 5 min is crazy. now wait i might be getting ahead of my self here. are we talking str dex bw.. getting to cut to 600 secs? no i dont think we are i think i jump the gun there lol. but still if ur being mobbed by massive spawn and ur wafer, brave, hw runs out and u cant move i think this is going to cause more deaths. more ppl griping on global. and it to me seems to be quiet stupid.
MuddyWater
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No duration of anything is
No duration of anything is decreased. The only thing that changes is you cant stack anything anymore.
I am not seeing the issue with wafers or braves running out mid fight, this is something that happens anyways. Braves are something that is always on my hotkeys. HW is something that I am one hotkey away from. All the elves I know that use wafers, always have them hotkeyed. Its just as simple as noticing the flashing icon and hitting your hot key.
With the suggested decrease in weights of the consumables, as well as the increase in HW duration, it doesnt seem as bad to me as it seems to you. I could be overlooking something though.
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yeah do u know how hard it
yeah do u know how hard it is when sk8 asks for buffs and takes off runnin while ur trying to buff him o.0 dang near impossible!!!! i dunno how many times i yelled SK8!!!! STAND STILL!!!!!!!!
MuddyWater
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Cosa yells in my ear when I
Cosa yells in my ear when I do that too... Eric!!! Stop running!!!!! >>>.<<<
Its just that I am used to buffing myself (healslave ya know?) and I always do it on the fly, mid run, I dont stop. So its a little different when I am relying on others for buffs.
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I do not have a problem
I do not have a problem buffing people on the fly or surrounded by a large hordes of mops. I play mage way to much =P
lol i wasnt complaining lol
lol i wasnt complaining lol i thought it was funny. but eric think about it haveing to pop a brave every 5 min??? u guys frequently do the toi bosses thats like hittin a brave every 2 mops in some places. and wasteing that time on floors where there isnt anything just to run threw quicker. same goes for wafers id have to hit a wafer ever few mops just to keep my time going. i like being able to stack that up to like 5k seconds and then not having to worry about it all the time. i have enough to worry about with natures touch and my buffs, i mean i dont play mage that much i want to get that A-scroll that i need to help with her regen rate cuz right now it just blows it takes me forever to regen anything all i need is an ascroll now i got the robe.. but stop and really think about this one eric. ur up there battling the lich and ur brave runs out u have to hit that key which everyone knows makes u stop swinging or shooting. some times the target has moved if u dont have the argo and u have to chase it down now ur brave it tick tock tick tock tick tock. are ya following me here? i dont wanna fight about but i think it is a pretty stupid idea. dont get me wrong seeing holywalk last a little long per cast would be awesome. 30 sec is a little wierd for that spell. but i mean that would be the only good that i see is that but even still u cant stack it so what would be the point on a mage thats the same as a mana pot.. i think mages have enough to worry about espeically if they are party hunting they shouldnt have to worry about thier enhancer running out nobody should unless they want to.
MuddyWater
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No, it really isnt going to
No, it really isnt going to be hard at all for me to pop a brave. I do it all the time, thats all knights are good at. Its the same thing I do every siege. I dont stack braves in siege, its impossible. I get canceled every 3 seconds.... So I am very very very used to having to pop a brave mid fight while keeping the fight going. I dont lose swing or target, its not hard, its one hotkey.
If you really think its so hard to pop a brave mid fight and keep the fight going...
You should see what it is like to fight a boss like Laia or Tarak...Where not only once during the fight but, about 10 times during the fight... You get polymorphed. And not into a skeleton with all your armor, but into an Oum, where ALLLLLL your gear is instantly taken off...
So now, mid fight, with an uber boss on you, you have to repoly (cause you stopped swinging) FAST, then reequip your weapon, FAST (because they are regening hp FAST) start swinging again, ALLLL of this while you are requipping all your gear you need. Ever go from full ac to 0ac mid fight and have your weapon taken off? Then mid fight have to put it all back on and keep going? And all of this about 10 times per fight?
Repopping a brave is nothing.
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Yea its really not that hard
Yea its really not that hard to hit f8 when you see your buff flashing I don't see it as a huge change. I never really popped more then one essence at a time anyway before event because of the low amount on server and high cost.
ok well i forget that ur
ok well i forget that ur uber with that char as im uber with my elf. im not a knight. ive tried it and i didnt like it so im not going to argue with u about it. elf isnt as "hard" to play as a knight is to me. i like my elf and my mage. im messing around with a royal now too. i kinda like that. BUT, now take a step back and dont look at urself for a min look at a new player checking the game out, for someone like that its gonna be hard to remember all this stuff.. u cant tell me that dont agree with that. we are all thinking about ourselves and i think that even the programers are thinking about us not the new players. they need to get real here and think about it. some newbie thats never played before walks into this nerf and they are gonna quit almost instantly! i know i would but thats just me. how much fun would this be for someone new?
MuddyWater
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what i mean is some newbie
what i mean is some newbie comes in before the nerf and then this nerf happens.. incase that wasnt clear.
MuddyWater
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The impact wont be near as
The impact wont be near as bad as it seems to you. First, a newb wont know one way or the other. They will take it as how it is supposed to be, and they will just go with it. They wont be used to having stacked braves to 9999sec for the last 7years. This change will effect current players WAY more than any newb, so it is right to have current players in mind first.
I also think this is a VERY good change for HW mages and Wis pots... No more stacking HW... No more getting pissed when you pop a wis on accident... And no more being afraid to actually use a wis pot, because it will take you one cast to get your HW back when you are ready to run away.
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the holywalk is one thing,
the holywalk is one thing, personally i like to be able to stack my holywalk. i think it should be faster to stack tho. instead of 32 sec a pop it should be more like poppin 1 wafer. but i dont see how it will do anygood hot keys are far and few between gratned u have 3 sets of them and they are only one button push away but mine are all set i have a set for siege a set for game play and a set for buffs. if they do this maybe they should consider adding more hot keys or something like that. that may be a good idea. i dont know tho maybe if they did instead of 5min maybe 15 or 30 min would be better. now im trying to think logical here and i think we all should. we all jumped the gun on that. i think 5 min is a drmatic cut. but 15 or 30 might be better like the amount of time when u use 1 ghaste. ok theres a good idea i actually like that. lol 15-30 min would be better.
MuddyWater
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5mins for 25mp is way better
5mins for 25mp is way better than spending 5mins to stack to full for 9mp a cast.
Anything over 5mins is to much. Sure, go ahead, make it 30minutes. But make it take 100mp.
(You forget I am a mage to, so I do look at these things from that aspect. And a 5minute HW instead of stacking to 9999, is a blessing to the mage class, not a hindrance.)
As far as hotkeys... Its not how many you have, its how you use them. Prioritize them... If you have a set, like a siege set, that you NEVER use unless you are in a siege... Then convert that to a set of hotkeys with spells like this on it. So you can get to HW in a hurry.
My mage hotkeys are like this... Set1: Buff/heal slave Set2: things like blues/AS/HW/Invis, that I dont need constantly, but if I need them they are one button press away(and you will find that knowing they are one key away, you will use them with increased ability... You will get real good at switching, using a blue or HW in a hurry as they flash, then switching RIGHT back to your hunting set without any delay... And this is coming from someone that has to manage not 3 sets of 8hotkeys, but 6sets at the same time) Set 3: hunting/sieging set.. This one changes depending on what I am doing at the time. This one is my active set.
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oh yeah and i was talking
oh yeah and i was talking about someone that played the game for a few weeks before the nerf and what it would be like after.. thats what i was saying i think u may have missed that.
MuddyWater
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No, I caught that. And I
No, I caught that. And I expect it to be about like this to the newb...
>>Newb uses braves... notices they arent stacking... looks over at a non newb and says...
{NEWB} Hey man, these things stacked yesterday, why arent they now?
{NONNEWB} oh dude, they nerfed that yesterday.
{NEWB} damns
And then the newb will go on hunting like normal...
It wont be...
{NEWB} Hey man, these things stacked yesterday, why arent they now?
{NONNEWB} oh dude, they nerfed that yesterday.
{NEWB} damns man. I been hunting like this for 2 whole weeks, I have no idea how I can live without it... I am quitting... This game sucks...
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well ok lets hash this out.
well ok lets hash this out. how much mp does a greater haste cost? 40-60 right? and one of thoses is 15 min right. so lets go with that. why not make holywalk cost 40-60mp and have it last 15 min a pop? makes sence i never use wisdoms unless im doing bosses on DI yes i can do some of them solo. ok so if a greater haste is 15 min then why not make 1 brave or 1 wafer or 1 wis pot last that same amount of time if u are going to take away the stackablility? does that make sence to u at all? im not fighting i want to agree with u. i said before that 32sec holywalk was crazy.
MuddyWater
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Ghaste lasts 30minutes, not
Ghaste lasts 30minutes, not 15.
5min HW is godly. Anything longer is to much. One cast of HW shouldnt last any longer than one cast of WW or one cast of MA.
And there have been many suggestions around the weight issues of the others. Including greater versions of braves and wis pots and etc... You just got to go read that thread.
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zzzz ok forget that for one
zzzz ok forget that for one min and lets talk about this hw thing braves/wafer/wis whatever. if they do this i would just like fracas and everyone to think about what we have to say maybe there is some kid of thing we could agree to make it work out decent in all aspects. i dont agree with decreasing the spells tho. but maybe we can figure out something to present with the stacking items
MuddyWater
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ok i looked at that wrong
ok i looked at that wrong when i was writing it 2 ghaste =1hr i forgot that but still i think 15min is better then 5 and if they cut the spells a mage is a waste of time unless ur gonna be a healer
MuddyWater
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Sure, 15min from one cast is
Sure, 15min from one cast is better than 5min. Of course it is. It makes it that much simpler on the mage.
But we arent looking to make it cake for a mage. It has to be balanced.
5mins is fair and balanced. We can ask for more, but we wont get it. (I wouldnt even ask for more)
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