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Post by Apocalypse on Jun 13, 2008 11:37:18 GMT -5
They never fully paid for the source, and because of that(or maybe other issues, this is purely speculation). Slayermagic's team fell apart and he seems to have given up the idea of finishing akarra.
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Post by socpunishment on Jun 15, 2008 23:23:13 GMT -5
Man, seriously this game is the biggest soap opera ever ... seriously. Lmao, however, it must be a good one .. you just blew my mind ... like sent me flying over the back of my chair across the room. Like Kramer doing a scare maze.
Okay, okay .. sooooo... this cooouulld mean that since the server is open source now .. that the client is soon to follow in the near future .. especially since kids are poor and the community is aging and the servers are struggling.
Just a hunch .. sometimes I am wrong.
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Post by beckardd on Jun 18, 2008 3:00:42 GMT -5
It's almost end of June now.. *Hint! Hint!* We want a new season in this soap opera!
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Post by socpunishment on Jun 18, 2008 9:39:17 GMT -5
Yeah I heard this was coming back up, it would be awesome if it does, but I won't be disappointed either way. I know that the more its down the better the quality. I am excited, there will be a return of my old guild. What do you guys think of the name should I change it ? or keep it the same ? I'll give you a little background if you don't remember / forgot. It was called Sera ( Akarra's Seraphim) It was a friendly guild that only fought players and guilds that caused "trouble" which didn't really go by any rules per say that defined what "trouble" was however it would observe the social behavor of akarra and each situation and determine who was at wrong. Then side with the right/just/victim(s) and fight along side/protect. Even if you enjoy PVP you will love this guild because often if fights the nastiest, meanest, ugliest of them all. Ohh and we prevent zone control. Which means if you claim an area to yourself and/or prevent others or a select from entering that area.. we declare war. SOOOO! since our characters will not be able to be recovered I have an opportunity to take suggestions about the name and I guess the founding ideals of my guild. I don't think there's much room for improvement on that however, there's good reasons why the guild doesn't have rules written in stone. So we are not subject to loopholes and it keeps the enemy guessing, however this could cause antisocial issues, people in the guild are expected to take a huge initiative in the community making friends and knowing the community as to make good judges of the "trouble" situations.
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Post by Apocalypse on Jun 18, 2008 10:26:06 GMT -5
The new graphics wont quite be ready by the end of the month, which means your characters will be just as you left them, since I will be restoring the old akarra at the end of the month. I will still be working on the new graphics and they will eventually be completed, so have fun with ur old characters until development gets a bit further along.
Oh, and I didnt mention this before, but there will be a new server to run akarra, one that is roughly 5 times as powerful as the last. There shall be no lag for all you akarrians.... at least not lag created by the server. ;D
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Post by Beckardd on Jun 18, 2008 12:52:25 GMT -5
Sounds cool:)
By the way when are you planning a reset? I won't have much time to play, so it might be good to know beforehand when the poor old characters are going to be wiped off existence:)
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Post by Apocalypse on Jun 18, 2008 13:33:08 GMT -5
Well its not really going to be a 'reset' with the new graphics im building a new system of weapons. All weapons will be upgradable to a certian level. Basically it will be like playing a new game that seems extremely fimiliar. I am only wiping characters because many of the items you have now, simply wont exist which would cause limitless amounts of errors. As for when... its hard to say, when ever I release the new graphics. Since I have more time now. its safe to say you should play around a bit with ur old characters.(who knows, I may even just run two servers, 1 with old akarra, 1 with new akarra)
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Post by socpunishment on Jun 18, 2008 14:47:13 GMT -5
Intresting .. 2 servers ? hmm .. well I was planning on bringing Sera to every other server .. ( which is currently 2 ) but I will bring it to this possible 3rd one too if such an event were to take place.
Well I may try my hand at graphics again too .. I had some idea .. but I need to know are you changing size dramatically ? or any new stuff .. or are you staying with alpha channels.
Ohh and more importantly .. this was a concern to some before .. you may have to nerf the shadow gear .. maybe make it so that if you attack reveals you for a short ammount of time. I hate nerfing .. but really .. I mean archers are suppose to be able to take mages out .. it throws off the balance of the game if you can't see them and the archers can't kill them.
maybe have something that the archers can use .. maybe a archer only skill or archer only weapon that can reveal the mage to the archer/archers in the area.
shadow gear is a neat idea ... but sometimes I can't even see the person if I am standing right next to them.
You may have to just completely get rid of it .. or make shadow skills only that are constantly casting and therefore you can't cast anything else while you are hidden .. or attack anything else while hidden.
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Post by AznChipmunk on Jun 18, 2008 22:27:47 GMT -5
I haven't been around much, hopefully I will have time to play when the server goes up. However, I will be gone nearly the entire month of July, I'm going to China.
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Post by socpunishment on Jun 18, 2008 23:20:32 GMT -5
ohh nice I hope you enjoy it chip.. take lots of pictures.
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Post by beckardd on Jun 19, 2008 6:02:38 GMT -5
So, you are basically re-designing the game? =O
I'll throw in my 2cc.. make the game a bit harder and make end-game items harder to get (my last char got his end-game weapon from a shop:P though it was a pretty wicked build)
Also if you have time, add more sources of crafting ingredients.. not tabs, tabs and tabs all the way:P
Oh, yeah, about light and shadow.. I also think that these are great effects but should be more limited. Especially light, since there are other sources of it like torches and spells. Sometimes it felt like being a Xmas tree with all the light radius from items:) Good idea about having to cast shadow and not being able to do anything else by the way.
And last thing, if players are supposed to be lvling to 200 or something of this sort, might be a good idea to have more or less regular rewards, e.g. at lvl 120, 140 etc.
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Post by socpunishment on Jun 19, 2008 11:59:53 GMT -5
Yea i think some items should be rarer .. I got all mine and was just killing things ... getting an attribute once in a blue moon. :/ the problem that this makes is that high level items will have high requirements .. and if you take long time to get there then you could have taken your character in the wrong direction .... I think that high level items should have level requirements only ... then you don't have to worry about screwing it up .. also .. previous items will ensure that these mages are built to the previous item requirements ... thus they will be mages .. but have a little room for error and customization.
but yea something should be done about shadow gear too. super hard items to get would be well welcome too.
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jehu
Mundane
I used to have a life. Then I found Akarra.
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Post by jehu on Jun 19, 2008 14:57:20 GMT -5
:: TWITCH ::
:: DROOL ::
I need my fix...
:: TWITCH ::
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Betrayal
Mundane
Betrayal, Roland, Ronin, Wolf, Assassin
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Post by Betrayal on Jun 20, 2008 2:19:02 GMT -5
Hey guys.
Been a while. Been real busy lately. Got a 3-month-old son now and trying to juggle school and work and all those shenanigans. Glad to see that Akarra will be going back up. I'll be popping back in, waiting for updates. I think a server wipe and some changes would be fun. Hope everyone's havin' a good life.
Thanks admins for putting the work into it, or whoever's going to be grueling away at all the new stuff. I'll peek in now and then.
Later
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mariella
Mundane
aka LeelooMinai - Sousounakimou
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Post by mariella on Jun 20, 2008 3:59:31 GMT -5
Hey guys,
I hope you are all well. We (Icebear and me) are very well. Congratulations to your son Betrayal, our comes next month to the world ^ ^. Icebear and I also look forward very much to play again akarra and to come whenever the time is now permitted on.
see you soon your Mariella
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