Boss Island Event - Coming Soon!

[Lyzira]

Greetings Lineage players!

We are currently testing and making preparations for the upcoming Boss Island event! We are aiming to hold this event at the end of July / beginning of August and we will make announcements once we are firmly decided on the dates for the event.

In preparation for the event, we will be doing extended testing on PTS this month. We will be putting the Boss Island event on the test server on Wednesday, July 15th so that everyone can come check out what we have in store for you and take a look at drop rates. Normal test server drop rates will be disabled so that we can accurately test this.

If you would like to participate in the testing phase for this event, please check out the instructions on how to connect to the test server here (http://boards.lineage.com/showthread.php?t=8019). The current server that is copied on PTS is Ken Rauhel.

Thank you!

[Vamp]

lol wow thats the stupidest thing EVER. Your gonna test it with the current test server.. SOoooooo nobody except 3 people are going to get to test it. So smart. Why wouldnt normal people think of that.

[Conal]

Afraid the current copy on pts is no more in shape for testing.

Chars are disabled gearwise and mostly outdated. Just compare my knight on ken and pts and you see instantly what I mean. I suggest to put LoA on test for propper testing or at least a recent copy of ken. Just my 2 cents.

[Vamp]

Also what the heck is the point of testing it with normal drop rates? So that the 3 people who will actually be able to test it can tell you exactly whatever they want so if they are a rich char already theyre gonna say lower drop rate and because theyre like the only people who can test, your gonna listen to them? You cant listen to 3 people testing and since only 3 people can currently test the event, why even put it on test.

Like some people are so stupid it really upsets me.

[Anju]

Afraid the current copy on pts is no more in shape for testing.

Chars are disabled gearwise and mostly outdated. Just compare my knight on ken and pts and you see instantly what I mean. I suggest to put LoA on test for propper testing or at least a recent copy of ken. Just my 2 cents.

He has a very good point. Can you place LOA server on there for testing? That or give us a way to level up to 60ish fast so we can test as most player are well past 55 now and days!!! Thanks


If you wondering how to do it just have testing varmints spawn in noob areas and change the level cap to 52 or something!!

[Forge]

They won't copy another server over to Test, they can't even clean up the bots in the current event.

[Troje]

Greetings Lineage players!

We are currently testing and making preparations for the upcoming Boss Island event! We are aiming to hold this event at the end of July / beginning of August and we will make announcements once we are firmly decided on the dates for the event.

In preparation for the event, we will be doing extended testing on PTS this month. We will be putting the Boss Island event on the test server on Wednesday, July 15th so that everyone can come check out what we have in store for you and take a look at drop rates. Normal test server drop rates will be disabled so that we can accurately test this.

If you would like to participate in the testing phase for this event, please check out the instructions on how to connect to the test server here (http://boards.lineage.com/showthread.php?t=8019). The current server that is copied on PTS is Ken Rauhel.

Thank you!

Hey at least you took one of my suggestions into consideration! I wouldn't mind at all if you took longer on the reset day to put either a) a current copy of ken or b) a current copy of LoA on test. While having 1x drop rates will help with the drop rates it would be nice to see more people capable of testing the event to better test this. As it is my mage there is 3 levels lower, no gear except for a csom, and thats about it.

So like the posters before me, would it be possible for you (NC) to put a more recent server on test? Plus, it gets rid of the hackers on there so that they cant be the only ones to test.

[Lyzira]

I realize that you folks would like us to do another server copy in time to test this event but unfortunately this is not possible at this point in time. The only alternative to using the current copy was to delay the event until the fall which we decided clearly against.

We have incorporated a lot of suggestions that were made on the feedback threads and think that you all will be pleased with the event that we have in store for you.

[DragonPrynce]

I still have my royals there, highest is level 52 with decent gears and hp. As long as I can find a couple others I can certainly test things out. I just can't dish out enough damage to kill some of the bosses myself. I also have mage but it is only level 40, has all but three spells and has fairly good gears but regen isn't good enough to do too much. I am glad to hear it is moving along though.

I may have some items to help out those who would like to group with me if they are missing some items, but I have been blowing a lot so not sure how much I have left :P hehe.

[Mayuka]

Woohoo, nothin' says lovin' like a boss event. Sounds like it's gonna be super, Lyz! :)

[GreatWizard]

Well, I have a lvl 49 mage on test, with semi-decent regen gear. So, if some1 need some1 to heal, I am available... just pm me!

[Troje]

I realize that you folks would like us to do another server copy in time to test this event but unfortunately this is not possible at this point in time. The only alternative to using the current copy was to delay the event until the fall which we decided clearly against.

We have incorporated a lot of suggestions that were made on the feedback threads and think that you all will be pleased with the event that we have in store for you.

While I would love to believe that it would be pushed back until fall, I have to call BS on that, so pick up your cards. I know you guys are not working on the new content, you are getting the newest person situated over @ NC so I think even you guys could copy the databases etc from 1 server onto test in a week and 2 days. I don't mean to disrespect you guys but seriously, the time to transfer the data does not take 2 months to do, but of course we ARE talking about the only NC game to be taken completely off the burner (other than tabula rasa which was thrown away).

[Leroy Brown]

While I would love to believe that it would be pushed back until fall, I have to call BS on that...I don't mean to disrespect you guys but seriously, the time to transfer the data does not take 2 months to do... i dont think she is implying it would take 2 months to copy the data. time and resources are limited over there. they might have windows of opportunity to work on lin these days. if those windows are missed for any reason what so ever, the whole shebang is off track. that tells me we are looking at late aug, early sept for the loa copy to test. then we should see the stat update late sept, early oct.

i only gained 1 level on live, and kept all my gear. i will be playing, and looking for company while i am there. ^^

[Escad]

I realize that you folks would like us to do another server copy in time to test this event but unfortunately this is not possible at this point in time. The only alternative to using the current copy was to delay the event until the fall which we decided clearly against.

We have incorporated a lot of suggestions that were made on the feedback threads and think that you all will be pleased with the event that we have in store for you.

add testing varmits to normal spawn on test PERMANENTLY!

[Troje]

I realize that you folks would like us to do another server copy in time to test this event but unfortunately this is not possible at this point in time. The only alternative to using the current copy was to delay the event until the fall which we decided clearly against.

We have incorporated a lot of suggestions that were made on the feedback threads and think that you all will be pleased with the event that we have in store for you.

Among these suggestions, will there be a total Boss/Drop list published at the start of live? By this i mean you list all the possible bosses and possible drops.

[dark_goku]

Among these suggestions, will there be a total Boss/Drop list published at the start of live? By this i mean you list all the possible bosses and possible drops.

i agree with this that would be a great thing to have if not the drop list but all the bosses that have been thought up maybe some substitutes can be made maybe :)

[Leroy Brown]

Among these suggestions, will there be a total Boss/Drop list published at the start of live? By this i mean you list all the possible bosses and possible drops. a drop list would ruin the surprise. i would love to see testing varmints, would be a great incentive to play test.

[Mr. 24K]

I really hope it's going to start August 6th... I'll be gone on vacation that last week of July/first week of August...:eek:

[Conal]

I realize that you folks would like us to do another server copy in time to test this event but unfortunately this is not possible at this point in time. The only alternative to using the current copy was to delay the event until the fall which we decided clearly against.

We have incorporated a lot of suggestions that were made on the feedback threads and think that you all will be pleased with the event that we have in store for you.

Ok, New copy PTS is no option.

When us the past event proved us anything, then that we need a chance to test it propperly. Else we run in the danger to end up in just more flames.

Is a levelup NPC in TI/SKT a option?
Lets say selectabel, 52, 55, 60 and 65?
That would rid you of the need for a copy and it will allow any player, regardles of homeserver, to join the testing.

The benefit for you is, that you can rely on more detailed tests.

Thing is, I rather play live then PTS and I think most do. So the more the better.

[Escad]

Ok, New copy PTS is no option.

When us the past event proved us anything, then that we need a chance to test it propperly. Else we run in the danger to end up in just more flames.

Is a levelup NPC in TI/SKT a option?
Lets say selectabel, 52, 55, 60 and 65?
That would rid you of the need for a copy and it will allow any player, regardles of homeserver, to join the testing.

The benefit for you is, that you can rely on more detailed tests.

Thing is, I rather play live then PTS and I think most do. So the more the better.

It's true, I've been saying it for years...they even say themselves test shouldn't be played as a live server, so why should people have to grind to test content that is for advanced players? Honestly NC, its test...if it's not meant to be played as a regular server then don't make it a grind fest like live servers...2x xp? oh big deal now i only have to grind for 50 hours to make 1 level...50 hours wasted that could have been spent on your original character.

Test wipes, yeah so make it EASY for players to test content, have level up NPC's to however high players want to be, 50-65.

Make npc shops that have items for no prices, 1adena even if you can't make hand out npc's due to coding issues, make enchant scrolls as well in shops normal blessed cursed all for 1adena...(what about the economy? WTH ITS TEST no one cares about the economy)

This will just be wasted time spent on writing this reply because it seems hard to get thru to anyone over there at NC to do these things which would benefit testing THOROUGHLY!

/endrant

[Sweetcowboy_1]

Well I"m glad to see this event coming along quickly. I'm looking forward to it.
I'm asking like the others here for some help on test to check it out. I will try to help test it one way or another but I could sure use some Lev help there as I don't realy have time for that char too.

[MrFish86]

So Lyz, I have a few questions about this event.

1. Will we be getting Fancy Cloaks of Freedom?
2. Will this event be seperated into 3 islands like last time? (1st to hunt super rabbits to make the key, and the other 2 were clones of eachother to reduce the cluster of people)
3. Will the NPC to tele to the islands ask a series of simple math questions again, and cast destroy on the people that get it wrong? (this was an attempt to keep bots out of the island, even if it was for a short while)
4. Could you give us a preview of the bosses we should expect to kill? or better yet, but less likely, a list of SOME of the items we can expect to see drop?

thanks for the event NC, I'm very excited about this v.v

P.S. I agree about spawning varments on test to increase the lvl of everyone to properly test this. Just post a time frame on the message boards in which you'll be doing this. If you don't do this, the event will not be properly tested.

[Firebug]

So Lyz, I have a few questions about this event.

1. Will we be getting Fancy Cloaks of Freedom?
2. Will this event be seperated into 3 islands like last time? (1st to hunt super rabbits to make the key, and the other 2 were clones of eachother to reduce the cluster of people)
3. Will the NPC to tele to the islands ask a series of simple math questions again, and cast destroy on the people that get it wrong? (this was an attempt to keep bots out of the island, even if it was for a short while)
4. Could you give us a preview of the bosses we should expect to kill? or better yet, but less likely, a list of SOME of the items we can expect to see drop?

thanks for the event NC, I'm very excited about this v.v

P.S. I agree about spawning varments on test to increase the lvl of everyone to properly test this. Just post a time frame on the message boards in which you'll be doing this. If you don't do this, the event will not be properly tested.

Great questions.

I also think the varmits should be deployed to the test server as well. Lets get a good test in prior to this event hitting live!

[Barryz_BadBoy]

I am looking forward to this event.

I currently have no test folder.

I am 99.9999% certain i will not help you test this content. reason? because you never fix the bugs we point out anyway. So why waste my time?

Lyzira, you should listen to the players on this issue, without equipment and levels there will be very limited testing. Limited testing gives flawed results.

Im still irked over the total lack of monitors in current event running. Better results will be expected from your staff for this event.

P.S. Hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed your days off. Everyone deserves a holiday every now and then.

[Khaine_KenRahuel]

I am 99.9999% certain i will not help you test this content. reason? because you never fix the bugs we point out anyway. So why waste my time?

100% agree.

why bother testing or for that matter begging for levels or gear to test, when you darn well know nothing will get fixed until after it hits live.

[Tristan]

You could just add Testing Varmints to the noob ToS area, "Land of the Abandoned" is it called? That way you can only get a free ride to level 52, as you will be kicked out after.

Mind you, players would need to get to level 45 first on their own, but this is probably a good thing. Anybody who knows the game well enough to perform proper testing, also knows how to reach level 45 very quickly. (2 days tops, for legit players.)

Adena will be needed as well. Lowering shop prices to 1 Adena would be fun, but then everybody would spend all day seeing who could create the highest enchanted Katana lol. How's about instead making the Testing Varmints drop 1 million adena each. You can only kill 7 max before you're level 52 and kicked out. 7 million adena is a reasonable figure to help get started with.

[PIZZA]

Earth to lyzira -
almost everyone on this
thread and ppl that want to
participate in the boss event
test are asking you for
level up mops or npc.

Please!

It was added on test in past.

Please just do that one simple
thing that were all begging
you to do!

Ty

[Escad]

Earth to lyzira -

Please just do that one simple
thing that were all begging
you to do!

Ty

simple...you must be new to lineage

[Anju]

Hey lyz why is a database copy so hard? We ahve been told before its a very simple thing. It does not require any down time of liver server just asking the team for the servers to please copy the most recent LOA server onto test. Do you when you can?

Its not alot of work at all (this is from a server admin his self) Just have to remeber to redirect the pointers in the system to test and not leave them broken

[mighty]

Is this going to be Boss Island event or Bot Island event (like the bot event we arw now having)? I'm all for events IF it includes the removal of cheaters (unlike curent event).

Thanks for all you do ~ md

[Escad]

It's hard because lineage has no dev support, they are all busy on Aion...which is rightfully so since this game is basically a cash cow for NC, way better then any MMO they have released previously and will give wow a run for its money and most likely win.

ps. all lineage players should have recieved closed beta keys for aion if they have an active account, they gave one out to random people via fileplanet, why not reward your loyal customers who still play the oldest game on NC's roster...?

[Beavis]

ps. all lineage players should have recieved closed beta keys for aion if they have an active account, they gave one out to random people via fileplanet, why not reward your loyal customers who still play the oldest game on NC's roster...?

Now there's a good suggestion! Prob. wont be many playing it though, lotsa ppl allergic to 3d graphics it seems ;)

[NOKIA]

let us know the details ASAP....

[Mr. 24K]

ps. all lineage players should have recieved closed beta keys for aion if they have an active account, they gave one out to random people via fileplanet, why not reward your loyal customers who still play the oldest game on NC's roster...?

Another awesome idea! Rewarding loyalty! :eek::cool:

[ManaLife]

ps. all lineage players should have recieved closed beta keys for aion if they have an active account, they gave one out to random people via fileplanet, why not reward your loyal customers who still play the oldest game on NC's roster...?

/agree

[Tristan]

ps. all lineage players should have recieved closed beta keys for aion if they have an active account, they gave one out to random people via fileplanet, why not reward your loyal customers who still play the oldest game on NC's roster...?

Add my vote to this! This is a GREAT idea, and would be very logical for NC to do I think.

[DragonPrynce]

That is probably only thing would get me to try the new game, but NC hasn't rewarded loyalty for about eight years so I wouldn't hold my breath. I wouldn't even take a breath, you may just get sick...

[Vamp]

its not like its unreasonable. They just have to spawn test varmit which they already have and can easily spawn. If they wanna get it done very wekk, they can raise the cap of si/hv to lvl 52 or 65 or whatever they want and just spawn mad test varmits there which would probably have to be spawned manually. If you dont feel like changing the cap, then spawn test varmits on noob tos area wher u can only go in when your 52. only problem with that is i dont think it kicks you out once ur 52, it just wont let you back in again so technically it would be possible to stay there till your lvl 99.

I think the best thing would be just raise the cap in hidden valley to a higher lvl and then spawn them there where it will kick you out once you reach a certain lvl. Then you can also make everything in shops 1 adena and then you can just leave that as the permenant test server. There wont be any need to copy over any databases onto test ever. Just leave test like that. up to lvl 65 or whatever hidden valley with test varmits spawning there and 1 adena shops. that way anything that we would ever want to test can get tested.

[Firebug]

its not like its unreasonable. They just have to spawn test varmit which they already have and can easily spawn. If they wanna get it done very wekk, they can raise the cap of si/hv to lvl 52 or 65 or whatever they want and just spawn mad test varmits there which would probably have to be spawned manually. If you dont feel like changing the cap, then spawn test varmits on noob tos area wher u can only go in when your 52. only problem with that is i dont think it kicks you out once ur 52, it just wont let you back in again so technically it would be possible to stay there till your lvl 99.

I think the best thing would be just raise the cap in hidden valley to a higher lvl and then spawn them there where it will kick you out once you reach a certain lvl. Then you can also make everything in shops 1 adena and then you can just leave that as the permenant test server. There wont be any need to copy over any databases onto test ever. Just leave test like that. up to lvl 65 or whatever hidden valley with test varmits spawning there and 1 adena shops. that way anything that we would ever want to test can get tested.

It does kick you out when you hit 52.

[DragonPrynce]

Once you hit level 52 you are not even allowed to kill ONE mob, it kicks you that fast. It is NOT like si/hv where it kicks you sometime soon after reaching level 13.

[Firebug]

Once you hit level 52 you are not even allowed to kill ONE mob, it kicks you that fast. It is NOT like si/hv where it kicks you sometime soon after reaching level 13.

Well if you are mass killing you can sneak a few extra mops in. Few people I know did this and got away with like with an extra .40 or .20 of a %. Its not much but it helps some :)

[Sweetcowboy_1]

Well a side note here..

I've never seen players being more polite about not taking mops. At imes three ppl besides my self would be going to a mop and all of us would turn off.... this happend over and over for me anyway.

So a big thinks to the "REAL" Players out there that made this event some fun.


I had a blast with blink wands btw... poor bots just looked confused...lol.

[Mr. 24K]

Now that I'm thinking about it... Lyz you might want to wait a few weeks. Having back to back events can be draining on some of the more active players. Some might need a few weeks of normal hunting before the madness of a Boss Event... ;)

[Troje]

Well if you read the post it wont be until end of july/beginning of august so theres a few weeks of hunting regularly in there :P. Plus those that get drained from playing too much do exactly that, play too much. Theres a certain someone on ken that everyone knows plays way too much hehe. (I think he works for nc and gets to play all day because they do absolutely nothing there o.o. I know this cuz im friends with someone who works there haha).

[dark_goku]

Now that I'm thinking about it... Lyz you might want to wait a few weeks. Having back to back events can be draining on some of the more active players. Some might need a few weeks of normal hunting before the madness of a Boss Event... ;)

bring it on! who needs sleep!

[Conal]

I feel a bad cold comming, probably will be worst when the event will be life. ;)

[Tina]

Now that I'm thinking about it... Lyz you might want to wait a few weeks. Having back to back events can be draining on some of the more active players. Some might need a few weeks of normal hunting before the madness of a Boss Event... ;)


Well that's kinda of dumb.... even if events are back to back its a good thing anyways... but other then that lyz please post the details and hopefully this event is up pretty soon.

[Vamp]

Lyzira can you please post a little tiny summary of what you guys are thinking or trying. What suggestions you might have taken or didnt take.

I like that you guys took suggestions from the boards the only thing that sucks about that sometimes is, the boards represent like 5% of the server. So what a handful of people might want might not be better for the whole. But im sure this event will be cool. I just hope you guys didnt listen to that stupid no summon suggestion. Cause them im super messed. And i hope the bosses can be killed by like 2 65+ people. Otherwise its gonna take long to find a good party that is trustworthy and all that business. Lots of time wasted.

[NOKIA]

just a little of details about the event so we have something to follow...
can NC fix the mop lag before the event???