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April 10, 2002 10:07 pm ET - research by NCSoft - USA

Lineage USA publish - 4/10

The following changes will become effective with the next publish on Thursday, April 11:

A problem with the hunger and weight display bars has been fixed
The spell "Ice Lance" has been fixed to allow for longer duration of the spell, as well as allow for additional damage while the monster is frozen.
The effect of the fruit of the Ent is now the same as the greater healing potion
Bloodpledge leaders can no longer be deleted when they own a castle or are in charge of a pledge.
Dogs will no longer attack characters blocking their way when in aggressive mode.
A problem was corrected with Dupelgenon quest amulet distribution
Dogs will no longer be able to attack town NPCs
Greater Haste potion has been added. Its effect will last 30 minutes.
The party health bar is now more visibly distinctive.
Players can now only trade by facing each other and opening up a trade window. /exchange will no longer work for trading.
Aggressor time has been increased to 30 seconds.
Morning hours for sieges will be automatically skipped, and afternoon hours will be calculated as the next siege time.
Spell damage is reduced when a spell of a given type is repeatedly cast on the same player. Note that the amount of time between spellcasts affected in this way is betwen one and two seconds. The same spell cast on the same player in an amount of time over roughly two seconds will still result in normal damage calculation.
Item drops from ranged attacks will no longer be overlapped in one spot
The duration of regular haste potions has been changed from 8 minutes to 5 minutes, and the potion weight reduced slightly.
Heine housing has been activated and should function the same as Giran housing.
just added: Creatures with high enough intelligence can use haste potions, if they are very hurt.

April 10, 2002 10:13 pm ET (#1)

SolidSoul
Loyal Fan
47 posts
02-17-02

1st Comment

GREATER HASTE POTIONS!!! YES!!!
NO MORE CHAO DOGGIES T_T

April 10, 2002 10:14 pm ET (#2)

DarkFlameX
Loyal Fan
22 posts
03-04-02

NONOOO!!!!! missed 1st!

April 10, 2002 10:14 pm ET (#3)

speedlab
Loyal Fan
124 posts
11-27-01

no more 5am wake up calls for seiges ^^

April 10, 2002 10:16 pm ET (#4)

SirTango
Loyal Fan
16 posts
10-29-01

# Spell damage is reduced when a spell of a given type is repeatedly cast on the same NPC.

Grr i hate this one

April 10, 2002 10:21 pm ET (#5)

BuffySlayer
Loyal Fan
15 posts
02-12-02

I really like the new seige update. =)

April 10, 2002 10:21 pm ET (#6)

Doomscythe
Loyal Fan
1155 posts
03-21-02

I like the new party health bar!

April 10, 2002 10:30 pm ET (#7)

SolidSoul
Loyal Fan
47 posts
02-17-02

how much does 1 g haste potion cost?

April 10, 2002 10:37 pm ET (#8)

SolidSoul
Loyal Fan
47 posts
02-17-02

Is stacking potions still allowed?

April 10, 2002 10:42 pm ET (#9)

TLFmaster
Loyal Fan
223 posts
12-02-01

NC Soft changed are getting more and more g*y.

April 10, 2002 10:48 pm ET (#10)

h2ombre
Loyal Fan
333 posts
02-28-02

it'll take 2 greens and 5min to see if we can stack. I doubt we can though.

April 10, 2002 10:56 pm ET (#11)

Solnac
Loyal Fan
113 posts
10-25-01

Will that dog agresion thing work with summoned or tamed mops too? My Bbs keep killing my princes dog.

April 10, 2002 11:42 pm ET (#12)

Gamegod
Loyal Fan
26 posts
01-11-02

For me the most important thing I could hope for is...DEX/AC BONUS...Other then that it's that ents drop fruit more frequently...

April 11, 2002 12:03 am ET (#13)

hannibaln3
Loyal Fan
3 posts
01-13-02

Compare our publish now... to the korean one ... look HOW MUCH BETTER theres is -.-

April 11, 2002 12:10 am ET (#14)

Jaive
Loyal Fan
37 posts
02-11-02

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, greater haste...... ^_^

April 11, 2002 12:12 am ET (#15)

KnightSpirits
Loyal Fan
88 posts
10-02-01

The spell "Ice Lance" has been fixed to allow for longer duration of the spell, as well as allow for additional damage while the monster is frozen.

what does this mean?
If somebody ice lance me they can hit me too!?!?!? whut the !!!!!!
works like para... but then you cannot escape it

EXPLAIN

April 11, 2002 12:12 am ET (#16)

Carrington
Loyal Fan
133 posts
10-08-01

Bla bla bla....already happening on test...why don't the US NC people actually do something origional like they do over in Korea? Maybe they aren't paying the people that work in the US enough money to think on their own...oh well.

Carrington

April 11, 2002 12:15 am ET (#17)

s1011112
Loyal Fan
75 posts
06-21-02

o.o ice lance will now be the best spell in game for siege??

April 11, 2002 12:43 am ET (#18)

Li
Loyal Fan
62 posts
03-05-02

so..they fixed the weight bar?...hope my knight wont keep have that bug.....

em...aggression time's ALWAYS 30sec ever since episode 10 update with the fire dragon....
it's just a bug that ppl abuse to minimize the aggression "pink" time...

what's "/exchange" ? i thought the auto-give ppl stuff command's "/autotrade" .......

i thought they "said" they turned on heine housing at episode 10 update...- _ -"
...they type it in again to point out their "stupidness" and "laziness"?

castle siege time thing:...USA HAS SEVERAL TIME ZONES....which time zone's calculated for that morning/afternoon thing?....at least they can type in a few more words stating "usa central standard time" - _ -"...

yet they still didnt have a hotkey to toggle "nightvision for elves"....
it's annoying plowing thru the menus to toggle it on....
outside cave: nightvision off
inside cave: plowing thru the menus > turn nightvision on
get outside cave again: plow thru the menus > turn nightvision off

they ever think of that?...

April 11, 2002 12:43 am ET (#19)

Smokie
Loyal Fan
139 posts
02-26-02

The update about same spell casting on same npc and damage for it reducing update sucks. That means killing dragons such as antharas will be even harder.. knowing you can't cast eruption, or just e-bolt or icelance or call lightning and the damge will keep reducing, in the end of antharas it will be of no affect, and antharas/valakas/fafurion will be very hard almost impossible to beat.

April 11, 2002 12:58 am ET (#20)

KnightSpirits
Loyal Fan
88 posts
10-02-01

April 11, 2002 12:59 am ET (#21)

Kandy
Loyal Fan
90 posts
10-20-01

#Morning hours for sieges will be automatically skipped, and afternoon hours will be calculated as the next siege time.

WHAT??? Thats so unfair, the US servers are for other contries as well, I live in Australia so I can't come to seiges anymore. This would work in countries like Korean and Taiwan and Japan cos the players only come from those countries, but the US server is for people who come from any country except the ones with lineage already \./

April 11, 2002 01:13 am ET (#22)

Elbryan
Loyal Fan
180 posts
01-21-02

It says for Icelance 'additional damage when the MONSTER is frozen' - so don't get your panties in a knot.. yet..

April 11, 2002 01:25 am ET (#23)

KillingMage
Loyal Fan
24 posts
03-21-02

i like the seige update, now the giran castle owners on ken cant hold castle anymore cause the whole 200 ppl who are online 1/2 of them are defending the castle. thanx nci

April 11, 2002 01:30 am ET (#24)

Designer
Loyal Fan
27 posts
01-29-02

I come from Asia.
In my memory, US server has players all over the world.
We payed the same amount of money to NC.
Why cant we siege?
Is it possible that NC ignore other country's player.
I'm sad for this new change.

April 11, 2002 01:56 am ET (#25)

Designer
Loyal Fan
27 posts
01-29-02

Yes KillingMage.
I'm the King of Giran castle.
But we also got up early to siege and take the catle.
I dont know why cant you do that.
cause many ppl envy our exertion.
I think if we all quit,NC will close the server.

April 11, 2002 01:59 am ET (#26)

watcher
Loyal Fan
44 posts
12-11-01

Designer, i heard about you on the official forums. What happened was that a bunch of cry babies started wining about not being strong enough to take YOUR castle. They cried about it to daddy NC and said that you set "bad" seige times. Instead of getting stronger or smarter, they cry for an unfair advantage.

Now, Daddy NC has given those babies not only the unfair advantage they asked for, but they are now the only ones that will EVER be able to participate in sieges, (other than 3 in the am).

That's ignorantly bias. "all men (people) are created equal?,,,,yea, if their residing within the U.S."...gott read between the lines there.

April 11, 2002 02:03 am ET (#27)

watcher
Loyal Fan
44 posts
12-11-01

Killinmage. You just proved your pledge's own weakness. Your thanking NC for the unfair advantage they have given you. You all can stop crying now, your Daddy NC is looking out for you.

Oh, yea. Why not ask them that all valuable drops be given between peak US hours also?....hell, make all bosses spawn during US peak times and no other times. Dam cry babies.

April 11, 2002 02:06 am ET (#28)

watcher
Loyal Fan
44 posts
12-11-01

Killinmage. You just proved your pledge's own weakness. Your thanking NC for the unfair advantage they have given you. You all can stop crying now, your Daddy NC is looking out for you.

Oh, yea. Why not ask them that all valuable drops be given between peak US hours also?....hell, make all bosses spawn during US peak times and no other times. Dam cry babies.

April 11, 2002 02:16 am ET (#29)

THEelfQuickWind
Loyal Fan
30 posts
03-03-02

My pledge has mostly all its players in canada. ^^
So if you people wanna quit becouse of the new time... too bad . la~~
We will alwayz be here to take everything over ... when the time is right.
Oh,,and don't worry about the updates we are getting we will have the dex/ac
update soon

April 11, 2002 03:09 am ET (#30)

TOOL
Loyal Fan
162 posts
10-28-01

............................and dex? or what about that long range bug ? has it been fixed? if not, nc prolly thinks its ok to make ppl chao

April 11, 2002 04:34 am ET (#31)

s1011112
Loyal Fan
75 posts
06-21-02

in response to #22:
you can already inflict additional damage to frozen mop....

April 11, 2002 05:14 am ET (#32)

drachen
Loyal Fan
9 posts
03-30-02

its the US server. Most of the people who play this server live in the us. so if the majority of the people are unhappy with an aspect of the game NC would chage it(although they usualy dont with other parts of the game). But it does sort of take away from the realism of the game. Its not like a king in the middle ages would be like "yaaawwwnn (looks at watch).... 4 am? na i'll wait till after lunch to take over giran"

April 11, 2002 05:38 am ET (#33)

Hijiko
Loyal Fan
16 posts
10-01-01

Sigh, no dex/ac update.

April 11, 2002 08:33 am ET (#34)

Blaatje
Loyal Fan
89 posts
10-26-01

this i find very disturbing
us players can have castle siege often and stuff now but what about european and australian folks?
did they ever think of us?
cuass now sieges will be mostly in the middle of the night for us that means we cant siege
(something i like alot bout this game)
this really makes me angry NC shows absolutely NO respect for players living outside of US this is one of the most stupid things i ever heard

April 11, 2002 09:08 am ET (#35)

Etikilam
Loyal Fan
381 posts
02-12-02

ITS THE NOOOORTH AMERICAN SEEEEERVEEEER.You people in asia and australia can go and play on the japanese, korean, or chinese servers if you want since you dont have a service in your country. If you want seiges in your own time zone, pay the extra money and go there. ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

April 11, 2002 10:34 am ET (#36)

DragonBreath
Loyal Fan
10 posts
03-12-02

Itsucks not to be able to send dogs on NPC's!!! Really sucks!

April 11, 2002 11:47 am ET (#37)

NeoCross
Loyal Fan
139 posts
03-20-02

awwwww DragonBreath, you actually have to go lawful like the majority of everyone else now :(

killing mops

April 11, 2002 11:53 am ET (#38)

aupairKing
Loyal Fan
320 posts
03-11-02

What I do not understand is how the Austrailian and European players can even still be playing. Don't get wrong, I enjoy your company guys. But I was in Europe all last summer and fall and the connections were so poor there that I would have figured you all would have quit in frustration anyways. But I regret you guys are getting stuck out in the cold with this change. I feel for you all

As for the Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and other countries that already have servers of their own. Tough Shit! I digress for those of you that have been here since before you had your own servers in your own countries. You all deserve a right to continue your playing here, but should not complain about the time changes. If you want something more cohesive to your time zone, then play your servers.

April 11, 2002 11:59 am ET (#39)

cruelgame
LC Reporter
290 posts
04-04-02

As a member of the ruling pledge of Giran on Dep, let me say this. Part of your job as a prince/princess is to coordinate the best seige time based on the input of all your members, European and over here in North America. This has never really been a problem for us, and most of our seiges have taken place in the afternoon. 5pm EST seems to be a pretty good time for all people. The Europeans in our pledge seem to be okay with it. I think that translates to about midnight in Europe? Is that right? Having said that, I agree that limiting the seige times is dumb as hell, and someone in development at NCI has sh^t for brains. Part of the game is your devotion to your castle. If you don't want someone to screw with your seige time then don't let them take over your castle! If your prince can't get people to show up all at the same time then he sucks anyway, and your pledge should be disbanded. To be honest I don't care anyway because most of our members are dedicated enought to show up no matter when the seige is.

"And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so."

April 11, 2002 12:03 pm ET (#40)

Eskimo
Loyal Fan
9 posts
04-04-02

Spell damage is reduced when a spell of a given type is repeatedly cast on the same NPC.

Oh no you didn't.

Speaking metaphorically, if I shoot you 8 times, will it hurt less because I keep shooting you with the same type of gun and bullets? No.

If I use the eruption spell and a huge mound of earth comes hurtling at you, a sort of mini calculated earthquake, you're telling me that it will hurt less because you're used to 5 tons of earth smacking you at 60 miles an hour. I don't think so.

What a moronic thing to do. While we're at it, why don't we just make arrows hurt less over time or even swords.

Dumb dumb dumb, alcohol should be illegal at NCI.

April 11, 2002 12:38 pm ET (#41)

Jaire
Loyal Fan
74 posts
02-12-02

Does casting repeatedly mean casting the same spell everytime? If so, just switch back and forth, ebolt, c-l, erupt.... Just mix it up and this shouldn't be a problem.

Of course if you stop and think about the implications of what this really does, it's another step to weaken the mage. If you switch between spells, even with hotkeys, it takes a lot longer to cast the next spell than just casting the same one that is set to autocast. So it breaks down as 1)continually weakening spells cast fast or 2) full power spells cast more slowly.

April 11, 2002 01:14 pm ET (#42)

cruelgame
LC Reporter
290 posts
04-04-02

Are mop NPC's?

April 11, 2002 02:05 pm ET (#43)

Presidouy
Loyal Fan
17 posts
04-11-02

These new additions are great. The new hp bars for party members are a lot better than the old ones. But I think the seige time update is the best one.

I feel bad for the english speaking players outside the US, but this is a North American server. And it really sux when a castle seige time is set for 5 am in the morning. There aren't enough of our allies or even US players to even come close to take a castle from an Asian pledge. This is very frustrating for most of us US players. I agree with a few players here, if you are playing from somewhere in Asia, there are many servers you could be playing that is in your general time area. But you choose to play on a server that is halfway around the world. Now I feel for our European and Australian brothas out there that cant speak the languages of the servers near their time zone. But most of the people that play on the North American servers are from North America. That is just the way it is.
Just my 2 cents

Presidouy

April 11, 2002 02:12 pm ET (#44)

Blaatje
Loyal Fan
89 posts
10-26-01

HAVE THEY COMPLETELY IGNORED EUROPEAN PLAYERS??????????????
cuasss All sieges will be in during night time in europe
this is the most stupid thing nc has EVER done
this means effectively that no european pleyers can siege again after the update

April 11, 2002 02:49 pm ET (#45)

Kuroko
Loyal Fan
109 posts
03-31-02

umm

There are a few things I would like to get straight here with people in the US ^_^.

1) I live in australia and the pings aren't bad at all.. then again I have cable. The pacific line going to the US is the largest and fastest fibre optic line in the world, I forget the name of the damn thing, all I know is it splits in two and covers the entire pacific.

2) we dont get an option as to which server we play, we really dont, our ip's are what determin our server.. and thankfully it's one that generally speaks friggin ENGLISH (which would explain why we were put here right?) This is a double bladed sword for some korean players, thier ip's are limited to the US server too (some area code thing, I dont quite remember, I was talking to one of our pledge members about it) I know though, that some prefere to play our servers because there are more MOPS to kill and less lag... yes.. even though it's half way arround the world.

I know quite a few aussie's who play lineage.. and thats just on DEP, so please don't think we're here for the ride, there aren't enough aussie's to make NC put up a server here, and even if they did, we would have New Zealand and half the pacific joining our server, I'm sure the same would go with a european server.

I have never been in a siege so I will stay out of that topic..
Etikilam.. this post was directed towards you... get your facts straight first.

April 11, 2002 10:50 pm ET (#47)

Dogzilla
Loyal Fan
26 posts
04-07-02

What exactly is the deal with the multiple spells? I'm (apparently) not as high lvl as most ppl on here - my highest char is a lvl 24 mage. This semms like it'll make it that much harder to level up a mage - no more circling and fireballing.

One other thing - I've noticed that now every time I log in, global chat is turned back on. Anyone else have this prob?

April 12, 2002 01:28 am ET (#48)

Gamegod
Loyal Fan
26 posts
01-11-02

I really don't like how they did this update...I wish they could've done it a little more spread out(not that most of this isn't great stuff) because some of this stuff is a little controversial. For example the seige thing...I believe the sieges do need to be limited but in a very different matter. I don't know how but something will pop-up. As for the little mage update all I have to say is that the person who made this update play only elf and knight char because they have no idea the patience that is needed to make a high level mage without using some spells like fb over and over again. Everytime there is an update they glorify knights and punish us mages like we were the scums of the earth. This stuff is the kind of seperatism that hitler did. These people can't do this. These people can do this. These people can't and will not succeed...

April 12, 2002 02:48 am ET (#49)

BitemyBallz
Loyal Fan
4 posts
04-30-02

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I'm too poor to get g-hastes, and now my hastes are gonna last only 5 MINUTES!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I'm too poor(yea i no, ive said that b4)

Donations are welcome you know, if you feeling warm hearted(name is WunabeWizard) :)

April 12, 2002 05:42 am ET (#50)

s1011112
Loyal Fan
75 posts
06-21-02

maybe you guys at lineagecompendium should conduct damage tests to clarify some of the discrepancies of #2 and #13
Examples:
1. Will Freeze now cause instant paralysis AND additional damage to PLAYERS, or will this apply exclusively to MONSTERS as it has always been?

2. Will the decrease in damage mentioned in #13 be a steady decrease to 0? to a certain % of the original potential damage? And how much damage will decrease for every repetition?

3. Will the decrease in damage in #13 be timed? as in if you have hit a monster with a certain spell, can you wait a certain period of time so as to avoid the damage penalty?

4. Can the damage penalty be avoided by switching between different spells? (if casting eb after first casting eb and then an fb, will the penalties still apply?

April 12, 2002 05:46 am ET (#51)

s1011112
Loyal Fan
75 posts
06-21-02

As a couple of others have mentioned, this is a North American server, consisting mostly of teens that have obligations in the morning, and so it would be most intelligent for NC to accommodate for the majority of their player base, rather than allowing for the possibility of inconveniencing most of the population for the complaints of a few. What can you do? Its a democracy.

April 12, 2002 07:53 am ET (#52)

Kuroko
Loyal Fan
109 posts
03-31-02

Hmm.. I wonder who takes the name of the servers too literat here.

as far as I can tell, there's an even number of people outside the US who play on YOUR US server....

April 13, 2002 12:00 pm ET (#53)

Chimaera
Loyal Fan
7 posts
04-10-02

i think there are great stuff to this update, though i think it is kinda silly
not to be able to get ur doggie to collect stuff from the floor.

also, a dex/ac update would be much appreciated ~ we elves have it rough going.

just a thought ~ how about an option to the esc scrolls so that we dun have to tph ALL the time (wherever the house may be) and juz go back to town?

juz my two cents worth :)

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