It started over a year ago, bringing many new features and ideas to Ragnarok Online. Quality was it's main concern. The goal of Lenneth, was to let the players have as enjoyable a time as possible, while making them feel at home in a polished and professional feeling server.
What happened?
The fall of Lenneth was caused a few months later by an exploit in a database program we were running. We had upgraded the database software to the newest version, which unfortunately for us, had an exploit that allowed people (with some devious scripting) to get into the database.
Before we had a chance to patch up this exploit, someone had already gotten inside, created a GM for himself, and messed around in the server, dropping rares, killing people, and generally being an ass, giving Lenneth the look of a corrupt server, which noone likes. Unfortunately the admin was not on at the time, not told of this and another GM just changed the passwords not knowing they could be bypassed with the exploit. A few days later the "hacker" returned, deleted the entire server, and messed everything up beyond recognition. The backup files were somehow corrupted and the last backup files that would work were from a week earlier. It was all bad luck at that point, and many people left due to the "GM" incident, the week rollback, and Lenneth was lost.
Now that it's coming back, there are going to be many operations in place ensuring that any of the events that happened last time, would be impossible this time. Security is going to be tight all around, with daily full server backups, and a new way of running the server and database, making it impossible to hack.
What are the rates and such?
For those of you new to Lenneth-RO, it is a low rate server. The statistics are:
Base Exp: 10x (20x pre-transcendent)
Job Exp: 10x (20x pre-transcendent)
Item Drop Rate: 10x (Minimum drop rate is 0.5% for non-cards, instead of 0.1%)
Max Level: 99
Max Job: 50 (70 for transcendent)
WoE: 3 Times a week (may change)
PvP Events: Each PvP Event will run multiple times a day, so you could pretty much do the PvP events nonstop if you wanted. (See 'How will PvP be?' for information on PvP events)
Extra NPC's: Resetter (Costs zeny based on level), DeSlotter (Costs zeny and breaks item or card, your choice), Warper (Kafra can warp you to any town for a fee, and to any dungeon for a fee, if you have been to the dungeon first), Event warper (Kafra can warp you to any event that is being held by a GM), Healer (Costs zeny based on how much hp/sp will be healed)
It will be a PK server, so watch your back!
What's new?
A big new addition is a new system (will be discussed further in the future) that will allow all the old unpopular builds that you /pif at; battle Priest, combo Monk, etc, to be as strong as the more popular ones. and truly make each character unique, by fine tuning some aspects of their choice, while maintaining balance. Making each character truly unique, this system will allow you to fine-tune and strengthen aspects of your choice, while maintaining balance.
Also, a quest log will be added to track your quest progress. Can't remember what to do, where to go, or who to return the quest to? No problem, just pop open your quest log, it will show you all of these things, including how many items you still need, or how many monsters you have left
to kill, and what the item rewards are. There will be a new quest system which will allow people to level up and get unique items by doing quests, involving NPC finding, item retrieval, killing monsters and more, instead of the usual "grind till you're 99".
How will PvP be?
Not only will the new Lenneth have the old 5 different PvP arenas with unique settings (higher stats arena, 4x hp/sp arena, equal stats arena, etc), but about half of Lenneth will be geared around a huge PvP aspect. There will be many daily scheduled PvP events including capture the flag, assault, infiltration (planting a bomb in the enemy base, while they try to diffuse it), death match, team death match, and many more.
There will also be a whole new set of specialized PvP equipment that can be purchased using your 'PvP points' (gained through these PvP events). This equipment can only be used in these events and arenas, keeping the rest of the game balanced. So the more you PvP in these new daily events, the better and stronger you and your character will become. (These items will only work inside of those specialized PvP arenas and events). If you live competition, this is the server for you.
As well as new additions, and improvements of old additions and features, a whole new automatic bot catching system is going to take place to ensure Lenneth is as bot-free as it is fun.
What else is there?
Remember to check back occasionally. This blog will be updated fairly often with server progress, features, pictures, and detailed explanations of everything that has been mentioned, plus all the other features not yet discussed.
Stick with Lenneth, and you won't just experience another server, you'll experience something you'll never forget.
- Because there's Ragnarok, and then there's Lenneth.
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rawr.
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