Lenneth-RO

Lenneth is open! Woot!

2008-08-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

Wow, haven't updated this in a long time.

Lenneth is finally out! Woo.
For those of you that haven't been following along in the forums, here is the website:
http://lenneth-ro.net
Enjoy it!

Lenneth-RO.net

2008-08-18T19:26:00.000-07:00

Click the awesome link at the bottom of this awesome site, and enjoy!

P.S. Lets see how many people we have, so everyone register and post at least once please! :D

Small Delay on Lenneth

2008-08-18T12:24:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I'm sorry to say that the server is being delayed. The server was suppose to be here a few days ago, but we won't get it until another 1-2 days from now. So I have no where to host forums, the website, or to work on some online things until the server arrives.

I was hoping everything would go smoothly, and the server would arrive quick so I could get Lenneth on there, but it ended up taking a while. Lame =/

Good news is that I've got a list of everyone's email that joined lenneth in the first few months it opened, so when Lenneth reopens soon, I can send a small email to every one of those people, letting them know that Lenneth is back. So we might have a good number of people coming back within the first few days :D.

Edit:
Wow, as soon as I hit publish, I got an email saying the server is ready to go.
This morning I got a call saying the papers are all set, and the server will take 24-48 hours to be ready.. That was under 5 hours ago. Not bad.. Not bad at all =)

Ventrillo Channel

2008-08-17T08:15:00.000-07:00

A Message From Myles:
Hi everyone, Myles here, your very own PR slut. Our community is run on this vent channel so feel free to join us if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, and what not about Lenneth. This isn't just any ordinary ventrilo channel either, as it is running the latest Speex codec (which is of course mac friendly), 100 slots, full admin privileges, and all around great quality sound to boot. The server is located in Montreal, Canada but should not lag as we have those from Austrailia, Europe, and Asia constantly on the server. We will probably be able to host a few guilds on this ventrilo server as 100 slots is pretty hefty, though I'll have to cancel hosting as soon as the Lenneth vent community gets too big. I could however, have a donation service for guild vent hosting but we can elaborate on that later. For now, add the server to your list today! The information is here, and to your right under server specs. Cheers!

IP: vs400.gamewarrior.net
Port: 4180
Password: yourmother

Quicker Update

2008-08-14T18:19:00.000-07:00

Hello folks, there's good news and bad news today. The good news is that we're getting closer and closer to Lenneth's arrival. The bad news is that after all the work I did today, the laptop froze and starting going bananas while I was updating the blog. It keeps acting up, so the progress bar will have to be updated tomorrow, sorry guys.

Anyway, if everything keeps going as schedualled, the closed beta should be up in under a week. The beta will only be up for a few days until it is opened to the public. Also, the forums will be up very soon, possibly sometime tomorrow, so you guys can start talking about who can kill the most porings, and hopefully we can start seeing how many people will actually be here for Lenneth's grand opening. I'm hoping around 1-2 thousand, make me proud guys! ;)

Quick Update

2008-08-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, sorry there hasn't been any new info yet. My laptop is has been freezing quite a bit, I've been trying to work that all out for a while, and it's been running some fixer-upper programs all day. Long story short, I haven't been able to update the website in a while, laptop should be fine tomorow, and a lot of progress has been made (Im writing this on a different computer). All that's really left is to get the host, which is currently in progress, should have it shortly, finish up the website/control panel, and some remaining finishing touches. I've decided to keep the talents and new big PvP events and items out for now (The 5 pvp arenas will be in), so the server can be opened quicker, since no one would be using those things as lvl 23 archers and stuff. When the server initially opens, we are going to have a closed beta for a short period while some bugs are found, and I finish and balance/test the talents. The server will then open to the public, while I work on the PvP stuff, which will be implimented as soon as it's finished.

That's all for now, the progress bar will be updated tomorow when my laptop is finally working semi-properly, and another update will be givin.

Toodles. (P.S. I saw some kangaroos while in australia. They're hawt)

The one post to rule them all

2008-08-10T02:23:00.000-07:00

Talents!
Talents are a brand new thing, completely exclusive to Lenneth. It will be the biggest thing that sets Lenneth apart from the others. The main thing about the introduction of talents to Lenneth, is that they will make each character completely unique, while bringing out old and fun character builds.

What are they?
They are sort of like sub-skills. That is, skills that modify already existing skills. Each class will have 3 talent tree's they can specialize in. Leveling up will allow you to start putting points into your talents, and enhance certain skills and aspects of your character. A priest for example, will be able to specialize in Battle, Restoration, or Exorcism. Putting points into the Battle tree will give the priest more atk, aspd, crits, chance to stun, etc. It will turn the priest into a worthy battle priest. A build that was once popular, but used in extremely rare circumstances due to it's low power. Restoration will slightly enhance the priests healing abilities, while exorcism will make the priest better suited for hunting undead and demons. Other talent tree's include a combo tree for champions, a spear tree for paladins, a poison tree for assassins, and a traps tree for snipers. So you can see how the main focus of these new talents, is to make all possible builds evenly powerful, to create more diverse players, and more specialized players.

Won't these make some characters too powerful?
Absolutely not. Talents are used to make characters specialize in a particular tree. For instance, if a priest wanted to become a battle priest, the battle talents only work if the priest is holding a mace, and has Lv10 mace mastery (and possibly others). This means the will have less skill points for supporting, and won't have the matk bonus from rods for their holy skills. A restoration priest must also have a certain skill requirement, and only gets the talent bonuses when using a book that does not give matk. Once again giving them less points for holy skills, and no matk bonus. The exorcism tree will make priests stronger against demons and undead, and great when killing them, but will require a large amount of holy skills, and a rod.

This means the priest will miss out on a lot of buffs. All talents are like this, so players that get talents are meant to actually specialize in one aspect of their character. So now a priest with max int won't mean he is a good healer and good at killing demons, but you might have one priest with max int who is a Restoration build, better at healing than a priest in a Exorcism build, who is better at taking out demons and undead. You may also run into a Fire Wziard, Ice Wizard, or Wind Wizard, which is each better at their specific element than the other. This doesn't mean a Fire wizard is bad at wind and ice, it only means he is better with Fire, but he can still use his wind and ice skills as good as he ever could.

A preview of the Talent calculator (Work in progress)

What if I don't like this? I want to be good at everything :(
No problem, each character has 3 Talent tree's right? well each tree has 4 talents you can chose from. You can only max out 3 of them, but in order to get the better talents at the bottom, you must first need to max the one at the top, and one in the middle. But if you don't want to specialize in one thing, you can always max out one talent in each tree, and still be good at everything, since only some classes like the Priest has requirements that only let them use one tree. But if you were a wizard, you could easily max one talent from the fire, ice, and wind tree.

Update
This is going to be a really small one because I need to get to sleep, been packing all day. In a few hours, Kittie and I are getting up at 2:30am, and heading over to the airport for our exciting flight to Canada, which is going to take a whopping 25 hours.. x.x

Anyway, off to an early night sleep. I'll update everything when we arrive in Canada.
Yipee!

Eventfulness!

2008-08-07T05:28:00.000-07:00

Here in Lenneth, many have known us for our Bitchin' events, and dedication to them. Not only do our events rock hard, but the whole Lenneth scene will leave your jaw dangling between your feet (More on that in a bit). First lets talk about events. One of the Lenneth favorites is the famous Fabre Dodge. In this event, players are placed in a small arena, skills are turned off, and the hunters (all players) have now become the hunted! Fabres slowly spawn over and over. Harmless right? Wrong! These fabres can not be killed, and randomly use deadly GrandCrosses, explode with great impact, or snap around quickly, using magnum break. Long story short, fabres are very dangerous, they just mindlessly walk around casting very dangerous small AoE skills, run for your life! Last person standing, wins. If it sounds easy, it's not. Just wait until later rouns when the sneaky fabres appear, the ones that cloak and use Meteor Assault, mwua ha ha ha!

Well, ever feel low on a few items? How about a looting event? We've got this neat way to give out many new and interesting items (like the camouflage potion), as well as a few rarer items, by doing looting events. This is basically an event in a map filled with poring type monsters, each carrying something special. They only take 1 damage at a time though, like plants, and skills are turned off. This means a lvl 1 novice can get the same out of this event as a lvl 99 lord knight. The only exception is that a very few of the monsters actually fight back, and hurt, but give a very nice reward in return.

Looting some nifty items during the Looting Event

That's only some of the many fun and innovative events. In addition, there are also many auto events, which occur on their own. One of the is the Evil Prontera event. Every hour, the server turns night for 30 minutes, during this time Kafra gets possessed, Evil Spirits, and Wandering Souls slowly start spawning in Prontera. You can help cleanse Prontera by killing these spirits, which will award you with Soul Points. After a while, the MVP, Death Ghost also appears in Prontera, but if you wish to get his rewards, you need to kill him quick! When the sun comes out, all the evil ghosts vanish back into their graves, and everything is returned to normal. The points you got from killing the ghosts can be used at the Soul Master, who resides in the graveyard behind Prontera church. He will exchange your Soul Points for various items. But beware, he is only around at night...

Ever wanted to kill an Mvp while being invincible? Lenneth lets you have that dream. We can at any time, turn a special mode on, on a map, that makes everyone that dies, instantly ressurect on the spot. And I mean instantly as in, you're casting a huge spell, some MVP hits you with 23,000 damage, you die and instantly get ressurected so fast your cast is still going! We like to turn this on in some special arena maps, where there's no where to run. It's just you and the MVP. So everyone can go into a crazy kamikazi mode, because there's no dying, just go nutts until the MVP begs for mercy.

Few dudes killing Pori Pori with AutoRessurect enabled in the Event Arena

Tired of missing out on events, from logging on 1 minute late? No problem. On Lenneth, if there is an event in progress, it will tell you when you log in, as well as the event name. It will also let you know when ever using a Kafra. But I know what you're thinking, "But how will I get to the event?" No problem! To get to the event, simply talk to a kafra, select warps, and there will be an option to warp to the current event in progress. Simply click it, and Poof! There you are.
(To see a screen shot of what it looks like when clicking a kafra during an event, click here)

Quick update
Hey everyone, got back from Tasmania last night, was good. Met up with Zandor and Tank_x hehe. You may have noticed the progress has not changed much, that's because I've been very busy traveling back and forth between areas for certain things. On monday, Kittie and I are going to be on a 20 hour flight to Canada (We're currently in Australia), so I'll finally have PLENTY of time to get tons of work done (on the plane). The next few days will be filled with saying our goodbyes and packing. So once we're back in Canada, the server can get back on it's feet, and start rollin' again. Good news is I got my wallet, turns out it was mailed to the wrong address, this means when we get back to Canada, I'm going to get a host for the server, which is a huge gap, and would allow me to finish making the website, control panel, forums, server, and anything else online-related. Another reason the progress bar hasn't changed much lately, is because I've mainly been adding new things with the time I've had, things that weren't planned, but just thought of recently.

One of these things is the Testing Room (name pending), where it would have one of every element monster (including Fire 1, Fire 2, Fire 3, Fire 4, Water 1, etc). Each monster will just sit there and do nothing, will have no stats, but 500,000 hp. There will also be one of each race, one with high def, one with high vit, one with high mdef, one that attacks and has high atk, etc. It's basically a room to test your gear and skills on all the monster types and elements. Testing it on the demi-human monsters is also a very nice way to test things for PvP.

Progress on Hiatus for 4 days

2008-08-01T22:50:00.000-07:00

Monday morning at 5:00, Kittie and I (J-Rok) will be going on a short plane ride to visit one of Kittie's relatives. We'll be there until Wed night. There won't be any internet, so there won't be any more posts for the next 4 days (Sorry to those who love reading my sweet sweet text). However I'll bring the laptop and continue to get some work done on the server when I can. As for the actual server, most of it is pretty much done, with a few small additions here and there. The next step is getting an online server, sorting all that out, creating the website and control panel (I will be making a nice custom CP), getting the server online, and all that jazz. Only problem is my wallet went missing a few weeks ago at someones house, they have since found it and mailed it, but it's been 2 weeks now and I still haven't gotten it back in the mail :(. This means I won't be able to get a server until I get my wallet back, and if I don't, I'll have to order some new bank cards which will take a while since I'm in Australia for over a week, and my bank is in Canada :/. Anyway, server progress is coming good, and I'll probably have a test server up once I get my wallet back, so it can be tested while I work on the website.

Anywho, need to get packing, back in 4 days! (Hopefully my wallet will be too..)

CTF Update

2008-08-01T05:38:00.000-07:00

Hey, just a small update on the CTF.
Some may be wondering about a few things that might ruin the game. I will quickly address a few things that will ruin the game, and how they are being dealt with.

An Assassin grabs the flag while cloaked: Picking up the flag will automatically uncloak you.
A character uses some sort of Hide, Chasewalk, Cloak, etc, while holding the flag: When holding the flag, you will not be able to use any skills or items, to prevent people spamming potions, or speed enhancing items while running with the flag as well. Also, if the flag doesn't dispel all buffs, SP consumption of skills will be increased by 100%, so any soul linker with self healing turned on will waste his SP very quickly, and it will turn off.
Someone logs out while holding the flag: The game checks where the flag is every second, and records who is holding it. This means if the person who was holding the flag last is suddenly not online, or on the CTF map, the flag will be deleted from his inventory, and a new one will immediately be spawned at the base.
Q&A
How will deaths work?: When you are in the CTF arena, if you die, you will respawn in the CTF map. But since this can make a very hard defense (People respawning at their base as soon as they die), being killed will warp you to a "Jail" on that map, which you can see all the action but will need to wait 5 seconds before the game auto warps you to your base with full HP/SP, so the enemy has a chance to get your flag without you instantly spawning on top of it all the time.
What will the damage settings be?: CTF will have WoE rules.
What if your own team tries picking up the flag?: If the respawn on pickup (If the flag has been stolen and dropped somewhere, your own team can pick it up to recover it and have it spawn back at the base) is enabled, picking up your own flag will do just that. If it is not enabled, trying to pick up your own flag will just immediately drop it.
Sup?: Sup.
So what are the victory conditions?: Victory conditions may be different each time, but they will range from- First to 3/5/10 flag captures, most captures in a certain amount of time, and who ever can chant the phrase "J-Rok Rules!" the most in 1337 seconds.
How can you score a flag capture?: The main way to get a point in CTF, is to steal the enemies flag, and bring it back to your base. BUT, you will only get the point if your own flag is already at your base. So if the enemy has your flag as well, half your team will have to go hunt them down, while the othe half protects the flag carrier from them, who are probably doing the same thing.
So you said the flag was an item right? What if it automatically dissapears on the ground after some time passes?: It won't. ;)
Are you single?: If you're a guy, no. But if you're a girl... no.

And that's all I've got. If you can think of any other things, feel free to make a comment and I'll get to it and update this post within a day.

Small Update - Capture the Flag

2008-07-31T05:11:00.000-07:00

Hey, just a small update today guys. still having trouble with the clients. Some work in some ways, but are broken in others, while others work in other ways, but are brokin in the ways the first ones worked.. It's a headache. Anyway, I started working on the capture the flag today. It's really quite good looking so far. Here's how it works:

Capture the Flag
At the start, players create 2 teams and register them with the event npc. Each team will then be warped to their designated area on the map. One team will be the red team, and all their clothes will temporarily turn red for the CTF match, as well as the blue team's clothes colors turning blue (As shown below). A countdown timer will start from 5, and then they will be able to move and kill stuff.

Once CTF begins, each base will have a flag. The flag on each side will be an item, shown here:

The blue broadcast says "Flag respawned at Blue Base!"

Since each flag will be a regular item, it will be able to be picked up. If a red player picks up the blue flag, it will automatically equip as a 2handed melee weapon, as if they were carrying it. If the player carrying the flag dies, the flag will automatically be unequipped, and dropped out of their inventory and back onto the ground.

When a flag is on the ground and not at the base, it will automatically respawn at the base after 1 minute. Or, it can be set to be respawned at the base once the team picks up their own flag. Either one can be set, or both, depending on what the players want when the server opens.

Also, unequipping the flag, or equipping any other weapon/shield will automaically drop the flag back on the floor. So basically, you're either holding the flag, or it is on the ground. It will never be in your inventory.

In addition to all this, the game will be commentated, with announcements saying when a certain flag has been dropped, stolen from a base, or a point has been scored.

As well as the commentary, you will also always be able to see the position of any controlled flags on your minimap. So if your flag is at your base, it will show on your minimap. If someone steals your flag, it will vanish from your minimap, until that person is dead, and the flag is sitting back on the floor, then it will re-appear. Also, if one of your players steals the enemies flag, and is carrying it, it will show the enemies flag on your minimap too, so you can go help that player out. (This can also be changed once the server is open, to always show both flags, never show them, etc)

One small other thing to note, is destructable walls. By this I mean that in some PvP maps (CTF maps included) there will be wall monsters that is just a monster that looks exactly like a wall. But this is no ordinary monster, this monster actually blocks your path! So in the current CTF map I'm working on for example, there are shortcuts to the backs of the bases, but each shortcut is blocked off by these wall monsters, and the only way to get past them is to kill them, but watch out, they have a ton of hp. These walls will also be sprinkled sparingly around the maps, to give the illusion of destructable environments that get destroyed and reveal new paths as you fight.

That sounds fun, but will it benefit me in any way?
You may remember the pvp points talked about in the first post. This is one of those events that will earn you pvp points. You may get 1 point for killing the flag carrier in this mode, 1 point for returning the flag, 5 points for capturing a flag, and if your team wins, they will all get 5 points each (PvP points may vary). You can then spend those points on stronger custom gear to use in this and other PvP events to make your character even stronger. If that's not enough, there will be rankings in CTF too, and all of the other PvP events, which may include most flag captures, most CTF wins, most flag carrier kills, etc. There may even be guild based CTF's and such, as well as Guild CTF rankings.

That's all for now. If you didn't understand what I meant about Lenneth having a big portion of PvP mixed in it before, this is it. I'm pulling out all the stops, and coding some really detailed aspects into the PvP portion of the game that has never been done before, and will truely be something revolutionary to RO. If you like PvP, Lenneth will be an experience you won't forget.

Fishing + Big Update

2008-07-29T06:53:00.000-07:00

Fishing, yes, fishing! What does Ragnarok need more than a place to fish?

Yeah, reel it good!

Why Fishing?

Why fishing, you ask? Why not? Not only is it a fun way to kill time, you can get some very
snazzy rewards, too, including powerful healing items, equipment and quest items that are not obtainable any other way.
(Caution: Lenneth fishing has been known to get quite addictive)

How to fish?
To begin fishing, you, logically, need a fishing rod, and bait. Equip your fishing rod like any other two-handed weapon, and bait is equipped like bullets or arrows. To start whiling away the time, simply walk onto the dock with your rod and suitable bait equipped, and you will be asked if you want to start fishing. If you chose yes, you will have to do a small mini game that involves pressing the right menu items in order to reel in, and eventually catch the fish. But watch out! You only have 10 seconds to do this before the fish gets away, and rarer fish will be harder to reel in!

How can I improve my fishing?
I addition to the improvable fishing gear, there is a fishing experience system. The less you fish, the more common items you will catch, or sometimes you'll have no bites at all. The more you fish, the better your fishing rate will become, and you will catch rarer items. As most all weapons, the type and refine rate improves your fishing rate. Beginning with a wooden rod, bought from the Fishing NPC, you can hunt or quest for better rods, with better rates.

Is there anything else that might help?
Bait is also a contribution to your success. You need to use a bait 20 times before you can upgrade to the next level of bait. In order, there is Poor, Fair (both bought from the Fishing NPC) Average, Good, Superior and Ultimate Baits (monster drops). In addition to all that, your BASE stats also contribute to your success rate. (buffs, job and item bonuses don't count) Your DEX and LUK improves your fishing rate, and every 5 AGI gives you an extra second on top of the original 10 to reel the fish in.

I'm still not.. "Hooked"
Well, in addition to the great healing items (fish), and rare regular items that you get from fishing, it's also a good form of making some zeny if you're too low level to hunt it. But most of all, fishing is great for - Bragging rights! Fishing is included in all the rankings (in the control panel, and npc's in game) in the server, so be prepared to be labeled the best (or worst) fisher to ever hit Ragnarok Online!

Get out there and Grab that Fish!

Big Update:

Alrighty, not much progress today, but here's a lot of words for ya on some other things. Did a lot of work over the past few days, and now there's a small few people helping out with that new system I promised that was going to bring out the old builds, so that small bit of extra help is a huge load off my shoulders. Spent the day today fiddling with the latest xRay client, not having any of it work completely wasting my time, and pulling out the last bit of hair I had left (Just kidding, I have a full head of hair, just heard that somewhere and wanted to say it)... Anyway! Had a lot to do today, not much time to work on the server, but the time I did work on it, gave me a lot of issues with that newest xRay client (the exe you run to start the game). I'll try some more and see how it goes. The server is otherwise in good shape, going at a nice shcedual. Pretty much all of the new content I planned is in (Except for that huge PvP system thinger with the pvp items, constant dynamic events, etc, which I'm planning to start working on and implimenting once the server is open, because that will be a week or two's work in itself). So just a few more server polishing and it's ready for the next stage.. the official client making stage (Oh dear =/ *Prays that xRay starts working as it's suppose to*).

Also a small teaser about the website, I have many things planned for this new website. It's going to be quite dynamic, including instant donations, rankings for every possible thing you could think of (most deaths, most monsters killed, most pvp kills, best fishing, first classes to reach 99 reborn, best kafra customer, etc), small rewards for voting, and more.
The biggest things planned are... (These are all planned out, but they will be created after the server's opening, so it won't be delayed)
- Dynamic server map: This will show the world map, where you are on it (if logged in), for privacy reasons it will not show where other players are, but you can click any area, and it will draw a line through all the maps, and show the closest path for how you can get there by foot, airplane, etc. It may also eventually be upgraded to show the monsters on each map and such.
- Character Database: Type in the name of any character online, or click the name of any character you see on any of the ranking pages, and the character will show up on your screen wearing full gear, exactly how they appear in the game. If the character has selected "Show my stats to other players" in his profile, you will be able to see his stats, skills, guild, inventory, and everything about that player. If he has not selected that option (default), his stats will remain hidden.
- Item and monster database: Just like you will find on other RO website databases, but these will show the exact droprates, exp rates, and stats of all the monsters in Lenneth. They will also show any custom gear a monster might drop, as well as descriptions and stats for custom items.
There's some other things planned, but to avoid spoiling any more surprises, let's leave it at that.

In time, you'll discover that in comparison to other servers, there is a big difference.

Average Server

Lenneth

And Lenneth will grow every day... Imagine the possibilities.

Mini Update

2008-07-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, I've been planning on discussing a new topic on the server every 2 days, along with an update. Unfortunately today there won't be one, since I ran short on time (Got lots done today). So instead there's going to be a nice big, juicy update tomorrow, it will show the Fishing engine in depth, as well as other fun events and activities that will keep you entertained in Lenneth. Until then, you can enjoy the nice 6% added onto the progress bar :D. All the small new content into the server is almost done!

Fun, unique customs + Update

2008-07-26T06:39:00.000-07:00

Lenneth is the proud home of many exciting custom items and monsters.

Sonaris marvels at J-Rok's intoxicating aroma

The items and monsters are all very unique and well thought out. Some include beans, which often make you fart, a camo potion, which camouflages your character for a brief amount of time, while making him harder to hit, and animal poop, which when used, summons an evil Pooring.

Here we can see the Pooring, plotting it's evil deeds. Just look at it... Staring back at us with it's corn eyes... Also, both the Mooring (shown above) and the Pooring are custom pets, as well as many others! And not only are the custom pets downright sexy, but they actually attack with you and help you fight! (Not in PvP of course).

Lastly, we see J-Rok in camouflage, not invisible like cloak, but transparent. You can see him while under the effects of the Camo Potion, but it still provides enough camouflage for him to slip amongst his enemies like a cat, or, a transparent J-Rok

Update:
So far all the old Lenneth content has been put in, all the item and monster ID's have been extended because of all the new official things coming out. So it took a while to change all the old item and monster ID's in all the scripts. Kittie is learning a lot and doing a wonderful job at making some new items and monsters. She's got a special group of 5 monsters ready, they're going to turn into an event on the server. Here's a hint at what monsters she made... They are from a game that nearly everyone on earth has played. One of the first (and most known) games ever. :)

I've started work on the super special thing that's going to change the way people play Ragnarok Online (In a good way of course!).. To be honest, I've just started making the calculator. Yes it's so awesome it needs it's own special calculator for proper builds-er.. I said too much. Anyway, much more on that later on into the server's developement.

Blog Update

2008-07-24T05:42:00.000-07:00

The server rates and statistics have been edited into the 'Lenneth is back!' post, so if you are new, you can now see what type of server this is. Also, a bit of the new quest log has been explained, as well as a deeper explanation of how Lenneth went down long ago.

Also, a progression bar has been added over to the right, as well as a list of important links. If you ever see a new link added there, check it!

Lenneth is Back!

2008-07-23T23:06:00.000-07:00

Over a year after it's release, Lenneth is no longer AWOL! Lenneth is finally making it's way back with improved features, quests, NPC's, and many new surprises up it's sleeve.

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.