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Hacking and responsibility 1-12-2012
Recently there have been some people being hacked. I would just like to reiterate the fact that it is your responsibility to protect your accounts. I try to help in some situations. If I do an IP scan and it looks like you have been sharing your account then I'm probably not going to do anything. If it looks like someone did log in and do something to your account then I am far more likely to try to fix the problem. It is ultimately your responsibility to protect your account.
New PvP system rules 11-4-2011
This is how the new PvP rules should be working. if they are not then let me know and I will get it fixed. I do believe that things are currently working fine.
All three of the PvP commands (-all, -enemies, -monsters) will remain in the game because if the server ever gets switched back to good versus evil they will be needed. Some people have already voiced their opinion that they would like to see this happen, however that is an issue for a different thread.
First of all I have taken betrayal points out of the calculations for PvP. Betrayal points are now only used for deciding when you can get back into the Jeloc dungeon.
Currently the only non-PVP area of the game is the upper left quadrant of the map, in a good versus evil situation the lower right quadrant of the map would also be non-PVP.
if you go on -all in a non-PVP area you will go into PVP mode for 2 1/2 minutes. Once in PVP mode you can be attacked by people who are on -all or -enemies. the attacker would also then be in PVP mode. If you do not wish to engage in PVP then stay on -monsters.
if you go on -all in a full PVP area you should be able to attack anyone no matter what mode they are on. You will also go into PVP mode for 2 1/2 minutes but that is irrelevant unless you go back to a non-PVP area.
You will gain betrayal points if you kill someone who was not in PVP mode no matter what area they are in.
Tokens / Update 10-1-2011
The token system was not working for a couple days because my website host company broke it and now has fixed it. They decided to block all ports on the website for some insane reason. I don't want to go into a huge rant about how pissed off I am at them, so lets just say those %$@#ing %$#@%s finally got it fixed!!
The update is going well, the new level 70 chest dungeon is done. I will let you know this. It is possible to get a Sword of Skull, Black Cloth, XenCon items, and all the Vexar gear. There are also some "less lucky" items you can get. Anyone 65 or higher can enter the area because you will probably need help, once you find it of course.
New website and new email 7-28-2011
I think it would be best for people to also send in PayPal IDs that are dated before 7-18-2011. I'm finding that many people have not e-mailed me very recently, I've been scanning the last 2600 e-mails I have received and some people have none showing up.
You may have noticed (because your here) that the website is up again. It is using the new host and I have setup my email through them instead of comcast with their worthless security.
My new email is: ejthayer@xenimus.com
I'm going to always setup my email through the website host from now on so this email should never change again.
if you sent me an email during the time when the hacker had access to my email account (7-18-11 to 7-27-11) then send me a regular email through the website requesting a new secret word. Be sure to specify what you want. I will be using email history to confirm your the owner instead of Paypal IDs. So in other words the secret word request must come from an email address you have used in the past. This method of verification will only be valid because of this emergency. After things settle down I will go back to the old Paypal ID system. I will make a special note on all payments during that time so I know they could have been accessed by the hacker.
The hacker did NOT have access to my account that entire time because I was checking it on a regular basis, but I know he broke back in (because comcast is stupid) a couple times.
It is also important to note!!! The hacker never had access to any credit card info you may have used with Paypal. For your protection that information is never even sent to me.
trading structures 6-20-2011
Ownable structures can now be traded. people usually call them houses, but they don't really look like houses do they? Anyway an owner can now create a deed to a house with the -deed command. The deed is destroyed as soon as you trade it and ownership is instant. This is done so that only an owner can have a deed in their possesion.
Remeber the rules of ownership!!
Your highest level char must own it.
One house per account.
You must have bonus mode days.
casters can only own diamond shaped houses, fighters own square houses.
You must be level 8 or higher. (this may change later)
Requesting NDNT gear restore 5-4-2011
You need to tell me when you lost it, I'm not going to try to guess what day it was.
account problems 5-3-2011
I wrote a server function that will allow me to restore NDNT gear that you lost. if you lost gear make sure to have spots free in your inventory and then email me what you lost and I will restore it.
I will also be writing a function to extract password info from yesterdays backup and reset passwords to what they were before UNLESS you have already requested a reset and have access again.
Account passwords not working 5-3-2011
For some reason the server is removing your passwords and forcing you to request a password change. I'm not sure why this is happening but I'm looking into it. There is no danger to your characters, it's just a password issue.
Game rules and admins 3-4-2011
Recently I have had a chat with admins and it seems that people harass them a fair amount. I have let them know that it is perfectly fine with me if they ban people who are harassing them.
The admins are there to help keep the game clean and stop abuse of exploits or bugs. I don't want their playing experience to be worse just because they are admins. I know they already take a fair amount of BS from players, and as admins they should expect a bit of that, but if it gets out of hand or inappropriate you will get banned for it. If it gets excessive and I have to get involved you will get deleted for it.
This also brings up another subject. People who do things in the game just to be annoying are getting old. It's just stuipd to be puting skeletons near an entrance or port just to block it. I'm going to get a lot more strict on this and any other game abuse crap. That means after a couple warnings I'm going to delete the character. I'm done with this kind of game abuse.
PVP all you want, trash talk (within game rules) all you want, and I'm sure there are 100 other ways to be an asshole, but game abuse is not allowed and never has been.
Major changes to PvP and good vs evil 1-13-2011
Vote on it here PvP system poll
Check out the rest of the message board for other info.
Small fix 1-7-2011
Last night I put out a different version of the update that will fix the problem where items do not show all the properties they have. I suggest you download it if you are having issues with items. you could be trying to fully prop an item that is already full and you don't even know it.
PVP Stats page / new website hoster 12-23-2010
The website is moved away from godaddy now to a new host that gives me "full trust" so I can program the website to do more. The PVP stats page works again (I'm working out some bugs on it) and I have already noticed an increase in speed, this host is much faster. Tokens paymens are very close to being automatic also.
Particle fix 12-19-2010
Download the update if you want the particle fix.
Well this sucks 12-18-2010
Looks like the server had a problems saving characters so when I did the update today it caused a rollback about 2 weeks. There is nothing I can do the data is lost. The characters you have now are the most recent. I will reprocess any token payments so those get properly updated.
Really sorry about this, I'm not sure what caused it.
I will spawn bosses many times over the next 2 weeks, I added bonus days to all accounts, and I boosted spawn rate.
Game not saving settings 11-11-2010
This problem should be fixed if you download the current version C of the game.
Xenergy has a key logger in it!!! 10-26-2010
I have warned people about this in the past that add on programs could have key loggers in them. Several Xenergy users have had gear missing. At first I thought there might be a problem with the server but I traced the gear to the creator of Xenergy. That means hea knows the passwords to any account that was using it.
Change your passwords right now!!
The update today 10-9-2010
This update fixed some bugs and added the guild gui (graphical user interface). There was a crash bug in the game client when I first put it out. I fixed that bug and put out another version of the update. If you are crashing then download and install the update again.
Some other small bugs were also fixed.
This was NOT the class balancing update. I'm still working on that.
Non drop trade once items / account restoring 8-25-2010
It is now possible for non drop trade once (NDTO) items to be pulled from chests. How they work should be obvious, if you trade them they become non drop non trade. Buying a NDTO item from the consignment merchant COUNTS AS A TRADE so it will not be tradable after you buy it. Taking your own item off consignment will not affect it.
I also reprogrammed a lot of the account restoring code. First try to log into your account like normal, the auto restore system works much better. If you don't see your chars then send me an email, I can restore them much easier now and I don't need to search the backups by the date you last played anymore.
Durability updated today 8-19-2010
I updated durability again this morning so it has a max of 500 and should decrease at a slower rate now. I still plan on adjusting it more but I need feed back on the current rate. I also removed some of the randomness so its a more consistent rate.
I will be increasing the drop rate on Non Drop Non Trade (NDNT) gear. First what I will do is make some of the gear that drops be Non Drop Trade Once (NDTO). This will add more items to the game because you will see it show up at the consignment merchant. Previously dropped gear will not be changed from NDNT to NDTO.
Email should be fixed 7-25-2010
I think I finally got the email system on the website working. It turned out to be that GoDaddy's servers were rejecting some emails.
if you sent me an email recently go ahead and give it another try.
New version of RPG demo 5-9-2010
I just put out a new version of the RPG demo. It is a required download. The install is much smaller because I got rid of all the extra textures. Any test accounts will be gone so you will need to create new ones.
RPG demo
Server crash 4-22-2010
The server crashed today and it looks like the backup system failed. That caused a reset of a couple days. I'm really sorry about that and I'm working on the problem.
Update and xenlotto 4-4-2010
I did the update today to add some new things and fix some bugs. I'm sorry about the server crashing recently, there seems to be a problem with the backup system. I have done some work on it and hopefully the problem is fixed.
Because of all the extra gold in the game right now I'm holding a lotto for a xencon item. It should help get a lot of gold out of the game and help the economy a lot. You can enter to win as many times as you like. It costs 1 platinum. Just type -xenlotto each time you want to enter. Next Sunday I will choose a random winner. You can enter as many times as you want.
File corruption 3-13-2010
Today while restoring a character there was a problem. I beleive the character file was corrupted and when the server attempted the import the corrupted file deleted some characters and goofed up some other stuff. I was forced to reset to this mornings backup file. Sorry for the problem.
The item reset 3-7-2010
Well its done and seems to be working well for most people. if you lost your gear there is still a chance I can restore it for you depending on the date your character was restored from. Email me and I will look into it. The item wipe was at the beginning of 2008 so characters restored before then are wiped and will have their chest pulls reset.
Important poll for all players 3-7-2010
There is an important poll on the messageboard that everyone should go and vote on. Please read it carefully.
POLL
Update 3-3-2010
Download the current update again if you would like to be able to bind to mouse buttons again and the mouse will not stay in effect while tabbed out of the game.
Working on the game this weekend 2-27-2010
I was forced to do a 1 day reset, you may need to email me again to get characters restored. Sorry about that.
I'm going to be doing as much work as possible on the game this weekend.
if your having problems getting the game working you should download the current update and send me the MYDEBUG.TXT file after the game crashes.
Server merge today!! 2-23-2010
Your marks will be reset!!
I have been thinking about making the game free for a long time now. The servers will be supported by micro transactions. A micro transaction is a small extra thing you can buy in the game that does cost real cash but are optional. Most people want to see the game expand and there are a lot of free game websites that would list Xenimus on their site if I change it to a free game.
All paid days people have when I get the conversion ready will be converted to tokens. Tokens will cost $1.00 each for now. In the future I may offer other price breaks on tokens if you buy a lot.
Tokens will be for your account and available to be spent on any character on an account.
Things tokens can be used for:
5 days of bonus mode play time (1 token and its for all chars on your account)
12 days of bonus mode play time (2 tokens and its for all chars on your account)
stat respec elixir (5 tokens)
skill respec elixir (5 tokens)
full stat/skill respec elixir (15 tokens)
100k exp (5 tokens)
These will be the first things offered, in the future I will add gear sets that can be bought, special temporary bonuses, chest pull resets. These are just ideas and could change at any time.
bonus mode play time will mean that you gain additional exp for each kill (10% for now), and the ability to own structures. Other perks will be added later.
So basically it would still only be $5.00 a month to play in bonus mode and you would get the exp bonus for all chars on your account.
I figure 100k exp would be helpful if you wanted to give your new character a head start but this would not be enough for anyone to become super powerful because that would be too expensive.
When characters are merged you will have access to all of them by pressing the refresh button on the character screen. Each time it will show your next 5 chars until you go back to the beginning. The character max will still be 5 but if you have more you can still get to them.
So if you have 12 characters there will be 2 pages of 5 and 1 page of 2. Of course because you are over the limit of 5 chars it would not be possible to create a 13th character.
Currently you have the advantage of bonus time counting for all 12 of those characters. For now I will leave it that way but new people with a 5 player limit might consider that unfair so it could change in the future.
One disadvantage is that you still must own structures with your highest level char so that might not be your main anymore.
I'm actually going to merge x1 and x3 into x2 because x2 has a high population (even if they are not playing atm) and they have the consignment merchant. X3 people should get all their stuff out of cons.
Graphics Update Today 2-16-2010
The graphics update is out. It would be best to do the full download instead of the update. I put out a small fix for those of you that got the missing DLL error.
Some people have reported that their virus scanner is saying the game is a virus. Obviously its not a virus so you will need to disable the virus scanner for the install process.
With this large of an update I'm sure there will be a few bugs so please report them.
Update soon! 1-31-2010
I'm currently working on an update for TD that will add several new items to the game as well as some new graphics. I'm buying as many 3D models as I can so they will look really nice. Some things like Axes and Maces are hard to find so I'm doing the best I can with those. No new armors will be going in right now but I certainly have plans for some new ones. Armors take more time.
X3 players will be able to vote soon on having their server merged or connected with the other servers. I'm considering merging all servers into a single server while I work on these graphics updates and if the game starts expanding again more servers could be added later. Plus I will be doing advertising again after the new graphics gets added. The new terrain system and armors are the main things I want to add.
Debug Version 1-12-2010
Some people have been having crash problems with the game. Download the current update, it will write additional info to the MYDEBUG.TXT file about what is going on to help find the problem. Attach the debug file to an email and send it to me at ejthayer09@comcast.net after you crash.
Update today 12-13-2009
Chests are now mainly for chest pulls. Its still possible to get non drop non trade items but they will be much more rare. Low level NDNT items are the same to help newbs start out.
Pets should have the betrayal points of the owner and -enemies should work better and not allow you to hit things that would cause you to lose alignment. TEST THIS before trusting it becuase its not easy testing on my own here but it seemed to work.
The last bit of programming of the old anti pk system is gone now.
Spawn times have been adjusted. Slow areas should be faster and the constant spawn areas should be a bit slower.
People were abusing the ability to change guild names at any time, so now you lost that ability and guild name changes will cost 50g.
I fixed some bugs with the game client that might have been causing crashes when exiting.
I am seriously considering merging x1 and x2 and changing the name of x3 to x2.
Polls about the game 11-29-2009
if you have not already voted then please take a look at these polls about future changes to the game.
Good / evil System poll
Chest pulls poll
Email is working again? 11-13-2009
if your still having problems sending me emails from the website make sure to hit refresh a couple times and if its still not working send me an email at ejthayer09@comcast.net and let me know what happens.
I had to move the entire website over to a new server, my old hosters were hosers not hosters.
Website Email problems 11-9-2009
I know the email system on the website is not working. I didn't change the code at all so the people that host it must have changed something on their end. They can be so stupid sometimes and just change things on their end without telling anyone. I will get it fixed asap.
New message board 11-6-2009
The xenimus FP message board will now also be used for TD also. New areas have been setup for posts on TD. I have been reading posts and posting on this message board for a while now if anyone wants to participate.
Obviously the people running Xentales have proven beyond any doubt that they have no ethics are are promoting the theft of the game by someone else.
The update today 10-31-2009
This update has a few minor changes for game play. There is a -home and -closest command now so you can set your respawn town where you want or always appear in the closest place.
There is also a new packet encryption system. Some of you know about this new server that some people have setup. They have stolen copywrited material and changed it, obviously this is not legal. The packet encryption has been changed to put a stop to these other servers. If these other servers are not shut down I will be talking to a lawyer.
New spell graphics 9-18-2009
I just finished up the spell graphics for the new fire and cold based spells. Those were the biggest thing holding up the update. New graphics is always trail and error, finding the right look so its cool. The first couple things I tried sucked. I have something now that looks good but isnt the same as any other spell and works similar to a beam style.
The update should be out soon but I'm not giving a release date, it will be out when its done.
Update on the balance update 9-9-2009
I wanted to let you know what is going in so far. These things could still be adjusted! After looking at all the emails from people these are the things that most people agreed should be done.
Wizards need another primary damage type.
Druids should lose Noxa.
Clerics need better damage and an additional spell (probly Noxa)
Bows will have HP/MP steal added for rangers.
Paladins will get more HP and possibly another spell.
Barbarians will have resists lowered, their weekness should be magic.
Hit amulets will not be 100% chance anymore, they will give a bonus to hit so agility will be worth something again.
Noxa in general will not reflect as much damage for magical attacks and will not reflect multiple times for weapon attacks that have other damage bonuses.
I will be taking a look at rings and probably toning down their power for all of them.
Big change like this are dangerous for the game so I am being careful.
New email is setup 8-25-2009
Password changes and other emails from the website are working again.
Sorry about the down time 8-20-2009
I made the move to Tennessee and now live in a town called Hermitage just outside Nashville. The hacker crashed the servers while I was moving so there was nothing I could do to get the servers up. I don't even have an internet connection here yet. I'm doing updates from a free wifi area.
Balance update 8-8-2009
I will be doing the class balance update soon so please send me your ideas on what should be balanced. Make sure to keep an objective opinion. If your email looks like you are asking just to make your own class more powerful instead of trying to help the game be balanced I will delete it and your ideas will not be considered.
Don't assume that someone else will tell me something. if you have something to say then say it. I will be reading them all and considering everyones opinion. Please make the subject line dealing with this be 'Balance update'.
Anyone who only cares about making their own class more powerful and does not care about game balance should go here. I should be a god!
Hello! 8-5-2009
I have had a lot to do recently. I might be moving again. This time to Nashville Tennessee! We had a XenCon there once and it was a cool place so we shall see what happens. In this economy I'm being forced take jobs where ever they are. Still working on FP of course and things are working great. I will be doing an update soon for TD to balance some class issues.
Update problems 6-23-2009
Some people were having problems with the update where the game would just quit for no reason. I just uploaded a new update that should fix that problem.
PVP changes 6-19-2009
I did a server side update to make some changes to the PVP system.
Spin attack does not make you auto hittable, your enemy has a bonus to hit instead.
Betrayal points will now make a player appear as an enemy when doing a sensus. That player can then be killed by either side for PVP points.
BE CAREFUL!!! Test this new system carefully and let me know if there are any bugs.
The daily backup and monster reset should happen about 2am from now on.
People need to understand 6-9-2009
You need to understand why I can't return gear that was traded for duped gear. Here is what happens. Some dishonest jerk dupes an item, then it gets traded possibly multiple times before it gets deleted. If I reverse your last trade the last person you traded with might be an honest player and now they are losing legit gear, and who knows how many times the duped item was traded and many of those trades could have been for multiple items and then other trades might have split up those items to any number of other players. So trying to reverse trades becomes a total nightmare.
Even if your trade was directly with the original duper and could be reversed its not fair to do it for some people and not others. I'm really sorry that it happened, we all hate the asshole dupers. I am working on trying to find the bug and fix it.
On a side note the duper has come forward and tried to black mail me for revealing the method of doing it. So far he wants his character back, a ton of NDNT gear including a sun staff and the 25 mil exp. This guy has also told me that he has a degree in computer science. That is very disturbing because it means he's not a kid. I expect a certain amount of dishonesty from some high school kids, high school sucks and there are a ton of people who will rip you off in a heart beat so dishonesty becomes a way of life. Your supposed to actually grow out of that when you get older. Having a degree does not mean jack, I have met people with masters degrees that were morons and some of the best game programmers in the world have no degree at all.
Characters deleted for cheating are NOT restored. The most the duper can get is a new character with 25 mil exp to start, and that's after the method is revealed, tested, and fixed.
Happens every time, the duper/cheater tries to black mail me for something.
Duped gear 6-7-2009
I checked several commonly duped items today and deleted them from the game. People need to keep in mind that duped gear will be deleted no matter what. I'm sorry if you traded legit gear for the duped gear. I cannot restore the legit gear that you traded for duped gear, it gets traded and re-traded in no time and I can't be trying to reverse that many trades. The dupers accounts have been deleted.
if anyone wants to be honest and tell me how it works so I can fix it that would be great. I will give 25 million exp to anyone who can tell me how it works and I can get it fixed. The very last post on this page explains more.
Of course I'm trying to guess at how they are doing it but its hard to tell.
Current work 6-6-2009
First I'm sorry for not posting in a while. My work currently focuses on Xenimus FP. The FP world designer is done and ready to go, so now I am working on getting the game client and server working properly and that is going very well also.
Soon I will be taking a break from work on FP to do an update for top down. The way things are looking, the top down update will be pretty good. I have made quite a few notes on things that will be going into the next update.
Quest EXP Adjustments 4-18-2009
Recently I adjusted the EXP given by some of the new quests down some. This seems to have made some players mad. That is typical I guess, any time I reduce something like that almost everyone will fail to understand or even consider the possibility that it was a necessary change. Lets face it, if some people had their way Imps would drop spirit gear and be worth 10k exp each and everyone in the game would have a Sun Staff or Vis Gladius.
These quests didn't even exist in the game until recently. if I had put the quests in the game as they are right now everyone would think they were great, but because there were higher at first and I reduced them people are all freaking out about it.
All quest EXP will stay as it is for now and if adjustments are needed I will make them in the future.
Rings 4-15-2009
Have been getting a lot of e-mails lately from people saying that the game is completely based on rings. The fact is that I allow people to wear six rings in this game. So of course rings have a large effect on the game. If you could wear six helmets then people would say it was helmet based, or if you could wear six pairs of gloves it would be glove based. So the game is not really based on rings, it's just that the number you are allowed to wear causes them to have a large effect.
One possible solution I have been thinking of is adding leggings and boots to the game. Those two additional slots would be taken from the ring slots. Then you would only be able to wear 4 rings. This will very likely be a future change.
FP progress 3-30-2009
Going very well. Just did a engine stress test and it was doing over 650,000 polys at 45 fps. This time the test was done with regular polys, sprites (trees and bushes), and some transparent polys to simulate particles and spells. This also had the shader system active. Old FP used to drag down to 30 fps and only be rendering a short distance from the player, this test was done while rendering 1/4 of the map. A second test showed that at double the standard distance of old FP I was able to stay around 60 fps. These tests were also done with no LOD (level of detail) system in place. So in other words small items that would normally not be rendered at long range were still being rendered.
VERY good results.
Emergency server maintenance
I was notified by my ISP that they will need to take down the servers for a short time. The DS will be down on the 18th from about 11:30 to 12:00, X1 and X2 down from about 11:00 to 11:30, then X2 again on the 20th from 11:00 to 2:00. All times are central. Its not the servers themselves that have any problems, it has to do with the connections to the servers and the backup power units.
A couple small changes 3-9-2009
There is now a 5 second delay after doing a cross server transport before you can do another cross server transport. This change is to stop the duping bug people have been using. I know this will be a bit annoying but its the best solution. Other changes had to do with some minor quest bugs.
Just to be clear! 3-4-2009
There have been some rumors that I'm giving up on TD! That is total BS! In fact I have a lot of plans for TD. A few characters need balancing yet and the professions system is one of the things on my mind lately. The thing is that its time for FP to get a turn so I'm working on that right now.
Not sure if anyone is aware of this but the game company I was at lost all their contracts because of the stock market crash. Investors are very tight right now so the company is going through some hard times like the rest of the country. I did talk with the owner of the company today and he is very interested in helping me find funding to turn the FP engine into an on line game. I'm not sure yet where all that will go.
Venture Capital and FP 2-24-2009
The graphics engine is getting integrated very nicely. So far there have been almost no problems during the conversion. Not sure when it will be out but I'm certainly working on it.
I have also written up a business plan and started trying to find venture capital for development of FP. Xenimus FP is mostly done and with some funding I could finish it and professionally publish it. That would be the ultimate goal. I'm very serious about getting investors and have been submitting the business plan to different venture capital investment companies.
I just don't have the time to do all the work in FP like I did in TD. I have calculated the costs of starting a company and working on FP for 2 years and it will cost between 1.5 and 2 million! The up side is that even with a tiny player base of like 25000 players the investor would make back about 3 times their money. No recently released game is below 300,000 players and if Xenimus FP was to get that many an investor would make back about 90 million. Figuring the investor gets half the gross profits for 5 years charging 10/month. I want to keep the price under all the competition. It could probably be done for about 1 million if I cut a lot of corners but I would rather do it right.
Just imagine if Xenimus was a big hit! The amount an investor could make would be huge! Venture capital investors look for exactly that type of investment. Something with high potential for payback and this would certainly qualify.
With my recent 3D programming jobs I have really sharpened my graphics engine programming skills. Five years ago I was not ready to do this, but now I know I am.
I considered offering the ability for YOU the players to invest in the creation of FP, but that seems like it could be messy. I have had offers from people to buy TD Xenimus. Recently someone offered me 50k. If any of you happen to know of someone interested in that kind of investment let me know. But make sure they are serious, it will take a lot of money to do it.
Current FP work 2-5-2009
The first person update is currently my main focus. I am now working on the shaders for FP engine. I did a benchmark test of the FP engine the other day and I was trying to get the frame rate to drop below 60 frames per second. The frame rate finally dropped down to 57 frames per second at 1,090,000 polygons. Needless to say that totally kicks ass. Keep in mind that this test was done with no other overhead. In other words just straight polygons with no particles or monsters running around. It was still an extremely successful test however.
I do plan on putting out a quest update for Xenimus TD soon. Eric and Ben from Green Bay have been very helpful designing new quests for people to do. I am currently looking over their scripting code.
Today's update 1-3-2009
I figured out why fighter classes were not getting the extra HP from the last update and fixed that.
Wizards needed some alternate types of magic damage to compete in PVP. I'm not going to make large adjustments in this area at a time. So to start I increased the strength of adgredi, fire, and ice projectiles for wizards and cut the magic cost in half. Give those spells a chance. OK, I forgot that wizards don't even have ice ball. I think wizards should have energy as a primary, with a secondary of fire or ice. I need to think on this more.
Obviously there has been some duping problems in the game. It has been very hard to track down but I did find an area that could cause a problem and fixed it.
The XENCON item drop 15 days was very interesting indeed. The server dropped a total of 10 Xencon helms and only 3 were found! In fact I know that there was a skeleton on X3 that had a helm for 2 days and on X1/X2 DS there was a pix that had one for most of December 26.
Animation bugs 12-12-2008
Someone reported a bug that female barbarians were not using proper animations. if you have this problem I need to know what race/class/and armor you are wearing when the bug happens so I can find it.
if you get hacked!! 7-14-2005
First of all it is your responsibility to protect your own account.
- Do not download programs to "help" you with the game.
- Do not open attachments to emails.
- Do not talk to people you cant trust on instant message programs.
- Do not log into the game at a friends house. They might put a key logger on their own computer or they may have a virus and don't know it themselves.
- Do not give out your account info!!!!!! (nobody ever listens to me on this one)
if your account gets hacked keep in mind before you email me that it is 100% your own fault that it got hacked and that I will help you if I can but it is not my responsibility to do so. In order for me to do anything I have to find proper proof that your account was logged into.
Also keep in mind that you are responsible for what is done with your account. So if you let a hacker use your computer or your account you risk getting banned or deleted.
Official info on 25 mil exp 12-18-2004
It seems that I need to be clear about this reward of 25 million exp for reporting a dupe bug.
1. Once the info is given to me on how it works I must be able to confirm that the bug exists.
2. The bug cannot be related to the servers going down in any way. I am well aware that in some situations it would be possible to dupe an item if the server was to go down at the proper moment.
3. After the bug is fixed the 20 mil exp can be given to any character or if multiple people discover it the exp could be split up.
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