Akka's Funhouse: Sands of Time & Visions of Morell Expanion Releases

[Akkadius]

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Welcome players! The news everyone has been waiting for! For any questions please report them to the forums - report to the 'Akkadian Development' link in my signature below.

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Akka's Funhouse has released with two expansions:

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• [Sands of Time]
• Hero! The ancients, ascended beings of Norrath have taken mortal form in a plane which resides in a Desert underneath a sea, where ancient unlocked power of timeshifting resides with the pyramids.
• Speak with 'Gracchus Jacobi' in the Bazaar to learn more...
• Over 8 new zones from levels 200-205
• Several new group Expeditions!
• Several new raid Expeditions!
• Over 10 new Alternate Currency merchants!
• New items and rewards!
• New exciting story to investigate, unfold and experience!
• New Spells and Disciplines 200-205
• New hub zone

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• [Visions of Morell]
• Experience an untold story of Morell Thule, the God of Dreams who has been exiled from his godly powers with the quarrel of his sister, Terris Thule.
• Enter the large door neigh-boring Bazaar to start this expansion
• Over 20 new zones from levels 100-200
• Several new group Expeditions!
• Several new raid Expeditions!
• New Spells and Disciplines 150-190
• New Pet Armory
• Over 20 tasks with great new rewards!
• Over 10 new Alternate Currency merchants!
• New items and rewards!
• New exciting story to investigate, unfold and experience!
• New hub zone

Raid Content - Is hard locked until I make the decision to unlock it in both expansions, there should be plenty to keep players busy in the meantime

:: Release Notes ::

[Expedition System]
• The expedition system is a mission-style mechanic developed to bring forth the social aspect of the game back, and it truly does!
• Expeditions are utilized with NPC's who offer them, they will take you on an adventure to unseen places!
• The expedition system has now officially went live with these expansion never seen before!
• Expeditions can hold up to 100 players, enforce level requirements, enforce player requirements, offer repeatability and offer great rewards
• Expedition NPC's do not respawn
• Expeditions are timed, for example 'Madness in Crushbone!' has a 6 hour timer in 'Sands of Time' before it expires
• Expedition system uses the following commands:
• #expedition (Displays list of expedition commands)
• #expedition leave - Leaves expedition
• #expedition destroy - If you are leader, will destroy your current expedition
• #expedition memberlist - Will get your expedition memberlist
• #expedition groupinvite <playername> - Search for a player of another group to invite
• #expedition invite <playername> - Search for a player to invite
• #expedition remove <playername> - Search for a group/raid member to remove
• #expedition makeleader <playername> - Will pass leadership to another expedition member

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[Achievements!]
• Achievements take a very new and exciting place in Akka's Funhouse, there are literally thousands of Achievements in place now:
• Race Kills
• Looting achievements
• Skill achievements
• Task achievements
• More achievements to come!

[Custom Sounds]
• Akka's Funhouse now has custom sounds all over the place - As of right now I'm using sound files included with the client - It's really cool! - Look out for them

[Items]
• Items with required level of 175 or lower are now droppable/tradable

[Idle Points]
• As players are idle in hub zones, they will receive points for various rewards

[Factions]
• New expansions include opposing factions of NPC's

[Cutscene System]
• A new cutscene system has taken place in the new expansions, they are used to give the player more involvement into the story and environment around them

[NPC Dialogue]
• All new NPC Dialogue no longer happens through the chat window as it traditionally did, everything happens through windows in which your response is given through either 1 available choice or several
• When you are dealing with an NPC with multiple responses, the options will be given as saylinks

[NPC's]
• Removed all 'FSP-General-NoEffect' Campfires that would attack players (Over 50)

[Pets Revamp]
• As you all know, the pet system has taken a serious revamp, some think this is going to be a nerf bat, when really this is simply a rebalance to an unbalanced system, which allows for scalability and new stuff in the future.
• Pets now scale based on their original level of the spell, so for example, if I used a pet earring and the pet was originally level 83, it will scale based on level 83.
• Pets now mimic the level of their owner
• Pet scaling based on statistics has not changed
• Pet scaling now occurs more frequently, meaning if you use an ability that pumps up your statistics that increase pet power and that effect fades, your pet will also rescale and take on scaling with your current statistics
• Pet power still is in effect with the new scaling system
• Swarm Pets also scale with the new system
• Pet Class bonuses didn't quite make the release, however it should function no different than that of the current system which is flat

[Spells]
• Over 2,000 Spells and Disciplines have been introduced
• Visions of Morell contains spells between Levels 150-190
• Sands of Time contains spells between Levels 200-205
• Many new spells have been introduced, please report any bugs that are found with them

[Levels]
• 200 remains the server cap, the cap is broken through progressing through content, more particularily Tier 1 & Tier 2

[Stat Caps]
• Here are the new stat caps:
• Level 205 - 3,000
• Level 204 - 2,900
• Level 203 - 2,800
• Level 202 - 2,700
• Level 201 - 2,600
• Level 200 - 2,500
• Players underneath Level 200 are 2,500
• Players underneath Level 61 cap out at 255
• Heroics should stack on top of these caps

[Crashes]
• Fixed an issue with client crashes where particle effects would flood the clients cache memory to the point where it would drop the client

[Plane of Skill]
• Where combat trainers (Training dummy) and Guildmasters reside, you can get to it through the 'Guild Hall'

[Zone Points]
• The Guild Hall now has a zone point to 'Sanctum Somnium'
• The Guild Hall now has a zone point to 'Plane of Skill'

:: Post Release Notes ::
[Fixes]
• Fixed an issue where the pet armory wasn't saving correctly under certain circumstances 16 hours ago
• Fixed an issue with the 'Ancient Codex' Expedition in 'Visions of Morell' where invis would drop before intended and players would get aggro 17 hours ago
• Fixed typo in 'Sands of Time' dialogue with 'Prophet Yakuzi' 20 hours ago
• Fixed an issue where an invisible NPC is accidently given an item, the NPC will eat the item 20 hours ago
• Restored Doubloons for those who were missing a bunch since the content update 21 hours ago
• Fixed an issue when you are in a cutscene - the 'Page Turn' sound effect will keep triggering because the windows are refreshing, this no longer occurs on window refresh - The windows refresh because a player could be changing UI settings or performing other actions that cause the popup window to disappear 23 hours ago
• Fixed an issue where the Blue Dragon picture in Bazaar was porting players to the 'Plane of Skill' 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue with achievements not properly triggering or displaying for all achievements 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue where 'Skelly Nobales' lost his Merchant items (Bags merchant in Bazaar) 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue with beds in Somnium where their proximity box were overlapping with other beds, causing appearance bugs 2 days ago
• Fixed an issue where Orum would poof in your cursor stack when you also received another item for reward during the dream tasks, your currencies will now immediately show up in the inventory tab 2 days ago
• Fixed spawn count issues in Cobalt Scar Dreamzone, also adjusted spawn timers 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue where Brogg in the Sebilis Dreamzone was on a PH rotation - This was not meant to be, he is put on his own spawn 1 day ago
[NPCs]
• Instead of barely regenerating at all, pets will now regenerate an 8th of their health per tick 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue where Traknon in the Sebilis Dreamzone was porting players to the original Sebilis on banishment 1 day ago
• Mistmoore Dreamzone Vampires and Werewolves are now in abundance 1 day ago
• Mistmoore Dreamzone dark residents updates will now count from any Dark Elf 1 day ago
• Fixed an issue with the Kael Dreamzone in which there were not enough adjutants to go around! 1 day ago
• Made drastic pet scaling adjustments 2 days ago
[Spells]
• Fixed an issue with several spells that were being sold, and certain listing of the spell merchants 22 hours ago
• Removed over 20 "strike" spells from the spells Merchants as they are simply proc results of their "non-strike" spell 1 day ago
• Adjusted 'Blessing of Assurance' Cleric spell to reflect 14% as opposed to 9% and a max level of 200 (Requires Server Reboot) 1 day ago
• Fixed issue with Cleric pets where 'Infallible Hammer of Zeal' and 'Devout Hammer of Zeal Rk. III' pets were flip flopped 1 day ago
• HOTFIX: Because Runic Swirl Aura was removed from the game, it's ID was replaced with another spell and was actually causing damage to players when server wide MGB's occur or Superior buffs are casted upon a player. This has been hotfixed 2 days ago
[Zone]
• Mistmoore Dreamzone spawn timers have been reduced to 10 minutes 1 day ago
• Sanctum Somnium should crash dramatically less, I have one issue to work out but it should be good to go in the meantime 2 days ago
[Loot]
• Upped the drop-rate on 'Morell's Crystal Embalmed Subconscious (Q) 22 hours ago
[Players]
• Players will now be invulnerable in the Plane of Skill while training with combat Sensei Kruchek and still skill up dodge type abilities 2 days ago
[Progression]
• Added ability to view the Story Cutscene 'What happened to Morell Thule...' again once you have gone through it on your character. You can do this by hailing Morell Thule at any time after this stage... 1 day ago
• Fixed a small sequencing issue with Duke with a part of '(PP) Morell Thule, the Dream Catching' where instead of 'Speak to Duke` it is now 'Bring the Completed Dream to Duke' 1 day ago

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[oslander]

This really needed a new topic?

edit - Pretty sure of all emu knows is what I am saying.

[Weldarr]

All I can say is fantastic Akka!! Truly awesome work. Despite what any wannabe devs may say, the server looks amazing.


-Vaion
The Hidden Forest

[Akkadius]

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The Heroes on Akka's Funhouse have unfolded on a journey which has brought them across the fabrics of time.
This time they will need to be challenged by no other than the ancients themselves in the tower of Relic to prove their worthiness for the next big stage.
Heroes will find themselves fighting very large encounters, new quests and expeditions.
The Ancients in Sands of Time will help the heroes find their way to their new destiny.

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Coming Soon!

[Denburxx]

is this still around really miss playing here

[Akkadius]

is this still around really miss playing here

It is not around currently ;(

[Maze_EQ]

Blood of the akkadian needs to come back.

Seriously, best server ever dude.

[bakajikara]

Yes I love see this server make a comeback I miss it also.

[Akkadius]

Aww, thanks guys.

Which server? Akka's Funhouse and Blood of the Akkadian were two different servers.

[Denburxx]

both are awesome in their own way would be awesome for both to make a return but. if only one would be available i'd say Blood of the Akkadian for others to be pleased me i just miss the fun servers that were around a year ago lolz

[bakajikara]

I agree on booth I like try Blood to.

[Denburxx]

maybe be a christmas present for us lol

[Maze_EQ]

Blood of the Akkadian.

I never had so much fun.

[Knowfear99]

Aww, thanks guys.

Which server? Akka's Funhouse and Blood of the Akkadian were two different servers.

Akka's Funhouse was the best time I had on any emu server. It sucked that it went down after a few of us put a lot of effort into the Akka Forum and the support we did for players on the funhouse. =(

It was worth it. It was devastating that it went away.

Phrozen

[bakajikara]

I was a long time player there to and donated quite a lot over my play time to

[Mortykins]

Amazing stuff Akkadius, really cool video too :)

Morty

[Denburxx]

Yea Funhouse one of the best servers on emu list ever. so much time and effort went into it and you can tell by the level of details and thought process.

[Monqu04]

Missing Funhouse here !!

[bakajikara]

Yes it needs make a comeback I like play on it again to

[Burningsoul]

I'll always have fond memories of going Super Neckbeard Level 3 and pulling a 28 hour shift zerging those progression zones with Temples of Syrinx. This server set a bar for random mudflated loot and metric fucktons of fun.

[microlo]

is this server no longer active?

[Akkadius]

I could bring Funhouse back, however it was brought down because it was an added stressor in my life that I could no longer keep adding new things with.

I could have kept it up, however to me it was a bit of a conflict to be running EZ server and it at the same time.

I run EZ now because Hunter passed away and asked me to take care of it if anything were to happen, so here we are almost two years later

[bakajikara]

It up you my friend if you wanted bring it back or not i just thought it be a nice place just mess around on and all. I hope you yet have all account info etc yet if do bring it back as i had a decent little army i ran there.

I also thought about coming to EZ server play dont know yet what i want do really. I assume it keeps updated newest source and all as i like test clients more play really be honest. Looking for a server that has new Guild Bank fix in ROF2 would like see that in action be nice.

[Akkadius]

I could look at bringing it back in the next month or so, let me think about it

[Maze_EQ]

Blood of the Akkadian or bust.

[Secrets]

Blood of the Akkadian or bust.

bust of the akkadian

[mallekius]

Funhouse plz !!!

[microlo]

I would totally play on this server if it came back. I love being a mage so hopefully its mage supportive, but please bring back.

[Myaccountisbroken]

*stands here looking innocent* ..... oh, oops lol ;)

[ChaosSlayerZ]

I could bring Funhouse back, however it was brought down because it was an added stressor in my life that I could no longer keep adding new things with.

I could have kept it up, however to me it was a bit of a conflict to be running EZ server and it at the same time.

I run EZ now because Hunter passed away and asked me to take care of it if anything were to happen, so here we are almost two years later


This is a later comment, but... You are an amazing person Akkadius. You have my utmost respect. Thank You for everything you have done for the Emu and its users.

[Akkadius]

This is a later comment, but... You are an amazing person Akkadius. You have my utmost respect. Thank You for everything you have done for the Emu and its users.

Thank you for the kind words Chaos, it means a lot to receive that level of appreciation and at the end of the day I think that's what any of us who work on this project want.

[bufferofnewbies]

Now get back to work before we dock your pay!

[Samhayn]

Hate for my first post to be a thread necro, but all of my favorite servers have been going down recently and not coming back, starting to wonder if it is me :( Wanted to add a vote for bringing back funhouse, was the first server I ever played on and the most fun. So much content, would so love to go back to it this summer. If you are still considering it Akka, I bet a lot of people would be very happy to see it.
Thanks!

[ajstyles65]

Hate for my first post to be a thread necro, but all of my favorite servers have been going down recently and not coming back, starting to wonder if it is me :( Wanted to add a vote for bringing back funhouse, was the first server I ever played on and the most fun. So much content, would so love to go back to it this summer. If you are still considering it Akka, I bet a lot of people would be very happy to see it.
Thanks!

To be honest it was my 2nd emu server played but it was my most favorite and never really understood why it had to go down. Was alot of fun and there is no server today that could ever come close to being funhouse would also love to see it back up one day

[Kailow]

I had a lot of fun on this server, was hoping it was just on hiatus for a little while. Any chance that it would be coming back?

[shadeknight]

I think Akkadius is dedicated to EZ.

[Akkadius]

I shut it down because I took on running EZ, but if there really is a ton of people that want me to bring this back I just might, but I can't guarantee being able to add things to it etc. At the very least it could be up in the form that it was.

[Kailow]

Wow, that would be awesome Akkadius. Maybe do a character wipe and let people start over?

[shadeknight]

I mean, I wouldn't mind the form that it was.

[Maze_EQ]

I'd be back.

[daerath]

Never played on it, but I definitely would if it came back.

[epilz]

would def play if brought back

[Maze_EQ]

would def play if brought back

Imu buhd

/10charfuck

[Thorkinal]

Bring it back Akka, let's do this.

[bakajikara]

Yeah open way it was it was something do man kill time i really loved playing there.


Some people donated bought lot donator items there and for one i did and i was be wipped i want my items back lol

[shadeknight]

I'd even be up for running a guild or something for doing the SoT/VoM content as a group.

[bakajikara]

I had a guild there used raid the raids he put in. Also if he brings back i hope supports ROF2 as it only clinet i have and use anymore i gave up on anything older while back.

[ajstyles65]

Mate bring it back even if you don't update it that is fine we just wanna play lol I sure miss my ranger let us know bro :)

[Kailow]

Akka, we love you.

[Akkadius]

Alright, I'll work on bringing it back. You guys yanked my chain enough :)

[EQEMU2010]

I never played this but it looks pretty fun and promising perhaps!

[bakajikara]

Alright, I'll work on bringing it back. You guys yanked my chain enough :)

YAY you know i come back please support ROF2 if not hard do as i have no ideal where my UF is anymore man but have to i dig it up lol.

[Akkadius]

YAY you know i come back please support ROF2 if not hard do as i have no ideal where my UF is anymore man but have to i dig it up lol.

Well duh

/10char

[shadeknight]

Awesome, Akk :) Thanks so much.

[Maze_EQ]

Yay, guess I'll make a new set of toons, my wizard kinda staled off after a while.

[ajstyles65]

Dude best news I have heard in awhile. I would suggest a wipe but there were donors and I had my pet ear ring and my moonstone compass so I wouldn't wanna lose those 2 took ages to farm xD in any case I really can't wait to play again. Thanks Akkadius.

[Kailow]

I just got home from work and saw Akka's response, and i'm EXCITED!! I feel like a kid on christmas eve right now, haha

[c0ncrete]

this is pretty good news to come back to. :)

[bakajikara]

Dude best news I have heard in awhile. I would suggest a wipe but there were donors and I had my pet ear ring and my moonstone compass so I wouldn't wanna lose those 2 took ages to farm xD in any case I really can't wait to play again. Thanks Akkadius.

Hope you dont plan on using a client newer UF as i recall moonstone dont show crazy stats on it far i remember and it was hell farm them yes.

[Kailow]

Was boxing allowed on this server? I forgot

[shadeknight]

I don't believe so. If it was, it was minimal or I never noticed anyone doing it.

[ajstyles65]

There was no need to box at akka's server when I played would login spawn my pet from ear ring and he would literally destroy. I did at one time allow new beginners to use my ear ring even at the risk of being cheated just so they would get a perm pet to use lol

[br00kster]

Really looking forward to this - what's the ETA if any?

[bakajikara]

At end he had some raid stuff do you need a group people do them or more i can assure you that we killed raid mob a frew times my guild did back day.

[Kailow]

Whats everyone going to be playing when the server comes back up?

[shadeknight]

Either one of my favorite tank classes (paladin/shadowknight) or a DPS class (beastlord/bard/ranger) - depending if I'll be soloing a lot or not :P

[Maze_EQ]

Most likely do bard or necro.

[epilz]

Most likely do bard or necro.

Lies. You know you will play a damn female iksar SK

[Maze_EQ]

fuck, you're probably right.

[Akkadius]

There's not specific ETA because there's a decent amount I'll have to do to bring it up to date including expedition core code and custom core code that is now completely changed with stock source.

I am looking to bring this up for you guys relatively soon, it doesn't hurt to keep it up indefinitely in its current form.

[shadeknight]

No rush, Akka :)

[Kailow]

This might just be me saying this, but could you put it up in its current form?

[bakajikara]

I play my old chars if they yet there i had all good classes far i remember and add me in some rouges if didnt have any lol

[bakajikara]

and i rather him get code up date so guild bank etc works as i know i have stuff in GB or used to so take your time Akk and look forward coming back to the best server i ever played on man.

[Maze_EQ]

Shit, I just want blood of the akkadian back.

[ajstyles65]

Shit, I just want blood of the akkadian back.

What on earth is that? :P I want my pet ear ring

[orchard990]

Oh. My. God. When will this server be back?

[shadeknight]

Soon, as he said. He's gotta update core parts of the server.

[Maze_EQ]

What on earth is that? :P I want my pet ear ring

Blood of the Akkadian was Akkadius' custom server.

Wasn't as crazy as funhouse, but it was challenging. Until I found out that SK+Willsapper=opaf

[Phantons]

Blood of the Akkadian was Akkadius' custom server.

Wasn't as crazy as funhouse, but it was challenging. Until I found out that SK+Willsapper=opaf

Holy crap I totally forgot about Blood of the Akkadian! I did enjoy that server.

[ajstyles65]

Lol server is gonna have quite a decent pop I bet :)

[Maze_EQ]

Akka, I need dis <3

[Kailow]

Akka, I need dis <3

What Maze said

[ajstyles65]

What Maze said

What Maze and Kailow said =)

[Maze_EQ]

I hope he does a char wipe so we can all race.

[Kailow]

race would be so out of it for me, i've got a full time job to juggle with this

[Maze_EQ]

Me too, but I can make time to pwn.

[bakajikara]

i wouldnt care if wiped but i dont want loose what i donated for as it was a lot i payed back day. And a wipe i think will make lot old timers mad who put many hour in server and be honet i am one who played and donated a lot to server back day.

[Maze_EQ]

Donations would most likely be tracked and regiven via /claim, atleast I'd think so.

But a fresh start is great because everyone gets a chance to re-experience.

[Kailow]

any updates, Akka?

[ajstyles65]

-stalks thread-

[Akkadius]

As soon as I have time, maybe this week, have to find the server database again

[rhyotte]

Sweet. Can't wait to check it out!

[Maze_EQ]

ding dong witch is dead.

[Akkadius]

I think I finally found where it is, was sitting on a shutdown VM that I could have accidentally deleted by now.

I'm looking at getting it revived.

[Maze_EQ]

Sweet stuff.

By the way, how can I reach your, I want to discuss your auto database updater and some other things.

[ajstyles65]

Not to be pushy but any updates Akkadius? Have not heard from you in awhile. Cheers mate

[shadeknight]

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Here's the latest updates

[Kailow]

god i miss this server so much

[Emoo]

So this is almost ready, right? :)