Rise of Norrath

[Kingly_Krab]

The Rise of Norrath is a project I've been working on for a couple of days or so, but I've already founded a small playerbase due to some quality of life adjustments and custom modifications.

Some quality of life adjustments are as follows:


Endless Quiver, Pet Affinity, Pet Discipline, Advanced Pet Discipline, and Permanent Illusion AAs are available for all classes at level 1 for 0 AA Points.
Skills increase to their maximum on level up.
Players heal on level up.
No corpse runs, players leave naked corpses for resurrection purposes.
Increased experience by 50 percent server-wide.
Increased experience by 75 percent in hotzones (https://i.imgur.com/BieaiZp.png).
Free starter gear, bags, and arrows on a merchant in Thundercrest Isles.
Pets no longer require reagents.

No Malachite, Tiny Daggers, or Bone Chips for pets.


Enchanter pets are able to be controlled like any other pet.
Rangers can /autofire at point-blank range.
Players have access to #peqzone, #mystats, and some various custom commands (https://i.imgur.com/lWVIyvp.png).
Nearly any race can be any class:

Exceptions would be classes without proper animations, no Barbarian Magician or Dark Elf Monk for example.


Spells and disciplines can be learned in Thundercrest Isles.
Buffs are available in Thundercrest Isles.

Some custom changes that have been made are as follows:


Melee, spell, and skill damage are scaled based on statistics and continue to rise exponentially as you progress.
Currently three tiers beyond the level 70 cap have been released with a total of ten tiers of items made.
Each accessory piece is a progression of its own, requiring AA Points to rank up.
AA Tokens drop in zones starting with the higher leveling zones and continuing into the tiers.
Epic 1.0s have been buffed dramatically and are available for 100 AA Points.
Tier shards drop in tier zones (https://i.imgur.com/tVTh8Fl.png) and are used to buy Tier items.


As a side note, we do have a website, the information is below.

Main Website: http://riseofnorrath.com/
Server Files: http://riseofnorrath.com/files.php
Allakhazam: http://riseofnorrath.com/Allakhazam/index.php
Magelo: http://riseofnorrath.com/Magelo/index.php
Online Status: http://riseofnorrath.com/online_status.php


There is a lot more that has been done, but I honestly cannot remember it all. I thought I'd make a public post for people on the server to respond to and for people who may be interested in a custom server.


Feel free to voice your questions, issues, or concerns. I will update the thread as the server progresses. Thanks!

[Esildor]

Sounds fun Kingly .. wish I had more free time to check it out!

[mjbcb0717]

I liked the server ect. Just not a fan of the beefed up defiant gear idea. May check it out again though seems a lot changed since last time it was up

[Kingly_Krab]

Defiant gear hasn't been touched, I'm just using it as a way to provide a full set of armor, weapons, and accessories for leveling players before they make it to the progression. This server is completely different from DreamQuest, despite sharing a similar name.

[adamle00]

So I have played here for a few days and while there are some nice features like auto scribe and skill ups and such, it looks like the AA grind will be soul crushing and has chased me away from the server. And I also understand the server is in "alpha" so perhaps one can revisit it later after some balancing.

In order to access the tier 1 armor farming zone, you need to buy a key off a merchant for 1k aa's to get the flag, tier 2 is 2k aa and so on up till the tier 10 key which is 10k aa. Now for 1 character to access tiers 1 to 10 requires 55000 aa's, if your boxing add another 55k for each box.

Now there are aa tokens that drop in the tier zones and so I did some grinding in BoT and was able to bang out 1000 aa's worth of tokens in an hour with 6 characters and 2 players. So while that may seem impressive, it means I need to grind BoT for 55 hours per character to get all the aa's I need for access keys. This doesn't of course count the armor tokens that need to be farmed in each zone for the armor (which ramps up from 5 tokens per piece for t1 to 50 tokens per piece for t10). Mobs in the first 3 tier zone only dropped 1 token each and not everytime.

So kingly can feel free to correct me if I am wrong on something but I just felt I would throw this out there so people know what they are getting into heh heh

[Kingly_Krab]

I increased the AA Token drop rate in Kael, Sleeper, Temple of Veeshan, Akheva, and Bastion of Thunder by 25 percent and lowered the price of the tier keys quite a bit.

Tier One is now 1,000.
Tier Two is now 1,500.
Tier Three is now 2,000.
Tier Four is now 2,500.
Tier Five is now 3,000.
Tier Six is now 3,500.
Tier Seven is now 4,000.
Tier Eight is now 5,000.
Tier Nine is now 6,000.
Tier Ten is now 7,500.

Each tier zone also gets higher and higher AA Tokens, with Tier Three dropping up to 100 AA Tokens, Tier Four will drop up to 200, Tier Five up to 500, Tier Six up to 1,000, Tier Seven up to 2,000, and Tier Eight up will drop up to 5,000 AA.

The grind becomes easier as you progress.

I also adding instancing for Kael, Sleeper, Temple of Veeshan, Akheva, and Bastion of Thunder. Lord Potato will make you an instance for 10,000 Platinum.

[Kingly_Krab]

As of today, Tier Four and Epic 1.5s have been released.

Epic 1.5s are available for 2,500 AA Points on our AA Merchant.

Statistics on Tier armor have been scaled to make them more linear.

Our custom #exp command that provides Lesson of the Devoted is now a group-buff that costs 5,000 Platinum and can be used every three hours.

More changes and information to come, feel free to come check us out.

[dotdot]

Starting zone is down, or at least you can't login if the character is logged out in Thundercrest.

[Maze_EQ]

so sad rn.............

[Kingly_Krab]

Did an emergency restart. Noticed the zone.exe had skyrocketed up to a massive 7GB of RAM somehow. Hopefully the issue is resolved.

[Maze_EQ]

Did an emergency restart. Noticed the zone.exe had skyrocketed up to a massive 7GB of RAM somehow. Hopefully the issue is resolved.

Need to:


A. Fix your damn code.
B. Fix your damn host.

Server unplayable due to 20kms ping.

[Nerdgasm]

Need to:


A. Fix your damn code.
B. Fix your damn host.

Server unplayable due to 20kms ping.

If I wasn't lazy I would copy and paste this 300 more times.

Every time I level up I lag for a good 20 seconds, even if I solo. Was a decently fun server but pretty unplayable.

[Kingly_Krab]

There's nothing wrong with my code or the host. When you're hosting a server on your personal internet that other people use, sometimes you have a spike in usage by someone else and it causes some lag. Here is a Speedtest of the server.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7005944443.png

[atrayas]

There's nothing wrong with my code or the host. When you're hosting a server on your personal internet that other people use, sometimes you have a spike in usage by someone else and it causes some lag. Here is a Speedtest of the server.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7005944443.png

upgrade to my carrier, you live near me, should offer it to you as well.

[Kingly_Krab]

That may be an option. I'll have to look in to it.

[Bunked]

Server is really well put together so far, even a casual player like myself 90 minutes or less a day can progress pretty reasonably. Tiers up to 7 currently, and augs just got put in, so besides hunting aa's for gear, can hunt augs to improve your gear/weapons. Turning out to be really fun.

[Maze_EQ]

Can either hardkore or casual af it.

Decent flow of progression.

Every upgrade feels like a decent step in power level.

Plus Kingly hotfixes shit and releases content quick.

[Nerdgasm]

Can either hardkore or casual af it.

Decent flow of progression.

Every upgrade feels like a decent step in power level.

Plus Kingly hotfixes shit and releases content quick.

How much did Kingly pay you?

[mjbcb0717]

Servers fun and all but wish I was looking for more then defiant armor to upgrade with.

[Maze_EQ]

Maybe get past the filter content into tiers?

[Splose]

How much did Kingly pay you?

apparently more than he's paying for server hosting

[Maze_EQ]

Paying me about $0

[ChaosSlayerZ]

Paying me about $0

HE CONFESSES!!
Maze openly admitted that he was PAID ($0 no less!) for his positive comments!
Children are starving while Maze is rolling in CA$H!
SHAME!
When will this corruption end???

I even found this shameless selfie Maze posted on the web right after he was paid.
If you count every coin you see here it adds up EXACTLY to 0$! (I checked)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MgOyclgehZM/T5ba3Xd5X1I/AAAAAAAAAQs/j7legUjyeOc/s1600/Scrooge.jpg

[Kingly_Krab]

apparently more than he's paying for server hosting
Let me just fork over some of my personal money to host a server that doesn’t have donations to pay for hosting and lose money every month for no reason.

Lag is to be expected when you’re on a connection shared with an entire family. If someone wants to provide hosting or pay for it, I’d definitely be willing to switch hosts, but until then it will remain on my personal host.

[Maze_EQ]

apparently more than he's paying for server hosting

I mean, you could pay me for rewriting your spell system <3

[Splose]

Let me just fork over some of my personal money to host a server that doesn’t have donations to pay for hosting and lose money every month for no reason.

Lag is to be expected when you’re on a connection shared with an entire family. If someone wants to provide hosting or pay for it, I’d definitely be willing to switch hosts, but until then it will remain on my personal host.

just saying, if you wanna be serious about running a server gotta fork over that hosting cheddar.

I mean, you could pay me for rewriting your spell system <3

What do you mean by rewriting my spell system?

[Nerdgasm]

he confesses!!
Maze openly admitted that he was paid ($0 no less!) for his positive comments!
Children are starving while maze is rolling in ca$h!
Shame!
When will this corruption end???

I even found this shameless selfie maze posted on the web right after he was paid.
If you count every coin you see here it adds up exactly to 0$! (i checked)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mgoyclgehzm/t5ba3xd5x1i/aaaaaaaaaqs/j7legujyeoc/s1600/scrooge.jpg

love it! Haha

[Kingly_Krab]

I appreciate your response. It’s nice to know the only issue you have is hosting and not anything to do with the actual server.

[Serafrym]

The idea of the server's pretty well executed - I do enjoy the scaling of spells, dmg, pets, etc - That was really well done and interesting enough while leveling.

Wish I had known before investing as much time as I did that the server was 100% soloable. I've made it through the first few tiers of content and for the most part there's 0 challenge to it - Like all solo servers.

The idea of aa's being currency, and each tier dropping more currency, without bosses or npc's dropping items (especially no items on bosses - Wtf?! Why even have those npc's in then?) makes the server one long, obvious treadmill.

Now, I understand that most servers are just "treadmills" (all mmo's are to an extent) - It's at least veiled behind mechanics, random boss drops, currency systems, challenges, etc to keep you engaged. After a couple of tiers of this aa treadmill, I lost interest - Why grind just to grind, so that I can grind? There's no incentive to try bosses (not that they're hard or have mechanics). Essentially its the leveling up experience from any other server... Permanently (minus leveling up lol).

Anyways, I liked the execution (polish) and your base systems Kingly - Hopefully the idea takes off for you, but definitely wasn't my cup of tea.

I'll probably try it in a while once the hosting issue is resolved and perhaps more added to it!

[Kingly_Krab]

The server is honestly a solo server through and through. The idea behind the AA grind is to allow people to hop on for 30 minutes and level up some of their stuff or do whatever else. I like the idea of a solo server meant for casual players.

Of course we have players that want to box 2 or even box 6, but that's their choice and it's completely unnecessary to do so.

Just a list of stuff on the server:


Accessory items (https://i.imgur.com/5CtySKn.png) for every non-visible slot, secondary slot, range slot, and ammo slot that rank up to 100.
The ammo slot item (https://i.imgur.com/ezFagBG.png) increases the statistics of your pet by 25% per rank and allows you to keep your pet inline with melee classes.
Direct Damage, Damage Over Time, Heals, and Heal Over Time spells all scale based on your Charisma.
Melee, throwing, archery, and skill damage all scaled based on your Strength.
AA Tokens drop in leveling zones starting with Kael.
AA Tokens start from 1 AA and go to 5,000 AA in value.
Custom commands (https://i.imgur.com/RW3YqX8.png) for quality of life and ease of access.
Leveling zones (https://i.imgur.com/yVEnqRl.png) with a hotzone modifier for 1-70.
Tier zones (https://i.imgur.com/CyAxdzN.png) for progression post 70.
Custom Epics (https://i.imgur.com/UUOi8HX.jpg) with modified effects.
Augments (https://i.imgur.com/5sQIFcG.png) that increase your statistics and make your damage scale higher.
All NPCs are on a 15 minute respawn timer.
Instances NPC (https://i.imgur.com/iG1ZPOv.png) for Tier zones.

There is a lot more that has been done to the server, but I can't remember it all. Feel free to come check us out and see if you like the way the server has changed.

[Serafrym]

I 100% endorse and recommend the server for solo players. As Kingly points out above, it is a very GOOD server with many features - Hands down.

[kengson]

I stopped playing because you said there was a Reset coming,and i saw no point in continuing.

Would love to restart tho,great server a little bit heavy on the grind but its a fun grind imho.

ETA on reset?Or did you decide not to do one?

Dabo

[Kingly_Krab]

After a long night of coding, I fell asleep and forgot I left some status checks in the loot and progression NPC code and players were unable to use the NPCs, get items or Platinum to drop, or even progress. This has since been fixed.

A little update -


AA Tokens dropping has been disabled, this is due to them being slowly removed from circulation for future content.
The Tier progression has been changed from just farming Tier shards endlessly to instead require you to get a Tier Mold, Class Shard, and the previous Tier piece and hand them in to Forgemaster Ezekiel (https://i.imgur.com/01Ojkro.png).
Statistics on armor have been drastically decreased in order to allow for future content on the server.

[Kingly_Krab]

The server will be transitioning in to a closed beta. During this beta, the entire server and its progression will be changing and shaping in to something less linear. After the closed beta, there will be a server wipe and everyone will start with a fresh slate. In order to take part in the beta, you'll need to join our Discord server, the invite link is below.

https://discordapp.com/invite/K3nzfSp

[Maze_EQ]

I feel this is going to be a Kimura.

Up, raving about content.

Down a week later.

[Kingly_Krab]

Hey man, say what you want, talk trash in my Discord, it's all cool. Doesn't bring your characters back or undo the fact you were AFK macroing.

[Maze_EQ]

Hey man, say what you want, talk trash in my Discord, it's all cool. Doesn't bring your characters back or undo the fact you were AFK macroing.

Doesn't undo the fact that anyone t10 was also afk macroing.

:)

Thanks for the idea of running my own "Grind" "Stat scale" server.

[Kingly_Krab]

The whole server is going to change during the closed beta, and anyone who was AFK macroing got the same treatment as you did, so don't worry, you're not special. You're welcome for the idea, hope you have fun.

[Kingly_Krab]

The server is nearly ready for release, I will continue making updates and changes to the content as necessary.
Due to the change in the way the progression works, all accounts and characters have been wiped.
A list of changes is below.



Tier items now require you to acquire your class shard, a mold, and the previous tier item.
Augments can now be farmed in Survival Missions in the Arena, each with a specific task.
Epics will require you to be flagged for a specific Tier and acquire an Epic Mold and Class Shard.
Class Shards now drop off of a custom boss.
Augment fragments no longer drop.
AA Tokens no longer drop.
Accessory progression items are removed.
All Tier NPCs have been globally scaled to make the content less solo-friendly and more group/box friendly.
AA Conversion has been removed.
Experience buff has been removed.
Pets now scale in a way that keeps them inline with melee classes.
Noobie charm has been removed due to how high the stats were.
Accessory items that are tier-equivalent will drop in the tier zones off of trash mobs to add variety to the loot.

There are a lot more changes that have been made, but too many to remember. Feel free to come check out the server.

[Maze_EQ]

Wipe incoming?

Might rejoin lol

[mjbcb0717]

Wipe incoming?

Might rejoin lol

Party already started.

[Maze_EQ]

well fuck that then

[Kingly_Krab]

In case you're looking for the server on the server list and you can't find it, the name has changed from "[Kinglykrab] Rise of Norrath" to "Rise of Norrath". This makes it lower on the list.

[Kingly_Krab]

As of just a few minutes ago, I finished the transition to our new host.

The new host is 32 GB of RAM, i7-6700k CPU @ 4.00 GHz, 2 1 TB SSDs. Speedtest below.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7085745439.png

[jabedoben]

Sounds interesting. Not showing up on the server list.

[azninvasion85]

server down

[mjbcb0717]

Probably for good, he was talking about not having time for it anymore.

[Ocellot]

Hope not, I donated $10 right before the server went down :(, and I didnt even get credit for it.

Thinking got bamboozled

[mjbcb0717]

Check his discord

[azninvasion85]

dang was likin this server

[Nerdgasm]

Did I call it? Or did I call it... rofl.

[adamle00]

You called what?!? One of the usual suspects who brings a server up to much fanfare and then after a week or 2 it poofs....is that what you called? Way to go out on a limb there =p

[Kingly_Krab]

The server is back up for those who want to mess around and play back through it, due to the loss of the VPS there was a minor rollback and a wipe of characters/inventories. Files are located here (http://uppit.com/7mbo1siogmsg). Play it or not, up to you. It's up for those interested.

[Maze_EQ]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Kingly_Krab]

After ISP being ridiculous and some issues with the router, players should be able to properly connect now.

Check our Discord here: https://discord.gg/KV3XrtG

[Kingly_Krab]

Server updates from our Discord #changelog channel.

1. Custom scaling implemented. See #server-info for details.

2. Updated to new maps, should see less mobs bouncing/falling through the map.

3. Added Tier One to Tier Ten Shields, Bows, and Charms to the loot in the zones.

4. Mobs in zones with custom loot will now be immune to flee.

5. Bows, charms, and shields are All Races/All Classes for Tier One to Tier Ten now.

6. All Tier Zones have been adjusted to a 300% experience modifier with an additional 75% hotzone experience modifier.

7. Class shard exchanges are now done through a popup window that automatically exchanges 10 Class Shards of any class for 1 of your Class Shards. This means as a Warrior you must have 10 of a Rogue Class Shard to make 1 Warrior Class Shard. This increase is in order to keep the progression rate a little slower.

8. A Loyal Individual in Thundercrest Isles is willing to trade you 1 Loyalty Credit for 100,000 Platinum. 5 Loyalty Credits buys you one Ornamentation.

9. Class Shards are now stackable and will stack up to 1,000.

10. Old hub zones have been despawned (tutorial, guildlobby).

11. Epic Weapons now require 10 Class Shards instead of 1.

12. Powersource Progression has been added with 10 Ranks of each class-specific Powersource, speak to King Valens and General Ludo for information.

13. Radiant and Ebon Crystals can be cross-converted at a ratio of 5:1.

14. Added Lord Potato (Instances) to East Karana and Plane of Tactics. If you find any other zone missing the Instances NPC, let me know.

15. Added An Ancient Lord (Shard Exchanger) to East Karana.

16. Added Enchanter Godric (Crystal Conversion) to Plane of Tactics.

17. Augment distillers now stack to 1,000.

18. Added King Valens and General Ludo to Plane of Tactics.

19. For transparency purposes, a "Total" row has been added to General Ludo just to show you how much Platinum, Radiant/Ebon Crystals, AAs, and Shards you need.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/502997000304853014/unknown.png

20. Loremaster Tolkien is now far more descriptive in what you need for each item.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/503049643354095636/unknown.png

21. Epic 2.0s have been released, speak to A Fallen Angel for more information.

22. East Karana Mobs now drop 1-3 Class Shards.

23. Forgotten Halls Mobs now drop 1-6 Class Shards.

24. All Augments with Procs are now Area of Effect, whether they're Direct Damage, Damage Over Time, Lifetap, or a Heal.

Note: This affects all ranks of Shard of Death, Shard of Life, Shard of Ice, Shard of Fire, Shard of Nature, and Shard of Rage.

25. The Tier Progression is now linear and the crafting is completely handled on the NPC. Simply speak with Forgemaster Ezekiel to view his recipes for each tier to see the requirements and click "Craft" when you're ready.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/503434377230024725/unknown.png

26. As per the previous change, Tier One will no longer drop Tier One Armor, but will instead drop the necessary Molds for each piece.

27. Caretaker Gabe (Pet Progressions) requirements have been changed and he has been converted to handle the transaction completely similar to the exchangers and Forgemaster Ezekiel.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/503450179182133261/unknown.png

28. Implemented a new command '#progress', this will show a popup window with your progress.

29. All loottables have been removed from NPCs, as we do not use any loottables and all of our loot is scripted.

30. Master of the Trees has class specific perma buffs, the items for which drop in Ferubi. Speak to him for information.

31. Implemented a new command '#petgear', this will gear your pet up with 1 of 5 Ranks of armor a weapon dependent upon your class.
a. Magician and Wizard pets get Companion's Sword of Fire Mk. I to Companion's Sword of Fire Mk. V
b. Beastlord, Enchanter, and Shaman pets get Companion's Sword of Ice Mk. I to Companion's Sword of Ice Mk. V
c. Warrior, Cleric, Paladin, Monk, Bard, Rogue, and Berserker pets get Companion's Sword of Rage Mk. I to Companion's Sword of Rage Mk. V
d. Necromancer and Shadow Knight pets get Companion's Sword of Death Mk. I to Companion's Sword of Death Mk. V
e. Ranger and Druid pets get Companion's Sword of Nature Mk. I to Companion's Sword of Nature Mk. V
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/503774757846646794/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499646950153388058/503774894857781259/unknown.png

31.1. The ranks of pet items are based on your progression.
a. Mk. I is Tier One and Tier Two
b. Mk. II is Tier Three and Tier Four
c. Mk. III is Tier Five and Tier Six
d. Mk. IV is Tier Seven and Tier Eight
e. Mk. V is Tier Nine and Tier Ten

32. A new NPC "The Gingerbread Man" has been added to the hub. He acts as a converter for Platinum to Shards, Crystals, or AA Points.

[shadeknight]

Hot damn, lots of work.

[Excuses]

Any eta on server being online?

[FievelMousey]

I say this if you was a player ever of AKK Funhouse this server is close it you get I would reccomend it ALL come try it out you will love it.

[Llars]

Having a blast on this server!

[kayshia]

Looks like the server is down

[shadeknight]

It's back up, but KK and Dread are also scrapping Rise and working on a new server from the ground up - Rise is gonna get some fun moments as a sunset.

[kayshia]

It's back up, but KK and Dread are also scrapping Rise and working on a new server from the ground up - Rise is gonna get some fun moments as a sunset.

Ahh damn! Any ideas when is the new server going to be up and ready?

Ty!

[Kingly_Krab]

http://https://discordapp.com/invite/rynBaEN

[FievelMousey]

Come check out one best servers i have say around since AKK Funhouse is no longer around this one keep you busy for a long time all.

[lupisnoctum]

It's back people! Everything's working, so come on back or give this server a try. There's tons to keep you busy for a long time.