Rise of Norrath
 

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.
• 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.
• 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 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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Maybe get past the filter content into tiers?

apparently more than he's paying for server hosting

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/-MgOyclgehZ...00/Scrooge.jpg

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.

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

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

What do you mean by rewriting my spell system?

love it! Haha

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.

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!

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 for every non-visible slot, secondary slot, range slot, and ammo slot that rank up to 100.
• The ammo slot item 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 for quality of life and ease of access.
• Leveling zones with a hotzone modifier for 1-70.
• Tier zones for progression post 70.
• Custom Epics with modified effects.
• Augments that increase your statistics and make your damage scale higher.
• All NPCs are on a 15 minute respawn timer.
• Instances NPC 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.

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.

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

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 -

1. AA Tokens dropping has been disabled, this is due to them being slowly removed from circulation for future content.
2. 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.
3. Statistics on armor have been drastically decreased in order to allow for future content on the server.

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

I feel this is going to be a Kimura.

Up, raving about content.

Down a week later.

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.

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.

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.

1. Tier items now require you to acquire your class shard, a mold, and the previous tier item.
2. Augments can now be farmed in Survival Missions in the Arena, each with a specific task.
3. Epics will require you to be flagged for a specific Tier and acquire an Epic Mold and Class Shard.
4. Class Shards now drop off of a custom boss.
5. Augment fragments no longer drop.
6. AA Tokens no longer drop.
7. Accessory progression items are removed.
8. All Tier NPCs have been globally scaled to make the content less solo-friendly and more group/box friendly.
9. AA Conversion has been removed.
10. Experience buff has been removed.
11. Pets now scale in a way that keeps them inline with melee classes.
12. Noobie charm has been removed due to how high the stats were.
13. 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.

Wipe incoming?

Might rejoin lol