Monday, August 15, 2005

The Current State of Things

I haven't played Rose in quite a while now.

A few days ago, I was still playing Lineage II on the KittenKatKlub private server...

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But now, I'm on to Conquer Online. O_O

It's... all right. But it's not as madly addicting as Rose was, nowhere near that at all.

Anyway, based on RoseGuru, it seems that there's a PvP hack that allows peeps to attack anyone in town. The hack was released on Gamerzplanet.

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And... Oh hell, shall copy & paste, since this guy, Faseli on RoseGuru, seems to have summed it up well:

LOL, it's worse than ever before.

The value of the Vital Jam +5 has skyrocketed to double what it was before.

Mana Jams have gone down from billions in value to only roughly 7-10 million.

Mask of Lies and several other Union items have been duped/exploited to hell, significantly decreasing their value.

Since duping has been a lot harder as of recent, the prices of even duped gems have gone up slightly.

And, that's not all, about a week ago unique duping exploded to new heights before it was patched, so you'll surely be seeing hundreds of people with uniques.

To my knowledge, there are now more Shining Fingers than either Chakrams or Zamadars; more Bows of Sagittarius than either Bows of Artemis of Bows of the Fairies; more Fausts than Gatling Multi-Launchers; more Firangi-Firangis than Falchion-Gladii or Falchion-Firangis; more Chronicle Staffs than Lunar or Shining Staffs; more Crystal Wands than Coyote or Dust Wands; et cetera. So, obviously, all level 3 uniques were duped, and many clans are responsible for putting uniques in the hands of their members and the public (naming them would be pointless as it doesn't matter anymore, and would get me on their KoS lists).

There are less hackers than before; most people playing exploit bugs that allows one to do something such as dupe, and if not that, leech from the hackers/dupers and the fruits of their lack of labor.

Unless you've spent a considerable time on a character, have a unique/billions of zuly, or connections of your own; iRose is certainly not worth putting much effort or time into at its current FUBAR state. It's in a sad state, unfortunately with no foreseeable reprieve from the top-heavy economy and partial nudity.


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The issue of IRose and GamesRouter's contradictory statements have yet to be resolved as well. (GamesRouter: IRose will close; IRose: IRose will not be closing on mid-August as being said; someone's reply from GamesRouter again stating IRose will close...)

GamesRouter's people are being dodgy about the whole thing as well on their own forum.

So yeah, just repeating the conclusion that the game is quite fucked up at the moment. Sadly so, in fact. T_T

UPDATE: More takes on the definition of "FUBAR"...

#1 as defined by whatis.com

#2 Kupfel gets quoted: "Actually it's not 1. F*cked up beyond all reason. I suppose that abbreviation was invented later. It's actually misunderstandment of the german word 'furchtbar', which means horrible or frightening. I think it's from one of the world wars where Americans heard Germans say that. They had that in 'Saving Private Ryan' too (I think it was that movie ._.)."

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Random Pics from Lineage

Yeah, this ain't a post on Rose.

I have no idea if Europe Rose has launched, nor do I have any idea of IRose's fate. I'd check it out after this entry and after some sleep.

Anyway, I've been playing a lot of Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, so here's some cropped screenshots.

Only Dark Elves here in the screenshots...

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Pretty NPC Gatekeeper Merian.


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Pretty NPC & Kupfel.


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Pretty NPC & me.


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Kupel & me in another reincarnation.


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