Yearly Archives: 2008

Tales of Pirates: New Expansion Preview

The Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com/) team will bring more surprises to their players in the New Year, so here is a little preview of what new elements are to come in the game.
Rebirth:

Rebirth plays an important role in the game; it will grant you great power.
After being reborn, your abilities will be greatly improved (attack and defense), and you will own wings which allow you to fly, you can also choose a Secondary Profession again. Skill points and stats will be reset.
In addition, your stats will be increased according to your rebirth times, and you will still own the rebirth skill.
Champions can summon an ancient beast to attack enemies.
Crusaders have considerably better attack power.
Sharpshooter’s new skill can melt steel.
Seal Masters possess magic power from hell.
Clerics can greatly increase the defense of friendly targets and heal friendly targets.

Sacred War

Undoubtedly, Sacred War is an indispensable part of ToP. There exists two factions during the war, one is the Navy, and the other are the Pirates. You can either team up with other players to fight, or only fight for yourself. The war will exist everyday. The map can hold 90 players.
You or your team needs to destroy the Hero Statue of the Navy or the Pirates so as to win the war.
Some new NPCs will also get involved in the war, and you can’t ignore them.

To Get Married

The big holy church, a romantic date, special invitations, gorgeous fireworks, a ceremony goblin and various events are what you can have during the wedding.
Since then players should find the Church NPC and make a marriage reservation, and buy church tickets and invitations.

New Events
There will be some adjustments made to the Ironman 6 Triathlon according to players’ conditions. Some romantic events will be held on Valentines’ Day Feb 14th.

New Set

Do you still remember the Costume Contest? Some new sets are actually players’ own creative ideas. To see some new sets check out:

Others
Reading Books System and 12 Golden Palace are also very interesting. We will tell players about them in future news. So keep a close eye on our official website.

Rebirth, Sacred War, New Events and New Sets will be released in approximately 1 month.

For more info visit the official Tales of Pirates site: http://top.igg.com/info.php?articleId=807

Myth War: Gifts For Pet Fights

Pet system is very important in Myth War Online (http://my.igg.com) .Players who win the pet fights will be rewarded with 100 integrals and an Evil Egg.
Each pet has different skills and different advantages that they use to assist you. Even underappreciated pets like the Bloodpede and Anteater have their strengths. Well, during the New Year we decided to put the pets to the test and see who had the most fearsome pet.
Fighting began with a GMs announcement, and although many players participated, it came down to NoxiousOrchid from Server 3 as the final winner. Overcoming 20 players is no small feat as player juzz will tell you. Juzz defeated most of his opponents until being shown the exit by player Argent.
With the 1st pet fight successfully concluded, we hope that more players begin training pets to fight harder next time. To all those that participated but didn’t win, better luck next time! About the details of this event, please click here. http://mw.igg.com/modules/news/displaynews.php?parent_id=2&url=/uploadfile/text/20080109/1199862107.htm

The first round winner of Pet Fight as follow:
Missouri: Bakal Roline
Achernar: EluneFlare Dayree
California: NoxiousOrchid Argent
Alps: Keira Plami

Voyage Century: Big Reward For Card Contest

Voyage Century Online (http://vc.igg.com ) will prepare big reward for all players in the coming contest. The Christmas Card Contest held by Voyage Century has already ended, and since many players think this kind of contest is meaningful and interesting, we have decided to hold a second Festival Card Contest. The VCO Anniversary Equipment will be your big reward this time.

Event Location: VCO Festival Card Section
Event Duration: Long Term
Prize: 500 item mall points for every card which is accepted by VCO!
If your works for every festival are accepted by VCO, you will be rewarded with VCO Anniversary Equipment.
Anniversary Equipment:
Anniversary Necklace: Increases HP recovery speed by 300%
Anniversary Amulet: Increases HP recovery speed by 300%
Anniversary Ring: Increases HP recovery speed by 200%
Event Rules:
1. We will open all the festival zones, and your works should be titled with the corresponding festival names and posted in the corresponding festival zone.
2. Participants should post their works with their accounts, server names, and gender.
3. Your works should be related to Voyage Century.
4. Replies containing offensive/vulgar/obscene language are prohibited.
5. Your works should be original, and if there are duplicates, the one posted first will count.
6. If some of your works are really good, you will be rewarded.
7. If your works for every festival are good, you will obtain extra rewards, and your name will be listed in the “Voyage Century E-Book” forever.

For more details, please visit here: http://vc.igg.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=23600&extra=page%3D1

The Latest Information on Zu Online

The open beta test of Zu Online has lasted over 20 days. Since the open beta test was released, the Zu team has been working diligently to collect bugs and suggestions, with a patch being released next week to solve some of the problems found in Zu Online.
Besides, a new region named Little Sky will be released in late January. (It has been said that the Boulder Immortal sealed up the Seven Northern Immortals in the Little Sky. The way there is a twisting cloud path that winds through a silent bamboo forest and Starfalling Cliff.)
Little Sky is only accessible to high-level players, who can challenge high-level monsters and appreciate the beautiful scenery. In addition, the first instance region—Righteous Pagada will be released in late January as well. Happy gaming!
More news visit official website: http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=348

Build the Best Character

Build the Best Character
As players progressing deeper and deeper into the Elf Online, they will ask the question: how do I built my character? What is the best statistic solution?

Now, let’s have a quick view over how do advanced players build their characters of different career

Magician: As the career tutor said, magician and his equipments need wisdom, stamina and luck. However, luck in current beta version has little effect, so player should add more stats to wisdom and stamina. Wisdom affects the magic attack directly and stamina character’s survival. Personally speaking, agility is not so important, the chance of miss depends more on the level disparity between character and monster or characters. When it comes to the fighting between magicians, higher agility will help get the upper hand. Magician is good at single attack and group attacks, so some wisdom is needed. Player who prefers fighting alone need more stamina. Three points of wisdom and two points of stamina concurrently is recommended.

Rover: Agility and stamina is important to rover. They need stamina at the beginning, and then transfer all points to agility after jobbed. Agility before jobbed can only lead to increase accuracy and dodge, more agility after jobbed will increase accuracy, dodge and attack at once. Rover has two branches: rover of high agility can become a attacker of high attack and high dodge, while the rover of more stamina will grow into an assistant. From the perspective of leveling up, three points of agility and two points of stamina concurrently is recommended. If you wanna duel with others, you’d better add some wisdom when reach advanced level in order to keep enough MP for the different kinds of assistant skills.

Soldier: Soldier is equipped best. Advanced equipments can increase much in stamina and strength. So what’s the orientation of Soldier? To be of high-strength? Actually, attack is not low, but compared with the critical hit of rover and the multiple attacks of master, it’s a little bit…. Agility to rover has the same effect as strength to soldier, however, to rovers, agility will increase accuracy and dodge on the same ground. Therefore, soldier should develop into the assistant, exactly to be a tank. Use sneer-at while fighting for saving action time. How helpless the soldier is! His attack is lower than master while speed is slower than rover and his skill is the worst among all jobs. There is not alternative for soldier but to be a tank with the equipments of high defense and high stamina. Four or five points of stamina or certain strength or agility is recommended.

Scholar: Stamina and wisdom mostly. The more stamina to be added, the better it will be. More wisdom is also needed. Keep MP meeting the ends for it can be added after one round of fighting. Stamina is in the primary position, for more stamina can guarantee the security of you and teammates better. Specific adding scheme is up to your favor.

For character build of senior career. Please stay tuned with us.
More information please visit: http://elf.happymmo.com/game/
Enjoy yourselves in the game.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE™ IS FIRST MMORPG TO SUPPORT MICROSOFT’S DIRECTX 10 GRAPHICS AND NVIDIA GEFORCE GRAPHICS PROCESSORS

Award-Winning Online Game Now Features Industry-Leading Graphics
WESTWOOD, MA – January 7, 2008 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ has become the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) to support the Microsoft DirectX® 10 API and NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors for stunningly realistic imagery.  The Lord of the Rings Online, named the 2007 PC Game of the Year 2007, now offers gamers with DirectX 10 graphics cards the most immersive online experience available today.
Players can now experience Middle-earth™ like never before with major improvements to The Lord of the Rings Online’s graphics, including upgraded shaders for water, particle effects and lighting for distant terrain. Players will also be treated to new levels of immersion with the new DirectX 10 exclusive dynamic shadowing features which render realistic real-time shadows in the vast outdoor environments of The Lord of the Rings Online.

“Turbine has a history of pushing the graphics envelope so we can deliver state-of-the art immersive virtual worlds,” said Fernando Paiz, Director of Game Technology at Turbine, Inc.  “We began working with NVIDIA very early in the development cycle so that we could fully leverage DirectX 10 technology to achieve our goal of creating the most complete and authentic recreation of Middle-earth.  The results speak for themselves as The Lord of the Rings Online has set the bar for what persistent online worlds can be.”

“The FPS genre has long dominated the race to better graphics but with this major update from Turbine, The Lord of the Rings Online players can enjoy graphics as good as or even better than many FPS games.  This is an outstanding achievement and the whole Turbine team should be rightly proud of what they have produced,” said Roy Taylor, Vice President of Content Relations at NVIDIA.  “This deserves the attention of the entire video games industry and all MMORPG players everywhere.  It points to a future where we will see increasing blending of genres and deeper, more immersive PC gaming experiences.  We are delighted to have been able to support this work.”

The Lord of the Rings Online delivers an interactive experience brimming with life and filled with the familiar people, places and monsters from the most beloved fantasy adventure of all time. From the quaint surroundings of the Shire to Angmar, the vile kingdom of the Witch-king, players will experience the world of Middle-earth as never before.  The Lord of the Rings Online is available for purchase at major retailers across North America. For more information, or to download a free trial, visit www.lotro.com.

Living Items are coming on the MMORPG DOFUS

Players of the MMORPG DOFUS can now enjoy a new extraordinary type of magic items: the Livitinems

Livitinems are living items like hats or rings for example. They have numerous characteristics: they can evolve by eating some items of the same type, and change their appearance with more than twenty different ways of evolutions. They can also copy the particularities of the items you already have and mainly, they’re able to talk! In fact, depending on your situation, they can talk with you and have their own behavior! For example, when you lose a fight, and there is a chance that your Livitinem will shout at you and mock you!

Elf Online GM Purchasing

Elf Online GM Purchasing
A hard struggle against the darkness king is looming ahead. Fairy Beauty asked our GM for help to purchase items and equipments in short to supply all corps in the dream land.

Everyday at random time, our GM will take a large sum of fund to the free market and purchase certain items and equipments the Fairy Beauty requested from the players who are vending there. He will use up all 1,000,000 coins he got from the fairy lady to purchase enough supplies for the corps. Though all items is in a urgent need, GM is not willing to purchase items that are marked a unreasonable price.

Dear players, take this chance, support the dream land. Take what you have to flea market. Your revenue would be generous.

More information about this event, please visit: http://elf.happymmo.com/game

Zu Online: Challenge Calamity – Thunder calamity Introduction

Today the folks over at IGG brief us on the Thunder calamity in Zu Online (http://zu.igg.com).
Once a player’s level has reached 60 they will be confronted by a very important choice; to carry on with their training or to accept the first calamity – the Thunder Calamity. If they accept the challenge then they shall have the chance to become Junior Immortals.
If the players decide to accept the challenge, they must first pay a visit to their Skill Trainer and clean up their Dishonor Points. For it is impossible for players to challenge calamity while still possessing dishonor points. Then they need go to Blue Mountain, Sky Lake, Miracle Town, Miracleblade Peak and Death World to defeat several Devils and collect their souls. The Skill Trainer must be asked to release these souls from purgatory so that they cannot disturb the challenge.
They should then get to Thunder Peak with the Thunder Stamp given by their Master and challenge the Thunder God. The Thunder Stamps come in three different colors; red, purple and azure. Each color represents a different route that they should follow.
On the way through Thunder Peak they will come across the fabled Thunder Lord. They may give the seemingly impossible task of collecting Demon Dust or the Thunder Heart. And the player may well risk their life in order to complete these tasks. But they should be careful that they don’t judge books by their covers, for some of them may well help not hinder. Even giving some useful items that can aid the journey to the center of the Thunder Peak. It is at this sacred place that the legendary Thunder God’s Hammer can be found. After the player has set eyes upon the fabled weapon they shall have the chance to complete the quest. And upon doing so there will be a rapturous clap of thunder to celebrate their arrival into the world of the Junior Immortals. At this point they must return to the Chief or their Skill Trainer to report the glad tidings.

For more please visit Zu Online official website: http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=347

Tales of Pirates: Wallpaper Contest

The new version of Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com/) will be released soon and in order to celebrate the event; the Tales of Pirates team will be holding a Wallpaper Design Contest with big rewards.
Event Content:
Players can download some of the wallpapers from the new version of the game at http://top.igg.com/wp_more.php for reference. Participants, can fully show off their imaginations by using a variety of materials; such as screenshots and doodles to make wallpaper for the new version.
Event Duration: Jan 7th to Jan 21st
Voting Time: Jan 22nd to Jan 28th
Event Rules:
1. The work should be related to TOP. You can use software (Photoshop) to design the wallpaper. Unique and original work is preferred.
2. The format should be JPG, and it should be offered 800*600, 1024*768 and 1280*1024 resolution wallpaper respectively for each piece of work. So each design needs to be posted three times, once for each resolution.
To Participate:
1. Participants should post their work with the server name, character name and TOP Logo to the correct place before Jan 18th. Your work should be titled with “TOP Wallpaper Contest”.
2. The official will select some of the best designs and hold a vote to see which the best is. The winner will be announced on Jan 28th.
3. IGG reserves the rights to use any and all designs submitted.
Rewards:
First Place (1): 500 IMP
Second Place (2): 300 IMP
Third Place (5):200 IMP.
Encouragement Rewards (8): 100IMP
For more info visit the official Tales of Pirates site: http://top.igg.com/info.php?articleId=813。