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| OmegaDog 659th Post
 
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|  "Re(N): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc."
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Rebelling from what? The upcoming P2P?
That might be a good part of the reason, with the other good part being the Asia IP ban. Though -- we at least knew it'd eventually be P2P, even if the announcement was relatively sudden. (Er... are there any screenshots of how Prontera or other cities are currently? And, if I head to towns, I should make back-ups of all the town music and then replace the town MP3s with Glast Heim music...)
kyo717 -- I'll be on tonight (about 21:00 BBS time, or perhaps later), and I'm currently leaning toward paying for that one month of service. What's your character name again? (Mine's just OmegaDog.)
Also, with Zepy not being able to continue... does this mean the end of the misatomitsumicafe party?
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Thu 29 May 14:12] |
| Amakusa
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| "Re(2):RO: Thread#3 Discussions, Profiles, Etc" , posted Thu 29 May 18:43
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If any mmcafe people are going to pay for this game, I'll give you all my stuff. (You have til May 31.)
I'm going to play up until the last moment, just to watch all the people scurry around.
In the meantime, yes, someone should pick a 'drop off' point. I am tempted to say Lutie, but not everyone can get there.
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In other news, I hear people are dropping Warp Portals to GH at the Prontera entrances. Hasn't happened to me yet, but the time it did I got warped... to Geffen.
I found Kagami's sword in a junk yard.
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| Professor 1845th Post
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| "Re(4): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc." , posted Fri 30 May 09:39
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Im still a little confused, does this mean that the members under the regional ip bans will not be able to join us later? Are they going to do away with the international servers? Are the beta characters going to be deleted?
WHERE WILL ZEPEH GO?!?
In essence, it means that most people in the Asian region won't be able to play on iRO after the end of this month. That includes Zepy, myself, and a horde of other users.
Now, that put aside.
On a side note of illegitimate ideas, I'm wondering if the game servers will have IP banning too. Simply put, IP banning the payment page is really a half-ass deal, considering that users can probably use proxies if they're really up to the challenge.
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| OmegaDog 663th Post
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| "Re(4): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc (& more stuff)" , posted Fri 30 May 22:03:
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Im still a little confused, does this mean that the members under the regional ip bans will not be able to join us later? Are they going to do away with the international servers? Are the beta characters going to be deleted?
WHERE WILL ZEPEH GO?!?
I havent been logging in since leveling up has been a pain specially with the lag. I will pay for the first month to see if its any better.
The Chaos and Loki servers will stay -- it's just that, as the Prof noted, players from the Asian countries listed won't be able to access iRO anymore. Now, I don't know if there's any chance that other clients will, in the future, have access to the Chaos and Loki servers, just like we have the option of using the Sakray server. Of course, the Sakray server is essentially going to be a test server that's accessible to us (almost like Beta), so I don't know what the probablility of Asian access to the serious Chaos and Loki servers will be in the future. It could happen, though...
And about the lag, it got better the day after P2P was even announced. Yesterday, the max number of users I saw was about 8000, and earlier today (Friday) I only saw about 6500. It might be even better during what are North America's AM hours.
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Now, that put aside.
On a side note of illegitimate ideas, I'm wondering if the game servers will have IP banning too. Simply put, IP banning the payment page is really a half-ass deal, considering that users can probably use proxies if they're really up to the challenge.
I don't know if it would work -- nationalities were requested in the application form. And if they receive credit card numbers originating from the listed Asian nations, that might lead to some suspicion on their part. If it actually works, though, I'm sure we'll hear about it through the grapevine.
More stuff from the news section of enweb:
- Payment started 5:00 PM GMT -0800 (same as BBS time) on May 30. Just log-in to your account on the main page, and you'll see a payment option. I'll go through it soon before I play tonight.
- Open Beta accounts and information will remain on the servers indefinitely, regardless of how long you are unable to or choose not to play. I think this is, for the most part, awesome news: if the Asian clients ever get access to the Chaos and Loki servers (again, just a personal hope, not even in the rumor stages), then Asian players won't need to start from the beginning -- and the Madman's Cafe can continue its quest to reign supreme in RO/Chaos in its completeness! (Though if any of you MMCafe members gave away your items/zenny should that happen, I'll try to help out how I can -- this news would've been helpful sooner.)
- We're still limited to one account per player -- but players can pay for multiple accounts with one credit card. Also, payment per term isn't automatic -- I suppose this is one way in which the permanence of account information comes in handy should you forget an upcoming payment deadline.
Now -- for a group screenshot -- since I imagine dead branches are still going to be out in towns, might I suggest Mt. Mjolnir Map 01? The east exit has a nice suspension bridge, windmill, and floating islands that might be nice backdrops. Or, other suggestions (Glast Heim ^_^)? And, when should we meet to do it, BBS time (GMT -0800) ?
Also, Professor -- do we still have permission to create a Madman's Cafe guild should we come across emperium?
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Fri 30 May 22:30] |
| OmegaDog 663th Post
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| "SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA reincluded in iRO ...!" , posted Fri 30 May 22:19:
I think this might actually cause a lot of hurt to players that wanted to go P2P with iRO, are in these countries, and proceeded to give away all their items -- but, well, citing server opening delays, the IP bans for Singapore and Malaysia have been lifted in iRO. Whether this is permanent or temporary, I don't know -- hopefully permanent.
Link Here
This probably means I'm going to be giving back all those high-powered items and zenny one generous Singapore player decided to give me at random, if he goes P2P (since I offered to return his items)... but it at least means more (for the most part) happy players. (And if any Madman's Cafe members from those regions want to go P2P with iRO but gave away all their items -- well, I'll donate what I can, though I currently only gain about 3000z per hour of battle...)
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Fri 30 May 22:31] |
| Amakusa
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| "Re(5): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc (& more stuff)" , posted Sat 31 May 00:45
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- Open Beta accounts and information will remain on the servers indefinitely, regardless of how long you are unable to or choose not to play. I think this is, for the most part, awesome news: if the Asian clients ever get access to the Chaos and Loki servers (again, just a personal hope, not even in the rumor stages), then Asian players won't need to start from the beginning -- and the Madman's Cafe can continue its quest to reign supreme in RO/Chaos in its completeness! (Though if any of you MMCafe members gave away your items/zenny should that happen, I'll try to help out how I can -- this news would've been helpful sooner.)
I kind of thought this was common knowledge. I made up my mind and I would rather have my gear rot in the cellar than give it out; there's more than enough people handing out free gear to the novices. Despite the fact I would likely never touch that character again, I would at least like to go out with some dignity.
And besides which, I still need zeny to feed my Blue Gemstone habit. I randomly throw up Warp Portals to the Lutie cage, and people are dumb enough to jump in them.
Going around the towns, Morroc, Alberta, and Aldebaran are pretty darn inactive. Prontera and Izlude get attacked all the time now, and Geffen and Payon seem to suffer from Ice Wall madness every time I go to either of them.
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Now -- for a group screenshot -- since I imagine dead branches are still going to be out in towns, might I suggest Mt. Mjolnir Map 01? The east exit has a nice suspension bridge, windmill, and floating islands that might be nice backdrops. Or, other suggestions (Glast Heim ^_^)? And, when should we meet to do it, BBS time (GMT -0800) ?
My god, that place is deserted every time I go there. Still, it's pretty easy access.
There is literally less than 24 hours to do it, though, so someone better come up with a time. If nobody says something I'll spend my last remaining hours in Byblan (or however you spell the darn place).
I found Kagami's sword in a junk yard.
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| Gen 1609th Post
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| "Re(6): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc (& more stuff)" , posted Sat 31 May 01:08:
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Now -- for a group screenshot -- since I imagine dead branches are still going to be out in towns, might I suggest Mt. Mjolnir Map 01? The east exit has a nice suspension bridge, windmill, and floating islands that might be nice backdrops. Or, other suggestions (Glast Heim ^_^)? And, when should we meet to do it, BBS time (GMT -0800) ?
My god, that place is deserted every time I go there. Still, it's pretty easy access.
There is literally less than 24 hours to do it, though, so someone better come up with a time. If nobody says something I'll spend my last remaining hours in Byblan (or however you spell the darn place).
8 hours fro now I'll be asleep if I'm lucky. (If I a awake I'll try to go there though) How about noon or something
Chaos name: Igniz Nests
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| Radish 1288th Post
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| "Re(7): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc (& more stuff)" , posted Sat 31 May 06:13:
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Now -- for a group screenshot -- since I imagine dead branches are still going to be out in towns, might I suggest Mt. Mjolnir Map 01? The east exit has a nice suspension bridge, windmill, and floating islands that might be nice backdrops. Or, other suggestions (Glast Heim ^_^)? And, when should we meet to do it, BBS time (GMT -0800) ?
My god, that place is deserted every time I go there. Still, it's pretty easy access.
There is literally less than 24 hours to do it, though, so someone better come up with a time. If nobody says something I'll spend my last remaining hours in Byblan (or however you spell the darn place).
8 hours fro now I'll be asleep if I'm lucky. (If I a awake I'll try to go there though) How about noon or something
Chaos name: Igniz Nests
Noon works for me.
EDIT: Oops, no. Oh well, I hope I didn't miss it.
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| OmegaDog 664th Post
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| "Re(2): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc." , posted Sat 31 May 09:58:
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anyone can make a party after the first few base levels. you can name it the same thing even, as long as no other parties are using the name.
Yeah, I know about party creation. ^_^ But I was just questioining if the party would completely disappear, or if leadership rights would transfer to the second person in the party. But, if Open Beta accounts are kept indefinitely, the party will most likely not disappear. It'll just be, though, that we won't be able to add folks to it.
And it seems the Character Select server for Chaos is down and has been for a while, according to ro.pak0.com's server check page. But at least with regards to meeting up, iRO remains Open Beta until June 1st 16:00 BBS time, so we have until then to meet.
EDIT: Just came back up. Let's see if it stays up.
EDIT2: Yeah, there were a good # of players from the MMCafe earlier today (around 1:30 BBS time) -- I didn't see too many today. I might be back again around 21:30 or 22:00 BBS time.
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Sat 31 May 13:17] |
| RugalBernstein 4152th Post
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| "Re(7): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc." , posted Sat 31 May 17:47
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Since I don't have a credit card, nor money to pay the monthly fee, I'm not going to return anymore to the game, 99% sure. So, i've given all my things to Rugal who happened to be online at the same time as me, and quitted.
I've saved all of his equipment, in case it might be handy to anybody who sticks around. BTW, what is Zepy going to do?
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| OmegaDog 666th Post
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| "Prontera Open Beta Armageddon, P2P roll backs" , posted Sun 1 Jun 16:48:
Well, Open Beta for iRO has officially ended. I visited Chaos/Prontera in the last few minutes that it was still open, just to see if I could get any good deals. Didn't come across any -- but I got some screenshots of the mass chaos going on there. (Files are big -- if you're on a slower connection, I'd say the ones toward the end are more worth it, with #00 giving an idea of the # of people there. All of 'em together, though, make a nice slideshow.)
(BWAAUGH HAH HAH HAH! Coincidence -- 666 ₧! Also 66th reply...)
I'll edit this post later with more pics of the misatomitsumicafe party tackling Payon Cave.
EDIT: Man, it's just confusing what's going on with item and zenny roll back -- some people lost items, others didn't. Maybe we'll know what the heck's going on by tomorrow. A LOT of people are complaining right now, though -- I'm just thankful I was able to get another Arbalest bow because a merchant was selling it at 27% DC. (Since I paid mainly for the exploration/atmosphere/social aspect of the game, I'm actually not too peeved -- and at least I still have the exp levels from before. There are a lot of players right now, though, threatening to stop current payments.)
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Sun 1 Jun 19:00] |
| DarkZero
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| "Re(1):Prontera Open Beta Armageddon, P2P roll" , posted Mon 2 Jun 10:03
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EDIT: Man, it's just confusing what's going on with item and zenny roll back -- some people lost items, others didn't. Maybe we'll know what the heck's going on by tomorrow. A LOT of people are complaining right now, though -- I'm just thankful I was able to get another Arbalest bow because a merchant was selling it at 27% DC. (Since I paid mainly for the exploration/atmosphere/social aspect of the game, I'm actually not too peeved -- and at least I still have the exp levels from before. There are a lot of players right now, though, threatening to stop current payments.)
Hilarious. These people pay for a half-finished product with the stipulation that they help test it, essentially going to work and insisting that they give their employer a paycheck for the privilege of doing work, and now they're upset that they A) have to pay, and B) have to test the game out.
They have cash to spare on what most people would consider a con job, they have credit cards with which to send the payment, and yet, they're still dumbasses. I'm with Amakusa. That's what they get for calling people "freeloaders" for not paying for a half-finished, buggy game that they're eventually going to pay an even steeper price for.
(This is nothing against the people that are paying for the game and AREN'T whining, by the way, such as OmegaDog. If you enjoy it and think it's an okay deal, that's fine. That's great. The people that are whining, though... they are unbelievably stupid on so many levels.)
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| Hungrywolf 1995th Post
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| "Re(2):Prontera Open Beta Armageddon, P2P roll" , posted Mon 2 Jun 10:58
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EDIT: Man, it's just confusing what's going on with item and zenny roll back -- some people lost items, others didn't. Maybe we'll know what the heck's going on by tomorrow. A LOT of people are complaining right now, though -- I'm just thankful I was able to get another Arbalest bow because a merchant was selling it at 27% DC. (Since I paid mainly for the exploration/atmosphere/social aspect of the game, I'm actually not too peeved -- and at least I still have the exp levels from before. There are a lot of players right now, though, threatening to stop current payments.)
Hilarious. These people pay for a half-finished product with the stipulation that they help test it, essentially going to work and insisting that they give their employer a paycheck for the privilege of doing work, and now they're upset that they A) have to pay, and B) have to test the game out.
They have cash to spare on what most people would consider a con job, they have credit cards with which to send the payment, and yet, they're still dumbasses. I'm with Amakusa. That's what they get for calling people "freeloaders" for not paying for a half-finished, buggy game that they're eventually going to pay an even steeper price for.
(This is nothing against the people that are paying for the game and AREN'T whining, by the way, such as OmegaDog. If you enjoy it and think it's an okay deal, that's fine. That's great. The people that are whining, though... they are unbelievably stupid on so many levels.)
I woulda prob. payed 10 bucks a month for it, but it's 15 isn't it? Anyway, I'm not too sure, I think if I'm gonna pay to play online I'd rather get involved in Star Wars Galaxies. I did enjoy RO while I had it though, it was nice getting to play with you online.
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| Juan 3214th Post
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| "porntera" , posted Mon 2 Jun 11:15
I was going to throw a fit but at least they didnt leave me strip naked. And at least they kept the character data, unlike other beta test i have done where they destroy your character after your time is up. But then again this is not quite finished i mean there are still no magic user enemies along other things.
But meh im still playing and im happy i can now kill orcs without much trouble.
They should have at least issued a warning, I upgraded my equipment right before the roll back happened, so the items are gone and the money i spent on them didnt come back.
Porntera.
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Hilarious. These people pay for a half-finished product with the stipulation that they help test it, essentially going to work and insisting that they give their employer a paycheck for the privilege of doing work, and now they're upset that they A) have to pay, and B) have to test the game out.
They have cash to spare on what most people would consider a con job, they have credit cards with which to send the payment, and yet, they're still dumbasses. I'm with Amakusa. That's what they get for calling people "freeloaders" for not paying for a half-finished, buggy game that they're eventually going to pay an even steeper price for.
(This is nothing against the people that are paying for the game and AREN'T whining, by the way, such as OmegaDog. If you enjoy it and think it's an okay deal, that's fine. That's great. The people that are whining, though... they are unbelievably stupid on so many levels.)
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Did you reach priestess yet? =( 
"Re(3):Re(10): Going P2P, IP Bans, etc." 