Apr 2003

April 30, 2003 05:27 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 5/1 - Server Publish The US Lineage servers will be brought down for an unscheduled maintenance period at 10:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 1st. The servers are expected to remain unavailable for approximately one hour while we publish the content changes listed below. Giant Guardian no longer attacks chaotic players attempting to complete the level 45 knight quest. Fixed graphical issues with houses in Aden. Quest Ettin now spawns in the correct location. The wedding ring recharging NPC will now only charge a fee when a character has a linked wedding ring. Fixed an issue relative to the unusual delay with Blood to Soul. Fraoun and Yohan in the new player zone will buy a wider variety of items. Increased the delay of Elven magic Blood to Soul to 10 seconds. Drop rate of this spell crystal has been slightly increased. The location of the goddess in the Aden cathedral has been changed. The “ask about current prices” function at shopkeepers will now display the current tax rates, including castle and mayor’s tax. Corrected in-game help info regarding sound effect and background music. Aggressive monsters will now always be aggressive when morphed by players. Castle owners will no longer be able to declare war against other players. Stone-throwing giants were not always throwing their stones in rage. This has been fixed and they will now throw stones as appropriate to their level of rage (and decreased hit points.) New player zone updates: Healers now heal mana points as well as hit points. The training ground and dungeon entrances have been added to the in-game map. Training dummy AC has been lowered. Added class sets for new players. Vendors sell/buy inventory has been changed. HP/MP regeneration rates have been enhanced. Some monsters have been adjusted to be easier. Orcs will no longer react to seeing another orc being attacked. When restarting after a death, player HP/MP will be completely regenerated. New player zones are now capped at level 12. An NPC has been added who will cast haste for no charge. New player “sets” have been added. These include apprentice armor and weapons and graduation ‘gift’ items – including oilskin cloak (knight), leather armor (wizard), cloak of passage (prince/princess), and silver arrows (elf). Specific details on these items will be updated to the Equipment section of the Lineage website at the time of the publish. View comments

April 30, 2003 04:38 pm ET - research by amer Public Service Announcement Today, NC took action against many people for abusing an exploit related to castle taxes and the sale of an item from one location to another. From what was said by NC on the forums, some users were even permanently banned for prior offenses. Here is some LC advice on this matter. If you think something is an exploit (that is, you say in chat "@Hey guys, I think this is an exploit"), please report it before you start telling people about it. That way, you have some defense when NC bans you and asks why you didn't report it. View comments

April 30, 2003 12:52 am ET - research by Lineage - US Server Reset 4/30 All US Lineage servers will be brought down for a maintenance reset on Wednesday, April 30th at 10:00 AM CST. There will be no new content published at that time. View comments

April 29, 2003 11:47 am ET - research by Lineage - US NCSoft@E3 Curious about the NCsoft E3 2003 lineup? Come check out the latest screenshots and information on Lineage II, City of Heroes, Exarch, Guild Wars and more on the NCsoft E3 website! Stay tuned to www.ncsoft.net/e3 for new releases, movies, and screenshots from now through E3 (May 14-16th 2003). For more information on the E3 Expo, visit http://www.e3expo.com. View comments

April 29, 2003 11:42 am ET - research by amer NCsoft Start Commercial Service of Lineage in China from April 28 Fully geared up for serving the Chinese market with building new facilities at Chengdu, Changsha and Nanjing April 24, 2003 - NCsoft Corp. (President: Tack Jin Kim) announced it will launch commercial service of its online game, Lineage in the Chinese market from April 28. NCsoft and China’s biggest portal Sina.com have founded a joint venture, Shanghai NC-Sina Information Technology Co., LTD (NC-Sina) and have been currently providing beta services of Lineage for the Chinese users. The Joint venture NC-Sina will operate the subscription-based Lineage service in China. NCsoft signed a service license contract with NC-Sina for Lineage’s commercial service on April 21. Lineage service in China has now more than 20,000 concurrent users through eight servers in Shanghai and Chengdu. NCsoft plans to enhance its presence in the Chinese market by building new servers in the Information Data Center (IDC) in Chengdu (Sichuan sheng), Changsha (Hunan sheng) and Nanjing (Jiangsu sheng). NC-Sina aims to increase up to 100,000 concurrent users within this year. Service Fee for Lineage Service in China 25 hours: 10 RMB (about 1,550 Won) US$1.21 -amer 72 hours: 25 RMB (about 3,850 Won) US$3.02 -amer About NCsoft Corporation NCsoft Corp. (President & CEO Tack Jin Kim, KOSDAQ:36570) is the world’s leading developer and publisher of online games. Established in 1997, NCsoft quickly turned its flagship product, Lineage™ (http://www.lineage.com), into a blockbuster hit. NCsoft has joint venture offices located in Tokyo, China, Hong Kong and operates its branch office in US for North American business. NCsoft is a public company and its stock is traded on the KOSDAQ Korean stock exchange. In fiscal year 2002, NCsoft posted revenues of KRW154.8 billion or approximately US$123.3 million. More information about NCsoft can be found at http://www.ncsoft.net. View comments

April 28, 2003 07:48 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/29 - US Test Server wipe The Lineage test server is scheduled to be wiped on Tuesday, April 29th at 2:00 PM CDT in preparation for upcoming testing. This wipe of character data will occur ONLY on the US Test Server and will erase all characters that exist on the server. View comments

April 28, 2003 07:48 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/28 - US Test Server publish announcement The following has been published to the US Test Server on April 28th: Giant Guardian no longer attacks chaotic players attempting to completely the level 45 knight quest. Fixed graphical issues with houses in Aden. Quest Ettin now spawns in the correct location. The wedding ring recharging NPC will now only charge a fee when a character has a linked wedding ring. Fixed an issue relative to the unusual delay with Blood to Soul. Scroll of Remove Curse sold by Pandora price is changed. Fraoun and Yohan in the new player zone will buy a wider variety of items. Increased the delay of Elven magic Blood to Soul to 10 seconds. Drop rate of this spell crystal has been slightly increased. The location of the goddess in the Aden cathedral has been changed. The “ask about current prices” function at shopkeepers will now display the current tax rates, including castle and mayor’s tax. Corrected in-game help info regarding sound effect and background music. Aggressive monsters will now always be aggressive when morphed by players. Castle owners will no longer be able to declare war against other players. New player zone updates: Healers now heal mana points as well as hit points. The training ground and dungeon entrances have been added to the in-game map. Training dummy AC has been lowered. Added class sets for new players. Vendors sell/buy inventory has been changed. HP/MP regeneration rates have been enhanced. Some monsters have been adjusted to be easier. Orcs will no longer react to seeing another orc being attacked. When restarting after a death, player HP/MP will be completely regenerated. New player zones are now capped at level 12. An NPC has been added who will cast haste for no charge. View comments

April 27, 2003 10:19 am ET - research by FyreBlade, recamel FyreBlade ends Lich FyreBlade posted a few of his screenshots to Templar Gaming Lineage (http://www.templar-gaming.com/lineage/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12998) of his Lich adventures today. Fyreblade, a level 54 knight with 670 HP and -67 AC (85% MR), killed 2 Lich, back-to-back. Recamel told me that they spawn like FI Drake -- kill one, another appears very soon somewhere else. Here is his message: I used 300k+ of counter magic scrolls, and 370 or so condensed clears on this trip. But it wasn't about making money. Was about having fun. First lich took maybe 3-4 mins, second one was about 5 mins or so because my str/dex wore off from trying to drag mops away from him. This time I wore full MR, and I think it helped a lot. I use 85% MR the entire time. I ran out of CM scrolls half way through ending the second lich as you can see on my hotkey's, and still managed to live for last few minutes. Even though AC was low using MR items, I didnt have as much trouble as I did on my first trip ~ GL =) hopefully more people will be encouraged to hunt ToI and there will be more scrolls on ken server > Here are his drops: Lich #1 Lich #2 That Spellbook (Curse: Blind) looks like a potential drop list typo from NC.. View comments

April 25, 2003 11:01 pm ET - research by HERC, droidbuilder Valakas! Well, Valakas dared to show his face. LoA server killed him in 2 minutes. Ken in 7. On Dep server, not even Valakas could stand up to the thick pledge politics which Dep is known for, and thus, even an hour after Valakas's appearance, he lived on. HERC sent in a nice screenshot of our dear fire dragon's corpse View comments

April 25, 2003 06:38 pm ET - research by Lineage - US lineage.com Website Additions The latest Q&A responses have been added to our Team Comments section! This week, Customer Service Manager John “Rock” Erskine responds to questions submitted by players in the last few weeks via the Lineage Message Boards. In addition to the Q&A responses, we’ve also opened a Game Master section on the Lineage website. The pages within currently host brief interviews on the GMs responsible for each US server. We hope you’ll stop by and check it out! View comments

April 25, 2003 02:01 pm ET - research by amateras 4/25 - Korean Test Server publish announcement Lineage - Korea announces the following updates (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/pre_lineage/read.asp?ListNum=94&NoticeID=2&PageNum=1) to the Korean Test Server on 4/25: Added /duel command. To duel, you have to be facing each other, and the recipient has to accept your duel (exactly like /party). In a duel, there is no item-drop and no chaotic penalty. You do not have to hold Ctrl down to hit the other player. If you teleport away, you lose the duel. If you die, you lose XP. Added teleport from each town (except Orc Town) to Aden. Fixed miscellaneous bugs. View comments

April 25, 2003 11:08 am ET - research by amer Lineage Craze Takes on New Dimensions This Korea Times article reassures the fears some people have that Lineage II will cause Lineage to be pushed aside by NCSoft. Looks like Lineage will still remain the flagship product according to company spokesperson Park Son-kyoung. We are going to keep updating all the features of Lineage, focusing on players of the two-dimensional game while developing Lineage II into a realistic 3-D game world to provide a vivid action-packed experience to gamers who like to play in a different environment. Here's the full article: Lineage Craze Takes on New Dimensions View comments

April 23, 2003 03:47 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/23 @ 19:00 CT - Event LINEAGE PROMOTIONS The Dragon Hunt A rumbling tremor shook the ground, disturbing the blackened rock shards underfoot. Steam rose from the volcanic vents lining the path, eager to cook any wayward adventurers. Up ahead of the party, skipping lightly over the heated rock, two elves scouted the distant molten terrain. The female Elf, shouldering her yumi bow, turned back towards the motley party. She held up a hand in warning. “Everything ahead looks clear,” she called, “but keep your guard up. We can’t see around the next bend just yet…” Cutting back across the path, the male elf sidled up behind her to speak low in her ear. She nodded. His face deadly serious, the elf turned to look out over the assembled fighters. “He’s there. I can hear him around the bend. Are you ready?” Nodding, the assorted knights raised swords and shields bathed blood red in the glowing light of molten lava. Wizards began to quietly recite incantations as their spells of protection and power swirled colorfully around the group. The elves nocked arrows in their bows, raising them at the ready. Finally, the prince and princess eyed each other and nodded imperceptibly. En masse and with a collective battle cry, the group charged forward around the bend to Valakas. 7:00 PM CDT. Friday, April 25th. The Lair of Valakas. Depardieu. Ken Rauhel. Lands of Aden. The dragon will be waiting for you. Will you dare to show up? View comments

April 23, 2003 03:15 pm ET - research by amateras, Gunf Dark Elf Jude1004.com Lineage reports (http://lineage.jude1004.com/news/index.asp?pg=/news/view.asp&cts_id=5419) that the new class, while still unavailable, is now a choice on the character creation selection screen. You can't actually play the new class, which is widely accepted to be Dark Elf, but you can pick its stats, which may give us some insight onto what type of character it is. Here is a summary of the existing classes and the new one: Class STR DEX CON WIS CHA INT leftover Prince 13 10 10 11 13 10 8 Knight 16 12 14 9 12 8 4 Mage 8 7 12 12 8 12 16 Elf 11 12 12 12 9 12 7 Dark Elf? 12 15 8 11 10 12 7 A few observations: the maximum STR is 19 (as opposed to 18 for Elf) and maximum CON is 15 (as opposed to 18 for Elf). The initial stats seem to indicate that the main attributes for this class will be STR and DEX - perhaps a well-rounded fighter with low HP? Time will tell. Also, the description file (which was just junk before) has been updated on HK official v2.01 patch. Gunf was nice enough to email it in: They were born to and lived their lives in darkness. One day, a much respected member of the tribes stood up as leader to challenge their beliefs and he spoke to them as follows. "This world must no longer soil our tribe with blood in meaningless wars. Using our own methods, we will defy the ones who have destroyed order in this dark world and replaced it with chaos." That challenged the core of how the tribespeople had lived up until that moment. Those who followed his ideals ended up being chased away and fled to remote regions. They set up in a location, far from other civilizations, living on the edge of light and darkness... View comments

April 23, 2003 02:41 pm ET - research by Dlirk E3 - NC debuting something? Quick little note, E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2003) is coming soon (May 13-16) and it looks like NC is going to be debuting something new from the "First Look" icon that is showing up on the E3 site's exhibitor's list. According to the E3 website "So when you see the First Looks logo, take note — you'll know this exhibitor plans on debuting one or more products at their E3 booth." No idea if it is Lineage-related or not, but hopefully we'll see some of the next-generation Lineage graphics we get teased about so much or even something about Lineage 2's ETA for the US. :) View comments

April 22, 2003 04:57 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Server Reset 4/23 All US Lineage servers will be brought down for a maintenance reset on Wednesday, April 23rd at 10:00 AM CST. There will be no new content published at that time. View comments

April 22, 2003 01:54 pm ET - research by amateras LeeGiGum Bubsa 2 - Level 67 Mage On Paagrio server, LeeGiGum Bubsa 2, who was level 65 last we heard, has reached level 67, according to Lineage Playforum (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051003&kid=1941). LeeGiGum Bubsa 2 hits level 65 He didn't provide a stat update or any new screenshots to look at, but in his interview, he did mention some cool facts. :) If you recall, he started off as a STR/CON mage and added +3 STR, +3 DEX and +9 INT to get to level 65. Now that he is level 67, he added one more to INT (and one more to something else) giving him INT 22. Now, in LiTo, he can defeat level 66 Knights using only Vampiric Touch, which gives him about 100HP per hit. When he cast Firestorm twice, he took a knight from 617 HP to 450 HP. View comments

April 22, 2003 01:44 pm ET - research by amateras Level 73 - Poseidon - Korea's Gunter Server Lineage Playforum reports (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051003&kid=1940) that after 5 months, Poseidon has gained 3 levels to hit level 73. He added his latest 3 points to STR (+1) and DEX (+2). His base stats are now 25/20/24. Poseidon hunts with an elf to cast buffs on him, mostly as a financially savings measure. One of the tips he gives for levelling up (this will probably be more valuable to level 52+ characters than the rest of us) is to hunt Forgotten Island King Bugbears. He says that they do hit hard, but they don't have much HP and they give fairly good experience for the potion cost if you can kill them quickly. For fun, 0Hercules0, Poseidon, Light, Arakis and four other top-rated LiTo knights went up agains 22 level 52+ LiTo knights.. and won. The level difference really does matter alot ;) View comments

April 21, 2003 05:10 am ET - research by amer HERC hits 60 HERC, highest level knight on Ken, has reached level 60 today! He added +1 to DEX (his STR is capped out at 25) and will continue to add points to DEX until he can't any more (which would be at level 70, at which point he says he'll stop levelling). We'll bring you an interview with him when he's DEX 18. :) Congrats HERC! View comments

April 21, 2003 12:24 am ET - research by Forge Level 52 LoA Knight - Dlrmsgur It's my first day on the job and one of the first things he says to me is: This is totally my fault - I promised him an interview on 3/21 and been overwhelmed with other stuff going on :( Sorry dlrmsgur, LC does love you :) -amer Ok, here goes. Dlrmsgur is the first level 52 player on the Lands of Aden server. He is a CON knight who added both stat points to STR at levels 51 and 52, giving him 18 STR and 18 CON. His AC is -7x, and he has a +8 Tsurugi. (He hinted at +9 weapons, but wouldn't show them.) He started playing about three years ago, but left when Episode 10 came out, only to return at the start of Lands Of Aden. He does most of his leveling in Fire Valley and Forgotten Island. He is taking a break from leveling. Instead of getting 8-10 percent a day, he is only getting about 4 percent. He died twice at level 49 from disconnects. (wow, I struggle to get 10% a day at level 47) He wouldn't give me an ETA for level 53, but he did say he was going to add to dex, and that it would be soon. He would like to thank: Everyone (he actually said everyone) and especially his pledge BestOfLineage, the entire 2Soonjr pledge, all the mages and elves who healed him, and his real life friend, a level 50 elf, Telephone. "Everyone was so nice. Except for Kiss, they were out to cancel me ~.~" And here is some advice for all of us aspiring Baphomets: "Fire Valley is the best place to lvl" And some parting words: "I'll see you again when I'm level 60 ^^" Just as a side note, this is my first interview for Lineage Compendium (so excuse the lack of quirky questions like the other reporters have :P) I hope I can bring everyone up-to-date news and happenings for the Lands of Aden Server. Any questions or comments are welcomed! Message me in-game as Forge or XForgeX on the Lineage.com message boards. View comments

April 18, 2003 10:07 pm ET - research by amateras 4/18 - Korean Server publish announcement Lineage - Korea announces (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/update/read.asp?ListNum=148&PageNum=1) the following updates to the Korean Servers on 4/18: Fixed issue with the interaction of elven spells on the Blood to Soul delay. Price of Scroll of Remove Curse at Pandora has been increased. Walking speed of lesser elemental summons and greater elemental summons improved. (By ~6% and ~33%, respectively) Fixed bug with monsters other than Ettin appearing during the level 30 mage quest. View comments

April 18, 2003 02:02 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Player Q&A: Amer It’s Q&A time again, and this week we’re adding a twist! While there are plenty of behind-the-scenes team members running the day-to-day Lineage operations, the world of Lineage would be an empty landscape without the players who bring it to life. So starting this week, we’ll be running occasional Q&A’s with players who’ve gone out of their way to help bring Aden to life. In-game or out-of-game, these are the people who’ve had a significant impact on Lineage as we know it in North America (and sometimes beyond!) For our first player Q&A, you’ll have your chance to ask questions of Amer – creator and mastermind behind the Lineage Compendium and Lineage 2 Compendium fansites. Amer has been playing Lineage since June 2001 and has devoted many hours creating and updating one of the most comprehensive Lineage fansites on the web. The guidelines to remember before starting: Post only two questions. There are bound to be repeats, and we are only taking about a dozen or so. The questions need to be directed toward the subject person and their Lineage experiences. The question thread will be closed on Friday, 4/25 and is located here. View comments

April 18, 2003 12:09 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Fan Art Winner Announced The latest winner of the Fan Art Submissions has been chosen –JinRoh’s submission of “Mage and Dog”. Well done, JinRoh! You can view JinRoh’s winning submission here. Thank you to everyone who has submitted fan art! If you have submitted a piece in the past, it will be automatically included in the entries when we select our next piece of fan artwork. View comments

April 18, 2003 10:33 am ET - research by Lineage - US Lands of Aden Server Reset The Lands of Aden Server will be brought down for a brief reset at 9:45 AM CDT on Friday, April 18th. This reset will revert the experience loss changes released to the server during yesterday’s publish. View comments

April 18, 2003 01:57 am ET - research by HKLineage New Class? (Part 2) From HKLineage (http://netcity7.web.hinet.net/UserData/actc/news/200304/20030416.html), it seems that this is the next chapter of the Dark Elf rumor we mentioned earlier. These pictures were discovered on the Korean (and US) Test Servers. They belong in the Character Selection screen, but it looks like they're intentionally trying to tease us now. Will sprites be next? Or is this the longest April Fool's joke ever? View comments

April 17, 2003 09:17 pm ET - research by BigPope, ChopWiver, Sesame, amer Level 45 Quests - updated Thanks to ChopWiver who corrected some unclear and misleading parts with our Knight Level 45 Quest guide. You can see it here. Some people were having problems with Jimu saying something unexpected to them. If you have this problem, it's usually because your Lineage installation was at one time used to connect to Test Server. You will need to reinstall Lineage if you have that problem (as NC mentioned twice last week). Using different shortcuts to launch Lineage doesn't mean anything. If you want to play on Test and Live, you need 2 separate directories. Knight Level 45 Quest I also just quickly finished the Mage Level 45 Quest and updated the guide with the correct names and pictures for our servers. (Special thanks go out to Sesame for finding the precise locations for the Mage Quest) Mage Level 45 Quest Also for the Elf Level 45 Quest, if you aren't getting the drop from the Ancient Apparition, it was suggested on Templar Gaming that you should speak to Heit a second time, after getting the Conch shell. If you have corrections for the quests, please email me :) View comments

April 17, 2003 04:48 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Server Reset All US Lineage servers will be brought down for a brief reset at 4:30 PM CDT on Thursday, April 17th. We will be correcting an item-related issue with this morning’s publish. Servers are expected to be down 5-10 minutes. View comments

April 17, 2003 04:30 pm ET - research by amer Level 45 Quests Looks like completing the Level 45 Quests is top priority on all US servers right now. I stopped by Ken during work to check out the scene and was pretty happy to see that everyone was cooperating and helping each other complete the quest. At the elf quest line to kill the Ancient Apparition, it was nice to see mages like HellBovine and SafirAzul taking some time to heal every elf up against the apparition. The only potion I saw being pumped was the one on the left :) View comments

April 16, 2003 07:56 pm ET - research by Leilo lineage.com Just got this note from Leilo over at NC, thought it might be of use to everyone: Hey everyone – Just want to let you know that the Lineage.com website is currently unavailable. We’re working to get it back up and visible as quickly as possible, but it may be inaccessible for several hours (message boards may be down for longer). We’ll post some news on the site about it as soon as we can. View comments

April 16, 2003 06:10 pm ET - research by amateras 4/16 - Korean Live Server update (3 of 3) The following updates (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/update/read.asp?ListNum=147&PageNum=1) were published to the Korean Live Servers on 4/16: Number of Dire Wolves summoned has been changed to be CHA based: CHA 8-10: 1 Dire Wolf CHA 11-17: 2 Dire Wolves CHA 18+: 3 Dire Wolves Blood to Soul delay has been increased to 12 seconds, however, currently if you cast other magic with delays, the delays will add up, which is not the desired effect. That issue is being worked on. View comments

April 16, 2003 06:10 pm ET - research by amateras 4/16 - Korean Live Server update (2 of 3) The following updates (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/update/read.asp?ListNum=146&PageNum=1) were published to the Korean Live Servers on 4/16: Newbie zone has been adjusted to increase newbie gameplay experience. (See previous post) When you look at taxes through NPC, it separates out castle taxes and town taxes. Blood to Soul drop rate has been increased and delay has been set to 12 seconds. Aden Church NPC location has been changed. Also, you can now get married at the podium at the front of Aden Church, as opposed to at the NPC. The number of Dire Wolves that you can summon using the Ring of Summon Control works differently than other summons. View comments

April 16, 2003 06:09 pm ET - research by amateras 4/16 - Korean Live Server update (1 of 3) The following updates (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/update/read.asp?ListNum=145&PageNum=1) were published to the Korean Live Servers on 4/16: Level limit of newbie areas (Hidden Valley and Singing Island) has been increased to 12. Newbie items have been added and newbie monsters will drop them. You can sell newbie items and fruits back to newbie merchants. Added Greater Haste NPC to the newbie towns. This haste will not stack and is free. HP/MP regeneration rate has been increased for newbie areas. If you die and restart in the newbie areas, you come back with full HP. Scarecrow HP has been lowered, so levelling off the scarecrow is faster. Newbie monster spawn rates have been increased, but the stronger newbie monsters have been weakened. Training Ground and Dungeon now appear on the Map. View comments

April 16, 2003 01:57 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/17 - US Publish Announcement The US Lineage servers will be brought down for an unscheduled maintenance period at 10:00 AM CDT on Thursday, April 17th. The servers are expected to remain unavailable for approximately one hour while we publish the content changes listed below. Please note: Failure to patch this client properly will result in an inability to connect to any US Lineage server. Because of this, we urge that if you have in any way modified your game client (by using the same client to connect to Test and Live servers, connecting to non-US servers, manually modifying any configuration files, shortcuts, etc) you completely uninstall and reinstall the Lineage client as soon as possible in order to avoid service interruption when the new client is released. You may find instructions for install/reinstall in our Support Knowledge Base and the current version of the US Lineage client on our Download page. All US Lineage Servers The level 45+ quests for Mages, Elves, and Knight have been released Added housing to the Aden slum area Volume control for sound has been added. Instead of an on/off toggle, volume may now be adjusted using values from 0-100. 0 will turn off sound. Sounds may fade in and out based on their distance Item window will now reflect items repaired by blacksmiths immediately Nightmares may no longer be resurrected and will now see through morph Cimaeras will now see through morph Lindvior has been temporarily disabled. Fixed an issue with Aden guards spawning inside houses. Fixed delay issue with the Elven spell Body to Mind Apples will now display properly when dropped on the ground. Fixed a problem where players escaping to certain houses in Aden would ‘land’ in the wrong place. Mages will now start with the Energy Bolt spell learned. Drop rates for the mage quest item skeleton skull have been increased. Magus, a merchant in the Aden slums, has been updated in the items he offers. Giants may now, in a fit of rage, throw stones when their hit points fall too low. Specific quest items may no longer be destroyed. Blood Pledge creation has been changed. A prince/princess must now speak to a "Blood Pledge Administrator" to create a pledge. A fee of 30,000 adena is required. The Blood Pledge Administrators are located in various towns. Dark Elves are no longer tamable. Many cliff areas in Forgotten Island can no longer be fired across with ranged weapons or spells. Call Pledge will not summon from “no escape” areas (such as Forgotten Island) Gelantinous Cube’s attack range and power has been reduced slightly. The formula for experience gain has been adjusted for low levels to provide a smoother progression. This affects levels one through six. Auction boards will display house locations with blinking red lights. Castle income has been adjusted to ensure all castles are paying proper tribute to Aden Castle Elven Forest Guardians will instantly teleport away when they run out of raw materials Marriage System The marriage system has been enabled. This system allows players to officially marry within the Aden world. ‘Married’ players will be alerted when their spouse logs into the game, and may use their wedding rings for a limited amount of teleportation to the location of their spouse. To marry, a couple must purchase wedding rings from the NPC Roan, travel to the cathedral in Aden, and stand in front of the goddess Agata. One player must type /propose and the other will be prompted to accept. Once accepted, the couple are married and may double-click their wedding ring to be teleported to the location of their spouse. There will be locations that will not be available for marriage teleportation (Castles, siege zones, dungeons, and on applicable servers, the hell area) Wedding rings have a limited amount of charges depending on the ring type. They may be recharged by paying the goddess Ariel 1,000 adena. Lands of Aden Server Only Healing Potion prices adjusted. Healing Potion are now more effective. Ellan, the Kennel Master, has been moved closer to Heine’s town center. The Mage Quest is slightly different. You should provide the Mysterious Rock with an Ancient Magic Crystal. This can be obtained in certain higher level hunting areas or by talking to Orim if you are the appropriate level. Strength spell now lasts 10 minutes. Wafer effect now lasts 10 minutes. View comments

April 15, 2003 07:07 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/16 - Exp Restore All US Lineage servers will be brought down for maintenance at 10:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 16th. During the weekly maintenance reset, we will be completing the experience restoration mentioned in the news item of April 8th. As a reminder – future experience replacement will be limited to circumstances that cause a serious service interruption outside of our scheduled ‘at risk’ play periods. These interruptions are defined as those that cause a large number of disconnects due directly to interruption of our ISP or a server crash. In the event of those situations, we will be replacing experience lost due to deaths as a direct result of the interruption – in addition to the items and pets we currently replace. There will be no additional game content published to the Lineage servers during the scheduled maintenance reset. View comments

April 15, 2003 12:23 am ET - research by Lineage - US Q&A with Rock The next Q&A has started! This is your chance to ask questions of a specific NCsoft-Austin Lineage team member. This session’s subject is the US Live Team Support Manager, Rock, a.k.a. John Erskine. John is the Manager of Customer Service for NCinteractive, and his team is in charge of all aspects of Lineage Customer Support. The guidelines to remember before starting: Post only two questions. There are bound to be repeats, and we are only taking about a dozen or so. The questions need to be directed toward the subject person and their duties. This isn’t the same as the Veteran Questions, since it is not to answer specific gameplay questions. It is a chance for you to interact with this particular person and ask them something about their duties / position / department. The question thread will be closed on 4/18/2003 and is located here. View comments

April 14, 2003 03:30 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Client Update Information Important Information for All US Lineage Customers! In the near future, we will be updating the game and game client with a number of new changes. One of these changes significantly affects the client/server connection. Failure to patch this client properly will result in an inability to connect to any US Lineage server. Because of this, we urge that if you have in any way modified your game client (by using the same client to connect to Test and Live servers, connecting to non-US servers, manually modifying any configuration files, shortcuts, etc) you completely uninstall and reinstall the Lineage client as soon as possible in order to avoid service interruption when the new client is released. You may find instructions for install/reinstall in our Support Knowledge Base and the current version of the US Lineage client on our Download page. As a reminder, it is a violation of the Lineage User Agreement to modify your game client files in any way unless expressly detailed by NCsoft. View comments

April 14, 2003 04:41 am ET - research by CROSS-X, Nue, amateras Episode 13 Class: Dark Elf? Cross-X emailed us to say that Nue seems to have discovered the identity of the mystery new class for Episode 13. A file "darkelf-k.tbl" was seen on the Korean Test server. As it was explained to me, the ".tbl" files are usually used in the character creation process (there is elf-?.tbl, prince-?.tbl and even an engineer-?.tbl from back in beta when Engineer and Thief were potential classes). This new darkelf-k.tbl (which is in Korean) doesn't say anything interesting about the Dark Elf except a small history lesson of their origin. If you can read Korean, the text is on the right. update: Just wanted to clarify some confusion, when we say "it doesn't say anything interesting about Dark Elf" we mean that it literally doesn't mention anything at all about Dark Elves. It could be about any class and it could be just some trash which accidentally got put on the server. Please don't assume that this is anything but a file that was found in the text.pak. It could just be junk. last update:lol, Jailrune points out that it's complete trash. The first paragraph is from the Korean National Charter on Education. Cute that they would name it darkelf-k.tbl. :) View comments

April 14, 2003 03:10 am ET - research by amer US Test Server announcements Couple of quick US Test server announcements: This wins the notorious prize of first person to hit level 50 on US Test server for this particular cycle. Congrats This! If you see Amer on the Test Server, THAT'S NOT ME. Some moron stole my name. So, please be mean to him. While the Test Server announcement said that only the slum houses were activated on Test, it's actually all 67 houses which are up for auction. Some are very cool looking.. even though they're in Aden ;) View comments

April 11, 2003 04:51 am ET - research by WaterElf ManaBlade the level 52 Mage on Ken Reporting live at the Aden Church, we have a special guest today. It's ManaBlade, not mistaken for ManaBabe. Well as you know, he's one of the newest level 52 players appearing on Ken. You're in for a treat for the next 5 minutes as we explore Manablade inside and out! WaterElf: So ManaBlade, How did you hear about Lineage? ManaBlade: It was 6 years ago when Bebi (one of Ken's level 52 elves) told my cousin about Lineage and my cousin told me. WaterElf: Can you tell us about your stats? ManaBlade: I'm a 18 WIS 18 CON 9 CHA 8 STR 7 DEX and 15 INT mage. WaterElf: Where did you add your two stat points? ManaBlade: I added 1 to STR and 1 to CHA so I can summon 3 Ettins. WaterElf: How does it feel to hunt as a mage? ManaBlade: The soft AC sucks, but the healing spell makes up for it. I usually make a lot of money hunting. WaterElf: Not many mages get to level 52, but what inspired you to do what you have accomplished? ManaBlade: Well I wanted to be the 1st level 52 Mage on Ken. WaterElf: What are your goals now that you have reached level 52? ManaBlade: I want to make a lot of money and get 25 base INT. WaterElf: Where do you like hunting? ManaBlade: Well I hunt mainly in FV for exp. I hunt in ToI and FI for fun. I also hunt Oren Wasteland when I'm lagging. WaterElf: Would you like to share with us your HP/MP and AC? ManaBlade: I have 391 HP and 442 MP. I have -60 AC with my COMR and Unsealed Robe and -65 with +5 DSM and COP. WaterElf: Can you share with us your items? ManaBlade: *trade window* (+7 Power Gloves, +9 Elven Shield, +7 B-COMR, Amulet of Strength, +7 Iron Boots, 10% MR Ring, Ogre Belt, Ancient Robe, +7 T-Shirt, COI, +9 Staff of Force, +7 Staff of Mana, and ROTC and ROPC which are not shown.) WaterElf: Very nice items :P. Did you have any deaths during the levels 50 to 52? ManaBlade: Yes, I died once due to my baby nephew pulling out the cable modem. WaterElf: Tell me how you got the +9 Staff of Force. ManaBlade: I was dying a lot at level 49 and I decided to dai my +8 SOF which I bought. WaterElf: Do you have any heroes or anyone you look up to in Ken? ManaBlade: I say HERC, because he has great determination in leveling. I get bored after 30 minutes of hunting. WaterElf: Do you have anyone to thank? ManaBlade: Yes, would like to thank: Ves, Mai, MinH, Kev, Andrew, Sandra, Huggashi, Angelsiva, Oavia, Trammy, Bunny, Adrain Loc, BloodLust members, Fyreblade, Camel, GreatAjax, Blackhawkx, HeavyArmx, Chance, TIhung, Marak2001 and my girlfriend Nancy. On a side note, ManaBlade says even though he plays Lineage a lot, Nancy isn't his second priority. He loves Nancy a lot and even though he is 19, he can picture himself spending his rest of his life with her. *sniffles so sweet o.o* This is WaterElf reporting, Aden Church. *Note that info was supplied by ManaBlade, but are not exact quotes. No animals or during were harmed during this interview.... I think.. *hides the mutated bananas.. View comments

April 10, 2003 12:17 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/10 - US Test Server Warning: Due to client changes, it is extremely important that you follow the exact instructions for logging in to the test server – located here. If you do not follow these instructions and attempt to use the same game client to access the main servers and the test server, you may be unable to log in to the main servers and will need to do a full reinstall of the Lineage client. The following has been published to the US Test Server on April 10th: The level 45+ quests for Mages, Elves, and Knight have been released Added housing to the Aden slum area Volume control for sound has been added. Instead of an on/off toggle, volume may now be adjusted using values from 0-100. 0 will turn off sound. Sounds may fade in and out based on their distance Item window will now reflect items repaired by blacksmiths immediately Nightmares may no longer be resurrected and will now see through morph Lindvior has been temporarily disabled. Fixed an issue with Aden guards spawning inside houses. Fixed delay issue with the Elven spell Body to Mind Apples will now display properly when dropped on the ground. Fixed a problem where players escaping to certain houses in Aden would ‘land’ in the wrong place. Mages will now start with the Energy Bolt spell learned. Aden Castle income revenues have been adjusted Drop rates for the mage quest item skeleton skull have been increased. Magus, an NPC in the Aden slums, will now sell a variety of items. Giants may now, in a fit of rage, throw stones when their hit points fall too low. Specific quest items may no longer be destroyed. Blood Pledge creation has been changed. A prince/princess must now speak to a "Blood Pledge Administrator" to create a pledge. A fee of 30,000 adena is required. The Blood Pledge Administrators are located in various towns. Marriage System The marriage system has been enabled. This system allows players to officially marry within the Aden world. ‘Married’ players will be alerted when their spouse logs into the game, and may use their wedding rings for a limited amount of teleportation to the location of their spouse. To marry, a couple must purchase wedding rings from the NPC Roan, travel to the cathedral in Aden, and stand in front of the goddess Agata. One player must type /propose and the other will be prompted to accept. Once accepted, the couple are married and may double-click their wedding ring to be teleported to the location of their spouse. There will be locations that will not be available for marriage teleportation (Castles, siege zones, dungeons, and on applicable servers, the hell area) Wedding rings have a limited amount of charges depending on the ring type. They may be recharged by paying the goddess Ariel 1,000 adena. View comments

April 10, 2003 01:14 am ET - research by amer Happy 18th Birthday Craig! BigPope aka Linspatz turned 18 today! Just wanted to wish him a big Happy Birthday, he's been a part of LC since 2001 and has worked really really hard behind the scenes to make LC what it is today. Some of you only know him as "the guy who deletes my posts" but if I had to list all the things he did which you didn't see but do appreciate, it would require a new fansite. He's already been working on the Lineage 2 site much more than me :) Thanks Craig and welcome to ADULTHOOD. :) View comments

April 09, 2003 12:16 pm ET - research by DroidMage 0204 the LoveForever Elf reaches level 50! Wacking a way at the forces of evil day and night 0204 finally reached his goal not to long ago, the coveted level 50. (We currently, as of 3/14, believe 0204 to be the highest level elf on LoA -amer) Hunting 18 hours a day in Dragon Valley Caves and Fire Valley he earned 3-5% per day. Being a Water Elemental Elf he saved money on pots. The Water Element came in handy especially when they change the Healing Potion prices to 200a per potion. 0204 being a Constitution Elf has 545 health points and 210 mana points. Though he is disappointed in his low health and mana he makes it up in weapons. He wields a +9 Blessed Katana, a +9 Crossbow and a +9 Rapier. He did not disclose his armor class but as I think everyone can tell from having such good weapons, he has very nice armor as well. He would like to give thanks to his girlfriend and to CHOSEN for translating some of his words to be able to talk to me. Congratulations 0204 and I hope we all see you at level 51! View comments

April 08, 2003 11:41 pm ET - research by amer linblogs A blog (short for weblog) is a website which has just the daily happenings of a person, sometimes related to a specific topic. A few people have been keeping linblogs (some much longer than others) and it's slowly gaining popularity across the Lineage community. This doesn't always contains news, sometimes just "I spent another day hunting ogres today.." and other little details which are kind of fun to read :) So, we added some to the Links section so you can browse and bookmark a few of your fellow players linblogs. Also, for those of you who can't afford hosting space or the bandwidth for your own linblog, we'd like to announce that we will be introducing a linblogging tool in the weeks to come. You'll be able to post your daily happenings and stuff you are selling or buying, what you're hunting for, things you're up to and even do a keyword search of all the LC linblogs. In the meantime, support some linblogs! Looks like http://www.livejournal.com is a good place for people if you want to start one now and also IronClaw offered to host them on Templar Gaming too, so you can check those sites if you want to get started right away. Don't forget, it's alot of work (thanks to all the people who have been keeping one, it's fun reading what you guys are up to! ^^) Links (scroll to the bottom of the page for the linblogging section) Oh, and if you have a linblog site, email me so I can add it to our list! Thanks to MagicGod/Cody and Arioco who have tipped me off on the ones currently in there. :) web@lineagecompendium.com View comments

April 08, 2003 09:13 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Exp Restore Due to a late-breaking issue, we will not be restoring experience during the April 9th server maintenance period. Please note that this does not negate the previous announcement entirely. We will be replacing the previously detailed experience with a special server reset, but must postpone the replacement until we can resolve this last-minute error. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will post details on when the experience restoration maintenance will be scheduled as soon as we are able. View comments

April 08, 2003 09:12 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Exp and Server Reset All US Lineage servers will be brought down for a brief maintenance at 10:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 9th. There will be no new content published at this time. During the server reset, we will be completing restoration of items/dogs lost during the service interruption of Friday, April 4th. In addition to replacing items, we will be restoring experience lost to those who died as a direct result of the service interruption. We have resolved the issues surrounding experience restoration and will begin replacing experience in specific circumstances in the future. Experience replacement will be limited to circumstances that cause a serious service interruption outside of our scheduled ‘at risk’ play periods. Significant outages are defined as those that cause a large number of disconnects due directly to interruption of our ISP or a server crash. In the event of those situations, we will be replacing experience lost due to deaths as a direct result of the interruption – in addition to the items we currently replace. Due to technical limitations, experience restores will not be immediate, but will be conducted during the next upcoming maintenance period after a service interruption. View comments

April 08, 2003 04:53 am ET - research by amateras Ancient Giant "Ring" Lineage Playforum reports (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051003&kid=1921) that a player on the Korean live servers received a the Ring of Ancient Giant. However, it's so big, that you wear it as a belt! The "ring" is -2 AC, +1 STR and is, well, a belt. :) View comments

April 08, 2003 04:49 am ET - research by amateras More Newbie Items Lineage Playforum (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051004&kid=3874) happened to specify two items that Jude1004.com didn't on their research on their report of the newbie items. Looks like the elf newbie weapon was a bow, not a sword. Sorry about the confusion :) Elven Training Bow: 2/2, +1 damage, weighs 30, elf only. Royal's Training Armor: -4 AC, weighs 150, prince/princess only. These items apparently drop alot. They are very common and are littered all over the place on the Korean Test servers :) View comments

April 08, 2003 04:41 am ET - research by amateras Newbie Graduation Gifts Lineage Playforum reports (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051004&kid=3873) on a new "newbie graduation gift" system which is going to all newbies who make it to level 12 on the test server. We spoke of the Oilskin Cloak (which people remembered from beta, but with a different function). This is actually one of the graduation gifts that players will get when they reach level 12. Other possible gift: Cloak of Displacement, 500 Silver Arrows or a "Clear Robe" (still checking into the proper name of that last one). The Cloak of Displacement is just a -1 AC cloak which weighs 10. No special properties are known about it, and given that it's a newbie gift, it is probably just a -1 AC cloak. It looks just like a Cloak of Protection, so already people are getting ripped off on the Korean Test server :( View comments

April 08, 2003 12:22 am ET - research by amer March Madness Winners Well, Syracuse somehow pulled a string of upsets in the final rounds -- pretty exciting stuff! And now, for the winners! On Dep server pool: AllInfinite - 800k Slipkn0r - 480k Circus - 320k ElfOfWraith and Althanus - 50k each On On Ken server pool: Malakie - 950k Persephone - 570k Gutz - 380k orknie - 100k All in all, we gave away 3.9M adena in this contest, which is pretty cool :) If you haven't received your prize money yet, I'll be looking for you ;) View comments

April 06, 2003 12:33 am ET - research by Rhayde Level 15 Quest guides Rhayde wrote (long ago) and I added (just now) Level 15 Quest guides. When the level 45 quests come to the US, we promise to be a bit faster :) update: I also put in the level 45 quest translations. Remember, names and specifics subject to change when we see what it's actually like in the US. :) Quest Guides View comments

April 04, 2003 09:34 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Connectivity Issues Between 5:30 and 6:00 PM CST we experienced an undetermined issue with the Lineage service affecting connectivity to the North American Lineage Servers; our Network Operations Team is still investigating the incident at this time, and will be working with the Support Team to address any losses incurred from this issue. View comments

April 04, 2003 03:43 pm ET - research by amateras Newbie Items detailed Jude1004.com also discovered some of the newbie items. They seem to have just as good AC as some regular armors and no level limit. However, they cannot be enchanted. For starters, each class has a Training Armor Set. For example, Mages have a set of Mage's Training Shield, Mage's Training Helmet, Mage's Training Boots, Mage's Training Armor. However, their AC does change. Here are some that Jude1004.com listed: Royal's Training Shield: AC -2, weight 30, prince/princess only Royal's Training Helmet: AC -2, weight 30, prince/princess only Knight's Training Armor: AC -5, weight 150, knight only Elves' Training Armor: AC -4, weight 150, elf only Mage's Training Boots: AC -2, weight 30, mage only There are also new weapons: Training Sword: 7/8, weight 40, prince/princess, elf only Mage's Training staff: 4/5, weight 20, mage only Knight's Training Sword Elven Training Sword View comments

April 04, 2003 03:28 pm ET - research by amateras New Item: Oilskin Cloak Jude1004.com reported (http://lineage.jude1004.com/news/index.asp?pg=/news/view.asp&cts_id=5226) that a new item has been found on the Korean Test servers, the Oilskin Cloak. The cloak is -1 AC, weight 10 and can be enchanted (safely to +4 we assume), however, efforts by Jude1004.com to get the purpose of this item from the GMs were not successful. It's still a mystery. :) View comments

April 04, 2003 03:26 pm ET - research by amateras 4/4 - Korean Test Server update Lineage - Korea announced (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/pre_lineage/read.asp?ListNum=93&NoticeID=2&PageNum=1) the following updates to the Korean Test servers on 4/4: When you talk to NPCs which sell items, they now display the tax rate set by the castle pledge and the tax set by the mayor separately. Many updates to the newbie areas: Increased level limit to 12. Added many newbie items to be dropped by the newbie monsters. Added a new NPC that gives free hastes. If you die/restart, you get full HP on restart. Lowered scarecrow HP so levelling on scarecrows is faster. Increased spawn rate of newbie monsters. Made stronger newbie monsters weaker. Newbie maps now display the location of the training area and dungeons. View comments

April 03, 2003 11:14 pm ET - research by Lineage - US 4/8 - Stratics #ncsoft HoC Chat Stratics and NCsoft are pleased to announce another Lineage House of Commons chat! The chat will be Tuesday, April 8th at 6pm EST (if you are in a different time zone, check out World Time Zones to find out what time that is where you are) in #NCsoft on the Stratics IRC Servers. Never been to a House of Commons before? Basically it is a developer chat, where the gamers and the designers sit down. Players get to ask the game's developers their questions via a live moderator. The designers then answer the question in the chat. It's a tried and true format for finding out what is in store for your favorite Massively Multiplayer games. You can connect to our servers by using either mIRC, pirch, Ircle, one of your favorite linux chat clients, or one of the java applets to your left and entering one of the following servers: irc.frws.com (USA, Colorado) irc.glowfish.de (EU, Germany) irc2.frws.com (USA, Colorado) irc.stratics.com (re-routing to one of the above servers) Once connected, simply type /join #NCsoft to stop by. We look forward to seeing you there! View comments

April 03, 2003 05:58 pm ET - research by amateras 4/2 - Korean Test server publish announcement Lineage Playforum reported (http://community.playforum.net:8080/bbs/prog/column?action=read&iid=10051004&kid=3852) that the following publish was made to Korean Test servers on 4/2: Dark Elf cannot be tamed any more. Fixed a bug with recharging of marriage rings (apparently, the couple had to go together to recharge, and that was a bug) Some level 45 quest items cannot be deleted. Pledge commands will give the name of the pledge and the royal of the pledge. Aden's hired guard's teleport bug has been fixed. View comments

April 01, 2003 03:23 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Fan Art Submissions Have a talent for drawing and the urge to reproduce one of your favorite monsters, places, or characters from the world of Lineage? Submit your Lineage fan art! The art will be chosen Based upon its relevant portrayal of the Lineage gameworld and/or characters and adventures. The artist’s chosen name (character or real) will be displayed near the fan art on our site. Please use the following guidelines for submissions: The picture must be scanned into a graphical file format (Gif preferred, or jpeg) The scanned image must be 150k in size or smaller – 800 x 600 resolution. The image must reflect something related to Lineage. A player character, an action scene involving Lineage (such as a siege), a hunt within Lineage, or a Lineage monster are all examples. The image must not be sexually offensive, racially offensive, portray an image in bad taste (no gore or mutilations) or violate the Lineage User Agreement in any other way. All visitors to the Lineage web site will be able to view this artwork and see the name of the artist that submitted it -- so this is your chance to display artistic talent! Submissions should be entered via our Support Tool, found at http://support.lineage.com under the “ask a question” tab. Please be sure to select “Screenshots and Player stories” under the department tab and then attach your image file to the submission. Please be sure to include your real name, a character name and server to which the artwork may be credited. All submissions become the property of NCsoft and may be used for advertising or promotional purposes. The deadline for Submissions for this round of Fan Art is next Friday, April 11th. View comments

April 01, 2003 03:22 pm ET - research by Lineage - US Server Reset 4/2 All US Lineage servers will be brought down for a maintenance reset on Wednesday, April 2nd at 10:00 AM CST. There will be no new content published at that time. View comments

April 01, 2003 12:29 pm ET - research by amer ManaBlade - Ken's first level 52 mage ManaBlade has been hard at work levelling up, and after only 2 deaths(!), has reached level 52! I interrupted him while he was hunting with his 3 Ettins in ToI. He morphed into Dark Elf just to prove it to me too :) A real interview coming soon. :) View comments

April 01, 2003 12:09 pm ET - research by arachnemus MMORPG shop: Lineage It seems like an importer has located their offices in the US as there is now an online store which sells the merchandise offered at lineageshop.com over here in North America. Quantities are likely limited as they have to bring all the stuff in from Korea, so definitely hurry. They're also running some promotion where lucky visitors could get a free item, I ordered an Antharas dartboard, but didn't get lucky. ^^ update: For those of you who didn't figure this out, April Fools. ^^ View comments

April 01, 2003 12:06 pm ET - research by amateras 4/1 - Korean Test Server publish update Lineage - Korea announces (https://bbs.lineage.co.kr/lineage/new_announcement/pre_lineage/read.asp?ListNum=91&NoticeID=2&PageNum=1) The following publish to the Korean Test server on 4/1: Knight level 45 quest Giant Guardian teleports back to spawn location if it is drawn out of it's area. Nightmare can no longer be resurrected and can now see through SOSC. Lindvior has been disabled due to several bugs. View comments