Dear players,
The server has been rebooted this morning at 09:30 and a patch to the server has been applied, you can find a list of changes below.

Update (9:40): There appears to be an issue with player capacity, despite testing the changes on the test server yesterday. We are investigating and are keeping the server closed until the issue is resolved.
Update (9:55): The issue has been resolved and the server is open again.

Changes

• Fixed an error that caused players to not be teleported out of the URF event when the event would finish
• Fixed a bug that caused the weight of containers to not be updating correctly
• Updated the Predator event
  • Changed the cooldown of cannons from 5 seconds to 8 seconds
  • The maximum event duration is now 10 minutes instead of 15 minutes
  • The invisibility (utana vid) spell can no longer be used inside of the event
  • Invisibility conditions will be cancelled upon entering the event
• Fixed a bug that could cause objects such as auto-closing doors to become stuck in the open position in certain conditions
• Corrected the local system time of the host machine, time based events will no longer occur 2 hours behind schedule

Dear players, I would like to announce and welcome you to Ascarus Season 6. For this season, we have put a special focus on addressing feedback from the previous season. Due to the rework of the spells code last season, it was obvious that not everything would be in the right spot right off the bat. We hope to have corrected the most mentioned aspects now. Furthermore there has been an effort to slow down the early to mid-game a little bit, especially with the GameGuard bonus. Furthermore we've introduced a number of new events, which we hope you enjoy. Balancing efforts have also been taking place around Rookgaard, as well as our custom quests. To spice up the daily hunting life, we have also introduced a Daily Boosted Creature rotation, where boosted creatures yield more experience, loot and respawn at a faster rate.


Ascarus Season 6 will start on Friday, 23rd September 2022 18:00 CEST

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• Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
• Optional antibot client launcher for manual players
• Daily Boosted Creatures rotation
• A total of 95 outfits
• A shop for beginner guilds who want to compete on Ascarus
• Roshamuul accurately converted to 8.6, including all bosses & raids
• Guild Battle Arenas - Customizable war arenas, featuring configurable AoE damage, SSA/Might Ring equip exhausts, player limits, max player levels, high risk mode & more
• Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
• Magic Items - An extensive item enchanting system
• Item Salvaging - Got a magic item that doesn't have any interesting bonuses? Salvage magical dusts from it and exchange them for orbs of enchantment in order to enchant another item!
• Item Market system - Got an item with interesting bonus stats that you think someone might like to buy? List it on our item market!
• Weekly activity rewards with points & mentions
• A total of 22 towns, each town has it's own spawns, quests & secrets to discover
• Community poll system on the website
• Ability to view your account's login history
• Bosses that have their own artificial intelligence
• Many unique events - See the events page for more info
• Bounty hunter system - Place a bounty on your enemies head to get them killed
• Offline messaging system
• Custom addon bonus system - Increase your character's stats for each full outfit addon you collect
• Custom task systems - we feature a daily task sytem, a progressive task system, a special tasks from NPC Eruaran, which you can find in Roshamuul in order to obtain valuables such as prison keys in order to fight the Roshamuul prison bosses, as well as a customizable task system that lets you pick your own monster amounts and pick between a gold or experience reward
• Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website automatically
• Achievement system - Unlock achievements for doing various things in the game, achievement points are also required in order to enter specific quests
• PIN security system - Protect your characters with our homemade two-factor authentication system
• Free premium points for reaching specific levels
• Referral system - Refer your friends to Ascarus and earn free premium points
• Quest log entries for quests
• More than 40 custom quests
• Players are limited to a maximum of 4 active MC clients to combat massive MC farms
• Standard boss raids were tuned to fit the gameplay dynamics of Ascarus - You won't see an Orshabaal die in 5 seconds
• 10.x respawn system (non-blockable spawns)

• Experience & loot bonuses are now additive instead of multiplicative - this change is a bug fix to stacking multiple bonuses at once, which would previously provide a higher total bonus than intended
• Adjusted the experience stages in the early game, as player feedback confirmed it was too high, especially with GameGuard bonus active
• Removed the attack speed enchantments in favour of life & mana leech enchantments
• Added the Predator event - There is a way through if you know how to look
• Added the URF event - Ultra Rapid Fire team deathmatch
• Prevented being able to skip a number of bosses throughout various quests
• Added a Daily Boosted Creature rotation
• Rebalancing of Rookgaard bosses
• Slightly improved the healing effectivenss of knights & paladins
• Reduced the experience of Snorlax
• Snorlax is now able to eat wild growth runes within a 1 SQM range
• Fixed a bug that caused houses to be cleaned up if a player had a very long online time without relogging
• Gold rewards for level-up milestones are now sent to the players bank balance instead of added to their inventory
• Improved the code for equipment slots & weapon checks
• Improved the automatic stacking of items in player inventories
• Added the ability to force a fixed speed value on players - this is used in our new Predator event
• Improved the logic of the chameleon rune
• Improved the logic of the levitate spell
• Various other fixes and optimizations in the server engine
• And many more minor changes that didn't make it into this announcement post...

• Top 10 players in the experience highscores
• Victorious backpack with special engraving
• Season trophy with special engraving
• Top 50 players in the experience highscores
• 200 premium points
• Top 10 players above level 200 that had the highest scores in the following categories: Magic Level, Fist Fighting, Sword Fighting, Axe Fighting, Club Fighting, Distance Fighting, Shielding, Snake, Tasks & Achievements
• 100 premium points

• The refunded amount begins at 80% and for each additional month that has passed since the point purchase was made, the points will lose 9% of their original value
• Unlike previous seasons, refunds are no longer limited to 1 season only. You will continue to receive refunds from previous seasons until the point value has decreased to 0%
• The amount of refunded points is capped to 10000 points

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Teasers

Top achievers awards for the 34th week have arrived!
These players were the most active in gaining achievements during the past month, thus acquired top 3 positions and have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

1. Polmir [12 achievements] - 300 premium points.
2. Nygus [11 achievements] - 150 premium points.
3. Liczi [9 achievements] - 100 premium points.

Top fraggers awards for the 33rd week have arrived!
These players were the most active in PvP battles and in securing kills during the past month, thus acquired top 3 positions and have been rewarded.
Here is the list of the victors:

1. Dpekkk [50 unique frags] - 500 premium points.
2. Koksiorka [36 unique frags] - 250 premium points.
3. Knull I Rumpan [29 unique frags] - 100 premium points.