Ascarus Season 3 AnnouncementServerWritten by Erza,
Basic server info
Socials
Server Features
Noteworthy Changes from Season 2
Season rewards
As always, the top players of a season will receive a few special rewards for their competitiveness
The rewarded categories are the following:
Donation refunds
All donations that were made within the last 30 days before launch will be fully refunded.
All donations that were made more than 30 days before launch will be refunded in the following manner:
Guild points
Due to the popularity of guild points during Season 2, we have added an automated system to distribute these points from now on. Points obtained through this system can be spent in the guild shop
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Dear players,
I would like to announce and welcome you to Ascarus Season 3. A season change, which has been in the making for quite a while. Season 2 ran from April to December, which was our longest season yet. For Season 3 we decided to step out of our comfort zone and make a big step forward in terms of features and content all around the server.
In this release we have put a special focus on the expansion of client features, improvements of the server internals and content balancing. We're excited to go through with these changes, which will lay the groundwork for many future expansions, and as usual, hope to see an interesting season.
Ascarus Season 3 will start on Friday, 4th December 2020 18:00 CET
Ascarus Season 3 will start on Friday, 4th December 2020 18:00 CET
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Basic server info
IP: ascar.us
Average exp rate: 19.45x (Custom system) (See server info page for details)
Protection level: 80
Skill rate: 16x
Magic rate: 9.6x
Loot rate: 2x
Client version: 8.60
Server location: France, Europe
Socials
Server Features
- Real map 8.6 with several custom towns
- Optional antibot client launcher for manual players
- 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
- Stat Templates for war arenas - Every player can join with the same stats for an equal playing field
- Temporary Items - In addition to stat templates, we also provide temporary equipment sets to level the playing field even further
- Optional antibot in war arenas - We have added an option to our customizable war arenas that will require all players to use GameGuard in order to join the arena
- Reward Chest system - You will always get loot if you help killing a boss
- Custom exp stage system to provide you with a smooth exp progression
- Weekly guild frag rewards with points & mentions
- A total of 23 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 auction system
- 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 and 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
- Partnered Twitch streamers - Show off Ascarus on your stream and we will promote your stream on the website
- 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
- 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)
Noteworthy Changes from Season 2
- Added the town of Vesuvia, which features new quests, new bosses, new spawns and a lot of stuff to discover
- Added a bank system, you can now store your money in the bank, instead of depots. Your house rent can be paid via bank balance, and as a community poll decided, we have added a feature for VIP accounts, that lets you pay NPC's via bank balance (no need to carry money in your backpack!)
- The client has received massive updates, such as:
- Optional antibot launcher for manual players (GameGuard), which has been highly requested
- Custom background artwork in the main menu
- A new dark themed skin for the client interface
- 68 new outfits
- Updated graphics for certain objects in the game
- An option in the GameGuard client to toggle light hack on or off
- Provided a fix for ElfBot's Shift + F11 (Light Hack) and Shift + F12 (Hide/show bot window) hotkeys not working on Windows 10 on our downloads page
- Due to the massive interest for guild points during Season 2, we have now added a guild shop to the website
- Due to popular request, the boss room from Masiyah has been re-added to the game, however, killing monsters in the boss room will yield 25% less experience than killing them out in the wild
- Added a minimap installer to the downloads page, which will always install the latest version of the minimaps
- Updates to temporary equipment in the war arenas
- Updated the temporary equipment sets a player receives in the war arena
- Ammunition and supplies are now infinite when temporary equipment is used
- Added various outfits as rewards to various quests around to server (those are quest-exclusive and cannot be bought in the shop or granted by addon dolls)
- In addition to previously being able to buy addon dolls (grants a full outfit) in the shop, we added the possibility to buy single outfits & addons in the shop as well
- Updated the Addon Maker NPC, he now gives information about all of the new outfits in the game
- Overhauled a big part of the NPC System
- Blessings, Amulet of Loss and recharging Paw Amulets are now paid via bank balance, in case of not having enough money in your inventory
- Fixed a bug that could cause the DeathRun event to sometimes not finish properly and fail to start future DeathRun events
- The self-healing of the boss "Lucifer" has been toned down
- Added a new set of mid-game items, obtainable through a new quest in Vesuvia town. These items are intended to narrow the gap between the "donation" weapons and the ones you obtain from the League of Legends (end-game) quest
- Overhauled the donation gift shop
- Added additional stats to ceremonial mask, it has gained +10 speed, 10% mana drain protection and 2% death protection
- The duration of the "Ultimate Sharpshooter (utito tempo max san)" spell has been increased from 2.5 seconds to 5 seconds, and the mana cost has been increased from 400 mana to 500 mana
- Added a mechanism that could help in preventing database rollbacks in the events of a server crash
- In case of the mechanism working successfully, game progress is saved and players are teleported to the temple of their hometown, to prevent being overwhelmed by monsters when logging in again
- The server will also attempt to automatically restart in the event of a crash
- The boss "Spoderman" will now return to his spawn position if nobody is fighting him, this is to prevent luring the boss to the entrance of the room
- Removed invisible blocking tiles in the "Right leg of a Jester Doll" quest, that would previously massively increase the difficulty of navigating through the quest area
- Added safe betting stations below the depot in Thais - We believe this is a good balance between the old Dicer NPC's and relying on other players to be trustworthy during gambling.
- The advantage over the old Dicer NPC's: When using the betting stations, players will both use their own gold and items as bets, and there will be no artificially generated money or items paid out that hasn't already existed in the game previously, and therefor preventing inflation.
- The advantage over traditional gambling with dice and other players: You don't have to rely on both parties to be trustworthy and not scamming each other. The system takes care of handling bets, deciding the outcome of a game and payouts.
- Overhauled the anti-trashing mechanism for depots and prevented the depot counters & lockers from being cleaned during a map clean
- Further improved the house protection mechanism (anti-trashing / anti-theft)
- Players who log in with the standard 8.6 client will now see a warning message upon login that advises them to use the Ascarus client instead
- Added previously missing creature products to various monsters (needed for some of the new outfits)
- NPC Jared now requires a confirmation of the mission, before sending players to Thais Hell in the Glorious Quest
- Added The Mutated Pumpkin raid
- Added the possibility of purchasing the Golden Outfit from Ascarian Royalty (King Ascarianus, Queen Eloise & Emperor Kruzak)
- Added the "To Outfox A Fox" quest, in order to be able to obtain a mining helmet
- Balancing of various high level spawns
- The boss "Cublarc The Plunderer" will now spawn during the orc raid in Zzaion
- Rework the addon bonus system, in order to adapt to all the new outfits in the game
- Players are now teleported on a free tile around the hookshot pillar, if possible
- Added various new achievements
- Corrected the stats of Arbalest, it was previously missing the bonus attack, bonus hit %, as well as vocation and level requirements
- Updated the custom outfit changer & monster outfit changer scrolls to include hundreds of new looktypes
- Added additional rewards for leveling up
- Sorcerers will receive a wand of inferno upon reaching level 33
- Druids will receive a hailstorm rod upon reaching level 33
- Paladins will receive a royal spear upon reaching level 25
- Knights will receive either an epee, a beastslayer axe or a skull staff, depending on their highest skill, upon reaching level 30
- Added a workaround in order to be able to make the client show a experience per hour value after level 507
- Overhauled the entire lua scripting system in the server engine (this is a huge internal change)
- Added an EXPERIMENTAL limit of active connections to the game server (this is subject to change or might even be disabled again)
- There can only be a maximum of 4 ACTIVE connections from a single IP address to the game server, this means you cannot connect to more than 4 characters at the SAME time (you can still x-log more characters than that)
- The intent of this change is to combat massive moneymaker farms or players using excessive MC characters to bring along in quests
- Various fixes and optimizations in the server engine
- And many more minor changes that didn't make it into this announcement post...
Season rewards
As always, the top players of a season will receive a few special rewards for their competitiveness
The rewarded categories are the following:
- 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
- 200 premium points
Donation refunds
All donations that were made within the last 30 days before launch will be fully refunded.
All donations that were made more than 30 days before launch will be refunded in the following manner:
- The refunded amount begins at 80% and for each additional month that has passed since the donation was made, the points will lose 10% of their original value (bumped from 70% to 80% compared to last season)
- Initially, you will receive 25% of the total points that are due to be refunded, and you will receive another 15% for each of these level milestones: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, totalling 100%
- The cap for the initial refund is 2500 points and the total amount of refunded points is capped to 10000 points
Guild points
Due to the popularity of guild points during Season 2, we have added an automated system to distribute these points from now on. Points obtained through this system can be spent in the guild shop
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