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Trunks
07-21-2008, 10:36 PM
Hi Flowsioners,

This will be an explanation on what we are doing and what we hope to accomplish by what date. We hope to have all this done in time and working, however, please expect some bumps as we work on these patches and the servers during our break. Most of the developers are working and we try to do as much as we can during our days off. However, sometimes things go wrong and we have to put it off to a further date.

Compensation: Those who were locked out of their accounts will be receiving a 2x Mushroom. You can eat this mushroom and it will give you 2x experience for 4 hours. This 2x mushroom activates the second you eat it and is not during a set timeframe. Those who lagout or logout will not have the mushrooms' effect taken away, it will continue to work. You will be given this mushroom during the server check by the GM's. It will be dropped into your account. We ask that all those who will be receiving compensation to clear a slot in their USE.

We know who will be receiving compensation so don't try to cheat us, we are expecting this and have prepared the database beforehand.

Fourth Job: I have been receiving many questions to why we have not released 4th job even though many other servers have them. There are a lot of public patches for 4th job. Most of these servers are using 'repacks' and public patches in order to get 4th job up and running. We do not wish to have a broken 4th job system released. There are still a few skills (read: very little) that need to be perfected. We will be working on this and making sure that everything is up and running.

Expect bugs once we fully release 4th job as we do not want it to be a 'click on NPC and receive skills' sort of thing. You will have to hunt, do quests, kill bosses and such for your quests. We are hoping to have 4th job fully released within a few weeks.

Zakum, Papulatus & Horntail: We have been having problems with these for a while due to our server setup. We are hoping to have this fixed very soon and have it fully released alongside of the quests and such. Please bear with us as we fix this issue.

Rollbacks: We will be implimenting a 'save' function shortly so that all data is autosaved once in a while, hopefully this will null all rollbacks that occur. We do ask that you continue to change channels every once in a while to 'save' your data until we fix this issue.

Pirates & Ariant: We are working on having .58 up and running shortly and hope to have it up before or on the release date of 4th job (full). We are not sure what we are going to do with Pirates but will most likely 'script' a bootleg version of a Pirate Job Advancement & make it identical to other jobs. You will have to earn the rank of a Pirate, not click an NPC and have it handed to you.

Thanks & Happy Flowsioning!

Hypermug
07-21-2008, 10:40 PM
Keep it up :D

DarkSplicer
07-21-2008, 10:42 PM
Great to hear the updates in store. And along with this I assume the patch on Friday will go as planned? Releasing the Core skills first, and then throughout the next few weeks, working on releasing the rest of the skills?

Good job FMS staff and thanks for keeping us informed.

Gotejjeken
07-21-2008, 10:49 PM
Will those 2x shrooms be able to be sold? >_>. I'm sure not many would try that, but I had to ask. Also, if all of that goes to plan FMS should be the place to be again =p. I can't wait to hunt for skillbooks actually.

Taisha
07-21-2008, 10:49 PM
Omfg Trunks, are you trying to influence drugs on us?! 2x shrooms?! Wtf!

Trunks
07-21-2008, 10:54 PM
Shrooms are not tradeable or droppable. They are, however, able to be put into storage so you can put it into your main account as there were a few people with xbow's as their alts and their mains got locked.

Ringletts
07-21-2008, 11:22 PM
Oh, very nice and interesting compensation, hopefully that helps out those who were locked out :) That's crazy, 40x exp right? Very very cool.

Shiki
07-21-2008, 11:49 PM
If 4th job gets perfected, I'm coming back for a day to KS you, Trunks. Now unban me from IRC.

Nico
07-22-2008, 12:10 AM
What do you mean by the rank of pirate having to be earned? Does that mean that we simply do the quests for 2/3/4th job and whatnot as opposed to just clicking on the NPC?

convictx
07-22-2008, 12:37 AM
All that registered in my mind was 4th job.

*goes crazy*

Cesar
07-22-2008, 02:38 AM
Good to hear 4th job is not being released until it's perfected. Most private servers have a 4th job that's glitched like hell, and yes that means Arch Mages with Infinity without a cooldown. And yes that's as bad as it sounds.

RichardParker
07-22-2008, 03:14 AM
Thanks for keeping us updated, Trunks.

And I'm glad that you're actually working on perfecting 4th job skills before releasing them, as opposed to releasing it severely glitched/unbalanced. :D

Lasrevinu
07-22-2008, 04:47 AM
Its gonna be hard hunting jr.rogs for keys for the 4th job warrior. I suggest that something should be done. But still 4TH JOB *RAISE TEH ROOF* Also keep up the good work. F2

SBelmont
07-22-2008, 05:08 AM
There are still a few skills (read: very little) that need to be perfected.

Warrior
Hero/Paladin - Guardian (Glitched, disconnects others)
Paladin - Heaven's Hammer (Doesn't work correctly)

Magician
All - Big Bang (Glitched, disconnects others)
All - Mana Reflection (Glitched, "Access is denied")

Bowman
Marksman - Blind (Need to find bit-code for monster accuracy)

Thief
All - Shadow Shifter (Glitched, disconnects others)
All - Ninja Ambush (Possibly, doesn't work correctly)
Shadower - Smoke Shell (Doesn't do anything)

Skills I know of that don't work on other servers, either not working correctly, or not working at all. All other 4th job skills have no problems that I know of.

Just an update for those wondering on how far along 4th job is in general, but no idea of how far FMS is along with 4th job compared to other servers.

No other servers have the quests implemented either so I don't know how well that will go along here, but doesn't look like it'll be a problem.

Kaasoljoyyx
07-22-2008, 05:33 AM
Its gonna be hard hunting jr.rogs for keys for the 4th job warrior. I suggest that something should be done. But still 4TH JOB *RAISE TEH ROOF* Also keep up the good work. F2

I don't think it'll be that bad. There's not that many DKs and the key will most likely be tradeable. If they are some will be sold and such.

Not like Zerk10 is that good unless you got really high HP. Zerk20 is better but zerk30 is what makes it really good. This is off old GMS skill tables though so the new ones might change it.

B0WJOB
07-22-2008, 07:28 AM
Thank you for keeping us updated, Trunks.

KombatKing999
07-22-2008, 07:56 AM
Appreciate the update as always.

Skeem
07-22-2008, 11:41 AM
Is there an update on HP washing? xd

Poisson
07-22-2008, 02:25 PM
Thanks devs for the status update =)

Shugi
07-22-2008, 04:50 PM
Keep up the good work!

Stereo
07-22-2008, 07:52 PM
I don't think it'll be that bad. There's not that many DKs and the key will most likely be tradeable. If they are some will be sold and such.


All 3 warriors have a quest that requires the key, DKs just get the most necessary skill (I think Paladins get Heaven's Hammer and Heroes get Enrage, it's the 3 warrior skills Horntail drops 30 books for)

Kaasoljoyyx
07-22-2008, 08:05 PM
All 3 warriors have a quest that requires the key, DKs just get the most necessary skill (I think Paladins get Heaven's Hammer and Heroes get Enrage, it's the 3 warrior skills Horntail drops 30 books for)

Ah okay. I only assumed it was for DrK's Bezerk as they were the only ones talking about it when Nexon forgot to add the key.

Coldplay
07-23-2008, 12:42 AM
I don't see a date. When are these things going up?

Whatsup
07-23-2008, 01:34 AM
ahhh cant log on FMS >..>