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[Idun]

Patch Notes: September 26, 2018
Please note: Details are subject to change at any time.
Weekly Maintenance Time: 3pm-7pm PDT (~4 hours)

 

 

 

Corrupted Angel Wings [1]

Price: 1,000 Kafra Points

 

 

Use fusion to get the 3 slot version of these wings then visit Myunil in Prontera to see your purple rune hole trade in option!

 

 

Verdant Elder Dragon Wings [1]

Price: 1,000 Kafra Points

 

 

Use fusion to get the 3 slot version of these wings then visit Myunil in Prontera to see your purple rune hole trade in option!

 

Yarr Matey! The Pirate Boxes Are Back!

 

Pirate Booty Box

Price: 300 Kafra Points

 

Yarr! This random box has a chance to drop one of the following pieces of treasure:

 

- Grand Pirate Costume

 

- Dignity of Great Pirate

 

- Eyepatch

 

- Drake's Pirate Hat

 

- Pirate King Drake Style

 

- Coral Tooth Reins (Permanent)

 

- Coral Tooth Reins (30 Days)

 

- Gongurat Rocket (Permanent)

 

- Gongurat Rocket (30 days)

 

- Merlion Reins (Permanent)

 

- Merlion Reins (30 Days)

 

- Drake Card

 

- Drake Card [Rare+]

 

- Drake DNA

 

 

Pirate Doubloons Box

Price: 10 Kafra Points

 

This Doubloon Box has a chance to drop 1-5 Doubloons to be used in the Pirate Event!

 

 

Sale Time! Phantom Stones and Diamonds

 

September 26 to October 1 , 2018

 

Ready to win some wings from the Pyramid? Want to upgrade your existing set? This sale on Phantom Stones and Diamonds will help!

 

 

 

Green Dragon Wings have been added to the top of the Phantom Pyramid!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ragnarok 2: Summer Sharing 
 
Connect With Ragnarok 2 and Win a Month of Experience and Bonus Rewards!

 

September 5 to October 8, 2018

 

From September 5 to October 8, join the fun, connect with Ragnarok 2, and earn fantastic prizes and events for the entire server! Each entry received will help unlock server-wide prizes including experience bonuses, items, and events!
 
Click Here for Details!

 

This Week's Rewards:

 

300% Experience!

 

 

 

 
Avast!  There be doubloons on these here shores and they belong to me!
 
Pirates!
 
September 4 to October 1
 
A special quest has popped up recently from the mailboxes and with it the return of Pirate Booty!  Accept the quest and collect treasures for a chance to earn some Piratey Goodness. 
 
Please note: The quest can be accepted at all Mailbox locations, but quest markers will only be displayed in Prontera.
 
Collect Doubloons, trade them for great items, titles, and more!
 
Click HERE for more information!
 
 

 
 
Commodore Drake

 

•  Drake has been busy over the past year! His fleet has grown, and he is now a Pirate Commodore! He and his shore party will appear every few hours in Izlude Hill (4-6 hours) and Verta Delta (3-5 hours), to try and reclaim his lost doubloons. He is stealthy, so there will be no announcement when he arrives!

 

• A new special Event Pet version of Pirate Commodore Drake is now available! Defeating Pirate Commodore Drake will allow players access to the Pet Eggs needed to add him to their Cute Pet Collection. 

 

•  A new Event Title is available for purchase at One-Eyed Ed's shop - the Buccaneer's Bane title can be yours for 1,000 Doubloons!

+ 750HP, +200 SP, +5% Job & ProJob XP

We expect some wing animation improvements to flap into the game next week!

[MiniGuuMi]

[flukeSG2]

Why does it take 4 hours to change prices in kafra shop?

[1131131129203649980]

Pirates!
 
September 4 to October 1

 

 

 

PLS EXTEND THIS EVENT X3

[MiniGuuMi]

Why does it take 4 hours to change prices in kafra shop?

 

i dont think i need to explain this, but come on.. 

The most common thing in maintenace is upgrade the server software to match updates to the game, this involves pushing server code, restarting scripts that keep the game system alive, and enabling new content if possible..

Less frequently, maintenance is about hardware. "Particularly SSDs".

 

Everything players do in the game is remembered by the game, If a player cuts down a tree or kill someone or save position on somewhere, the remnants of their actions will persist in the game until the player moving it or a map changed, monster move, comes to disturb that state. Because they're storing all this information, the size of the data required to record this can grow unbounded.

 

The longer the game runs, the more memory its servers require to keep it going, and so the game regular maintenance is all about taking the game offline for an hour and cleaning up a snapshot of the game and running compression algorithms on its data to reduce and remove anything that isn’t important. Perhaps the game doesn’t really need to remember the exact position monsters, and can estimate it instead.

Maintenance is necessary, complex and dangerous. And that’s just the kind of challenge that inspires a company to work to make it as painless as possible for players and for themselves. There’s a lot that’s magic about how games connect players and let them play together, but updating and fixing themselves while they’re still running has to be one of their cleverest tricks and that's not be easy.

 

[flukeSG2]

You didn't need to explain anything, I wasn't asking you.

[1131131129203649980]

Why does it take 4 hours to change prices in kafra shop?

 

 

You didn't need to explain anything, I wasn't asking you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

LOL

 

 

 

 

btw, thx for the info MiniGuumi, knowing this make it less annoying to wait long maints

Edited by 1131131129203649980, 27 September 2018 - 09:38 PM.

[flukeSG2]

Wasn't even a long maint, just a completely unnecessary one.

[Gugy]

They don't do anything of that.

 

"Running compression algorithms on its data to reduce and remove anything that isn’t important." - What the heck is this?

 

The player and mob locations are stored in the memory ram of the server while is running and then they backup in the database when go offline. With the actual player base it should only take seconds.

 

Have you ever work in a MMORPG server? Seems you know nothing.

[1131131129203649980]

They don't do anything of that.

 

"Running compression algorithms on its data to reduce and remove anything that isn’t important." - What the heck is this?

 

The player and mob locations are stored in the memory ram of the server while is running and then they backup in the database when go offline. With the actual player base it should only take seconds.

 

Have you ever work in a MMORPG server? Seems you know nothing.

 

 

 

Spoiler

chill dude   

 

 

 

[MiniGuuMi]

They don't do anything of that.

 

"Running compression algorithms on its data to reduce and remove anything that isn’t important." - What the heck is this?

 

The player and mob locations are stored in the memory ram of the server while is running and then they backup in the database when go offline. With the actual player base it should only take seconds.

 

Have you ever work in a MMORPG server? Seems you know nothing.

 

it's about maintaint the hardware. and yes, I worked internship at a game publisher company in my country a few years ago, and made mini games for my college and as a bug tester. so?

 

[edited]

some of maintenance usually isn't for fixing things but for clearing things up so the servers are cleared up of anything bogging them down. Normally it isn't more than 4 hours for most MMOs but I guess they have really♥♥♥♥♥♥servers over there so whatever it is they're doing is slow or fast as possible they can do.

 

Edited by MiniGuuMi, 28 September 2018 - 02:43 AM.