Uthgard

Hello Community,

there are a couple of news that I want to tell you.

Unfortunately Haldan and Metty, the creators of Tajendi, have left us after their project was finished. It's very hard to see them go. All I can say is: Thank you. Tajendi has become a huge world with a very nice atmosphere and so many nice features. Not to forget the work apart from Tajendi. At this point I want to thank you for the nice work you have done for this server. Metty was in the team for over 4 years, Haldan joined us one and a half years ago. Thank you both. We wish you all the best for the future.
On the other hand I am glad to announce that we have new faces in the team. Reiley and Ezek have joined us. Welcome!

We are currently looking for forum moderators. If you do not belong to the flaming or trolling part of the community, you feel you want to help us, feel free to send me an application.

As many of you want to know about the state of the old frontiers, let me give you some details. There are a lot of single issues on the step to old frontiers. For example keeps with their doors, guards and lords, the borderkeeps, the complete bonus system, Darkness Falls access and many more. All of these single issues have to be completed and of course this takes some time.
For the moment the following steps are finished (but still untested):
- Keeps (doors, guards, lords, banners, hasteners)
- Bossmobs (Glacier Giant, Evern, Green Knight)
- Regular mobs
- Borderkeeps (of course the final switch will happen with the release)
- Maps for the zones

Not completed steps:
- Redesign of the Bonus system and Darkness Falls access (because there are no towers in OF)
- Teleporterkeeps
- Migration of the horsequest II
- Half of the relic system (program code)
- A few other internal developer steps

So over all we could say that 60-70% of the technical work is finished, but there is much more to do. We still can't give you a release date. I'll inform you when we've got more details about the time of the release.
There seems to be confusion about patchlevels and realm abilities. Here's an explanation again: We will start in the "new" rvr zone with the current realm abilities. Lowering the patchlevel to 1.65 does not really make sense with a ra system that came in 1.70. So 1.65 will not be seen here in an NF ra system. The rvr zone change itself will happen with the current patchset and with the current realmabilities.

Another very important thing that should not miss here is the block formula. After 8 months of tests, calculations, more tests, more calculations (...) we finally got a working block formula. Finally fulltanks are of real use and caster- and supporterclasses can be guarded.

Finally I want to thank you all for playing here and making this community growing continuously. A few years ago we were 200 people on the server at peaktimes, currently the chart speaks a different language:

3 weeks ago: Record number of clients have connected (749)

Of course due to the high playercounts there can occur lags sometimes (some of you already told us). Our hosting contract forces us to stay at the hoster until November. We are thinking of changing the hoster to get a bigger server. Of course this will cost a little bit more and we will have to calculate whether we can be sure to be able to pay that price constantly. We'll inform you if there is more about this topic.

That's it for now. Enjoy the game!

Regards,
Nayru

I've never been a big fan of Tajendi myself but thanks for all the work , Metty & Haldan. Good luck with whatever you're doing next.

Personally I'm happy that you're gonna stick with the new RAs and that OF is progressing well.

Thanks for the heads up.

bye bye metty see u soon again ^^

Thank you staff first of all for the time spent that goes into server development. Whatever that may be. People should be gratefull for this first of all. Great job.

Thanks for the news, best of luck to the old staff and a warm welcome to the new.

Congratulations Uthgard on the new record.

Sad to see two people of the Uthgard family going; but it opens up for fresh blood and new experiences!

Keep up the good work!

goodbye haldan and metty

you will be missed!


CROCOS!!!!!!!!


welcome to the new blood (even though ive already said hello to you both on IRC ^^)



glad to hear OF is comming along

Cya Haldan and Metty, i hope you will back

Nice new record uthgard, and wellcome new GMs!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot Nayru for the work on OF and these periodic deep updates.

sad to see productiv staff members to leave... hope you'll be back.

when i see the graf, i have one question: " what happened in may 2009?"

Yeah guys--thanks a ton for all that work, its a real privilege to be able to play on such a great server, thanks to people like you! Welcome to the new staff, also!

Ps, Im really glad you are keeping New RA system, *whew*, that could'a got real ugly. (30 min purge ftl.)

/peace

Just to clear this up: I talked about the start. I did not state that we decided not to think of old realm abilities or in other words: There still has not been a decision.

Very sad to see Metty and Haldan leaving, after doing such an amazing work.

Thanks for all the fun!

Greetz
Nes

@Haldan&Metty:
Thanks a lot for all your time, I wish you the best in the future (and I really hope you back to Uthgard someday...)

@Uthgard Staff:
Thanks you also for the work done in OF, the progress is higher than I was thinking!

Keep up the good work

Thanks to all Staff members for great works~

uthgard is really wonderful server ~!!