Uthgard

September update!


Thank you Ichi for uploading your pictures from this event

Sun, parties and the beach days are almost over, and we are starting to get up to speed again!

We are developing our new RA setup as fast as we can but this will not be much of a newsflash about this, as there really isn't much to say besides that we are working on it.

Currently we are still testing a lot of things, but finishing is getting closer and closer by each hour but we are not able to give out an ETA (yet).


However, we do have a few things to tell you

Behemoth Event:

Many of you have asked about rewards for this event and we apologize for the slow process of picking a reward and giving you information. However due to summer times we have had some difficulties getting communication within the staff done in a fast and steady speed.

The rewards:

A customized pet trinket similar to the tajendi crocodiles.

We know that many of you will feel this reward does not live up to the effort put into the event, however this is choice was made for a few reasons.

Reason one:

We do not want to build up a expectation on rewards for player events. As much as we support them we do not wish to see players cry for rewards every time they build up an event.

Reason two:

We do not want to give out rewards that cause imbalance or gives huge profit to those who participated. This limit what we can give out as rewards.

Reason three:

We have found some problems with a few reward options (such as titles) which means that we are not able to give out these kind of rewards any more due to the client not handling them very well.

We hope you will understand and be glad for the small reward we can give you.

How and when the pet rewards will be given is still uncertain, more about that will come later.


Hijacked accounts

Our first thought was not to restore any characters due to the amount of work that was needed to do this.

However through much debate we decided that we would take a different approach to this.

This means the following:

Characters which are:

1. Over or exactly level 40
2. Characters of a hijacked account

Will be restored.

What will be restored you might ask?

We will restore the characters level and realm rank.

No gold, no items, no titles, no crafting skill, and no names that has been taken while the character were deleted will be restored.

We are aware that this could be a huge loss, however restoring these things would be:

a. Too much work
b. delaying the process

We are still unsure on how and when we will restore the characters, more will come on that later.


That is it for now folks.

Have a wonderful September

Thx for your work from the community of Uthgard

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EXPECIALLY for change the home page news that was annoing

Well thank you for such a work, but iam not sure if is it a worth. 50lvl char withouth items, without golds, without craft skill is pretty useless. And how could it make a new template or get money like this? Better make a new char tbh...

I know staff does a great job and spending lots of there free time for free developing this server BUT not taking action to restore stuff after a major hack will not scare away the hackers. If hackers see that no action is made against them so they can continue steal gold and items from accounts without loosing them will just encourage them to go on.

And its not good for the server loosing alot of lvl50 ppl that will just quit as they have no gold/items on there chars.
Imo salvaging after a hack is prior all other work even thou the hack wasnt aimed directly on the uthgard server.

I understand theres no ETA yet on old ra´s but would be great to know if its done before end of this year.

I think you did not get it. There is no char active that has any benefit from stolen items or money. We are talking about deleted chars and destroyed items.

The hacker accounts have been banned.

And, just to remind you about a small thing: Uthgard didn't get hacked. We are talking about the result of insecure player accounts. We have warned the community so many times to not have the same accname/pw combinations at any other server. And?

You see the results. If everyone would have changed his password after our warning, we would not have had a single hijacked account!

Always remember that...

Camulos

Camulos wrote:I think you did not get it. There is no char active that has any benefit from stolen items or money. We are talking about deleted chars and destroyed items.

The hacker accounts have been banned.

And, just to remind you about a small thing: Uthgard didn't get hacked. We are talking about the result of insecure player accounts. We have warned the community so many times to not have the same accname/pw combinations at any other server. And?

You see the results. If everyone would have changed his password after our warning, we would not have had a single hijacked account!

Always remember that...

Camulos

I never said uthgard got hacked. But im not convinced about the stolen items and gold. Sure u banned the hackers accounts but lets say the hackers used 10+ accounts with different Ip´s to trade around the stolen stuff? If u can trace around the stuff like that im sure it wouldnt be to hard to hand it back to there rightfull owner, right?

Jonah wrote:I never said uthgard got hacked. But im not convinced about the stolen items and gold. Sure u banned the hackers accounts but lets say the hackers used 10+ accounts with different Ip´s to trade around the stolen stuff? If u can trace around the stuff like that im sure it wouldnt be to hard to hand it back to there rightfull owner, right?

Too much work. There is ALOT information at logs, so it might take hours to trace 1 item.

We should be happy that they bother to recover the character.
And ... Uthgrad is friendly community and every one is able to find friend who will hook them up with some . . .

Please people, I'm begging you: Stop being all negative @ Staff, they have done and they will do plenty more good job DOT

darkraider77 wrote:Well thank you for such a work, but iam not sure if is it a worth. 50lvl char withouth items, without golds, without craft skill is pretty useless. And how could it make a new template or get money like this? Better make a new char tbh...

it is surely easier to farm up some plats with a 50 toon even who has bad or no gear than as a level 1 viking...

if i put level 20 npc bought gear on my 50 skald i bet i could farm up 3p for a set of 99 chain in 2 days. or since it is a new toon you can do the epic quest over again which is also nice for farming.

Hoppip wrote:What did I miss?

holsten-knight wrote:the behemoth reward

As mentioned fromt he Staff we should recieve:

Trishin wrote:Behemoth Event:

Many of you have asked about rewards for this event and we apologize for the slow process of picking a reward and giving you information. However due to summer times we have had some difficulties getting communication within the staff done in a fast and steady speed.

The rewards:

A customized pet trinket similar to the tajendi crocodiles.

We know that many of you will feel this reward does not live up to the effort put into the event, however this is choice was made for a few reasons.

Reason one:

We do not want to build up a expectation on rewards for player events. As much as we support them we do not wish to see players cry for rewards every time they build up an event.

Reason two:

We do not want to give out rewards that cause imbalance or gives huge profit to those who participated. This limit what we can give out as rewards.

Reason three:

We have found some problems with a few reward options (such as titles) which means that we are not able to give out these kind of rewards any more due to the client not handling them very well.

We hope you will understand and be glad for the small reward we can give you.

How and when the pet rewards will be given is still uncertain, more about that will come later.

Any news about this over 2 year old topic?
Or does the we get a interest rate like a bigger reward for waiting so long

The search function is your friend...
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=27411&hilit=behemoth

We can place rewards into current drop table of Behemoth

hahaha

Really thx for the good work done!!

Rofl and i read the whole 1. Post, worried why Camulos posted, then realized this one is from 2010