More updates due

The following was posted by M2H in the annoucements forum and the Syrnia news page:

Dear all,

While we wanted to launch some big new updates before the holidays, we decided to postpone the plans to be able to properly test them. Adding a great new, but bugged, feature would ruin everything.We can (for a change) tell you some details about these planned updates though:

1. Syriet ore will be coming to the game. This will unlock the best available weapons and armour for now!
2. We will have something set up for any desert medals to be exchanged for special weapons and armour.

As a reminder, we still are working on resolving all bugs.

These are just some expected updates for the month of August.

One last thing, every few days there will be an invasion. This will start
this Sunday, 29/6, and go on until 21/7, a Monday. No location will be used
twice during this to ensure that every location is utilized with the invasions
and that everyone can join in as they wish.

Enjoy your holidays!

Matricarias - New Flower

A new flower has been added to the game. The Matricarias can be found on Kanzo and a bouquet is sent as 'best wishes'.

More new working images added

It took a bit longer than previously announced, but we've added 5 new work images:

• Constructing
• School - Trading
• School - Constructing
• Smithing
• Smelting

Constructing Pictures that still will be added:

• Cooking
• Lockpicking
• Moving

Farming: Planting 100+ Seeds

A couple more more fixes and changes have been made.

The most notable is the ability to plant more than 100 seeds at a time now. So you no longer have to plant 100 seeds 4 times to plant 400 seeds. Keep in mind that if you plant more seeds at once you run the risk of lossing more crops at once if they go rotten.

The changes are listed below:

• The referal link now properly tracks referals again.
• Bronze bars were sometimes listed as 'other' at the auction
• Farming: Removed the 100 seeds limit, as it is no longer required.

Bug fixes

M2H has fixed the follwing bugs:

• Pumpkins now no longer grow into cucumbers
• Elven gate -> Penteza and Rose gates -> Castle Rose travel time has been fixed
• Farmland has been limited to 18 crops per row (instead of 25), to support a 1024x786 resolution. This is the smallest resolution we will actively support, but you can still play Syrnia at smaller resolutions of course (1152x864 and higher resolutions are recommended).
• Layout options GUI improved a bit, add the opton to reduce the stats images at the right.
• The outlands now also shows combat levels
• Highscore player details: renamed "level" to "combat level"
• Durability smithing upgrades fixed: whoever had 15+ smithing, but less than 30 smithing got a +2 option but no +1 option
• Escape the pirates island: Fixed the text & GUI
• when exiting or entering an PvP area it will now refresh your HP to ensure the HP is always up2date as it should be
• Notes now properly use new lines
• Typo fixed: "The last chests wich was found here was succesfully opened by XxX.", "Get witch Bluebell a Amber gem."
• Eully shop, and similar shops will now require you to select an item to sell, instead of always defaulting to the first item (to prevent mistakes)
• The total skill rank at the stats popup needed +1.
• Messages: "50/50 messages saved (Game messages not included)". This DID still include game messages.
• The ignore option now has got a text area to be able to easily change the ignore list.

The Legion Base website has been re-launched

After some down time http://www.thelegionbase.com/ is up and running again.

Items worth taking notice of:

• Calculators (including thieving calculator)
• Chest cracker (to help you open combination chests)
• Outlands Loader (pre-caches the images)

Currently most of the guides are missing but these and the rest of the site are still being worked on.

There is talk of a new score system for highscores in the future too!

Web images

Soft spider silk

Hardened spider silk

Webbed item

More info on Webbers island

Wyks has created a thread on the forums with all the information that is known about the new island. As the post will eventually slip off the forums, i'll post it here for future reference:

GENERAL

• You can sail to Web haven from Xanso.
• There are no auto attacks on this island.
• You won't be attacked while working.
• Constructing is not possible on this island.

PIRATES

• The pirates don't have acces to the island.
• The pirates do have the option to invade this island.

Location: Web haven
This is the only part of the island not under danger by the spiders. The threat of spider infestation is high though which is why the town is always under heavy guard.Visitors only come to this island to hunt spiders so they may get the valuable web from them. They help protect this port so they may also receive spider silk as well. When properly used, spider web can help make an item stronger since their web is stronger than steel.

City Menu
Web haven
Trading post
Jail
Take a boat

Cook x

Fish (net,rod)
Smith
Smelt Bronze Bars
Smelt Iron Bars
Smelt Steel Bars

Location: Sorer mines
The spiders come here often to lay eggs. As you look at the mining tunnels you see spider hatchlings crawl out and head to their lair.

City Menu
Sorer mines
Mine Iron ore
Mine Coal

Location: Sorer lair
Upon visiting here one can clearly see this is the main gathering place for the spiders. You can see the queens, hunters, and spiderlings lurking within their webs on the treetops. You can see webbed corpses hanging down the tree branches. Brave adventurers come here only to try to get the rare silk that spiders will drop.

City Menu
Sorer lair
Attack the spiders

Monsters (info recorded thus far)

Sorer Spiderling
CL: 15
HP: 17
Experience: 29
Drops:You got 2 Onion seeds !
5 Onion Seeds

Sorer Hunter
CL: 17
HP: 19
Experience: 33
Drops:1 Diaspore

Sorer Queen
CL: 19
HP: 20
Experience: 37
Drops:1 Queen Spider Meat (6hp when cooked)
1 Garnet
2 tomato Seeds
1 Beet seed
2 Green Pepper Seeds

Location: Silk Woods
While unable to see any spiders, one can clearly see the remains of numerous victims laid about all over the forest. Only experienced woodcutters can work here, not only by potential visits by the spiders, but also due to the silk that covers the trees.

City Menu
Silk woods
Woodcut (lemo woods

Location: Webbed forest
The animals have long abandoned this forest making it safe for travel. You see some spiders crawling off in search of their next meal, but fortunately they do not spot you. The trees here are mostly healthy except the growing number that have been covered with webs.

City Menu
Webbed forest
Woodcut (isri)

[0]13:56 News item added "Webbers island"

18-06-2008 Webbers island
As some of you might have hoped: the invading Sorer spiders did not came out of nowhere! They came from the Webbers island that you can now reach via Mezno island, Xanso.

Webbers island

On an unknown island, a breed of spiders evolved to become a dominant force and quickly infested the entire island. While humans gained control of a few locations, the spiders still lurk in the shadows, ready to prey on the weak and add to their collection of webbed corpses.

You can help the citizens of Web haven defend this last location of the island not under danger by the spiders, and who knows, you might get some of the rare Spider silk!

Smithing upgrades

Smithing upgrades have been added. You can now use certain items to upgrade armour/weapons. At the moment you can use Hardened and Soft spider silk as a Durability upgrade. (Yes, spider silk can be very strong!).

Pirates

Pirates can not reach Webbers island. They should not miss much because pirates can still gather the spider drops at other locations.

However, jealous pirates can attack this island though...Let's hope they won't invade the island as a surprise party today!

Some notes about these game updates
No new quests have been added. We do want more quests in Syrnia, but we want to update the quest system first. Once that's done, we will add quests to all existing islands.

While we did want to give pirates access to the Webbers island, we decided it was better to let them have a new island to attack. Plus, most pirates are not in the level range that the island is designed for.

We know there's need for new higher level locations/features, and we will of course be working on higher level features and/or locations.

Boat fishing

It looks like the pirates are more active on the Sea again: You can now find Locked small chests on the open sea.

The staff

Besides game updates we've especially been working hard on our staff structure and organisation. It has been completely renewed last week, and we have expanded the staff.

Bugs & Tickets

Our top priorities now are resolving bugs and all open tickets.A few minor bugs have been fixed already, but not much worth mentioning yet:

Bouquette stacking has been fixed.

Thieving shop gold; the minimum time is now 900 seconds, max. time is 1800 seconds. It was already coded like this, but due to a bug the times were messed up.

Please help Syrnia, and the staff, by marking any of your tickets as solved if it's solved or not important any more.

New items / Creatures

It appears that there are new creatures in Syrnia looking at the current invasion.

The queen drops pepper seeds, beet seeds, tomato seeds and Queen spider meat .

Queen spider meat can be cooked at level 15 and it heals 6hp.

The hunter has dropped diaspores so far.

More info as it becomes available.


Queen Spider Meat

Strange creature invasion

[0]23:59 Spiders have snuck on ships and are seeking to colonise the world!
[0] 00:00 Beware the spider threat!

There is an Sorer hunter invasion at Xanso.
There is an Sorer queen invasion at Port Calviny.
There is an Sorer queen invasion at Barnacle bay.
There is an Sorer spiderling invasion at Burning beach.
There is an Sorer queen invasion at Kanzo.
There is an Sorer queen invasion at Crab nest.
There is an Sorer hunter invasion at Deep Lemo woods.

If anyone caught the red text, could you please post it comments please. Thanks :D

There was a pirate invasion this morning

I don't have all the details except that it happened about 8am Syrnia time.

Just posting this for reference. The next invasion will probably be at least 5 days from now....

Battle arena schedule

Scheduled fights:
At 2008-06-17 10:01 Level: 20 - 29
At 2008-06-17 12:16 Level: 20 - 29

6 out of the last 10 fights have been for this combat level group, lucky people!