Pie Updates

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Here you will find a list of the updates done to the Pie server since it was created, you can also visit the Pie Update Section in the server forum for all the topic discussions about the updates made.

Contents 1 General 1.1 Modifications 1.2 Custom additions 2 Skills 2.1 Modified Official Skills 2.2 New Custom Skills 3 Items 3.1 Modified Official Items 3.2 New Custom Items 4 Cards 4.1 Normal Cards 4.2 MVP Cards 5 NPCs/Scripts 5.1 Modified Official/eAthena Scripts 5.2 Custom NPCs/Scripts 6 Commands 6.1 eAthena Commands 6.2 Custom Commands 7 Sprites 7.1 Custom Sprites

[edit] General

[edit] Modifications

2007

• May 26
  • Added an anti-leeching check: if someone is not active for more than 1 minute (use of skills/items/etc..) that person will not receive EXP from the party until he/she is active again.
  • From now on, you can only remain for a maximum of 10 minutes on the Character Select screen. It's part of the anti-zeny-duping plan to prevent zeny duping from My Wealth in the CP (there will also be new CP restrictions in the future to take advantage of this new change so that duping will be impossible).

• May 10
  • Pets will now automatically go back to their eggs when entering castles during WoE.

• March 25
  • Fixed an exploit that used to make the server crash.
  • Improved the login-server to better counter DDoS attacks.
  • Fixed an abuse with family exp share.
  • Added the new Rachel and Ice dungeons mobs and drops.

• March 27
  • Improved the trade logging system.
  • Fixed a few drop rates which were temporary fixes made by eAthena until they obtain the official rates.

• February 16
  • Fixed the Sign Quest.

2006

• December 11
  • Weddings will now only cost 130K and 120K for males and females respectively.

• October 13
  • DarkRO low rates is now hosted on our very new DEDICATED SERVER!

• October 7
  • Hopefully fixed the Assassin quest.
  • Reverted back Amon Ra's behavior (which was changed some time ago as a temporary fix by eAthena until they knew exactly how it was supposed to behave). But since they are acting 'weirder' than before by casting Meteor Storm on themselves (therefore they don't need to move), it's probably safe to put it back like it was before for now.

• October 1
  • Updated SVN! The new version includes the newly released Homunculus as well as the latest Rachel towns and fields. Also, GS and NJ have been switch to how it is implemented in eAthena (hence, they should be as close as possible to Gravity's defaults! i.e. more balanced hopefully). Make sure you update your kRO before going on the new maps or trying to get an Homnuculus.
  • Some new official quests were added, one of which allows you to win some weapons for Gunslingers. As a result, the Seller in Einbroch will stop vending those weapons.
  • Other little bugs mentionned about some skills (mainly SG/SL skills) should have been fixed with this current version.

• August 8
  • The new quests to become Gunslinger and Ninja have been released.
    • Talk to Agent K in que_ng to become a Gunslinger. The quest was done by Athena and myself. Ideas from MilkySoft and weihung.
    • Talk to Kakashi in Amatsu to become a Ninja. Mostly taken from Kuzah's idea. Thanks too.
  • You won't be able to create character names starting with GM (all cases are considered).

• June 26
  • There will be vending restrictions from now on. If you are selling in Prontera, it needs to be on the sidewalks!
  • All the changes made on Force concerning the Gunslinger and Ninja classes (to balance them) were made here as well. It's possible that some skills need a bit more nerfing with time.
  • The Gunslinger and Ninja bonus stats when leveling will now work.
  • The Gunslinger and Ninja job quests will be disabled for now until we finish the new quests for them.

• May 23
  • The gunslinger and ninja classes were added today! Although the class is not fully implemented in eAthena, I spent quite some time fixing and implementing the 'non-functional' skills. It seems eAthena made a temporary halt on their development. Anyway, here, they are now 100% working! For a detailed list of the fixes made, check Update May 23 on Pie.
  • The new cards were added.
  • Two custom Gunslinger and Ninja shops are now available in Prontera at (184,193) and (127,213).

• April 1
  • Upgrade to the latest SVN from eAthena.
  • The Taekwon classes are now available here!
  • WoE on Thursday does not start at 22:00 (10pm) anymore but at 20:00 (8pm).
  • All the latest maps were added.

[edit] Custom additions

2007

• May 26
  • Thanatos Tower is now unwarpable to promote the quest and prevent abuses.
  • The map gon_dun01 is now unwarpable.
  • Fixed the new custom pets erroring with backpacks. They won't be able to equip any accesory from now on.

• May 10
  • The Black Market's entrance fee is now 5 Million zeny due to the server's economy growth.
  • To complete the LKH quest, the zeny fee will now be 50 Million due to the server's economy growth.
  • Implemented Event guild system. Here's how it's going to work:
    • There are 3 Event coins that have been created: Golden, Silver and Bronze Event Coins.
    • The conversion rate between the 3 is: 1 Golden Coin = 5 Silver Coin and 1 Silver Coin = 5 Bronze Coin.
    • When an event is won, a GM (or an Event giver from the Event guild) may give the winner one of those coins (with the prizes depending on the difficulty of the event of course: golden for very tough ones while bronze for very easy ones).
    • Those coins cannot be traded, sold, dropped, etc.. The only thing you can do is put them in your storage. Let's note that even GMs can't trade those coins.
    • 3 custom commands have been implemented for the GMs: @gold, @silver and @bronze. Using those commands will remove coins from the Event giver's inventory and give it to the selected winner. This command can also be used by normal players WHO are in the Event guild. The other advantage of this command is that ALL events will be logged! Also, when using this command, a reason (or the event name) has to be given. Example: @gold 2 "Hide and Seek Event" Maurice (which will give 2 Golden Event Coins to Maurice for an Hide and Seek event). This way, EVERYTHING will be logged and possible abuses can be moderated this way.
    • Since GMs can't even give Event coins to other Event givers of the Event guild, another new custom command @givecoin was implement to allow this (will only work on members of the Event guild of course).
    • The result of this strict yet clean system is that no kind corruption will be possible. It is not that much about the GMs (which I trust anyway) in the guild but more about its members. We never know what can happen. Someone could try to join the guild to give out those coins to his/her friends. Fortunately, here, even the GM can control how many coins a member can have (via @givecoin) and rewarding people with coins is logged.

• March 25
  • Made most dungeons and a few 'critical' fields maps unwarpable. However, please note that the restriction is less 'strict'. You cannot warp TO these maps but you can warp OUT of them anytime.
  • Fixed the LKH quest (not counting emperiums) and made it harder (still less hard than the very original one - provided with eAthena but yet custom [script]).

• February 16
  • New DPS system (Duping Prevention System) implemented:
    • There will now be a delay on dropping items that will depend on the number of users online to reduce inter-server stress (function: <Number of users>*15/1000 - With a minimum of 15 seconds). Also your char will be saved right away when dropping items. No more duping via this method!
    • Created @garbage command (see in Custom Commands below for details).
    • Added additional (and custom) protection to Banks to prevent duping zeny when the server crashes.
    • Added the same 3 minutes delay of the Broadcaster on depositing money in the Banks (anti-duping measure). As such, you can only deposit in any of the banks every 3 minutes.
    • Some more items are now undroppable such as Castle drops, Yggs, Boxes (Thunder, etc..) and a few more such as Poison Bottles. The custom command @garbage was also added accordingly to allow you to bypass the delay. But, be aware that any item you will drop while having this mode on will disappear! So BE careful!

2006

• December 11
  • If you logout while in the Black Market, login back in will automatically warp you out since that map is supposed to be a 'no save' place.

• October 13
  • Removed the drop-item restriction in Prontera. Now only on the main road won't you be able to drop items.
  • Slightly increased the castle drop rate since it was a bit lower than iRO's standard drop rate it seems.
  • There will now be a day and night system. After each server restart, it will be day for 5 hours, then night for 1 hour, then days for 5 hours, then night for 1 hour and so on...

• October 7
  • Prontera will now be a 'drop-free' city.
  • Put back restrictions on Shops and Chats in the middle of the road.
  • Removed the anti-warp mod when having a negative status effect.
  • Changed a setting to make mobs bypass the rule making neutral attacks hit at full damage against any elemental type players (e.g. it will work differently against ghostring users).

• October 1
  • Added support for a Police guild as well as an Helper guild.
  • The custom mod I made a while back for Force bringing to an end any type of warp abuse in castles when they are conquered has been merged here as well. If you want more details and screenshots, visit the Force update section (in 'All updates before May 17, 2006').
  • Executioner was added to the Black Market.

• August 8
  • Some the of the features that stopped working are now working perfectly:
    • @nobc and @bot.
    • Pets notifying you when hungry.
    • The spam control.
  • The interval of time between duels is now 1 minute only.
  • The Battle Square Arena was removed since it was conflicting with some Job quests and was not very useful.
  • Two custom shops in Amatsu and Einbroch were added for Gunslingers and Ninjas. Note that there are also the same kind of shops in the Black Market and they will propose a little bit more items.
  • You won't be able to use skills anymore in the pathway leading to the Blackmarket.

• June 26
  • The pet mod I added to Force a few months ago now also works here! So, if your pet is getting hungry, it will start speaking to you and at a certain point it will go smaller (in size). Feeding it then will make it grow back to its original size.
  • The offical 'Treasure Hunters Guild Quests' have been added.
  • The quest to get the Icarus wings was added as well.
  • Corrected a quest item's name from the Berzebub card quest.
  • Pets will now support their master in battle (according to a support 'rate' - i.e. chance. I increased that rate a bit for DarkRO from the official value). Note that for the pets to use skills, it needs to have its equipement on.
  • You cannot warp to Prison or the GM castle anymore.
  • The Broadcasting system from Force has been implemented in DarkRO as well (you can use @nobc to filter broadcasts).
  • Another merge from Force: the spamming system. If you say 5 same things in a row, the next time you say it, you'll get muted for 2 minutes.

• May 23
  • The Alliance feature from Force was also implemented here. Simply pm to Alliance to talk to your guild members or members of allied guilds.
  • The max tax you can put on a guild member is now 99%.
  • A potion seller was added to the Black Market.

• April 1
  • The Mob HP will show like on DarkRO Force.
  • The quests for the godlike items were added. They were therefore removed from the Blackmarket.

[edit] Skills

[edit] Modified Official Skills

2007

• May 26
  • Emergency Recall has been disabled in Novice Castles.

• May 10
  • Emergency Recall will now only work on GvG grounds.

[edit] New Custom Skills

• [None].

[edit] Items

[edit] Modified Official Items

2007

• June 15
  • Changed the Price value of Royal Jelly to 2000 (thus selling for 1000 zeny).

• May 26
  • Royal Jelly will now sell for 100 zeny only to prevent abusive farming.
  • Replaced the 20 Mother's Nightmare requirement for the 2yrs Anniversary Hat quest by 20 Broken Pharaoh Emblem.
  • Fixed Zweihander being upgraded to Gakkung Bow[2] when adding a slot. Now it will be upgraded to Zweihander[2] like it should be.

• March 27
  • Fly wings now weight 0.2.

• February 16

- Removed trading/selling/etc. restrictions on Nile Rose.

2006

• December 11
  • Support for Ninja and Gunslinger were added to the Valkyrie items. Ninja will follow the Mage's formula while Gunslinger will follow the Swordman's one.

• August 8
  • Fixed Balmung not being treated as a Two-Handed Sword. Now, Two-Hand Quicken will work great with it.

• June 26
  • Now, only the Swordsman, Thief, Merchant and Novice classes can equip Balmung.

• May 23
  • Balmung can now be equipped by the Knight and Crusader classes only.
  • Ghostring card will now work against monsters.

[edit] New Custom Items

2007

• Mar 27
  • Changed the chance for Gargoyle Wings to trigger Stone Curse to 0.5%

2006

• Dec 11
  • Fixed Banryu decreasing the Aspd by a lot.
  • Dragon Wings won't give the Wind element anymore. It will now give Agi +15 instead.

[edit] Cards

[edit] Normal Cards

• [None].

[edit] MVP Cards

• [None].

[edit] NPCs/Scripts

[edit] Modified Official/eAthena Scripts

2007

• June 15
  • Added a Kafra in Hugel.

• December 11
  • Renamed the healer to Healer Phoebe and changed her sprite.
  • Duplicated the Healer, Reset Girl and Dye NPCs in other major towns.

2006

• April 1
  • The Card Remover NPC was added. The default location for that NPC is: 28,73 at prt_in.gat (also as shown on the website in Features).
  • The healer was removed cause it's more expensive than healing services from the inn.

[edit] Custom NPCs/Scripts

2007

• May 26
  • Fixed Angel of Prontera not moving anymore plus added the new GM names.

• May 10
  • Implemented a Therapist NPC in Prontera that will make you forget complex quests in case you get stuck in them (due to a bug or for missing a step, etc..). It can only make you forget the Sign Quest for now (it will even remove Sign Quest related items - unique ones).
  • Added a Tamer NPC in Prontera that will allow you to get special Taming scrolls for new custom pets. The only ones available for now are Raptices and Skeggiolds (notice: they'll be looting like porings).
  • Added an Event NPC that will allow you to exchange your Event coins for rewards (new Event system that is part of the new Constitution). The list of reward is pretty basic for now since this whole thing is still in a kinda experimental phase. Many more rewards will be added in the future. Make sure to run the launcher to be able to see the coins (without erroring).

• March 25
  • Implemented a new guild storage password system.

2006

• Dec 11
  • The Orc Master will now check for mounted Pecos or falcons/carts equipped before removing the orc head.
  • Fixed Neko Mimi quest.
  • When breaking the seal to the Ultimate Warrior path, there will be a gender check before the announcement.
  • The Message Board NPC was removed since it was using ressources for nothing imo. It was pretty useless compared to the broadcaster.

• October 1
  • The Orc Master will now only charge 250 zeny to change your 'face' back to normal.
  • Like on Force, the Adoption NPC will now auto-reset every hour. Weddings are now resettable by GMs as well.

• August 8
  • You will now be prompt a menu when clicking on the PVP Warper.

• June 26
  • Akira can now be found here as well. You have therefore access to the valkyrie items quests and others. Of course, they were changed a bit to suit the pace but remember that finishing those quests is supposed to be VERY tough!
  • The PVP warper was added (same as on Force).
  • There's now a Baby Changer NPC in the Adoption Room.

[edit] Commands

[edit] eAthena Commands

2006

• May 23
  • Added a new command @sleep (@afk and @brb also work). You can use them to 'sleep' (in towns only). There's also a big delay to prevent abuse. That command cannot be used when attacking or being attacked. Credits to Clarissa from eAthena's forum for the idea and implementation.

[edit] Custom Commands

2007

• June 15
  • Implemented a new anti-hacking protection system. This system was particularly conceived to avoid any possible keylogging that could be used to retrieve one's password. Basically, two new commands were added: @lock and @unlock. Once you setup your password with a Security NPC (in Prontera), you can just do @lock anytime to 'lock' your account. When your account is locked, any character from that account cannot drop, trade and sell items/zeny. They also cannot interact with any NPC. To be able to use the account again, one must do @unlock. Then a window will appear and will ask for your password. As mentioned before, you won't be typing the password but 'building' it from a menu of characters displayed in that window (that's also how you set your password from the Security NPC). Therefore, when you're about to go to bed, simply do @lock and logout. When you log back in the day after, just do @unlock to be able to fully use your account again. For more information on how to use this feature check this topic: Lock System Demo.
  • Fixed lhz_dun03 allowing @sleep.

• May 26
  • Added a new custom command for your very own entertainment: @dance. Note that you can only dance in major towns (besides Hugel). But the only place where you'll be able to do lots of special dancing effects will be in Comodo. So, it'll be like the new discotheque in game. You can also control the duration of the dance or the speed by giving more parameters like: @dance <number_of_moves (10 to 200)> <speed (0 to 5)>. If you just enter @dance, the default number of moves will be 75 and the speed will be 0 (0 being the slowest). Last note: to have a greater speed than 0, you need to have some +[1-10] Food (won't be consumed, just checked). Just use the command, it will tell you which level of Food you need for the speed you want. Oh and you might want to use /effect according to your taste. Finally there's a 30 seconds delay between dances (only 10 seconds if in Comodo), you need to be at least level 40 and you can't dance when WoE is on.
  • New @go location added: @go disco. This will warp you somewhere randomly near the new dancefloor in Comodo. This might be moved with time if we find a better place.
  • Fixed @sleep not displaying a message when used (it would only show '??').

• February 16
  • Created a new custom command: @garbage. This command will allow you to bypass the dropping delay. However, any item dropped will completely DISAPPEAR. It will not show on the floor! This command is really for garbage items lol. Just use @garbage again to turn this mode off.

2006

• December 11
  • Guildmasters can now use @changegm to change the guild's leader.
  • You can now use @homtalk to make your homunculus talk.
  • You can use @idsearch to know the exact ID of an item. This can be useful for @autolootitem.

• October 13
  • You can now use @hominfo to get some useful details concerning your homunculus.

• June 26
  • You can now use @duel, @invite, @accept, @reject and @leave to initiate duels with others.

• April 1
  • Implementation of the special DarkRO command '@autolootitem'. Example of how to use it: @autolootitem jellopy or @autolootitem 909.
  • Commands @mi (mobinfo) and @ii (iteminfo) were added.

[edit] Sprites

[edit] Custom Sprites

2007

• May 27
  • The Artic Wings modified by Jasper, Everet and Erodoeth were introduced in game and are replacing the old ones.