This is relatively old news, but it's true; the game has an actual, functioning economy. Dragons Wings and Dragon Claws are consistently 25k each, people are buying and selling Ice Cubes, going out to craft items and sell them, etc. It's pretty awesome, especially considering that just weeks ago we were all "I have no idea what the price is of anything". We just created a working economy organically without even knowing it, and we're back on the road. The road to who knows where. Let's hope it's somewhere good.
The way to improve it even more, like I said earlier, is that we need a low, middle and high class. Currently I'd say it's more like mostly middle-high to high class players, the ones who don't have much motivation to go out and get anything because they have it all (though that's beginning to change, since items are also changing). If we get a low class (the newbs, which is starting to happen), we'll have them all running around trying to get money from (hopefully) monster parts and crafts, buying stuff from the upper classes. Tadah. -Cruside Ever.
Doesn't matter whether it's for a sale or for your friend to try out; once the info is out, it's out, until you change your password. And even then, having people know about your account name alone in the first place is also anything but good. Endless Online has always been known to have insufficient account recovery; that's probably where you should continue to level your expectations at. If your account got "hacked" (by which I mean you gave out your account information, someone logged into it and changed the password without you knowing), there really isn't anything any admin will do for you. Not because they can't, but because they have no way to prove that you didn't make an account sale and simply want to steal it back. If they start handing out account recoveries to the honest people, they also have to do it for the ones with bad intentions. Get it? So what am I trying to say, bottom-line? Keep your account info safe with no one but yourself. That should be common sense by now. -Cruside Just letting you all know, Sausage has doubled the experience given from all monsters. I thought that was a fantastic idea; leveling has always been slow in this game.
Not to say that that's going to be the fix, but it will certainly make things move a little faster and feel just a bit more rewarding. :) -Cru Alright, let's just get this garbage out of the way, since so many people are questioning it. Yeah, about the Dragon hunting and Ancient Wraith Key-dropping video.
I originally unlisted it because I didn't want new players finding it one day and thinking "hey, admins just give out rare items like that!? This is stupid, I quit!" Even if it really was just a one-time event-like thing. It's all been settled and the item is now gone, and it won't happen again (mainly because admins can no longer spawn items like that, lol). Basically, people were giving Sordie a bunch of shit pretty much due to the video I posted, which just so happened to capture the footage of her dropping it. However, this isn't an "exposure" or anything, because she clearly wanted to do it and have everyone go on an Ancient Wraith raid. She wasn't hiding anything. The controversy was created by other players, and because of that, I didn't want to give off the vibe that that was the point of the video. So, another reason I unlisted it. However, I've been getting a lot of people telling me it wasn't a big deal and it was a funny video. Also, unlisting it made it look a bit like a cover-up. Because that's not what it was supposed to be, I just said "fuck it" and I put it back up. Whatever. The end. -Cru ...May I ask "why"?
Why on earth would you want to buy an account for EO? I mean, really, just think REALLY deeply into this question: why would you do it? One go-to answer might be like "I want to be at a higher level". Alright, sure. and now all you'll do for the rest of your life on this game is sit around by the church and complain about how much you hate EO. You're not gonna make anybody appreciate you for your level or even your nice items you have on, no one cares. Now that that's out of the way, what's the point of getting an account that's already at a high level? You can't appreciate it as much if you haven't earned that level, can you? That's why leveling up feels so good; it takes up time, yeah, but it's a nice feeling when you finally get up there. Above all, though, here's what matters the most: it's risky to buy an account. Period. It doesn't really matter how "trusted" the person is, they still have that chance to take all your money and not give out the account and password to you. Why should they? There's no outside rules bounding them to comply to the agreement. You're going completely with their trust. Another problem is that once a sale happens, the person who sold their account could go up to an admin like Sausage and tell them that their account got hacked. Whether someone did actually get hacked or not, how is an admin supposed to help you out if they don't have proof of what really happened? So basically what I'm trying to say is that there's no point to buying accounts. You'll really just hurt yourself in the end. -Cruside Before you freak out, the Wraith Key has been transformed into an Apple (a Shiny Red Apple, thanks, Plasmastar) at this point. It's not still in the game.
But I just wanted to make this post letting you all know what happened, what possibly has happened and would've happened based on this information, and my thoughts on it. Many players expressed frustration at the fact and/or idea of the admins (or co-admins, not Sausage) giving away rare items to people who didn't work for them. I don't know if it was done previously, I have no evidence. However, I witnessed (and even got on camera) an admin dropping a Wraith Key for someone to use. It was in good nature, it was for the entire party at the Dragons to go fight some Ancient Wraiths because they wanted to see it. Sure, I get it, but I mean c'mon, you're really not allowed to be handing out items like that, especially if you're supposed to earn it. The Wraith Key is by far one of the most difficult items to get in the entire game of EO, just giving it away would make some who actually earned it feel dreadful. A lot of players were outraged over this, as was I. I let Sausage know about it, and he currently disabled the spawn and drop item commands for the admins. The Wraith Key the player got turned into an Apple. It's not in their inventory anymore, don't worry. As a message to you co-admins, if you ever read this, please, please don't hand out items to people like that, no matter how hard they beg (in this case the person didn't even beg for it, as far as I remember). It really just breaks the game in many ways, it pisses off players who worked for those items. It's like a manager treating certain employees better than others simply because they're friends. Please, if you want our respect, don't hand out items like that. Thank you. -Cruside Who likes forums? Not me! But either way, I posted up one here if you wanna discuss some stuff. You can log in using pretty much any social media account you have and make a name for yourself. If you want to join in, I suggest going with your EO character name.
-Cruside So here's the deal... Sausage is updating the crap out of the game. In what way? Well, he doesn't want to add custom graphics (yet), because that would mean players would need to download a new client. In the current state it's in, I don't think we can afford to lose more players over something simple like that. So, instead, he's taking out the many items that are sitting and collecting dust at the shops. Example, the Light Battle Plate, Tennu, old Hero Plate, etc., and putting them in other various parts of the game, giving them all kinds of stat changes that actually make a difference. Not just that 1 Armor 1 Evade crap.
Where are these items going to go? Well, you'll just have to wait and see, my friends. Expect some to be crafted, expect some to be monster drops. There are LOADS happening in the game, and it's been really difficult to keep up on my site here. Every time he tells me about an update (or if I find out about it), I go on to change it on the site. But he's been editing so many little things, I just can't really keep up right now. So don't be surprised if some info here and there is not exactly up to par. I'm just a human. However, once a whole bunch of big updates happen at once, yes, I'll finally get around to really sprucing up and editing more things. Almost everything in the game has been updated on this site, but again, a few may be missed for the next few days or weeks. But either way, this is very exciting. Can't wait to see what's up the guy's sleeve. -Cruside Just wanted to take the time to write a post simply saying how gracious I am for the people who take their time to thank me, time and time and again. It just never gets old, and I'm really glad that so many people are happy my videos and site exist. Players have told me that my videos are what got them playing Endless Online again, and some say that they "kept the flame of EO alive". Wow, I mean, you have no clue how much that means to me. I'm just another EO player who's engulfed with nostalgia just like the rest of you, and I just had some extra time on my hands and wanted to start making videos about the game. It amazes me how it turned into like, the "main EO YouTube channel", and how it got so many people back into the game, how it helped bring players to the new server and so on.
This is gonna be a super sappy post, but I mean, c'mon, you were thinking the same thing: you really love Endless Online. Look, I don't care what veil you try to put up, how you say the game sucks and there's no point to it, but whether that's true or not, you love this game. That's why you keep floating around it, that's why you found this site and that's why you're reading this right now. And honestly, Endless Online will always hold a very important place in my heart. The music, the graphics, I mean, I have no idea why, none of us do, but it just fills me with nostalgic feelings, over and over again. So many great memories in the game, if only we knew what we had was so important back in the glory days. Someone else once said this, but I feel the same way: "No other game in the world could replace the void EO left. Damn." Damn indeed, my friend. I feel the same exact way all the time. Regardless of what you think is wrong with the game, for some reason, no other game in the entire universe seems to have this strangle hold on all of us. We all want the glory days back. Well, I'm elated to say that this new server is out and being worked on, how the level restrictions are gone and the old locations have returned. The one thing we need, and I mean really, the ONE last thing we need, is more players. That's it. Once we get a community going again, it will be back. Trust me. So again, I thank you all who thank me for what I have done and will continue to do. I don't want to come off as egotistical or anything, but I'm just saying that I cannot believe that I have the capability to give all of this information to both the current and former players of Endless Online. I want the best for this game as, for some stupid reason, it's SO important to me, and I understand it's very important to a lot of you as well. Live long, Endless Online. I know this new server will do well. -Cruside |
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