The monthly Imperian sale is delayed for another day or so as we finalize the preparations. However, we do have a new system for spawn wave areas which we are releasing today.

You can get a full description of how the system works in HELP DOUBLOONS.

In short, this system is similar to the "Level 100 Challenge" and will help address the problem with new players needing to invest a significant amount of money to be able to compete. Current players should find this new system rewarding as well.

You may now collect golden doubloons as you clear out spawn wave areas. These golden doubloons are used to borrow artifacts from Captain Felton 'Freebooter' Whitley in the Aori Bay. Most players should be able to collect enough doubloons to keep a set of artifacts for PvE or PvP, depending on what they want to do. Borrowed items are kept in your possession for 7 real days.

Established players will find they can save up the doubloons to get access to much more expensive artifacts which they may try out for an extended period of time as well.

This code has allowed us to clean up a lot of the spawn wave code in general, so you will see area reset better, and clean out old mobs from previous runs. We also have put in a way to track how fast spawn wave areas are completed. This will allow for players to do speed run and have a ranking system. We are going to watch how well these track over the next couple weeks before releasing it.

We will be releasing several new spawn wave areas over the next week for characters of all levels, so watch for those.

PS: We will be starting a Wheel of Fortune promo in the next couple of days and want to make sure everything with the new items are up to snuff before releasing. We also have some new knight artifacts we will roll out as suggested by the classleads.

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Naturalis, in the year 160 AM.