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niceRO

~ A small queer Ragnarok Online Episode 10 server ~
  • Base EXP: x1 Job EXP: x1 Drop: x2
  • Current Max Players Cap: 32
  • Server Time: UTC
  • No level limit for Party EXP Share
  • 100% Party EXP Share Rate
  • Stat-based Drop Rate Bonus
  • Gay Marriage
  • Character Pronouns
  • Universal Hairstyles
  • Daily Quests
War of Emperium Schedule
(Summer Time):
Tuesday: 23:00 - 1:00 UTC
Saturday: 16:00 - 18:00 UTC

Server Update #11
2024 February 09

Hi again! It's finally time to share information about all the stuff I've been adding to the live server during the last couple of weeks.

New Features And Fixes

  • I started working on a small player hub for new fun and gay things — a Club (with no name yet).
    Right now it only has a Club Host NPC and a Pronouns Registry NPC, but it's just a start. Please visit the Club in the south-western corner of Prontera.

  • Added Character Pronouns!
    You can finally assign Character Pronouns for each of your characters by talking to the Pronouns Registry NPC at the Club in Prontera. Maximum length for pronouns is 10 symbols. The pronouns format will look like this:

    • CharacterName [CharacterPronouns] (PartyName)

  • Added a new command to show you every active Player Character Shop in your current area — @shops.
    This command will show you a list of all nearby active vendors and also will mark them on the mini-map! Hopefully, it will be useful and will help boost trade on the server.

  • Weapons and armor won't be destroyed if Refinement fails.
    Now when Refinement fails it will decrease your weapon / armor Refinement Level by 1 point, but never below the refinement safety level. Here are the current refinement safety levels on the server:

    • Armor: 4
    • Lv. 1 Weapon: 7
    • Lv. 2 Weapon: 6
    • Lv. 3 Weapon: 5
    • Lv. 4 Weapon: 4

  • Increased the Maximum Account Storage value from 300 to 600.

  • Increased the maximum Player Character Shop capacity from 12 to 13.
    Unfortunately, old game clients don't allow more than 13 slots for the Vending skill menu.

  • Switched item drops going to the Most Damage Dealt out of Max Mob HP player instead of the Most Damage Dealt out of Total Damage one.
    This means last high damage hit that takes more HP than what is left in a mob will count only as HP that was actually taken from that mob, so there won't be accidental item drop steals by last-big-hitters.

  • If you are in a party, the Drop Rate LUK Bonus is now counted by the luckiest party member and not your individual LUK stat.
    This includes all the LUK bonuses and temporary LUK boosts party members have at the moment of killing a mob.

  • Removed Grace Period for non-MVP item drops.
    Now anyone can grab an item drop right after the mob was killed (if the killer didn't use @autoloot). This was made as a temporary measure to fix an issue with the game not identifying you as the mob killer (the one who should get the loot) if you didn't finish killing the mob and died or left the map, and then came back and killed the same mob, but had to wait for this Grace Period to end to pick up the loot, since the game had somehow forgotten you were the initial killer.

  • Added an automated message in the game chat to let you know your Pet has left you. T__T

  • Increased the HungryDelay value for every Pet type by 10 seconds.
    This means it will take more time now for your Pets to get hungry! Yay!

  • Changed Rogue's Treasure (#2620) item bonuses to the ones mentioned on the ratemyserver page.

  • Added two new Treasure Signs!
    8 total now!

  • Increased all Bard / Dancer / Ensemble skill areas from 5*5 to 11*11.
    The song/dance areas on our server were very small for some reason, so I increased them to the maximum size that our old server allows. I know that it's twice as much as we had initially, but it's still not as huge as the 31*31 area that iRO suggests for some of the skills.

  • Edited Marriage NPC scripts to get rid of "groom" and "bride".

  • Added Priest cut-ins for the Marriage NPC script.

  • Changed all "umba" language lines to "?" symbols in Umbala NPC scripts.

  • Changed "Ponka Hontas" NPC name to "Pon".

  • FIXED: Friend requests broke if a player character had pronouns in the name.

  • FIXED: Character Style field was showing the opposite value on the Account page of the niceRO Control Panel website.

  • FIXED: Izlude to Alberta sea travel teleported to Pharos instead.

Known Issues

  • The Reset Girl NPC can still erase your Platinum Quest skills from time to time. I still need to figure out how she does that.

  • Same Skill Descriptions still crash the game client.

Wishlist

  • I really hope I'm done with server updates for now, so I can finally make a new client patch.
    I decided this new patch won't have an autopatcher yet, but instead I will finally fix skill descriptions and will finally push my old fixes for Mob Shouts and Pet Talks.

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