Love & Hate Update

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Category: Updates

Published on Saturday, 14 June 2014 00:46

Our Love & Hate update went live today bringing a brand new Couples system, Blacklist, Revenge list and a completely rewritten Friends system. 

Friends

The Friends system has been completely rewritten to work with the new Couples system and some bugs were also squashed, including the Reject Friend Requests setting.

Friends Lists are now synced properly between players and removing a friend from your list also removes you from theirs and vice versa.

Friends can now earn Relationship Points (RP) and these are displayed in the Friends List with a heart and a number. RP are used for the new Couple system and are gained by using Flowers, Chocolates and other items available from the Flower Girl in the new map, Archelon Temple.



To gain RP, just buy a Single Rose or Bunch of Roses and select your friend before using them and you will both gain the RP.

Couples

After gaining 6,000 Relationship Points with a friend you can propose to them by right-clicking them and choosing Propose from the menu. You must have a Star of Love in your inventory which can be purchased from the Registrar in Archelon Temple.

If your friend accepts the proposal you will become a couple, but make sure to ask the friend first because you will lose the Star of Love even if they decline your proposal.

Make sure you are both in the Archelon Temple when you propose for a chance of obtaining 2x Ring of Love. A Ring Bearer will try to run away with the rings, but if you catch him he will drop them! These rings are untradable so make sure you are in a party with your partner so you can both loot one each.

Couples gain a special [Lovers] title granting an additional 10% chance on Drops and an additional 10% Gold from monsters. The couple do not need to be online together to get this bonus - they just need to activate the title, and they do not need to decide between using the Lovers title or a normal title, because they can use both!

Couples need to be maintained! If one of the couple doesn't log in for a long time, RP will start to decay and the relationship will eventually break down. When this happens, you will get a 5 day countdown until the relationship is broken and both players will become single again.

If you've had enough of your partner, you can forcefully breakup the relationship by going to the Couples interface and clicking the Breakup button. Your partner will receive a message asking them if they would also like to breakup and if they accept you will instantly breakup, but if they refuse, you will go into the 5 day countdown.

During the 5 day countdown you can use a Letter of Forgiveness, available from the Registrar in Archelon Temple, to apologise to your partner. When you use the Letter of Forgiveness your partner will receive a message asking for forgiveness and if they accept your apology the countdown will be cancelled and the relationship will continue, otherwise the countdown will continue and after the 5 days are over the relationship will be broken and you will lose all RP with that friend as well as the [Lovers] title. 

Blacklist

Here you can add players that you wish to ignore. When a player is blacklisted you will no longer see their whisper, normal chat, shout, trade, megaphone, party chat, raid chat or guild chat messages and they will not be able to invite you to a party or raid. If they try to whisper or invite you they will receive a message telling them they are blacklisted.

To Blacklist a player you can either open the Blacklist interface by selecting Foes from the Social menu, clicking the Add button and then entering the players name, or you can right-click a player and choose Blacklist.

Revenge List

The Revenge List keeps track of players that killed you in PvP enabled maps where you lost Chaos Points and can be opened by selecting Foes from the Social menu.

In the future, you will likely gain extra rewards for taking revenge on these players but for now it's just a record of who killed you.


There were plenty of other changes, fixes and additions in this update, including many adjustments to make life easier for our newer players, including better stats on some of the easier to obtain armor sets, easier dungeons and easier chain quests. For the full list of changes please take a look at the original update post in the forum.

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