GC Updates

At what level do the new collections appear (not IM wep)?

40 Blue boxes and all shit items >> dammit

oh:( the rates of that box are really crapy....

*Extract*

Hello Dragons,

I’m Delimiter, the new Associate Producer for 9 Dragons. I’ve been on the team for a few weeks now, mostly learning from the veterans on the team and getting familiar with the game and the community. Something I noticed right away is that there are plenty of you who have concerns about the state of 9 Dragons and the future of the game you love.

For the next several weeks, I’m going to make it a priority to keep all of you informed about what the 9 Dragons team is up to, and what we have planned for the game. These may end up weekly posts or they may end up more frequent, depending on how quickly we can make things happen. At the end of this post is a link to our forums where you can provide your comments and feedback, and we’ll use that feedback to improve what we’re doing. Just keep in mind that change doesn’t happen overnight! It takes time for us to implement new features or fix longstanding problems, and we appreciate your patience.

So let’s get started!

What we’re working on right now:

The easiest thing for us to improve is adding more events and sales. We’ve already got rewards just for you getting involved with the community, such as the Facebook and Dragon’s Den CC giveaways, but we want to do more. This week we’re experimenting with adding a longer term EXP event – it’s not as huge as usual, but it lasts for a whole week so you can benefit from it no matter when you have time to play. Once that’s done we’re planning a “Summer Snapshot” contest with CC prizes – more details on that next week. You’ve probably already noticed we’re holding a lot more sales than usual; we want to get in the habit of offering reduced prices and special deals on a regular basis. Right now we can only make discounts due to technical limitations, but we’re working on adding more items to the Item Shop to give you more variety.

The next thing we’re working on – but it requires developer support – is getting more game content. One of the things that dismayed me when I joined – as I’m sure it dismays you – is that there is still a lot of content that other versions have that we don’t. Right now we’re still in the discussion stage; we’re talking with the developers about what we don’t have that we should, why that is, and what we can do to fix it.

The last project we’re working on right now, but probably the most important, is account security. We’ve seen an unusual number of compromised accounts recently due to gold sellers stealing account information. If you’re not aware, one of the primary ways that gold sellers obtain gold and items is by stealing other players’ accounts and stripping them of all valuables. Then they resell the gold and items for money. We’ve seen no evidence that our database has been compromised, so we believe they are obtaining user information through some other method. Regardless, we see it as our duty to protect your accounts as best we can. Most of the best security measures require the assistance of Zerodin, so we’ll get their help implementing them if possible. If we can’t, we might have to get more creative, but we’ll do everything in our power to keep your 9 Dragons characters safe.

Finally, I want to address a couple of concerns I’ve seen on the forums recently.

On Tuesday night, we added +13-+15 refinement for weapons, and we immediately got backlash because the refinement rates at lower levels were not improved. Honestly, we were surprised they weren’t improved as well. Zerodin noticed the problem quickly, but it was already too late to add it to this week’s patch. Next week, we’re planning to add an update on Tuesday, July 10, that will include improved refinement rates. Hermit’s items will see a small improvement at +3 and +12, and an average improvement of about 13% between +4 and +11. This is an additive increase, so if a rate of 40% was increased by 10%, for example, the refinement rate would now be 50%, not 44%. General items will be improved by an average of 13% as well, but only for +9, +10, and +11. Upgrading to +13 is still going to be easier than +11 and +12. This is as Zerodin intends it to be.
Also, I’ve seen some concerns about the long-term health of 9 Dragons. After going through two other publishers, I understand why you’d be worried, but GamesCampus USA is happy to have 9 Dragons. We have problems, sure, but so does every game. We’re committed to improving our content, performance, events, and security across the board to satisfy you and make you excited to log in. We want to keep you around for a good long while.

On Monday, I’ll discuss what we’ll be working on next and some of the possibilities we’re looking at for the future. Until then, speak up on the forums and let us know what you want to see and whether there’s anything you want me to address next week!

Hello Dragons,

Last night we applied patch #200, a small patch with a big improvement to refinement rates. This patch brings us up to the same refinement success rates as the Korean server, which should be a nice boost for just about everyone. Keep in mind, though, that just because our rates are improved doesn’t mean you have a 100% chance to succeed once you get beyond +2. Refining to +12 is still going to be extremely challenging.

The patch also included the return of red costumes, which are now available, and the addition of swimsuits. We will initially only be able to offer timed swimsuits, but if there is demand we will see if we can get Eternity swimsuits for you. The swimsuits are scheduled to be available starting on Friday.

As for the future, we have worked with Zerodin to create a strong new update plan for the next few months. While the details are subject to change, the next major update we have planned includes the Weapon Crafting system. Hopefully this will be added within the next few weeks. After that, we are planning to add the long-awaited Icy dungeon. We’ll have more details as we get closer to the release dates of each!

We have more planned for the months following, but we don’t want to make announcements prematurely. We have content planned out through the end of the year, and Zerodin is developing events for each month, so we should see a lot of good stuff in the future. I hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are!

Sincerely,
Delimiter

Hello Dragons,

If you’ve visited the forums recently, you might have noticed a discussion topic about a potential server merge. Today it’s confirmed: we will be merging Tao server and Yang server. Yin server will be completely unaffected.

The details of the server merge are not yet finalized, but so if you’d like to give us feedback before we finalize the server merge process, please reply to this post and let us know!

We are still deciding how to determine which characters and which storage account you will keep during the transfer, but right now we are planning to keep only the 3 highest level characters on each account. We would love to increase character slots, but unfortunately that is not possible right now. We’ll provide more details, including the date of the server merge, once details have been decided.

During the conversation about the server merge, we heard conflicting requests about Yin, our PVP server. Some players want us to merge Yin too, while some would quit if we lost our PVP server. We’ll keep an eye on the situation, but for now we’d prefer to keep the PVP server for those who prefer to play in a more dangerous environment. We want to improve the experience on Yin, though, and we’re looking into ways of doing that. We’ll have more details on this in the weeks to come.

Finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, make sure you check out the GamesCampus Gamer Appreciation Event running until September 15. You can get CC just for logging in each day, and you can win some excellent prizes. Check it out here!

Have a great weekend everyone!

We've recently implemented a new account security feature! Now, whenever you update your
e-mail address and/or password, you will be notified through the e-mail address on the account.
In the case of e-mail address changes, you will receive the message on the new and old e-mail address. This is to inform you of changes being made to your account, especially
if they are not being made by you.

As such, we encourage you all to update the e-mail address and password on your accounts.
As we are working towards improving your account security, we encourage everyone to
develop healthy information habits and ask that you change your passwords
at least once every 2 months!

Additionally, please update your Security Questions and Answers, as they do
help our support teams verify your identity quickly and easily.

Hello Dragons,

One of the most disappointing things in the Land is failing a refinement attempt and destroying a treasure weapon. Fear not! Your weapons have a new lease on life through the magic of the mysterious Dragon Orbs!

These Dragon Orbs are now available in the Item Shop in two varieties: Red Dragon Orbs will erase all upgrades and return your weapon to the state it was in when you found it. Green Dragon Orbs are more powerful, and will return the weapon to the state it was in just before you failed the refinement, keeping all upgrades intact.

Red Dragon Orb
990 CC

Green Dragon Orb
1490 CC

Each weapon can only be restored by a Dragon Orb once! If you lose a weapon a second time due to failed refinement, you cannot recover it by any means!

A Dragon Orb can only restore a weapon under the following conditions:

1) You lost the weapon due to failed refinement.
2) It is the refinement you failed most recently.
3) You failed the refinement on or after December 5, 2012.
4) You have never used a Dragon Orb on the weapon before

This should be coming soon, so just a heads up for those still on US.

http://forum.gamescampus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=590&t=123517&sid=90d37508230d6be2d7cecd4fd098f2e0

Quote :

Hi everyone,

The most recent news from JW (the developers of 9 Dragons) is that the next addition planned will be "3rd role" skills. We don't know exactly when it will be ready (we're hoping for next patch or the one after, of course) but it is in production.

Also, we are planning for a Lunar New Year event starting on February 6.

Please go ahead and ask any questions you might have and I'll answer them if possible.

I might join back to u if 9D EU close

I'll come back to EU soon, just got to get things sorted then ill be back

Clothes refinement system

System which adds special options to clothes by refinement up to +10 and have stable possibility.

NPC: Hwasong
Location: Hefei, right next to Mo Tailan

Clothes
Hats, shirts, pants, wristbands, and shoes can be refine. You cannot refine bags and/or Decos.

Refining Materials
Can be acquired by collecting materials via NPC Luo Renqiu in Hefei (same items which is used for Weapon Crafting System)

Refining Costs
Price varies depending on the refining (upgrade) steps.

How to Use Refining Clothes System
Step1
Select [Refining Clothes] from Hwasong's menu UI

Step2
Insert a clothe piece and appropriate Refining Blood for the step that you are about to process. Select either [Physical Type] or [Chi Kung Type]
• Once the type is selected, it is then unchangable (can't be switch to other type).

The chance of sucess rate will be randomly determined
• Upon the failure of its Refining process after +7, the cloth will either break or the refining level will be dropped by 1. (+1 to +6 upon failing will not break, but there is a possible chance of failing and/or dropping by 1).

• Weapon refining supplements such as Dragon Scale and Dragon Tear cannot be used for Refining Clothes.

• Tender Stones for increasing the chance of refining success will affect the same as Weapon Refining System

• Extreme Refinement Scroll can be use for Refining Clothes System as well. Once it's used, both rank of the refining and strength of its option will increased.

• Red Dragon Orb and Green Dragon Orb can only recover broken weapons and will not work for broken clothes.

Cash Items for Refining Clothes Effect
Refining Clothes supportive item <Dragon Blood>

• This item protects clothes from reducing level and/or destroyed upon the failure of refining

For your reference ^^






PS6 set seems to have much better stats, anyone can translate korean?

You can chose betwen Def and CK Def when you get the stats on the clothes?
Would be great if you can chose ... like that we'll get CK Def cap as warrior easier , as long as nukers can do it already even without refine.

Dear Dragons,

This has been a very difficult experience for us. As most of you are aware, yesterday we had maintenance downtime. During this downtime we updated our patch 243. After the game was brought back online for testing, we discovered that a large chunks of data was missing. Servers were brought down a second time, in order to address the issue we reapply the game data.

The results was not what we anticipated. Since another issue has been discovered, the issue caused a failure to recover the game data. This is being caused by our recent back end security maintenance. The game data are backed up daily at the same time. However, since the back end security maintenance, game data stop syncing to the new hardware we added to protect the players' information. This resulted in game data not being able to save correctly since April 23, 2013. Which also means characters that were played between April 23, 2013 - May 1, 2013 were not saved (7 days). We sincerely apologize.

CC Purchases/Item Purchases
Players that purchased and/or spent CC during April 23rd - May 1st has been reimbursed. To compensate players for the hassle and inconveniences we have also distributed an additional 50% bonus CC to your account for those purchases. For example, if you spent 5,000 CC on items during the timeframe, you’ll be given back 7,500 CC. There is no need to send in a DQ&A as we already have the information. Your account have already been credited as you are reading this announcement.

Sales
All sales, deals, and discounts that was running during April 23rd - May 1st will be available for 1 week (excluding Bonus CC Event).

In-Game Compensation
We know that players are disappointed to lose the efforts they’ve put into the game during those time, since we will NOT be able to give back any of the in-game lost, we will do our best to ease the change by offering other way of compensation. Compensation details are as follow

Exp Event:
Event Period - 7 full days
Yang - 3X EXP, 3X Skill, and 3X Drop rates
Yin - 5X EXP, 5X Skill, and 3X Drop rates

Compensation Package:
All players will receive a compensation package! The compensation package are given out to each character(s) on your account depending on the character(s) level (on/or before April 23rd).

To accept the compensation package(s):
-Login game
-Press H

The compensation packages contains the following items:

Level 1 - 50:
5 Dragon Blood
5 Non Tradable Exp Card (30 minutes)
5 Non Tradable Item Bonus Card (30 minutes)
5 Non Tradable Kung Fu Experience Card (30 minutes)
5 Blood Essence
1 Jade Separator Gold
1 Tender Stone
1 Dragon Scale
170 Master Symbol

Level 51 - 100:
10 Dragon Blood
10 Non Tradable Exp Card (30 minutes)
10 Non Tradable Item Bonus Card (30 minutes)
10 Non Tradable Kung Fu Experience Card (30 minutes)
10 Blood Essence
2 Jade Separator Gold
2 Tender Stone
2 Dragon Scale
170 Master Symbol

Level 101 - 150:
15 Dragon Blood
15 Non Tradable Exp Card (30 minutes)
15 Non Tradable Item Bonus Card (30 minutes)
15 Non Tradable Kung Fu Experience Card (30 minutes)
15 Blood Essence
3 Jade Separator Gold
3 Tender Stone
3 Dragon Scale
170 Master Symbol

Level 151 - 200:
20 Dragon Blood
20 Non Tradable Exp Card (30 minutes)
20 Non Tradable Item Bonus Card (30 minutes)
20 Non Tradable Kung Fu Experience Card (30 minutes)
20 Blood Essence
4 Jade Separator Gold
4 Tender Stone
4 Dragon Scale
170 Master Symbol

Level 201 and above:
25 Dragon Blood
25 Non Tradable Exp Card (30 minutes)
25 Non Tradable Item Bonus Card (30 minutes)
50 Non Tradable Kung Fu Experience Card (30 minutes)
25 Blood Essence
5 Jade Separator Gold
5 Tender Stone
5 Dragon Scale
170 Master Symbol

Thank you for your on-going understanding and patience during this time.

Sincerely,
FC3S and Venus

Patch Notes 255 for July 9th is as follows:
The following will be updated during the server maintenance on July 9, 2013

Changes and Updates:
- Summer Event: Adding Collection event and Boss Event at BP.
- Skills: Updating a total of 216 skills and skills list of clan territory NPC

Assembling and Disassembling

http://forum.gamescampus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=590&t=132182&sid=fe046800041d2ae8c622cf86d32823bc

Results of Assembling

Before



After