Atlantica Online

[Plow]

Wow so, I didn't realize it had been this long, but I figure a massive necro should be ok in this situation.

Anyway... I've been playing again. Game has had too many changes to really even get into, but a few major ones:

Stamina is gone. Yeah... they finally decided to try it on the Korean servers. I'm sure you guys can imagine how that went, anyway they boycotted the cash shop over there and that was the end of stamina, lol.

TBS... ok this is where shit gets crazy. There are a ton of battles now that are hugely rewarding (albeit limited in participation, not to dynamis/limbus old extent, but closer to like dynamis now) where you're almost playing a different game. It's still turn based, but instead of the 9x9 square it's a huge map that you move around on and stuff... the best way I can put it is like, Atlantica was originally your basic mmo crossed with final fantasy tactics... TBS is if you took that and crossed it with FFT again, lol. And sprinkle in some more Age of Empires... a bunch more actually, lol.

"My House" You can buy a house for 500m (I'll talk about money in a minute).

Things you can do there: store mercs (3 basic stored mercs can just chill there, they actually stand around your house too, it's not like they're just hidden in a list). Hire mercs to craft for you.

Send mercs on an expedition (up to 9, and this also functions as further merc storage. I wasn't going to buy a house til I got rich until I realized I could hole up 12 mercs there and not have to buy merc room licenses lol), during which they'll gain exp and bring you back loot (unless you're an idiot and send them out with all 9 mercs dead on like 10 straight missions, in which case they'll gain no exp but somehow manage to bring you back a little bit of loot...).

Store stuff. You get super cheapo furniture when you buy the house, and get 4 total slots. But then just like FFXI, you can buy more/better furniture and store more shit. While you do have to go to your house to get it out, it's actually much more convenient than the rome warehouse (or ffxi's actual "storage") because you can enter your house from anywhere in the world, and when you leave it you're right back where you were.

Finally... inflation, lol. I'll put it this way... when I found out about the 500m houses, I knew exactly what I needed to do. Sell my elephant. I bought it for like 5-10m shortly before the last time I "quit," which was like spring of 09. I put up an ad just looking for offers, and within an hour I got it sold for 430m.

To cover the rest I sold off some stuff like some enhance stones, small marionettes, etc., that had gone from low 4 digits in case of the single stones up to 6 digits, and in the case of the marionettes from like 3-500k to 10 million.

Basically the numbers just went insane. It's not hard at all to keep up, cuz it's not like only the "desirable" stuff went up. Those same enhance stones still drop at the same rate, you just make a few mil for farming em for an hour instead of a couple hundred k.


Anyway, it's interesting, and as far as I can tell, has only had changes for the better, and a lot of them significantly so. There's also tons of new mercs and blah blah blah.

There's also an event going on right now where people starting from 0 get hooked the fuck up insanely well, and old school people can get some pretty cool shit as well. If anyone feels like coming back or checking it out, I'm still on Mycenae and still playing Laila.

[Lebzile]

Actually was going to log in and see how the game was going, but when they changed and joined Nexon, I lost the account somehow and my Lv93 character.

[Bartylby]

lol i hope you plan on farming billions upon cause houses cost majorrrrrrr

i've got a few friends who have put like 4-6b each into their houses.... fucking crazy man

[Plow]

Actually was going to log in and see how the game was going, but when they changed and joined Nexon, I lost the account somehow and my Lv93 character.

Just pm'd you, you should be good heh.

Also if that doesn't work, I'm not kidding when I say they're hooking noobs up hardcore.

If you start at zero, you have 41 days starting today in which to get the following:

Level 5: 30 day Heavenly Horse
Level 10: +10 Spirit (lv 1) weapon box
Level 20: A fucking Beast Trainer, which normally you can't get until 44 and have to do the long quest chain for... and a +10 Sea King's (lv 15) weapon box
Level 30: +10 Rakshasa'a (lv 25) weapon box
Level 40: +10 Destroyer's (lv 35) weapon box
level 50: +10 Walachia (lv 50) weapon box... and a free Inventor, which you normally can't get til 80-something and a long, hard questline
level 70: 14 day Golem mount... ridiculously sick, only 14 day but still
level 80: A free elementalist... which is worth hundreds of millions and you normally can't get until like 105 + a whole bunch of runs through a long, hard quest line, and 10 of the "ultimate" skill books you can use for any skill at any level (merc only)
level 100: A free empress... do I really need to describe where that one's going? One of the best mercs in the game, period. Also 10 more of those skill books.


So, yeah, you get a ton of really good free shit, a +10 weapon (which are worth in the 9 digit range starting at the 35 ones) every 10 levels to 50, some insanely good mercs, all these mercs ahead of when you're supposed to... etc., etc.

If you've considered starting this game, or starting over, now's the time.

@ bart

I don't really care, I 100% bought the house as a way to get my mercs the hell out of my merc room without buying licenses lol.

I actually am going to spend some money on this game now since they removed stamina, it's the only real objection I've ever had with this game but it was big enough that I decided I'd never spend unless they removed it. So, I'll buy a couple merc rooms eventually, but this lets me just stick to the $15/month licenses that I don't mind paying for any more than I mind paying for WoW or FFXI just cuz the game is that good.

Also, do you still play, and if so what server? I think you may have mentioned it in this thread but I actually read the whole thing earlier (atlantica's on maintenance lol) and don't wanna go through it again heh.

[Plow]

Also I have to admit it was kind of funny going through and reading all my tips and commentaries on formations and balance and stuff, while at the same time a few of us were bitching about how not that much was really changing and you could barely call it a beta... and then there's the huge patch right before the last beta where I just said to ignore everything I'd said about balance and formation cuz it had changed so much lol.

[Bartylby]

i wish the game wasn't pay to win but it's been slowly moving towards that for the past year or so... with them removing monster invasions and whatnot >.>

i play on macedon druid/spartan/punisher - jani/hwarang/jani - emp(ele)/gunmain/princess. although i really wouldn't say i play much, i'll pop in every few weeks or so to clear out the stuff my indi's send me and toss it up on the market.

but yeah i really don't like that it's basically pay to win. sure you could farm your ass off and make tens of millions with a days work or so but when nix costs 100-150m per piece for blanks it's insane. Then you have people who spend hundreds of real $ per week/month and either just sell atlas at 6m per or hope to get lucky and sell the newest mounts they have for 6-10b per. it's pretty rediculous

[Lebzile]

Yeah got the account back and figured I'd start over and see how far I get, I loved this game back in beta, might as well screw around on it again.

[Plow]

I'm on Mycenae, on Laila.

By the way, you get exp for sitting after you're full hp and mp now lol, so don't forget to sit before you go afk and stuff.


edit:

Also, if you've ever considered buying mount boxes, wait a little bit if you're thinking about it now. When they were putting in the 4th of July sale stuff they made a typo and accidentally switched it to what's presumably the next sale: 4 of the current top mount boxes for $20 (normally 10 bucks each, the sales are usually 4 for 30).

Some people noticed when they took it off after like 20 minutes and a GM basically said yeah that was an accident (it being up there in the first place) but it'll be a real sale at some point.

[Plow]

i wish the game wasn't pay to win but it's been slowly moving towards that for the past year or so... with them removing monster invasions and whatnot >.>

i play on macedon druid/spartan/punisher - jani/hwarang/jani - emp(ele)/gunmain/princess. although i really wouldn't say i play much, i'll pop in every few weeks or so to clear out the stuff my indi's send me and toss it up on the market.

but yeah i really don't like that it's basically pay to win. sure you could farm your ass off and make tens of millions with a days work or so but when nix costs 100-150m per piece for blanks it's insane. Then you have people who spend hundreds of real $ per week/month and either just sell atlas at 6m per or hope to get lucky and sell the newest mounts they have for 6-10b per. it's pretty rediculous

Oh also... dunno when last time you were on was, but that's (literally) only half true now.

It alternates every league Free League vs Coliseum league. In Coliseum league gear is pretty much completely nullified and level hardly matters either. Even the level of your spells doesn't matter, a level 1 spell will do same as level 60.

[Bartylby]

cl makes me want to stab myself in the eye with an icepick lol

i can't say i know anyone who truely enjoys it over FL :/

[Zieara]

I'm downloading this now. I played like 2-3 years ago after it was somewhat new. What main should I go with? I've been reading some stuff and been thinking about guitar main.

[Plow]

Guitar, Cannon, or Staff. Any of them can be quite successful in anything.

Anything can, really, but those are the 3 dominant, with Guitar and Staff followed closely by cannon, which is also followed fairly closely by gun.


Also, if you're making a new account put me as referrer please! Laila, on Mycenae

Leb's back playing some now too, and also the event is pretty insane for leveling aside from just the gear and stuff, I can explain more in game.

[Bartylby]

i dunno... with champion and now valkyrie, sword mains should be making a comeback, no?

<3 my gun main though. used to be musi but it just felt too passive

[Plow]

sword is sooooooooooooooo bad in TBS

staff is sooooooooooooooooo op in TBS lol

[Zieara]

So I got it downloaded and everything... but my only options are to log out or quit... the select server and select character buttons are greyed out...

EDIT: Yeah, tried it a few more times and it just worked now... weird.

EDIT2: Laila listed as my referrer

[Plow]

Cool thanks ^^

About the login thing, you have to either go directly from the atlantica.exe (not atlanticarun.exe) or go to the website and start the launcher from there.

[Plow]

So I couldn't resist, that 4 for $20 for the double drop rate box deal is on, and I bought a set.

Got mount on the 2nd box, so hawt. Complete trash from the other 3 boxes tho lol, like 90m of shit in each. Woulda been pisssssed if I spent $20 and got 350 mil lol. Doubt I'll ever buy another box, just licenses from here out.