Production Build #27.7.DECA

Its nearly official...

Dear players,

Many of you have been waiting for MOTMG and for DECA to officially take over Realm. One of those two things is finally here.

TLDR; We are still completing the customer service handover from Kabam, but everything else is complete. The day DECA takes over officially will be the 21st when Kabam takes down its version of the game and their customer support gets closed.

DECA takes over officially on the 21st We’ve completed all the technical tasks and are fully ramped on the live operations of the game. But we still need to complete the hand over of customer support from Kabam. So if you were wondering when DECA is officially in control, its now the 21st of July. Kabam will take down its version of the game and will shut down its customer support on that day.

Some people were looking to give us a good start and make a gold purchase when we took over revenues as well. So if you were in that group, thank you for the support and go ahead after the 21st.

When does MOTMG start? It already has. But due to the circumstances, we decided to move around the MotMG schedule a bit. We will still start today by launching a Deca color theme event - If you want to check out what the event is about, click here

Link to the updated Schedule:
http://imgur.com/UKHFwLk

MEGA UPDATE Unveiled an extra week of events! <3

Migrating your Kabam account to Realmofthemadgod.com If you have been playing on kabam.com or have a character on a kabam account, we have setup a tool to migrate your characters and all your game data to a realmofthemadgod.com account. You just need to login to your kabam account and create a new realmofthemadgod.com login. Details can be found in this article.

EDIT: added a link

Teleport issue: We have resolved this issue. Free Dye Pack: You can now claim it by clicking on the "Free Pack Live!" in the news section.

Server Upgrades, Expanded Vault, and Patch Notes

Besides battling dupers and exploiters, we’ve also been working on trying to improve the technical performance of the game. Part of this work includes upgrading some of the older technology that is used under the hood.

Today we upgraded the server images we were using. The previous version was many years old and we hope by upgrading we will see some stability improvements. The new server images have alot more memory so we should see less server crashes. It should also provide some operational efficiencies that won’t affect you as players so much but helps us get more done and maintain the game easier.

We also pushed an expansion to the vault. There are now 60 spaces. With all the free vaults we gave out today, a number of people had hit their limit.

And lastly, we also took a very small step forward to combat multiboxers. Unnamed accounts can no longer teleport. We know there are some normal players who prefer to be unnamed and they will be affected by this change. But we decided that the potential positives of the change outweighed the negatives.

*Edit * Along with the teleportation restriction. Unnamed accounts will no longer receive SB loot.

If you are having any issues loading the game, try refreshing your browser. Make sure you aren’t using any hacked clients or anything pointing to our old servers.

Thanks
The Deca Team

ROTMG Patch Notes 27.7.X1

Dear community,

Please find our latest patch notes below. Just a few fixes and cosmetic updates for now… but wait there is more.

• Fixed the teleport feature for unnamed accounts. Unnamed players can no longer use the /command function to teleport to other players.
• Updated the vault map visuals to fix the underwater grass tiles. While we were at it, we decided to rework the map and imprint it with our Deca X (Roman numeral for 10). You will find 4 vaults around the statues in the middle and the rest in the outer corners of the X. *Edit, we've reverted the vaults
• We implemented the rare reskins of the Doom Bow and the Demon Blade to drop in the game. Some might remember the last time this drop event was around. We heard it was well liked so we are bringing it back
• Doom Bow -> Bow of the Morning Star -> drops in Undead Lair
• Demon Blade -> Sword of Illumination -> drops in Abyss of the Demons

The drop rates of those items have doubled

Vaults Reverted

Did you not know walking builds character? On a more serious note, after hearing complaints about the vaults being impractical in the way they are set up and most players preferring a simple and square setup, we decided to go back to the old layout for now. As you can see, we like experimenting. We think it’s the only way make things better. We’ll continue to make changes and who knows, maybe we’ll strike gold at some point

Thanks The Deca Team

Patch Notes 27.7.X2

Dear community,

Please find our latest patch notes below. Tell us what you think in the comments!

• New Reskinned Item “Ring of Decades” is now dropping instead of Ring of Unbound Health. UBHP is flagged as UT but ARE still tradeable
  • it gives +190 health points
• Added the Rosen Blade Skin. It can be found in special Event Chests. This skin has been created by Univoid for the contest Create a Deca Skin
• New Event Chests: You will be able to find a special chest next to the last bosses of the following dungeon: NOTE: The Chests will only appear when the event is active

1. Shatters
2. Ocean Trench
3. Davy’s Jones Locker

• Email address is now removed from the HUD. Your username displays instead. Only on realmofhtemadgod.com
• We’ve added some experimental settings to the game client. These should help reduce lag in some cases. But it needs testing in a production environment before we broadly communicate the details to all. Use at your own risk.
• Updates to our admin tools to allow for new events.

Patch Notes 27.7.X3

Dear community,
Now that MotMG is over, alot of the work we are doing is behind the scenes and will take a bit longer to develop. We are still making sure there is time taken to fix bugs. We are also still taking steps forward in fixing some of the long standing issues of the game AND developing our capacity to develop new content. We’ll be talking about our first month plus of RotMG in a developer letter soon.
Please find our latest patch notes below.

** Fixed Star Filter for private messages when players were in different locations

** Friend requests are now sorted by the most recent on top to the oldest

** Changed maximum number of friend requests shown to 10

** Friend list loading performance improved.

** Issues with friend requests from unnamed players fixed

** Updated several sprites submitted by the user Phophull (Note: The new 8x8 sprites based off of 16x16 versions are not yet available in the game. We are still evaluating how to best introduce them in the future).

Patch Notes 27.7.X4

Dear community,
Please find below the patch notes for version 27.7.X4. In addition to the following changes there were various backend changes that will help us further improve RotMG.
NEW:

• Added an account security feature: Read more the Security Questions and account security in general, HERE

FIX:

• Fixed a fame exploit with spawned monsters. Some players were abusing Monsters that spawn minions to get fame at an unfair rate. Only the two first waves of spawned Monsters will now grant XP/Fame as they used to. Any waves of monsters spawned after the two initial waves will no longer grant players any XP/Fame
• Fixed a problem with the particle effect of the mystic orbs not displaying properly.

UPDATED:

• We changed the Event Chest logic. When active, the chests will now appear with a higher drop rate, but only after the whole dungeon is cleared of its monsters (including the boss). We are aware that there are special conditions for certain dungeons and we will work on adapting the system to them in the future.

Patch Notes 27.7.X4.1

Dear Community,
Please find below the patch notes for version 27.7.X4.1 - This is a smaller but meaningful release. Some of the changes will not be as immediately visible as others. We fixed several potential duping methods - one of the more known ones involving the Oryx Castle teleportation phase.
New:

• We disabled the /pause function in all dungeons Note: We understand that this may inconvenience some people in certain situations. At the same time we are confident it will help to prevent some of the leeching that is happening in public dungeons. Consider this a test phase and feedback is welcome.
• We added several chest event spawn locations
  • Puppet Theatre (start zone & boss)
  • Crawling depth (boss)

Note: This is a change to prevent people from camping the exact same spot all the time. Help people clear the dungeon instead!

• We updated the functionality of the “Chest Event”:
  • The chest will now send an announce to the dungeon upon spawning
  • The chest will now be invulnerable for 15 seconds after spawning
  • The hit points were upgraded from 120k to 180k
  • Upon being destroyed the chest will grant a small amount of fame

Note: This only applies when a Chest Event is active.

• New Mini Skins
  • Mini Rosen Blade (Ninja)
  • Mini Geb (Priest)
  • Mini Skuld (Rogue)

Note: We are starting to introduce the 8x8 pixel skin versions of the 16x16 ST set skins. We decided to keep the legacy 16x16 versions the way they are (not replacing the set effect with the 8x8 skin or duplicating the same item sets and tying them to the new graphics.) We also wanted to create the opportunity for players to use the smaller skin if they prefer. The plan will be to use these new skins as drops in various locations to start and later to also use them in mystery boxes and events. (we will be disclosing drop locations as we add them).

Fixed:

• Fixed a number of situations where duping could occur

Dg_Fever: Trading is only disabled right before server restarts and should be only a couple minutes long

Patch Notes 27.7.X5

Dear Community,
Please find below the patch notes for version 27.7.X5 - this is another small update with a small teaser for the brand new content we are about to beta test. Check out the details of this release below.
New:
1) Pet Skins and Pet Stones:
For those people who always wished they could change the way their pets looked, we’ve developed a feature called pet skins.
You will be able to use new items, called pet stones, that apply pet skins for your pet. There are no restrictions on the pet family and level that you apply it to. In this release, the first pet skin is added to the game and is unlocked using a specific pet stone item. We’ll announce the details of the first pet skin soon, as it’s a bit of teaser for our upcoming content. Get it and find out more about what’s coming soon! You will be able to get this pet stone item from an upcoming dungeon. However, some lucky players will be be able to win an early access version in the event that will be announced soon. Stay tuned for more details!
Note:
Using a pet stone will change the appearance, family and name of the pet that is currently following you. The rarity level will stay the same and so will the skills your pet had (even if your rare pet gets the divine skin, your pet will not be of a divine level). The process is not reversible and the pet stone is consumed upon use. Also note, when upgrading a pet via fusing, the pet skin will be overwritten to the appropriate rarity level for the fuse. You would need to use another pet stone to apply the skin again. So choose when to apply the pet stone wisely!
2) We’ve also added a new divine humanoid skin. “Marid” http://imgur.com/a/pqRog - you will have a chance to get it, if you fuse two legendary humanoid pets.
3) ST items will continue to drop from the locations outlined during our last event. With this patch the drop rates will be reverted to normal but the items stay in! At the same time we added an additional drop location for the Phylactery Set. The parts will be dropping from Phylactery Bearers as rare drops.
4) All miniature versions of the ST-set skins have been added to the game. They will be dropping during events, from the alchemist or in certain mystery chests.
Fixed:
1) A bug was fixed where health bars of monsters would appear overly large when a HP modifier was applied during events.
2) Base Fame will now be displayed in the selection screen if the class quest is maxed out.