Dragon Kingdoms

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The development of the new Dragon Kingdoms is well under way. just thought I would let you all know that.

Dragon Kingdoms now has an application page on Facebook. Please go to it and "like" it. at the moment i can only get it to send people to this site. It wont let me actually have the game on facebook, untill i get some fans on there. So please do your part to help. http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=245122837309

This months Dragon Invasion will be held a week early this month (25th) as I am away at a festival on the last weekend of this month.

Please Enjoy a whole Weekend of Double Levels and Dragon Coin drops! - aren't I such a nice Admin? ;)

Zur has donated $300 to the game towards the recoding of the game! THANKS ALOT! if anyone else would like to help out, please feel free, paypal address is: davidpearcey@hotmail.co.uk , or help by getting purchases for your character! everything is much apreciated and will be used to make the game alot better!

Hello DK'ers,
As you know, Dave has been looking into having the game recoded in order for us to have a BETTER and FASTER gaming experience. The recoding would consist of teams of professional programmers doing what they do best. This coding, however, does not come cheap. This is where YOU come in. The buying of in-game items helps with server cost, but more, much more, money is needed for a recoding that would greatly improve the overall Dragon Kingdoms experience. Dave has been great in his work with the game and has brought us many updates, putting much of his time into improving the game for us. For this we should say thank you and try to help out more. Our chance to help is now. We are looking into the possibility of creating a Dragon Kingdoms t-shirt to sell to raise funds for the recoding of the game. If enough interest is shown in the t-shirt, the plan to sell them will move forward with maybe a chance to buy DK hoodies, etc. as well. Price will depend on the number of people interested in showing their DK pride or those just wanting to have the shirt. If you are interested in buying a Dragon Kingdoms t-shirt, you may contact me at the email provided. Let's all do what we can to help the game that we enjoy out. This is the chance to update DK in hopes of bringing in many, many more new players and keeping them.

Sincerely,
Ron

This is his idea to help me raise the money for the changes that are required to push Dragon Kingdoms into the furture of text based games. I have left him in charge of taking the orders, dispatch and everything, though of course i would get the money for the professional coders. Contact him at: dragon_kingdoms_store@yahoo.com

Also, to help raise even more money for the game, buy any purchasable item and get and extra 10% of the worth in dragon coins when i next log on!

Bad update... had to do some reworking with the kingdoms to stop some negative issues with the bigger players... its been reworked so that you can now only have a maximum of 2,000,000,000 defense and offense at any time (thats 2b of EACH) so... bigger kingdoms = bigger risk! if you go above 2b of either, they will defect and leave your kingdom. sorry guys, but what i had planned to do just caused more problems.

On a better note, I've also fixed 20+ bugs in the paypal automation system to do with events.

The Hydra, has the same health and strength of the Tiamat/Sirrush. But this dragon gives 1-10 skills in 1 of any of the 9 skills. This can also be spawned from the Retired Warrior for the same cost as Tiamats and Sirrush's. /beasts command has been updated to show your kills of this dragon aswell. Has the same limits as Tiamats and Sirrush's aswell.

The other dragon will be kept secret. This dragon is for DI purposes only and will not count towards any of your monthly kills!

attackmob.php script has been rewritten, tested thouroghly and is now in full working order.

when fighting, the rounds are now split up into sections and tell you how much hp you and the monster have left at the end of each round.

when you attack and kill the monster, they no longer will hit you one last time, where previously they still did.

The new attack script is a little under 1850 lines shorter than before but still has everything it did perviously. this will reduce lag when playing.

Facebook fanpage added to bottom of the screen (footer). Also changed the forum to the dicussion board which is currently used.

A bug when trying to craft the Dragonskin Shield with the Master Crafter has been fixed.

To appologise for the 7 week long mess up and loss of crafting stones by all, i have PERMANANTLY increased the chances he will craft by 25%

Innactivity deletion changed from 3 months to 6 months innactive. (182 days to be precise)

We just learned of one of our competitors shutting thier doors on thier game, the game was known as Neflaria so if you know anybody looking for a new text based game to play, that used to call Neflaria thier home (Or any other game for that matter) link away! Remember the more people online means the more beasts/events/event drops!

Retired Warrior has new skills. talk to him to know more. But his new skills come with a fair price.

MAJOR bug fix. The extremely hard monsters no longer do negative damage. Cant wait for the abusers who dont read announcements to get hurt by this ;)

ALL dragon spawns that are randomly awakened during play have been increased. enjoy a few more dragons.

Chronepsis HP has been changed to what i originally wanted it at and is no set to start with 10,000,000,000 HP

There will now be an event for every $100 spent on the game. doesnt have to be made by the same person, it will all count and accumulate. The event includes: dragon coin drops, double levels, double gold and double exp. The event does not last 24 hours, but until the end of game day. If more than $200 is spent in 1 day then it will last the rest of the day and then the next 24 hours.

Dragon Kingdoms went offline earlier today for about an hour for the transfer to a new server. you should see less lag now. I hope you enjoy =)

Dragon Kingdoms now has an official fan page! join it today and keep up to date with new things!

New Dragon has devistated the lands! The almighty Chronepsis. Talk to the Retired Warrior for information on spawning this bad boy.

New Set of equipment to upgrade to. An Enchanted Dragonskin piece will Upgrade to ~Unholy~ upon defeating him.

Falkors bloody pendant is now stronger, read the note on the purchase page about it

by popular request, you can now buy a dragonskin set. i wont allow you to buy an enchanted set but ive succombed to the masses and set up a temporary offer for the normal set

Added a New item "Falkors Bloody Pendant" to the purchase page. go there to see what it can do and such.

When fighting a Falkor there is an extremely small chance that the pendant will upgrade.

Updated help page. the Maps now tell you what the special locations do when you HOVER your mouse over the location in question.

8, thats right 8, new planes have been added to the game. 2 planes have been attatched to each of the current planes. at 0,10 and 10,0 on each plane. We have:
From Grasslands:
Verdant Fields
Dark Forrest

From Ascention Of Light:
Archangels Sanctuary
Heavens Gate

From Dragons Lair:
Familiars Haunt
Overlords Domain

From Corrupted Caverns:
Dungeon of the Damned
Undead Labrynth

I have NOT added these maps to the help page yet, will do when i can. but they have the SAME special locs as everywhere else. Dragons do not spawn ON these planes, but fighting on these planes can still spawn beasts on the main planes.

Also 180 new monsters have been added to the game, in which inhabit these new planes.

The planes the you enter from 10,0 have bonus's to gold given, and from 0,10 give extra exp. Also The bonus's from the main planes also have affect on the new ones. So if you were to enter either Familiars Haunt or Overlords Domain, you would also get the 3x exp and 5x gold that Dragons lair has to offer!

Help page has been Revamped with quick links to the sections and corrections made. Thanks to Zur for his input.

Added a Skills chance upgrade using dragon coins. Works the same as getting exp or credit bonus's.

Changed the ammount of gold you get for a dragon coin from the shop to 100,000,000. that right! a 100x increase in value!

Turned on a Dragon Coin drop event to try and get some new players. Because the more people online at the time, the higher the chance you have of getting a dragon coin!
And of course having a staff of wonders increases your chance further of getting a dragon coin!

Added a Counter for your referrals of the month and for the year. You can see how many referrals you have on the tops lists. a collective of 75 referrals in a month will grant a Dragon Coin drop event day.

Each skill in Chance To Hit is now TWICE as effective and the cap for it has been reduced to 5000 for a 100% chance to hit.

Lowered the amount of accessories you can have to 2. 5 was way too many and alot of players agreed with me. Anyone who had a dragonheart in one of those slots has had them moved to slot 1... There was only one account with any in those slots so... will make the game more easier to control on my behalf and i hope you all like the decision i made.

Shard Dust has gone back to how it used to be. 1000x reduction. retired warrior and dust keeper will be changed soon.

To balance the shard dust issue the dragons now only give 1 dust per kill and drops off monsters have been changed to the same rate as crafting stones.. and yes the accessories do still make them easier to find.

In the process of this everyone lost al their shard dust. i was only meant to make everyone have 1000x less dust but it failed and everyone lost it all. my bad..

Forgot to mention... i have added another special offer of 100 Dragon coins for the price of 80!

Maximum Land is no longer an issue. Theres no such thing but a maximum amount of gold gained per hour is in place. 50m max or 150m max for people with kings crown.

Maximum gold gained per fight has also been capped for all because of people abusing the accessories too much.

There are now 15 accessories to buy from the shop and one extremely powerful one for purchase.

1) Acceleration Bracelet - double levels
2) Wisdom Necklace - double skill chance
3) Torturous Relic - 10m damage to monster before the fight even begins
4) Torturous Tincture - 25m damage to monster before the fight even begins
5) Torturous Tablet - 50m damage to monster before the fight even begins
6) normal Strength Augment - damage 5% increase
7) Powerful Strength Augment - damage 10% increase
8) Superb Strength Augment - damage 20% increase
9) Crafters Belt - +20% rate of crafting stones
10) Dusty Anklet - +50% rate of shard dust
11) Golden Headband - +50% rate on gold bags
12) Dusty Golden Belt - +20% rate on cs,+50% sd and gb's
13) Amulet of Mass Coinage - 5x gold from monsters killed
14) Draco's Golden Stone - gain bonus gold from killing a dragon (50m-250m)
15) Vitality Elixir - Double battle HP

16) dragons heart (purchase) - double levels, double skills, 100m pre-fight damage, +20% rate on crafting stones,+50% rate on shard dust, +50% rate on gold bag's, 10x gold from monsters, 250m garaunteed off a dragon kill, double battle hp, double damage.

Oh and just for an added bonus that you might all be hoping for. all except the dragon gold bonus, thats right, ALL of these accessories are stackable upon themselves and/or other accessories!!!!!

Fixed spelling error on help page. Added Accessory list and No elites loc to help page also.

You now get 4 times as much gold for a referral so get recruiting! We need the players to keep the game going.

The /stats command should now show your Actual minimum and maximum damage instead of your raw min/max. Raw being your damage with 0 Weapon Accuracy and no weapon...

Acessories have been added (sort of) they are under testing right now so please dont buy the test ones. they do nothing but would ruin my work.

Help has been updated with spelling error fix's and now displays an explanation for all the new skills.

Your equipment display has been changed to show what accessories you have (currently none).

Added the possability to buy accessories in the actions menu on the main page and on the manage kingdoms page.

Added the Admin and Mod commands page to be available from the actions list on the manage kingdoms page.

Fixed the defense issue in the game where it appeared that armor was pretty much useless because defensive stance was too powerful. Its now read properly so be ready for a little more bite from the monsters if you already have the best armors..

Added the old Currently Online and Total player amounts back on the index page where you log in.

Now, when you log in for your daily bonus, if you get a skill increase it wont just be weapon accuracy, defensive stance or first aid. It will now be one of the 3 skills which you currently have selected for training.

Added the rest of the monsters. Also noticed that i decreased the health of the monsters by 3.5x not 3x. So that means that ALL monsters are now easier for you to kill but you get more exp out of it! :) happy hunting.

Lowered all monsters HP and EXP gains by 3x. this means that youll be able to move down the monster list more often, you should still get the same amount of EXP though!!! But you'll also be getting MORE gold!!! I started to add new monsters aswell. I still have alot more of them to add. And accessories should be implemented soon. I have a couple days off work so you neve know what i could do in those few days! :)

Added a new purchase. You can now buy skills. It costs $20 for 100 of each skill!

Added 6 new skills. The skills are set into blocks of 3. combat skills are your WA,DA and FS. You now also have kingdom skills which are kingsmanship, conflict and resistance. Also have arts skills which are critical hit, chance to hit and dodge.

Preferences page added. You can choose which set of skills to learn and change whether your Eerie Dragonstone works and whether your Gemstone of Invisibility works.

SKILL CHANCES HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY DOUBLED TO HELP EASE IN THE NEW SKILLS FOR EXISTING PLAYERS!

Added the display for the new skills and the Accessories. but they do nothing yet and you cannot gain the skills or accessories...

Drop rate of the power shard and shard enhancer off the bacchus has been increased.

drop rates of light orb and condemned key have been increased off normal and elite monsters.

Messages sent to support@dragon-kingdoms.com were never recieved before because of a forwarding error. so now it works properly.

Payments to Dragon Kingdoms are now Automatically given. To purchase for someone else all you have to do is change the players name in the box when selecting your purchase. Enjoy!

The Gemstone Of Invisibillity now makes it so that you dont appear online at all. You can finally lurk!

As expected, i have decided to dissallow account sharing. This is for the same reasons in which i stopped people having lots of accounts.

Bug fixed with the hardest monsters (high end elites) with doing negative damage.

Brute force protection works properly. You now get a short IP ban if you repeatedly fail.

{mod update} Commands for mods are now easier. There is an option in the actions menu to get up the mod commands and uses. there is also a new page which helps you enforce the new rule, and for general use for you.

Multiple Characters
-----You may have a main character and 1 other (mule/alt) any more than that has severe consequences.

If you have more than 2 characters tell a member of staff the character name to remove.

New Quests added. a new 5 part quest to increase the rate of shard dust dropped has been launched. have fun. Look up the help page to find out more.

Banner competition!! will be giving $15 credit PER BANNER that i choose to win. I need 1 of each banner type. Specifications are below. Competition will last until i have 1 of each banner.

The banners will be used for a MAJOR advertising campain spanning over more than 200 websites. All targeted towards possible new players!

Now that if you attack and get more than 25million land total at the end of the battle you will recieve gold for the amount of excess land.

- B A N N E R S P E C I F I C A T I O N S -
Formats: 728x90, 468x60, 120x600, 160x600, 300x250, 125x125. (One banner of each format is best). File Types: GIF, JPG, PNG, SWF. Size limit is 60,000 bytes, except for 125x125 limited to 40,000 bytes.. Content: Game related only. Restrictions: No extreme animation / strong flashing / visual irritation. No vulgarity / nudity / graphic violence. Flash Banners: Must contain clickTAG opening in new window, no direct URLs. Streaming Video in SWF: Max bitrate: 300kbps. Max video size: 500kb, hosted by advertiser. Sound off by default. Flash CPU Usage: Must not exceed 10% average per banner on a 2ghz dual core test machine.

Maintenance Window: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM Central Time (Server time)
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Estimated Downtime: 1.5 Hours

Reason: All Virpus owned servers are being moved to a new facility downtown. It will be on the same network, just a different facility, so there is nothing for you to do on your end. There is a risk that servers may go into a FSCK (file system check) which may take some time to do. If this is the case, an announcement will be placed here. Downtown is expected for the entire time

April 15, 2009:
A brand new package purchase is availabe for you to take advantage of. go to the purchase page to see what it is!!!

April 13, 2009:
A brand new log-in page! this is just the start of a complete redesign of the game!

April 9, 2009:
You now get a random daily login bonus when you log on each day. there are 8 different types of bonus including levels and shard dust. Can you find out what the rest are? and to recieve the bonus you only have to be level 500! :)

April 7, 2009:
Well, DK is back online. The game was sabotaged from a brute force attempt which has now been rectified and protected against. the best back up i had was 2 days before this occured. Because of the roll back DC's will drop depending on how many users are online for a week. Have fun!

April 1, 2009:
Well, i have a big update for you right now. The things that require shard dust have been increased x1000. But dont worry there is now a quest for anyone above level 2000 and on grasslands. When you have this quest completed you will be able to find dust on any monster normally. Also on top of that there is a new NPC. speak to the retired warrior for more info about him(/m Retired Warrior: hi). The amount if dust you get for a purchase has also been increased x1000 so you now get 10,000 for $10. and Soon there will be an update along with other updates that will increase the chance of getting dust off a monster.

March 29, 2009:
2 new money saving offers were made for purchases!!! these wont be around forever so buy now to save money!

beast invasion went really well. i was WAY too generous with the beasts considering the poor amount of voting. next DI however will entirely depend on the amount of votes made. the voting page can be found from the games index (login) page. Votng can be done DAILY. people got confused about that also.

March 25, 2009:
the google advertisemants were cause a little lag so i removed them for your benefit! I forgot to mention that yesterday i added new chat colours to people on different planes. some new graphics for some of the buttons: the view tops, logout, sign up, announements and main logo graphics were changed.

I have also initiated a small advertising campeign on facebook. dragon kingdoms will be on facebook so we can hopefully gain more members!

March 17, 2009:
4 new quests added for those who have access. when on a plane you have a chance to hear the wise words of an elder which will give you the ability to teleport to that plane wherever you are, instead of being on a specific location to get to the plane. see help for more info.

March 16, 2009:
A change to the pricing for the planes has been made. several people thought it was too pricey and i did too. So it has been lowered. The items will also be findable (VERY RARE) in the near future. also several new updates to come in the next couple weeks. There will be a whole load more quests and alot more to come.

The dragons are now more likely to spawn on the Grasslands. but still do spawn on the other planes.

March 14, 2009:
The long awaited announcement is here! 3 more planes have been added. these planes have added bonus's for your character. check /help and the purchases page for details on these items. Now that this is done i can concentrate on adding quests. ill be adding about 100 quests. and some quests will only be available to those who have the access to the new planes. Enjoy. Dragons now spawn an any of the 4 planes at random.

March 12, 2009:
A forum has finally been added to the footer of the game (below chat) for you to put all your suggestions, bug reportings (proof required) and anything and everything else!

Several people asked for an upgrade that allows you to be "invisible" on the tops lists. I have heeded to the requests of the mass's and this non-necesacery item is now available for purchase.

fixed an exploitable bug that allowed you to warp to a Falkor if you had sub days.

March 3, 2009:
The beast lists have been reset manually since the cron job doesnt work properly. and the DI will commence tonight at 6pm server time.

March 1, 2009:
Today we experienced some downtime, this was because the data centre had a DDOS attack and went offline.

Dragon invasion went well... Recheduled for tomorrow...Next one schedule for the 29th of march at 6pm again.

DC dropping is now ony on beasts or if you have staff of wonders. this was only introductory...

The dragon invasion that isaid would only happen if you all got recruits coming in, is still going to happen. But because of there not being alot of recruiting happening, it will be a bit smaller... As of next month the dragon invasion size will be dependant on how many votes have been made on the voting sites (total). Tomorrows invasion will be at 6pm (ish) server time

We now also have an Affiliate now. Hopefully there will be a little traffic from there to join this game. :)

February 27, 2009:
Kingdoms now have buildings. There are currently 3 types of building with 5 levels. read /help under the kingdoms section to find out more.

February 26, 2009:
Quest items that affect damage to monsters now also affect damage to dragons.

February 25, 2009:
Edited the shief quest to be spelled properly. It should now say sheath which is how it's spelled. Also changed the name for the current ultimate weapons/armor from insane to dragonskin.

Fixed the skills loc to actually give double the chance of skills. They were giving an extra 1x....

Before now there used to be a cap on how many reborns you can do. Now that has been abolished. Now to reborn, along with the 5 shard dust, you need a Phoenix Feather. These drop anywhere randomly but a VERY rare. Speak with the Dust Keeper for more info. When you gain a quest item now only you see the message instead of all of chat.

February 24, 2009:
I have made a script that allows me to do dragon invasions. If you want me to use this script on sunday evening then get recruiting. If by sunday there are 150 users with different IP's then i will do the invasion some time in the evening. any multiple accounts on the same IP will not get counted. Also for this Dragon invasion the beasts health will be DRASTICALLY reduced so that anyone can kill them easily. so go ahead get recruiting. Also remember that with the more players playing there will be more people online which means dragon coins will drop more often!!!Happy hunting!

A new quest item is upon us! There is a small chance (1/2000) to get this item from a cirtain monster. But the good thing is that this item slightly increases your luck at finding money bags or crafting stones! Now i might aswell tell you what monster this is because 2 people already know. Its the enchanted chests!!

added another 4, thats right 4 quest items! They're all shief's found to holster your sword. the first of which can be found anywhere, the others you have to be on a cirtain location for. With these quest items you'll do slightly more damage. you must find them in order. the order is: Leather, Bronze, Silver and then Golden. The locations for the other 3 items are either of these locs: 6,7 3,2 4,4 8,2 9,5and 2,7! you'll have to figure that one out. and yes theres 3 too many in the list because some are fake just so you have to search harder.

The NPC Dust Keeper has been modified with a new, improved storyline. "type /m Dust Keeper: hi" to speak with him!

February 23, 2009:
11 Major bugs with the crons have been fixed and should be working properly now!

Chimera beast sorted. and its drop rate of insane items has increased by x400. I know its a low chance to get an insane item from it but the rate was slightly too low before.

February 22, 2009:
Referal links now work properly and now with a 10x better incentive! the minimum you can recieve is 10k gold but when you have more peasants the amount will rise!

Dragon Coins are dropping randomly as an event. This is to celebrate the release of the game. The drop rate for them is determined by how many people are online. so get refering your friends to the game and make them play too!

The first of many quests has been added. The item is called Wings of a Wyvern and drops randomly off of any normal creature. This quest item changes the 2 second delay action into a 1 second delay and a 1 second delay would be nearly impossible to hit because it would most likely take longer for all the page loads and such. happy hunting!

Money Money Money! some monsters have become rich! If they drop a money bag on a normal location they now give between 1,000 and 1,000,000 gold! But if your on that special location(5,6) then they can give you 10,000 to 10,000,000 gold!!!

The drop rate for the new quest item has been majorly reduced! the rate is now 1/2000 chance. Also 11 bugs were fixed, thank you Brianbak for finding them.

The monsters were hardened to make the game a little more of a challenge. but fear not! the gold and exp gained on each monster has increased!

User damage has been changed to comensate for the overkill HP on the monsters ;)

February 21, 2009:
Cron jobs now all work! The thing is that too many precautions were taken to make it secue that it wouldnt let the server actually use them. The code would accuse the server of cheating!

Ok, I'm in the midst of changing alot of things so you'll notice that on some pages it'll say credits and on others it says gold. and the same for dragon coins and cash credits.. and a few others, some upgrades have been renamed and allsorts. Also, now the Bacchus has a chance to drop the power shard or the shard Enhancer!!! the Bacchus also now drops either 1 or 2 Shard Dust instead of just 1, and the Tiamat now drops between 1 and 5 randomly instead of the steady 5 before.

All the name changes and such have been done... I think... Also the help page is up and all the chat commands now work! type /help to find out more.

February 20, 2009:
The game has come online! although its only temporarily on this domain. Just hosted here until my new one becomes available. When I can ill transfer the database so you dont lose any of your hard work.