@paddiman That's what we are doing we aren't opening an official server until it feels like there is enough players on the discord where an announcement to open would reach enough players.
The original plan was to have the open beta last until January 1th which would then open for the official server that was gonna be a high rate with a lot of focus on getting players up quick, fast paced gameplay with quick loot (5x) etc. But players seem to actually want to play a low rate, which I would prefer to host aswell.
So the paradigm has shifted slightly and there will not be an official release 1th of January but what will happen instead I and the ones I've spoken to find interesting, hopefully you will think so too.
What will happen is the following (Might change some stuff but the general idea is like this)
Zanera Gamestate of 2006 May 21th has been re-established to it's original state.
The world Zanera got hacked 2006 May 21th and got put into a time-capsule which we now unleash.
All houses exactly the same way they got left, every character in the position they logged off, every love letter, every war letter, debt letters etc in the same place they got put almost 16 years ago.
The website works with everything, house auctions, guilds, highscore, creating new characters and so on.
The idea is that January 1th we will open Zanera once again and players will get the option to level up their own character in the environment of Zanera or once you reach level 5 you will be given a randomly selected character by a script that ranges from level 50 to 100 (There is about 600-700ish players in that level range).
You might get lucky and hit a character with a nice house or skills and gear or unlucky and get a level 50 that was poor like hell.
A character lottery if you want to call it that.
First comes first basis where you will post a screenshot of you reaching level 5 on discord that will then be handled and you'll receive your random character.
A discord channel where you can post what you got, lucky or unlucky, funny letters etc.
The character pool of level 8 to 49 is actually 30000 characters which we also plan to have some sort of way to hand out.
To limit the amount of characters you can get the idea is that you'll be able to swap your level 5+ for a random 50-100 , the next character you wish to trade for you'll need a level 15+ that you leveled yourself of course.
The whole concept still needs a little bit of fine tuning but that is the general idea so far.
Oh yeah and the idea is to keep the server online as long as we can, I mean there will be no intention of shutting it down to open another server.
When we do open another server that will be a low-rate that will run along side this and not take it's place.
The rates of the world we are suggesting above would be
3x Experience (Keeping it not too high)
2x Loot
10x Skills
4x Mag
So new characters could essentially level up fairly fast and easy since you have quick skill & magic rate.
The spawn rate would also be inflated to 3x which makes a huge difference so even with 3x experience you'd probably need to imagine it around 8x if it was the original spawn rates.
I've worked with these files a long time and come a long way with reverse engineering it back to 7.4 style removing the pushbug that was present in real-tibia for a long time too.
We would keep the world as it is with 5 kills per day for red skull that lasts 7 days, double it and you get banned for 7 days instead.
Experience from killing players
NO PZ on boats
Fast travel captains on the major boats
7.4 Spellsystem (HMM 70 mana, SD 220 mana) and it requires magic level instead of experience level.
Weapons with 25 or higher ATK is boosted by 5 ATK
Join the discord and connect with other players!
Edit: Just to add so it is perfectly clear no characters that wasn't from that date will be added to the pool of random characters. The ones that was present when the hack occurred will be the ones that will be in the pool and only those. If they run out there will no longer be a pool to get a random char from, if you want to play at that point you'll need to level the character yourself. (However the pool of Level 8-49 is freaking massive).