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Announce post #3077: Aetolia Classic
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4/1/2020 at 0:00
Jumpy
Everyone
Aetolia Classic
Aetolia and Iron Realms Entertainment are proud to announce the beta test of its newest proprietary MUD: Aetolia Classic!
You can participate in the beta right now simply by connecting your MUD client to classic.aetolia.com, port 2007. As this is a classic server, there is no planned support for the Nexus client as Classic predates a lot of the code and technology used to support it.
What is Aetolia Classic?
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It's a re-release of Aetolia as it was at January 2007 - the oldest backup we still had available to us. This version of Aetolia will run purely independent of Aetolia Prime (what we will now call the modern version of Aetolia).
Aetolia Classic will follow its own design principles rooted in the era from where it came. It will also have its own storyline, entirely different from Prime's but rooted in the same beginnings. In 2007, the Kerrithrim event had yet to happen which is what we consider to be the start of Aetolia Prime's Albedos storyline.
Staff
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Aetolia Classic will be headed by Luke Moore, who you have come to know as Keroc in Aetolia. He will be taking on the role of Varian in Aetolia Classic as its Producer.
Luke has been a staple of Aetolia Prime for over a decade now, and we're truly sad to see him go. However, we have the utmost faith that Aetolia Classic will flourish in his capable hands.
We understand that this leaves a large void in Prime as far as combat goes. Going forward, Tiur will now become responsible for handling combat in Aetolia and we have utmost faith in his ability to step into the massive shoes Keroc is leaving behind.
Beta participation
------------------
The beta period will run for 72 hours, starting from now. Once the beta period is complete, we will be doing a data wipe and resetting in preparation for a proper release.
Some of you may have old characters available to you from 2007, if you were playing back then. Feel free to log them in for the beta period if you remember your password from that time. If not, just create a new one!
Since it's a beta, we're letting you boost your characters for the sake of testing. Simply type BOOSTME in-game to be given access to all your skills and have your level set to 99.
Known issues
------------
Unfortunately, AB files and HELP files are stored and backed up differently to the rest of the game data. The oldest backup we were able to retrieve for those is around 2011-2012. This means the some files might currently contain information not applicable to Classic. This is a work in progress.
Development plans
-----------------
Look forward to a post from Aetolia Classic's producer in the next couple of days that will outline his plans for Classic's development, and how he will ensure Classic remains true to the sense of the word.
What's different?
-----------------
With 13 years of development separating Classic and Prime, you can expect that things are going to be very, very different. Here's a small sample of what to expect:
* No in-game mapping or pathfinding. Until Aetolia Classic gets its own website, you can find old map images on our website at http://www.aetolia.com/classic-maps/ and navigate using those like we used to back in 2007!
* 2007 is long before class revamps. It's so long ago that Teradrim still use slingshots and have Mentis.
* Ashtan still exists as a city.
* Kelsys is still around.
* The war system is there.
* Plenty of original Gods: Arion, Lleis, Dhaivol, etc.
- Jeremy Saunders, President of Iron Realms Entertainment
Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 11th of Severin, in the year 487 MA.
Jumpy
Everyone
Aetolia Classic
Aetolia and Iron Realms Entertainment are proud to announce the beta test of its newest proprietary MUD: Aetolia Classic!
You can participate in the beta right now simply by connecting your MUD client to classic.aetolia.com, port 2007. As this is a classic server, there is no planned support for the Nexus client as Classic predates a lot of the code and technology used to support it.
What is Aetolia Classic?
------------------------
It's a re-release of Aetolia as it was at January 2007 - the oldest backup we still had available to us. This version of Aetolia will run purely independent of Aetolia Prime (what we will now call the modern version of Aetolia).
Aetolia Classic will follow its own design principles rooted in the era from where it came. It will also have its own storyline, entirely different from Prime's but rooted in the same beginnings. In 2007, the Kerrithrim event had yet to happen which is what we consider to be the start of Aetolia Prime's Albedos storyline.
Staff
-----
Aetolia Classic will be headed by Luke Moore, who you have come to know as Keroc in Aetolia. He will be taking on the role of Varian in Aetolia Classic as its Producer.
Luke has been a staple of Aetolia Prime for over a decade now, and we're truly sad to see him go. However, we have the utmost faith that Aetolia Classic will flourish in his capable hands.
We understand that this leaves a large void in Prime as far as combat goes. Going forward, Tiur will now become responsible for handling combat in Aetolia and we have utmost faith in his ability to step into the massive shoes Keroc is leaving behind.
Beta participation
------------------
The beta period will run for 72 hours, starting from now. Once the beta period is complete, we will be doing a data wipe and resetting in preparation for a proper release.
Some of you may have old characters available to you from 2007, if you were playing back then. Feel free to log them in for the beta period if you remember your password from that time. If not, just create a new one!
Since it's a beta, we're letting you boost your characters for the sake of testing. Simply type BOOSTME in-game to be given access to all your skills and have your level set to 99.
Known issues
------------
Unfortunately, AB files and HELP files are stored and backed up differently to the rest of the game data. The oldest backup we were able to retrieve for those is around 2011-2012. This means the some files might currently contain information not applicable to Classic. This is a work in progress.
Development plans
-----------------
Look forward to a post from Aetolia Classic's producer in the next couple of days that will outline his plans for Classic's development, and how he will ensure Classic remains true to the sense of the word.
What's different?
-----------------
With 13 years of development separating Classic and Prime, you can expect that things are going to be very, very different. Here's a small sample of what to expect:
* No in-game mapping or pathfinding. Until Aetolia Classic gets its own website, you can find old map images on our website at http://www.aetolia.com/classic-maps/ and navigate using those like we used to back in 2007!
* 2007 is long before class revamps. It's so long ago that Teradrim still use slingshots and have Mentis.
* Ashtan still exists as a city.
* Kelsys is still around.
* The war system is there.
* Plenty of original Gods: Arion, Lleis, Dhaivol, etc.
- Jeremy Saunders, President of Iron Realms Entertainment
Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 11th of Severin, in the year 487 MA.
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Comments
#lostforever
#can'tevengetoutofDelos
Good luck!
Pretty sure I still have my old map from back then. Having backups pay off!
AND MY SYSTEM WORKS AGAIN! TAKE THAT PROGRESS!
The current date: The oldest mortal in Aetolia is not yet 200 years old: Ashtan is alive and well! Anfini's personal journal, still with him from Loom Island. The contents of all readable objects are gone, but seeing as how I was about 21 years old, I'm pretty sure I was writing raps in it. Arbre is on Team Shadow (far before it was called Team Shadow), so not much has changed there! By far my favorite old Aetolia feature was how your HONOURS would call out how many times you divorced: A snapshot of the top 20 XP rankings at the time. Back then we only had a handful of players >= 99, mostly because the most time-efficient thing to bash were level 40-50 Mhun miners in old Moghedu. Qeddwyn's old haunt: Remember having to physically visit the shop to buy your premade ultimate artifact weapons? Severn remembers. Back in the day, Galleus asked me to write AB files for every entry in AB VENOM. I physically described each one and also added a cute (and cringey) quote. There was a beautiful stretch of time where getting your curatives was dirt-cheap and effortless. This was not that time. In 2007's Aetolia, Concoctions was the third guild skill of Sentinels and Druids - and Duiran Council also enjoyed the power to remotely strip you of the ability to harvest herbs at will. If you think the stuff we make in Tailoring is raunchy, you should see what we were producing when we were all hormone-addled teens and young adults. "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." - Henry Ford The old STAT display. Check out the "size" stat! And the old SCORE display. Fun fact! Back in the day, there existed the Midnight Society, which was an exclusive news board you were given access to based purely on whether or not the admin thought you had a good head on your shoulders. It was used for suggesting changes and adjustments to the game, back when communicating with the admin team was almost unheard of.
VNum Owner Description Price
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[Spinesreach]
24437 Vorlus a silken (dye) thong 250gp
[Duiran]
43958 Aisei a pink ribboned thong 350gp
43939 Ayanala a golden satin thong 200gp
43939 Ayanala a silk thong 200gp
43939 Ayanala a simple ivory thong 200gp
43939 Ayanala a black satin thong 200gp
43939 Ayanala a lace-trimmed, white satin thong 200gp
43939 Ayanala a translucent golden lace thong 200gp
[Enorian]
56455 Elorin a scanty fuzzy rabbit fur thong 250gp
56455 Elorin a black leather thong, embellished with red 250gp
glass beads
56454 Nola a floral thong of black silk 300gp
56454 Nola a lacy thong of pale purple silk 300gp
[Esterport]
14760 Vorlus a slender silver thong 250gp
66362 Oriana a (dye)-edged thong of (dye) lace 10000gp
66362 Oriana a Rajamalan-striped skimpy thong 1000gp
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Thanks for the distraction guys,
Irru
I went on with mudlet and as i roamed in Bloodloch I got this message
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You are using an unsupported version of the client software.
Please update by forcing a reload of the page and reconnect.
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Ok so what are we suppose to use, i think back then i was using Zmud. Or is there a way to log on without a system? I tried without a system and that kept giving me an error. Or am I having a senior moment
Hi.
It was an April Fool's joke guys, sorry. But as someone who was thriving at that time (I'm Anfini), I gotta say, today's Aetolia is so much better, you should give it a shot!
On a side note, was good to go back to the days when Aetolia was the best of the IRE muds. Thanks for the run down memory lane