I have setup some temporary forums for people to ask questions and whatnot. Our main site should be up in a week or so. Forums are here: http://l2worldwar4.com/warzone

We are still adding ideas and information and I will update our forums frequently. I ship the server out to the datacenter in a couple days.

The Concept

Everybody that joins the server must pick a country to fight for (war managers will be in main towns). Many things contribute to a countries overall points such as:
- Epics
- Normal raids
- Seiges
- Heroes
- Noblesse
- Gear (S Only)
- WW4 coins (dropped from normal mobs are worth points)
- CH Seiges

All stats are gathered and the site updated every 3 hours so people can see where each country stands at that time. The server is on a time limit of (3 months). Once 3 months is up the winning country will have bragging rights of being the top playing L2 Country in the world. If there is enough interest for another round the game will begin again.

The Server

Chronicle- Interlude

Rates- 75X

Gear- Up to Sgrade available at GMShop. There will be another level of gear to extend endgame. It will not be anything imba.

Dual Box- You are allowed to dual box but any more than 2 and you will be caught. We have active tracking on this.

Bot Protection- Yes. No bots will work and should it be bypassed we will fix it quickly.

Location- Zurich Switzerland. The routing is extremely good for NA players we have tested it extensively.

DDOS Protection- Yes, and we are not talking about what most people here call protection (a firewall or router). The server is co-located on Dragonaras DDOS protected network.

Hardware- Dell PowerEdge SC1435, 2x74GB 15 SAS Drives, 2X Dual Core Optys at 2 GHZ, 12GB Ram. The server is on a dedicated 1gbps port. The server is owned by me not rented which greatly reduces the cost.

Everything is still in the setup phase and I would estimate it will be about 1 month before we are ready to open the server.

Other Stuff

- Epics spawn times will be cut in 1/2 compared to official and the spawn windows will be 2-3 hours depending on which epic it is.

- Amount of time between seiges will be a bit shorter. How short I haven't decided yet. Most likely a day or two.

- Olympiad time will be shortened a bit.

- The gear we are adding for after Sgrade will need to be crafted or by drop from Raids.

Country List
This is what we have so far for countrys (factions) that will compete against each other. It is not complete and needs some fine tuning. If you would like a country added you can post or if you have any other ideas we welcome them.

Brazil
Spain
Greece
Poland
Romania
UK
Russia
Asia
North America (Canada+US)
The Rest Of the World

Please spread the word about us! We will be relying a lot on word of mouth bringing lots of players. So if you want a fun and competitive server let people know we are coming!

We have had some really great developments in the last 24 hours. There were some features not listed i was not sure if we were going to be able to pull off but as it turns out we are going to be able to do them. This also opens some new doors for other really cool original features.

I ship the server today and it arrives in Switzerland in 3-4 days and than we can get to work. Will have some updates for you all in the next few days!

I setup a IRC channel for those that want to come hangout while we wait.

Server- irc[DOT]dal[DOT]net
Channel- #WW4

WW4

Things are rolling along pretty well. The Country VS Country system should be finished mid-next week. Main site maybe this weekend. We are looking for some advertisers and other staff check our forums.

We will need a few closed beta testers if your interested drop me a PM.

Chronicle ?

Chronicle- Interlude

I really need to rebuild my first post but been so busy. Will get to it soon and make it a little less un-readable

We are taking it up a level. All countries will have their own unique armors and weapons with their countries flag set in it.

Some people have expressed concerns about us adding custom items. These after SGrade country specific gear will not be crazy. It will be similar to Dynasty.

We will be moving the site to a VPS as shared hosting will not handle the traffic. Main site will be up by Tuesday.