Graal the Adventure
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxyW7RCla0


Introduction

This system has been designed as a direct replacement for Graal's Global Guild system, which has not been maintained properly for a number of years now.

One of the main goals of this system is to eliminate multi-guilding issues on a competitive level, however the flexibility to create non-competitive or "Flavour of the Month" guilds is also offered.

This Control Panel can be opened my quickly by saying the command '/g' which can be customised within the main Options menu.

Those within an activated guild can set their desired tag either by using the Tag Selector item provided with the Control Panel, or by saying 'setguild NameOfGuildTag'. When using the setguild command, a guild name which contains spaces must be wrapped in quotes, "like this".


Guild Activation

Upon creating a new Guild it must first be approved by a member of staff in order for it to become activated.

In addition to staff approval, it is also required to recruit a certain number of guild members before the tag can become wearable. These numbers vary according to the type of guild, which can be seen by browsing to the Guild Types tab.

Upon member count decreasing below the required minimum, a Guild will become deactivated but will not face further penalty. Should it raise its number of members to the required minimum it will become re-activated.


Multi-Guilding

The amount of Guilds which can be joined varies according to guild type. While competitive Guilds are restricted to being able to join one only, non-competitive Guilds offer greater flexibility. The exact numbers can be seen by browsing to the Guild Types tab.

As there are multiple guild types, a significant difference to global guilds is that you can create one guild of each type, though it is not possible to transfer guild leadership to a member who already leads a guild of the same type.

When attempting to create or apply to a new Guild, your current pending applications will be factored in, which means you can not create a competitive guild when you have already applied to one.


Guild Rights Information

Similarly to global guilds, rights are assigned to a Guild Rank, which are then inherited by members of the relevant guild rank.

Hierarchy also works in the same manner as global guilds, with it only being possible to affect members who are either part of a lower rank, or are part of the same rank but joined the guild at a later date.

One right offered by this system is the ability to edit rights, however those with this privilege will only be able to modify rights which are enabled for their own rank. For example, if a rank is permitted to edit rights but not permitted to recruit, members of this rank will not be able to modify the recruitment right for other ranks.

Another right offered by this system is the ability to remove players from the blacklist, which for global guilds is restricted to the Leader.

All email addresses stored on this system are only viewable by members of the same guild.


Global Guilds Policy

Global guilds can be created within this system, however on the condition that the registrant is within the top two ranks of the global guild.

When creating a new guild, both the guild's full name and tag are checked for a match with a global guild.

For global guilds created in this system, it is not required that players be a member of the global guild in order to apply for membership. It is also possible to transfer leadership to a player who is not a member of the global guild.


Recruitment Options

Copied over from global guilds is the ability to set a password for membership applications, which if desired can effectively prevent applications from those who have not been given prior permission to join.

In addition to passwords there are two other optional ways to restrict membership applications:

• Minimum Hours - Require players to have reached a set number of online hours before being able to apply
• Minimum Kills - Require players to have obtained a set number of kills before being able to apply

*The Guilds Control panel can be obtained within the building to the left of SuperNick's Battle Arena, aka the pyramid located in the North of Graal City


Competitive Guild Prizes

A thread detailing the ability for competitive guilds to obtain prizes can be seen here - http://www.graalians.com/forums/show...723#post583723

Graal the Adventure: Archery & Boomerang
 

The first archery minigame has been released within the Graal City Castle, from which there are 2 prizes available. Talk to King Tristam or Commander Cyrus to begin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13OtUkLDZpI

For this mode points are obtained by shooting Gelats, which award their equivalent color value, so hitting a Gold Gelat is worth 100 Points. Be careful to avoid hitting Chickens, Baddies and Newbies, as these do not award points. There is also a limit on how many Arrows you can shoot.

*Note the preview video does not fully reflect the final release. Archery also occurs within level instances in order to avoid multiplayer conflict.



The second archery minigame has been released within Abermose's House, located in the East of Graal City.

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In addition to offering a special weapon as a prize, this mode of archery doubles up as a new form of monthly ranking, where those with the highest score of the month shall receive a trophy, statue, special guild tag, and have their character appear as an obstacle within the archery minigames.

For this mode points are calculated from the time it takes to shoot all targets as well as your accuracy, failing to shoot all targets will result in a score of 0.

It is required to first obtain the Wallet through questing in order to play this. Due to a change in the way we would like Gelat to work, everybody has been reset to the amount of Gelat they have obtained through Questing. It is also no longer possible to transfer Gelat between accounts, though Gelats can spawn from cutting bushes again.

Boomerang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UsAfVMxSM

Might this release somehow be of relevance to archery?

Graal the Adventure: Guild Fort, Currency & Prizes
 

Introduction

Pending a successful relaunch of Graal the Adventure on both the PC platform and Facebook/Flash, it is planned for competitive guilds to be able to obtain a Guild Points currency.

An example of a prepared method for obtaining Guild Points is a revamped Mod Fort, which is currently prepared to work as follows:

• The fort will open once a day, but the time at which it opens is rotated among the evenings of Europe, US East Coast, US West Coast and Australia/Asia
• The fort remains open for 30 minutes, in which it is up to guilds to try and accumulate as much "points" as possible
• "Points" are calculated from hits and kills within the vicinity of the fort
• Once the set time has ended, Guild Points currency is awarded to the guild with the most fort "points", as well as a smaller number to runner ups
• As this is a competitive environment, players are restricted to 3 hearts, and also receive temporary Bow & Bomb weapons if they have not obtained them already
• GC events would not be hosted while the fort is open

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With Guild Points it is possible to purchase guild prizes. The prizes which are currently prepared are as follows:


Custom Tag Color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAjIg4qsbk

Unlock the ability to set your guild tag to a customisable color.


Upload Guild Logo

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Unlock the ability to upload a guild logo, which appears within guild information, on forts and points interface.


Upload Guild Exclusive Graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4N4xa52bn8

Unlock the ability to upload outfit graphics that are exclusive to your guild members.


Family Guild Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCLndQnzeo

Unlock the ability to form an alliance with a family guild, who will then not be able to damage your on tag members. This can be purchased multiple times for multiple alliances.

Graal the Adventure: Facebook
 

For those who are not yet aware, approximately 4 months ago Classic/Graal the Adventure gained approval from both Carlito and Unixmad to eventually become launched on Facebook/Flash, -officially under the name of Graal the Adventure-, and this approval has since been re-iterated to me on multiple occasions.

First I would like to apologise for the delay in providing an explanation as to what exactly is going on. The reason for the delay is simply that I am still yet to receive development access to the flash app, and therefore can not guarantee 100% that this shall go ahead, as I can not be sure how much fixes will be necessary.

Last I heard there is a delay in upgrading the Facebook API to v2, which by pure coincidence of the result of my profession the PHP package for which is something I have recently become familiar with. Although I had taken about one hour to get the hang of it, I am not aware of the extent this requires re-working for Graal and I did find the documentation to be highly fragmented.

Moving forward, my previous thread concerning guild prizes may demonstrate that our current primary development focus is towards bolstering the server's options for in-game transactions. I am however keen to bring some life back to the server throughout its ongoing downtime, and therefore propose the return of scheduled event hosting nights.

When carried out beforehand, our event hosting nights yielded between 12 - 30 players. Although is is fair to say the server no longer has the advantage of hype and freshness, GC Tickets can once again be rewarded in order to obtain prizes, and Graal is now without the dreaded observer mode :quiet:. It may also be good to carry out some test runs of the new fort system where successful participants can receive Guild Points.

With this thread not being the grand announcement that I had initially planned, I thought I would squeeze this tiny little teaser in as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRi2nnbqLk

:shock:

What I'm getting from this is Graal The Adventure is getting revamped?

keep it to a single thread big news

^---hater



Any PC guild needs a beastmode GOAT?

pretty big news Kappa

Oooo ur taking a good directionnnn
like ol west guild activity is promoted!

Hope to continue the story line, thenew gta is much more story oriented than it was before

I need this on iOS nowwww

hey that looks like iClassic

Don't hold your breath.:D

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I think just having it connected with FB is good enough. Server should be fun with a 30-60 player count.

At least it's accurate. One mobile device for every player who has thrown away iClassic to play Graal the Adventure instead.

http://puu.sh/iBmIC/0d22219d2c.jpg

Requesting Burger Refuge is converted into a chicken restaurant named Yando's with Fung Si Yan as mascot.

Lmao @pics but yeah I can't see coming to ios when classic already about on ios but fb is a great start for graal the adventure! hope it keeps a decent playercount

Pretty sure it'd be the other way around

Graal the Adventure is going to be amazing on Facebook! Since the community won't compare to anything like iClassic we'll be getting lots of events...oh my how the events on Graal the Adventure are amazing.

Good Job Thor, Racil, WhiteDragon and everyone else :)

you must be under the impression that GTA came before Classic
with it being released solely as a PC/FB server though, it's fine

So...does this mean Graal the Adventure is coming back?

what do you think

idk,maybe Thor is making a little dictionary typo' thing for graal the adventure so the new noobs can remember it and can hang themselves when they notice how much better graal was when they were little little babies.

EDIT:nvm i went through all the posts...so when is it comming...2015??? 2016??? something???

Possibly late 2015

No specific date and I do not think Thor will give out an ETA as it is truly hard to predict how long things will take e.g. fort system might be done but when he tests it with players there may be lots of problems. This goes for quite a few things so he has to make sure everything is good and works well and efficently.

Fort Flag Logo and Custom Color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwGLnNMpzNg

An upgrade to Upload Guild Logo, this sets your Guild Logo on fort flags and allows the flag color to be customised.

Excellent.

Climber's Cave Quest Released

Those who have progressed a short distance through Master Li's tasks can begin this by talking to the Climber beside the Graal City Cathedral. Having progressed further through the storyline there is also a 2nd method for unlocking entry.

The Climber's Cave is a remake of one of Graal's first quests, but has however been revamped and extended to include new levels, features and a boss fight. This is a side quest to the main storyline and is not required to be completed, and is accompanied by the introduction of an unlockable Trading Card. It is planned to implement more unlockable Trading Cards in and around quests within the near future.

Furthermore the server is now using an enhanced tileset, with various objects now appearing more detailed.

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LOL. iClassic uses PC Classic's tileset now.

wut

I have opinions but I'm not sure if it is something that's welcome because of my position on Classic.

Very good

hahah i hope u don't get sued by iclassic ;)))) jk
but that looks really neat. i'll be expecting some mature community in there.

beat the climbing quest its great
Hope to see new dungeons later on
Events are being hosted again and life is slowly coming back to the server

Going to be active on there

yay

Didn't know this was a thing, is there lag? (on a classic scale)

literally no lag

we dont have 3000 people with rainbow gif heads and bodies

brb gonna open 3k different pages of graal on my pc and add rainbow head and bodies to all

On iClassic I get like 190ms but when playercount increases it's 200+. On UN I get 181 or 170 ms. On Graal the Adventure my MS is pretty close to 100. Very little lag.

If I get up to 100ms on client graal I usually log off....60ms on UN or GTA usually

same lol

Unlockable TCG Cards Released
 

As of writing 22 new Trading Card Game cards have been scattered around the world ready to be collected.

For most of these cards a map icon can be purchased for 20 Gelat at the Trading Card House, provided a card is obtainable. Other cards are hidden within dungeons, while some cards require statistics such as Spar Wins.

It should be noted that cards obtained from secret locations are not tradable.

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Couple of preview videos for some future quest content:

Passcode entry system

Voluran's Mausoleum quest

New arrow minigame???

Voluran's Mausoleum Quest Released
 

A new dungeon can now be accessed in the East of Graal City (towards Master Li's Woods). It is not required to have completed any of the storyline beyond owning a sword in order to begin this quest, though for reasons that shall be learned one can not simply "walk" in to the Mausoleum.

With the release of this quest it is now possible to obtain a 5th heart. It may also be worth looking out for hidden Trading Cards or Gelat chests. For those not aware Graal the Adventure can still be accessed by typing in 'Classic' to the server list.

This quest is very finely tuned and puzzle-based. You will face some challenges but nothing that you can't figure out in 5 minutes. This quest is fantastic. The graphics are flawless, the scripts are a sight to behold and the boss is a real challenge. You will all enjoy this quest, I guarantee it.

We need to send the devs from a server like zone to work on this server because it has potential.

What about the 4th heart?

The other heart is obtained solely through the storyline. When I said that a 5th heart is obtainable after this release what I meant was that a 4th Tear of Hera is available, which are acting as heart quarters.

^Never forget @iclassic dev :sarcastic:.

bwt can you make it so anyone can create a guild and not have to have like (x) amount of people for it then to be accepted, might make more of a community into the run up of facebook release(if/when that may happen)

The amount of members required for activation depends on the type of Guild you have created. A family Guild only requires 2 members, a Misc Guild requires 4 members, while a Competitive Guild requires 6 members. Whether or not is is approved by staff just depends on whether it is appropriate.