Dear Community,

After the good reception we received for the last bonus weekend, here are the options for the next one.

Feel free to give us feedback about the event in the thread below.

Love,
The NI Family

Dear Community,

This weekend there will be a bonus for all players and the you will get to decide what it is. Whatever the poll results are in four days the Development Team will implement on Friday. If the event is a success then we will look at holding more in the future.

Feel free to give us feedback about the event in the thread below.

Love,
The NI Family

The poll has closed. The drop rate of hardened metal has been buffed for the weekend. Have fun.

Dear Community,

While this patch may not be seen to bring too many changes to the wider player base, this patch is largely aimed at an expansion of the coding underneath NI and a huge expansion to the mapping side of NI. This patch will see;

Major Changes

Variation crafting, now there are different models for high level items, pick your favorite before you make it!
New map "Fortress under Siege" by YuriTheRed
"Hidden Cave" is... Hidden!(??) in awesome overwork by our fabulous Hande
Lots of new scene props added for any player that would like to try creating a map
Enemy resupply with enemies sporting new weapons, armors and new faces in normal mode waves!
New challenge wave in normal mode alongside new weapons and armours!
Banners updated courtesy of Galen_Thalheimer.
New donator enemy included.
Added more variation in the waves you will face through another massive code expansion.
New healing & shrine prop. *Hic*

Existing Equipment Changes

Rebalanced Pikeman weapons, most high level craftables and legendaries buffed.
Craftable crossbows rebalanced through a buff.
New items for the alchemy summon feature to be introduced over time.
Buff to high level commando helmets.
Reduced shine on Transitional Armors White and Orange.

New Equipment

New craftable helmets for all classes to be introduced over the coming weeks
New summonable gear for Alchemists to be introduced over the coming weeks.
Variation options for armorsmith to be introduced over the following weeks

Oh, and less range... nah, moar rangers!!

As always come and join us on Teamspeak at 46.4.76.136:9990!

Love,
The NI Family

Greetings Swadians

The last few days Barristan and Clickeverywhere decided to take a look into some suspicious players and transactions, this once again lead to the discovery of quite a long list of exploiters and affiliates. As of a few minutes ago this list of people have been permanently banned.

Last time I refused to name and shame, and I still do. However I know the community likes to have a good old fashioned witch hunt.

If you want to be unbanned!
Post in this thread with the name of your character, your wrongdoings, who you shared your exploits with. We will have a look and see if your story is correct and you might be unbanned for good behaviour.

DO NOT contact any of the admin or dev team about unbans, everything will be done trough this thread.


Love,
The NI Team

Hypernoma and Barristan has been working hard to bring you a new patch lately, I know you have all been anxious for some updates, so without delay here's the patch notes.

• New Features
  
• New awesome combat animations from Papa Lazarou's Combat Enhancement pack
  
• New enemy troops have joined the Nord ranks! Donator's enemies have joined the fight!
  
• Massive expansion in the coding to allow a far greater random chance in what waves you will face upon the field!
  
• Nord troops have donned new outfits
  
• Voulge should hopefully now give xp (it's very stubborn!)
  
• Sharpshooter buff to crossbow to allow pinpoint accuracy at highest levels of legendary crossbows
  
• Pikeman buff to throwing skillz!
  
• Various item rebalancing, especially for throwing weapons
  
• Tonnes of changes behind the scenes that will appear over the coming weeks!
  
• Deployable ammunition box is faster to use
  
• Banners were not updated in this patch. Please use the unofficial banner pack for now
  
• More Rangers!!
  

Just a quick message to say we have new US servers running with Jest once more. Hopefully they will be lag free!

Enjoy!

Dear NI Community,

It is with regret that I am writing this. Running NI in 3 continents is very expensive and unfortunately the NI kitty is getting rather dry. We are running quite a few servers now and are in the process of moving US servers to sort out the latency issues. The sad news is at present, the NI account has enough money to last around one month more. One thing that has to be very clear is that we are not attempting to force anyone’s hand into donating to NI. As always, donating is entirely voluntary. It will however become very difficult for us to maintain the current service we are providing.

I ask that no one posts about re-installing private servers; this will not happen. As stated when we shut down private servers, a section of the NI community proved that they could not be trusted and they have unfortunately soured the experience for the rest of the community. Please do not PM about how your house can be trusted etc, we got those pm’s back in the past too.

I appreciate that we have not patched for a little while now but I assure you that a patch will be along soon; the month of Septober is nearly upon us. Today we entered Maljulember with the introduction of many more crafting recipes. The Dev team have been very busy of late with members starting new jobs, moving homes, finishing university degrees etc. We have been working on learning new coding stuff and actually getting our heads around the warband system. I can promise you that we are working on patching as I type this post!!

We don’t want to have to shut down NI as we all have fun working on it and expanding our knowledge and skill set, and despite. We hope that you guys have been having fun too and will continue to have fun as we work towards implementing our ideas and some of those those that have popped up along the way in the forums.

Much love as always,
Worm and family

Greetings Swadians!

Thanks to the contributions of some of our generous donators who have contributed ideas as well as funds - we have added a few new quests for you to try out.

Keep your eyes on the quest notice boards and see them for yourself!

Happy Hunting.