Under some conditions (battle zone) upon closing stall would unexpectedly disconnect you, It now no longer disconnects you when you close stall.
Black Dragon Maps (entrance, lair, and treasure room) are now PK zone due to fact it's inherently dangerous zone.
Potions now heal up to it's bonus amount, instead of whole amount, because not everyone has same amount of HP, potions should be neutral and equal between all classes/levels.
Various areas including, Silver mine, Seabed Tunnels, Black Dragon Entrance, BD Lair, and Underwater tunnel are considered to be dangerous zone so no longer saves your character position.
You now can sell your boat by stall, Previously it would cause client crash when attempting to view stall containing vessel...
Announcements and News
Tiger Gamble is now activated and can be found in all major cities, You can gamble your fairy coins with a NPC called "Jackpot" located at: 1304,529 Icicle City, 729,1544 Thundoria City, And 850,3553 Shaitan City. The following topic is mini-guide about the Tiger Gamble itself, how to use and what to expect from it.
This is beginning of expanding understanding how the newly found gem called "Tiger Gamble" which allows players to gamble using nothing but only fairy coins. The Tiger Gambling system relies on "slots" form factor, In this case there is three columns and three rows, consisting of nine slots. You are to place bets (each row is a bet) and stop the slots (each column) and if you are lucky, You might win a reward.
First stage...
It is now possible to AFK stall, If a player wish to AFK stall, They must create and setup their stall before proceeding to logout (or close client) and the server will hold your session until the stall have emptied. The system will allow players to overnight stall or create stall without worried about getting disconnected meanwhile. If you are AFK stalling, As you try to enter the account of this AFK stall character, You will first be prompted of "Account is already online" which is perfectly normal, As server will disconnect the AFK stall so you may re-enter the account and load a character. This offering is quite incredible as it will allow economy to be stabilized and reduce the stress when players experience intermittent network...
In-ever improving game clients means deploying new files almost on daily-basis, sometime players may encounter problems with launcher or entirely something else. Part of the effort to make the upgrade transparent We've made a cumulative patch that is available for anybody to download and patch any Pirate King Online instance including from as early as 1.0.0 to latest version.
The cumulative patch provides a quick way for players to download the all new changes ever since we launched the game, albeit our launcher performs very quickly but sometime can stumble persistent problems.
The patch is self-extracting archive, You may run and choose the directory of your Pirate King Online client to patch the files. Please note that you may...
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There are assortments of improvement and changes to client in preparation for the upcoming Triple-Triple event weekend. The client has many new critical components, For those who already have Pirate King Online client should only have to launch the launcher and allow it to receive all the updates.
In case if you are un-able to login or enter client, You should try first running "Version Check" via launcher form, If it doesn't solve, Then, At last resort, You may re-download the Client Setup for complete re-install.
You may now download the client at following URL https://piratekings.online/index.php?act=downloads&cid=1
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Persistent states are now ACTIVATED! Currently only the EXP, PARTY EXP, and DROP are stored and saved, if you get disconnected for any reason whilist not being dead, your bonuses from such as heaven berry or party exp or charmed berry fruits will persistent, and carry over the bonuses if you re-connect (with remaining length)
Black Dragon now re-spawns every other 3.5 days and no longer re-spawns after server restarts. This means if you slay the black dragon and the BD will not re-spawn even after restarting the server, it will only re-spawn after 3.5 days have passed along.
Some abuses related to item spam, such as instant-caking, have been appropriately patched and players will now no longer capable of using cheat engine or packet...
![[EVENT] One Month Anniversary](http://puu.sh/qKJwG/6d5ab5f593.jpg)
As our 1-Month Anniversary approaches, We can't let it pass on inadvertently. Therefore We are preparing a series of events to celebrate all together with you! Starting August 27th, thorugh the weekend until Monday on August 29th, there will be series of events, All day! All of announced timing are always in UTC time zone.
Saturday, August 27th 2016 - Looting Event -
In the Lootingevent you will have to farm 3 different items in certain quantities and then exchange them with the "Event NPC - Pappa" located in Argent City.
This event will take place one hour at a time for a total of 3 times through the day.
The name and quantity of the items you will need to farm will be announced at the start of each round of the event.
There is no...
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Now is good as any time to inform community that I strongly believe the black dragon's usual re-spawn length of 24 hours and customary expectations that every time server reboots the black dragon instantly comes back alive, neglecting the previous death and re-spawn cycle.
Black Dragon now stores and spawns independently from server reboots. The black dragon no longer resets after server restarts. It will spawn when it's meant to, in accordance with last death.
Black Dragon respawning every 24 hours felt tremendous level of responsibility and I propose making it only twice a week, thus 3.5 day (or 84 hours respawn) to promote server welfare by reducing time spent worrying about black dragon, and allow everyone to spend more time...
Today we were supposed to have a quick restart that enabled new improvements (removing lag in Argent) which turned out to be troublesome due to some issues with database being unable to backed up, because it's too critical to neglect, I had to pause and prevent game-play until the back up system were sorted out. Approximately two hours later, Everything is back online and running MUCH much more faster. We are now seeing almost 500% quicker on gameserver cycles, which in such dense places like Argent can have very HUGE difference in smoothness of game playing experience.
Thank you for your patience and virtue of understanding importance to have back-up system working properly before proceeding running the game.
We have released new client setup: Version: 1.1.5
You may use your launcher to update as normal, But however if you are having difficulties with our launcher you may want to consider downloading 1.1.5 client to bypass all problems.
This release focuses on stability and compatible for all computers including reducing the requirement for net framework from 4.5 to 3.5 (windows 7 has 3.5 pre-installed).
You may now download 1.1.5 setup from following URL: https://piratekings.online/index.php?act=downloads&cid=1
Thank you!
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![[EVENT] Short Video](http://puu.sh/qCmHL/374351acdd.jpg)
Hello Players!
To promote and visualize the ever-growing our game is experiencing currently we need big help from our communities by uploading more videos for prospective players to check out. And to recognize as well gratuity for unconditional help, We will reward best videos with rum barrels. Rum Barrels are virtual currency which you may use to exchange into Rum and purchase item mall items using Rum Currency.
Some basic rules:
Create original video (or short clips) regarding our game (piratekings.online)
Video Content must include at least two minutes but no more than three minutes length
Videos must be uploaded to your YouTube account along video description containing brief explanation of your video
Game URL...
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Greetings Players, Today we have deployed and launched guilds system. Those who qualify of creation can now run to Icicle Mas or Dessaro at Thundoria City along with stone of oath to begin creation of guild. Same requirement applies with the reputation and gold, All guilds will begin with 25 slots to observe balance. In the future we may increase or decrease depending on how things roll.
PS Navy Guilds can be named anything, No longer uses number allocation with predefined term as guild name!
Chaos Argent has been modified to add the anti-log principle as suggested by players, if you leave the map while your HP is above 1 points, you'll be penalized by unable to enter the map for three whole minutes. Temporarily, it will still take away your honors as I have feeling that it may be still vital and not yet ready to remove such removal requirement.
Unique necklace, rings, and corals voucher has been added into item mall for 249, 149, and 99 rum respectively. The unique necklace and coral will give one set of equal type, however the rings will give one set but random stats of each level.
Prepared for guilds launch this weekend which will have total of 25 slots initially with prospective possibility of expanding slots.
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We placed new memory heap into the gateserver which means the session-based will not become null as it was before (and the infamous &kick command being unsafe due to kicking random characters around kicked character) while it may be correlated to the problems we are experiencing, it may be not the ONLY cause. Rest assured, we will tackle every networking problem we can find.
We scanned entire database, every character's skill bag for illegal skill IDs, since the cheat strictly do not grant you additional skill points or grant anything additional else. So we focused on characters that had illegal skills, and found there was only total of four (two of them were already banned)
The servers time zone was changed from EST to UTC due to...
This morning I made discover that some certain players were using monsters skills. To disbelief as we've had patched known exploits and placed precautions for monster skills usage. It is true some players managed to obtain monster skills. The reason why it bypassed is due to poor original coding, how it processes the entire skill system stack. Basically we were so focused and concerned about learning the skill, it seems somewhere in a crack we missed the fact, "upgrading" skill is entirely different process and do not go through out custom audition as dumb it sounds but, if you do not have the skill already but try to invoke "upgrade" it will bypass and force learning the skill thus getting away with restrictions we've placed on...
We have released new client setup: Version: 1.1.3
You may use your launcher to update as normal, But however if you are having difficulties with our launcher you may want to consider downloading 1.1.3 client to bypass all problems.
This release focuses on stability and compatible for all computers including reducing the requirement for net framework from 4.5 to 3.5 (windows 7 has 3.5 pre-installed).
You may now download 1.1.3 setup from following URL: https://piratekings.online/index.php?act=downloads&cid=1
Thank you!
As we always strive to improve our launcher but sometime mistakes happen, Some of you may have bugged or abnormal launcher, which would require manually fixing. Our last update we tried to make the launcher exit to system task bar icon, unfortunately it did not always behaved that way. We decided to remove it and change some things about launcher. If you are unable to update, try restarting your computer. However if you are still struggling please follow the steps below to fix launcher.
One-time manual for fix PKO launcher
1) Run your launcher.
2) Wait while launcher finish loading any updates.
3) If launcher shows any error, Click on Version Check button.
4) Close the launcher, Do not start the client.
5) Make sure you don't have...
Greetings Players!
If there is anything that deserved GM-Listens-To-Players it would be hexathlon, Ever since we launched this successful server, The request to bring back (or run) the hexathlon has been endless. It is truly the hexathlon that brought PKO to next level with the level of immense detail planning, And so the upcoming weekend we will have our VERY first hexathlon weekend!
Just as all players have suggested and desired hexathlon, Players were too cautious of the EXP inflation and for that reason I have decided to restrict the hexathlon timing to very much shorter (15 minutes). Once started hexathlon, You can take as long you want to finish the hexathlon, But it is only during the first fifteen minutes that you are allowed...
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Rules:
Players must collect all cards and exchange GM for rewards
To qualify a word reward, must have every letter card present
There is no restrictions to how many times you can trade
There is no restrictions as in how you obtain the letter card
PLAY: 5x Heaven Berry
PARTY: 10x Party EXP Fruit
EVAN: 1x Evanescence Chest Class Choice
ENIGMA: 1x Enigma Chest Class Choice
To exchange your letters for your choice of rewards please go to argent fountain and state preferred choice/reward to GM before trading the alphabets cards for your reward! The event will be ongoing until August 7th, The event concludes at 12PM at EST time zone.
Good Luck!
Hi, I just wanted to quickly inform everyone that the connectivity issues at PKONLINE is our highest priority. I know it may seem the developers are not doing much at this point because at this point we are legitimately out of choices. Instead of relying on some software or hardware improvements, We need to reconsider our networking topography. Unlike software or hardware which is completely at our discretion, Networking is hardly at our segment. In networking you deal with hundreds of device before our packets arrive your computer from our servers, And multiple owners between those hundred devices.
What I'm trying to say is that it's not simple as applying a patch to fix everything, It's very much complicated and we must account for...