Dear all players,
AGE OF OCEAN has made some adjustments in the upcoming version at 09:00 PM (PDT) June. 23, 2010. the details of the upgrading as follows:
【modification】：
1. About Navigator
a) Navigator’s Attributes are adjusted to make all of them function equally importantly as Prefect’s. The following is details:
Leadership: Increase Fleet’s Tonnage.
Naval Combat: Increase Fleet’s ATK points
Strength Recovery：Increase Fleet’s Defense Capability.
Command：increasing effect of the fleet's salvo and causing more damages.
Trade : Lowering the trading cost of fleets.
Sailing: Increasing the spaces of fleets.
Knowledge: Increasing the Exploring Capability.
Luck：Increasing the probability of discovering higher-quality items.
b) Navigator’s Growing Progress is modified: Players can manually distribute gained points to different attributes which used to be distributed automatically.
c) Navigator’s Level is related to Prefect’s: The Navigator’s Level is not allowed to be more than five (Five is OK) higher than Prefect’s. (For VIP players, this limitation can be maximized to 10)
d) According to the adjustments of navigator’s attributes, the interface of navigator is modified correspondingly. All players are able to check every single navigator’s fleets and make any Prefect’s command.
e) When you are about to hire new navigators at the bar, now you are allowed to check all detailed attributes of them after we added this new function.
f) The attributes of navigator’s equipment is modified corresponding to adjustment of Navigator’s attributes.
2. Quests.
a) The daily quest refreshing number is increased from five to ten, which means every player can accept 30 daily quests at most.
b) We have lowered part of difficulty of daily quests. The daily quests will be available when the prefect reaches lvl15.
c) Five new categories of daily quests are added which include, building ships, building defense facilities, remaining time, wild exploration and local exploration.
d) We also made some adjustments on some growth quests, meanwhile, a few new growth quests are added.
e) Due to those adjustments of Prefect and Navigator, several quests, which used to be designed for navigators, will be accomplished by Prefect.
f) All EXP after accomplishing quests will be all gained by Prefect.
3. Combat
a) The pirates’ port settings are adjusted, the ATK points of pirates are partly lowered.
4. Popularity and Hot Sale
a) The lasting time of Popularity is increased from four hours to eight, the corresponding refreshing schedule is 00:00AM, 8:00AM and 16:00PM every day.
b) Hot Sale refreshing schedule is changed from 11:59PM every two days to 11:59AM every two days.
c) After you inquire about hot sale and popular goods at the bar, you will be receiving one system mail indicating relevant information in case you forget the details in the future.
d) New marks with different colors are added on the world map as a notice to players where Popular Goods and Hot sale is available.
e) You can check whether there is popular goods or hot sale or not by clicking ports on the world map.
5. Rank
a) Fleet Rank and Honor Rank is deleted, and due to our adjustments on exploration system, the Discovery Rank is modified into Discovery Points Rank.
b) A new column of “Trend” is added at the very right of ranking page which shows players’ lately changing ranges.
c) The new default rank page will be the one where the player is located, which used to be the first page from the top.
6. Text Information
a) The maximum text limit of chatting channel is increased from 150 letters to 300 letters. The speaker channel remains the same.
b) The maximum text limit of guild’s announcement is increased from 100 letters to 400 letters.
7. Item
a) The limit of equipment tab is deleted, now players can purchase as many equipments as they need.
8. Daily quest
a) We have corrected the problem of inaccurate located areas of target ports in 2 daily quests of supporting.
b) we have updated the goal descriptions of 2 types of daily quests--Popular goods and Hot sales.
Clean up pirates/Plunder trade routes
a) When you fail in the clean up pirates and plunder trade routes, you will receive a system mail to remind you.
9. Title Settings
a) The whole scheme of title settings is changed. Your title will be promoted automatically after your honor reaches the requirements, players don't need to go to city hall to get promoted any more, meanwhile the remaining honor will be same rather than be erased as before.
b) Correspondingly, system will be sending out notice via both email and chat channel after your title promoted.
c) Due to this adjustment, the NPC of Title Envoy will be removed from the list at city hall.
10. Warehouse Transfer
a) Finance Officer is added in the warehouse, who is in charge of transferring players’ gold coins from one dock to another dock immediately.
b) Transfer function required to pay a certain amount of gold coins as a service charge.
11. Insurance
a) The insurance and compensation service towards fleets at the port bank will be deleted, thus the NPC of Insurance clerk will be removed from the list.
b) The VIP advantages of "insurance rate increased by 100%" will be removed from the list of VIP functions correspondingly, provided by the experts at the temple.