I have noticed over the last few months that the Old Frontier maps slowly started popping in. First with Hibernia back in May i found that one day HIbernia had the old Frontier maps on the map board, But mid or Alb didnt. Then can August and i messing around on Mid and then i Noticed that Mid had Old frontier maps but alb still didnt. and then A few weeks ago Alb got the Old frontier maps.


So now all 3 realms have Old frontier maps. Mythic is planning somthing i tell you.


What do you think?

I'm guessing they are going to get it done then just sit on it until pop becomes unsustainable then at that point release it for another jolt in income

 

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they've been there for a while. About a year ago you could get yourself into OF by running with speed 5, cutting the corner where the guard is, and jumping down to the other side of the border keep. And as you ran out there, and put your map on 'follow' it would change zones accordingly and give you the OF maps. Of course you couldn't select one of the maps from the dropdown menu, but apparently the files exist somewhere on your client, unless they removed them..

 

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The map files have always been in the game folders if you looked for them. However, if you got into OF (it's possible), Breifine, Jamtland and Pennine did not exist. There was a blank space where they should be, and an invisible wall keeping you from trying to enter them. However, they now exist, and you can go running around in them. However, when I tried to enter Marfach, it ported my enchanter back to DL, and my shaman back to Svasud (I play Gaheris, so this sort of running around was entirely acceptable).

 

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Actually, I, not that long ago ( a month or so ), "accidentally" ended up on the OF side of SF. All the zones are now there. Was a good bit of nostalgia to run around the whole zone. Running up that big long hill to get to Bled ... the hill of death that was. The big valley where all the interior keeps are, the huge hills in Uppland, the forrested zone walls in Yggdra, its all there.


Unfortunately you can't get in Dodens, but you can get in the relic keeps and if you your realm has access to DF the portal there will take you in.


It may not be as practical as NF but it sure wins on beauty.

 

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I really do miss those old frontier dungeons.

 

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yeah me too...


I know the OF trick and I noticed the same thing with the jamtland zone being cut off. I suicided on PK guards in OG and thought to myself "wow these guards haven't seen action in a long time!" hahah I remember those times you would push back the enemy force to their PK after a lot of fighting and just storm it! The glacier Giant out there looked so bored he was pacing back and forth with a bunch of nymph mobs...that is old school!

Heh heh I loved the times you could get into the enemy realm's pve zones waaaaay back I did it once on my armsman and got into hibernia.

OF was Epic it really was that is what got me into this game so much I would really love to see an event or activate it for a week or something for fun.

 

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Using the OF maps and all the BG maps that few people go to are some of the things Mythic could do to throw a bit of spice back into the game. The maps are already there, how much would it cost to use them once in a while?

I didn't think they were ever not there. Just before ywain's creation I did a survey of my toa chars and found that I had a low level in caeldonia the old bg. When I tried to log him in, it ported me to old Forrest Sauvage. I ran around and it seemed to be entirely intact. Keeps, realm guards, I think there were even mobs, although I'm not 100% sure about that.

Basically they just removed the ways to get to them, and never the zones themselves.

 

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Exactly. If you went digging through your map files, the files, zones and maps were all still there. You just couldn't get to them. However, for a long time, Breifine, Jamtland and Pennine were disabled, so you could use Cruachan/Collory, Sauvage/Snowdonia, and Yggdra/Uppland. That's now changed, and you can get into Breifine/Emain etc again. You can't zone into Marfach/Corrupt/Doden's however.

 

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