Banned from Mythos!

I am fully disappointed with the way the Frogster/Hanbit teams handle accounts.

Today I attempted to visit the forum, only to receive a message stating my account  has been banned. There was no explanation, so I started talking to my friends, and I think I have it figured out.

I share my wireless network with a handful of neighbors, and I got a few of them playing Mythos. One of them recently started posting on the forum as MrLo, and alternate account. He put up two threads: one detailing the early release client's stack duping glitch, and another showing screenshots of his extensive skill gem collection, which was made possible by duping Magical Runestone Crests. Both of these threads have now been deleted, and he is also banned. It seems Frogster doesn't want the community to know about glitches they knowingly released into the game, or about content that exists in the game and is meant to be used!


I tried to think of why I got banned along with him (he was an admitted cheater in one of his threads). Besides myself, MrLo is the only one out of the six people sharing my router's IP who got banned, so they didn't do a full IP ban or even a comprehensive check in that area. The only other thing we have in common is that I also posted in both of his threads. I have information about both of the topics, so I was able to share this information. I believe they assumed myself (WhiteBoy88) and MrLo are the same person, using two accounts. I also find this very insulting, if it's true. As an experienced vBulletin forum admin, I know that you can look up a user's registration IP, as well as every IP he's posted from. I would not be dumb enough to use the same IP on different accounts. It's far too easy to use a proxy. Obviously, everyone who uses my wireless router all have the same external IP: my cable modem's.

I reported the stack-duping glitch to Arkathos, so I obviously know about it, how it works, and when it was patched. I did not exploit the glitch, and there is no reason I should be banned for it.

I  have a few skill gems, but I'm not the only person who does, so that shouldn't cause a ban. I made mine legitimately, from long hours spent farming. Myself and a few other players put a lot of effort into discovering the secrets of skill gems, only to see that MrLo had duped up enough crests to make almost every gem in the game. I was very surprised and proud when I found out I had one of the few gems the cheater didn't have. I won't mention the names of those I worked with to make the gems, out of fear they will be banned as well. We spent a lot of time farming powders, pieces, and crests to upgrade. We also spent our gold buying them from other players. I had the intention of using the information we gathered to share the knowledge with the community (people might have noticed that I do this... a lot).

I've talked to MrLo, who also expressed astonishment that I was banned. He knew it could happen to his main account, hence the use of  the MrLo alt. What he apparently didn't foresee happening was the assumption that I was his main account. His main didn't even get banned, and it's loaded with duped items and gold!

So, Frogster and Hanbit... I'm disappointed, and will no longer be attempting to play Mythos Europe unless my account ban is lifted. This isn't just a ban against me, but a ban against the spread of information. I was one of the most helpful people on the English forum. I spent hours of my personal time helping others (take my achievement list as an example). I was in the process of creating a fan wiki and data center, containing information that is constantly requested on the forum.

I'm sure I can find another free game to play...

What Does the Community Want?

This was recently reposted from the original Hellgate: London forum to the new forum, and it did a great job of capturing the community's requests to the developers back in the Flagship days. While reading it, I realized that everything in that post applies to our very own Mythos Europe community. I'll post the original with strike-outs in areas I've changed to Mythos terminology. Have a read, and hopefully a few laughs.

"If my ideas were implemented, HG:L Mythos would be perfect.


I want HG:L Mythos to be just like Diablo 2. Right now, it’s too different from Diablo 2. Why would I want play HG:L Mythos if it’s different from D2? Then I would just play D2 instead.

WoW sucks. But HG:L Mythos should implement all the cool stuff WoW has. Raiding sucks in WoW. That’s why I left WoW. But HG:L Mythos should have raiding like WoW. HG:L Mythos should be more like WoW, but without being like WoW. ‘Cause WoW sucks.

I want the whole game to be solo-able. But I want raiding. Don’t scale raid content, that’s stupid, it should be impossible to solo, otherwise it’s not raid content. But I want to be able to solo it.

HG:L Mythos is too easy. But NM is too hard, it’s broke. Fix it.

I can’t find any rare drops. Well, not a lot, anyway. At least not the best items in game. Increase the rare drops so I can find the best items easy, but not so much so everyone else does. That would be stupid.

HG:L Mythos has no endgame except killing the same boss over and over for loot. At least in Diablo2 and WoW, I could kill the same bosses over and over for loot in the endgame. HG:L Mythos should do the same thing.

FSS Hanbit/Frogster should stop wasting time changing the marksman gadgeteer skills – it’s fine! They should be spending time on stuff like removing the heels from female character’s boots and making zombie children changing the xp curve and adding level requirements on items.

Oh, and the marksman bloodletter is boring to play, just push one button. Fix the skills so there’s more variety. In fact, change all the class skills. There’s no variety, each one has one build that’s better than the rest. Make it so different builds are viable. Oh, and there should be better skill descriptions, too. I want to know before hand which skills are the best so I can make that build right away and pwn! I don’t want to waste my time experimenting with different builds, just tell me which one is best.

I want more content! But I don’t want to pay a subscription to get it. Even if it’s not made yet, it should have been included with the game. Anyway, subscription content sucks and is a rip off. All it is are new areas, new bosses, new items. Instead, I want content that gives me new areas, new bosses, new items.

And if you are going to do sub only items, don’t make them better than non-sub items. That would be imbalanced. If you are going to do sub only areas and bosses, make it so non-subs can play it too. Then it would be fair.

But if you want me to subscribe, make it worth it. Give me items that non-subs can’t get. And maps and bosses, content non-subs can’t play. And the items have to be better than non-sub items, otherwise it’s not worth it.

Quests are boring. All you do is kill ‘x’, collect ‘y’ and escort ‘z’. I want quests like in WoW where you can escort ‘a’, collect ‘b’, and kill ‘c’.

The story is boring and sucks. There should be a much better story. And better cut scenes. I want a long, engaging story where everything I do matters. Oh, and I need a button so I can skip all the npc text, story, and cut scenes. It gets in the way when I’m trying to level fast.

Speaking of which, leveling takes too long. I want power leveling. I want level 50 right away. That way I can do end game stuff – but it better not be just boss farming for loot! If I wanted that, I could just play D2 and WoW."

"Two Hours of Power" XP Event

Monday, 23 May, starts a one-week XP event. This is another chance for those stuck in the 17-40's grind to get an extra boost. All monster XP will be boosted 30%, but only for two hours each day. For those of us in American Central Standard Time, it's from 10:00am - noon.

Also, the Community Managers will be holding a special runegate event, for which participants will be given a 15% XP potion that lasts for fifteen days. This event is only one day per server, for the same two-hour period. The English gets its day Wednesday, the 25th. Arkathos will be in-game to run the event.

Check the official announcement (including times for all servers) here.

Achievement List

Looking for achievements to max your build's potential, or just want to see what's out there?
Head on over to my post on the forum and browse the 300+ achievements I've listed.

Please share any verified achievements (from this client version) that I'm missing, so it can be updated. At first post, I'm missing all of the PvP's, most of the Summons and Used Items, and more.

Crafting Material Info

I've compiled a spreadsheet of every crafting material I've encountered. I'm looking for help from the community to finish filling in the holes (although I'm sure it's almost complete).

Each of the three crafting disciplines has a tab for the materials it can refine. I've included known recipes for refined materials as tool-tip comments when you hover over them. Has anyone found any of these recipes not available from vendors?

Planned addition: drop table info (locations, level ranges) and skill gem recipes.

Updated with Lucid Phantasm

* As per my usual doc-sharing wishes, I encourage you to save the doc for personal use, and spread it across the web. Please give me credit for my work by linking back to this blog as the source.

Double XP Weekend

Get on and start killing; you'll earn double experience for quests and kills all weekend. Going from level 32 to 36 in 2 hours was fun, and I hope to be 50 by the end of tomorrow!

Hopefully Blogger doesn't go down again, so I can actually post more often  :/

Client Update!

I haven't posted for a while because... Well, I've been playing too much, to be honest.

A new update is out, consisting mostly of localization fixes with a few bug fixes thrown in. Find the patch notes here.

A lot more text now fits into areas like it should, although they cheated some with abbreviations. Most notable are the guild window (great results) and auction house.

Players who bought the box version probably noticed the advertised 3 extra inventory bags were actually just 1. Players who redeem their code now will receive the proper 3 bags for 7 days, while those who have already redeemed will receive a new code via email, which will give them 2 bags for 7 days.

There are also some unmentioned fixes, which will have a great impact on the game's economy. Just be satisfied in knowing your items will have reasonable value now!