Talk:Knight Online

Needs to be cleaned up
Is it just me or do half of the letters on the class descriptions not even english,and why does it say that the warriors defense=suks?I can't even read the rogues description,this needs to be improved.I changed a few things to the article,nothing big,just a few errors,im assuming those letters on the class section are in turkish,since this is an english article it would be great if someone translated it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.235.184.195 (talk) 16:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

New Server
I honestly think that they should make a turkish server so that the games not so crowded in other servers because most of the people in the game are Turkish.In Turkey almost every kid between 9-15 who posesses a computer plays the crap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.228.216.196 (talk) 12:00, 27 July 2008

a good game
a good game Hi I really like the game. Knight Online is a fully 3D dowloadable MMORPG with a vast world to explore, and a chaotic realm to explore. The Free-To-Play version of Knight Online gives players the opportunity to purchase unavailable in-game scrolls which will greatly help the players in their clan war, player versus player, hunting and levelling up by boosting the players characters in many ways. The scrolls are able to increase attack power, boosting defence rating, increasing maximum hit points etc. The grafics aren't so good but i liked the easy gameplay and the caracteristic of the game has good hints about monsters and its locations. And there is only a thing i dont like the bugs and dificulty to find items for mage and warrior at begin levels.But i give 4 stars. By the way,I believe that many guys will be tired of getting gold by killing monsters, and me too although I love this game very much. So I have to look for some good sites to buy gold. Luckily, I have found one--gkplayer dot com which I think is not a scaming site at least. their service and price are reasonale too.I trust it and I am often buy gold from the site. I think maybe you guys can have a try. It does no bad, I think.Currently they have a 5% free point promotion. After you have tried, you may agree with me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssapple01 (talk • contribs) 20:33, 13 June 2009

Sorry, but the game is overrun by bots and hackers. Sure, go buy gold from an online site; all you are doing is giving botters and hackers incentive to keep cheating. Mgames and K2 do very little to get the cheating under control, yet routinely have promotions in the power up store (PUS) to lure you into spending real cash. It is suspected by legitimate players that Mgames and/or K2 are behind the cheat programs, hence the lack of security in-game. Besides the enormous amount of cheating, more and more accounts are being hacked; people attempt to log on, only to find out their info has been changed, or they get to log in to find out all their items are gone. They make minor changes which I consider "window dressing" - a change in the pointer, more items in the PUS, etc., but fail to address all the bugs and hacks that are rampant in the game. Since the Forgotten Frontiers update, clan listings have been bugged, some areas disabled, a new security program promised but never delivered; recently, changes to quests have resulted in bugged quests (cannot complete quest, and some you cannot even obtain). Opinion: Don't Waste Your Time On This Game! If you don't pay real money to purchase premium and PUS items, you most likely will not be able to log the main servers to participate in events. Additionally, attempts to complete some quests will leave you frustated due to the botters and hackers that deny you the kills needed (try hunting 50, 200 monsters only to have a macroer 1 hit everything in site!). Go play WoW or Guild Wars; at least they are proactive in keeping cheating at minimum levels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matron58 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

BBB
BBB reports seldom work as they are not actually monitored except in instances of mass reports. Even when a report is finally acknowledged, The responses made by KOL will be fully fabricated. the following is an actual copy of such a report that went the whole course of filing:

Better Business Bureau • For Consumers • For Businesses • For Charities and Donors • About Us • News Center

Better Business Bureau Start With Trust Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties of Southern California Complaint Details

K2 Network 14252 Culver Drive, Suite A-355 Irvine, CA 92604 Contact: Guthrie, Justin Phone: (949) 870-3100

Info here about me was removed because it’s nobodys business

We have closed our file and we appreciate your using the Better Business Bureau. This complaint will remain in our file on this company and will be a part of the report we issue to the public.

If we can assist you in the future, please contact us.

Thank you.

Complaint ID: 98420216 Complaint Classification: Complaint Description - Posted 6/10/2009 10:48:55 AM For at least 4 weeks there have been many attempts to receive compliance from K2 networks/Knight online in regards to advertisements on their Official Log out Page in Non US zones. These advertisements link and share source IPs with various websites that sell Illegal virtual Items, characters, ingame money, and cheat programs for Real money. All the things listed above are in direct violation of the Terms of service agreement that all players MUST agree to upon registration for an account. Compliance has been met with denial, misdirection, and avoidance.

Complaint Summary Failure to remove advertisments that are in direct violation of their own terms of service

Resolution Sought Comply with consumer demand to remove any affiliation with services and websites that in any way violate their own TOS.

Additional Information Date Problem First Occurred: 4/13/2009 Product or Service: provider for online MMO games. Model Name or Number: Date Purchased: Order Number: Amount In Dispute: $0.00

Company's Response Company's Initial Response - Posted 07/21/2009 Hi Rick. Thanks for your attention to this matter. The "exit" page of Knight Online is a place where we do sell ad space to trusted partners. However, what we experienced was that these partners would suddenly change their ads (by swapping out content from the URLs on their end) to point to services we do not agree with, and are against the Terms of Use. Once we discovered our advertising customers were doing this, we immediately severed the ties between them and ensure all advertisements are checked regularly to ensure this doesn't happen again. Initial Response Summary Explained our temporary issue with the ad space being sold on Knight Online's exist page.

Consumer's Rebuttal Consumer's Rebuttal - Posted 07/23/2009 Multiple sources from the KOL Turkish IP player base have informed me that the ads that link to sites that sell illegal items, characters, ingame currency, and cheat programs are still on the official KOL non US exit page. I am offering a recommendation that advertisments be removed all together to keep a consistancy with the US KOL exit page. And allow only a link that directs to the official KOL site. This act would eliminate much of the confusion by players who do not speak english as a primary language from thinking that these things that are in violation of the KOL TOS are legal since they are represented on an official game page. There are still many honest players that continue to be disheartened by the minimalistic actions presented toward the problem of cheating, that has continued to grow at an alarming rate within the structure of KOL.

Company's Final Response Company's Final Response - Posted 07/24/2009 Hi Rick. I just spoke with our marketing department and have confirmed that we are very selective about what banners are displayed there. Beyond that, we have internal Turkish-speaking resources that are continually checking the sites linked from these banners to ensure no ToS-breaking items are present (such as gold selling, power leveling, or hack tool sales).

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• Trademarks • Terms of Use © Copyright 2009 The Better Business Bureau of the Southland, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

As of today, despite statements made by K2 representatives, the illegal sites are still being advertised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.157.165.152 (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Seems biased
I read most of this page, and i believe that it was written by someone who works for Knight Online. The broken english here seems to be very similar to all the broken english in the game. Also, its constantly praising the game, which is ridiculous. It's one of the worst games i've ever played. Their website barely works, game constantly glitches, is rarely updated, servers are down a lot, and its very bland and boring. They also make you pay to have at least an okay character. Leveling up without one of their paid packages is hard and incredibly repetitive. I think this page should be deleted... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oxi1337 (talk • contribs) 07:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Update the game requirements with the real ones, added actual game situation
The information about game requirements on kol official site are all wrong. The game don't even run on a pc with the minumum game requirements on kol official site (good luck making this game run under windows 98/me as it say on the official page). I update with the real game requirements that are enough to make the game run and you can actually play it (i doubt someone can play a game with under 15 fps). I added a couple of information about the game situation. This is more for new players to know what problems they will have there. Better say how they will not enjoy at all cause the vast majority of kol players are cheaters. Not to mention that several times legit player end up banned due to game bugs (apr.sys autobanning legit players, the fail antiwall hack system sending legit player in jail and funny the cheaters that passed the same coordinates were not send to jail...). Lack of customer support, it just fails to answer in the timeframe they say they will answer and if you actually get an answer that answer seams not to be connected with the problem you had. forgot to sign lol.Thedukesd (talk) 08:44, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Unless you can back any of this up with a reliable source, none of this info belongs in the article. Eik Corell (talk) 10:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok. I will come with some reliable sources. I will back it up with what someone from KOL staff is saying. Also some movies with some cheaters in action. Also proofs that legit players are banned, they received an answer, then customer support provide them another answer and still fails to answer what character was observed cheating, at what hour. I will even post screenshot showing how you can ask something at customer support and they answer something that has nothing to do with what was asked. Thedukesd (talk) 18:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * None of the above counts as a reliable source...  Nik the stoned  08:26, 10 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Whatever, you can keep the wrong and misleading information from reliable sources in this article and in several other wiki articles. Wiki is not considered a source of reliable information anyway, and it's not me saying this, just try to use wiki to back up your affirmations and see what happens. Thedukesd (talk) 20:49, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Several attempts to add inappropriate external links

 * Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2014

Hello, Knight in the online page 'Knight Online Europe Official site for routing link: please give authority to http://www.knightonlinepvp.eu regulation. Thank you.

Euknight (talk) 20:51, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 21:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The user wants to add the url they mentioned above. The reason the article is semi-protected is because they've been spamming the article with it for over a year. Eik Corell (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2014

Orginal europe web site : http://www.knightonlinepvp.eu friends.

External links ADD : Knight Online Europe

Euknight (talk) 13:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ per the above section. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 14:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2014

Orginal Knight online europe server I want you to add text. ADD :
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: same request as above Cannolis (talk) 20:32, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Knight online Europe  http://www.knightonlinepvp.eu 
 * External link

Thank you.

Koray461 (talk) 19:35, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Arrangements for the real game information dated 13/12/2014 - Knight online Computing department

Please make arrangements for the real game information. Edited page is below. Thank you.

Knight Online is an MMORPG developed by MGame Corporation.

The original game is hosted by MGame in Korea, and requires players to enter their Korean resident registration numbers to register. There are three other official versions: Knight Online Xross (usually called "JPKO") is hosted in Japan, while Knight Online World (usually called "USKO") is hosted in the United States, and Knight Online Europe (usually called "EUKO"). All of these versions accept registration from any location.

Knight Online is officially free-to-play (although to connect to the utmost of the servers during prime time, paid premium is required), but there are some features that must be paid for. In addition, there is an in-game Powerup Shop or Store which contains various items that one can purchase such as premium packages. Paid services include exclusive items and Premiums which are a limited-time subscription providing many benefits.

Gameplay
The player controls a virtual character. After connecting to a server for the first time, players must take sides, choosing either El Morad or Karus. The two nations are equivalent but have different appearance. Once the nation is decided, it's a difficult and expensive process to switch nations. To create a character, the player must choose (depending on the nation) a race, from Barbarian, male/female El Moradian, and the four Tuarek races that inhabit Karus. Following that, a class must be selected for the character along with a few appearance options. Finally the character is named and given its first 10 Stat Points.

The newly created character starts out in Moradon, a neutral trade city where El Morad and Karus live in peace. The player may acquire a virtual helper (named Seed or Max) by rescuing him from the clutches of an earthworm. The helper will then give the player information about the game and also allows them to change the options.

To advance in the game, the player must collect experience points to gain levels and items that boost the stats of the character. The monsters that inhabit the game world can be attacked using melee attacks or skills. Once a monster is killed, the killing player gains experience points and the monster leaves behind a loot box which may contain Noahs (in-game currency) and other items. The drop box is only accessible to the player or party that did the most damage to the monster. However, in case of kill stealing, the experience is divided according to the amount of damage done.

There are many quests in the game. These may require the player to kill a certain amount of a monster or to collect certain items (quest items). The squire will warn the player about any quests that may be completed at the current level. Quests are given out by certain NPCs who are usually found in towns. The reward for the quests may include experience, Noahs, weapons and armor, or even the ability to use certain skills. Players are encouraged to be patient with collection of the reward because as they level up it becomes more difficult to accumulate experience.

Players lose experience if they die from a monster. The amount lost depends on the character's level and it's also possible to lose a level upon losing experience. However, a death that results in a loss of a level will not allow the player to complete quests of the lower level.

When leveling up, the players gain stat points which can be distributed into Strength, Health, Dexterity, Intelligence and Magic Power stats. Levels 2~60 will give the player 3 stat points, while level 61 and beyond will give 5. Starting at level 10, two Skill Points are also awarded for each level. Characters may undergo the first job change at level 10 and the second job change at level 60. The job changes unlock new skills for the character, depending on its class.

Most items can be traded between players. The game's merchant feature allows the player to set up a kiosk to sell or buy items for Noahs. If a player has enough Noahs or the item sought for, he can enter the kiosk and perform the exchange. The transaction is done automatically, so the merchant doesn't have to be at the computer when the item is sold or bought. Bartering is also permissible using the trading option. This allows two players to exchange multiple items and/or Noahs between each other. Since a player can't hold more than 2.1 billion Noahs, players often exchange several items for a very valuable item. Each server has specific economies and equilibrium point for most valuable items.

Jobs (character classes)
Each character belongs to one of the two nations of the game: El Morad (humans) or Karus (orcs, although the game calls them "Tuareks").

Knight Online has four character classes available for both nations: Warrior, Rogue, Mage, and Priest. Each class has a basic skill set, three main skill sets (after 1st job change), and one master skill set (after 2nd job change).

Parties
As in most MMORPGs, Knight Online enables players to group together and complete objectives. Parties in Knight Online range between having two to eight players. The characters must be in a certain level range of the party leader in order to be in the same party. (However, a clan member may invite any other clan member regardless of level difference.) Party-members gain experience in accordance to their level. Knight Online encourages parties, since parties can collectively complete monster-killing quests.

In general, players receive experience from monsters in accordance to their contribution of level within a party, e.g. in a party of a level 35 character and a level 45 character, the level 45 character will receive significantly more experience than the level 35 character per kill of a monster. The level 35 character will receive less experience than they might by killing the monster by themselves, and the level 45 character will get more experience than if he killed the monster by himself (nevertheless, the level 45 character will most likely receive more experience in general because the level 45 character will likely kill monsters much faster than the level 35 character could by themselves).

Noahs are split fairly evenly among players, and the total number of Noahs a monster drops, is to some extent determined by the number of party members killing the monster. If the player doing the most damage to the monster is no longer eligible to receive Noahs from a monster (because their level is higher than a certain threshold) then no Noahs are dropped by the monster. For instance, a level 55 character will no longer receive Noah drops by killing "Lycan s" (a level 35 monster) so if that character does the majority of damage to the Lycan in a party, the party members will not receive any coin drop (if a level 20 character does most of the damage then Noahs will be distributed once clicked on).

Items are distributed in rotation among players, e.g. if a "crystal" is picked up by any member of the party then whose ever turn it is to receive the item will get it. This results in party members deliberately picking up unnecessary or cheap items during other party member's turns to pick up, or in some cases, players leaving the party while the treasure chest is open, and taking the item while not in the party if it is particularly valuable.

Captains and bosses
Many groups of monsters have particularly large and powerful monsters, which spawn less often than the others in the same group, these are Captains or leaders. By accessing the map (pressing M), spawn points of Captains may be located. Captains often drop leader accessories, which are a form of beginner friendly gear, or even somewhat valuable objects.

Differing from Captains are bosses, these extremely rare creatures spawn extremely infrequently (around every 12 hours). Bosses may drop unique items endemic to their species of monsters, or other extremely valuable items.

Servers and worlds
The game is hosted on a couple of servers in each version. Servers are grouped into worlds. No characters or items may be transferred across worlds, but a character created in a world is available on all servers of the world.

A player may create up to 4 characters per world on the same account. These characters have a common "bank" which can be used for storing items and Noahs.

The Korean and Japanese version of the game have only one server per world, while the Knight Online World version has 2 servers, which take the name of the world suffixed by the number 1 or 2 (for example, the world Ares has 2 servers: Ares1 and Ares2). In this version, some zones and events including War, Delos, the Abyss, and Ardream can only be accessed from server one in each world, which typically has the most users logged in at any given time.

The Carnac-West server (Knight Online World) allows players from North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and a few other countries to have an isolated access to this server. By preventing players with IPs from other countries, the server population of Carnac-West was greatly reduced, drastically eliminating the login issues for players of the permitted geographic regions.

PvP
Knight Online allows players to fight against each other in various zones. Some of these provide no rewards or risks, while in others players gain National Points and Leader Points (also called Ladder Points) for killing enemies, but the defeated player loses some of these points. When killing in solo, 50 NP is awarded for killing, but when in a party, the points gained are distributed among the party members (still, the total amount of points gained is higher with more players in the party). Dying results in the loss of 50 NP. Leader point gains and losses depend on whether the involved players have a Leader or National ranking. Additionally, 50% of the defeated player's coins is transferred to the victor, although losing coins can be prevented by placing the coins into the bank.

The 50 players with the most National Points and the 200 players with the most leader points of each nation are ranked and are eligible for a "knight stipend", a small cash bonus. Leader points are reset to zero each month.

Other than arenas, players can only attack others from the opposing nation.

Knight Online PvP is notable for requiring a lot of skill in addition to good items. There are possibilities for doing combos, and quick reflexes for using healing items or skills is also important.

The game has the following PvP areas:
 * Arenas are battlefields where players may battle each other without risking National Points. There are arenas for free-for-all combat, fights between parties or clans. Arenas are a good place to practice one's PvP skills.
 * Abyss Dungeon, Krowaz's Dominion and the clan promotion quest areas are locations where fighting among players is not the main purpose, but nevertheless enabled. There are no rewards and losses for fighting in these zones.
 * Ardream, Ronark Land Base and Ronark Land are open battle zones. National and Leader points are awarded. These are considered the primary PvP locations in the game.
 * There are certain events where players can battle each other, such as wars and Juraid Mountain. These events are scheduled and a limited number of players can enter.

Items
There are many types of items in the game, such as weapons, armor, accessories, quest items and consumable items. There are also materials for crafting items.

Armor classes
A character can wear 5 pieces of armor: helmet, pauldron, pads, boots and gauntlets. Each piece of armor is specialized for a class, and only characters of that class may wear it. Armors come in different tiers, a higher tier armor granting more defense ability than a lower tier one, while requiring more stat points to wear. Character builds exist for most tiers of armor, as the stat requirements determine which weapons can be used and whether an offensive or supporting role fits the character.

There are 6 basic tiers of armor: basic ("Paper", sacrifices defense for attack), half-plate, plate, full-plate/crystal, chitin/crimson and chitin shell/complete. (The name after the slash is used for mages only.) There are special set items which have the same properties as Tier 6 armor, but when multiple pieces are worn (i.e. a set of these armors), various bonuses will appear. Wearing 5 pieces of the "set" gives the greatest bonus. In the Forgotten Frontiers expansion, a manufacturing method for set armors was introduced. Set items may also be achieved through national ranking and from Knight Medals.

Weapons
A player can use a variety of weapons, not all weapons are for set classes. Any character can use almost any weapon, as long as they have the required stats. Using weapons that don't require class stats or skills is almost useless, as they do not confer any bonuses. The only exceptions for the most part are bows, which are only available to rogues.

The game also includes several unique weapons, which may drop from bosses or have a chance of dropping from reward items collected in certain events.

Crafting
Items labeled "Upgrade item" or "Unique item" can be upgraded by taking them to the Magic Anvil with the compatible scrolls. There is a chance that the item will be destroyed during the upgrade.

Rebirth system
Since the release of the Reign of the Fire Drake, a new system of upgrading was implemented. The Rebirth System gives players a new upgrading option when it comes to armor and weapons. This system of upgrading allows better probabilities when upgrading.

Manufacturing
The Forgotten Frontiers expansion introduced a new concept of manufacturing: by collecting materials from various locations and events, powerful weapons and armor may be created. There is a chance that the manufacturing won't succeed. Weapons produced this way are called Satanism (Cursed weapons in the English version), and can have various added effects when attacking, such as shrinking the enemy and making them weaker. Set armors are also manufactured using this method.

Zones
There are many maps in which players of Knight Online may find themselves in. Players usually travel between them using a set of Warp gates for a price. Some zones have a different way of entering, such as by talking to a NPC.

Events
Scheduled events happen on a regular basis for each server. These are one of the main focal points of Knight Online.

Gameplay updates
MGame releases updates for the game. The Korean version receives updates in every one or two weeks. The other versions only get major updates roughly once a year, called expansions. These include most of the updates from the Korean version. The following expansions apply to Knight Online World.

Knight Empire
In September 2005, a major update known as Knight Empire was released that changed a few maps, added new item upgrading systems, and introduced the King system into the game.

Reign of the Fire Drake
On August 3, 2006 a new expansion called The Reign of the Fire Drake was released. This update added the Bifrost, Nereidth Island, Ardream, Dragon Cave and Monster Suppression zones, many new quests, monsters, and bosses; changed the user interface, introduced the Post-Office system and Chaotic Generator, and increased the maximum level cap to 80.

Moradon: The Resurrection
Released in late 2007 as Moradon: The Resurrection. This expansion added a couple of new things to the starter city, Moradon. The map was totally modified, with a new city and large hunting areas. It also introduced the requirement of level 35 for leaving the map and level 30 for trading other players. This expansion included the ability to raise pets(with premium), acquiring the Accredited Knight and Royal Knight ranks, buying Medals for National Points and the Border Defense War and Juraid Mountain events.

Forgotten Frontiers
Released on 21 Oct 2008. This expansion raised the maximum level to 83, adding one or two skills for each class. A system for manufacturing weapons and armors was added. Ronark Land was modified to accommodate new monsters which drop materials for manufacturing. New zones introduced are Krowaz's Dominion, Ronark Land Base and the Oreads war map. Many new quests were added and existing ones were modified to become easier. A buying merchant mode was added (previously merchants could only be used for selling items) and the help request system also debuted in this version.

The Chaos
Released in Japan on 13 Aug 2009 and to Knight Online World on 10 Dec 2009.