.hack// The World R:2 Login
The World is the first massively multi-player online RPG since Pluto's Kiss. Developed for the ALTIMIT OS, The World had a lot of media hype, resulting in over 100,000 preorders being taken in November of 2007. The World was sold online for download, and in the first day alone it sold 4,576,623 copies.
The World was created by the genius programmer Harald Hoerwick under the name Fragment. Fragment was released as a limited beta approximately nine months prior to the release of The World. The beta was stopped early for unknown reasons and The World was released shortly afterwards.
The World's storyline is based off of the Epitaph of Twilight, an epic poem by the web author Emma Wielant. In the game the world has been under attack by monsters, which has forced the forces of good to retreat into fiercly defended cities and forts. Only adventurers (represented by the players) are allowed to penetrate the magical shields around these safe havens and battle with the monsters that lurk outside. These adventurers draw their power through their mastery of waves, symbols that are inscribed onto their bodies and equipment that allow them to channel the power of the elements into their bodies in the form of magical skills and abilities.
In 2015, a fire destroyed most of The World's game data, so CC Corp quickly began work on a replacement. By splicing together the remaining data from The World with another game they were working on, they created R:2. It was released on Christmas Eve, 2015. However, fans of The World disliked the change as they were unable to transfer their character data to The World R:2, and many referred to the launch as "Goddess's Death". Despite this fact, the game goes on to sell 12 million copies, though it still falls short of its predecessor's 20 million.
Character classes are a bit more ranged, now, than previously, and consist of the following:
Adept Rogue
Blade Brandier
Macabre Dancer
Edge Punisher
Flick Reaper
Harvest Cleric
Lord Partizan
Shadow Warlock
Steam Gunner
Tribal Warlock
Twin Blade
[for the purposes of this RP, and to remain as fair as possible character-wise, i will not be allowing any classes from prior installments of The World, nor will the Dual Gunner class from the dotHACK://GU series be playable. for more info on any class, simply click the above link corresponding to your class of interest.]
Basically, it's a dotHACK free-range RP, like the one I started years ago, except characters will not be transferrable from aforementioned RP.
Character Sheets will include, but are most certainly not limited to the following:
UserName:
Character Class:
Appearance:
Weaponry:
Server/Root Town: (see below notes)
There are no character levels. I have no way of fairly setting up a leveling system, and thus I cannot implement it into the RP.
The following is a list of Servers and their corresponding Root Towns in the following format SERVER//RootTown:
DELTA//MacAnu
THETA//DolDona
OMEGA//LuminaCloth
SIGMA//BregEpona
I'm eagerly awaiting all of your characters, so we can get this thing underway. I'll post mine in a little while.