TwifySoft are proud to finally be able to present a new server.

Let us introduce to you - ShadowCores.

ShadowCores could be referred to as a new and improved version of our much loved server SoftCores. As you might understand, we have decided to shut down SoftCores, as we feel that it no longer has the amount of players that is needed for it's survival. But do not grief! ShadowCores will be everything that SoftCores ever was, and so much more.

ShadowCores will be starting this Friday, May 11th, at 22:00 CEST, but you can join us before that! Registration has already been opened, so head over to our website: shadowcores.twifysoft.net and create your account! You wouldn't want anyone to steal your desired nickname, would you?

Remember, a great server is only great, it's the players who makes it awesome. So bring your friends, create a character, and get ready. Because on Friday, The Game is on.

Kind regards,
The TwifySoft Team

It's been a while since we announced that we are working on a new server and as promised, we would notify you as we got closer and we can now finally say that we are at that point.

The past weeks we have been busy starting up TwifySoft as a business in Sweden, it's our first time trying to run a business and it's not as easy as one might think to get started. We registered TwifySoft as a business because it makes things easier for us and shows that we're serious about what we're doing. We're not just starting up the server to close it the next month. This also means that we're changing donations into purchases but it doesn't change the payment process, and we will still be using money to improve the servers to provide you with the best OpenTibia experience.

So what's new? What have we been working on? What can you expect to see?

• Game protocol 9.52 9.53
• Market system
• Added Northern Zao and Razachai
• Added revamped areas, Colossus Fortress, Hellgate and Drefia
• Killing in the name of quest with a lot of bosses
• Isle of Evil, with the quest missions
  
• Buying rings from NPC's with charges will now give the full charges and not just 1
• It is now possible to buy blank runes, and sell spellwands to magic shopkeepers
• Fixed missing scripts for NPC Pompan and Rabaz in Farmine
• Revised guild war system (more information about this will be available later)
• Fixed a lot of random map bugs
• Ornamented shield quest
• Ghoul room quest
• Hunting in a party with share experience will grant a large experience bonus.
• Desert panpipes quest (it also gives you a power ring which is useful if you're planning on doing bright sword quest, as this area is one of the closer ones to that quest)
• Fixed many broken areas in Beregar Mines and added spawns
• Completing quest chains will grant players a lot of experience
• Corrected many item attributes
• A completely new website for the new server

What have we done to make it fun and easy to play? First, we created characters of each vocation and tried playing them to Level 50, wrote down what was boring, at what points a certain vocation required better items and how they would get gold for equipment and runes. Our conclusion were that the following changes had to be made:

• Added a Djinn shopkeeper in Thais that will buy valuable items (it will be more beneficial to make the quest though, you will be able to sell your items at a better price there, but we're no longer forcing players through that long quest!)
• Players will receive a sum of crystal coins at certain levels to help them buy equipment, runes, promotion or perhaps a house.
• Players will receive items at certain levels, depending on vocation (only up to Level 50).

We appreciate your patience, but sometimes it's difficult for us to find time as we're still living our normal lives - meaning that we work and go to school which takes a large amount of our time as well. We're working on this as a hobby, because we feel that it's fun and we hope you will enjoy playing on our server just as much as we enjoy working on it. We have set a release date and we plan on announcing it soon. Hang in there!

Kind regards,
The TwifySoft team

We have been getting a lot of questions on whether or not there will be more updates for our servers. It has been a while since the last update and that is uppermost because of unfortunate events that has prevented us from using our time to work on the servers. Now we are back on track and we have begun developing the servers actively again. This also means that we are going to start a new server, and we have decided to make it much like SoftCores since it was our most loved server through time. Right now it is unclear whether SoftCores will be replaced by this server or not, it all depends on how many players the server has when we are getting closer to the launch of the new one. The update will of course also be applied to IceChaw.

We believe that this new server is going to be even better than SoftCores has ever been, since we have learned from our old mistakes. For instance, we have developed a deeper understanding for the community and we understand that there will always be botters. Instead of fighting the community, we will try to promote team-hunting and questing to make it more fun and profitable than botting.

So, by this I am confirming that an update is coming, but we are not quite ready to tell you when. You will all be notified when we are getting closer to the launch date. There is no need to ask us when, since we won't be able to answer until we are almost done. These servers are something that we are working with on our free-time and we do it because we believe that it is fun. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and we hope to see both old and new players on the new server.

Yours,
The TwifySoft team through Hani

The servers are finally updated protocol 8.7, this update includes the following changes:

• Spell cooldowns with groups (old cooldowns are still being used with few adjustments).
• Mounts (until taming is possible, you will be able to use all mounts!).
• All reported protection zone bugs are fixed.
• Added a missing outfit.
• Misc. bug fixes.

If you are unable to connect with the 8.7 client, download a newer version of the IP Changer and try again! I hope to be able to deliver updates more frequently now after the long period without updates due to lack of time. Inactive players are advised to login as soon as possible to prevent losing their character due to inactivity, if you have friends that used to play you should notify them that they risk losing their character if they don't login in the next few days.

Report bugs in this thread on the forum: http://otland.net/f361/bug-reports-14485/.

Happy new year!

Kind regards,
Talaturen.