Zonticore
Squid Slayer
when i tried to find the original creators of TOP i dug up a lot of cool stuff from the old website so i will tell you what i know so far and hopefully someone can help me with what i dont know.
Ok so the game was originally called King of pirates and made by a Chinese company called MoLiyo i found a bunch of old promotional videos that have a lot of information in there videos you can see that there is another company cathyway digital entertainment next to MoLiyo in the opening im not sure what they did but i assume it was a joint project between two studios also in the videos you can see the Carsise was originally able to become a crusader aswell as a champion and in 003.wmv i saw a barrel and a fish in a barrel drop model that i have never seen in the current version since all these features were in the game in the past im hoping they are still in the game files somewhere and can be added back to give players something new.
there was originally going to be a sea egg, camp, and elf system that was never added i dont know what they were about
FunFact: iciclecity was originally called IcewolfFort - 冰狼堡 explaining all the wolves around icicle city argent was originally called SilverCity - 白银城 explaining all the npcs with silver in the name and Shiatan City was originally called City of Satay - 沙岚城
Here is the ZIP with all the files i found on the wayback machine
Some noteworthy pages i found on the wayback machine were:
ACTUALBACKSTORY!?!?!
WorldMap
KylinArmor
MainPage
WebsiteMall
PhantomThreeCities this is really cool some level 70+ dungeons, i would like to see this added
EventCalledJointBattleWithGM
OriginalMazeSystem Demonic world was originally called Cube world , and forsaken city was completely different
LevelingUnlocks level 15-20 talks about sea trade that would be taxed looks like a cool system a bunch of the things you can do as a newbie were supposed to be locked until these levels
OriginalProfessions according to this there crusader was originally called Double Swordsmen. there was a career called mariner i have no idea what it was. and there is Clergyman implying that there could be clerics that were men originally
AboutPageForNpc's
GemSystem
BoatsPage this talks more about that sea trading system i mentioned earlier
FairyMariage
i wasn't able to find any names or credits page...
- UPDATE01 -
I found an ABOUT page on the Mo Liyo Website in 2008
in this i found out that they made an engine called MindPower, and with it they made TOP, aswell as one other mmorpg.
They had around 800 employees and 20 different departments at this time in 2008, their operating games were Pirate King Online, Black Conspiracy Online, Tank King Online, and Curse Online.
I Found a Video on their site that was advertising the company and in the video i found THIS in it you can see that they used 3ds max 5 to model and animate thing a model that looks like a top model and when they export they exported to a "MindPower Coordinate Type" this may help some devs trying to add new models as well as some .lgo check boxes i dont know how to use 3ds max so someone else could tell you what it all means.
In the next couple frames there is an EffectEditor and a super cool MapEditor.
in about page 12 found HERE you can see that moliyo launched pko in multiple different countries with different companies.
In north america igg signed the deal in Febuary of 2007 also some game called Dragon Tiger Gate Online - 龙虎门online was signed off to IGG but i have never heard of it.
They made a game called Magic Festival with the MindPower Engine that was later renamed to Radiant Arcana and then to Runes of Magic published by GameForge and is playable today at HERE.
I found some of the names of people who worked at moliyo in 2008
Vice President of Business Development: Chen Jufeng
Market Business: Johnny huang
Game promotion: Mingyuan feng
Sales channel: Judy kang
Overseas authorized distribution: Michael chen
Head of PR Center: Cherry yin
- UPDATE02 -
Under the product operations tab in this PAGE i found that the development for top started in april 2004 and the beta test started 2005 there were 40 people who worked on tales of pirates the game is placed 5,000 years in the past, in the "Viking Age in Nordic mythology, magical time and space where technology and magic coexist" also in this page i found that there was originally going to be an island construction feature no more information was given
In 2008 the game got a small reboot and was re named to New Pirate King with a brand new website HERE
under the MazeInformation on this new site i find that forsaken city was originally called Waste spirit City the background for fc is found there too
New Pirate King was online in china until 2013. the 2012 build HERE may have some assets or something that other versions don't and might be worth checking out
- UPDATE03 -
I found this while doing some google research and it is a timeline of pirate kings history from 2005-2007
it basically says that pirate king online was made by a sub group of moliyo called Shanghai Jiasihua Digital Entertainment and in late 2006 won a couple awards.
But then i found something potentially huge xhdwol this site is a tales of pirates server in china you can download the game client from the website and everything looks like a normal game and it has news updates from august first 2018 only 2 days ago so i know its active when i opened the launcher it said the game version was 4.0.0.8 which is way further ahead than anything i have seen before after a bit of trial and error i found a program called applocale and with it was able to launch the game properly. i got to the login screen but i have to have a Chinese id and phone number to make an account so i cant go any further if anyone has a Chinese friend that could help me create an account please let me know
Ok so the game was originally called King of pirates and made by a Chinese company called MoLiyo i found a bunch of old promotional videos that have a lot of information in there videos you can see that there is another company cathyway digital entertainment next to MoLiyo in the opening im not sure what they did but i assume it was a joint project between two studios also in the videos you can see the Carsise was originally able to become a crusader aswell as a champion and in 003.wmv i saw a barrel and a fish in a barrel drop model that i have never seen in the current version since all these features were in the game in the past im hoping they are still in the game files somewhere and can be added back to give players something new.
there was originally going to be a sea egg, camp, and elf system that was never added i dont know what they were about
FunFact: iciclecity was originally called IcewolfFort - 冰狼堡 explaining all the wolves around icicle city argent was originally called SilverCity - 白银城 explaining all the npcs with silver in the name and Shiatan City was originally called City of Satay - 沙岚城
Here is the ZIP with all the files i found on the wayback machine
Some noteworthy pages i found on the wayback machine were:
ACTUALBACKSTORY!?!?!
WorldMap
KylinArmor
MainPage
WebsiteMall
PhantomThreeCities this is really cool some level 70+ dungeons, i would like to see this added
EventCalledJointBattleWithGM
OriginalMazeSystem Demonic world was originally called Cube world , and forsaken city was completely different
LevelingUnlocks level 15-20 talks about sea trade that would be taxed looks like a cool system a bunch of the things you can do as a newbie were supposed to be locked until these levels
OriginalProfessions according to this there crusader was originally called Double Swordsmen. there was a career called mariner i have no idea what it was. and there is Clergyman implying that there could be clerics that were men originally
AboutPageForNpc's
GemSystem
BoatsPage this talks more about that sea trading system i mentioned earlier
FairyMariage
i wasn't able to find any names or credits page...
- UPDATE01 -
I found an ABOUT page on the Mo Liyo Website in 2008
in this i found out that they made an engine called MindPower, and with it they made TOP, aswell as one other mmorpg.
They had around 800 employees and 20 different departments at this time in 2008, their operating games were Pirate King Online, Black Conspiracy Online, Tank King Online, and Curse Online.
I Found a Video on their site that was advertising the company and in the video i found THIS in it you can see that they used 3ds max 5 to model and animate thing a model that looks like a top model and when they export they exported to a "MindPower Coordinate Type" this may help some devs trying to add new models as well as some .lgo check boxes i dont know how to use 3ds max so someone else could tell you what it all means.
In the next couple frames there is an EffectEditor and a super cool MapEditor.
in about page 12 found HERE you can see that moliyo launched pko in multiple different countries with different companies.
In north america igg signed the deal in Febuary of 2007 also some game called Dragon Tiger Gate Online - 龙虎门online was signed off to IGG but i have never heard of it.
They made a game called Magic Festival with the MindPower Engine that was later renamed to Radiant Arcana and then to Runes of Magic published by GameForge and is playable today at HERE.
I found some of the names of people who worked at moliyo in 2008
Vice President of Business Development: Chen Jufeng
Market Business: Johnny huang
Game promotion: Mingyuan feng
Sales channel: Judy kang
Overseas authorized distribution: Michael chen
Head of PR Center: Cherry yin
- UPDATE02 -
Under the product operations tab in this PAGE i found that the development for top started in april 2004 and the beta test started 2005 there were 40 people who worked on tales of pirates the game is placed 5,000 years in the past, in the "Viking Age in Nordic mythology, magical time and space where technology and magic coexist" also in this page i found that there was originally going to be an island construction feature no more information was given
In 2008 the game got a small reboot and was re named to New Pirate King with a brand new website HERE
under the MazeInformation on this new site i find that forsaken city was originally called Waste spirit City the background for fc is found there too
New Pirate King was online in china until 2013. the 2012 build HERE may have some assets or something that other versions don't and might be worth checking out
- UPDATE03 -
I found this while doing some google research and it is a timeline of pirate kings history from 2005-2007
it basically says that pirate king online was made by a sub group of moliyo called Shanghai Jiasihua Digital Entertainment and in late 2006 won a couple awards.
But then i found something potentially huge xhdwol this site is a tales of pirates server in china you can download the game client from the website and everything looks like a normal game and it has news updates from august first 2018 only 2 days ago so i know its active when i opened the launcher it said the game version was 4.0.0.8 which is way further ahead than anything i have seen before after a bit of trial and error i found a program called applocale and with it was able to launch the game properly. i got to the login screen but i have to have a Chinese id and phone number to make an account so i cant go any further if anyone has a Chinese friend that could help me create an account please let me know
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