18.12.2009, 22:55 - Season 11

In anticipation of the new season on The Abyss iCCup we are happy to present you with a small list of additional features to try. These new innovative features should help to improve your The Abyss iCCup experience.

The first innovation is the rank limit command /rl. Now you do not have to spend a long time searching for a player at your skill level, or kicking time-wasters who are far above or below your own skill level. All you need to do is specify the rank of the player or the ladder point limit of the players that you wish to join your game.

Here's an example:
/rl 6000 7000 (Only those players who from 6000 to 7000 points may join).
/rl 10000 (Only a player who has more 10000 points may join)
/rl c-c + (yOnly those who are ranked between C- to C+ may join)

Are you tired of players are not using antihack? Now this problem is easily solved. By utilising yet another new command /nah (no antihack) players not using iCCup's AntiHack feature will not be able to join your game. Additionally, the country that a player is playing from will be displayed when you join a game with a tag ([KR] for Korean, [AU] for Australian, etc.).

The next new feature is specifically helpful for those active in a clan. The list of new commands available is found below:

/clan help (/ ch; Help)
/clan list (/ cl; Shows a list of everyone who is in the clan)
/clan msg (/ cm, / cw; Send a message to all clanmates)
/clan online (/ co; Show all clan mates who are online)
/clan off (/ c off; Disable all clan notifications)
/clan on (/ c on; Include all clan related alerts)
/clan state (/ c state; Shows the current status regarding clan alerts, i.e. ON or OFF)

Also worth noting is that now all the clans have at their disposal clan channels, to which the player will be automatically directed when you log on to the server.

Finally, and perhaps the most interesting new innovation — a new rank. A distinguishing letter has not been assigned as of yet, but the beginner rank will be identified by this icon . This rank is positioned even lower than the D- to help those who have only just recently met with StarCraft and their level of play is significantly lower than the average D- player. Accordingly, in order to be demoted to D- you must fall to 900 ladder points, instead of the previous 850 points. Also, players in the lowest rank will lose 20 ladder points for a loss.

We hope you enjoy the latest additions to The Abyss iCCup and good luck achieving your goals in Season 11!

21.05.2008, 15:03 - 7 years of The Abyss
We represent to your attention more than 200 photos from celebrating of the 7th anniversary of The Abyss game portal.

You can familiarise with it here.

All photos in archive can be downloaded here (36.3 Mb).

28.01.2008, 21:06 - Server for a forum
Last month the problem with unavailability of our sites and forum because of an overload from a considerable quantity of visitors was strongly appreciable. We made a decision to get a separate server for our conference to eliminate the given problems. Now forum had a server with the following configuration:

Processor: 2xXeon Quad-Core X5355
Memory:8x2048Mb DDR II FB-DIMM Kingston
HDD: 4x73.5 Gb Fujitsu 15000 rpm
Platform: SUPERMICRO 6015B-3RV

We hope very much, that the given powerful hardware will make your stay on our site more pleasant.

04.12.2007, 01:20 - Long Break
Dear The Abyss users. For the first time for 6.5 years of work we had such long break with working capacity. Many of you have chosen Abyss because of stability and you had to be fidgety. Take our apologies. We had a unexpected technical failure to which we were not ready and we even were unable to describe on time a course of carried out works and keep posted events. Officially we declare, that all that nonsense which have appeared on different resources - hearings. Now we again with you, all mail, all accounts, all other current questions - everything, everything, all was kept: do not worry. We completely resume our work and all questions will be considered in as much as possible fast terms. Once again excuse for the caused compelled inconveniences. We too have become bored and too are very glad to see you again.

30.07.2007, 16:12 - Geodata, Interlude
On all servers geodata has been updated, numerous mistakes of textures led to stucking of the character have been corrected, or on the contrary allowing to get in inaccessible places.

Dear players, we are glad to inform you, that big volume of work for transition on Lineage 2: The Chaotic Throne (C6, Interlude) is already finished. The closed betatest will begin soon, at the end of betatest update will appear on game servers too. Originally changes will concern a client part, but in the further gradually server part will be resulted according to an official server of game. We recommend you to download the client in advance, you can download it here or here.