The (unnamed) expansion has been released in JPKO with the following contents:
- A new Ronark Land map (see)
-- The central area is flat rather than bowl-shaped.
-- The bases, Chaos Summon Stone and mining areas have been changed.
-- There are Oreads-like terrain effects in some areas.
-- Changed some monster locations.
(to be continued)

This is a reminder about why Player Info is no longer working. First, it relied on a message that could be used to query the data from any player, wherever that player was on the server. Before the shutdown, this message was changed to only return data from players near your character. Since there is no potential use for this message than to scan player info, this clearly is a targetted attack against Player Info.
Second, the accounts that were created to scan with were banned. Those characters were level 1 and did nothing other than scanning. The GM doing the banning couldn't have found anything else as a ban reason, so the scanning itself must be the ban reason. In other words, a targetted attack against Player Info.
At that point I realized there is no point to continue Player Info since it was being hunted for. Maybe the hunting has stopped since then, seeing that another site has come up with player info, but I'm not planning on restarting it here. It would take too much effort and support from other people and I have moved past KO for years now. I'm only checking back to see the state of the game and looks like it still didn't get any better.

The JPKO administration team has decided that the current four servers will be merged into two servers:
- Sukei + Enion -> Logos
- Artemis + Gaia -> Akara

[color=#FF0000:1i76f20a]In addition, accounts which haven't logged in from 2010 onwards will be terminated. In order to preserve your accounts, please log in at least once before 1 March 2012 (Thu).[/color:1i76f20a]

FAQ:
1. Duplicate character names
If there are duplicate character names after server merge, you will be given one chance to rename your character. The rename process will check for duplicate names and won't let you use them.

2. Different nations in the two servers
If your nation is different in the two servers, the nation on the merged servers will be decided based on the nation of the highest level character. For same-level characters the current EXP is also considered.

3. More than 3 characters
If you have more than 3 characters in the 2 servers, only the highest leveled 3 characters will be kept. The others will be deleted.

4. Items
Character inventories will be carried on intact. However, inventories of deleted characters can't be recovered.
For the inn, any Noahs in excess of 2.1 billion and any items in excess of 192 slots will be removed. For the selection of items to keep, Sukei has priority over Enion and Artemis has priority over Gaia.
Stackable items will be merged into stacks of up to 9999.

5. Order of characters
On the character selection screen, characters will be arranged from highest level to lowest, Center -> Left -> Right. If you don't like the order you can use the special "Rank Maintenance Item (Event)" to change the order.

6. VIP Storage
Items in excess of 48 slots will be deleted. The activation period will become the longer of the two servers' activation periods.

7. Helius War
The amount of victories will be cleared. You will receive rewards based on the number of victories you had.

8. Duplicate clan names
If there are duplicate clan names, the lower-level clan (based on Knight Squad level then clan level) will receive a name suffixed with (S).

Others:
- Kingship will be reset and a new election will be held
- Treasury will be merged from the 2 servers
- Lunar War Status will be reset to 5:5. After the first Lunar War the status will be updated to 6:5 in favor of the nation that wins the war.
- Delos Castellan will be reset until the next CSW
- Taxes will be delayed until after CSW
- Rentals will no longer be registered after 26 January 2012 (Thu).
- Letters will be deleted
- Friend List will be reset
- Clan Board will be reset
- Clans with less than 5 members will be disbanded

Most of the site has been made compatible with EUKO. This is the most obvious in the Item Guide, but other features can also be viewed in "EUKO mode" by adding "version=eu" to the address (or changing it from the original).

Note that since the ability to select the upgraded versions of items is based on text, and EUKO text is messed up in some places (such as with the new unique jewels), it won't work for those items now.

The spelling of "Jamadhar" has been changed to "Jamadar" to reflect how it was actually translated to English.

The annual Knight Online World Championship is coming again. This time it will be held between 2011-11-21 and 25, and will include KOKO, JPKO, USKO and TWKO.

The method for registration can be different for each KO version. For JPKO, participants are chosen from the top 100 rankings of each server, King recommendations, and the lottery draw event which you can sign up by submitting 5 KWC Chaos Tickets (one ticket is given automatically for each time you participate in Chaos).

Characters are level 83, with 592 stat and 148 skill points and start with 300 million Noahs. Character must be re-created for every war day.

Equipment can be purchased from the expanded vendor NPC's.

Before the war you have a chance to enter Ronark Land to gain (or lose) NP, which will determine the commanders in war.

The war must be entered via Lunar Valley. The first 250 players from each nation can enter (500 players total).

The war itself will take place in the Alseids Prairie map. Unlike normal Lunar War, killing the enemy's Warders and Keeper will not end the war prematurely. Instead, the war will be determined based on points. Killing those NPC's will award some points to the side that killed them.

Schedule:
Practice session (USKO vs JPKO): 2011-11-21 (Mon)
Practice session (TWKO vs KOKO): 2011-11-22 (Tue)
Match 1 (KOKO vs TWKO): 2011-11-23 (Wed)
Match 2 (JPKO vs USKO): 2011-11-24 (Thu)
Finals (Winner1 vs Winner2): 2011-11-25 (Fri)

The team mentioned first will be El Morad, the other will be Karus.
Server will open at 10:00 UTC and close at 13:00 UTC. On the war days, Lunar War will open between 11:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC.