EP 2.0? · Pets and early monster/drop rebalance

Thai Mirror schedule Research only

Dates and Episode evidence

Main date: 2003-05-12 — reported / scheduled
Qualification: announced production date in mirror
Episode / era: 2.0 (provisional) — Mirror label

Status: research record; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Player guide · Developer guide · Evidence

Full patch record and local plan

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Status: research chapter; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Field	Evidence / plan
Historical track	Thai
Episode / era	2.0 (provisional)
Main date evidence	2003-05-12 — reported / scheduled
Date qualification	announced production date in mirror
Local target date	Unscheduled
Local release group	th-ep2

Episode evidence: mirror label. Mirror explicitly calls Thai pets/rebalance 2.0. thai_mirror

Historical schedules, archive capture dates and local rollout dates are distinct. Chapter order is a reference order where exact Thai dates remain unknown.

Historical patch notes

• Pets and selective monster/drop rebalance; Poring card reportedly increased tenfold. Absolute probabilities remain unknown. Evidence: mirror candidate. thai_mirror

Player guide

The reported pet update also changes selected monsters, items and drop behavior.

What to explore in this stage

• Try the pet-catching and care loop once the stage’s eligible pets and supplies are confirmed.
• Recheck familiar hunting targets; the reported rebalance is selective.

Before the local update

• A relative card-drop increase does not provide a trustworthy absolute drop rate.

These activities describe the intended stage. Exact local requirements and availability must be confirmed in the released build before this draft becomes a player announcement.

Developer guide

Implementation work

• Recover pet eligibility, taming, feeding, intimacy and hatch rules.
• Encode per-monster stat and drop deltas with raw units and provenance.
• Audit repeated drop slots and multiple-item outcomes rather than applying one global rate multiplier.

Character and world migration

• Version pet records and changed item properties; decide how existing equipped items are recalculated.

Acceptance checks

• Taming, hatching and feeding consume the correct items.
• Every changed monster has an explicit before/after record.
• A Poring-card relative change is not implemented until its absolute endpoints and roller are known.

Affected areas: pets, monsters, items.

Use the mechanics history for candidate rules and developer reference for pinned comparison files. The release checklist defines the future evidence, migration and runtime gates.

Unresolved before qualification

• Per monster card delta.
• Drop roll algorithm.
• Mob race size.
• Pet system.

Sources and official records

Original operator documents, republications, reporting and foreign comparisons are labelled separately. A source listed here is not proof that every rule in it applies to this stage.

Source details and limitations

• Later mirror of early Thai operator announcements — operator material republication; attributed operator material republication. thai_mirror Access: later mirror html inspected; original provenance incomplete. Later mirror; provenance chain incomplete. Scheduled dates may not be deployment dates. Regional monster headings appear mixed; nearby no-reset and level-reduction claims need separation. Copied mirrors are not independent corroboration.

Record: th-ep2 in timeline.json. Guides: handbook-guides.json. Local plan: release-plan.json.

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