Lineage's stat, monster, and item system was originally largely borrowed from NetHack with MMO elements added. Players can choose one of five character classes: Elf, Dark Elf, Knight, Prince, or Magician. Princes are the only class that can lead a blood pledge (which is Lineage's term for a guild or clan). Dark Elves were introduced to the game after the other classes. Game play is based primarily upon a castle siege system which allows castle owners to set tax rates in neighboring cities and collect taxes on items purchased in stores within those cities. It features classic RPG elements reminiscent of Dungeons & Dragons, such as killing monsters and completing quests for loot and experience points, levels, character attributes (charisma, strength, wisdom, etc.), and alignments (neutral, chaotic or lawful). A characters alignment affects how monsters and town guards react to the player's character, often turning hostile to chaotic players and attacking on sight. Player versus player combat (also known as PVP) is extensive in Lineage. Players can engage in combat with other player characters at any time as long as they are not in safe zones such as cities. By joining a "bloodpledge" (an association of players almost like a clan in other games) players become eligible to engage in castle sieges or wars between bloodpledges. NCsoft said the line at any given time more than three million subscribers, most of them in Korea. The size of the number of Korean participants compared to other countries, has created a number of theories. The ban on certain imports from Japan until 1998, said the failure to thrive in the video game console market. In April 2008, Lineage is slightly less than 1 million active subscriptions. For comparison, the World of Warcraft subscriptions much more active, with more than 11.5 million. The title comes from the line of the cartoon series with the same line by Shin Il-Sook, and the server line called the character of comics. This is a fantastic story, where a legitimate claim to the throne in the hands of the usurper prince. At first launch, the game resembles the original work. As a developer of new features, but the fictional universe of the two projects have been added gradually separated Content two games are locked online review and CD-Keys. This has created some controversy, though the company box Heroes provides a clear set of discs per computer is required to play on this release are opposing sides and a large sign that COH is the activation system restored the original game has been implemented. Users of both games is required to connect to Relic Online, if you have an active Internet connection, even if they do not want to be playing games online. Without an active Internet connection back to COH traditional media are the physical tests. Furthermore, the contributions of personnel remains Forum confirmed that the two games now refer to various statistics Relic, without the ability to 芦opt-out. Patch 2102, 12 Published in October 2007 showed that the above 2101 patch patched requirement of the Party at the time of importation, if the user is active on the Internet. If the user disables the connection to the Internet, the game will not be able to automatically download a patch and run as before. Playing a real owner of the game online patch 2202 should have been told by a 1.xxx in 2101, then from 2.102 to 2.101, and so forth. Hence the idea that the problem that prevents 2,201 patched version 2101 () is already installed is an oxymoron. Regarding the controversy earlier that the game is no longer relevant for the Relic Online, and because the game does not let you go any further until you have an active Internet connection and corrected in the latest version, the real owner of the game is blocked any other activity, including replays of observation, the continuation of the campaign solo, etc.