Version 7.0 announced and initial update content all game optimizations and tweaks... 3 straight updates without level up and back to back updates without new map.
Is xiang yu and 180 the end of the road?
purple items, purple arms... end is near!!
quick update.... While Batheo is currently pathed up to lv210 maps, and a max arms level of G82, 3
Kingdoms chinese servers are several updates past, and later than stated above.
Future patchs (if we get them) will allow Arms level of G110. Patch beyond that will allow a max'd out arm to be recast as a super arm of G0. Super arms can be combined for LARGE gains (with 100% success rate). G1, G2 etc... are all massive increases. Player Buffs to increase frag drop rates and the ellimination of red frags from Baazar both help this process. Players who have hit a wall and are just farming jewels have continued buying red arm frags from Baazar to create G20s to store in the chest. Some switch to a G20 arm for enhancing (if the red arm fort% was higher than their current one), though stock piling more than one extra G20 per arm seems unnecessary/impractical.
While it IS possible to obtain a purple mask/accessory from Purification now in Batheo, we are limited to Lv10 Purification. Future patches allow for higher Purification levels, which increase the base mask rate from +1/+1/+1 to +2/+2/+2. Future patches also allow for players to combine 5 red masks into a purple mask. Players who have already farmed their own 2 red masks (you only need them for jeweled heroes) are saving any reds they get in their chest for future combining.
Future patches include a PvP update for New World players who will be able to increase jewels per day based on capturing opponent players. When captured, the player can escape by beating the owner or having the owner captured by someone else. There will be buildings you can build to increase the jewel gains, but the buildings will cost considerable amount of gold. Saving gold for these buildings may be pre-mature, but for paying gold buyers it could be a large gainin jewels for the future. Not sure how the captured player's buildings or Assembly level may affect the jewels output, the details on this system are still a little unclear.
While it's been a long time since Batheo was patched, players still play daily on S1, S3, etc... and PanDiva has taken over play on some Batheo servers. We've also (as of January 2015) seen new activities come over from the Chinese 3 kingdoms. The translations are "ok" but much chinese text still remains. But there are signs of life.
For S3, RedWood quit playing I believe about 2 months ago; all his sock puppets (Tatoie, Gudarian, Angellike) have stagnated in the Source of Life map (and been passed by Gizmo and his puppets in Zeus). ShadowKris seems to have stopped playing for Athena, and maybe MS. We still see them being used in PvP, but their map progress has halted. Jeffq60 and Collossus seem to be the active bigdogs for Athena. Goose has reach lv196 for Poseidon. Zvov is apparently pushing lv202 on another server, but that's as far as anyone has reached in Batheo so far.