Archive for the ‘Server Updates’ Category

1. Client: NA Retail has moved to Freya. This means that if you update your client, it will turn into Freya. I got reports that raidfight loader works with Freya too but I do not suggest to do this. In other words, do not update your clients.
2. Last 2 server crashes are caused by not enough RAM. I can’t afford to buy more RAM (I can add 4Gb DIMMs for 400 euro each) and I do not expect donations, so you will have to live with them (crashes) anytime they do happen. In any case we will be here to restart server.
3. Related to (2) I noticed that Delevel NPC doesn’t close connections properly, contributing a lot to the RAM issue (still its not a problem, more like we have more players). For this reason I disable Delevel NPC by next restart and implement .exp voice command which will disable/ enable Exp gain.
4. If the problem persists for the next weeks without a proper solution, I will decrease boxes from 3 to 2 per PC (still not related to IP).

Since we encounter some major issues with the inner stability of the server, we are removing some custom server features.

This means that server will become more retail-like.

Some features are really big and some others are not. Still we talk about custom features.

The reason they are removed is to debug server and find the real cause. Even that, the changes will be permanent.

By next restart config will be:

• Weight Limit: x2
• Enchant Max Weapon: +25
• EnchantMaxArmor: +25
• EnchantMaxJewelry: +25
• Auto Loot: Yes
• Auto Loot Raids: Yes
• Delevel NPC: Yes
• Offline Trade: Yes
• No store zones: Yes
• Exp, Sp, etc rates will stay as is.

In other words some of the features left:

• Same sex Wedding
• Mammon spawn announce
• In-game droplist (we have droplist on website anyway)
• Spawn protection
• Store recipe list
• Low level PK protection
• Offline store saving on restart
• Warehouse sorting
• Wedding

I know some people won’t like those changes, but those will help to have a better server. I do not promise that, for example, combat mode will disappear by that since we have done many more internal changes in core which will help to solve the problem, but this will help us minimize the places we will have to look.

Server maintenance tomorrow, Friday, July 2 2010 at 11:30 UTC.

Maximum expected downtime: 2 hours

Server is down for maintenance (GM-Only).

Downtime unknown.

We will update you here when its online.

In the meanwhile you can vote:

As I see a lot of crowding in Giran/ Dion etc with Offline Shops. So I descided to increase the distance between the Offline Shops to 55 (was 45) so I push some of you move to other towns and cause less client lag in big towns. More distance between the Offline Shops, less Shops in your screen. This change will be applied after next scheduled server restart, tomorrow Saturday.