As usual, there is a cleanup at the beginning of each month. Before we get to it, I have a few things I want to share first. I would like to start by thanking Tarenas who tirelessly performs above-standard services and which he has already performed precisely 1 400. If we take the average value 4500 gold for one transaction, we have already accumulated 6 300 000 Gold! So, with the GM team, we decided to take a holiday in the Maldives for a few months! - Now, seriously, of course, we can add golds with a command and we will not buy anything for them. This data just tells us that there is an interest in the services and so we have systems in development where players will do these services themselves and much cheaper. The same goes for character conversions. However, it is still early and the systems are under development, but they will be. You have something to look forward to.
I would also really like to thank Allwho have decided over the last 4 months and over the holidays Donate on the server, there were not many, but we survived and paid with scratched ears and debts regular fees - a week ago even the renewal of the domain and hosting. First of all, I want to thank Smrad for his regular support. Now on to cleaning and repairing.
Traditional cleaning
As every month, there is again a traditional cleaning of the server database from inactive characters and accounts. Cleanup is also used to speed up the server, stability or to get a real number of players on our server. Again, I remind you that delete inactive accounts and characters on them that no one has logged in more than 2 months ago. If, for example, you are not on the server for two months, you only need to log in to the game account once in a while (less than 2 months) - you do not even have to go directly to the world - you just need to choose the characters, if of course you want to have an account still active (a friend you trust can log in and provide him with login information - but here I will remind you of the importance Rules 1.e). We do not make exceptions in deleting, because it is a bulk operation with many commands and applies to all. I also want to warn newcomers that not only inactive characters will be deleted, but also characters who have recorded less than 2 hours of net game time. Newcomers who do not fit into this time can at least start over and take it as a second try. Characters deleted by this purge are permanently deleted and cannot be returned from server backups or in any other way. Cleanup automatically deletes accounts without characters. If you have two or more unauthorized accounts (everyone has the right to one account), just delete all the characters from the account and the purge will take care of deleting the account. There is no other way to delete the account. So if you create an alternate character to which you want to save some items, golds, etc., make sure that it has recorded at least 2 hours of net game time, before logging the character with valuable things (the time can be determined by writing the combination "/played" without quotes into the chat). Purge is a very demanding server operation, but our long-term experience, innovations, new commands and more have ensured that the whole process takes tens of minutes, despite the fact that the character database is very extensive and already has several GB of data. The deletion of inactive characters and accounts will be done before the date: 8.8.2011 00:00:00:
Number of deleted accounts: 2 037
Number of characters removed: 4 031
Number of other optimization processes: 36 472 194
Repairs
8.10.2011 – 03:00
1) Transformed the target system for some spells that applied a positive effect only to themselves and not to others - still not complete
2) Removed hacks and added proper systems for spells like Shadowfiend, Bloodthirst, Righteous Defense and more
3) Chain spells now do not interfere with critters
4) Fixed system avoidance + damage of various DoTek (warlock)
5) Fixed parachute problems objev now appears only if the time limit for dismounting from the flyer does not always expire
8.10.2011 – 17:20
6) Clean up the general database, deleted obsolete data, restored some quests and deleted hacks that are no longer needed - it will probably fix dozens of quests, but it can also damage some - for this there is our forum, but I will only fix those that have been damaged by this change
7) We have combined changes from Trinity to our core - these are changes in variable names again so nothing interesting - hopefully there will be no problems
8) Fixed cases where there was an infinite loot from objects, for example in instances, objects triggered by scripts etc.
9.10.2011 – 22:30
9) Fixed displaying out-of-range actions in groups
10) Correctly fixed cooldown on Sacred Shield
11) Invisibility now cancels combat
12) Fixed Glyph of Bloodthirst
13) Fixed some visual things in Argent Tournament
14) Fixed continuation for some quests in Argent Tournament
11.10.2011 – 02:15
15) Added missing equipment for some mobs
16) Added missing loots to some objects (vein, ore, etc.)
17) Fixed Deeprun Tram
18) Fixed Stealth interference from AOE spells
19) Added fixes to ICC instance again
20) Ready for Saturday 15.10. :-)