Greetings to all players, non-players and hermaphrodites (players and non-players at the same time). The server seems to be inactive and not much happens on it in terms of our activity. The opposite, as always, is true. I work on the server constantly, inventing news and repairing on the fly. I have some personal, serious and unpleasant matters to take care of, Tarenas is about to graduate and more and more, but none of these things will affect the further operation of the server in terms of continuation. The server is a relaxation and a hobby for me and therefore we will continue as long as I breathe. In the six years that the server has been in existence, we have had a few longer inactivitys and vice versa, several hundred repairs in one day. Therefore, do not take these states as something that would determine the future of the server, but it just sometimes accumulates and one does not even manage to send SMS or write this informative news.
Over the past days and months, I’ve been deploying major fixes, changes to important and essential features of the game, and I’ve been anticipating certain issues and even planning to tweak them on the fly. However, tuning proved to be very challenging on the fly, plus with unsolved crashes, problems before their deployment, and it was completed by problems related to updates directly from Trinity. Therefore, I partially disabled the system and the server finally tuned to full stability without crashes and freezes outside the new systems that did not affect them. It should be remembered that server freezes are almost the worst thing that can happen on a server in terms of stability. Finding out which function really causes freeze and even getting a log from such an event when several hundred operations per second are performed is very challenging, but not impossible. It just takes a huge amount of time and courage to dig into such log listings, for which there is sometimes no time or means.
In addition to the general fixes, the cleanup that will follow this report and other general activities, I am preparing and fine-tuning a new system for managing accounts on our server every day, at which you can see a sample in this picture. Prices and styles (pictures) may change. All security measures for this system are deployed, including the previous deployment of an SSL security certificate. It remains to fine-tune the functions of the services themselves. We want to offer players maximum freedom, simplicity and maximum clarity in all functions, their immediate application without the presence of GM (waiting for it) and everything completely free without the need to buy anything for real money. Everything will be available (if required by the service) for the game currency, i.e. gold. We have problems mainly in the character auction system, where we have already changed the system several times for buying characters, storing gold, and all this while the server and game are running. We want to do it so that players can work with the auction even in the online state and with minimal need to disconnect during it. Another problem is character conversions. Two types of character transfers are already functional and available, through the already mentioned character auction (character for golds) and then classically only from one account to the other account via confirmation of the e-mail box. The third option I’m currently putting together will be character for character. Thus, safe and functional transfers, where both parties will have to confirm the transfer before its actual execution. The whole system is still in development and I have a lot of ideas and plans to make it happen, so be patient and once everything is ready, all services are verified and functional, we will run the whole system and you will find out as always on this website. We do not want to rush anything, so we do it more slowly but thoroughly. This also applies to other server repairs. Thanks for your attention.
Did you get the ban? We may have a solution!
In the past, we have deployed a very effective and reliable system for detecting cheaters chtěli those who wanted to use small modifications of the client, or directly external trigger files cheap and without the need for much work advantage. They were immediately granted an automatic permanent ban. Therefore, I offer a possible solution for these individuals, which will be part of the above-standard but paid services. Since the system is very effective and bans immediately after the use of given programs, usually the player did not have the opportunity to really really do something really beneficial, so I offer these people a second chance, but it will not be cheap and it is only really for those who are interested in correcting and returning.
If the player has been punished by an automatic permanent ban on his account, he has the opportunity to redeem himself from the penalty by sending a contribution of at least CZK 600 to the server, thereby showing his willingness to improve, he will contribute to the further development of the server and his account, which he will indicate in the message to the recipient, will be activated within 48 hours after receiving the amount without a previous penalty. This service can only be used by individuals who have been punished with an automatic ban, have not committed other offenses in the past, have not been punished personally by the Game Masters, their account still exists and have already done at least one week of the original punishment.
I promise at least a partial financial support of the server, help in paying monthly fees and offering a second chance to given individuals who really want to improve. Players who contribute to the server in this way will be mentioned classically in the list of contributors. This service will be available later on the page with the selection of rewards for posts.
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, which no one has logged in more than 2 months back, except for accounts where there is at least one character with level 80. If, for example, you are not on the server for two months and you do not have a character with a maximum level on your account, you only need to log in to your account once in a while (at least once every two months) - you do not even have to connect directly to the world - you only need to choose the characters if, of course, you want to have an account still active (a friend you trust can log in and tell him/her the login details - 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 and new accounts that have not yet been activated or were created at the time of purge. 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 your account and the purge will take care of the deletion of the account as soon as the 60-day protection period for the possible recovery of the characters expires, which can be renewed for this period if they were deleted in the game not by this purge. There is no other way to delete the account. Therefore, if you create an alternate character to which you want to save some items, goldy, etc., make sure that it has recorded at least 2 hours of net game time, before logging out of the game with a 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: 24.2.2012 00:00:00:
Number of deleted accounts: 1 054
Number of characters removed: 2 828
Number of other optimization processes: 11 746 274
Repairs
24.4.2012 – 18:00
1) Fixed all known server crashes and freezes (over 5 days online)
2) Fixed problems with still existing objects even after their destruction and the inability to do magic or other activities over them (WG, SOTA, WSG and AB gates, objects in arenas and others)
3) Fixed server crash caused by old quests in Silithus
4) Fixed talent Ancestral Awakening
5) Fixed talent Earthen Power
6) Fixed bonus damage to Lava Burst spell
7) Fixed crit at the Rupture spell
8) Fixed Lifebloom z Empowered Rejuvenation
9) Fixed Recklessness and double dropping stacks
10) Siphon Life now does not start with Corruption
11) Fixed application of all glyphs after changing the stance
12) Fixed leaving expired items in other backpacks than the basic one
13) Bloodworm Damage and Heal Repair
14) Sacred Shield now has 6 seconds internal cooldown
15) Repaired Damage to Concussion Blow
16) Fixed falls caused by Steady Shot spell
17) Fixed attacking pets after applying non-aggressive spells from the master
18) Fixed problems with flag taking in wsg after its drop