Greetings to all the persistent parties!
I apologize for more than a month of inactivity on the server, we had very good reasons for this. I will try to get a few closer here. At first, it was traditionally a test period, where there is generally more work and responsibilities. The next time I lost my job, fortunately it turned out to be just unpaid vacation for two weeks, but it also hit my budget very hard, and so I try to get out of it with side work and other activities to catch up on unpaid days. When more fixes and updates were coming to our server a few weeks ago, a very unpleasant thing happened to me. My laptop burned out after almost four years, which served day and night and was always turned on almost 24/7/365. After connecting the charging connector after a while, it began to smolder from the inside and damaged a large part of the motherboard, which for the most part does not work. It took the RAM, the graphics card, and part of the disk with it. My friends, colleagues and others are trying to help me pull as much data as possible from the hard drive even at the moment when I am writing this news. There are several important folders missing, among which are some files for the server and a few personal folders and files. However, thanks to regular backups and external backups, I managed to restore all server things and it should not affect the operation of the server in the future (we have managed to restore all unfinished projects so far), thank you for your help to all smart people, who in turn taught me something new in this issue of data corruption recovery. I now have a new laptop at an excellent price with the help of relatives, companies and I will now gradually repay it, because the laptop is vital for me for work and for the server, it was necessary. To make matters worse, a few days before the burnout, I downloaded all the emails from the support to my laptop and I wanted to solve them calmly, but copies were not created, but they were deleted from the server and moved with me to the disk of an already broken laptop and so it was not possible to reply to some emails from the support. Everything is now restored and so you can expect delayed answers in the coming days just to the questions asked at the time of the incident or just after it, as I have limited the work of support until resolution. In the end, I had to go to the server personally and connect a new laptop to the server, as I did years ago with the old one, so that I could manage it remotely from anywhere, which again took time.
So much for the past inactivity on our server. I would like to thank Sebastian, who helped me a lot in this situation and diagnostics of the old laptop and efforts to repair it. Thalas for the constant supply of repairs. In the end, we were lucky, although we are always lucky only in misfortune, but as many people would say, better than a wire to the eye. These weeks will probably be very difficult financially, but as I always say, no one has ever won by giving up. If players want to help (in addition to the traditional reporting of repairs), we will also be happy to make a financial contribution to the monthly server operation in the form of Voluntary ContributionsWhich I have updated to date.
Since we are behind with repairs, we go quickly to them so that we can gradually deploy and open the prepared projects and things. We should gradually return to our usual regime of main working days on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Repairs are aimed against many ways of using hacks or exploits in the game. Read more in the repair list.
Repairs
18.2.2014 - 01:00 (Tuesday)
1) Fixed two server-specific crashes regarding auras and uptime of the server
2) Players in battlegrounds are now correctly revived (in case they are soul at the end of the game) even after winning the opposing side
3) Fixed cases where the player was renamed through the web management of characters and could still get into the game and cause the dysfunction of their character (characters affected by this have been fixed, if it shows up in someone else, let them write to our e-mail support)
4) Fixed cases in which the texts in the guild bank were not displayed correctly (Guild message of the day, officer note, public notes, log from the bank, etc. + fixed possible abuse of powers, where some information could be seen even without proper rights
5) Fixed cases where the player had one free slot with him and received more than one item during the reward (for example from the quest) and the other did not receive it pád now he reports a mistake and will not take over the reward until there are enough free slots for all items from the reward
6) Fixed cases where there could be more players in the instance than the maximum allowed number for the given difficulty
7) Fixed cases of previous shutdown of PVP status in Free For All zones such as Gurubashi Arena and others similar
8) Fixed cases where it was possible to supplement lives while moving, but these effects can only be applied while sitting
9) Fixed auras that are triggered by hotties (Healing Over Time)
10) Fixed cases where the complete set could be swapped in combat
11) Fixed the following quests: The Hunter and the Prince, The Torch of Retribution, The Power of the Elements, Blast the Infernals!, Freed from the Hive, Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph D, The Earthen Oath, Seek the Farstriders, Treats for Great-father Winter, The Totem of Kar'dash,
12) Fixed three more different and random server crashes (Wintergrasp, movement on the mount at a certain number of auras, adding events to the calendar, etc.)
13) The Magic of Retaliation now does nothing if the warrior is voiced
14) Changes in the weather in the game are now updated to everyone on the map, not just the first to enter the map area
15) Repaired boss Jeklik in ZulGurubu and his spawn/flying (Thalas)
16) Fixed cases of abuse of loot of already despawned objects (chests, chests, etc.) using crochet tools
17) Fixed Magic Killing Spree functionality
18) Fixed cases where it was possible to discover all undiscovered "taxi" on a given map and get a quick transfer without work
19) Fixed cases where it was possible to take objects from a great distance than the specified limit (for example, flags in WSG or) or interaction with objects at a great distance (cases where it was possible to use hacks to surrender the EoS flag without players being in a given place)
20) Fixed cases where mobs (artificial intelligence) used spells that are designed to attack from both the back and front
21) Added minimum item level conditions for heroic WOTLK dungeons
22) Fixed cases where players did not see the arena season (8)
23) Fixed cases where using hacks could be used in a language that everyone understands, regardless of our server settings
24) Fixed auras on AOE damage reduction (pet avoidance and more)
25) Fixed birthday achievements for login players on the server birthday and receiving rewards + achievements stanoveno the server birthday is set on 15.10.2006 and every subsequent year on this day (date of the first player account)
26) Fixed some objects where it could be taken, but it was no longer possible to submit a quest or a reward for a completed quest
27) Fixed two more crashes caused by improved scripting system for quests and mobs (most mobs recently converted)
28) Fixed some instances of exploiting loot in instances using hacks when moving master looter + fixed perhaps related problems for regular players
29) Reworked map system třeba our maps still need to be fine-tuned and we will finally be deploying perhaps a problem-free version of our advanced maps for moving NPCs on the road and in various rooms, arenas, battlegrounds or instances
30) Fixed a lot of NPCs, states, faction changes, trigger visibility and many other interventions into the database that I can not list all
22.2.2014 - 06:00 (Saturday)
31) Fixed all crashes in Vault of Archavon instance in past days
32) Reworked method of invoking monsters in some cases when it did not happen correctly in some instances vliv it does not affect the rest of the world o fixes summoning problems in VoA and other errors in this instance
33) Relaunched Lunar Festival event only for a week (from Saturday to Saturday) přidán added the remaining Elders to Gundrak to the final boss (these Elders can only be met in a heroic instance, so we choose this path)
34) Updated The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) to version 6.2.4 (required for smooth server operation)
35) Updated Linux server core + other libraries
36) Updated Apothecary trio Aktualizováno bosses for the world event Love is in the Airdělá bosses rebuilt from the ground up vyvoláva they are called only at a given time of the ongoing eventque through quest submissionsque they will start automatically if conditions allow and players will be satisfied with the given conditions chce it takes a few more tests from the players, or a report, removed static spawns and more
37) Added minor updates to Trial of the Champion instance o could fix non-update progress of killed bosses zabit if not, please report which achievement is not updated exactly and the time you tried to achieve added a few information log information to the server log
38) We would like to thank Wendigo players for their contribution to the server, List of those who contributed for the last three months, has been updated, the player received the promised attention to the game
39) Adjusted some login logs and protections especially for GM accounts that were too aggressive, now players will log in a little faster after filling in the data thanks to this change
40) Fixed all startup server errors (when booting server), server now starts in 17 seconds
41) Fixed some cases where addons could not be used to edit the chat
42) Fixed problems with flying mounts around the world at the Battle of Wintergrasp and directly in the battle, now deployed a better method of control, which will probably no longer bother anything and hinder the operation of the server
43) Added other minor edits to the database
44) Fixed 3 memory leaks specific to our server
45) Email Support has already handled all the remaining emails from the past days, if you did not receive a reply and sent us an email in the past month, please resend it, but please make sure that the email from us is not in your spam filter, thank you
46) Slightly modified map system for repair 32)
47) Updated link How to connect to the server on the forum link for a temporary tutorial before we make a new one on the preparing new site