I think it would be nice for the supporting people to hear about something that works:
While the download page gives specs only up to windows 7, I believe it works on windows 8, on a non geforce/radeon graphics card, i.e. intel HD graphics 4600, as well. Mind you, i tested only five minutes and only a corner of Hydlaa plaza.
I can max the textures, activate anitialiasing and anisotopic filtering, sound works if i choose openAL. Shadows turn themselves off automatically if i enable them.
On first login, the client got stuck for some reason; I then turned off anitialiasing and anisotopic filtering and slowly reenabled all of it; maybe the client was busy downloading or creating caches at first start.
The only thing that made me think something was wrong then was an in-game reason: that I returned after ages and was overloaded and unable to move. 
Ah yes and when I hit F3 the server went unreachable once - but that may be coincidence, since I can click the icons (whci hare probbaly tied to the F#-keys).

You really should release an update that does not force people to edit the server.xml or to use repair.

Downloading ps by bittorrent is fast, but repair is damn slow.

Also, switch off the old server instead of letting it give a standing image. Because when I got that, my computer crashed, and I only later learned that it was mostly due to dust and faulty ram. I'll touch ps with a polestick now.

Thanks your information is helpful.

Here is a possible workaround, that I didn't try myself:
Get the win2k wrapper pack from:
http://win2kgaming.site90.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7

Install:
Grab a copy of the original win2k ws2_32.dll and place it as WS2_32_ORG.DLL in the planeshift executable directory.
Grab a copy of the ws2_32.dll of the wrapper pack and place it in the planeshift executable directory.

This should get you at least one step further, also I have no idea if it impairs functionality.

I'm with the guy who said to do wiping in fixed intervals.

But one can expand the idea:
- wipe in big intervals of at least 3 months
- determine the interval beforehand
- have a persistent highscore list with several categories for each interval
- let players upload a screenshot of their main character in a special gallery or a subforum so people can boast a bit even when they have been reset

My gut feeling by the way is that I dislike the wipes, but I realize they are needed sometimes.

Hi,

I wanted to try out the updater after I didn't run PlaneShift for a time(So there should be updates).

The updater updated itself to 1.10, but then it says there are no active mirrors.

Have mirrors changed? Can I add one manually?

There are already diminishing returns in place for levellling because it costs more the higher you get.

Sounds like http://www.hydlaa.com/flyspray_upgrade/index.php?do=details&task_id=1862 which I have reported to the bugs database.