FYI...

(09:28:14) >Server Admin: server will shutdown in 1 minute for upgrade
(09:28:28) >Server Admin: SERVER WILL BE UPGRADED TO 0.4.01 RELEASE
(09:28:44) >Server Admin: YOU WILL NEED A NEW CLIENT TO CONNECT TO IT
(09:28:46) >Server Admin: SEE YOU IN THE NEXT RELEASE


And from IRC just now (10:30 Monday "server time", 2:30 utc)...
(09:32:49 PM) XilliX: NO ONE IS SUPPOSED TO LOG ON
(09:32:57 PM) XilliX: give it a rest
(09:33:09 PM) XilliX: if we can get it running we may be able to debug it

(12:20:54 AM) XilliX: everyone can log on as much as they want now
...but note that it sounds like the server is still crashing every couple minutes.



That's "new client" as in "use the updater", not as in "reinstall everything":

No false rumours

Velh: It's quite simple, the updater tool takes your old client, and upgrades it to the "new client"

And in a different thread, we see that it's probably safer to wait for the official announcement:

it'd be safer to not run the updater until it is announced it could be used.

you're probably going to have to re-install now.  might as well just wait until the new client packages are released.

Yup. Laanx is crashing during startup because of something, and it can only be fixed when a dev takes a look at it. And that will be tomorrow, some time.

  then there are sites that you can enter IPs into that tell you exact street information as to where that IP was used at that time, for anywhere in the globe. 

Heh, I'm sure the RIAA would love to hear about that, it sounds like a major boost to their lawsuit-spamming.

PS: a coin always has two sides, doesn't it?

Or 3, or 6, or 8...

My main character has 160 Charisma, 20 Crystal Way, and I can use up my entire mana on Energy Arrows—a second realm spell—and not even kill a single rat.  Meanwhile my other character with mediocre sword skill and two random short swords can kill one in two blows.  To me, there's no question—magic is ridiculously underpowered.

But also, some magic is ranged.

An Ulbernaught can kill my char in two hits, if it can catch him. But it won't usually catch him, so he can climb up a rock and rain ineffectual destruction on it for a few hours [game time, I think it's down to a hair under an hour real-time] until he kills it or someone stronger wanders by during a lull and kills it [or the server crashes, or I get dragged away from the computer, or...].

Even given how long this takes, it still seems to give better PP (and tria, since it's in a gold mine) than when he takes a sword and hunts Tefusangs and other things his own size.

I've so far done 2 quests that involve asking Levrus about Raithen. On the one, he provides a nice long story and then tires of the topic. On the other, he doesn't want to talk about it and directs you to speak with someone else instead.

I was going to suggest making both quests have Levrus tell the story and then say who to ask to know more... except that now I've finished the second one I'm not so sure that could work well given the nature of the answer you get. But it would be nice if the replies somehow fit together a bit better - it seems a bit odd to have Levrus care which quest you're on, especially with not giving any indication of that.

See items 2 and 4 in the "Gameplay FAQ" sticky, that's the same brown tower in both of them. Further directions would probably result in getting in trouble for spoilers, never mind that you'd expect chars to be already familiar with the area they likely grew up around...