Server is Back Online!

[Moogie]

Yes! Finally the Laanx server is online once again. We ran into some unforseen issues due to the update that was meant to only last for the weekend, but thankfully now all seems to be working again.

From the mainsite:

Hi Planeshifters,
the server is up again, and the update is ready to be downloaded. You can just use your 0.3.009 version and use the updater, it will get about 80Mb of files. A new full package will be available in the next days.

The update took more than expected due to some level changes and some internal engine changes. We hope you will enjoy it.

Here are the main things we delivered in the update:

Major User-Visible Features:

* New area of East Hydlaa is available (Jayose has been relocated). New NPCs will be added there soon.
* Character traits - current only 1 new elf skin. You can now customize the face of your char (dermorian only). Now that the feature is in place, we will add more faces for other chars as well.
* New crafting system - shields only at the moment
* New complete GUI skinning system
* One additional skin available thanks to Cherppow. (to change it, you can rename planeshift/art/skin/elves.zip into planeshift/art/skin/default.zip)
* New loading screens
* Added duel points and advisor points to skill window info displayed.
* Added some new button art to look better.
* Added duel-point penalty for spamming duel invites.
* Added command to see /duel_points
* You don\'t get skill practise for attacking other players now.
* Train icon added in the interaction menu with trainers
* Added /changeguildname
* German manual
* Message window will now no longer jump to the end when a message is added.
* /quit now prompts before quitting
* Added link to login page that shows where to register a new account.
* License of the package changed from PlaneShift Team to Atomic Blue.

Major User-Visible Fixes:

* A number of bug fixed on Hydlaa level.
* Updated/fixed some spell effects
* Fixed that you could freely PK players that were just joining the game
* Fixed that if you opened a window during autorun, you could run forever
regardless of stamina.
* Fixed that when you died, you could still turn your remains with mouselook.
* When a character is attacked, its stance resets to \"full defense\".
* Fixed that tab completition was sometimes changing chat command to /tell
from e.g. /say.
* Fixed that when negative HP rates lowered HP to zero, the character
was not killed.
* Fixed that vitals were not adjusted when they were at maximum value.
This means that negative rates (e.g. spells) were not always applied.

There are some known bugs we will fix soon:

*Flickering of a rectangle region near the connection between hydlaa plaza and the new East Hydlaa map
* Pssetup may crash on some systems
* Chat sometimes doesn\'t scroll down to follow new text

Thanks for your continuous support, let\'s make PlaneShift a great online role playing game!

So, what are you waiting for? Go try out some of those new Dermorian male faces and tell me what you think. *pride*

[maxben]

moogie, u said that when the server comes back on line we should update, but u also said that the updater is screwed up (which it is) and u shouldnt update until the server is back on line. Well, my updater is still screwed up, should i update or not?

[dragonfire999]

my updater is screwed up, seems to be only the skin. but it is updating

[maxben]

so is it fine to update?

[Moogie]

Yes, everyone needs to update now. The skin will look awfully strange- black background, overlapping text etc... but that is normal as far as I know. Once you\'ve updated, those graphical problems will disappear.

[Karyuu]

Quick question: Is there no longer a way to turn the menu into a horizontal bar, or is this vertical thing now permanent?



I\'m probably missing something on how to change it, so if anyone could just kindly point me in the right direction (if it exists) I\'d appreciate it.

Also, is it known that this baby is forever transparent, no matter how you try to bring it into focus?



Or am I missing something again ^^

[maxben]

well, i tried, but now it says cant connect to mirror lannx. wat should i do?

[Quwaar]

*yawn* to late to get 80MB now, Ill check back tomorrow

Goodnight

[Keyaz]

Originally posted by Karyuu
Quick question: Is there no longer a way to turn the menu into a horizontal bar, or is this vertical thing now permanent?

I\'m probably missing something on how to change it, so if anyone could just kindly point me in the right direction (if it exists) I\'d appreciate it.

Also, is it known that this baby is forever transparent, no matter how you try to bring it into focus?

Or am I missing something again ^^

right click the Chevrons at the top, 3 choices ^^

for the shortcuts, try right clickin on it, not on a button or on the scroll part, its awkward to catch but a window should pop up with the usual transparency and fade options ^^

[Aiselyn]

I\'m getting a problem when the updater tries to update itself. It says...

 \"Couldn\'t copy file \'cspngimg.dll\'! The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (32)\"

[Moogie]

Aiselyn: For that problem you need to close the Updater window before pressing \"OK\". I can\'t remember which one you need to close (DOS or the graphical one) but one of them will work. Process of elimination.


Karyuu: Simply rightclick the little arrow thingies.

[mavrik]

you close the graphical window.

[karakth]

Worth noting that this is only for Windows for now, Linux release will be comming (supposedly) tomorrow.

[Karyuu]

*edits*

Got it, thanks :)

[Aiselyn]

I don\'t get it. I don\'t even see an \'OK\' button yet. Basically here\'s what happens...

I load up the updater. (ver 1.0.2.5)
I click \'Update\'
It says it needs to update to ver 1.0.2.6. and it starts to do it.
After it reaches 100% I get a whole bunch of error messages as described above.
If I click cancel all the way, the updater attempts to update again automatically and fails again.