News on next update

[Phinehas]

Originally posted by Malicus
I\'m probably in the extreme minority here, and I\'ll probably get chased out with pitchforks and torches, but I\'m the sort who plays MMORPGs to gain levels and skills and such, sure, but I understand rather well what RP is.  I just usually choose to avoid RP in MMORPGs, though I try to avoid disrupting it if I see it going on.  Granted, most MMORPGs don\'t exactly have environments that encourage RP, though...  I suppose it\'s just unfair to label all of those who are there simply for the mechanics of the game as ignorant of RP...

Well, since you don\'t try to disrupt RP, then you\'re better in a lot of ways than most. However, the problem I still have with this is that a massive multi-player role-playing game, is a role-playing game, meaning you\'re supposed to, y\'know, role-play...

The other thing that bothers me is, if you\'re not interested in RP, what are you doing in PS? Aren\'t there games that have much more for a leveller to do than PS? PS is like a couple skills and some graphics held together by a setting... Why would anyone who wants to PL even come to PS?

Last on my list of things that bother me is... what\'s the fun in PLing? Is point-and-click really enjoyable for you, or do you just lack the skills to play an FPS or RTS?

[Arkumin Delvrim]

Originally posted by ramlambmoo ...
Its easy for you to say just wipe everything, if you dont have a char from MB.  Everything is getting wiped, and going back to the way it was at the start of CB / end of MB.

It is not! I spent hours and hours over days and days PL\'ing a lot of my CB stats to a max of 150! And hunting for the nonexistent 150+ Strength trainer wasn\'t easy either!

oopsie..did I just compare my PL\'ing to MB Crystal hunting and/or Post CB-former MB player Crystal to Trias conversion bug whining?

My bad.

/me tries to not spill Ale while ducking and running

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Efflixi Aduro
Also, there were 2 cheaters in MB, psybur and somone else. Both were banned. There were bugs in mb but nothing to do with crystals.

There were two who actually got caught. There is absolutely no way to tell how many went uncaught. Furthermore, due to the massive crystal drops, crystal giveaways there is no way to tell how many of the crystals that people have were the results of abusive behaviour.

As for the few who never log out: If online time will ever mean anything, then the amount of these will dramatically rise, and we would need to implement inactivity kicking, which will trigger botting.

Furthermore: there is RP being conducted by non-newbies. It just tends to be in places that are not swamped by newbies who didn\'t bother to even read the website. In fact, I spend most of my time ingame RPing if possible, and I know for a fact that there are others who do the same.

Comparing the MB->CB transition to the wipe isn\'t entirely accurate, though. The transition was more like a massive update than a wipe. And had the crystal hunt had proper security and swift countermeasures, I would have been fine with it even though it was known that it was just implemented to give people something to do, not as part of the game. Therefore, even though it was completely and utterly OOC, had no integration with the setting whatsoever (besides a rather thin statement on the MB website) I would not have opposed it.

@ Demarthl: Well, indeed there are some things that I have positive feelings towards. They just tend to not be implemented yet. *shrugs*

[DaveG]

Originally posted by Seytra
As for the few who never log out: If online time will ever mean anything, then the amount of these will dramatically rise, and we would need to implement inactivity kicking, which will trigger botting.

I agree entirely.  I heard much talk about an AFK-booter before, and I think it\'s planned, but I\'m not sure.


@Arkumin Delvrim:  You just like to try to spark flame wars, don\'t you?    And, btw, it took me a sec to realize when you were saying \"P2P\" you meant \"pay-to-play\" and not \"peer-to-peer\"...  I just kept thinking, \"PS is most certainly centralized.... WTF?..\".....   :rolleyes:   I use only 2 or 3 abbreviations on the forums.  Please, just type things... it takes and extra half of a second...

[leuxast]

The server is down...is something up...or is it my terrible computer;)

[Darkhack]

http://laanx.fragnetics.com/

Use that page to check the statistics on the left.  The report time vs. the actual time.  If they are more than a minute apart odds are the server is infact down.

Looks like that happens to be the case.  Looks like good news!  That may mean that the update is coming!!!

[Eolius]

This is weird....

Players Online

Crystai, Jjairr, Bodacher, Neave, Seavrean, Hivel, Kreggor, Sarelo, Pochier, Klanked, Ayinow, Mudd, Doralla, Ogu, Verrliit, Kasisuki, Cyberlink, Ishmael, Darkind, Frac, Carad, Danok, Platyna, Elzap, Gregore, Coal, Panax,

And the progrm says server fail...
No news on Fragnetics or on the mainserver.
Good thing that there are 2 similar posts, or I would start to hammer my ISP

Well, I really hope this is the wipe and I wish the devs good luck in making the transition as fast as possible

[Karyuu]

As I posted in another thread:

Current Time - Mon Aug 1 15:40:17 SGT 2005
Report Time - Mon Aug 1 13:38:35 2005

No one is in-game at the moment ;)

[Danok]

\"Players Online

Crystai, Jjairr, Bodacher, Neave, Seavrean, Hivel, Kreggor, Sarelo, Pochier, Klanked, Ayinow, Mudd, Doralla, Ogu, Verrliit, Kasisuki, Cyberlink, Ishmael, Darkind, Frac, Carad, Danok, Platyna, Elzap, Gregore, Coal, Panax...\"

Well, I\'m certainly not online--unless I have a split personality!  

Pretty sure this is it--though I suppose it could be some routine server maintenance?  Seems like they do that pretty consistantly each weekend (right around this time if memory serves correct)--at least the 3 or so weekends this Noob has been on.

Here\'s hoping the \"Catyclism\" is upon us!
-----Danok

[Eolius]

/me hides the hammer away and goes to see a movie

Yaaaaay finaly the wipe is here! .

Oh, btw, after a chat in plaza we finaly came up with a IC explanation of the wipe. It seems that the Azure Sun Had started emitting Dark Way energy and the first symptoms of being exposed to that are some weird behaviours and increased agresivity ((ooc)ppl had nothing better, or at least found nothing better, to do and there was alot of duelling in plaza lately). Then as the final burst released a big wave of energy we got all killed. But we have good gods in Yliakum and Laanx made us reborn. ((ooc)Also some ppl wanted to change race and there is another explanation for this too). It seems that the tremendous energy released caused some mutations and some reincarnated in another body.

[Valbrandr]

If it is true then I would like to tell the Devs how much I love them   .  If not disregard the last statement.

[DaveG]

Let\'s hope so.  )

I just noticed something else the wipe will fix:

# of characters:  86498
# or accounts:  111723

This seems a bit off to me...    I guess these are some of  the \"bugged accounts\" they speak of...

[jorrit]

Originally posted by DaveG
Let\'s hope so.  )

I just noticed something else the wipe will fix:

# of characters:  86498
# or accounts:  111723

This seems a bit off to me...    I guess these are some of  the \"bugged accounts\" they speak of...

You would be surprised how many people make an account and then (for some technical or other reason) never succeed in making a character.

Greetings,

[John_Thazer]

Originally posted by Danok
\"Players Online

Crystai, Jjairr, Bodacher, Neave, Seavrean, Hivel, Kreggor, Sarelo, Pochier, Klanked, Ayinow, Mudd, Doralla, Ogu, Verrliit, Kasisuki, Cyberlink, Ishmael, Darkind, Frac, Carad, Danok, Platyna, Elzap, Gregore, Coal, Panax...\"

Been like that for a while now, and server is down. Gonna wait till it\'s up, even if it\'s not the great day. Last time I missed the release of CB by half an hour, plus whatever time I needed to download it, that costed me my name. This time I won\'t miss it.

*Starts repeativly clicking Update and Ping Server buttons*

EDIT: When trying to access the PS main page it says \"Service Unavailable\". They are up to something!!!

EDIT 2: It\'s gone now, no changes...


EDIT 3: Argh, gotta leave my PC for a while, if this is the day then Wipe wait till I am back...if not... Tmed SAVE MY NAME!!!

[Drey]

if anyone steals any of my names KILL!

better be up before 6 or ill miss it