NPCs Cant Atack or Be Atacked

[nightwolf]

Whan I entered the game, I tried to atack a NPC but my char could not. It said NPC is Impervious to atack(or somthing like that)
What happened?

[Parallo]

NPC server is down. Just wait a while. It will be back later.

[nightwolf]

How much can it take?

[Parallo]

Oh a few weeks maybe. No, I have no idea. It varies. Just have patience.

[nightwolf]

Are the GMs at least fixing this?

[Caarrie]

Are the GMs at least fixing this?

the GMS have no ability to fix this only devs with server access can.

[nightwolf]

Oh.
Anyway I hope they're workin at it.

Edit:
Had you this problem before?
How much did it took to solve it?

[Lenade Lavor]

I think this is about the 1000th time we have had the problem... It can last an hour, a day, a week... As a normal time I would say maybe 6 hours?

[nightwolf]

6 hours?
I think this problem was more than 24 hours. What r those guys doing?

[Caarrie]

6 hours?
I think this problem was more than 24 hours. What r those guys doing?

how about they have jobs irl and other things to do, they dont sit at their pc's all day waiting for planeshift bugs to happen and fix them as they see them. Give it time guys the devs will work on it when they get a chance.

[Cybelia]

yes same prob here plus can't get into town, ok thanx carrie and all, we will wait patiently my RL always takes a toll on my GL 

[LlubNek]

Any chance we could get an NPC client status page like http://laanx.fragnetics.com/ ?

And maybe a system to automatically restart the NPC client when it crashes?  Something like... server pings NPC client, NPC client fails to respond, server kills any NPC client process that's still running and starts a new one, if NPC client crashes n times in m minutes, leave it down and post a message to a developer mailing list (could also make a similar watchdog program for the server itself).

There's not a whole lot you can do when the NPC client is down, you've already got a quest calling for a large number of animal parts (which you'll never manage to buy enough of to finish it since NPCs don't sell 'em, players don't hold on to them, and, under the circumstances, they're in unusually high demand), you've just leveled up in mining (so you can't progress before training and you're still low enough you can't mine anything that's worth something), and you're broke.

[Rongar Elani]

... you've just leveled up in mining (so you can't progress before training and you're still low enough you can't mine anything that's worth something), and you're broke.

If nothing has changed, you can mine any mineral even with level 0, as long as the first training is done. However, you said you just leveled up, so I'm pretty sure you can mine for gold, which is worth 400-500 per ore to other players.

[LlubNek]

pretty sure that's changed... I remember getting a message like "You must be at least level n to mine x."  I think gold is level 3.  Pretty sure I can mine tin, but it's not worth much and I'd have to find it first (and since I just leveled up, I get no practice points, so it's a lot of work for little benefit).  Even apple picking is a faster way of earning trias than coal mining.

[Rongar Elani]

Wow, okay. That's good to know, thanks. So I won't stand like a fool, next time I tell a newbie how to mine gold.

Fictional scenario:

Rongar: Here we are, here you can dig for gold.
Newbie: Hmm, I can't do it...
Rongar: Yes, you can. You have a pick and bought the first training.
Newbie: It won't let me.
Rongar: Stand right here and try again.
Newbie: Didn't work, I can't mine it.
Rongar: Yes, you can. You have a pick and bought the first training.
Newbie: ...
Newbie: ......

-Newbie has quit.