Announcements

We are sorry to announce that all servers will be down until Monday. They are down for some datacenter issues and will be back online 100% working on tomorrow afternoon. We are apologies because of this issue, but it wasn't our fault and it wasn't planed.
But the good news are that, C6 beta ( Interlude ) will be open in the upcoming weekend, and once it is opened on test server (Luna) we need up to 5 days to update it on all servers, this info is final and definite. So you can start download Interlude client if you didn't download it already. Once again sorry for the downtime , but it is not our fault.

DN team.

There was general maintance with all servers, we are sorry for downtime. All server should be up soon.
Again we apologies for downtime.

DN team.

December 09, 2007:
C6 beta ( Interlude ) will be open in the upcoming weekend, and once it is opened on test server (Luna) we need up to 5 days to update it on all servers, this info is final and definite.
So you can start download Interlude client if you didn't download it already.

December 18, 2007:
Well, we are happy to say you that yesterday, tests on Luna server is started.
Me and Aizen (and other GM from others servers) tested a lot of features today, and we think that it's a good server.
We found some bugs, but they are going to fix in the next hours
Anyway ... we are happy about that geodata and the features implemented.
We hope in next days to give all of you that things in each our server.

Giving link to any exploit,cheat or similar sites will cause permanent ban on forum, without any warning.
This rule starts from today.

DN team.

All dragon-network crew wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR and best wishes!!!!!

18:00 - 8 January 2008 - GMT+1

Servers down for maintenance, they should come up in 1 day.
Thanks for the patience.

After testing we can announce that we have add some new options/modifications to the forum:

-Calendar with Birthday notification
-New Pop-up system when new message is received (you have to have poop-up allowed)
-We have update "forbidden words"
-Implanted minimum words per post to avoid spam

*Currently our Community team is working on more modification, which will bring us more joy and fun on the forum (Community will be informed on time)

Also to improve our work and stability , to support our work and efforts to keep all servers together, after 1 year + of our existence , we want to ask you for some help in order to support us and allow us to keep up the good work. It requires quite a little of your time per day and it help us really a lot,so if you would be so kind to support our forum :

*Look on our advertise links, they will allow us to upgrade our machine that we are currently using and to make our community site more stable and working.*

Once again thank you for supporting us and we will give our best to make you more satisfied on forum.

DN team.

Some updates (currently active on dragon, then on other servers)

*Cancel and cancel-like skills: power reduced
*Disease: base effect is bleed (resistance on bleed will give resistance from disease)
*Weakness: base effect is poison (resistance on poison will give resistance from weakness)
*Wind shakle: base effect is wind (resistance on wind will give resistance from weakness)
*Drain effects: they are all now based on unholy (resistance from unholy gives resistance from drains)
*NPCs that was doing cancel of all, buff and debuffs, will now cancel only buffs
*Surrender to xxx will now stack to resistance to xxx (before they was removing each other)
disease and silence have now -base- probability of success of 60% (before was 80%)
*Silence and anchor now lasts 30 seconds (before was 120 seconds)
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Upcoming during the week:
- more tweaks on mages
- fix about weapon mastery stacking on XMENs

*Please remember that resistance/weakness from dark effects is same as resistance from unholy effects (and skills works accordantly to that)

Servers are down for regular maintenance, they should be up in 1 day.

Servers are down because of data center failure, this wasn't planed neither is caused by our fault. As soon as data center resolve it we will bring the servers up. Sorry for this issue.

I have spoked with drake, the reason why he cant fix some things at the
moment its because he have some rl issue as well as PC hardware failure
(while i am typing this he should get new part- already ordered few
days ago).

-But good news are that as soon as he get his pc working we are getting new machine which means no laggzor any more.

-About
interlude as far as i am informed when drake is back online IL is ready
for Upload (it might affect 24-48h downtime of all servers)

-About
new site and new donations method (trough paypal) i've spoked to design
team and its all ready , we are just waiting now new event page (design
+ new system of signing in for participation) to be done and design
team + forum admins should put into work. (for more details try pm
henrik or devilsmind)

-About recent Leaving of Raven servers
dont be disturbed , traitors will always be traitors and they can leave
which will not affect to a DN server at all.

- About my
inactivities lately , i am sorry , but i am fixing something in real
life (work to be more specific) but it will pass in few days and ill
be back again more activity like i was doing in past (help/events/fun)

~Track

New machine for new NM was ordered yesterday, i hope during upcoming week we will have it UP and running.

I have also really really really GREAT NEWS , but i prefer few more days before publish them.

TrackZero

Great news today !

BETA test server C6 will be opened in the next hours / days for all players. This server is already opened for some testers.
A link will be given to make the update soon.

After several days / weeks of testing, we will be able to make the update on main servers.

You can start to install your C6 client if it is not already done

Downtime for a while for major updates and stability fixes (all memory leaks solved). I think we are really really close to FINALLY update all servers.

During night/morning servers could go down anytime and get moved to interlude (with some custom stuffs of kamael)
Please be sure to have downloaded INTERLUDE client. Refer to Arena section for links.

Downtime for around 24hours... you know why.
Client Updater will be posted soon on main website.

some notes:

- if you are subbed you have subclass mark with wrote "OldStyle"... means it will be converted to the new system soon. Currently the new system is NOT open to players yet because i'm testing it on arena (private testing). Do not spam about the new system.

- Mana pots lasts 33% time less (20 sec instead of 30), BUT they give MORE MP than before. This is to match with the 33% dmg reduction during pvp. Means that overall everyone does less damage (33%), of course who uses mana is more affected so they have pots that lasts 33% less time and they give MORE mana (so they are like compressed) so you can cast more skills before run out of MP.

- All other custom pots got halved in duration because they was too much of a buff, now they last half-buff (10 minutes). Many asked to remove them, many to keep them, so... we just halve their duration.

- Acumen potion is now a lvl2 acumen because a potion shouldn't be more powerful than a buff. the CLASS is more important than a potion that can easily be made by various other classes. Anyway, can be it will be made it matching the buff (but it will never become better)

- Dances are currently 2minutes and can last up to 6 minutes if enchanted propertly. Retail instead have dances of 1 minute enchantable to max 2 minutes. We will see now how it goes and eventually we will raise them a bit but for now are fine. If i get too much wines on forum about dances i will simply apply the rule "MAKEITASOFFICIAL" (you wanted FistFury as official? You take also dances as official).

- Teleports are retail like, sorry. Eventually we will review some of them but don't expect much changes. Nobless is not a replace of GM's //teleport command but simply the way to become hero.

Interlude:
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New Chapter of Dragon-Network , i can only say congratulations to all who helped us in this project that we all waited so long , and of course for your patience. We are running Interlude 3 days now, but still in open beta testing phase. Priorities that we wanted to make by this update (the reason why we delayed it few times) were:

-Stability (server/client side)
-Major bug fix
-Exploits (major one of course, so we don't need to rollback every day or wipe completely every day)
-Some tweaking of things (pots/pvp system/Kamel fortresses and so on...)
-Preventing l2w and other malicious programs that destroyed game a lot (in other word Security)

And all those major priorities are successfully done, and now as every new update happen on any server , same goes for Dragon-Network too, we have some open beta test server which will give us *bug* list that need to be done or even tweaked up. Also you may noticed that Drake is actively back and working/coding 24/7 , fixing bugs and tweaking up some things, he is reading forum daily and we should help him to see correct bugs not the spam wave of "crying topics, understand that new Chapter of Lineage 2 (Interlude) bring new system of many known things so you can not expect after update that we have same things as we had on Chronicle 4 (c4) , remember the past (c3 and c4 after updating have also bring new changes on you have get used during the time), so point is get used to new changes there is nothing "bugabble" in that its just you have to get used on this. I have also saw spam galore about pots/decreese of damage/dances/....understad one thing all those kind of things can be tweaked up,nothing is unchangeable , but before spamming to return it or remove it use common sense and try to think some minutes why we have put it like this (explained several times). If you want to ask/report something i suggest you 2 things to check first:

a)click on drakes name , then click Show the last posts of this person. and review all of his replys you may find an answer.
b)check other posts/topics maybe its already posted about it and solved

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Want to report bug?

Sure we are happy to fix it, but you should do it in proper way so drake and other GM-s can see it on time and not to be lost in "spam wave", so here is the hint how you should do it:
When reporting its impossible to give important details (example if you are reporting clan bug write clan level/clan leader name/server/did you made new clan or it was old one/etc... same goes for other things as well), and its IMPORTANT that you use proper section for it, each server have BUG SECTION where bugs should be written (you don't need to post bugs in general section to showing your point it doesn't help us at all).

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"Bugland (test) Period"

Yes, you have to understand that we are fixing at the moment all known bugs and that DN is in open beta so give us some time and all will be pretty balanced as it was (ok "was"),and once again understand new chronicle = new system , get used to it, re-roll. Cheer UP people we are working full time and things will be back on normal and DN will be again on place where it should be , on top!

Thank you for supporting and understnding and future optimism !!!



DN team.


P.S. Vista users: If you error has occurred ,right click on the Dragon-Network loader file,then clikc properties,then compatibility, scroll down,set run as administrator, that should take care of the "can't create process" issue.

P.S Note that major changes/fixes got listed also on the loader, read them.

uploaded on all servers what was wrote on loader yesterday night.



I would also add that now who was in academy got moved to main clan.
Notice that clan limit (clientside) is 40 members so you will only see 40 members (even if they are all clanned correctly)... solution is simple, just unclan them until you reach amount 40 and reclan them under Knights or Guards (they should work properly).
Academy will be re-enabled as soon as the bug is closed.

All accademy/guard/knight members got shifted again to main clan.
Teorically there shouldn't be anymore issues about hidden clan members or clan leader moved somewhere else or hidden....
please let me know.

also, just for test, reduced dmg reduction from 33% to 24%, give me some feedbacks... maybe we will come back to 33% or we will keep 24% or dunno

Regarding the current downtime, ill take some time to explain to the NM community whats going on, why the servers down, and when they can expect the servers to come back online.

Basically there was a dupe exploit which was found in its early stages, drake shutdown the servers to prevent any more items from being duped, the initial fix and downtime was only planned to be about 24h. During drakes coding process and fixing several problems and the exploit itself, drake found several huge exploits and problems which effect all the servers. He is currently working as hard as humanly possible to get the problems fixed and resolved so all players can continue gaming.

Currently there is no ETA for when the servers will come online, it all depends on when the problems are fixed, the servers are down to prevent the economies from being ruined and to prevent having to track and find all the items that will or have already been duped. However no items where duped on Nightmare, it only took place on some of the other servers, NM is only down because of what i stated above.

I can give a rough estimate of when servers will be up, but don't consider it the official ETA and don't get angry if its not correct, hopefully by Friday/Saturday the problem will be resolved.

NM Staff

S spoil recipes 60% as promised are finally back, so dwarfs can warm their craft shops again. However since we have updated on interlude spoil mobs for s recipes will not be same as in c4 , telling you which are new monsters to spoil will be too easy, so for now i will only say try at dino and mos areas and strongest monster doesn't mean best recipe and opposite. Also s parts are still spoilable/dropable by old areas from c4. Inform me if all is ok or need some tweak up, big thx for patience. Long live the dwarfs.

TrackZero a écrit:In the next days Arena server will go temporarily offline and after about 24-48hours it will come online as Hellbound Open-Beta. The game database will be the active Arena one so you will be able to play without issues (keep in mind you will need an Hellbound Client). During the following two weeks (estimated beta period) every feature will be enabled one by one to ensure minimal issues. At the end of the beta period there should be no rollback (if no big issue will happen) so your progress made during the beta will not be lost. Also, after the beta, whole DNET will upgrade to Hellbound too.

If you didnt download it till now, here is the link where you can do it:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_25136.shtml

Now patience is virtual, thank you.