Server news

[GM-Ben]

Wednesday or thursday from 8:30 to 12:00 (eastern time) there should be some power interruptions. I don't have more information as of the exact period. So expect the server to be down at least one of those two period. I wont have any physical access to the server during those periods. The auto-powerup + remote access should allow the server to get back on feet quite fast.

We are sorry for any trouble that may cause to you.

Ben

[GM-Ben]

As some of you might have notice, no interruption occured this week as announced previously. Those interruption has been postponed by a week so
expect the interruption to occur either on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.

We are sorry about that.

Ben

[GM-Scott]

It seems the ISP that is providing connectivity to our server is experiencing difficulties. There was a small downtime late yesterday but it came back on. This morning, the server is still down. There is a possibility that this is part of the power interruptions GM-Ben mentionned and there is a possibility that it's ISP related.

Rest assured that our network equipment is tested and functionnal and our server is in great shape. We also do regular backup so your character is safe.

Thanks for your undestanding.

Scott

[GM-Ben]

Power has just been restablished. Server is now back online.

Enjoy.

Ben

[GM-Scott]

As you might have noticed, there is a new patch available since some time this afternoon. As with any launch, there has been some problems. People seems to have found all the help they needed to get it to work though since no one added me to their MSN!

So what's new with this release? Well, welcome to heRO 2.0! We can say that the first heRO was there to make sure we could run the server and now our own ideas are beggining to come to life. You will find in this update the first custom items. While the whole Light and Dark concept is still in the work, you can count that it's getting closer because the related wings are in there. You will also find the Phoenix Wings and the Arctic Wings. How to get them? Oh, we could not tell, you might want to go into an adventure to find the quest...

Just the patch itself is the result of 30 hours of work and the result is quite pleasing. The bumpy road that have been lead by the early adopters is now smooth as silk and everyone can enjoy the sight of these wings...if you can find them.

Good luck!

Scott

[GM-Feith]

Yep, we're finally releasing our first customs items : the elemental wings.

Some of you may have noticed all the GM were wearing new type of wings, well those are the elemental wings. Two of the four NPCs have been installed and are ready to use. Only Pheonix Wings and Arctic Wings are available at the moment. Gaia Wings and Aerial Wings will become available when we will fix all the bugs on the items.

IMPORTANT : Wings are now how they should have been from the start, untradable and unsellable.

Our next projects are the Zodiac Quest, then, the heRO GEAR System. We are working hard to provide you the best experience of Ragnarok.

For more information about the elemental quest, look over here.

Thank you for playing on heRO.

Now enjoy!

- Feith

[GM-Scott]

I took the time to clean up and add informations to the website today. You might want to check out all the sections to get a better feel of the changes. I'm all about feedback so if you have trouble with any of the sections, please PM me with your suggestions.

Thanks for making heRO Server a great place to play!

Scott

[GM-Scott]

I went mad for updates tonight and managed to fix the Control Panel to recognize the Taekwon family.

Enjoy!

Scott

[GM-Pandora]

An auction with hot items will be held in game, sunday the 30th, check this thead for more informations!

http://pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=1624

[GM-Ben]

As many of you might already have noticed, we have just upgraded the server to the latest SVN.

As with any update there are skill that are better than they used to, some are weaker. The team developping eAthena (the emulator we are using) are trying to have it as close as possible as the real officials servers. Same goes for quests and such. We can't look nor change back every single change they made. If you feel something is wrong, I post the 3 changelogs that were produced since the last version of the server we were running. Try to search them for your particular inquiry, it will most likely be answered.

• DB changelog Mainly changes regarding, monster skills/items/forging/crafting/monsters
  http://www.hero-server.net/changelogs/naru6233_db.txt
  
• NPC changelog Mainly changes to npc/npc locations/quests/monster spawning points
  http://www.hero-server.net/changelogs/naru6233_npc.txt
  
• Min changelog All the other changes: AI/Gameplay/skills/classes/etc.
  http://www.hero-server.net/changelogs/naru6233.txt
  

*N.B. we were runing the february 3rd svn before this one. So everything stated between this date and today is most likely new or changed now.

Many of the listed changes are "technical" but still some very useful informations might come from these.

Some of you might have a hard time making the Biolab quest. If its the case, please be patient, we allready have identified both the cause and the way to solve the problem. We just need a little time to put everything in place.

Ben