Server Maintenance - 4 - 11 - 2012

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All servers will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 5am PDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT / 12pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Weekly+Mainteannce&iso=20120411T05&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 4 hours.

With this maintenance:


The server selection screen now displays server population in more accurate values based on percentage of server capacity.
The issue of /attackforce not working properly is fixed.
The issue of the final Kartia boss not being petrified when it appears is fixed.
The issue of characters not being able to move in a certain area of Gludio is fixed.
The issue of abnormal displays in water reflections in certain regions (if the graphic option is enabled) is fixed.
**Update** The Extra Kartia Pass items have been switched out in the L2 Store for non-tradable versions. The tradable Extra Kartia Passes purchased before this change remain in the game. For counter-abuse reasons, it was not possible to announce this change before it occurred.
Woho, now i can PK noobs again, properly (and first)
Note: this update causes a minor bug that will soon be fixed; the character number in the server selection screen will show 0 instead of the correct number of characters you have on the server. Please ignore this issue, as a fix will be implemented as soon as possible.

I bet this will be the cause of hundreds of heart failures among the players :D
With this maintenance:



Note: this update causes a minor bug that will soon be fixed; the character number in the server selection screen will show 0 instead of the correct number of characters you have on the server. Please ignore this issue, as a fix will be implemented as soon as possible.


A patch that ll be need another patch...
Please GM's stop wasting ur time with L2 store and ban hundreds of boters in Giants Cave and Crypt of Disgrace
I bet this will be the cause of hundreds of heart failures among the players :D

NC west can't afford for this to happen which is why they have annouced it before maintenance :P
The server selection screen now displays server population in more accurate values based on percentage of server capacity.


Is it updated each time I log in, or each 5min It's updated and I will see the results ?
aka what's the refresh rate of those % figures shown like hourly/15min/5min/1min..
The issue of characters not being able to move in a certain area of Gludio is fixed.
and what about aden? it have same bugs and lots of!
Chronos down 40 min before official announce ...
Chronos down 40 min before official announce ...

As usually.
All servers will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 5am PDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT / 12pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Weekly+Mainteannce&iso=20120411T05&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 4 hours.

With this maintenance:


Note: this update causes a minor bug that will soon be fixed; the character number in the server selection screen will show 0 instead of the correct number of characters you have on the server. Please ignore this issue, as a fix will be implemented as soon as possible.


Can the fix be that it's back to showing the server ping again instead. :p

Is there any other way of finding your ping to the server btw?
NC west can't afford for this to happen which is why they have annouced it before maintenance :P
Not everyone reads the announcements, I myself had to spread words about bugfixes and such :rolleyes:
Not everyone reads the announcements, I myself had to spread words about bugfixes and such :rolleyes:
been there, done that
Its pointless, no one want to ban bots on harnak, or vos, because botters=doters= NC Soft $$$

;]
Hello, can I ask you? I wont start play today. I installed everything what's I needid and now i can't be logged. Everytime, when I try Log in into the game, see little window and in is: You have been disconected in the server, Please Login again. I founded in L2 website, that is maintenance, but I can not foung server status, i mean I can not found this: Login server: online\offline and Game server: online\offline. Please Do you know where I can found this? Thx for answer. Monnii

P.S. Sorry for my english.
I founded in L2 website, that is maintenance, but I can not foung server status, i mean I can not found this: Login server: online\offline and Game server: online\offline. Please Do you know where I can found this? Thx for answer. Monnii

The server is currently offline.

You should be able to look at it at Lineage2 site (Community -> Server Status), but that service is currently unavailable. You can look at it at http://www.lineage2.com/en/community/server-status/

Normally, when you get that error message, the problem is that a) the server is down, or b) a patch was just applied and you need to update with the launcher.
The server is currently offline.

You should be able to look at it at Lineage2 site (Community -> Server Status), but that service is currently unavailable. You can look at it at http://www.lineage2.com/en/community/server-status/

Normally, when you get that error message, the problem is that a) the server is down, or b) a patch was just applied and you need to update with the launcher.

thank you:)
Note: this update causes a minor bug that will soon be fixed; the character number in the server selection screen will show 0 instead of the correct number of characters you have on the server. Please ignore this issue, as a fix will be implemented as soon as possible.


Fix something by making something else fail. Now that's new :p:p:p
did they break to moving algorithm again? lol
ty for changing Kartia back :)

(i.e. making npc intelligent again)
(i.e. making npc intelligent again)
That would be the only way to push me to farm solo Kartia again!
Hello, can I ask you? I wont start play today. I installed everything what's I needid and now i can't be logged. Everytime, when I try Log in into the game, see little window and in is: You have been disconected in the server, Please Login again. I founded in L2 website, that is maintenance, but I can not foung server status, i mean I can not found this: Login server: online\offline and Game server: online\offline. Please Do you know where I can found this? Thx for answer. Monnii

P.S. Sorry for my english.

http://chronos.kaifas.lt/

Game server status. Not sure where to check the login server status.
FYI an additional patch note was added to the maintenance notice today.

**Update** The Extra Kartia Pass items have been switched out in the L2 Store for non-tradable versions. The tradable Extra Kartia Passes purchased before this change remain in the game. For counter-abuse reasons, it was not possible to announce this change before it occurred.

Also, the bug of character count showing 0 was fixed right before the maintenance began, so I'm removing that patch note from the list. :)

Can the fix be that it's back to showing the server ping again instead. :p

There are currently no plans to change the list back to server ping instead of character count.
Kartia is finally back to how it use to be. Good job.

But is there a specific reason as to why Devil's Move doesn't actually seem to work in Kartia solo? :)
Anyone else getting ridiculous lag?
I wonder when the hell ppl who maintain games (every single company out there) will learn the lesson "IF IT IS NOT BROKEN, DO NOT FIX IT!!!!!:mad:" we we got this **** lagg that was bugging the whole day, tsk,,, unnecesary patching as usual...
Just wondering about servers arent Heavy status anymore..but light or max Normal..what happened ? Bans or server players max count increased ? :)
With this maintenance:


The server selection screen now displays server population in more accurate values based on percentage of server capacity.


Just wondering about servers arent Heavy status anymore..but light or max Normal..what happened ? Bans or server players max count increased ? :)


This maybe? :)
**** it..i should realy start to read that things properly :D ty
this is ridiculous, i can make a ******* video showing how this **** disconnecting me every 5 ******* minutes, or the ******* lagg! ****!
Just did my 1st kartia in weeks and to some extent the NPCs are "smarter"

Did whole instance in like 20 min
More lags since the downtime. Also getting stuck every time you are close to a wall sucks (walking to the BS Mammon at Aden is a pain now :eek:).

Also could it be that the Kartia 90 solo is harder now? Feels like the mobs hit harder and can tank more dmg.
(Did it 2 times yesterday to check and it took me both times ~2min more as before)

BTW: I am pretty happy that u changed the Kartia Passes, but i don't like that it was again a ninja patch. You have to communicate more with the staff and then with us about changes.
I think they once again realized that an item in the l2 store was tradeable in game, and could lead to "RMT". So they ninja-changed it so ppl couldnt stock up on it.

Wonder what item is gonna get screwed up next month and be up for sale for a week...
The issue of the final Kartia boss not being petrified when it appears is fixed.


Not sure what was problem, but now in solo Kartia NPC behave like at very beginning.
- Summoner lose summons
- NPC instead follow you, they stuck in some places
- Mini RB no longer appear in 4th stage
- mobs in RB room behave more aggressive then they used to be few days ago.
- in 1st room waives going faster (I could save 3 prisoners, I'm nuker so relay only on speed of killing incoming mobs) I did 6 stages in 5 min (sonatas :D )

In general if you would fix summoner to not lose summons in every room would be perfect :confused:
- Mini RB no longer appear in 4th stage


If you mean the second one, in the middle room, I just kill him right there so he never appeared for me in the last room (though I heard he does for others).

Too bad about the non-tradable Kartia passes. I gave out 10+ of them to friends to help them level up and now I can't do that anymore. :(
enviroment has high level agro skill, try buffing mental shield and resist hold.:p
If you mean the second one, in the middle room, I just kill him right there so he never appeared for me in the last room (though I heard he does for others).

Too bad about the non-tradable Kartia passes. I gave out 10+ of them to friends to help them level up and now I can't do that anymore. :(

If I remember correctly you awoke as tank on your dwarf. Tank is about the only class that can keep him in second room, for everyone else he runs off at half hp. Agression will bring him back to you, but for ISS root (and petrify for cooldown on roots) is the only way to kill him.

Most other classes just get to see him run off. Although you might be better off letting him run if you have alot of prisoners saved, since it dies faster to you+10 prisoners than to you and your lion.
Sace fix also kartia 90 solo,on last raid's room mobs that spawn behave like if they have the player as locked target and move all together where ever the player sits instead of moving to the door,making it almost impossible to finish the instance without duying.
Sace fix also kartia 90 solo,on last raid's room mobs that spawn behave like if they have the player as locked target and move all together where ever the player sits instead of moving to the door,making it almost impossible to finish the instance without duying.
We've also reported the strange behaviors in Kartia.
Since maintenance i've been in quite a stuck/laggy/buggy daze.

On another note, is it just me or has there been quite a drop in server population over the past few days? Took me ages to make a party for kartia & soa yesterday, most people complaining they couldn't even find DD's.
I've also had great problems moving about in Zaken and even stuff like spezion etc. Last night was just laggy and horrible for most people I played with (3-4 random parties).


Sace fix also kartia 90 solo,on last raid's room mobs that spawn behave like if they have the player as locked target and move all together where ever the player sits instead of moving to the door,making it almost impossible to finish the instance without duying.

Kartia seems vastly improved to me now, mobs spread aggro and don't all gank you at once and npc's react significantly better. It went from a 28 minute full attention instance before maintainence to ~21 minutes without even using tree, sending healer home and 1/2 surfing the web whilst I fight.

I find it a massive improvement.
I've also had great problems moving about in Zaken and even stuff like spezion etc. Last night was just laggy and horrible for most people I played with (3-4 random parties).




Kartia seems vastly improved to me now, mobs spread aggro and don't all gank you at once and npc's react significantly better. It went from a 28 minute full attention instance before maintainence to ~21 minutes without even using tree, sending healer home and 1/2 surfing the web whilst I fight.

I find it a massive improvement.

+1. Still need to submit a ticket to get that account forum name fixed. :(
The various issues mentioned in this thread about geodata and getting stuck have been reported and a bug has been created for this.

Sace, since you obviously don't have the personnel to properly test patches before you apply them, why don't you run a permanent PTS, like in Korea? Make it 1x rate, so that it's as live-like as possible, but give people the possibility to level up via cats as an incentive to play around there, testing raid strategies or whatever. First apply any patches you get sent from Seoul to the PTS, and only after at least one week (usually bugs are found by the players within hours) you apply the patch to the live servers. Since any fix will probably contain further bugs, this will give you an excuse to freeze the game at the present state of affairs and avoid Tauti, an update which will lose you tons of customers:
http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=507&start=360
Sace, since you obviously don't have the personnel to properly test patches before you apply them, why don't you run a permanent PTS, like in Korea? Make it 1x rate, so that it's as live-like as possible, but give people the possibility to level up via cats as an incentive to play around there, testing raid strategies or whatever. First apply any patches you get sent from Seoul to the PTS, and only after at least one week (usually bugs are found by the players within hours) you apply the patch to the live servers. Since any fix will probably contain further bugs, this will give you an excuse to freeze the game at the present state of affairs and avoid Tauti, an update which will lose you tons of customers:
http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=507&start=360
Seems like a nice suggestion, it would avoid a lot of bugs to hit live servers.
Anyone else getting ridiculous lag?


Me.
At some hours I get incredibly lagged until I get disconnected. The rest of the time I'm a more lagged than before, 1 second (sometimes more) to get a target. Playable, but annoying.
All servers will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 5am PDT / 7am CDT / 8am EDT / 12pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Weekly+Mainteannce&iso=20120411T05&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 4 hours.

With this maintenance:


The server selection screen now displays server population in more accurate values based on percentage of server capacity.
The issue of /attackforce not working properly is fixed.
The issue of the final Kartia boss not being petrified when it appears is fixed.
The issue of characters not being able to move in a certain area of Gludio is fixed.
The issue of abnormal displays in water reflections in certain regions (if the graphic option is enabled) is fixed.
**Update** The Extra Kartia Pass items have been switched out in the L2 Store for non-tradable versions. The tradable Extra Kartia Passes purchased before this change remain in the game. For counter-abuse reasons, it was not possible to announce this change before it occurred.

After this maintenance I did try to upgrade clan to lvl 10 and despite the fact that i was having 141 members in clan (npc say more then 140) I did received same error that we dont have enough clan members to make upgrade to lvl 10. I have the feeling that this is related to last maintenance becoze there is at least one clan on magmeld server who already make lvl 10 (final order clan). Please a GM or Nc Soft representative contact me on mail or in game (CovMastery on Magmeld Server). Thks
After this maintenance I did try to upgrade clan to lvl 10 and despite the fact that i was having 141 members in clan (npc say more then 140) I did received same error that we dont have enough clan members to make upgrade to lvl 10. I have the feeling that this is related to last maintenance becoze there is at least one clan on magmeld server who already make lvl 10 (final order clan). Please a GM or Nc Soft representative contact me on mail or in game (CovMastery on Magmeld Server). Thks
Please send a ticket (https://lineage2.custhelp.com/app/ask/) through our support service explaining the situation. A support representative or GM can contact you once the ticket is processed in the order received.
So when are you going to fix the Geo Data issue and will those who had nevit pots be reimbursed. I feel cheated that I am having a hard time leveling and getting stuck on every single blade of grass.
So when are you going to fix the Geo Data issue and will those who had nevit pots be reimbursed. I feel cheated that I am having a hard time leveling and getting stuck on every single blade of grass.
I'm afraid we don't have an ETA for when the fix will be implemented. Consideration for compensation could happen after the fix is made, once we have a full scope of the issue and how long it lasted in total. Once I have updates on the issue I'll share them.
thank you till then i am staying out of game i've lost enough exp.
thank you till then i am staying out of game i've lost enough exp.
What, do you determine a quota of xp to gain every day and if you don't meet that quota you lose? Is it some sort of business? :eek:
Is there a problem with the server shilen tonight? when i try all my acounts once in game i dc. Any reason? hope you can answer me thanks
What, do you determine a quota of xp to gain every day and if you don't meet that quota you lose? Is it some sort of business? :eek:

What I am talking about as far as lost xp is that I've gotten stuck so many times and died because I have mobs and gotten stuck, try doing tank aoe... Regardless I purchased xp bonus and can't fully utilize it
What I am talking about as far as lost xp is that I've gotten stuck so many times and died because I have mobs and gotten stuck, try doing tank aoe... Regardless I purchased xp bonus and can't fully utilize it
Ah ok... that really sucks.
If I buy a xp rune, and then go out of town for a few days, can I get that refunded as well? Coz I couldnt use it 24/7 either, I had to sleep >.<
Song of Wind doesn't work with mentor buffs anymore?

edit: seems to work sometimes, sometimes dont.
If I buy a xp rune, and then go out of town for a few days, can I get that refunded as well? Coz I couldnt use it 24/7 either, I had to sleep >.<
Yeah because everyone plays 24/7 purpose is so I can maximize my xp I would say I play roughly 4 hrs per night during week days and maybe 6 to 8 hrs it's not the point the point is I purchased something that I can't use because of ncsoft problem with the rune and the problem I've lost more xp than I've gained :eek:
Getting stuck on every rock and wall is very frustrating. It complicates the simplest things and it got to the point to where I don't even want to log in any more. The pillars and trees in gog... any door or hallways.... a six inch incline.... I get stuck just about everywhere and it takes a good 10-30 seconds and wild camera panning just to get out of it.

Heaven help me if my camera is hugging a wall though because then I can't move at all. I click on the ground ahead of me but my character runs in the opposite direction until it gets stuck. wasd/arrows used to help but now my character just walks in circles at best until I am forced to SOE or /unstuck and go afk.

It's to the point to where I don't even want to play any more. If I get into a hunting spot things are working just fine but when I need to move for pvp, clan functions, and etc like sometimes with my healer for rez and my iss for devil's movement to save a wiped group (sometimes my own, **** seknus) it becomes impossible to play at the level I worked hard to achieve. It even caused me to lose a few pvp fights because try as I might I couldn't move/ target/ attack right.

It absolutely discouraged me from playing until I see something done about this.

This is why I don't want to play till something is done
Does someone know will there be any events soon?
Thanks! :)
Yeah because everyone plays 24/7 purpose is so I can maximize my xp I would say I play roughly 4 hrs per night during week days and maybe 6 to 8 hrs it's not the point the point is I purchased something that I can't use because of ncsoft problem with the rune and the problem I've lost more xp than I've gained :eek:

You could start buying the 5 hour runes?
I'm afraid we don't have an ETA for when the fix will be implemented. Consideration for compensation could happen after the fix is made, once we have a full scope of the issue and how long it lasted in total. Once I have updates on the issue I'll share them.

Hello Sace,

Since we are monday and it's already late in Korea (from where the fix may come I guess), do you have any news about this topic ? Some solutions tried on QA Server may be ?

Thanks,

Laby
Hello Sace,

Since we are monday and it's already late in Korea (from where the fix may come I guess), do you have any news about this topic ? Some solutions tried on QA Server may be ?

Thanks,

Laby
The latest info I have about the geodata issue topic is that devs are looking into it and trying to find the cause of the problem.
The latest info I have about the geodata issue topic is that devs are looking into it and trying to find the cause of the problem.

Ok, thank you :)

Laby
You could start buying the 5 hour runes?


I purchased the rune a day before maintenance, for shame that I decided to buy something without knowing that the Geodata would be corrupted the next day.
The latest info I have about the geodata issue topic is that devs are looking into it and trying to find the cause of the problem.


This is not promising, it's now been a week of sticking to walls and rocks. Sace, not to be rude but don't you find it a bit unsettling that something that is such a big problem is not yet resolved? Though I don't work for a gaming company, I do work in IT for an Fiancial Company and if we were to allow something to go on for as long as this without some sort of other comment other than the Devs are looking into it, we would be out of business.

Maintenance is in two days, and from the sounds of it a fix is still not going to be placed. If I wasn't paying to play "Purchasing runes" I wouldn't be annoyned but since I am actively making purchases through Nccoin I am appauled that you have not had a fix put in place, atleast put some GM's online to actively unstick people until something is done.

I would suggest before deploying into a production enviroment it is thoughly tested in a test enviroment.
There are tons of new games / mmos coming out.

I don't know what's more sad, the fact that NC Soft simply does not and will never give a flying **** about what you or any of their customers want or that you people continue to drop money on their NC Coin. Why? Because there are clowns like you out there who is willing to drop $20 a week on xp runes and don't even get started on those power shirts man... How much money did they make off you suckers with that? I heard people dropping up to $200 on these shirts which is so lol.

To put it in perspective, even if people were only spending an average $50 on these shirts and 2000 people across all the servers NC Soft is laughing at you all the way to the bank. The fact that they are able to extract over $100k in less than 2 weeks using a game that is almost TEN YEARS OLD is just astonishing. To me it says a lot about the general backwardness and refusal to see the light of the overall player base.

I truly, truly feel sorry for you people living in the dark.
To put it in perspective, even if people were only spending an average $50 on these shirts and 2000 people across all the servers NC Soft is laughing at you all the way to the bank. The fact that they are able to extract over $100k in less than 2 weeks using a game that is almost TEN YEARS OLD is just astonishing.
Are you jealous or what?
Jealous of what..........?

Of you dropping $200+ a month on a dead game with a publisher that takes 2 weeks and counting to even get a clue on a simple yet severe problem such as fixing the geodata so that people can MOVE PROPERLY IN GAME and be able to play?

OK there man...
Of you dropping $200+ a month
Nope, I don't feel the need in it. Not worth it for a casual player.

$50 once in half a year is another story.

on a dead game with a publisher
I like it. You got a problem with that?
$20 a week on runes is still cheaper then what I used to pay for all my accounts when it was P2P..
The latest info I have about the geodata issue topic is that devs are looking into it and trying to find the cause of the problem.

Could it be that the landscape displayed is somewhat shifted in relation to the landscape the system perceives in its inner workings? When I try jumping into the circular strip mine at the bottom of the Mithril Mines, I sometimes see my character standing on the edge of a ledge, but when I target myself, there is an empty yellow targeting circle on the ledge below, right at the wall. And when I dispel my Tiger transformation or dismount from my Fenrir, I actually find myself one step below, glued to the wall.
Yes,

I also think many objects are not 'seen' by the in-game system as displayed on-screen. It's like you click to the left of a bush to skirt around it, but get caught on the 'edge' because the geodata of the bush was off to the left by a foot or two. So I click backwards to 'un-stick' myself, and go to the other side, and pass by just fine. . . 0_o

And to all those crying because you bought runes and get stuck... It's no different than P2P and you get stuck... They will eventually fix it, but other than letting staff know, there's no reason to fault the GMs or whine about it. Learn some patience.

(My guess is, many staffers at NCSoft are working on keeping the new Aion 3.0 F2P stable and fixing issues there before updating L2 again. . . After all, they launched it without a PTS like they did here. . .)
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