Logins now shown in Clan chat

Although it has not been announced on the news page or forums, when a clan member logins it will now announce the login in clan chat.

This will benefit people who have world chat disabled as before they would not see if a clan member logged in.

[3] 17:56 Rictor has logged in

New server and downtime

From the announcement forum:

Tomorrow morning we are moving Syrnia to a new server. The only difference anyone should notice is a performance improvement.

Syrnia will be taken down at 10:00 Syrnian time. We are expecting around a 45 minute downtime for the game, assuming all file transfers go smoothly.

No items/levels or anything else will be lost. We do advise players to stop fighting before Syrnia is taken down.

Thanks to all the donators that helped make this server upgrade possible!

DW-HQ outage tomorrow

DW-HQ will be offline tomorrow afternoon while they upgrade their database. The site is expected to be offline for a few hours.

Battle mage arena schedule

Currently there is only one fight scheduled, and that is tomorrow:

At 2008-02-27 - 22:01: Level: 10 - 19

Update: Another has been added:

At 2008-03-04 16:16 Level: 40 - 150

Synia outage last night

Looking at the shoutbox it appears that Syrnia was down during the night for around one hour. No one could login.

There is no news or announcement reagarding this incident, so the cause remains a mystery.

Sorry there were no announcments on the blog at the time, I was fast asleep!

Rudilyn has stepped down as the Pirate captain

After leading the pirates for what seems like forever, Rudilyn has left Skull island.

Rudilyn had -9k fame which kept her in the posotion all this time. The duty of pirate captain has been passed on to whoever has the most negative fame now.

Im sure Rudi will be missed by the long term pirates, as well as those who only knew her for a short time from pirate chat.

Update

akkarin is the new pirate captain.

Invasion fighting bug

With the first pirate invasion since the update, a bug has been uncovered which stops an invasion from finishing.

An unannounced new feature is that you cannot fight the last creatures in an invasion if someone is already fighting them. So many of us waited at Deep Lemo for the last 3 Roughies to perish, and we waited and waited. It was obvious after 15 minutes of waiting that there was a problem.

Either the 3 players were afk and had a botcheck or logged out/closed Syrnia while they were fighting. Whatever the reason, it stopped the invasion from finishing.

Since this incident, staff initiated invasions of creatures have started so I can only assume that the bug mods did this to test a fix, or to find the cause of the bug.

While this bug should be fixed pretty soon, if not already, players trying to exploit this bug to make invasions multiply will be punished by mods!