There will be a small update tonight at around 23:30 server time. It should only take around 15 minutes but the server will also restart again at midnight due to the change explained below, so I might keep it down for 30 mins to test that before putting it back online for players.


AUTOMATIC RESTART
To improve general stability, the server and all dungeon servers will now automatically restart just after midnight every day. You will receive a warning notice 15, 10, 5, and 1 minute before. The restart will take a few minutes before you can log back in.

*Several world boss spawn times were adjusted so that they receive a full 12 hours of spawn time before the restart. Friday's Namazu, Nereus, and Sandstorm Bears.


DAILY GIFT
The Daily Gift interface can no longer be opened whilst in a dungeon or battlefield, it must be opened when in a normal map like Terminus.

The Daily Gift will no longer progress to the next day after 24 hours whilst you are online, you will need to relog to activate the next day.

Server restarts/crashes will no longer reset it allowing you to obtain that day's gift again.

It will now properly reset back to day 1 if you do not claim your gift within 24 hours.


SKILL
Skills that have an area of effect around the caster of the skill no longer display a "Range: 8m or similar" in the skill tooltip since it's incorrect information. The range for these types of skills is displayed as "Area of Effect: 2m x 10m" and is not affected by additional +Range stats.


ITEM
Fix for texture issues on the Angel vanity pet (face costume) when used with certain armor.


CRASHES
I'm sure everyone is aware of the fairly regular server crashes we have experienced lately, always around the time of world boss raids. I have wasted many many hours trying to figure out the cause of these crashes and I'm 99% certain that it is being caused by a player or players that have found a bug or bugged item and are abusing it to purposely crash the server. I won't pretend that we don't have other issues and causes of crashes but it's just way too often to be a coincidence now.

I don't appreciate having my time wasted like this, when it could be spent further improving the game and it's content instead, and it's very damaging to the game when players are put off playing here.

I will be adding a lot of extra logging to the server tonight so that I can pinpoint the cause and see if I am correct about this and any player or players involved will be permanently banned from the server.