I don't have an exact downtime and an exact uptime planned. The servers will be closing down as soon as I can get away from work. It will be back, when I have successfully ported over the source code & NPC script updates that we have made to the Reborn server to Discovery.
This is one of the larger updates we've had to Discovery in some time. This will probably take at least 6-8 hours. The Discovery Virtual Environment is believe to be corrupted, and I will be rebuliding its VE from scratch. There will most likely be a set of IP changes that will go with this update.
In order for Discovery to benefit from the Reborn server updates, we need to significantly update your client. The major part of this change will be breaking away from the Triad Patcher that you are currently using, in favor for the Neoncube patcher. The edata.grf that currently exists in your client installation is NOT COMPATIBLE with Reborn's edata.grf.
Just so there is no confusion, this is what you need to do to be sure that you can connect to Discovery when it comes back online:
- Update your client with kRO sakray. You will need your sdata.grf to be at least version 417.
- Download Ethereal-Reborn's patch installer here.
- Install Ethereal-Reborn's patch installer to a new directory. I repeat, do not use your current Ethereal-Discovery directory.
- Copy/move sdata.grf from your Discovery folder to your Reborn folder.
When Discovery comes back online, you will probably notice differences. I don't have time to put together a full list, but here are the hilights:
- Many of the Kafras may have moved around.
- @autoloot will no longer work if you are idle.
- The login server (should) finally be stable.
- A lot of the NPC bugs have been fixed.