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Hello everyone,I am preparing a big update to clean a bunch of cruft up, make things speedier and merging both modules into one. There are a lot of advantages to merging the two modules into one from both the development side and for your enjoyment. Previous limitations to such a large module have new work arounds plus the limited community size and new hardware it is hopefully not a concern for overlagging the server. At the same time of doing this I've decided to reorganize the hak packs. There was over 11,000 (10%) resources in the haks that were duplicated either because the higher up one was a fix/update or just plain duplication error. Reorganizing them eliminates this duplication.This is going to mean everyone is going to have to download an entire new set of hak packs. I apologize for this but it's a rare occasion and hopefully you can handle a 950MB or so download these days. I know this is a bit of a frustration but I've also made a couple of fixes to things at the same time. The minimaps now work in the forest areas (Dapplegreen, Great Spikes - Ice areas, Blackford Outskirts etc) and I also fixed the minimaps in The Deep. The forest tileset has been updated to the final release as well. I've also added a couple other things from the vault.If you want to get a head start on downloading the new hak packs you can do so and place the haks in your hak/ folder while waiting for the updated release.They can be downloaded here: http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_allhaks.rar (http://"http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_allhaks.rar")It is possible that I may end up having to update 1 or 2 of these haks before the release of the module but it won't be as big a download. It may be discovered that the server just can't handle the modules being one and we realize the stress is too high with 1200 areas in one module and we'll have to revert to the old way and run two servers but the new hak structure will still be in place either way.I've no timetable on when we'll be moving over to this. First I need to get some guinea pigs to download the haks and help me test some things but it will probably be fairly soon.All the best over the holidays,orth
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downloaded and installed. I haven't noticed any problems, although, I did notice there was a server bump and relog with jump between servers. Not sure if that is related.
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The new module is not running yet, just getting folks to download and place these in their hak folder so when we do make the switch they will be ready to dive right in.
The existing modules have autoportals turned off because those have been responsible for crashes. It's just another reason why I decided to see how things work with merging both modules back together. There will be no need for any more cross server stuff once west and central are combined.
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I have downloaded and installed but I am not seeing either of the servers online, have the IP's changed?
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Well the IPs changed about two weeks ago. But the new server is not yet online. See below for more information:
http://layonara.com/threads/10163139-the-nwn-servers-are-going-to-be-moved
You should just use the DNS xora.layonara.com instead of the IPs but if you want the new IP it's 173.198.229.123
-orth
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I'll be a Guinea Pig if you still need some. Just tell me what to do. :)
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I'll be taking the server down shortly for this update. There will be more information on the update in a separate thread.