Server is coming back up in a few minutes.


• Fixed Bind Points - Players can now bind anywhere aside from the PVP zones.
• Removed a script that was causing massive lag when players joined the server. This also lead to players not
leveling up to 70 as they should when entering the server.
• Removed all buffs from all characters in the database. Older buffs were causing severe crashes when combined
with almost any buff spell that exists.
• Added the Witch Doctor lieutenant back in the starting area, he was accidentally removed.
• Fixed Nexxrn's augment to not have augment slots.
• Fixed the Deathguard path quest.
• Fixed the EQemu Launcher - Please use this version:
http://moestaverne.com/download.html...ncher_v171.zip
• Removed Booming Voice line from database. It's not needed anymore.
• Guards can no longer be targeted or accidentally aggroed with AoE.
• Fixed the Epic 1: Soulrager's Claw of Ghostly Force to be Beastlord only.
• Donator Dice can be used by all classes now instead of just casters. This was not intentional.
• Donator: Symbol of Planar heroes can now be used by all classes and not just casters. This was not intentional.
• Players will no longer infinite zone loop at the Permafrost Entrance.

Not sure what's going on, however:
As of 21:19 CST

70% of the time I crash pre-character select.
25% of the time I crash at character select.
I did get into game once, however, crashed as soon as I moved.

Hope this helps.

Using the launcher as well.

Was helping Drak with the lag/crash issues. Server should be coming up shortly ;p

Server is back up! Special thanks to some of the best techs on EMU for all their help, Natedog and Secrets.


Enjoy all and have fun.

FYI The issue I'm seeing with Globalload is a memory problem. The process size for eqgame.exe is hitting the 1.8gb mark once char is in world. Then when the client zones it breaks the 2GB limit and the process crashes. If I turn off all the luclin models it keeps it under 2GB and I can zone ok.

Are all the 800 global load entries necessary? Perhaps have a cut down version for SOD users :)

Server is still pretty unplayable for me. Shadowknight spells still crashing client upon casting, problems attempting to get back online.

What is preferred client for the server? SoD?

yeah lag monster is back again, not even 50 on server so it's code somewhere sucking cycles or it's running on a one-legged hamster !

he updated the spell file DL and see alot less complaints/crashes

When I try to create a character it doesn't do anything when I click on the button. Only thing that works is the one that logs you out.

Aye, we are still trying to work out bugs and get things playable. We did some recent adjustments today so hopefully that helps. You can play and create a character right now just fine. The server was in bad shape earlier today, that's why you couldn't play.

Is SoD the preferred client?

Varlyndria: Ascension will patch the following clients with the 1.71 launcher:

SoF, SoD, UF/HoT and RoF

Endless apologies for the lag/disconnects/crashes lately. We are trying hard to get everything working good. I just ran a Ccleaner on the server rig and may of found most of the problem since that thing hasn't been cleaned for over a year. So far so good on stability. *crosses fingers* We have secrets, natedog and other techs that are looking into the issue when they can. For now, get on and enjoy guys. Hopefully things get better soon and we stabilize. It's open alpha afterall so didn't expect things to go 100% smooth at launch with this much custom content.

Don't let the word Alpha prevent you from playing though. Characters will not be wiped as the term is mainly for stability and current content available.

Don't apologies , you do a great work with your server.

continue in this way ;)

Heh, Server rig isn't going to magically become slow like that.

At most you should have to run a defragmenter.

Issues will reside on the server side but they will either be in script or in source and troubleshooting where that is - is the fun part. (NOT)

Still can't create a character. Clicking on the button does nothing. Anyone else have this problem? I'm using Underfoot and have used the official EqEmu patcher.

I haven't had any problems creating a character. I used underfoot as well. However I didn't use the patcher. I manually changed the spellfile, dbstr, and global load. You could maybe try that.

Did you spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam the create character button.

And drakiyth, what is your page file set as

Every time I try to alt-tab to full screen and/or use the in-game option to toggle Full Screen the game crashes. What should I do about this?

That's a client problem, not specific to this server. Make sure you have the latest DirectX 9 installed. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=34429

There have been some problems, but honestly. Its a brand-new server with extreme customization. It sounds like they have found the source of the lag now.

I can't wait to see this completely ironed out.

Lag monster has been slain; infinite loops are never fun, and since the server is allocated 2 cores, you can imagine what happened when two zones were using half of the available CPU trying to figure out what kind of loot should be on NPCs.

Enjoy!

NOTE: this should fix the crash issues with spells too!

Server is extremely stable now! Come play and have some fun!


UPDATE:

• MPR (Minions) and LPR (Lieutenants) have had their HP reduced.
• The Spell Damage and Healing for all NPCs has been reduced by 50%.


Enjoy guys.

any update to globalload and sod clients? :)

The Global Load pulls so many models form so many zones, it's difficult to tell which zone would remove the model from showing up. Overall, when we get time we'll try to make a smaller one that doesn't take as much memory up. It's not an easy process though. Anybody can make one of these if they put time into it. Just remove zones you don't use and find where your pet model comes from etc and edit out zones that have no use.

I have been using a cut down version and which is missing some models. Also, using old player models and disabling other memory intensive options seems to work with the custom global load. I don't think it's feasible as a player to work out which entries aren't required (a subset of x models ^ n entries springs to mind).

I was hoping you'd have an idea of what wasn't in use.. if not I understand the lower priority!

UPDATE AND BUG FIXES 07/30/13

• Please download the new spell and string files: 07/30/13 - 5:11am MST on our site or the Launcher.

• Fixed the Celestial Champion's Angelic Armor to actually give 100 AC and 8000 total HP for 30 minutes.
• Players will now drop corpses that stay around for 1 minute and than poof. This is to fix the death
message and dedication points vanishing because of an error in the script due to a corpse not spawning.
• Soulreaper's Dark Reaper buff no longer keeps them in combat, but if it's clicked off it will drag them
into the hellish planes to be torn apart by demons of betrayal! You have been warned Soulreapers!
• Fixed the Dragoon's Jump Attack to stun the target for 2 seconds as it's supposed to.
• Added more spawns of Dervish Cuttthroats (Warrior Path Quest) in North Ro's Main Camp.
• Added more spawns of Scorch Elmentals in West Commons (Wizard/Mage Path Quest).
• Added more spawns of Hooligans in Western Karana (Enchanter/Bard/Monk Path Quest)
• Bots no longer summon normal pets anymore, however they now summon the following temporary pets:
• Paladin: Sunbearer Phoenix
• Shadowknight: Deathguard Skeleton
• Ranger: Earthguard Animals,
• Beastlord: Bestial Overseer Stampede
• Bard: Twisted Animator Puppets
• Shaman: Oracle Ghosts
• Druid: Broodmaster Insects
• Cleric: Heretic Demons (you have to change their stance to be more offensive)
• Enchanter: Distortionist Phantasms
• Magician: Elementalist Elementals
• Necromancer: Rotfeaster Festering Undead
• Wizard: Timeweaver Victims
• Bind Affinity or Soul Binders no longer give the message of you can't bind in the zone when you could.
• The Rift Keeper will now port players to Katta Castellum if they have a gearscore of 610+
• Players can now see and obtain stats from their path charm on any client.

Link is broken on the website.

The new link works.


New update out - www.varlyndria.com


Server stability is stellar now so come on in and have some fun with a lot of players who want to group up.

When you get the time try to figure out what models you really need global and then move the rest to the zone specific file.
I've been testing items/objects all day in a zone to check out the memory use and to see what items look like that I normally do not play around with.

Here is an example for erudsxing_assets.txt
When I am in my hub zone I use 600k and when I zone into Eruds Crossing I jump to 958.
I know you are busy with other stuff atm but keep this in mind. Its better to spread out the load when possible (for your players).

WARNING: Nexxrn's Legendary Augment is becoming lore tomorrow, so
sell your augments back to the heroic vendor ASAP.


UPDATE 07/31/13

Download the latest files on the Launcher or in the Important Information section
on our website.

• NPCs no longer remove magic as much as they
used to.

• Celestial Champion's Angelic Armor has been
fixed and can now be cast on other targets.

• Thos' Aura of the Deciever's duration has
been fixed to 12 seconds.

• Orb of Mastery is now no drop.

• Changed over 12,000 no rent items to be
permanent.

• Fixed some items like fists and katars
from being no drop.

• All items on the server now have more HP, MANA
and END from their base stat creation.

• Conjurer Changes
• Conjurer pets now get a 50% damage bonus per each cast
time second up from 25%.
• Gigas is now a 7.5 sec cast time down from 15
• Krim is now a 10 sec cast time down from 20
• Chaos Lords are now a 12.5 sec cast time down from 25.
• Tarrasque now has a 20 sec cast time down from 40.
• Tarrasque now costs 24000 mana to cast, down from 48000.
• The Cooldown on Gigas, Krim and Chaos Lords is now
30 seconds down from 60 seconds.

• Samurai Changes
• Reduced Code of Bushido's Damage by 120% and haste3 by 10%
and added 20% evasion to this buff.

• Dragon Disciple Changes
• Tiger's Discipline now increases the damage of dragon punch
by +1040% and no longer increases the crit chance of
the Dragon Punch by 800%.
• Serpent's Discipline now increases the damage of flying kick
by +1040% and no longer increases the crit chance of
flying kick by 800%.

• Brigand Changes
• Criminal's Scheme no longer gives 50 CHA but now gives 320%
crossbow damage and 50% haste3.

Field of Bone GM event going on, come join the fun.

I'm sorry if this is obvious but I couldn't find it.

Is there a gate item?

The general vendor has a Gate item.. it is rather expensive though.

I think it is called "Portal Stone" -- a purple sphere icon.

UPDATE 08/02/13

Please download and install the latest spell and string files on
our launcher or the website: Varlyndria Files - 08/02/13

• Added a Custom Donator Weapon from Moozilla to the
Heroic Vendor. Thank you Moozilla for your donation!

• The heroic point cost on legendary/mythical/custom donator
items has been increased by 50%.

• The HP, MANA, END and AC on all two handed, archery
and throwing weapons is now double what it was before.

• Fixed the races/body type on all pets.

• Nexxrn's Augment is now lore.

• Players are no longer able to sell heroic, pvp or dedication
point items back to the vendor. This was a bug in our last
source code.

• Players who had 100 platinum or above now have 100 platinum.
This change was put in place because many items from the
old Varlyndria were not updated to the correct price value
and players sold those items to make over 10,000 platinum,
which is filthy rich in Varlyndria: Ascension.

• Reduced the price on thousands of items that could be
sold for far too much.

• Temporary pets are being changed to help fix lag up.
Players will now be able to summon 1 pet for 18 seconds
with an 18 second CD. The stats and damage on the pet
have been tripled. This change is for all pets except
the conjurer class, which already do tremendous damage.
This works for AoE pets too, the AoE pets stay around
for 18 seconds now but only 1 are summoned per mob
instead of 3x per mob which will save a ton on lag.

• Pets now gain more hp per their master's CHA value.

• Temporary Pets now deal more damage per their master's
CHA value.

• All store pet items are now under the name of "Pet:"
and have had their prices reduced significantly.

• Pet: Sword of the Firelords and Pet: Sword of the Ocean Lords
are now DPS pet weapons instead of Taunting Blast. These
weapons proc a 32 base damage nuke of flame or frost.

• Fixed the Enchanted Fish or any other Enchanted named item
to be ALL/ALL. This was accidently changed in the naming
SQL phase of the item creation script. All Enchanted named
gear is now called "Enraptured".

• Fallen: Unholy Aura now only reduces healing by 100%.

• Reduced the base class (not path) heal over time spells
by 90%. These spells were far too strong before.

We found the source of the lag spikes folks. It was caused from too many corpses in the toskriakk newbie zone by people afk camping 30 second spawns with their pets. These spawns are now 5 minutes. The change has significantly saved on lag spikes. Should be a lot better now. Enjoy all.

Server is up folks. Enjoy.

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Varlyndria will be down for a little bit to fix some issues causing lag. I'll be making some adjustments to various things and have some notes up soon.

Hrmmm cant load it using underfoot...sad day. don't even wanna troubleshoot my issues.