There were apparently two maintenance downtimes while I was asleep, so that some of the bugs, at least, are now fixed - and the developers decided that it was probably a Night Shadow skill called "Soul Injection" which was causing the disconnections, so that has been temporarily disabled. As well as hopefully fixing the account lock-ins, lag, and the log-in problems some people were having, good old-fashioned click-to-move should now be working once again in the guild halls and quiz hall, production tool endurance should show up on equipped tools, people shouldn't be able to name new characters "[GM]Brilliant" etc, and a Night Shadow skill trainer should turn up in Randol. So, quite a few more bugs remain, but at least it's a start.
ColonelScarlet and RedRackham managed to log in for some pet levelling at breakfast time, and went through the morning without any more disconnections, which was a promising sign; the final disconnection last night rolled back the pet experience points by 173, I noticed.
After lunch, it seemed relatively safe to start farming those skill points for Kaerella on Katar, so I headed for Prokion Temple on Katar-4. It looks as if the server stability problem hasn't been entirely overcome, though, as I was kicked out at 3:36pm UK time, and had to log Kae and ColonelScarlet, who was providing the solo party boost, back in. Katar-4 was listed as "maintenance" when Kae logged in, so I went for the other non-PvP sub-server, Katar-5, and luckily the back room there was similarly available - though someone had been in there recently enough for some gold to be on the ground, and for one of the orcs to have less than 50% health.
During the first uninterrupted hour, using a platinum super skill pill and a platinum skill pill, Kaerella got through 144 skill point boosters, and added 31.78% experience and 1231 skill points. Orc Axemen, using a spb, gave 7.7 skill points each, so killing 144 of them contributed 1109 skill points, while killing 70 Orc Sergeants without a booster, giving 1.7325 skill points each, contributed the rest.
As the second hour was interrupted by the disconnection and presumably some kind of rollback, the figures were slightly different, but as 160 boosters were used, killing 160 Orc Axemen, 1226 skill points should have been got from them (the pssp and psp wore off before the 160th was actually dead); the total gain for the second hour was 1307 skill points, so in theory only 47 Orc Sergeants got killed. That may be about right, as I did tend to ignore a Sergeant or two attacking me, and concentrate on killing the Axemen.
So, after the two hour session Kaerella had amassed 2538 skill points, and gone up by 61.30%. A third "power hour" would theoretically be possible at level 27, but it seems best just to use pssps until Kae reaches level 29 and can use her level 33 +15 bow, and use a psp as well, for its 50% extra skill exp boost beyond the 200% extra the pssp gives then. I might even try and get some more skill point boosters, since then it will be the Sergeants' turn to give the maximum 5500 skill exp each, as I'll be their level.
ColonelScarlet did get ks'd once, by the knight MrBicepsas. When I said "ks-er :(" his response was "plz money - plz money and I'm no ks", so I used a memory scroll to move from that position down to the Gnoll Lancers. And Zenderfly did attempt to get in touch - I'd probably have noticed if she'd used the Friends List system to open a messenger window, but she just typed in the guild channel, so that ColonelScarlet had the text at the bottom left, She said she would be back "at full hour", but I came back from preparing food in time for that, and stuck around for five minutes, and she didn't appear. i checked at ten past, too, and there was still nothing - and when I got back at a quarter past, there was another "Kee?" - but she'd logged off again.
So that I'd be easy to contact, I decided to give the Cariae Kaerella a session out in Dratan desert again, this time on Cariae-1 so that I could use the "Elizabeth's Enhancement" buff for double experience and skill exp, and a boost to attack power as well. There was no further sign of activity from Zen, so I was just chatting with HarD, who was doing a couple of monster combos, so I stayed there until the three-hour buff wore off; initially there wasn't a solo party to join, but eventually one was formed - the game "ran out of memory" on me when I attempted to return to Randol, though, so I didn't get a chance to say goodbye. In all Kae went up by 17.09%, which really moves her along through level 49 - and 107 skill points makes a great addition to her current store. 1502 pet points got added, too - by my calculations 4.36% of the current level for SirFrancis, taking him to 33.72% of the way through level 47.
ColonelScarlet did have a disconnection again at seven o'clock, but soon got back into action; his pale blue horse moved past the halfway point in level 31 as the evening progressed, and ought to reach two-thirds by log-out time. RedRackham was able to put in a little more time, too, moving his horse a little further through level 36.
I did however take 20 minutes to start a rogue on Katar-1; the names Karella and RedRider were already taken, so this one is RedRyder. I went to Katar-1 so that Elizabeth could apply her buff, and it worked nicely - Healer Yabo's three early quests all gave skill points as well as experience, and having the buff on doubled those. It was interesting to see the new character choosing and creation screen, too, which has a new spooky background, and does include the Night Shadow in the line-up, although with a note about the level 100 requirement. It is possible to rotate the character too, which is useful for comparing hairstyles, but you can't move in close enough, as far as I could tell, to see the faces very well.
In twenty minutes RedRyder zoomed up to level 7, going at double speed with Elizabeth's buff - or more than double speed, as it didn't just double the experience, and skill exp, per kill, it enhanced her attack, so that the kills were quicker. Making the early levels easier this way is a good idea, and she still has the "beginner" resurrection scrolls, pssps, and pbis to help her along too, valid up to level 35. Apparently the Night Shadow gets them too, though as he starts at level 90 they aren't really much use for him.
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