Xsyon Updates Archive

[Xsyon]

June 18 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Main Server and Client have been updated with a minor patch. We will continue to patch minor changes as they are ready. Patch notes are here: http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthrea...ll=1#post96035

[Xsyon]

June 18 2012 5:00 PM PST

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Main Server locked up and is currently being restarted. We are investigating as the cause is unclear at the moment.

[Xsyon]

June 18 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

We sent out emails earlier today detailing our plans for the coming 'Abandonment' phase.

From Friday June 22 (3AM) until Monday June 25 (2 AM) Xsyon will be open to all players. This is your last chance to claim your totems and goods before weenter the 'Abandonment' phase.

Commencing June 25th, Xsyon will enter a totem decay phase, the 'Abandonment'.

Totems not marked active and without any active players will enter the Abandonment phase one week after the free time ends.

This will usher in a fun and chaotic phase for Xsyon players as survivors explore abandoned ruins, fight over salvaged goods and stake theirc laims on previously occupied lands!
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Abandonment will progress through the following stages:

Neglected: Thisis a final warning stage and lets other players know that your tribe will soon start to decay.

Deserted: At this stage, bins and bundles left on the ground will be accessible to other players and the tribe will no longer be a safe zone.Revenants will begin to haunt deserted tribes. Revenants will be aggressive creatures with the ability to loot players and equip what they steal!

Abandoned: At this stage, the tribe is on the verge of complete removal. Buildings will be accessible and Revenant spawns will increase.

Removed: At this point the Totem is removed, the land can by claimed and buildings can be dismantled. Claiming land will cause revenants to move on to other areas.
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In addition, on June 25th all actively subscribed players will be given two weeks of additional free game time. Add a subscription or pre-paidtime before June 25th to take advantage of this offer.

[Xsyon]

June 20 2012 3:00 AM

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

We are running the daily maintenance early right now. The server locked up, so rather that restart it twice this morning we will run our routines now and the server will be up at around 4:30 AM PST.

Thanks for your patience.

[Xsyon]

June 20 2012 4:00 AM

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

We discovered the cause of the server lockup earlier today and are going to patch an immediate fix. Because of this we are going to prepare a full patch with other AI improvements.

The server will be back up at roughly 7:00 AM PST.

Thanks again for your patience.

[Xsyon]

June 20 2012 5:30 AM

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Main Server is up (a bit early that we expected)!

We patched out an update that improves creature AI (in preparation for Revenants). Patch notes are here: http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthrea...ll=1#post96035

We will post a thread later today requesting feedback on the current state of creature AI after today's patch.

Enjoy!

[Xsyon]

June 22 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Main Server is now open to all returning players this weekend, before we kick off the Abandonment phase on Monday!

In addition, a small update was patched out this morning to fix bugs with creatures' attack range and frustum which were caused by recent changes to fix other issues with attack timing and desynch. For those who posted about this problem in the Creature Feedback thread, I appreciate it if you can post regarding how creature attacks feel now that these bugs have been fixed.

Enjoy!

[Xsyon]

June 24 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

We will be running maintenance at 7 AM PST tomorrow morning (June 25th) instead of our regularly scheduled time.

[Xsyon]

June 24 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

With the coming Abandonment, we have the potential opportunity to converttribes from a circular radius to a square bounded area. The square area wouldbe circumscribed about the current radius.

This would:
- Give tribes slightly more area.
- Allow player to better visualize and fill their tribearea.
- Allow tribes to better build connected tribes in thefuture.

We ran some preliminary feasibility tests and found thatafter unclaimed totems are abandoned, converting from a circular to squaretribe area will result in slight overlap in 8 instances. We will discuss directly with the tribe leaders of these potential overlaps and will deal with either slightly moving a few tribes by a few meters or allowing for the overlap (as it seems half of these are associated tribes).

We've posted a Feedback thread and a poll to get a public opinion on this here:
http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthrea...be-Radius-Poll

The general consensus so far is that this we should move forward with this. I can't guarantee we will do this but we will run some tests starting tomorrow and if we do switch to square tribe zones, the public will first be able to see the changes on the Test Server this week.

[Xsyon]

June 25 2012

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

There are a few things to announce today, so I will be brief with each point:

1) Today starts the official 'Abandoment'. The system is ready to go. Today totems that were not accessed over the past weeks of 'public free time' are marked as Neglected. Next week these will lapse into a Deserted stage, objects will become accessible and revenants will start to spawn.

2) We added two weeks of free time to all active accounts this morning. This is reflected in your account tab as your next payment date or expiration date has been extended.

3) We updated the Client and Main Server with a small patch today. We are continuing to patch Creature AI revisions. We are aware of recent issues causing erratic AI and creatures not properly attacking players. These were unwanted side effects of server processing optimizations and the IOCP update. AI should be better today but we are not done with our revisions, so we will continue to patch minor Creature AI updates this week.

Full patch notes are here: http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthrea...ll=1#post96211

4) We will proceed with converting tribes from a circular to a square tribal area. Hopefully we will be checking this on the Test Server tomorrow or Wednesday.

Enjoy!