Latest Neocron News and Information

Update 19:22BST 20/6/2013  - Due to the downtime of the Neocron servers we have decided to bring forward the downtime while it's quiet. Updates at the end of this post.

On Saturday 22nd June to Sunday 23rd June, we are undertaking a major upgrade to the THN. The forums are being migrated to a new more up-to-date forum software. This upgrade will affect access to the Rares DB.

During the upgrades, the THN forums and the Rares DB will not be available. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

The Item DB, Wiki and Stats DB will be available as normal during this planned downtime.

The work is expected to start at 10:00BST and is expected to last most of the weekend.

Any updates will be posted here in this post, and also on Twitter.

Updates

19:22 - Downtime brought forward, updates happening tonight.
19:37 - THN forums and Rares DB offline. Waiting for backups to complete.
19:58 - Backups done...now for the forum conversion and upgrades.
20:12 - Conversion in progress...
20:22 - Converted. Testing..(Brammers pretending that he's not getting a beer in at this point)
20:27 - Aperture Labs have completed testing. Forums should be back to full working capacity
22:19 - The forums are back online. The Rares DB will remain offline until Friday Evening/Saturday Morning. We are happy with the upgrade work so far, so we would like to relax a little and play some Neocron. ;)

Any problems found with the forums, then please use the following forum.

14:15 22nd June - The rares DB has been upgraded and is now backonline. All upgrade work is now complete.

I've just done a cleanup of inactive and unused users on the THN.

We have only removed accounts if the account has:-

• Never used the forums (Such as posting or PM'ing)
• Has no parts or items logged in the rares DB
  

The cleanup should not effect regular users of the THN. However if in the past you have just registered a username to reserve it, you will have to re-register it. However please keep in mind we will regularly run scripts to cleanup unused accounts.

Any questions on the accounts cleanup, please contact us on the THN forums.

Tomorrow (Sat 2nd Feb 2013) the THN server will be undergoing some server software updates. This means the server will be unavailable without notice and for undefined periods of time.

The upgrades are due to begin at 10am UK time. No ETA, it will be done when it's done and I'm happy with the upgrades. ;)

I apologise for the short notice of the possible downtime. For updates please follow or check the @Techhaven page on Twitter.

Update: 2nd Feb - All upgrades complete, and all parts of the THN should be working normally.

• Servers - Current server populations and lastest outpost news .
  
• Servers - Last 5 days server populations .
• Outposts - Lists the current outpost owners .
• Outposts - Lists the past owners of an outpost .
• Clans - Lists all op-fighting clans .
• Clans - Lists the current ops held by a clan and their fighting history .
• Twitter - All outpost changes are tweeted by our THN-CPU account so don't forget to follow!

• Outpost security settings.
• More graphs and plots.
• Support for factions.
• A world map.
• Support for stats from the THN Rares DB.
• German Language support.
• ...and much more.

Any comments and questions, please post them here!

A big thanks goes to Zoltan and the Neocron 2 support team for the API and also the THN team for their comments and testing.

Disclaimer: Use of the data from the Stats DB is at your own risk, the THN accepts no responsibility for any unexpected clan wars.