Today, 5/2/2022, I have changed a few things.

-Fixed the rebirth books not been given after the 3rd rebirth. If you have had a problem from this bug please open a ticket and provide all information needed! Please don't send fake reports! I can see in the logs who had the problem or not! ^^

-Adjusted the drop rate for Large Dragon Bones. This is the most common complain I am getting and I can't confirm it myself. In every test I did, both on live server and on my local test server the drop rate is accurate based on the retail server AND the x25 rate from us been applied!
My take on the issue is probably low kill rate and overexaggeration on the subject either on the kill rate of the people who have report the issue to me or not taken in other factors.
Either way, I have changed the base drop rate of LDB 2-3x times. I will also apply soon a patch to limit the active bosses spawn to 1 per spawn base and there will be a cooldown to keep things fair and clean!

-Applied some bans. Those who know me, know that I am not a harsh person and I do not get any pleasure by banning people. With that being said, I am also the guy who made the rules and also the guy who has to apply them!
I have been ill the past 2 days but I was able to login and I saw some chars with disrespectful store names. I disconnected them as a "friendly" gesture but my kindness was mistaken as weakness and today the same chars with the same disrespectful shops were in the same place.
...perma ban. Guys whoever wants to stay is welcome! We don't ask for anything BUT to respect our rules! Our rules are there, if you don't like them why join us in the first place?

And to close on more pleasant tone, we are working with L2JSunrise team to fix the Kariks in LOA. For those who are unaware of the issue, the mobs in that location instead of attacking the puller, they are returning to their spawn location and lose aggro.

Also from next week, I will install a new antibot measure. I have isolated packets that the server receives and are related to adrenaline. Unfortunately the server itself doesn't do anything automatically BUT I am adding a second layer that will get those packets, filter them and if we have a positive match, accounts who are related with the usage of 3rd party tools will be banned!
Premium .autofarm users won't be affected because most of the work happens server-side.

Those bans won't be recalled, yesterday I had given to those chars a "friendly" disconnect as a warning.

Today character ban have been applied, tomorrow all accounts related to the same IP.

Should I do it with the subclass ? Did I loose time leveling ? Only 3 books per character ?

Thanks

Today, 31/1/2022 we have updated both the JDK that we are compiling the sources and the JRE that runs the server to the latest version 1.8.0.321 This update doesn't include a changelog so we don't know what it fixes, improves etc.

We have also applied the latest commits from L2JSunrise!

Also we have noticed that the server have crashed 2 times, the main reason was that the server was out of memory. The out of memory is not very easy to explain because we have plenty of RAM to host up to 2k people before we need to upgrade the server but still the server have run out of memory with much less population...

This can be attributed to some memory leak that happens under specific conditions or some sort of attacks towards the server. Boting and 3rd party tools are considered as attacks as well.

We have the subject under investigation and counter measures will be applied if that is the case!