Once again, Excalibur is having problems. For the second time this night (it's 1:20 AM at the time of writing) the server is down.

Apparently whatever problem has been causing the downtime has been underestimated. I hope it gets fixed soon ;)

As of about 10 AM this morning Excalibur is back up and English players have had their subscriptions extended a day to compensate for the downtime.

Just a quick update: at the moment Excalibur is down (since last night), and unfortunately since it's weekend we're not getting any indication from GOA when it might be back up.
It's possible the server won't be back before monday. In the meantime, have a nice weekend all, I suggest you spend this time to do something other than DAoC :)

I hope you've all had a nice Christmas and a good new year's eve, best wishes for 2004!

A small patch (1.1 MB) has been put online yesterday that fixes the item name and pricing display on consignment merchants. So if you see some downloading going on when you try to log in, that's normal.

There will be some upcoming changes affecting the European DAoC community. BarrysWorld/GAME.net will be shutting down many of their services, including the forums and their Quakenet IRC servers.
It looks like FreddysHouse will be the successor to BarrysWorld, it was created by some of the original BW founders and they've set up some nice new boards for us very similar to the old ones :)

Testing has started on version 1.65 on Gorre, so if all goes well we should have this version live in a couple of weeks.

Oh, and before I forget: I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year! ;)
Try to keep all your fingers attached when you go messing around with fireworks, it types a lot easier 8)

Once again a small update with some noteworthy developments:
First of all congratulations to Dalekon on dinging Realm Rank 4. Keep those realm points coming :)
Secondly, Idlefire has been promoted to Emissary and as such he is now a full guild member. Welcome Idlefire :)

Sabya has been spotted in his shiny new epic armor. Looking good ;)

Not much news today, but some congratulations are in order for Sabya (Horned) on reaching level 50 with his Shaman :)