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[GMS]{COMPLETE}Unscheduled Server Maintenance, 7/15/11! Update on GMS Updates.
Hello MNNians, It has been a while since there have been any GMS updates, and many updates have gotten to GMS in that time. I apologize for the lack of updates on the GMS Chaos update, but with the lack of time in many of our staff members schedules it gets a bit complicated. I have been busy with several things along with playing on GMS’s latest Server Chaos.
Since the first Chaos patch has reached GMS, the game has gotten much more unstable than Pre-Chaos. There were the large increase in exploits and what not, but I believe the Chaos patch has brought many more problems, to start things off, The first update had several extensions and many unscheduled maintenance’s following the patch. There was a lot of downtime, but we got through it.
At the moment right now, there is an Unscheduled Server Maintenance, here are the details:
Dear Maplers,
We will be performing an unscheduled server maintenance to address connection issues. The maintenance will last approximately 2 hours.
-What-
All game servers will be down.-When-
Pacific: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Tuesday July 15, 2011
Eastern: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Tuesday July 15, 2011
Thank you for your patience!- The Maple Team -
There were many login problems for players about an hour before this. Players were unable to log in after logging out, and this was causing many to get angry.
Instead of quoting the Chaos Patch information, I will just list several links that I feel that you would want to see.
The Age of Heroes Patch Notes:
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=103&contentNo=00CMS&pageIndex=1
The Age of Heroes Skill Changes:
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=103&contentNo=00COs&pageIndex=1
The Age of Artisans Patch Notes:
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=103&contentNo=00CS3&pageIndex=1
Known Issues after Maintenance(6/30/11):
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=00CO1&pageIndex=1
Known Issues with the Chaos Patch(7/7/11):
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=103&contentNo=00CRN&pageIndex=1
Professions and Trait Systems Information:
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=00CRf&pageIndex=1
HackSheild Update and Several Fixes:
http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=106&contentNo=00CQE&pageIndex=1
There has been a large increase in Hacking after the first Chaos Patch. The Wild Hunter class has fallen to countless popular hacks before, and now they fall once again. A new hack relating to the Wild Hunters Capture Monster skill. What it does is you switch around a few packets with the skill and you end up summoning a Pink Bean or any other monster you wish, and it does damage to all monsters on the map. The Pink Bean also casts the Pink Bean buff to all players on the map, this has been exploited before. The exp gained goes to the player and the drops are all dropped at the players feet. It gets more interesting, because there is also a way to glitch the map spawn to make the spawn rate jump insanely high. The widely known hacking website http://w8baby.com is where this hack originated from, and much of its hype is still there. They have also found a way to merge this into the BT hack, which basically is a lovely all in one package for many hackers.
For many this may seem like a good thing, the higher spawns, free Pink Bean buffs and several other things, but at the end of the day it is hacking, exploiting, whatever you want to call it, and it goes directly against the Nexon ToS. The hackers are barely getting banned, and the hacking seems to never stop. Many players have been questioning if Nexon is doing anything at all against these hackers, because the countless server maintenance s and updates do not seem to help one bit.
There were many speculations that the GMS Exclusive content at the end of Chaos would be the Visitor Content returning, because hackers were able to gain access to the Party Quest map, and do the Party Quest and gain items. This may or may not be the case, but it would be a great thing for the Newer Servers. This was fixed in a Scheduled Maintenance and along with this certain maintenance a HackShield update was sent out. The update has not prevented many hackers, but it has done some good. The Public Bypass on several hacking sites is currently unavailable because of this update. There are working VIP Bypasses, but they cost money and not everyone is willing to spend money on hacks. The Public Bypass which existed before the update has not been updated since and is still not functional. There may be days or even weeks before a new bypass is released. This has prevented half the hackers from hacking.
Once again, I apologize for the lack of updates, but I will try to keep pumping these articles out, I don’t have much help because this is what I think of some of my staff members at the moment:
Impulsively,
Impulse
Source(s):
Official Maple Story Website
Dyneburst of GMS Chaos Server for the image.
w8baby.com
Gamekiller.net
[GMS]Scheduled Server Maintenance, 7/6/11!
A server check that we have needed for a while..
Hello Maplers!
We will be performing routine maintenance on MapleStory on July 6, 2011. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. The game maintenance will last approximately nine hours. Name changes and world transfers will NOT be processed during this maintenance.
Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
-Time-
Pacific: 10:00 PM Wednesday, July 6, 2011 – 7:00 AM Thursday, July 7, 2011
Eastern: 1:00 AM – 10:00 AM Thursday, July 7, 2011
-What-
The following will be unavailable:
All MapleStory Game Servers-Cash Shop Update-
- Hyper Teleport Rock in 1-day and 7-day versions
- Aura Pendant
- Permanent Pet Equips back on sale!
- Carrot, Baby Bottle, Pink Polka Dot Bow, Blue Polka Dot Bow
-Changes-
- HackShield update
- 6th Anniversary items that were originally tradeable are no longer trade blocked.-Fixes-
- Distribution of two-person Mount Coupons to affected players.
- Big Headward accepts Royal Hair Coupons.
- Visitors maps are no longer accessible.– The Maple Team –
Impulsively,
Impulse
[NexonIsOnline]All Nexon Games and Webpages offline and Poptag is closing!
The update has been finished for a few hours now, and most of the updates may seem well and put together, but when you go to use them they begin to not work. Many functions you try to do result in a
500 Internal Server Error
nginx/0.8.54
Now, one of the main reasons for this update must be to make the Nexon America Webpages much easier for casual gamers, but even after 15 or more hours of maintenance there still seems to be issues with this update that could get in the way of many players.
I hope they release a little announcement on this, just not more downtime..
It is 5:54 pm est and the Nexon portal and Games seem to be online, The Earning Free NX Section still seems to be on its way to be fixed, but it may just be a little error. Everything seems quite nice. The new portal does look better than the previous one. yey.
The Maple Story Facebook page has been recently updated it is 4:25 pm EST :
Sorry, folks, the website maintenance and update has run into a few snags. At this time we do not have an estimated time when this process will be completed. We will let you know once we do. Thank you!
The update was given 3 minutes ago. It seems this is going on and on.
Another update, which I can only find on the Dungeon Fighter Online Facebook page, at 4:07 PM EST:
The game and website maintenance is taking longer than we expected. We will inform you guys when we have a clear ETA.
:C, this makes many sad.
We have gotten this update from the Face Book page:
The game and website maintenance has been extended. New eta: 1PM Pacific.
It seems we will have to wait some more, :C!
There will be a big maintenance that will have all Nexon.net games, forums, etc offline for 12 hours. Here are the full details:
Dear Players:
Nexon will be performing a maintenance to implement the new portal on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 10 PM Pacific for approximately twelve hours. During this time, the following will be unavailable:
* All game servers
* All game, website and forum login
* All Nexon websites
* Nexon account registration
* All billing functions (including charging and spending NX and redeeming Nexon Game Cards)Please note that all games will come down and all game Start buttons will become disabled and will display the following message once the maintenance has started:
“We’re implementing our new portal! Check the websites for updates.
Once the maintenance has been completed, you will be able to access all of these functions as usual.
-Time-
Pacific: 10:00 PM Thursday, June 23, 2011 – 10:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2011
Eastern: 1:00 AM – 1:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2011
Thank you for your patience.The Nexon Team
Yeah, They always seem to mess up the Eastern time, but we know. There was a scheduled maintenance last night, but there were some complication so that was not able to be posted, my apologies.
Some prolonged news that we have been unable to post for you guys due to some other complications: Poptag will be closing on July 14th. Open beta for Poptag began on 1/26/10 and now 1 year 5 months and 14 days later they will be officially closing North American service of Poptag. Here is the official announcement from the Poptag webpage:
Greetings players,
It is with a heavy heart that the PopTag! team must announce that we will be closing the service effective Thursday, July 14, 2011. This was a difficult decision based on multiple factors including the ability to deliver new content regularly due to the limited resources we had available for the game. Based on these criteria, we felt that we could no longer deliver a satisfactory experience to our players.
Nexon America is truly grateful to our wonderful community of PopTag! players. Thank you all for your support.
There are many more Nexon games to check out, and we sincerely hope you all continue to be part of our family.
Please note that the PopTag! service will continue until July 14 with the following changes:
· Effective immediately NX items will no longer be available. However, the following NX game items will be available for in-game Lucci.
· Any PopTag! items purchased for NX currently in the possession of PopTag! players will be refunded. More details will be available on July 14.
Please keep an eye on the official PopTag! site for any further developments.
Once again, we thank the PopTag! community for supporting the game. It’s been a valuable experience for us as we work to bring even more exciting online games to life in the future.
Sincerely,
The PopTag! team
It seems that yet another one bites the dust..
Chaos is on the way! We will be having a variety of things going on for MNNs 4th Anniversary!
MNN Tip of the Week:If you want something done, do it yourself. Don’t rely on others, most of the time, they will let you down.
Impulsively,
Impulse
MapleStory Fansites being Attacked!
Breaking News!!!
Earlier today someone abused a flaw in Maple-Radio’s security and were crashed. They have put up a notice on their website saying this:
We are receiving large amounts of traffic that is a potential threat to our furture so we are going to only provide the link to the player and the request page. We are rebuilding M-R.
If you would like to join the programming team please email Dyceman: dyceman@maple-radio.comFrom: Programming Team.
It seems that the hacker may have done some damage, and now the Maple-Radio Programming Team has taken down the site to maybe put up some extra precautions. The radio is online, but the website itself is not.
Ellinforest.net seems to be online now!
Another site that has been attacked is popular KMS English Community, EllinForest, their forums are unreachable, and it seems the work of the hacker.
We will get you an update as soon as I get an update!
Impulsively,
Impulse
Source(s).
Private Sources*
