Patch 19 was announced today, and there is more good news to come too. The patch will be rolled out tomorrow morning at about noon, and the server is scheduled to be back up by 1:30pm. Here is the English language post about the patch, complete with a correction from a friendly player. No, it wasn't me.

This is not a major patch. Indy21 and Games Campus are simply fixing a couple of errors that have crept into the game over the last few patches. It's a nice approach to game management, something we players have been asking for, literally for years.

The lightfoot bug on the new 2nd skill bar will be fixed, and that didn't take long. The ;escape or ;flucht mechanism should be fixed too. There are a bunch of places where you can sort of "drop off the map", and they've always been there. You just go to peace mode and type ;escape and a couple minutes later you get moved to a safe spot. In German you should be able to type ";flucht" in peace mode and do the same. That hasn't been working lately.

Also, all of the collection stuff related to Valentines and Chinese New Year will be removed. If you have any flowers left over you should turn them in quick. And last, the resource map tabs listings of items from each map merchant should be back in place too.

Like I said, just a few small errors that have crept into the game, and now they're getting fixed.

We would still like to see the North Seas Icy Plains map sooner rather than later. Every day a few more people hit the level cap and the grind spots could be pretty crowded if we don't get that new map soon.

In other good news the skill experience rate will be permanently doubled from its current very poor rate. That doesn't help me much. I just put up with it and got the job done on most skills, but hopefully this will encourage a few players who gave up to come back and try again. For our active league members there will manuals available shortly after we get the Ice map. It wont take long before CS level members can join me for full runs in the Golden Coins Mansion.

We did a full run of the Wild Tower today, with just two of us, so we're getting there as a league. It would sure be nice to see a few more people playing regularly though.

- AxtTreiber