The Neocron 2 servers are now offline for the planned migration of the hardware to the new datacentre. This process is expected to take several days, and is expected to be back by the 7th July.

The THN will be keeping everyone updated with the news here, but for discussion about the migration, please use this thread.

The Story so far...

29th June 23:00BST, 30th June Midnight CEST. - The login server was taken offline. Anyone who was ingame could remain ingame, but if you logged out, you would not be able to log in. The population slowly got smaller, and there was a little party in Plaza 1 .

Here is what Snowcrash posted about the first planned step for the migration.

"As already announced, the Neocron server hardware will be moved to another data center. For this purpose, the main account server will be shut down today at midnight (CEST). From then on it is no longer possible to log into the game and to administrate game accounts. The game servers will be shut down tomorrow morning at 09:00 AM CEST. Until then it is possible to play Neocron if one has logged into the game before the shutdown of the main account server.

We will of course keep you in the loop about the migration progress and will announce further details regarding the planned lowering of the Neocron subscription fees within the next days."

30th June 08:27BST  Snowcrash updated the thread with the lastest news "All servers have been shut down and are now being dismantled by the admin team of our data center provider. After the dismantling the hardware will be made ready for dispatch and transported to the new data center."

4th July 09:45BST Nidhogg posted this update. "The Neocron server hardware has arrived in the new data center yesterday evening after some delay. Pending an intensive examination the hardware will be rebuilt and taken back into operation. Due to the circumstances of the transportation delay it may take a little longer than expected to bring the servers back online."

Have you ever wonder which smuggler sells the Tangent Mini Rocketlauncher  . Or you need to know where else you can buy the HEW Advanced War Drone RK-1000   drone when your Soullight is bad? (Hold your mouse over the little i icon to see the item information.)

With the help of the wiki, and the new item DB linking feature, wiki pages can be now linked up to items.

A big thanks has to go to Reaction, Logan Ford,  and Biglines,  who went and collected information on what each smuggler and vendor sells and added it to the wiki.

Not all the vendors are listed in the wiki, so please be patience while the vendor pages are compiled, or better still help out on the wiki .

The THN will be offline for about 1-2 hours on Wednesday 25th June from 20:00BST (19:00UTC) This includes the THN Item DB, Rares DB, Forums and Wiki.

During the downtime, the Item DB will be upgraded to version 1.5.0 The reason for the downtime is this release is quite complex, and also it takes a little while for the DB backups to run.

I would like to apologise in advance for the inconvenience this downtime may cause.

Snowcrash has reported that there will be a migration of the server hardware containing the neocron 2 cluster to a new datacenter location between the 30th of June and the 7th of July. Obviously during this time there will not be any possible way to connect to the neocron servers.

In more positive news the price plan for Neocron 2 will change from the current amount of 9.99 € per month to a new low price of 5.00 €. More details will be vailable when the servers are migrating.