On 6th September 2002, Neocron went retail... thats nearly 5 years ago! Of course that was Neocron 1, and everyone is now playing Neocron 2.2.

So Chenoa and the Neocron event team are arranging a 5th Anniversary Jubilee event, details of which can be found in this thread on the official forums! Get your entries in quick!

Today, various people were reporting probelms with items and logging in on Terra, following this morning's maintenence. As a result of this, Terra is now down while the problems are being examined. Is another rollback for Terra on the cards? (presumably if there is, it will be to this morning's backup). We should see by later today.

Read the offical announcement. 

Update at 16:12 (GMT): Terra has been rolled back to its state as of yesterday evening (19:00 08/07/2007 (CET)) . There is an offical announcement available to read.

Chenoa has announced a new competition to design and get implimented in the neocron world, dynamic runs!:

As requested a different type of contest for dynamic runs:

The contest will run as follows:

Send us your ideas, your mini stories, your run and we will see what we can do with it, and may be we will bring it online possibly in the new dynamic zones!
It could be tricky riddles, funny short stories, paper chase, anything you can think about. But within "normal" limits and no big quests or missions and without prizes.
The runs will be coded on NPCs. If there is enough time a GM will get together with one or more runners to work out the run. Therefore it would be advantageous if you could create the dialogues immediately (NPC - Runner - NPC - Runner).

Snowcrash has posted news of changes coming to the next retail patch. There is no news when the patch will be out. (Next 2-3 days would be my guess) Here is a copy of what he posted.

"With the next retail patch the Soullight system will be adjusted to prevent possible abuse of this system. After the patch it will no longer be possible to increase the own Soullight by killing NPCs or other runners. With this measure, the inhibition threshold to eliminate other runners to ruin their enjoyment of the game should be raised. It will still be possible to increase the own Soullight respectively bring it back to the original state by absolving missions and by the auto regeneration feature.

The increase of own Soullight will be much harder due to these adjustments, so you should watch out to not decrease your Soullight with careless actions respectively increase it with the given possibilities until the patch is released."

A disccussion thread on the changes can be found here. (Link updated: 20-Jun-2007 11:06BST!)

It's been a while since we heard from Holger Nathrath the CEO of ReaKKtor. Today he posted a community announcement for as whats in store for Neocron. It's not quite Neocron Evo 2.3, but a considerable change to the Neocron 2 world. The Factions are being changed.

Click on Read More to read a copy of the annoucement, and please discuss the changes on the official forums in this thread.

It has been noticed recently by not only us at the THN, but by quite a few of the community members that ReaKKtor have been a little quiet lately, until this little snippet of information appeared on the forums from Nidhogg.

"With any luck there will be an important announcement later this week..."

As to what the annoucement is about, is open purely to speculation at this point in time. We will keep you posted.