True to normal form, its a friday afternoon when Reakktor sort out accounts that have run out. We've had our 30 days of playing with the drastically changed neocron for free, and the question now facing much of the community is whether ro resubscibe or not and with paypal joining paybycash and click2pay there's no excuse of not being able to pay any more.

Here's to as many people in 2.2 proper as possible.

At about 22:00BST 10 April 2007, the Neocron servers could not be reach due to connection issues.

A few days ago, KK announced a chat with the Devs. I was fortunate to be one of the lucky people to be taking part. For those who didn't get an invite, here is a copy of the chat with all the spam removed.

The chat was more aimed at new players, but there are a few bits for the vet players out there - Click on Read more!

Updated: Opps the winners from the chat got tuncated, apologies for that.

There is an interview with Dirk "John Doe" Wilhelmy and Christian 'SnowCrash' Schuett on eGame.de - The interview is in German, but yuuki was kind enough to translate and post the interview on the forums for the English readers.

The Original German version can be found here, and the translated version is in this thread.

Xfire is offering the chance to win a slot to participate in a chat with the developers of Neocron 2.2. The chat will be held on April 3rd, 2007 at 09:00 PM CEST.  

During the chat it will be possible to win some free playtime!

1st. 6 months free playtime.
2nd. 3 months free playtime.
3rd. 1 months free playtime.

To enter the lottery for the chat, you need to have Xfire installed, and a valid Xfire username. To enter, goto this page and register for the chat. You can also talk about the dev chat in this little thread.

With less than 4 days to go, another patch comes up. This patch focuses on the combat rank changes, and some general fixes. Click on Read more for the patch notes and join in the discussion here.

Oh yes, one more thing test the patch! :p

John Doe announced that 2.2 will be delayed until March 12th to allow some extra testing on the following areas.

- Changes to the calculation of the combat ranks (Players and vehicles)
- Verification of the Law Enforcer rules
- Further adjustements to PSI combat (APU)
- Problems with high end computer systems caused by very high frame rates

Also John Doe has hinted there would be some new content in the patch to get your interest. You can read the full annoucement here.

Naturally some people will be disappointed by the delay, but I think it's a very welcomed delay to allow the testers extra time on the test server to find all the bugs, so please go and test on the test server.

Another test patch to put the server in retail conditions mode, and to add a few changes to combat rank. There is also some code changes the Law Enforce and PSI combat. Click on Read More for the patch notes, and join in the discussion of the patch here.

Since the release of 2.2 is delayed by a week, it's expected there will be a few more patches so get testing!

KK have annouced the release date for Neocron 2.2 - Wednesday 7th March. Players with inactive accounts will get 30 days free playtime.

However it seems the community do not feel 2.2 is ready for release, you can join the discusion about the release dates in the English thread or the German Thread.