Snowcrash has announced that the Ultimate Network, who produce the Ultimate Launcher for Neocron 2 has become an official Neocron 2 fansite.

The Tech Haven Network, would also like to congratulate the the Ultimate Network on becoming an official fansite, and we are looking forward to continuing to working together.

As a little sidenote on working together myself and Hoover are currently working on a project to allow the THN Items DB to be searched ingame with the ultimate launcher. This feature will be available very soon.

It is with a little sadness I announce that Tratos Skarn is stepping down for a break from his role as THN Administrator and THN Forum moderator which he has done such a fantastic job on.

Like everyone who works on the THN website team, the THN wouldn't be where it is today without Tratos' help. So a big thank you from myself and the rest of the THN team, and I'm sure all the readers of the THN will join me in thanking him.

Now normally my in-game clan doesn't usually get mentioned here, as the THN is neutral ground for everyone, but I just like to point out his little roleplay thread Tratos has posted on the THN and the official forums. Keep it RP, and join in if you like!

...and finally Tratos, remember one thing. The Neocrack will make you come back! :P

The Item DB 1.3.0 has been released, with a bunch of new features for searching, and improvements to the display output.

A note about the update for Neocron 2.2, we are marking any group as 2.2 meaning it has been updated for Neocron 2.2, and also anything marked as 2.1 has not been updated. 

For the full details, please click on Read More. 

Some of you may had spotted the item DB version number sneaking up without any release notes. If you have, you deserve a can of Cron 55!

Click on Read more for a summary of changes.

You are all going probably screaming "ARGH THE ITEMS DB is EMPTY!"

It's not. Myself and a few other helpful people are going around checking the items ingame to make sure they are correct 2.2. This will be done over the next few weeks. 

Sections Done.

Drones (Missing the Punisher and Mosquito)
Hacknet Software (All done - thanks for Cmaster for his raid on the Phoenix NC DB)
Bone Implants
Tradeskill Gloves and PSI Gloves (Done - Thanks Judge for the CAG2 stats)
Vehicles - 90% Done
Stealth and hack tools - Done

Sections current in Progress

Anything that is being updated is current hidden - so we can track what needs to be found. 

All Rifles
All Pistols
All Melee
All Heavy Weapons

Last updated: 19:48 BST 9-Apr 2007 

Over the Easter weekend, there will be some upgrades to the THN server software.

The THN will be moving over from PHP4 to PHP5 for the follow websites.

http://forum.techhaven.org/ - Updating on Saturday 7th April - 10:00BST to 17:00BST (Completed)
http://www.techhaven.org/ - Updating on Sunday 8th April - 10:00BST to 17:00BST (Completed early on Sat 7th April)

The Rares Database will remain on PHP4 until release 2.0 is done.

During the updates, the IP of the websites will change slightly, meaning you may not reach the new websites until your ISP gets the new IP's from the DNS records.

The PHP5 upgrades will make life a bit easier on coding new extensions to things like the Items DB and the Rares DB.

Update: All upgrades completed -  The main THN website http://www.techhaven.org was also done today, ahead of the original planned scheduled downtime.

Any problems please report them in this thread or in this thread on the official forums . 

Tonight, the follow rares and their will be removed from the Rares DB.

F24.88 Flamethrower (This is a Black Dragon FDB item)
Holy Anti Protector (No-one has parts - this looks like it was confused with the Crahn Anti protector)
Crahn Catharsis (Removed from the rare pool in-game)

Any problems, please start a thread in the THN forums, or send me a PM.

Update: The parts have now been removed from the pool. 

The Fallen Angels clan, R2K who are based on the server Terra, have updated their clansite with a new skin for Neocron 2.2, I've got to say it looks great!

Not only do they have their own forums, but they are serving up some Fallen Angels news, propaganda and unbiased battle reports. (So they claim!)

Head over to http://www.r2k-ua.net/ and good luck with your site guys!

The item DB has been updated to allow non integer modifier values. (ie To allow values like +2.84) This means you will see values like+2.00 until the item DB gets updated with the new values for 2.2.

Any other issues please report in this thread.

Please note 1.2.1 will also follow a little later today or tomrrow.