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This deserves a blog entry. Its been like a novel, but we finally got it.What this changes  With this its finally possible to create characters in clients 2013 and above (tested with 2013-03-20). The Game Changer  Today, some hours ago, Shakto has provided me  with a network report he recorded, I've been going over it for the past hours, and a couple minu...

Yesterday I was approached by a couple of concerned members wondering why we weren't merging rAthena stuff since they merge ours so often, and while we had our reasons for some, most of it was some lack of attention by our side, well not anymore.Today I've gone through every commit of theirs since February and have already merged (well some, as you will s...

First batch of members upgraded through Hercules CC Program kyemefor oustanding bug section presence, besides being highly active on the section kyeme has created countless videos of his characters in official servers to help us understand official behavior of skills Yommyfor all his help with packet data, hes helped us on many features, including but not...

Previously I blogged about writing a new entry everyday  to log what I was working on, well that didn't happen -- such a surprise (not).The week ended up being very productive however.The two prominent highlights: Hercules Map Zone Database Hercules Channel System  Don't expect much from me today though, although its still sunday for me I want to focus on...

For the past week or so I haven't been very active, that was due to a food poisoning condition which led me to going to the hospital two days ago, today I left the hospital and am about 90% recovered, meaning I'll now continue normal works on hercules.Theres a lot of things stacked to be done, for example the suggestions , Hercules Renewal  and the bug tr...

I've gone through all of it and committed fixes to all known issues By the way within the same commit a new setting was introduced// Request Pincode only on login or on everytime char select is accessed?// 0: only on login (default)// 1: everytime the char select window is accessedpincode_charselect: 0 Should you step by any bugs don't hesitate to let we...

- 112 Total Commits (merges not included)- 29 Bug Fixes- 21 Commits from Pull RequestsSource

As I've written on March the 9th , the "Pin Code" feature wasn't yet functional, I've done some further debugging since then, and with the help of Yommy I've noticed the feature is only not stable when using the expiration feature ( when the pincode_changetime  setting is not 0 ), which means the fault may not lie at the decryption after all , I own Light...

Today our neighbours released the Pin System  -- or so we thought. We were all excited about the feature, and I started to work on porting it to Hercules as soon as I could, only to find out it wasn't fully functional after I was done porting it. I should've taken the "Beta" in their commit log more seriously. I didn't want to throw the effort I spent on...

As requested by Beret in http://herc.ws/b...ed-slot-system/ The feature enables support for account-dependent character slot numbers (within MAX_CHARS  bounds as defined in src/common/mmo.h ), e.g. if your server has a 12 maximum character limit but you would like only selected accounts to be able to use all of them you can use this...