Small fixes and changes in the middle of a wipe: what was fixed, what changed and when.
2025
The disconnects came from new DDoS methods that hit every server right now. The protection closed the holes one by one.
Things are stable again, the disconnects are fixed.
With a high ping, try neo.spookytime.sh and tcp.spookytime.sh and play on the one with the lower ping.
The wipe was postponed for the first time in the server’s history. There are two main reasons: holes in the anti-cheat and serious problems that are being fixed now.
The team knows quite a few players use banned clients, software and cheats. All anti-cheat holes will be closed soon, and every feature of every cheat will be fixed as it turns up.
The team’s own anti-cheat is almost ready: it’s written entirely from scratch and will let them detect and close any bypass of any cheat.
Big fixes are under way, and many major problems are almost solved.
Maintenance got frequent because the server infrastructure is being actively rewritten and almost everything possible is being improved.
Nothing changes for players, but it’s a huge amount of work. Nothing critical is going on.
Work has started on new duels (/duel).
A new seasonal event is coming soon.
Scaling maintenance took two nights: the nights of March 26 and March 27.
The goal is far more players without lag: roughly, if 20,000 people could play lag-free before, now it’s 50,000.
Bugs when joining the server are possible. If you notice something that wasn’t there before, report it and get a bonus.
For a couple more days there may be maintenance at night: many server systems were redone for performance, optimization and scaling.
On January 18, after sync went live, the anarchies stopped letting people in; all items were safe.
On January 22 at 18:00 Moscow time the servers were re-wiped and every purchase since the wipe was given back.
You could take /tokens, your kit and the /spooky rewards again.
/компенсация (“compensation”) gave a random amount of tokens for one day.
2024
The server was down because of a hardware fault at the host. To save time on troubleshooting, the host swapped in new hardware, and the server is up again.
The host doesn’t know the exact cause yet: the old server is being sent to their debugging station. The team is waiting for an answer and will do everything so it doesn’t happen again.
The “All countries” payment method is back on the website. If a payment doesn’t go through, message gamemax directly.
After the lag the server went down for maintenance and moved to new protection.
It removes lag and disconnects during attacks, and you can now join over mobile internet.
If joining from a phone or a hotspot still fails, message the project owner on VK.
The big maintenance is over, and every problem is fixed.
For the wait, everyone can take their kit and the /spooky rewards again.
Night maintenance: the server moved to a new, more powerful host.
The move went through successfully.
2023
The whole host went down: every server on it went offline, not just ours. There was nothing to do but wait while it was being fixed.
The host recovered, and the server is up and running without lag.