[Rogean]

Greetings.

We are beginning Phase 1 of the public Kunark Beta tonight. The beta server will be open for everyone to log into. All characters have been copied to the beta server from the live server at the state they were in as of December 4th, roughly around 3 AM. All characters have been moved to the East Commonlands tunnel, near the Shady Swashbuckler. Near him you will also find "Old Man Thorren". Mr. Thorren will teleport you to kunark, and he can also bind you.

As each phase of beta progresses, we will be focusing the test on specific zones. Phase 1 will see the following zones available:
West Cabilis
East Cabilis
Field of Bone
Kurn's Tower
Firiona Vie
Lake of Ill Omen
Warsliks Woods
Dreadlands
Temple of Droga
Swamp of no Hope
Kaesora
Frontier Mountains
Dalnir

As you can see, the immediate area for all starting iksars is available for testing. The creation of iksars is unlocked and we encourage people to test all aspects of it.

Reporting Issues
A new section of the forums specifically for Kunark has been created. Please read the description of each forum when posting a bug to make sure it goes in the right place. Please search the forums to make sure a thread hasn't already been created for the problem. When posting, please be as descriptive as possible.

I can't stress the latter enough.. The developers have tremendous amounts of work to do, and we really need the players to help make our jobs easier by filling in as much information as possible. This means the difference between "Soandso is spawning in the wrong location" and "Soandso is a male iksar spawning at location x, y, z, but based on <reference given=""> he should be spawning at location x, y, z." Bug reports that aren't descriptive will be ignored or deleted.

Getting Involved
In addition to helping with bug reports, we hope that some players will take a more proactive role in assisting us with further development of Kunark. We have created a new IRC Channel (#p1999kunark) for specific discussions related to the Kunark Beta and it's development.

Differences on the Beta Server
The beta server will not be monitored as much, if at all, for petitions. The boxing limit / IP Blocking has been removed (You may box on the Beta server), and serverwide OOC has been enabled.</reference>