is the patcher now running on a different port? tried to patch with just the 3030 port unlocked but had to use hotspot shield.

the patcher never used 3030, it used to use 80 (http), now its connecting to a dedicated patchbot server, for beta its port 30032 and for live patch its 30030

The cost of class skills went up because they are in skill pools, and pooled skills with level proportional costs now go up with the combined level of all the skills in the pool. I think it's a good thing for the cost to go up like that, but I will reduce the overall multiplier on these skills.

Server is restarting in an hour because it's out of memory. I'm patching in a change to the class skill costs. They will be more than they used to be, but a lot less than they are on live at the moment.

thanks jeff

All of these updates have been helping. I can almost play the game now without lagging out. I like the /mc and being able to transfer your trading bay info.

The total cost of maxing all 5 class and focus skills to 20 should be about 400m now, very heavily weighted at the back end.