It has been some time since anyone reported the symptoms listed in this thread so I have to assume TaleWorlds as resolved the issues on their end.

This thread will now serve only to document what happened.

Archived Symptoms and Suggestions

Archive: Steam Updates
A series of Warband updates were recently pushed out to players on Steam.  They were part of addition of Steam Workshop support for Warband and better Linux and Mac support.  Some of them broke Warband badly with errors or crashing but it seems somewhat fixed now.

These updates only affected Steam users.  Stand-alone installations of Warband did not receive any updates.

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Archive: Authentication Servers
Unrelated to the recent updates, Warband was available to play for free on the weekend.  This resulted in a massive influx of users which overloaded the TaleWorlds authentication and server list servers.  "Incorrect Authorization Key" and "Unable to Connect to Server" were very common errors.  Furthermore, free players (and some payed users) were given completely random IDs each time they joined a server preventing them from getting stats and gear.

The free weekend is now over but there are a few leftover problems.

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Archive: Random User IDs
If you are still getting activation codes each time you join a server try these steps:

Lets start with the simplest: restart Steam entirely.  Closing all the Steam windows is not enough, you need to make sure it is not running in the system tray.  If you are unsure how to restart Steam entirely, restarting the computer will do as well.

Try joining a server and hope that it works.  If not, try these longer steps:
Make sure Warband is closed when you do this.
Be very careful about editing your registry.  If you are not careful, you could break things.

1.  In the Steam Library, right click Warband and click "View CD key".  You will need this key later.
Note: If you do not see a CD key listed, stop.  The rest of the instructions require it.
2.  Open the "Run" prompt.  (Holding down the windows key and pressing "R" is an easy way to do this.)
3.  Type "regedit" and press enter.
4.  In the left panel, go to the following folders: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ MountAndBladeWarbandKeys
5.  In the right panel, look for the "serial_key" entry.  (If it is not there, right-click a blank area and create a new "String Value" and name it "serial_key".)
Note: "serial_key_nw" is for Napoleonic War and is not related.
6.  Right-click the "serial_key" entry and modify it.
7.  Set the value to the CD from step 1.

Close all the windows and try joining a server.

These are the only two methods I know for fixing the random IDs.  TaleWorlds / Steam might do something to fix it automatically in the next few days but if you are eager to play, this should work.

Hi all,

I am happy to announce the latest in our continued updates to the website.

Touch Friendly Navigation

We welcome your touchy fingers. The navigation system will now work on touch screen devices. You will find that when touching something like house or marketplace that the second option will reveal itself but the website will not change. Press it a second time and you will be taken to the page as normal or press the alternative option (Auction hall, trading etc).

Please be aware that touch enabled computers will count as touch enabled devices. We are looking into a way to only make this occur on tablets and phones and not computers.

Extra Button

There is a new "Extras" option that shows the home page links. Other extra features will appear here in time to any users who have access to extra systems. Additionally, anyone modifiying the website (eg: NI+) should use this to display their menus. Also, the logout button is now located under account section.

Auction Hall

Saving the biggest change for last, we are proud to announce the new auction hall. With a completely new design, filters and even the ability to look for things that you can't equip on that character. Also, try clicking a record for expanded statistics (which have been checked), nice pictures (click image for even larger picture) and the ability to check prices of items against the "normal" pricing range on the marketplace.

NB: All existing auction listings have been returned with your full tax money.
NI+ users - please disable the plugin pending an update as it can prevent the rows expanding. NI+ has been updated.
If parts of the website are not behaving as expected, try pressing Ctrl + F5 to force a full refresh of the page.

/Nao & the dev team


Original Notification:

Spoiler

Some aspects of the website are being upgraded. More details will be released soon but during this time you may find parts of the site are unavailable.

Please bear with us and we will be back up and running soon.

EDIT: Gameplay will be unaffected during this time.

UPDATE 21:56 BST - Server has been updated.

/Nao

Hey!

As you might have noticed, we have finally started to add item images to our website.
Because we developers are only good at drawing stickmans, we need you players help us to make proper pictures of crafting items for our website.

To signup to this project, send a private message to me with your e-mail address and I will add you to Google Spreadsheet.

Here is some info you need to know:
- We need two images
- 852 x 714 Fullsize
- 100 x 83 Thumbnail
- Both images must be in .png format
- Remember If you take pictures from somewhere to work with, make sure them are not copyrighted!!!
- The Background should be grey for now (same as the other items)

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(07-04-2014, 04:24 PM)k4mi link Wrote: [quote author=Tarrod link=topic=25021.msg173250#msg173250 date=1396885840]
Does this project only include Crafting Goods or also Barrels, Tomes, House Craftables or Legendaries?
Greets Tarrod

Hoy players.

To let you know, we just removed forage props from NI maps and we are going to add those items as a loot.
If you still somehow find those props from maps, please report it to us.

IF you don't want to download maps ingame, you can download and install them from this link; https://www.dropbox.com/s/p079ynhw4o9j5xz/27.3.2014.rar
Copy to SceneObj folder. (\Mount&Blade Warband\Modules\NordInvasion\SceneObj)

Love,
NordInvasion Team

Two common tasks that used to require waiting for a Senior Admin or Developer have now been automated: password resets and donator respecs.

The password reset instructions have been updated for the new system: Password Reset Instructions

New donators need to provide one of their character names along with their forum name when they confirm their donation with Hypernoma.  Existing donators should post one of their IDs in the donator section if their accounts have not been marked already.  The donator respec option is listed on the standard respec section of the account page.

Kip & the Dev Team

Good evening,

As many of you know from conversations on IRC and Teamspeak, March is to be the month of the purge. This has been likened to the movie "The Purge" and bears many similarities except only I get to kill everyone. I am tired with the flagrant rule breaking, insulting, trolling, queue skipping, interrupting refills, bullying etc etc etc that has been going on. I will therefore be clearing out the undesirables from the NordInvasion community. It really is not difficult to be nice and just play this game and enjoy yourself. In the first year of NordInvasion it was a rarity that we banned players, such a rarity that we knew the name and reason of every single player that was banned. I now have a list hundreds of names long. Players used to have no problem playing together and having fun without the need to act like a bunch pre-pubescent children pulling hair on the playground. I am tired of it, the admin team is tired of it and I know many players who are also far too tired of it. A zero tolerance policy is now in effect until players can learn to act with the slightest degree of decorum. You do not have a right to play this mod, you have a privilege and it is time players acted in accordance with that privilege.

As this is the internet and positive reinforcement does not work, we will therefore build a nicer community through negative reinforcement aka the banhammer. I appreciate that the majority of the community are perfectly civil and a pleasure to play with but there are a fair number of players who have abused our good nature of late. They have crossed the line on repeated occasions and expect that they will not be met with repercussions. Time for that illusion to dissipate. I love this game and the community that has been built around it but there are those who seek to detract from the good nature of what I like to think is one of the most friendly and mature communities in Warband.

Love,

Hypernoma

TL;DR If you break my rules, I will break you. There is now a zero-tolerance policy.

A little over two years ago NI started on it's first steps towards being fully translated. This was started by Jez using a spreadsheet that users could edit and for the most part was fairly successful but recently as the website has expanded the translations are falling behind rapidly. I know that this makes for a very poor user experience for our international users and so I would like to announce a new effort to bring the web translations back up to scratch.

We will be launching a new translation centre in the next few days which will allow translators to make changes without the need for constant emailing and updating. Initially, the translatable areas will be limited but the web team are hard at work making alot of behind the scene changes to all the web code so that all text will be sent to the translation module and eventually the whole website will be international.

So what do we need? Well to be honest the dev team can't speak half the languages are users speak so I am asking for all those who helped before and anyone new who would like to help to stick their names below along with langauges and proficiency on a level of basic, good, fluent so that we can register people for access to the translation area.

Thanks for your help!

Lots of love,
/Nao & the NI Dev team

UPDATE 27/7:
So here is the current upcoming list of languages, soon to be made available to translators:

'en' => 'English',
'fr' => 'French',
'no' => 'Norwegian',
'ru' => 'Russian',
'cns' => 'Chinese Simplified',
'cnt' => 'Chinese Traditional',
'dk' => 'Danish',
'de' => 'German',
'es' => 'Spain',
'nl' => 'Netherlands',
'pl' => 'Polish',
'bs' => 'American Rubbish',
'si' => 'Slovenia',
'it' => 'Italy',
'tr' => 'Turkey',
'br' => 'Brazil',
'hr' => 'Croatia',
'pt' => 'Portugal',
'se' => 'Sweden',
'hu' => 'Hungary',
'ln' => 'Latin',
'bbq' => 'Australian',
'arr' => 'Pirate'

The official #nordinvasion IRC channel is now on Rizon!  The move is due to Freenode policies we have become aware of.

From a user perspective, Rizon is almost exactly the same.  Here are the details:

Web Client