After Reakktor Media GmbH was dissolved the servers were moved to a host in Canada but on minimum spec hardware which couldn't cope with the DDOS attacks frequently dispatched against them.
While this was a contributing factor in the decommissioning of Mars, Mercury and Terra it was not the main reason. It was mainly due to the horrific state the databases existed in. As most are aware Neocron continued to exist on borrowed time, while Reakktor Media GmbH worked on Black Prophecy. This basically meant that while the game was still online after "the F6 patch" it was without any sort of real maintenance. Before the move to Canada hardware was failing and the databases were groaning due to corruption and a significant amount of abuse during that time.
It wasn't a decision taken lightly but it was one made with the best of intentions so we could provide a better service with far less risk of data loss. We still have the databases securely backed up, so your characters are still alive, they're just in stasis until such a time-... until such a time where they're not in stasis...
Regarding the Reakktor situation:
Reakktor Media GmbH was the company which survived the demise of 10tacle Studios AG and went on to develop Black Prophecy with gamigo AG. That was the business which unfortunately went into liquidation in early 2012. Rights to the Neocron IP now sit with Nukklear UG, a company of which Kirk is the CEO. It is with Kirk that the Neocron Support Team have an agreement to continue the operations of Neocron.
The Reakktor name returned to game development as Reakktor Studios GmbH, under the founder of the original studio MJS. While the new studio's name and founder are obviously closely linked to Neocron, the new studio which resides at reakktor.com has no involvement with the Neocron IP.
Anyway. That's all the past.
Neocron has improved a lot, if you check out the
patch notes you'll see we've made a significant number of improvements and changes to the game. I could list some of them but it's totally worth reading through the notes as the quality of the Neocron experience has improved by leaps and bounds.
We've still a lot to do but compared to where we were when we took over at patch level 174, we're miles ahead.
It's good to see you again, welcome back to the fold properly this time I hope. It's great to see the return of the Mechsican!