C-Mode stages 7, 8 and 9 are currently up after the short 1 hour server maintenance tonight. Knock yourselves out and get that S-Rank. Valentine's Quest is also up. So get cooking! New Valentine's decorations are also up in the lobbies. ST's news post can be found
here.
S-Rank weapons choices are: saber, sword, blade, partisan, slicer, gun, rifle, mechgun, shot, cane, rod, wand, twin and claw. Unfortunately; we don't know why; but S-Rank weapons are illegal online.
When you try to log online with an S-Rank, you will get this message before the ship select screen and then you will be booted;
"Your items are modified outside the rules of the game. You will not be able to join or create teams while you have the irregular items in your possession. You may only access the online mode after using the offline mode to discard your irregular items. The information of irregular items will be recorded in the servers. Based upon this information your access to the servers may be terminated without further notice." This has happened to
rbf2000 and
GandorDurin.
Do not, we repeat,
DO NOT attempt to go online on a U.S. ship with your S-Rank in your inventory after going ofline. If you do, you will get this message and be
banned:
"Your account for PSO server has been suspended. Unable to play online game for 24 more hour(s)." Way to go ST! Did ST forget to update their servers all the way? Same bug as X-Box with their S-Ranks? But X-Box users weren't banned for having S-Ranks online. Join the discussion and vent
here. Credit goes to
rbf2000.
The online scores screen now shows Battle record, Challenge Rank, Challenge Time Record 1 (which has C1-C9) and Challenge Time Record 2.
It was also reported that the Xbox Live service was also down between 3:30 til 5:30 on Feb 9. Everything with X-Box Live should be fine now.
Update: JP users, you will not be banned for having an S-Rank weapon in your inventory if you stay on a JP ship. Just don't log onto a US ship with the weapon in your inventory. Keep the weapon in the bank and don't remove it.