The Darkening Sun
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<VERSION>
|> Based on:
/i\ Welcome to Diku by Hans, Katya,
\ /#'`\ The Darkening Sun Tom, Michael and Sebastian
`\ /#' `\ /\ Merc 2.1 by Hatchet,
`\ /#'-. `\/ `\ |> Furey and Kahn
`\ /#'-._ `\ `\ | Rom 2.4 ©1993-1996 by Russ
`\ /#'-.___ `\ `\ /'\ Oblivion 2.0 ©1996-1997
___--' '--.._____..--' `\/# `\ by Wes Wagner
,','| |- _ _-=|_.- /# `\ The Dawn of Time v1.69s
_-=} |- {_} _-=|. /#`- `\ ©1997-2010 by Michael Garratt
-_=| |-________-=| /#`-._ `\ The Darkening Sun ©2000-2022
[]=|_.-._ \,_._._._./_ /#`-.___ `\ by Marc Garrett
-=/* `\ |-. _-=| '--.._____..--' + ___
.-(-.._..-)|- , _-=| ()|- ___..---.| .--.|__, .-' `-.
MMMMM. ,MMMMM. - | . | / / // \ >'---.,___\ .-' `-.
][`l--Ml][ `] ,wwwwww// / / {} \ | l / \
][ ]I,_MI' ][ ] /__...-'|""""_.- ,-===- ,===. | / \
n ][ ][ ][ "i] !_______| | `I[ '|_[ | | | _ ,----, _ |
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What is thy name, Brave Traveller? (Type 'new' to create a new character)<USER>Connections by hour
No hour of the week has produced a player count. 84 hours across the week have no measurement yet. 84 hours across the week answered but produced no count.
times in UTC · 8-week rolling average
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| day | quietest | busiest | at | not measured | no count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Tue | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Wed | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Thu | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Fri | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Sat | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
| Sun | no count in any hour | 12 | 12 | ||
How many, over time
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.
days in UTC · 18 Jul 2026 – 15 Oct 2026
Nothing counted in this range.
Reachable
reachable · last 90 days
Reachable 100.0% of the 59 days we have measured. No day we measured was unreachable. 31 days predate anything we measured.
90 days ago
today
- reachable
- 100.0%
- longest outage
- none in the window
- last cause
- nothing recorded
- reachable
- degraded — answered, could not finish
- unreachable
- not measured
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- 18 Jul – 17 Aug: 31 days not measured
What changed
- 18 Aug 2026 NAME recorded as The Darkening Sun (staff)
- 18 Aug 2026 endpoint recorded as darkeningsun.com 5678 (handshake)
Capabilities
| capability | measured | declared | age |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCP | ● offered | – silent | |
| MXP | ● offered | – silent | |
| MSSP | ✕ absent | – silent |
Declared by the game
- name
- The Darkening Sun
- codebase
- Merc
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