The OpenNeL community is happy to announce that we now have a fully functioning live Snowballs shard.This is shard is a built out of Subversion after the 0.5.0 build. If you would like to play (and we encourage that you do play,) please build a Snowballs client from Subversion and add the following into your client.cfg:

Login                = "login_name";
Password             = "your_password";
LSHost               = "snb-ls.opennel.org:49994";
Local                = 0;
UseDirectClient      = 1;
ClientApplication    = "snowballs";
ShardId = 300;

Some of these configuration variables are already in the config file and you will have to replace them, some will be new. Replace login_name and your_password with your own unique password. If the account does not exist, it will automatically be created for you. We hope that soon we will be able to put this all into nice, fancy menus in the game itself but for the time being, this is how. If you experience any problems, please post in the forum, post a bug or contact us in the IRC channel.

Note: A MySQL reconnection issue has been fixed that was causing the Login Service to fail after the MySQL connection timed out.
Note: Also fixed a bug with the frontend service that was crashing all clients on a server when another client would disconnect before identifying.