Restarts & Resets

Restart times#

The server restarts every three hours, on the hour, Central time (US):

• 00:00
• 03:00
• 06:00
• 09:00
• 12:00
• 15:00
• 18:00
• 21:00

You get warnings in game before each one. A restart takes a few minutes; the launcher reconnects you when it's back.

What changes at a restart#

• 6:00 — the daily reset. Three new daily tasks come onto Ref's board and yesterday's completions clear, in the same restart, so there is one changeover a day. A daily you haven't handed in by then leaves your log, done or not.
• Monday 6:00 — the weekly reset. The two weekly contracts change over.
• Every restart — bosses and events that were running end, airdrops in the air are gone, and any AI patrol resets.

Dailies and weeklies explains the rotation.

Restarts and your body#

Normally your body stays in the world after you log out — 30 s, or 5 min after combat. A scheduled restart is the exception: the server knows one is coming and, in the 5 min before it, a logout leaves no body behind. It also recognises the wave of disconnects a restart causes and doesn't treat them as combat logs.

That is a mechanic, not a loophole: logging out to escape a fight is still against the rules whatever the clock says.