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. The day's new dailies come onto Ref's board and yesterday's are cleared, 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, any AI patrol resets, and group invite codes change. The Lab opens 30 minutes after each restart.

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 2 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.