[aza77]

you only loose the spells during the character generation and that is no bug. but you might be right that you also loose them if you change from wizard to wizard .. going to check it and fix it. so once you left the tutorial there shouldn't be any lost spells at all.
going to check the guards today, looks like we missed one or 2 last time we changed the faction. (no clue how it happened) but that's easy to fix. we also use 3 different faction systems . the normal npc to player one and a guild to player and guild to guild one. so if you get attacked by an npc inside a town it might also be the guard of a guild for example.
the patch might only cause problems like human models instead of the real ones at other servers. if you don't install the patch you won't be able to see the harvesting nodes, mailboxes, some item graphics, some spells + discs won't work. you could just copy all .txt files out of the dir before you use our patcher. and copy them back if you play somewhere else.
about the lack of content atm we only support the neriak <-> freeport area (inlcuding lavastorm area <-> west commonlands area <-> oasis area + soon rivervale area)