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I'm really sorry to say that just when things were starting to be worked on in small quantities towards Bushtarion getting some fresh blood, some updates, and possibly a new admin, the hard-drives on the server itself had a fatal crash.
The RAID drives crashed severely (full physical meltdown) and local backups were lost, so we are having to rollback around 48 hours to the last stable remote backup. The server has had it's hard-drives replaced with brand new ones, and most of the day has been sent setting all the server software back up again.
Server has been rolled back to 19th April 2015, the early hours of Sunday morning server time.
Ticks should start up again at 20:30 GMT (that's 21:30 UK time or BST) today (Wednesday the 22nd of April), if everything remains stable.
Note that ticks starting up again depend solely on the reliability of the new server. If there are problems with the new setup the ticks may get delayed further, please watch this space!
To help speed developments along, the development multiplier has been dropped from 1.6 to 1.2. Please note that this is not retroactive - if you had a development already started, it'll still be at whatever research/construct time it was at the point you started it - only new developments will have the new heavily reduced times (exactly how the dev multiplier always works anyway, just with a rather bigger and more sudden drop). Be interesting to see if this enabled any of the lower-ranked players suddenly get their high-level developments finished before the current top alliance/players does and get a surprising advantage!
All users who made purchases after the rollback date will be given their credits back, but nothing else from the last 48 hours can be salvaged, I'm sorry!
Our new super-moderator Benneh has been handling a lot of the server re-configuring, a bit of a saviour, and he may have some things to add to this post, or may answer any questions anyone asks here if I don't first!
Sidenote: I was intending to make a post in the not-too distant future explaining my more recent absence/personal life, I may have to speed that up since I imagine people have some questions, but please be patient with me, I'm an old man now!
The RAID drives crashed severely (full physical meltdown) and local backups were lost, so we are having to rollback around 48 hours to the last stable remote backup. The server has had it's hard-drives replaced with brand new ones, and most of the day has been sent setting all the server software back up again.
Server has been rolled back to 19th April 2015, the early hours of Sunday morning server time.
Ticks should start up again at 20:30 GMT (that's 21:30 UK time or BST) today (Wednesday the 22nd of April), if everything remains stable.
Note that ticks starting up again depend solely on the reliability of the new server. If there are problems with the new setup the ticks may get delayed further, please watch this space!
To help speed developments along, the development multiplier has been dropped from 1.6 to 1.2. Please note that this is not retroactive - if you had a development already started, it'll still be at whatever research/construct time it was at the point you started it - only new developments will have the new heavily reduced times (exactly how the dev multiplier always works anyway, just with a rather bigger and more sudden drop). Be interesting to see if this enabled any of the lower-ranked players suddenly get their high-level developments finished before the current top alliance/players does and get a surprising advantage!
All users who made purchases after the rollback date will be given their credits back, but nothing else from the last 48 hours can be salvaged, I'm sorry!
Our new super-moderator Benneh has been handling a lot of the server re-configuring, a bit of a saviour, and he may have some things to add to this post, or may answer any questions anyone asks here if I don't first!
Sidenote: I was intending to make a post in the not-too distant future explaining my more recent absence/personal life, I may have to speed that up since I imagine people have some questions, but please be patient with me, I'm an old man now!