Hey folks,
Recent Update
Man, this last week was really awful with the database crashes. I was hoping the migration could wait a bit longer since the crashes were once every 2-3 days, if that, but they suddenly pushed up to 4-5 times in the last 24 hours! I won't go into a bunch of details as I have in Discord Chat, but the db would randomly spike and all transactions would start failing. Time of day, amount of users, etc, nothing seemed to matter.
We decided to push back some things and focus 100% on the update today to migrate a good portion of the database over to the new (stable) database, and while I shouldn't jinx it, but things appear to be running incredibly smooth now.
The actual game servers themselves have been extremely stable. We haven't had a single game-server crash yet. There's definitely some bugs that we can work towards cleaning up, but this new design (not talking about the database) has been a good success.
We do however have one known issue with the latest update that was an oversight when we migrated the whole party/matchmaking system, and that is that full parties still update and add onto the open party listing, so many players are attempting to join already full parties, and it's failing. Sorry about that - it will be fixed in the next update, which is likely sooner than later.
Challenge, Challenge Expansion, Offline Gains?
Every time the db would crash it would set things back by hours on my end. With the frequency of the crashes, adding it up, i'm easily 3 days behind at this point, and while the new, more difficult challenge is ready, I felt it wasn't a great idea to push it on the stability patch.
Here's what we will do....we'll watch how the database goes over the next day, and if things keep calm, perhaps i'll release the new challenge with a couple fixes tomorrow (Apr 7th).
-With Jay back, he'll be working out the final piece to the migration, and assisting significantly with the Offline Gains system.
-I'll be working on the new unlimited challenge difficulty system, and starting up on pet balances with the new upgrade map finally.
Dates! When? What? You already said Wednesday for the new challenge!
As mentioned, new challenge tomorrow is possible. Friday almost definite if things are more stable nw.
Giving a date was dumb of me considering the database crashes were beginning to speed up since the weekend. I'm set back obviously but I think if things remain stable we can release the new challenge expansion before the actual full migration. In any case we are anticipating 'some' big update by Sunday, April 10th or 11th.
The pet rebalance and PP Upgrade Map expansion....I can't give a specific date yet until I begin full scale work on it.
Isael (The artist) is almost finished with the last task that I gave him, so I will likely be getting him started on Fishing.
I really appreciate how patient people have been with the ridiculous maintenance frequency from the database crashes. Trust that I can relate and sympathize with the frustration and in any case, i'm really expecting this latest patch to reduce the occurrence many folds, or all together until we fully migrate soon enough.
Ray
Recent Update
Man, this last week was really awful with the database crashes. I was hoping the migration could wait a bit longer since the crashes were once every 2-3 days, if that, but they suddenly pushed up to 4-5 times in the last 24 hours! I won't go into a bunch of details as I have in Discord Chat, but the db would randomly spike and all transactions would start failing. Time of day, amount of users, etc, nothing seemed to matter.
We decided to push back some things and focus 100% on the update today to migrate a good portion of the database over to the new (stable) database, and while I shouldn't jinx it, but things appear to be running incredibly smooth now.
The actual game servers themselves have been extremely stable. We haven't had a single game-server crash yet. There's definitely some bugs that we can work towards cleaning up, but this new design (not talking about the database) has been a good success.
We do however have one known issue with the latest update that was an oversight when we migrated the whole party/matchmaking system, and that is that full parties still update and add onto the open party listing, so many players are attempting to join already full parties, and it's failing. Sorry about that - it will be fixed in the next update, which is likely sooner than later.
Challenge, Challenge Expansion, Offline Gains?
Every time the db would crash it would set things back by hours on my end. With the frequency of the crashes, adding it up, i'm easily 3 days behind at this point, and while the new, more difficult challenge is ready, I felt it wasn't a great idea to push it on the stability patch.
Here's what we will do....we'll watch how the database goes over the next day, and if things keep calm, perhaps i'll release the new challenge with a couple fixes tomorrow (Apr 7th).
-With Jay back, he'll be working out the final piece to the migration, and assisting significantly with the Offline Gains system.
-I'll be working on the new unlimited challenge difficulty system, and starting up on pet balances with the new upgrade map finally.
Dates! When? What? You already said Wednesday for the new challenge!
As mentioned, new challenge tomorrow is possible. Friday almost definite if things are more stable nw.
Giving a date was dumb of me considering the database crashes were beginning to speed up since the weekend. I'm set back obviously but I think if things remain stable we can release the new challenge expansion before the actual full migration. In any case we are anticipating 'some' big update by Sunday, April 10th or 11th.
The pet rebalance and PP Upgrade Map expansion....I can't give a specific date yet until I begin full scale work on it.
Isael (The artist) is almost finished with the last task that I gave him, so I will likely be getting him started on Fishing.
I really appreciate how patient people have been with the ridiculous maintenance frequency from the database crashes. Trust that I can relate and sympathize with the frustration and in any case, i'm really expecting this latest patch to reduce the occurrence many folds, or all together until we fully migrate soon enough.
Ray