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17 Apr


16 Apr

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Corrected the dev stream timing to the week of April 27th.

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Originally posted by foxual

May 27th? Did you mean April?

Yes he did, good catch :)

We’ll edit the date, but the plan is to confirm the exact date next week on the usual social channels, and livestream remotely the following week (4/27ish).

Carto will definitely be wearing pants tho

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Originally posted by SpookyFrom

I have colossal expectations

You dog you! ;)

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Hey everyone,

Well, let me begin by apologizing for the absolute sh*t show today. The initial publish this morning should not have taken anywhere near as long as it did (we were over our estimate by 1.5 hours), then immediately realizing that anyone who logged in after the servers came back up were losing their accrued A7.

We decided to lock login after a bug surfaced which was causing continents with mid/high-populations to exhibit severe lag, followed by crashing and disconnecting everyone. While the A7 bug was bad, we knew we could restore any that was lost. But the stability issue was ultimately the reason we decided to keep the servers locked all afternoon, until we had a fix in place. Looking back through PTS server logs at how we could have missed the cause of this crash; the change was definitely there, but it wouldn’t have caused the server performance issues/crash until the continents had high enough populations. Going forward, we are trying to devise way...

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15 Apr