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As many of you are likely aware, we are incurring yet another DDoS attack during peak hours today. We are still working with our provider to get a mitigation/defense solution running but unfortunately are at the mercy of 3rd party timelines, and waiting for equipment to be delivered/provisioned and ...

As a follow up on this, there were a total of 26 attacks, the final two time periods can be found below.

23:35–23:38
00:01–00:03

We do see a password change (that did not trigger the normal email verification link) that was done with the IP of the same operator who first logged into your account. This PW change was done after they account was already logged into, which in our current system bypasses the need for email ...

Hardcore realm is now up. It was brought down for a few hours during the tail end of the attack to prevent more revivals being needed. All those affected should be revived. If you find you are not revived please post a new appeal in the death appeal.

Starting 2026-08-23 at 16:04 UTC, a series of DDoS attacks have been sent at our server.

So far there have been 24 waves of these attacks, each approximately 4-5 minutes in duration. The time between attacks varies from 6-57 minutes.

The most dense IP block hitting us during this DDoS is 27.125 ...

Due to ongoing DDoS attacks, this weeks fireside has been canceled. See announcements for a longer post about this DDoS attack shortly.

Well this is great timing. We will be resurrecting HC players who died during this DDoS attack automatically without any appeals needed.

If you feel strongly about the requirements for death appeals, keep an eye on your local poster as we will be issuing a poll to gauge feelings about different ...

Can confirm this is a DDoS attack, still working on getting things stabilized. We will post a debrief once things are stable.

Hey thanks so much for looking into the problem we've had and correcting it. I appreciate the problem being rectified but with what occurred I don't want this to happen to anyone else. This all started with a password change to my personal account that I did not do, nor received an email on the ...

so, nobody is under investigation?



Anytime we receive RMT tips we investigate. Investigations are generally not "ongoing" we try to bucket and close them out best we can. If a ban has not gone out we do not have sufficient evidence to support any RMT claims.

We encourage any and all RMT ...