Server Maintenance Issues

[Kestrel]

Fortunately, due to the influx of players the last 48 hours, we have been getting many many wonderful bug reports. Unfortunately they have come in so fast that our brittle dev ops pipelines have been crumbling under the weight of multi fix, multi migration deployments. This has resulted in 2 server restarts lasting over 40 minutes.

With that being said, we have made the tough decision to delay work on all but the most game breaking of bug fixes until we have a more robust deployment pipeline. This is something we hope to accomplish in the next 48 hours, but we will be making updates here when it is completed.

This is a difficult post to make as we hoped to have these pipelines ready before our announcement and a larger influx of players, but we are also touched by the support we have received from the community so far.

Please continue to submit GM tickets if you run into any bugs or issues. These will start to pile up on us but we look forward to tackling them with a fresh set of deployment pipelines that can handle these complex, multi-fix deployments to minimize server restarts and downtime in the future.