Server hardware problem

[Mopstar]

What is with these accounts who have recently signed up thinking they know whats best for all and that the old lp system is the way to go.

[TheVampirate]

I think they are signing up new accounts to be allowed to voice their opinion without being banned.
E: or at the very least to minimize the risk

[Mopstar]

But their ips?

[Potjeh]

Seriously, I will fucking permaban every single account that brings up topics unrelated to data corruption and recovery. Some of us want to learn more about the actual topic of the thread, and the mountain of your trash posts is blocking the view. If you want to talk about world reset, LP system or whatever sand is up your vagina today go resurrect one of the million topics that already exist on these subjects. This is your last warning. And no, discussing this here isn't kosher either, if you want to complain go to the moderation thread.

Now, onto the actual topic of the thread. Can't you regenerate the missing sections, Loftar? If you use the same seed they should turn out the same, right? That way people won't lose resource spots at least, if they're quick enough (and they should be, since they know the exact locations).

[Iggie]

thx for recovered piece of nuked shit

[cobaltjones]

Now, onto the actual topic of the thread. Can't you regenerate the missing sections, Loftar? If you use the same seed they should turn out the same, right? That way people won't lose resource spots at least, if they're quick enough (and they should be, since they know the exact locations).

This is what I don't get. Before the game was back up, I think I (and everyone else) was under the impression that the map files had somehow been completely destroyed or some other sort of irreparable damage had occurred. I assumed that coming across these sections of the map would basically be a giant black hole with no map or terrain data associated with it at all. But after experiencing the areas first hand in the game, they appear to be just like the edges of the world where you'll encounter an invisible border. Everything within the map is still present (trees, terrain details, user created structures), they're simply inaccessible.

Could you (loftar) go into more detail about the exact corruption to the map files and why any sort of repair is out of the question? I admit I don't know much about how maps are stored in this game, but it appears (at least on the outside borders) that most of the map data is still intact.

[rozn]

Is the server still having problems besides the nuked areas? Is it working like usual or still being glitchy?

[Sevenless]

The server is having extreme lag issues of late and seems to have crashed again.

If the server got overheated, something other than the hard-drive might have taken heat damage :/

[TheVampirate]

I am guessing that it is on a new hard drive. Tho damaged data cloned to a new hard drive would still be damaged data.

[Thepotatomasher]

I am guessing that it is on a new hard drive. Tho damaged data cloned to a new hard drive would still be damaged data.

Yes. If you lose a hard drive with a bunch of pictures and recover them using data recovery software you often see pixels missing even after you transfer it to a new drive. Same thing with a world map. I guess we can feel fortunate that the player files were ok.