attn devs: major data corruption

[btaylor]

lel

Didn't think you guys would notice the timestamp before the tiny fine text.

[Savori]

I won't trust anything unless one of the dev post it here !

[jordancoles]

It's notofficial incoming W8!!!

This is a fakeIRC transcript with loftar confirming W8.

02:14:53 <btaylor>: Sorry to bug you but what do you know about this bug that's happening?
02:15:25 <loftar>: Which one?
02:15:31 <btaylor>: The one that is making everything disappear.
02:15:44 <btaylor>: Are we gonna get W8?
02:16:02 <loftar>: Oh, that's not a bug. It's the map being nuked again due to server issues.
02:15:48 <loftar>: I'm looking over everything at the moment but it seems a new world is inevitable.
02:16:26 <btaylor>: Nice!

There's a special place in hell for people like you

[RainbowMoostache]

It's notofficial incoming W8!!!

This is a fakeIRC transcript with loftar confirming W8.

02:14:53 <btaylor>: Sorry to bug you but what do you know about this bug that's happening?
02:15:25 <loftar>: Which one?
02:15:31 <btaylor>: The one that is making everything disappear.
02:15:44 <btaylor>: Are we gonna get W8?
02:16:02 <loftar>: Oh, that's not a bug. It's the map being nuked again due to server issues.
02:15:48 <loftar>: I'm looking over everything at the moment but it seems a new world is inevitable.
02:16:26 <btaylor>: Nice!

There's a special place in hell for people like me.

Fixed that for you.

And a little dot at the end as bonus.

[TeckXKnight]

...Great Fix m8...

hahaha +1 broh, hahaha, now the guy will tell you are mad, butthurt , or another bullshit ...

User was warned for this post.

[MagicManICT]

On the serious side, there's a good chance we'll end up with something just like in w5 where sections of map are just nuked by the devs and anyone stuck there will have to port to wilderness or walk out and then the sections get walled off from anyone entering.

[Seizure]

On the serious side, there's a good chance we'll end up with something just like in w5 where sections of map are just nuked by the devs and anyone stuck there will have to port to wilderness or walk out and then the sections get walled off from anyone entering.

This brings up a few questions. Why did the devs nuke these grids, and why were they walled off?

[cobaltjones]

because loftar dgaf about backups.

[MagicManICT]

Data corruption in the database. The information didn't just get lost, it was corrupted to a point that it was causing issues in running the game. There's a whole series of threads over about two months starting with some corruption in the DB requiring segregation from the rest of the data ending up with some serious hardware issues, and I think over that two months, it just got worse, the world got severely laggy, and still needed a reset. If I recall right, this is what prompted a proper backup system and other back-end developments at the time. I don't recall dates correctly, but I believe you can read about it in Announcements in some posts from jorbtar around summer 2011.

edit: wrong times. Anyway, here's the start of the World 6 announcement: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22971#p282236 Roll back a few months from there and you should get some better background.

2nd edit: here's the original thread loftar discusses the loss of map data: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20403#p244519

[Seizure]

Oh, your statement implied that the nukage was intentional instead of database corruption.

The walling though, was that player done or dev done? Sounds odd to me, unless it was a strange attempt to contain the area to prevent potential spreading of corruption.

Edit: Thanks for the links.