Server issues: New server

[danvath]

Anyone got any ideas on when the devs may be around to reset the server?

[joojoo1975]

nope, but my hunch is that the greenguys(burma, onion, potejh) prolly mssgd them and what not. but since they full time on salem, we wait.

[hazzor]

hmm... hope it's not something to do with that new HDD, can't imagine it would be, but if it is...

[danvath]

May be a power outage, because even with working full time on Salem, a reset of the server shouldn't take much input to do. So they could reset it while still working on Salem.

[bogbrush]

don't panic - the server used to crash every sunday without fail about 6 months ago, thankfully its more like once a month these days, its pretty usual for H&H and tends to originate in-game, as there are still a few things that players can do to actively cause a server error/crash.

as for the time between crash and restart - this all depends on when jorb/loftar notice that there is a problem, and i dont know if they have to travel to the server or a main hub to restart it, or if they can do it from any device.

as for 'backups' the game tends to auto-backup while we play, and everything tends to be as you left it - eg if steel was n a steelmaker and was one hour away from completion, when server comes back up the steelmaker will still be alight and still one hour from completion even if the server was down for some hours.

doubtful that its the new HDD, or any serious problem, just normal H&H crashes

[hazzor]

don't panic - the server used to crash every sunday without fail about 6 months ago, thankfully its more like once a month these days, its pretty usual for H&H and tends to originate in-game, as there are still a few things that players can do to actively cause a server error/crash.

as for the time between crash and restart - this all depends on when jorb/loftar notice that there is a problem, and i dont know if they have to travel to the server or a main hub to restart it, or if they can do it from any device.

as for 'backups' the game tends to auto-backup while we play, and everything tends to be as you left it - eg if steel was n a steelmaker and was one hour away from completion, when server comes back up the steelmaker will still be alight and still one hour from completion even if the server was down for some hours.

doubtful that its the new HDD, or any serious problem, just normal H&H crashes

the only think i've heard of that players can do to crash it is snapping the neck of a rabid jackrabbit in the study box... obviously i've never tried, but yeah... do you know of other ways? because i'm pretty sure it's not originating from in game most of the times, or there would have been something done about the things that can cause it

[mitchdevano]

The server should be up soon since they are logging everyone out. I wonder if my ALT died when luring a bear to the riverside. Perfect time for a crash I suppose.

[Leny-m]

The server is currently shutting down...

Currently saving all maps – 0/1 maps in world 472/10902 saved...

Woot ^^

[krikke93]

The server is currently shutting down...

Currently saving all maps – 0/1 maps in world 472/10902 saved...

Woot ^^

just saw also

[mitchdevano]

The server was shut down at Fri Jan 20 18:04:12 2012 (UTC)

woot??