whitekidney
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What's up with Zeth transfers?
whitekidney replied to Jellydonut's topic in General Discussion & Suggestions
The server is not down and hasn't been for a while - we broke the server status page when we moved it to a new host and haven't reconfigured this yet. -
Information about NPC Incident 2017-04-21 & Emergency rollback on Elysium
whitekidney replied to whitekidney's topic in Official Information
We're actively working on updating our infrastructure with new changes to many things, one of them being our backup solution. Normally full backups are ran every 3 hours, but since I was doing changes to our backupsolutions (on a Friday? sigh.. Friday is no-change-Friday!) the last backup was missed. It's just bad luck. -
Information about NPC Incident 2017-04-21 & Emergency rollback on Elysium
whitekidney posted a topic in Official Information
Greetings adventurers. I will try and explain as detailed as possible what happen yesterday. Please note that this incident only affected Elysium At approximately 18:39:58 server time a command was issued that would reload the creature_template information from the database, the intended function was to reload the values from the database and apply any potential changes to NPCs, however, what actually happened was that a significant amount of mobs in the game world became severely bugged and rewarded an unintended amount of XP, money and items to players. The problem was identified quickly and the timeframe for the incident was isolated to have lasted approximately 184 seconds (hence why the servers were shut down so quickly). Shortly after this incident occurred, We quickly began analyzing and parsing logs in an attempt to start a process where we would reverse any gold, xp and items rewarded to players, however we quickly realized that we would manually have to analyze nearly 30 000 lines of log entries and then reverse any items, xp or gold that was not intentionally rewarded to players. This process would have taken a very long time - and this is a process which we would have to do while the server was offline - Not ideal on a Friday evening server time. The estimated gameplay hours rolled back is approximately 6 hours and 43 minutes (Until 12:00 server time on the 21th) Here is a rough timeline of today's events: 18:39 - The server was put in a bugged state where NPCs were severely bugged. 18:42 - The issues were identified and the server was shut down at 18:43:02 18:55 - Senior staff members was notified. 19:40 - Meeting with lead and senior staff have concluded, the decision was made to roll back to the latest backup. 20:39 - The restore process has begun but will take a while due to the amount of data being restored. 20:42 - The world database is being restored 20:43 - World restore complete 20:43 - The log database is being restored 21:29 - The log database has completed. 21:29 - The character database is being restored. 21:58 - The character database has been restored. 22:03 - Elysium is now back online. Timestamps are in server time We are actively investigating why this incident occurred in the first place and we will be issuing hotfixes as soon as we have a patch ready. The backup procedures will also be slightly adjusted to make sure that backups are ran more often (I was doing maintenance on the backup solution the same day this incident occured, very unfortunate timing). We apologize for the rollback but we strongly believe that this was the only way to make sure that no illicit gold or items was introduced to the game economy. -
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You are not banned. Reset your password and wait 30 minutes. You are locked out due to logging in with the wrong username or password too many times. You have to wait 30 minutes - if you keep logging in, the ban counter will reset back to 30 minutes.
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I have checked the level and item logs for the characters in question and I have not found anything of concern. They have all leveled up with normal playtime between their levels and no gear or items have been added to any of these accounts.
