[AC] Daily Update - 9/15/05

[Ziv]

[turbine]

Server Downtime
First, I want to apologize again for the downtime last night. Our Ops team was here until 1am making sure everything was stable even after the servers came up, so I wanted to recognize their effots in this post as well.

I also want to thank all of you for being so patient with us while we fixed the problem. I’m not kidding when I say I am proud of how the AC community handled this. It is that, more than anything, that makes me want to do something to make it up to you all. More on that later in this update.

September Update
Yesterday’s status meeting went really well. Despite a few more bugs we’ve gotten the publish to a state where we believe it will be ready by next week. We’re targeting Wednesday, September 21st for the publish. The move is the following week, so if we miss that date we miss September. Needless to say we all REALLY want to get this done this month. So we’re pushing hard and will be here on the weekend to cover all the bases. Assuming all goes well, I’ll probably post a Letter to the Players on Monday. If something goes wrong and we think we’re going to miss that date I will let you know. But right now we’re feeling pretty good about it.

Double XP
Because of last night’s downtime, we’ll be turning on double-XP starting today at around 9pm EST and ending on Monday at approximately 6pm EST. This should give people who play on weekdays and weekends a chance to get some extra XP. Some of you suggested we should do double-XP next Wednesday, but I’d rather not do that on a publish day. Maybe we’ll do double-XP on another Wednesday though. Just to be clear, double-XP does require ToD and we can’t change that for now. We know some of you don’t have ToD yet and we’re going to account for that as well with some live events.

Live Events
Next week we’re going to do some live events geared towards helping people gain XP. This is to make up for the fact that some people can’t play during the double-XP time and some people don’t have ToD. We’ll be posting a schedule on Friday. Again, we understand that some people will miss out on the events, but I think between double-XP and the events most of you should get some benefit.


That covers everything for today.
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-Jonathan "Calandryll" Hanna
Director of Community Relations
Turbine, Inc.