Can't Get on

[Lady Alyssa Dark]

It wasn't your merc that did it Sarah, wasn't blaming you, lol, sorry you took it that way.. was just saying your merc is shrunk at the mb arena for when your on to get it...

[TinkerBell]

oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not again??? about 9:15 pm est I froze and cant get back on.

[haunted]

is da server down again?? i cant get on

[Lady Alyssa Dark]

There wasn't a crash log so not the server wasn't down. From what I can see, there are logs throughout the evening until about 630 pm or so until 7 something pm, so probably was the lines between you and the server etc...

Or the server area was busy, it is in middle of Los Angeles, and the lines in where hard to get through. Could have been network issues on their end too. It does happen occasionally, they probably restart their network stuff when performances etc drop too.

[anna]

Not sure why for I just tried to get on at 11:05 est and was stuck on verify account . went to the vote on join uo and it says offline. Cya all when it does get up

[johnfate]

i too am unable to log on too!!! Server must be down ill try to leave a message to aly by email Sorry for any inconvenence

[mavu]

Still can't get on, I hope it goes up... I guess all we can do is wait til it's up or Aly makes an appearance.

[damien]

i have been tryin to get on since 2:30 am cst today and all it does is stick on the verifing account also

[hawkmoon]

I'm going to throw this out here, and try to make sense.

It seems that a large part of the issue is related to pets (unattended or otherwise) going wild, and causing a bug that crashes the server. Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but...
Wouldn't it be an easy fix to change the pet/merc settings, and do away with the potential for them to go wild? Get rid of the "feeding" thing altogether?
I play on one other shard (when DC is down, lol) and have never heard of the mercs or pets causing a shard crash.... and they don't have feeding or any of that active.

Just a thought.

[TinkerBell]

she already did that ... hence the loyalty ball in the merces ... there is also another issue with merces ... when a player releases them to wild or tries to breed them ... but she said they dont have the breeding feature so it could only be an issue of it going wild or being released but then again this might not even be from a pet ... who knows. BUT on every other shard I played ... the merces caused these issues.

[TinkerBell]

More importantly I hope everything is ok on Alyssas end. and that she and the family are ok

[Lady Alyssa Dark]

Regarding mercs.. there is more than one set of scripts for mercs so some might be using a less problematic script, yes the one we're using is more complex and has a few more technical issues. the Merc Rings that come standard in a merc pack now keeps them happy so that cut a lot of the merc going wild crashes.

Now that is has been made public knowledge about realeasing a merc crashing the shard... If I find anyone is doing that to purposely crash DC, that account and any shared ip accounts will be perma banned and all items given out to other players freely.

This last crash was nothing at all related to pets and I apologize for not getting on to check things on Friday, was work day for me and busy at home so I didnt realize until Sat morning that the shard was down. We're now running in debug mode so that if it happens again I can better pin point the issue...