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Okay, I can confirm this fixed - there's still a tiny bit of jitter (the reason for this is that it waits for at least the last rendering thread to finish), but it's considerably better now.

http://www.perpetuum.hu (yes it's a redirect for boring and complicated reasons)

One word: rollback.

The trick on keeping a Wikipedia article (speaking as someone who is at about 7000 edits now) is to put as many journalistic references in it, news coverage, big numbers, reviews, stuff like that. Ironically, the final article will end up being less a description of what it is and more what people say about it.

PATCH ATTEMPT AT 2AM CEST (in about an hour)

May the Syndicate be with us.

It isn't, it's a database-related bottleneck.

Quick summary once again:

1. It's a server software problem. Not OS, not hardware, not network, it's 100% our fault. Trust us on this one, this is why we're working on a fix. I'm quite sure that CRM is itching to elaborate on the bug in a future devblog entry.
2. The server cap is temporary and it fluctuates depending on how dodgy the server is. It will be removed once we fix the problem. The other options are to a) lift the cap and deliver the game unplayable for everyone or b) shut the whole thing down.
3. We plan to reimburse time lost (currently clocking at 3-4 days) due to the server cap. That includes both trial and subscribed.
4. We're doing our best to update you guys about what's going on, but at the same time, going "nope, not yet" every 5 minutes is also pretty pointless. There's usually a DEV or GM both in game or on IRC to update you on the ongoings.

So far we've put out a patch every day since Saturday, each with the hopes to fix the problem, and while we got closer to the end result, we failed to identify what the problem was. (That said, these fixes will remain in the server.) We currently have a pretty good idea on what the actual problem is, and we're really just looking for confirmation before shutting the server down to patch it out. Hopefully still today.

This is as embarrassing for us as it may seem, and I'm not sure being blindsided by the flock of users is even a good excuse, but that's all the power of hindsight. All we can do now is work as hard as we can to fix the whole thing as soon as possible.

I deployed a new installer today, so if you could try reinstalling with that, it might fix the problem.

As an additional note, we will quite likely compensate the playerbase for the time lost and pad out the subscription times with a few days extra, depending on how much time it takes to finally get the server up and running properly.

Nine players from (as far as I understand) all around the globe having a fantastic, enlightening discussion about something you've made - what more could a game developer want?

Hats off to all of you guys.