We're back up with the user cap and some new performance tracking stuff in the server. We're analyzing the data from that and in the meanwhile the server will stay up with the cap so we have the service running.

Gargaj is updating everyone on the events on our irc server: irc.perpetuum-online.com #perpetuum, join us for realtime updates.

As always we're working around the clock on solving the issues - chat channels are currently experiencing a problem but besides this the game is online. We're slowly increasing the number of players who can come in to balance the load of many people logging in at the same time.

Server is down for the hotfix, we'll be back ASAP.

Razgon this might take a while, the server team is hard at work on the issue, but no ETA sorry. In the meanwhile we're gradually increasing the limit of players being able to log in.

Yes this is a server side issue, we'll need to do a hotfix once the issue has been addressed - we'll also most likely deploy a client to go with it for some of the requested features like chat channel search. You'll see the patch notes in the server status, this might take 1-2 days to work out though. Until then we're gradually increasing the user limit until the point we can so more of you can play the game.
Again, sorry for the limitations - we figure it's better to have a stable server for a limited number of players than an unstable one for everyone. The sheer number of new people caught us with our guards down. We're doing our best to resolve the problems.

It's a temporary bug that got highlighted by the influx of new players. We had this sort of thing before, it's being looked into and will be squashed relentlessly.

Noted and fixed, will be out with the next client.

We've reverted todays patch until the issue is fixed.

Alexander actually an override to force deletion of stray bullets after a minute went out with yesterdays patch to see if that would change anything. As the problem still persists it turns out the issue had nothing to do with missiles or missing bullets. I did find another problem now tho and it'll probably be fixed today - not sure when a client will go out, but I'll urge a hotfix if this has been solved.

Update: The issue has been found, fixed, and the fix will be out with the next client update. Thanks for the info, it helped find the problem a lot.

Actually the terrain gets updated in real-time if you go to an area, but we prefer to update the whole terrain data from time to time so that the 2d map and the silhouette of the terrain is up to for everyone, not just the people who frequent a certain area.

If you mean periodic, very short stops that make the game feel like it's always stopping and starting, we've encountered that during the development and investigated it for a long while until it turned out that closing skype fixed it It's probably caused by some application running in the background.