SWGEmu Service Interruption and Database Wipe 1/23/09

Hello Everybody.

On Thursday, January 22, at 11:30 AM EST Nova Test Centre was taken down for server maintenance and a normal SVN update up to revision 1194.

This update is still in progress. There have been numerous setbacks which have called for the complete reinstall of our Test Centre operating system.

Once the updates, reinstalls and fixes are complete, we will launch the Test Centre, however it may remain unavailable while we complete final testing.

Estimated Launch: (subject to change)
Saturday, January 24
5AM PST (Los Angeles) / 7AM CST (Austin) / 8AM EST (New York)
12PM GMT (London) / 1PM CET (Berlin) / 11PM AEST (Sydney)

Included in this update will be:

Medic and Combat Medic

• Added Area handling for pharmaceutics
• Added Combat Medic Ranged and Area Stimpacks
• Updated healdamage handles combat medic stimpack
• Fixed healing crash

Scout and Ranger

• Fixed Trap uses when out of range
• Fixed trap accuracy calculations
• Fixed Camp logout bug

Crafting

• Updated Crafting code, components objects, process

Core3

• Fixed Compile error

Database

• Full Database Wipe
• Fixed galaxy table
• Added skill_children
• Added drop if table exists in terminals table

Test Centre Nova

• Full Operating System Reinstall
• mySQL Server Complete reinstall and update

As noted, this Update will include a FULL DATABASE WIPE. Please help your fellow players when they freak out. Tell them to remain calm, have a glass of milk, and eat their cookies.

We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience. It was an unforseen event which Oru is working very hard to fix up. Please, at some time today, drop into #opendev and say “THANK YOU ORU!”. It’s the least we can do for him spending his whole day working.

Thankyou for your patience.