Your actions speak volumes...

[nezzerscape]

back from vacation...

As far as a wipe goes... Would that fix the issue? If mechanical then I would say no, it would not.

Before going that route could we remove the bulk of the data. Removing say all toons not played in 6 months? 3 months? Or having each current player pick 1 or 2 and clear the rest? What about exporting the handful of toons then do a wipe and import them back in?

For any of the above suggestions, I would save a backup of the current system and perhaps deploy it to a VM on an external HD.

Could there be a work around by having locks to the rooms were quests are giving out and having an item then gives rep (inventory based)?

Nez

[Sparkie]

Seems rep is working tonight, too. Monday, September 7th, 2015. So, seems it's two days in a row that it's worked.

[Fuzziebunny]

I checked Chime's rep at 1627 today. Everything looked normal.

[Doubtful]

I'm liking the sound of this...

Fingers crossed whatever happened is permanent.

[Kaybrie]

Faewen, Lynnette Aurelianus, and Gabrielle all had no rep as of this morning.

[Doubtful]

Damnit.

[jarlexel]

Seems like if someone logs in right after or shortly after the reset then it's good for everyone for that day, if that makes sense.

[nezzerscape]

Seems like if someone logs in right after or shortly after the reset then it's good for everyone for that day, if that makes sense.

If that is the case... or as an attempt to prove it, can the reboot time be changed to 8pm EST or another prime time? Yes in the middle of the fun, but a know 10 min outage to lead to a fix might be worth it.

Might it be a caching thing. The rep table gets loaded into cache if a player logs in right after, otherwise other stuff does.

Yes i know cache is not the right term here, but I cannot remember SQLs eqiv.

[jarlexel]

Well try to log in after reset, but that's past my bed time on work nights, Sparky is loging in after reset or trying too as well

[Sparkie]

Rep's working again, this morning, though that doesn't count as news anymore, it works every morning. Anyone who can check during the day, please do so.I'll be checking again tonight. Post date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015.

[Sparkie]

Rep was down again last night.

[nezzerscape]

Sparkie:
So was good in the morning then bad later that day? (no reset between)

Staff:
Thoughts on trimming down the tables? IE purging characters not touched in X period of time?

I remember Saulus talked about possibly traversing through too much data, and the response time being a possible effecting rep.

Nez

[Doubtful]

Right, sorry I've not posted this before but here's the current plan.

This weekend I'm going to try and meet up with Saulus and we'll backup then wipe the vault.

I'll hang around on the server as much as I can over the weekend post-wipe to help sort people out, run events and generally make the transition as smooth as I can.

The wipe will be temporary, if we can get people in and on for a week (or a max of two) to test out the rep system and its stability with an emptyish vault then great. When the test time is up we'll know if it's vault related or not.

If the rep issue continues following the wipe then we can restore the vault safe in the knowledge that a wipe isn't the answer.

If the wipe fixes the issue then great, we know it's vault related and we can discuss what steps to take (partial restore, rebuilds, etc) following the test.

I assume there'll be questions, so ask away.

[Kaybrie]

Would it be possible to lower the level cap back down from the 20 area where events are harder to run and keep relative in events, and PvP becomes a huge contest of who has the most stacked build?

A wipe gives a good opportunity to put this in, and give sundren more a unique flavor in being more about mid-level adventures then high level Balor-army-slaying festivals of blood. Powerful mobs in DnD could be powerful relative to the characters, rather then seeing players outright scoffing and spitting in their faces. (Or needing to spawn things like the Demoloth).

This all would be just from lowering the cap to 14 (I like even numbers so sorcerer's/natural spell casters get the same level spells as their wizardlike counterparts). Which wouldn't effect the faction-item system in place too badly, and still allow access for groups to most dungeons (Whurst and IWD exempt). Everyone I've spoken to is amicable to the idea of the level cap being lowered to some degree to help give Sundren it's own unique flavor again.

[Doubtful]

You're not alone in wanting the level cap to go back down to a more mid-range setting. Less level spread, less OP end-game abilities and less balance issues are all good things to have.

However, the server has moved on since the heady days of the 15 soft cap in both terms of area and equipment content, setting a lower cap would mean a large rebalance of both.

This rebalancing, combined with the desire to jump the story forward X years, would take time to acheive. The aim for now is to find a solution to the current problem, answering the question 'will a wipe work?' is currently the foremost thing in my mind.

Handily, the week of new characters should also allow players to feedback to us exactly what areas would need working on should a permanent wipe take place, we can then focus on what's thrown up as the week or two passes.