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Once it goes up I will. I just wanted to let people know what was going on in here.

I'm testing one final build of what we hope will be a really decent performance patch. Assuming everything comes up the way I want it to, I am going to put this patch onto S3 for the evening. There will likely be things that don't work 100% correctly, but we will work to fix those bugs. At this point though, I need a larger population to play through - mainly so we can see how the performance is with all the tweaks we have done. So if you get a chance to play today, try out server 3.

We don't discuss prior bans.

Once we get the bugs knocked out of this round, then we'll put it out. It's likely to have a very positive effect on server performance, but my guess is there will still be a few bugs kicking around even though we tried to test "everything".

Approximately 16. The first thing we put out was a very minor set of fixes.

In about 5 minutes both S1 and S4 will go offline while I reset the war ranking season.

As an update to what's going on behind the scenes: We had a limited Public Test Server open last night to a few players who went through and tested everything they could think of from a cop, civilian/rebel, and medic side. The list of bugs is currently being worked on. As I told @Azeh last night, we have modified ~300 scripts between the client and server to be more efficient. Things are broken because of the modifications, and we are working through them. Hopefully I'll have a cleaner build today to test again, and we can roll this out in the next few days.

Not enough people own Tanoa and want to play a life mod. That's the simple truth about Tanoa...

Thanks for the clarification. We'll take a peak.

Did you restart your Arma client? (Yes, I'm being serious here)

Actually, he doesn't want you to know.

Servers 2 and 3 have the new patch and are up and running. Servers 1 and 4 are in the patch sequence now. Opening the thread back up again - can we please try to keep it on topic?

The 8.0.7 chain will be mostly dedicated to performance optimizations. We have an initial round of tweaks from the person helping us out, and are going to push this live. There are a few other things in the update as well, and I will note those here in a few minutes. Servers 2 and 3 will miss the 2PM startup time today so that we can have a unified code base. We shouldn't be much longer before rolling it out though.

The red square exists as a protection to keep people from fighting from inside the "prison" area itself - at least that is why it was coded that way. Give me the exact location in question and we can tweak something to prevent the ladder issue.

You only need to keep 1 person in there to keep the break going. I'll look at it.

We were changing some settings on the network cards themselves this AM. That and doing standard server patching etc. Figured I might as well do all of that while we had it down...

Server 4 should be coming back online now.

Server 1 should be coming back online now.

We are doing some maintenance on the physical servers this AM. Estimated downtime is approximately 2 hours and will begin around 8 AM CST. All server will be down during this time. I will update this thread as necessary.

Tons of DDoS this weekend. We've been tweaking the filters constantly.

Server 1 isn't down. I'm watching people play on it right now.

Nah, the script may not have run properly and since it's not middle of the day on a weekday I'm not going to take everyone offline to then mess around with it. I had a small window, so I figured I'd try to make it run...

The PVP season reset may not have happened properly. If it didn't, I'll get it later this week.

Going to reset the PVP season, and wipe out old gang wars on each server. Remember to declare war against people again. This should speed up restarts substantially.

S4 is coming back up now...