We are forced to take this measures, because of heavy bug-exploiting by a large number of players. Closure will last until investigations are complete and all accounts abusing this bug have been identified. This will take some days. Blitz' server history for 11th and 12th of March 2006 will be rolled back after. What happens with App (restart or continue) depends on how long it will be down.
On top of this we are facing a big job of fixing the code, which also will take days. At this moment it is unclear, when and if servers can be reopened during critical code-changing time: it depends on the way we choose to fix it. In the best scenario, you can expect resets with the server down a couple of hours a day, while we are working on the code - this means that won't be normal serious gamerounds - but shorter fun rounds.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
See this post for some general information.
Side note:
- UBB was broken for part of 13 March - backup restored, some posts from 13 March mid-day (machine time, CET) lost.
Follow up dd. Mar 18th 2006 16:04
DrGTO wrote:We are working on App and Blitz server to provide a secure and equally fair game to all players.
Unfortunately we have to deal with some major reconstructions of the game engine.
At this point, I want to remind all of you that The Reincarnation is a non-commercial project run by a few dedicated players with a job, a family and a real life. We don't have the manpower and resources like a software company. Some things need time.
Thanks, and sorry for the downtime.