There was +/- 1 hour of downtime today during which the website was inaccesible. This was beyond our control: there were problems at the servers datacenter. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Speaking of the hardware behind Syrnia: We are going to move Syrnia to a different datacenter next month. This server will be faster and even more reliable. This move should cause minimal downtime, we're aiming for max. 15-45 min. We need that time to safely transfer all your items, levels etc. to the new server. When there's more information about this move you will be notified beforehand (provisionally on or around 20 feb).
We will also be sending invitations to a group players to join us in testing the new Syrnia code if they like. These players have already been chosen, so please do not apply for a testing job. The new code has already shown a massive improvement on speed, especially at Trading and in the Outlands.
Faster trading and outlands combat updates should be great. While only a small part of Syrnia, faster speed in these areas would be a great benefit as they are used often.
Im wondering if the flash code would be changed to do more of the combat as at present in the outlands it is only used to display what combat has happened via standard http requests (loadVariablesNum("includes2/flash/pvp.php?time=" + timer.getTime(), 0);).
Peer to peer trading instead of going through the server would make trading faster but may be open to abuse.
However the changes have been done, I look forward to seeing these areas work faster ;-)
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