The DarkfallDB
Dev Tracker has picked up a
recent post by Tasos
of Darkfall Online has posted the following update about the current state of
the servers for the game, and answers questions about macroing. He also
gives some details about the release of more CD Keys for players who wish to
purchase the game.
Here's a look at his
original post:
Latest: 10.25 GMT
We have brought down the servers for scheduled maintenance and patching. We
apologize for the abrupt take-down. New ETA is 3 hours, we'll try to be up as
soon as possible.
The game has been up consistently without much incident. We are monitoring the
situation and keeping track of any issues players have to report.
We will bring down the servers for a patch in a few hours. Estimated downtime
will be up to 2 hours for this. The patch contains optimizations of the server
and client and various fixes to issues we’ve noticed in the game.
To address an issue reported by players: We generally frown on unattended
macroing and if you use macros you do so at your own risk, but it should be
mentioned that spamming spells and any macroing WITHIN the protective radius of
the guard towers in the starting areas will result in a kick, and repeated
offenses could result in a ban.
Support structures will also be available within the next couple of days to
improve our responsiveness to your reported issues.
About Darkfall availability, we will give advanced notice for when more copies
will be available. We need to run a few tests first to make sure things have
improved and we will let you know when we officially make more copies of the
game available. Availability is throttled because we need to make sure that the
server population is having as good an experience as possible before we
introduce more people and more servers. We hoped to be further along but have
been held back by the account management system. We’ve made several
optimizations since, and we’re working on a permanent solution as soon as
possible.
Communication is still at a bare minimum, but this will improve steadily as
things smooth out in the next few days and weeks. The forum downtime in the
first 36 hours happened because of extreme load, making the forum unusable. We
had to bring it down in order to be able to post status reports, and decided to
keep it down until we were done fighting through our initial setbacks.
We’ll keep you posted on any developments.
Thank you
The Darkfall Team
