Good morning community! This morning 08/10/2022 will mark the beginning of many infrastructure and hardware upgrades. The current stage of the upgrades is Account Migration to upgrade the current servers.
Players should be aware that the initial upgrades are unlikely to cause any major issues, as our initial migrations to the current servers were successful. However, due to the new AWS requirements some players may experience periodic login failures during the upgrade process.
For those curious as to why we've chosen this time to update the servers I'll briefly explain why this decision was made. The Repopulation servers and hardware are both considered to have aged into the legacy category by AWS. Recently their company made the decision that they will no longer be supporting these servers. We must attempt to bring Repop up-to-date with their policy. However, this is not without many risks involved due to its age.
During the late hours of Thursday and Friday of this week we intend to work specifically on the portions of the transition and upgrade that directly affect The Repopulation.
The last two steps will be the game server migration to the new AWS setup. It is our hope to minimize any downtime. Due to the age of the operating systems, hardware, and software there are a number of imponderables that may result in lengthier downtime than we anticipate.
We thank you in advance for your continued patience. If any hiccups occur, we'll post updates to this thread.