Forum: empire-en
Board: [816] News from the world of Empire
Topic: [331485] Connection to European servers - LOST 28/03/2017
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ang1243 (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:05 a.m.
Hi all,
We just lost connection to all servers, we're investigating.
It is affecting all games, and so could be something to do with the network cluster at GGS Data centre.
I will update you all as soon as I have more information, but I have to remind you all that the information we have at the moment is very limited, and so there isn't really anything we can update you all with.
Please bear with us while we solve the problem.
Angus
Updates:
The reason for this inability to connect to the game was a connection problem in the server provider centre, which we couldn’t possibly foresee and that we could not fix directly, since it’s a separate entity not directly under GGS' control.
At the moment it is really tricky to get a clear answer on how things are progressing for multiple reasons, but primarily because all of the people who could be asked for an update are busy trying to resolve the problem itself, it is also unclear at this stage how long the downtime will be, as obviously it has been a lot longer than we first expected.
As I've said above, it is out of the direct control of the team here who are able to communicate to everyone.
Personally, the only advice I can give at the moment is to have a few hours away from the game and trying to get on, food will be granted to every player's castles as soon as it is possible to do so. It will overflow all storehouses, so you can base estimates of time your remaining troops are safe for on that.
Update from QA Wintermute - 15.30 CET
We just lost connection to all servers, we're investigating.
It is affecting all games, and so could be something to do with the network cluster at GGS Data centre.
I will update you all as soon as I have more information, but I have to remind you all that the information we have at the moment is very limited, and so there isn't really anything we can update you all with.
Please bear with us while we solve the problem.
Angus
Updates:
- The Server will be down for over an hour based on the most recent estimates - update 10:21 CET
- The moderators have requested food for all players - Update 10:00 CET
- The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know. - Update 10:26 CET
- We discussed a potential rollback, however the rollback would take 4-5 hours to complete, meaning a 4-5 hour downtime. So it wouldn't be possible really, due to the scale - Update 10:56 CET
- It turns out that it was in fact just the European game servers which have gone offline, so hopefully everyone else should be able to get on the game
I believe INT1 and INT2 are included in the 'European' servers. - Update 11:35 CET
The reason for this inability to connect to the game was a connection problem in the server provider centre, which we couldn’t possibly foresee and that we could not fix directly, since it’s a separate entity not directly under GGS' control.
At the moment it is really tricky to get a clear answer on how things are progressing for multiple reasons, but primarily because all of the people who could be asked for an update are busy trying to resolve the problem itself, it is also unclear at this stage how long the downtime will be, as obviously it has been a lot longer than we first expected.
As I've said above, it is out of the direct control of the team here who are able to communicate to everyone.
Personally, the only advice I can give at the moment is to have a few hours away from the game and trying to get on, food will be granted to every player's castles as soon as it is possible to do so. It will overflow all storehouses, so you can base estimates of time your remaining troops are safe for on that.
Update from QA Wintermute - 15.30 CET
Wintermute said:Hey,
For several hours we have not been able to reach our data center and our live games have not been available. We still do not know how long the downtime will last, but here is some information about how things will progress.
As soon as we recover contact with the servers, we will take them down for about 30 minutes. This sounds counterproductive at first, but during this downtime we will pump food into all castles. Unfortunately, the server must be down, otherwise we could not do that.
Depending on how long the server disconnection lasts, we will release a compensation in the form of a blue gift some time after the servers are back online. Since unfortunately also our QA servers are not available, we will have to wait to test the parameters for the gift until they are available again (to avoid typing errors / a broken gift). We hope to get this done today of course. If the servers remain down for a long time, it may be that this solution shifts to tomorrow.
This compensation will take into account the nomads as well as today's downtime.
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OxO (AU1) [AU1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:08 a.m.
Shady lady's f***ed for me, if it has anything to do with this. I lag out every time I click it, refreshed and reloaded multiple times.
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CucumberRick (GB1) [None]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:10 a.m.
hmmm ok them hope some food is added to our castles like last time was in the middle of making a new commander for an attack just got on like 30 minutes previous
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Akasha (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:10 a.m.
i just went out just by checking troops not done any thing yet short on food in main and 2 outpost already guess I can say kiss good by to my troops AGAIN
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ang1243 (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:25 a.m.
Hi all,
I will continue to update both in comments by me, and in the 'Updates' section of the original post further up.
The current estimates for uptime see it as being over an hour or so, it could be sooner, but we just don't know.
Cheers,
Angus
I will continue to update both in comments by me, and in the 'Updates' section of the original post further up.
The current estimates for uptime see it as being over an hour or so, it could be sooner, but we just don't know.
Cheers,
Angus
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ang1243 (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:27 a.m.
The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
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OxO (AU1) [AU1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:29 a.m.
How does one lose connection to their servers?BM ang1243 said:Hi all,
I will continue to update both in comments by me, and in the 'Updates' section of the original post further up.
The current estimates for uptime see it as being over an hour or so, it could be sooner, but we just don't know.
Cheers,
Angus
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OxO (AU1) [AU1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:34 a.m.
I'm presuming food and troops will be rewarded after the hotfix? ^_^BM ang1243 said:The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
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FireStorm (AU1) [None]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:38 a.m.
OxO (AU1) said:I'm presuming food and troops will be rewarded after the hotfix? ^_^BM ang1243 said:The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
yes they will be rewarding 20k troops 100k manlets and 4mil food to everyones acc:D:D:D
I wish:P:P:P
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jsm1t (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:41 a.m.
you will be offered the chance to put a ticket into support just for it to be ignored for a month or so and then turned down as you no longer have the proof that you lost anything.OxO (AU1) said:I'm presuming food and troops will be rewarded after the hotfix? ^_^BM ang1243 said:The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
seems to be the recurring theme .
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sam_returns (INT1) [INT1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:42 a.m.
Next thing GGS will be losing is their access to their headquarter entrance lol 
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FireStorm (AU1) [None]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:42 a.m.
jsm1t (GB1) said:you will be offered the chance to put a ticket into support just for it to be ignored for a month or so and then turned down as you no longer have the proof that you lost anything.OxO (AU1) said:I'm presuming food and troops will be rewarded after the hotfix? ^_^BM ang1243 said:The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
seems to be the recurring theme .
SO True!!!!
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Akasha (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:45 a.m.
I find it amusing that all those players constantly complaining about this game are the bigger hitters. always asking for more troops then they could have possible lost and more food .if you think the game is that bad why don't you just quit.
After all this is just a game and YOUR life does not depend on it......
After all this is just a game and YOUR life does not depend on it......
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OxO (AU1) [AU1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:46 a.m.
Damn, I had such high expectationsjsm1t (GB1) said:you will be offered the chance to put a ticket into support just for it to be ignored for a month or so and then turned down as you no longer have the proof that you lost anything.OxO (AU1) said:I'm presuming food and troops will be rewarded after the hotfix? ^_^BM ang1243 said:The food requested by the community simply cannot be granted, the servers are completely disconnected, Server developers cannot reach the servers, and so we can't get onto the dashboard to grant food to everyone, if it becomes possible, I'll update you all and let you know.
seems to be the recurring theme .
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ang1243 (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:55 a.m.
Update:
We discussed a potential rollback, however the rollback would take 4-5 hours to complete, meaning a 4-5 hour downtime - so it wouldn't be possible most likely.
A rollback would make the status of the game as if the downtime hadn't occurred, so there wouldn't be the desertions which may be happening now, etc.
Angus
We discussed a potential rollback, however the rollback would take 4-5 hours to complete, meaning a 4-5 hour downtime - so it wouldn't be possible most likely.
A rollback would make the status of the game as if the downtime hadn't occurred, so there wouldn't be the desertions which may be happening now, etc.
Angus
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Stevemass (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 8:56 a.m.
shock horror another cock up by GGE to go with the nomads one yesterday lol
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OxO (AU1) [AU1]
:: March 28, 2017, 9 a.m.
The sooner you get the servers up, better imo. If the servers aren't up for like 1/2 an hour that could be fine, if you can get it up in that time or less. I'd prefer a roll back being a last resort, but just my opinionBM ang1243 said:Update:
We discussed a potential rollback, however the rollback would take 4-5 hours to complete, meaning a 4-5 hour downtime - so it wouldn't be possible most likely.
A rollback would make the status of the game as if the downtime hadn't occurred, so there wouldn't be the desertions which may be happening now, etc.
Angus
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jsm1t (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 9:17 a.m.
The bigger hitters as you say would most probably be the ones who spend their money on the game thus making it a free game for the smaller hitters. As a smaller hitter myself i can see why if someone spent money on something and then it broke without being able to use it i'd be a bit peeved, and want some sort of compensation.Akasha (GB1) said:I find it amusing that all those players constantly complaining about this game are the bigger hitters. always asking for more troops then they could have possible lost and more food .if you think the game is that bad why don't you just quit.
After all this is just a game and YOUR life does not depend on it......
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ang1243 (GB1) [GB1]
:: March 28, 2017, 9:36 a.m.
Update:
It turns out that it was in fact just the European game servers which have gone offline, so hopefully everyone else should be able to get on the game I believe INT1 and INT2 are included in the 'European' servers.
Angus
It turns out that it was in fact just the European game servers which have gone offline, so hopefully everyone else should be able to get on the game
I believe INT1 and INT2 are included in the 'European' servers.Angus
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hovsa (SKN1) [SKN1]
:: March 28, 2017, 9:41 a.m.
Log in issues have been part of the game for months now and it seems that you find it hard to identify the problem.
Basically you need to make a clear promise, that all players will be fully compensated. We do have a life outside gge too - and cannot just stand by to play, whenever you have the servers running, so whether you roll back game or handle problem for each affected player - make sure that you add food as soon as you can to reduce your workload and our frustration.
Basically you need to make a clear promise, that all players will be fully compensated. We do have a life outside gge too - and cannot just stand by to play, whenever you have the servers running, so whether you roll back game or handle problem for each affected player - make sure that you add food as soon as you can to reduce your workload and our frustration.