If you're wondering why we're offline..
 

We're working hard to bring Era back up and will post an update as soon as possible.

Thanks!
Era Staff

Love you alf

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I will wait for a response from Stefan, but I am confident to open era before most of you are back from school or work today. The crash will have some consequences which I will explain abit further later here or via ingame news.

can we look forward to a double exp weekend or something to make up for downtime and subsequent consequences?

We have some things planned out for our players, no worries.

This thread sure looks important, if only I could read.

I had a dream you broke PyroTech. :( That's not very nice guy.

I'm sorry to tell you it wasn't a dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZY2hPmAj5o

Sounds like a great Idea, I support it fully! ^_^

Wonder if we could get an estimate of how much longer we have to wait. You guys have an average of 20 "staff" on the server and still your not done? I mean If it was something you would have warned us about it. But since that is not the case may I ask, what the heck you are all doing?

Will probably take ~a week. I heard there are no backups so a rollback might happen too.

Well that's a disappointment, and angers me a bit. Era needs to get their stuff together. I have noticed many complaints about Staffing structure, the server itself. The server should have enough knowledge to have daily backups. But I am gonna come to the conclusion that they don't do many world-wide server saves. Because it may cause "lag". I am just hoping Era gets its crap together before it digs itself in to big of a hole to climb out of, even though Era is already in a hole...

It's too bad right? Sucks when someone disables outgoing connections from the server ^^

And it shouldn't take too long, be patient. The issue was un-expected and shouldn't of happened under normal conditions.

Daily backups would be logical, too bad we still have no stable way of doing this natively by default.

Not going to give these great people of era a time estimation?

What makes you think we had any idea this was going to happen? The number of staff we have isn't the issue we have here, we didn't plan for any of this. It was a huge inconvenience for everyone, as you can see.

Stefan stopped keeping backups 2(3?) years ago and that resulted in Era eventually getting a backup system, but that was disabled by Stefan as well from what I hear. So there was no way to prevent this without any backup or save methods.