1000 citizens and first downtime

Day 9, 00:00 • Published in France France • by alexis bonte

Yesterday (that is 35 minutes ago) was a day of mixed emotions at erepublik admin headquarters. The 1000 citizens milestone was reached in the first week and then...|||the first moments of downtime.

The invitations system has allowed the admin to control somewhat the rate of growth of the erepublik world and although the number of citizens grew much faster than expected this is not the root cause of the issues.

The tech heads at admin say that the problem is caused by some scripts in the points system (currently being fixed) overloading the servers.

Admin applied all the chewing gums they had to patch things up and things seem to be holding up more or less for the moment.

This should give us enough time to make a more permanent fix tomorrow.

I will keep you posted and apologies for any inconvenience caused. We are in beta but we should do better.