10-08-2006 23:55
Hello everyone, earlier today, we experienced multiple griefer attacks on the main grid, which were caused by self-replicating particle objects.

To counteract these attacks, we disabled scripts across the grid and began a rolling deploy (which requires each region to restart) and included new server side tools to help us prevent such attacks going forward. During this time, scripts remained off on the grid.

We’re now rolling out a second deploy to fix a crashbug found in the first. We’ll start to enable scripts as it goes out. The rolling deploy should take approximately six hours before it is complete.

I’d like to thank everyone for their extreme patience and support today. There are several of changes going into the next release on Wednesday which should help slow down, if not eliminate, these types of grid attacks. Also, please be assured that will we continue to talk with the authorities and gather evidence to use against the attackers.
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