google DDO player audit.
It gives live population information and lfms n stuff.

What's Happening Now

I apologize for the poor rollout of Update 49 and the extended downtime. We believe we've located the source of the instability the live servers were seeing earlier this afternoon that prompted us to bring them offline. A larger explanation is below but just in terms of where we're at and when you can expect the game worlds to be open again:

We've got fixes in and are compiling a new game build overnight. If everything goes smoothly we'll be looking to get this deployed tomorrow morning and open the worlds before noon (eastern). We're discussing some added boosts to run alongside the planned weekend boost and will have more news on that once the game worlds are open.


What Caused This

We have an automated system that ensures the integrity of mail that we internally call a "heartbeat". Traditionally this has run every 6 hours. We found at one point that this had caused some crashes because the check got too large. We changed this heartbeat to happen every 5 minutes instead of every 6 hours so that it wouldn’t have such a backlog of data to deal with at once. On all internal servers, and public preview, this ran perfectly smoothly.

Once we hit live, however, it has become clear that the frequency of this heartbeat does not impact the effect it has on the server nearly as much as the sheer amount of mail data present. So, instead of a very noticeable hiccup every 6 hours, we were now having a slightly lessened hiccup every 5 minutes. The reason we did not see this issue on any test servers (including player preview on Lamannia) is because, even with the thousands of test case mail items created, there was not the massive backlog of mail data present that there is on a live server.

In the short term, we are reverting the heartbeat back to once every 6 hours with a patch tomorrow. In the long term we are investigating ways to clean this up and make it not an issue. This may require a combination of more aggressive (and publicly messaged ahead of time) culling of old or excessive mail as well as code changes to the heartbeart itself. Tonight, though, we don't have a timeline on those sorts of changes.

Soooo, they run some mail integrity thing, every 5 MINS insteaad of 6 HOURS.  wow, why such a short time?   hmmmm  What were they trying to "integrity" every 5 mins for?  hmmmm

sdrocky

Ppl need to remember the terms of service. SSG has absolutely no responsibility to the player. Its up to them. simple.

Im just happy i can still play the game i love with the freinds i love and SSG gives me that platform. Thankyou

Im also stoked that there still developing the game. They can shut the servers down anytime they like.

Thankyou SSG. you may stuff it up now and then. but your still having a go.

Fin.

Soooo, they run some mail integrity thing, every 5 MINS insteaad of 6 HOURS.  wow, why such a short time?   hmmmm  What were they trying to "integrity" every 5 mins for?  hmmmm

Mail box culling, yea, like that worked the last time they said it would.

I have a toon with almost a full mailbox of shit I can't delete.  Items are bugged or something and I can't detach them.  Can't delete the mail because there's an item attached.  Been that way since the card crunching days.  I would love it if they got rid of that shit for me.

You shouldn't fire original core coders in the first place you fucktards. Sev on the stream also slipped that they are not gonna touch nor bring new challeges because they don't know how they work in code...