Oninnaise here. It's been a while.

Short version: OpenShores is back online. Updated server, updated hardware, and updated dreams. And now, a stress test, where honestly a lot of things will go wrong

THE STRESS TEST

Starting now the servers will be open for a stress test for a week or two.

The goal is to see what breaks. Something will. Expect lag, disconnects, lost progress, crashes, and so on. And if the server falls over, that's good. It'll give me a lot of data on how to improve the server processes.

What helps:

• Show up at that time and stick around for a bit.
• Just play. Found a city, build stuff, fly between systems, design a ship.
• When something goes wrong, tell me what you were doing and roughly when. For now you can do so on the Discord, I'll try to get a bug reporting page ready on the site soon.

IT’S IN A BOX

One galaxy, one cube. Yes, you heard me. You're limited to a cube. This means you'll be more likely to run into each other, while also getting a better idea of how everything syncs.

What's important to mention is that one important change has been made

The Old Ship and Old Building mode have been reactivated, but have been refitted to work with the new Designer. The Old Designer works as you're used to, with the exception that pressing finalize will turn your old-style design into a new-style design first.

That's it. See you in the box.