Lordaeron Launch Day Information

[Kaer Wolf]

Greetings Warmane,

Officially launching on September 25, 2015 around 13:00 server time we can say that Lordaeron is upon us, and with it is this topic covering 'What To Expect' immediately at launch. Realm will have its confirmed design features shown in this article. While on the staff side we are preparing for weeks of hard work tied to Lordaeron's launch and ensuring that the launch is as smooth as it can be - we would like to underline a brief, but important knowledge on natural, temporary undesirable effects a new realm's launch may have (oldschoolers are likely familiar with it).

POTENTIAL TEMPORARY ISSUES DURING LAUNCH DAY(S)

1. Crashes (also known as 'disconnects')
In spite of years worth of crash fixes being present on Lordaeron, the massive changes and updates that have been implemented are inevitably bound to bring us undesirable surprises, especially due to major script updates, rewrites, spell system updates and improvements and implementation of significant line of sight, pathfinding, visibility and minimized autosave timer. Expect crashes, few or many, during the early days as we have had no reliable way to internally stress test a real impact of high population leveling in a handful of zones with updates mentioned above.


2. Lag
As mentioned above, we have had no reliable way to stress test the core with thousands of players leveling in starting zones and everything associated with their activity (PTR instant 60 doesn't reflect the same effect). Realm's will come under high stress as hundreds or thousands of players start leveling in starting zones immediately after launch. This will most likely be the most stressful time for the Lordaeron's performance. Expect lag and know that we will work on it if it happens to make sure Lordaeron's population plays without lag, no matter how much we would have to temporarily reduce the cap.


3. Downtimes
It is possible that we may take the realm down for several minutes to several hours if we observe abuse or exploitation of Lordaeron on a massive scale. Should such an event occur, realm will be taken offline for maintenance and cleanup. We will remain dedicated to keeping the realm clean even after post-launch and will intervene based on our own judgement should we observe players abusing features, irrespective if it was a bug on server side or not - we will work to keep Lordaeron clean from exploits post-launch and in the long term.


4. Unknown population cap
We've made no compromises on Lordaeron's quality and completeness as we worked to max out its capabilities, features and scripts. Optimizations (to allow more players before it starts to lag) were worked on only after we enabled those features. We want quality, minimum bugs and completeness of content to be above everything else on Lordaeron and as such we will most likely have to enable a low player cap for the first few days as we continue optimizing based on performance. Eventually the cap will be raised as high as possible before it can have a negative impact on the server (before it lags).


5. Launch time
Lordaeron is expected to be launched at approximately 13:00 server time (www.warmane.com). The reason we chose this day and time is that most people will be free from work and studies, yet before peak hours' smashing impact. This will also be an optimal time for many staff members as we expect to work without sleep during the early launch days, and as such helps us connect overtime and double shift hours to monitor the realm.


6. Temporarily Disabled Website Support
Lordaeron will have all or most of website support temporarily disabled at launch day(s). This is because we will have more important matters to monitor, observe and take care of.

7. Patience
Please remember the points mentioned above, have understanding of our workload and responsibilities and remain patient should any of expected or unexpected issues arise. If for any reason realm's launch days become undesirable - take a break for a few hours or days and rest assured that we work around the clock to correct them.

We will keep you updated on the progress and all relevant news in the Latest News section of the forum and main page on the website.

Regards,
Warmane Staff

[Radvo]

8. Fun
Just go with it and have fun, because it's a damn game.

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[DivineLogic]

Looks awesome , Thanks for the update ^^

[Kelthuzzad]

Thanks for the information Kaer! Look forward to it :)

[boolouk]

Kaer ty for the update :) I'm looking forward playing on loarderon "once again ^-^"

[Passoscoelho]

wow very nice to know this, thank you very much :)

[Variny]

Can't wait :D

[LikeDwind]

Very well written information i have no questions to ask after it

[Crum]

cant wait! so much hype! Just keep trucking Warmane! Your awesome!

[johnnybgood89]

8. Your name is unavailable. Cuz I ll takek it 3;)

[Xilentraz]

I came hard.

[Korvan]

Cant waitttt just open it today mann :d

[taralej]

Even retail realms have massive lag and disconnects when they first get launched, so this is completely understandable. Any old school player will know this :)

Thank you, Warmane team. We're looking forward to what could be the best realm on this server.

[Piikki]

Awesome job! Can't wait for this, personally it's like going back to the roots. Started out in december 2009 in wotlk, so it's going to be fun to basicly start all over again, but this time more blizzlike. :) Once again, great job on this Warmane!

[mihailpirtac]

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