Developer's Desk 2024 Istaria Community Manager April 25, 2024
	Hello Istarians! Welcome to our inconsistently annual Developer’s Desk. For those unfamiliar with our DDs, this is our moment to talk about what has happened in the past 12 months, and what we are planning to accomplish in the near future This year started off with a bang as we released our biggest update ever, Back to the Battlefield - also known as the Combat Overhaul update. While we are incredibly proud of what our small team has been able to accomplish with such a massive rework of our archaic systems, we also sacrificed a lot of time to this singular update, resulting in a multi-day downtime to bring it live and over a year of content drought. With the huge update off of our plates, we are thankfully able to return to a more normal schedule of updates and work on items we have been putting off due to the looming overhaul. Before we talk about that, however, let us talk about the overhaul and what we have observed thus far. Read More...

Blight Update - Client 407.28 Istaria Community Manager April 19, 2024
	Blight has been updated with various fixes and improvements. Please note that this client will not work on the live servers until released to the live servers. Read More...

Novians and Status Istaria Community Manager April 19, 2024
	With the April 16 maintenance, construction on plots and lairs are functional again. One final issue remains regarding the application of Novians and we're doing our best to have a fix in the near future. Read More...

Blight ONLINE Istaria Community Manager April 17, 2024
	Blight has been restored and is working normal. Thank you for your patience while we used Blight's hardware to reproduce the issues from Chaos and Order.

Blight OFFLINE Istaria Community Manager April 11, 2024
	Blight will be offline until Tuesday. We're doing additional testing of potential fixes for community structures. Thank you for your understanding as we do everything possible to resolve the live shard issues as quickly as possible.

Community Structure Progress Istaria Community Manager April 9, 2024
	Hello Istarians, We've completed maintenance, applying the fixes for structures that we were trialing on Blight. As of now, Order appears to have no issues. Chaos is currently working on clearing the remaining issues with community managers and structures. As the server is completely unplayable while it works through its queue of tasks, and player presence will slow this process down, we are keeping Chaos closed to log-ins until it clears up enough to be playable. We are continuing to monitor Chaos and its progress. Once the server can handle players, we will open public logins again. After that, if issues persist, please let us know. Thank you, Istarian Development Team

Live Server Status Istaria Community Manager April 6, 2024
	Hello Istarians, We would like to give you an update regarding the issues during maintenance this week. We explained, earlier in the week, that we had an issue with recent community structure activity causing an out-of-memory crash. To enable the servers to start up, we had to disable plot and lair construction and planning. Read More...

Extended Maintenance Istaria Community Manager April 2, 2024
	Both Order and Chaos will be offline for extended maintenance. We're aiming to have them online for Wednesday morning, but will update as maintenance progresses. Please accept our apologies for the unannounced extended maintenance. UPDATE: 2024.04.03 08:00 PST -  We are still working on bringing the servers back online. We've narrowed it down to a few sub-systems and are doing our best to resolve as quickly as possible. UPDATE: 2024.04.03 13:30 PST - Order and Chaos are back online, but plot and lair construction is disabled. We're be working hard to resolve this last issue and apologize for the extended delay this week.

Live Update - Client 407.13 Istaria Community Manager April 2, 2024
	Fix for structure access times. All times will now be reported in your local computer's time zone. Fix for quest entities spawning, such as Fire Effect and Cultist Prop. Properly generate Blight loot after a shard restart. Increase internal logging for world objects and item transactions. This will allow us to better track down any issues that come up.

Beyond the Battlefield: Continuing the Overhaul Istaria Community Manager April 1, 2024
	Hello Istarians! As the overhaul is finally out the door and in a stable and working place, we wanted to sit down and talk to you all about our plans going forward. We appreciate your patience and support thus far. Read More...