Age of Conan at Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMOG Gamers to the Next Level!

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures was set to receive its first server merger this week, but due to some technical problems the merger had to be delayed. Today Ten Ton Hammer has acquired a copy of Funcom's Game Director Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison's 'Letter from the Game Director' in which he explains the reason for the delay and Funcom's plans on moving forward.

Basically, on Wednesday when we came to do the first live merges we encountered an issue with the structure of our data that we hadn’t found or experienced during testing. This issue caused there to be a risk, on some servers, under specific circumstances, of items having non-unique identifiers in our database. This in turn might have lead to some cases of player’s items not surviving the merge. It didn’t happen at all during our testing, and may have been (in the scale of all players and all items in the game) a possibly rare occurrence. However this was not an area where the team and I were willing to take any risks with whatsoever.

• Read the full letter here.
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