by Stacy Jones on Dec 05, 2008
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.
Read the full letter here. Discuss the latest information on our forums.Basically, on Wednesday when we came to do the first live merges we encountered an issue with the structure of our data that we hadnt 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 players items not surviving the merge. It didnt 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.