Summary: <br> <br> Cari and Layanor talk about the sever load test on October 24, world transfers, and Extra Life.<br> <br> Audio Version:<br> <br> What We Did in Game<br> Layanor – <br> <br> Full Helegrod Run<br> <br> Cari Mac –<br> News<br> <br> Testing the Data Center This Weekend<br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7466213#post7466213">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7466213#post7466213</a><br> Saturday October 24th from 5-7PM Eastern we need your help testing our new Datacenter on Bullroarer. They are giving out prizes to everyone who logs in during that time.<br> <br> Issue with Store Opening every time you earn TP<br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7464649#post7464649">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7464649#post7464649</a><br> One possible workaround for this is when you first login, please open the store and let it load all the way before closing it. We have found this can stop the store from constantly opening upon earning TP. Please try this and let us know if the issue is still occurring.<br> <br> First World Transfers are Open:<br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7439797#post7439797">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7439797#post7439797</a><br> <br> Morthond is now available for transfer.<br> Tomorrow we will open transfers off of Windfola. <br> <br> After tomorrow’s turning on of Windfola, there will be a pause on opening any of the other closing worlds for transfer (EU or NA) for a few weeks. We are treating both regions equally in this. We have stated multiple times that this might happen as we caught up to the hardware build out this is one of the reasons we started with the smallest worlds first as they were in most need of being moved to the larger communities prior to the new hardware being set up. You will still be able to move, just not yet. We do not want to confuse the situation further by making only some worlds and not other available especially as Gwaihir is as in the realm of Evernight and Brandywine now and Belegaer is quickly closing the gap. As we move to the larger realms, we just increase the chance of making a poor play experience for everyone while we are in these final stages.<br> I am sorry that this is not moving as quickly as any of us would like, but our alternative would have been to make everyone wait until the new build out was complete and that still would not have moved the timetable forward. <br> Announcements will be forthcoming in the next few days on the events that will be taking place between now and then.<br> <br> Gilrain transfers are on<br> World transfers off of Eldar will be available on October 5th.<br> World transfers off of Firefoot will be available October 6th.<br> World transfers off of Anduin will be available on October 12th.<br> World transfers off of Nimrodel will be available October 13th.<br> <br> <br> Server Transfer Update<br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7460155#post7460155">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7460155#post7460155</a><br> How about the new server hardware and datacenter that all these consolidations are for? The new hardware is coming along great. We have all the equipment in place and built out and are now onto the arduous task of moving all of the software and data from the old hardware to new, making sure connections are correct, running QA tests etc. We should be a load test on the new Bullroarer Beta world in the next week or two and will make announcements about it as soon as we have a date locked down. The aim is to have everything completed and live before the US Thanksgiving holiday. In the meantime we are monitoring the Evernight population closely, have added some additional hardware resources to it to increase capacity and if we start seeing issues we might have
