Schedule Maintenance July 28 2018

[sw889432]

There will be scheduled maintenance on July 28 at 04:00 GMT/UTC. We will be performing operation system upgrades and updates. When completed, we will also update some core software and game components that is compatible with the new operation system. Both the game AND forums will be unavailable during this time. However, the issue tracker and chat will remain in service. 

Flights that are flying before the downtime should continue their flights. Flights that are scheduled to be scheduled during the downtime may fail to do so, you may have to manually ferry them back to your route's starting position. There is no guarantee that that anything will continue to work as they are before the updates.

Currently, there is a 2 hour window for this maintenance. However, it is anticipated that it will not require the entire maintenance window. If during the maintenance window we find that the projected timeline is not achievable, only some systems will be updated and I will reschedule a new maintenance downtime to keep within the 2 hour window.

You can always find the most up to date information on the chat. I hope to have a new update/announcement channel in the chat up soon. If you have any questions, or need help converting the time, let me know either by posting below, in the chat, a private message in game or on the forum.

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Scheduled maintenance for July 28th is now complete.

Please note that there will be additional downtime for maintenance the coming week to upgrade some subsystems that were not able to be done today.
There were NO new features added to the game during this maintenance period. Only back end systems were updated to accommodate new features being implemented soon. 

[gaff85]

During this outage will the game stop?

What will happen to flights in flight?

[Unknown98]

Flights that are flying before the downtime should continue their flights. Flights that are scheduled to take off during the downtime may fail to do so, you may have to manually ferry them back to your route's starting position. There is no guarantee that that anything will continue to work as they are before the updates.

So if a flight is already en-route it will continue as normal. In fact as long as the flight is listed on the "scheduled flights" list, it should operate as normal. But during downtime the game cannot schedule flights, so if a flight is not already scheduled, it will not schedule until after the game is back up.

[sw889432]

Additional down is REQUIRED at this point. It will likely be sometime in the coming week. There are some subsystems that are not released in time for the scheduled maintenance on the 28th. 

Additionally, some unforeseen configuration changes have to be made in order to accommodate new web technologies and HTTP/2, that were not originally planned for this scheduled maintenance. These additional changes should show some increase in responsiveness and performance of the game to address some user reports that of some unresponsiveness. 

More details to follow, but it should be a 2 hour downtime period or less.

[sw889432]

Scheduled maintenance for July 28th is now complete.

[Unknown98]

I have to say it does seem a bit faster.

[chaitanya]

I have to say it does seem a bit faster.

Yes, it does!