The new engines even better ;) however they really need to sort out their public relations and migration plans in the future or it doesnt matter how good a game it is or has been people will simply not come back.
Last week, Novalogic's scheduled server downtime allowed us to integrate our development and server centers in order to accommodate better gaming experiences. During this process we identified several improvements that could be addressed before going back online. We've decided to extend the downtime to see these changes through. NovaWorld has been running for 13 years with hardly any interruptions, and was due for a major upgrade. We understand this may be a frustrating inconvenience for our customers, but we'll try to ease the process by posting updates here on our home page and on Twitter.
So, we really don't know when Nova will be back up, this has been going on since early last week and your guess is as good as mine as to when Nova will return. Also as you can see they are quite cryptic in when they might be back up.
I like the way they're able to take time out on the official company Twitter account to try to be social with people when not replying to other Twitter members:
NovaLogicInc wrote ... anybody gonna catch the walking dead 2nite? looks promising, gonna have to TiVo it 8 hours ago
Gives the impression just 2 people are running things now - Garcia, and one other programmer with more recent qualifications.
Joined: Thu Mar 29 2007 Location: London Posts: 445
Yep same problem but as they said on twitter they are working on it all night tonight. Let's give them a chance but I reckon this weekend it will be up and running
Anyone who finds the main room laggy, i left mine until all the images downloaded properly, exited and then reloaded the game, it cached all the images and all the lobby lag was gone.
I am root. If you see me laughing, you‘d better have a backup!
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Joined: Sat Nov 11 2006 Location: Münster (Westphalia), Germany Posts: 1216
We are already trying to bring our servers back online. No luck so far. Login works fine, but the servers stops short of loading the first map. We'll keep on trying!