We just had our first stress test for pirates. I just posted a devlog with the details. Except for the first three hours (which were glorious) it was a 4 day long marathon debugging session. I don’t think I’ve ever been so exhausted as I was on Sunday night. 
Still, it was totally worth it. We learned many things about our server and where they break that will hopefully let future tests run much more smoothly.
Going from light beta testing to having no login queue in the course of a weekend, I thought was a huge deal! Good job.
Comment by BugHunter — October 12, 2007 @ 11:13 am
Well, that’s good. I’m glad to hear it won’t be Pirates of the Loading Screen in January.
I’m looking forward to this game.
Comment by Lars — October 27, 2007 @ 8:04 pm