I was playing on the new beta 4 client when i got a server disconnect so i exited game and restarted still got the disconnect. went to production client and got same thing.

Woodstock, Commander UIT Vessel YellowBird

i still cant get back in either!! NNNOOO!O!!

I was driving a garbage truck wildly around West Allis and I thought I may have hit something...

gamesever down for me as well. Oh well. NN VO.

Yeah, it should be back up again.

someone care to fill me in on all the garbage truck jokes?

Yeah. SIGXFSZ. I didn't even know there was a signal for that.

Dihelical: it's a really old thread, and the message board now shows it all out of order (since things have changed a bit since then) so it doesn't make sense.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/2807

Arolte's post belongs between my 2nd and 3rd one.

Basically, it goes like follows:

Two years ago or so, VO (then in alpha) goes down in the early morning. At the time, Guild was operating the main server out of their office, and the wiring was stretched across the alley behind the building (or something like that). The garbage truck was the type that lifts dumpsters up by two large robotic tines on an arm on the front. One of the tines had snagged their fiber cable out of its socket, causing the game to go down.

All went normally until some wag suggested that it was in fact one of the Devs who had, for whatever reason, taken a night job as a sanitary engineer and driven the garbage truck into the wire. This theory took hold, and now, whenever the game suffers connectivity issues, it is theorized that the responsibility lies with a Dev-operated garbage truck.

I believe it was the entire building's fiber connection that was stretched across the alley, not just Guild's.

It was a little more than pulling our wiring out of a socket :). Our building is/has been on-net with every major telco in the area, and is part of the Time Warner Telecom SONET ring. There's a lot of stuff that goes in and out of the building (used to be a *whole* lot, when there was a major ISP POP here), we're pretty minor in the greater scheme. So anyway, the truck took out the fiber on the pole I guess. The building is supposed to be dual-entrance (two independent fiber feeds), but that may have been deprecated since TWTC no longer has as much stuff here (they used to have several OC48 DDMs here, plus there was an OC3 or 12 mux from AT&T/TCG and an ameritech Litespan). So anyway, the garbage truck broke stuff, and then TWTC came out and spliced everything back together.

Our servers are now located at an offsite location that *does* have dual-entrance fiber. So hopefully that will reduce the chances of garbage-truck related incidents.

And yes, like ctishman says, the joke was the Andy was driving the truck :). As far as I know, he wasn't.. but you never know though.