So, today is (and has been, since Wednesday) the launch day for Nexus War Version 2.0.

This was fraught with any number of complications:

1) While in the middle of the database migration script, my internet route to the game server died. Everyone else could see it; just not me. That was fun.

2) Turns out that the staging environment was NOT an identical copy of the production environment. Namely, production runs on 8080 and for some reason staging was set to 8081.

3) About 5 minutes after it went live, freakin apache went tits up due to a MaxClients problem. That was awesome, too.

The database, however, migrated cleanly. And the server is now running smoothly. I've caught a couple jsp issues and fixed them in situ. There are other weird things that are bugging me (like having log4j cranked way too high) but otherwise she's sailing pretty smooth.

It's gotten more traffic in the past hour than I think it had in the previous day. Srsly, crazy crazy.

Right now, I'm stressing because previous releases had been fraught with all manner of migration problems or serious "WTF WASN'T THIS CAUGHT IN TESTING" bugs. But nothing like that right now. Right now, I'm sitting, watching all the logs scroll by, seeing the activity.

This is fun:

15:41:36,776 [ INFO ] GreatDragon :: KILLED TARGET: Geht [87589]
15:44:52,243 [ INFO ] GreatDragon :: KILLED TARGET: Shadya [123790]
16:00:44,140 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Degoth Demos [106213]
16:01:24,346 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Heart is not an element [126454]
16:01:49,609 [ INFO ] GreatDragon :: KILLED TARGET: PeDantic [124068]
16:02:09,707 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Astatine [124879]
16:06:30,753 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Avatar of Grenth [126110]
16:07:00,712 [ INFO ] IronJuggernaut :: KILLED TARGET: Cossane [123211]
16:07:50,833 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Orochi [19830]
16:08:21,221 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: the erratic weather [100649]
16:09:06,264 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Avatar of Abaddon [126109]
16:10:41,539 [ INFO ] GreatDragon :: KILLED TARGET: Herr Doktor Robert Von Wicked [126523]
16:14:57,718 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Neuromancer [122856]
16:15:52,804 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Vladimir Rotchenco [126774]
16:18:28,613 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Yakumo [126236]
16:19:38,760 [ INFO ] GreatDragon :: KILLED TARGET: Fujiwara no Mokou [104495]
16:21:15,690 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: a Self-harming Emo [96988]
16:21:30,760 [ INFO ] GiantTroll :: KILLED TARGET: a gigantic bunny [83256]
16:25:36,421 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Justine Joli [126392]
16:28:01,933 [ INFO ] GiantTroll :: KILLED TARGET: sebaceous gland eater [126756]
16:28:37,552 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: a courier [126616]
16:29:32,827 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Martin Pale [121057]
16:30:07,768 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Munkir [126906]
16:35:30,924 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Eric Blair [113199]
16:36:55,119 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Reino [112231]
16:37:25,582 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Schrau [27966]
16:39:01,394 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Chang [126369]
16:41:16,987 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Kill me I'm Evil [121505]
16:45:42,583 [ INFO ] DemiLich :: KILLED TARGET: Cold Raven [128082]