Hey all,
This update is going to be a bit more frank than previous ones. It appears that, yet again, Flight Rising is being tested by becoming the target of more malicious activity and exploitation. Over the past week we have been receiving heavy amounts of traffic from singular individuals, likely running bots to automate normal gameplay in excess of what is feasible by normal browsing. This is destroying the experience for many of you, resulting in the item loss and load time issues that have been most prevalent in the last few days.
We have made the decision to, in addition to monitoring this heavily, leave the site open with the following safeguard in place:
We will be performing backend restarts on services hourly, which will cause momentary interruptions. We are opting for this option to better gain clarity on where and how these methods are being used to bog the site down, while at the same time allowing you to play as much as possible and protect against the losses that have been occurring. There is a chance that, given the cirumstances, we may need to bring the site down again, but we are employing every measure we can to prevent that. If that ends up being the case, please accept our apologies.
We're disappointed that there are individuals still out there that would seek to continue to derail our attempts to improve the site and not notify us directly, but are still heavily committed to not only getting through this, but coming out stronger for it.
We're very sorry, we know it's a huge downer. Please, if you have any information that may aid us or give us more insight to this recent activity, e-mail it through our Contact Us form.
Thank you, and have a great Valentine's Day.
This update is going to be a bit more frank than previous ones. It appears that, yet again, Flight Rising is being tested by becoming the target of more malicious activity and exploitation. Over the past week we have been receiving heavy amounts of traffic from singular individuals, likely running bots to automate normal gameplay in excess of what is feasible by normal browsing. This is destroying the experience for many of you, resulting in the item loss and load time issues that have been most prevalent in the last few days.
We have made the decision to, in addition to monitoring this heavily, leave the site open with the following safeguard in place:
We will be performing backend restarts on services hourly, which will cause momentary interruptions. We are opting for this option to better gain clarity on where and how these methods are being used to bog the site down, while at the same time allowing you to play as much as possible and protect against the losses that have been occurring. There is a chance that, given the cirumstances, we may need to bring the site down again, but we are employing every measure we can to prevent that. If that ends up being the case, please accept our apologies.
We're disappointed that there are individuals still out there that would seek to continue to derail our attempts to improve the site and not notify us directly, but are still heavily committed to not only getting through this, but coming out stronger for it.
We're very sorry, we know it's a huge downer. Please, if you have any information that may aid us or give us more insight to this recent activity, e-mail it through our Contact Us form.
Thank you, and have a great Valentine's Day.
Flight Rising Developer
Project Management | Engineering Team Cheerleader | UI Designer
Project Management | Engineering Team Cheerleader | UI Designer