Eventful summer of 2019

Summer is usually rather calm period for online games projects, it's warm outside, activity falls, winter problems with delays, queues, etc. end, but not this year, too much things piled up.

We will divide everything into 3 categories: bad news, good news and conclusion (compensation).

Bad news:

- From the end of May a row of ddos-attacks started, that lasted nearly for the whole summer with little breaks, we informed about it, beginning from this: https://forum.wowcircle.com/showthre...=1#post6920140. It took data center a month to setup at least some protection, and something more or less helpful appeared only after 2 months, and as a result - higher ping, disconnections, it took place too often this summer. Though it's our fault only partially, we are responsible for stability and quality, that were tainted.
- Trying to fix several old and difficult bugs in our core, we encountered some new bugs and downward spiral in old ones or rather long period. Everything is solved by this time, but it brought much negative, unfortunately we could not avoid it.

These are the main negative events o this summer, there were also some small things, set of circumstances, problems laying on each other, but everything came out of the mentioned 2 situations.

Good news:

- Ater XX years, at last, we updated current version o our web site, control panel and forum.
- In case of control panel, there were numerous changes besides the new design, you can read more there about it: https://forum.wowcircle.com/showthread.php?t=902039. We will install the new control panel for Legion later (need to run several stress tests ).
- We fixed a number of old bugs, particular and game mechanics in general, you can find information there: https://forum.wowcircle.com/forumdisplay.php?f=291 (we will post bugs, fixed during last month later).
- Last maintenance lowered general ping (personal + server delay) by 20-30%, also net should be strongly stable, all these changes will positively affect playing in the following season.

To conclude, compensation:

As I told before, this summer was difficult and eventful with different events, and we are also responsible before our players, we prepared a number of pleasant events and bonuses, to be exact:

- 200 bonuses will be transferred once to logon/legion accounts, that were active in a game from 19.05.19 and had at least 1 bonus on an account previously.
- 100 bonuses will be transferred once (in the beginning of September) to logon/legion accounts, that were not active in a game from 19.05.19 till 17.08.19, but will log in from 17.08.19 till the date of bonus transfer (approximately 2-5 September) and will spend at least 12 hours on their accounts, you need to have at least 1 bonus on an account.

And as a tradition discounts in control panel and amnesty:

The following discounts are actual for logon/legion control panel the period from 17.08.19 till 02.09.19 (including):

- All item prices are reduced by 30%.
- If you make a donation you get 20% more reward depending on amount of donation (for example of you donate 400 bonuses - you get 480).
- All bans(at logon/legion), that were not permanent and should end by 09.09.19, have been dismissed. The whole amount of accounts, that were amnestied is 872, 865 at logon, 7 at legion.
- Gift cooldown reset (once).
- You can also resell characters, that you bought in control panel before.
- https://wowroad.info/?item=9537 appeared at the control panel, they will be available till 09.09.19, loot table here: https://forum.wowcircle.com/showthread.php?t=845300

All events and discounts are already actual, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.