Impulse/Server Issues - December 24th » Forum Post by Island Dog

Impulse/Server Issues - December 24th

By Island Dog Posted December 24, 2008 15:51:51External Link

The server hardware died today. We are moving it to a new server (along with other functions). The following will be down for a few hours:

1) Serial Generation

2) Serial activation

3) News

4) GC Metaverse

Thank you for your patience.

Update (December 26th):

Downloads have been fixed, but as everything else is getting worked on there still might be intermidiate issues. Please check this thread for updates.

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That explains why I can't update my other computer to play entrenchment via my lan. I hope it works after you get the new server going. 6 hyperactive kids are depending on you to way-lay their "When can we open our presents!" syndrome. . .

The Stardock root database server had a hardware crash on Christmas eve. The DB admins are working on restoring it but some services will be affected including customer database updating, software updating and downloading and other services. We do not currently have an ETA to solve due to limited personnel being available on Christmas eve / Christmas day but it should be rectified within the next 48 hours.

Note: All users who purchase anything between December 24 and the time this issue is rectified will be receiving a 33% off coupon on all future purchases as a token of appreciation for your patience.

just curious where will we get the coupon? and does it apply to purchases made during the server crash?

Ah. Would this be the reason I can't update my copy of SoaSE to the latest version?

Edit: It gives me the "object reference is not set to an instance of the object" message. I've never used Impulse before, I have no idea what this means. I have it updated at 1.05, if that helps.

Ya, well, could not get it to update yesterday, and now today either. I bet there are a lot of new owners of Sins that are not very happy right now. . .

Purple Paladin, you have no idea how true that is. I just got it today and I can already see how badass this game is... and Impulse is definitely not downloading the latest patch.

My brother was pretty spooked by "that Impulse Thing" as he called it. I was going to use his visit here to show him it (and Sins) to calm his paranoia and hope he'd consider getting Sins/Entrenchment; you can guess how that's going now [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e]

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The server hardware died today.

"THE" server hardware? As in, you guys don't have any automatic or remotely activated emergency backup in place to handle these sort of occurances? Wow. That's just stupid. Stardock is touting this is the future of digital distribution and Ironclad is using this as your one and only means of selling expansions and distributing updates, and the whole thing hinges on a single set of hardware that can never go down or you lose ALL of your business, and NOBODY said in a meeting all this time "Hey, we should make sure there are no single-point hardware failures that could bring down the entire system."

As noted elsewhere, the automatic backup switchover also failed.

so... about the coupon... how and where will i get it? and will it apply to the download i made while the server was down?

Maktaka

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The server hardware died today.

"THE" server hardware? As in, you guys don't have any automatic or remotely activated emergency backup in place to handle these sort of occurances? Wow. That's just stupid. Stardock is touting this is the future of digital distribution and Ironclad is using this as your one and only means of selling expansions and distributing updates, and the whole thing hinges on a single set of hardware that can never go down or you lose ALL of your business, and NOBODY said in a meeting all this time "Hey, we should make sure there are no single-point hardware failures that could bring down the entire system."

As was stated in other posts, this just wasn't one thing that went out, it was a rare system of failures that resulted in the issues. They are working on it as we speak, and it will get resolved as soon as it's technically possible.

In the next couple of days, anyone who order during this time will receive info about the offered coupon.

[e digicons]\o/[/e] you guys are awesome fixing it on Christmas and all

Sorry, I didn't realize this thread wasn't acting as the central info thread on the problem for these forums and so wouldn't contain the info on the full breadth of the problem. Just a little peeved that my Christmas present was DOA.

Update (December 26th):

Downloads have been fixed, but as everything else is getting worked on there still might be intermidiate issues. Please check this thread for updates.

Help!

I have impulse running but it is an older version

I cannot download anything since it says I have an old version of impulse, nor can I log in to impulse (but can to these forums obviously)

question 1:

how do I update impulse so that i can download updates to my game and BUY some more?

question 2:

how do I loging to impulse, is it the same userid as I use for these forums here?

I am so lost, please help me out guys, I'd very much appreciate it

thx

Jean

So I downloaded an update on Impulse, and now it will not go beyond Verifying Download. I download 1.12.042 trying to update from 1.0.0. Is this due to the server problems or is this another issue?

Try disabling your antivirus while patching, and launching Impulse with admin privileges. Getting stuck on verifying usually means either AV is holding up the files, or Impulse doesn't have permissions.

Excellent. I killed my AV and restarted impulse and now it is extracting. Thanks so much.

Welcome

At approximately NOON on December 24^th Stardock experienced a catastrophic hardware failure. The failure impacted several components of software order and fulfillment. The services impacted have been repaired as of MIDNIGHT on December 25^th. During the repair period services such as the customer database, software registrations and digital downloads were unavailable.

Due to the inconvenience this has caused some of our valued customers; anyone who purchased anything between Noon on December 24^th and Midnight on December 25^th will be receiving an email with a single use 33% off coupon for use on a future purchase as a token of appreciation for your patience and continued patronage. This email will be delivered to your mailbox sometime the week of January 5^th, 2009.

I just tried to download Impulse from the download menu on the web site but it gave me a page could not be found. Am I going to the wrong place to download it?

I have tried downloading impulse several times and every time I do so I get Error message 2343

Sorry to you guys who had to work through Christmas [e digicons][/e]

I'm unable to register my original Sins game which at the moment is terrible since I've already purchased Entrenchment and can't even download/play it right now.

I have the game sitting in front of me with my registration key and it's been input correctly (I've used it in the past to download the patch just can't input it into Impulse).

Send an email to support@stardock.com about it. You can also try hopping on #sins and #stardock IRC channels (or through Impulse Community > Chat) and see if anyone is available to check into it for you.