superstein
Ex-Admin
At 3:05 PM EST on August 31st, RoF in it's entirety was wiped after an unforeseeable accident ended up deleting the entire directory. RoF staff and admins have been working around the clock to restore the server based off of backups and information kept, and at this point everything possibly recoverable has been loaded in to the server. Anything that was on our database was untouched, however not all of the server data was located there - resulting in some places where things have been reverted to older backups of the server. Here is a list of what has been restored/saved and what has been wiped:
Lobby & Prestige World: Restored
Maps: Saved
Cookies: Saved
Supercookies: Wiped
Inventories: Reset to April 2014
Ranks: Reset to August 18, 2014
Playing Time: Saved
Stores: Restored
Now, the good news. IQDestructor, Ogarci and Dessern5 will be doing manual restores of people's inventories, ranks (if there were any changes) and supercookies. You can use this form right here to request those back: (SNIP: Contact a RoF Director for help.)
Or alternately, PM Ogarci/IQDestructor/Dessern5 on the forums or drop one of them a book in their staff mailbox with your items, supercookies and any rank changes and they will get to it as soon as possible. While we will have a general idea of what you have, we ask that you try to guess what items you had at the time (the valuables at least that were attained since the inventory rollback) and they will be restored if deemed to be true.
Safeguards will be put in to place to ensure that something like this will never happen again, and that nothing will lead to it happening again. We're sorry for the mistakes and hope that this situation will be resolved quickly and properly. Thank you for your cooperation and patience with us.
Huge thanks to those that worked to put the server back in tip-top shape, namely dirtcake and Malcovent for keeping the backups that RoF now consists of today!
Lobby & Prestige World: Restored
Maps: Saved
Cookies: Saved
Supercookies: Wiped
Inventories: Reset to April 2014
Ranks: Reset to August 18, 2014
Playing Time: Saved
Stores: Restored
Now, the good news. IQDestructor, Ogarci and Dessern5 will be doing manual restores of people's inventories, ranks (if there were any changes) and supercookies. You can use this form right here to request those back: (SNIP: Contact a RoF Director for help.)
Or alternately, PM Ogarci/IQDestructor/Dessern5 on the forums or drop one of them a book in their staff mailbox with your items, supercookies and any rank changes and they will get to it as soon as possible. While we will have a general idea of what you have, we ask that you try to guess what items you had at the time (the valuables at least that were attained since the inventory rollback) and they will be restored if deemed to be true.
Safeguards will be put in to place to ensure that something like this will never happen again, and that nothing will lead to it happening again. We're sorry for the mistakes and hope that this situation will be resolved quickly and properly. Thank you for your cooperation and patience with us.
Huge thanks to those that worked to put the server back in tip-top shape, namely dirtcake and Malcovent for keeping the backups that RoF now consists of today!
In the meantime, remember to grab your memento of the situation in front of the lava portal:
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