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2015.11.19 12:00 - The server was discovered to be down. This might have occurred anytime in the past 14 hours.
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2015.11.19 18:55 - The server was in fact not running anymore, for unknown reasons. It has been updated to version 01.109.008 and started up again.

Note that this AHB16b test server has been running with an infinite world size from the start. And that it is still a test server; I've seen some wonky multiplayer behavior early on (including being unable to control a planetary lander spawnship). We'll see if today's patch or upcoming patches will render multiplayer more playable.
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2015-11-20 13:36 - I'm seeing indications that the server is under heavy load: the sun isn't moving through the sky at the expected angular velocity, NPC ships seem to move slower than normal. Most recently, I placed an Oxygen and a Hydrogen Bottle into an Oxygen Generator, and the bottles didn't show up in the block's inventory.

Server may need a restart.
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The server was restarted perhaps 40 minutes ago (as of this post). Give it another try.

There were slowdowns reported for the Minecraft server, which was showing no server-side issues at the console. Perhaps the issue was entirely with the network connections out of the host.
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2015.11.20 19:40 - Server updated to version 01.109.013.
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It appears the dedicated server still has quite a ways to go with entity cleanup and management. Seamus suspected that some recent serious slowdowns were due to a ridiculous number of NPC ships around the world being spawned. A resource report of the current AHB16b test world shows this to be very likely the case.

Ships are listed in the last section of this report.
It should be noted that Seamus has been the only active player on the server lately, and the only one who even connected at all since the last server restart. Also, this report was generated when nobody was connected to the server at all.
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A lot of those coordinates correspond to the planet surface. I flew just my astronaut over to the planet. I wasn't able to land safely, but I could clearly see the beacons of 3 different Cargo Ships AND an Argentavis on the surface of the Earth-like planet.

[edit] I posted a bug report. http://forum.keenswh.com/threads/v01-10 ... d.7374551/ [/edit]
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2015.11.23 01:38 - The test world has been reset, with the new designation Aldrat Hidden Belt 16c. The only difference is that Cargo Ships has been disabled. There is apparently an issue with cargo ships crashing into the planet and piling up, and causing an eventual server slowdown.

Hopefully, the removal of cargo ships is only a workaround, and they will be allowed in a future patch without performance issues. But for now, we'll continue any testing without them.
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2015.11.26 17:16 - Server updated to version 01.110.005.

I didn't have the time to run a resource report before the update/restart (busy for the holiday), and so we'll plan on doing that perhaps after this weekend, after the server has been running for awhile.
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2015.11.28 17:28 - Server updated to version 01.110.006.

2015.11.29 03:27 - Server updated to version 01.110.007.
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2015.12.01 02:38 - Server updated to version 01.110.008.
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2015.12.03 20:25 - Sever backed up and updated to version 01.111.011.
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Turhan turned on Pirate Drones, so be careful when moving about. Also watch for Argentavis vessels.

(Pirate Drones, not to be confused with Cargo Ships; Cargo Ships are NOT recommended for scenarios that have natural gravity fields and should still be off.)
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Here is a new resource report for AHB16c, taken while it is still running and after it has been up for several days. It appears the removal of Cargo Ships helps greatly in avoiding the old pile-up. Hopefully they will fix that later.
There seem to still be other issues preventing reasonable multiplayer planetary gameplay, though. So we'll still be awaiting and evaluating further updates before rolling out a new "official" world.

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2015.12.04 18:27 - Server updated to version 01.111.014.
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2015.12.07 23:11 - Server restarted and the HiLights mod added again.
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