Star Wars Galaxies: Test Center 1 will be down for 5 1/2 days

Once again the Test Center peeps will be sacrificing their gaming comfort to the benefit of all. I know they will take this news in stride, amazing group of players :) Go here to see [font color=red]Blair's[/font] post on the official forums.

Greetings...
As many of you know, we brought up a third test center yesterday in an attempt to do a final smoke test. We ran this server in a configuration we've never tried before with the database on one coast, and the hardware on another. After watching through the night, it's clear that it doesn't work very well. We see a lot of problems that are directly related to latency.

This publish is the largest update to SWG since the Mounts/Player Cities publish over 6 months ago. It is important to proceed with this final smoke test to ensure the final transition goes smoothly once we transition to Live. In order to successfully test, we need to temporarily borrow the hardware that is currently used for TC1. Our plan is as follows:

Safely shutdown TC1.
June 17th: Bring up TC-Corbantis using the hardware from TC1.
Test Test Test on both TC-Corbantis and TC2.
Publish goes live June 22nd.
Bring up TC1 no later than the afternoon of June 22nd.

While we understand the disappointment of having you server down for 5 days, it gives us the greatest chance of delivering a quality publish to the rest of the clusters. Remember your characters still exist on TC.

Time will not pass while the server isn't up. We are dipping the server into the Carbon Freeze chamber beforehand. Your harvesters will be fine.

Thank you for your help.
[font color=red]Blair[/font]
Producer