Database woes: some features will be offline for a few hours

[admin]

Updated 8:39pm: Database is restored, consistency checks are good, and we're getting ready to turn everything back on. ~pan

Argh! One of our databases is being very naughty right now, and we're going to have to shut down a bunch of stuff in order to slap it around a little. For the next couple of hours, the following things won't work:

• Inventory/Avatar equip panels
  
• The Marketplace
  
• Trades
  
• Gifts
  
• Shops
  
• Gold granting
  
• Games
  
• New Member Registration

You have not lost any of your Gold, Cash, items or anything else! You still have all your stuff, we're just dealing with an extremely annoying database outage. We'll put out another announcement when everything is back online.

Unfortunately, this will mean that the Evolving Item Report will have to be postponed until another day. Dr. Singh sends her sincerest apologies, and promises that you'll have a great set of evolutions coming up very soon.