We're working on Housing Updates!

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What this means

Important Notes

Housing will be in maintenance this week

New features are planned

Houses that haven't been logged into for 6 months will be deleted

We've been working on a major rewrite to some of the core systems in Housing. Because of this, we'll be taking Housing into maintenance later this week.The reasons are detailed below. This post might get a bit technical!Previously, Housing made use of a decentralised peer-to-peer networking system that meant the amount of players in a house could scaleinfinitely, being limited only by the number of servers. This, however, presented a number of problems in terms of adding new features since they all have to be replicated on a packet level. Doing so adds a lot of overhead for anyone who wanted to work on adding even the simplest of features to Housing.The solution is to rewrite Housing to a much simplersystem. This system is similar to how the rest of the mini-game infrastructure works on the network where players are simply connected to a server and any players you see are physically on that same server with you.We'll be testing this new build of Housing over the coming weeks so there may be some initial instability and limited capacity as we roll this out.New features are coming!The simpler code will mean we can add features that would have taken months or years previously to code and we will be able to implement them in a fraction of the time. Some of the features we'd initially like to add are Pets, Companions, and Build Battle Pro Tools.We'll also be doing some database maintenance in order to prepare for further updates to Housing.