@werewolfbot is back online

Hi everyone. You will see that reports made with @werewolfbutlerbot now have a unique ID sent with them. This is so that you can search the ID given on the message the bot sends you to find the report in spammy groups or look up previous reports.

You can also search #Report in the chat in order to find all the reports made.

Translations can be found: https://telegram.me/wwtrans/4

We have started an update channel with translated updates @wwtrans. If you want the updates translated into your language please contact @werewolfsupport

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

In about 30 minutes, we will be taking werewolf down momentarily, while we migrate the database to a new location. We estimate possibly an hour of downtime, not completely sure. Part of our lag issues lately is the database maxing out the CPU on the server, so it's time to upgrade a little bit. Our new database will be cloud based, and completely scalable. If it gets maxed out / lags again, we can hit a button and simply increase resources to it.

اطلاعیه مهم :
به مدت سی دقیقه تا یک ساعت ،ربات های ورولف بسته خواهد بود ، ما در حال انتقال اطلاعات به سرور جدیدی هستیم ، تا قسمتی از لگ و فشار رو کمتر کنیم .
مقدای از فشار برای سی پی یو و مقداری برای دیتابیس بود .
وقتشه که به روز رسانی هایی اعمال بشه تا در اینده سرور های بهتری رو ارائه بدیم . پویا رجائی .

Maintenance has started. We will be migrating once all the games have ended.

Database migration has been started.
Current status:
✅Groups - Complete (134,433 rows)
✅Game Start Notifications - Complete (6,578 rows)
✅Players - Complete (636,659 rows)
✅Games - Complete (2,766,744 rows)
✅Game Players - Complete (18,626,288 rows)
✅Game Kills - Complete (20,425,813 rows)

(by the way, I'll continue updating the previous message, rather than sending new updates each time)

for the last table, going to scale the database up, make it much faster, hopefully that will speed this up

Ok, migration is complete. Checking a few things, then I'll bring the bots back online

All bots are now back online. Thank you for your patience while we did this maintenance!

(yes, there was a minor hiccup with the bot API last time I sent that message)

Well, that's neat. New SQL database provider:
Under heavy load?
I shut down.

Switching back to original database, screw you Microshaft.

ProTip: Don't use Azure for SQL. Just spin up a VM and install SQL server yourself. It's much cheaper.

Hey :) Apparently, bots are telling some people to start them, but have already been started.
Sending /start in pm to the bot should solve your issue. If it doesn't, let us know in @WerewolfSupport

An issue has been identified with group names that contain HTML characters (&, <, >, "). If your group contains these characters, no one will be able to join a game. The issue has already been found and patched, but will not be pushed out until this afternoon (about 8 hours from now).

Also with the patching today, we will be bringing werewolf down for a few minutes to upgrade the server hosting the database.

Minor notice:

If your game has crashed with the error "The wait operation timed out", I promise I am working very hard to track down the cause. It's not the bot, it's the website that is causing this issue. For now I have disabled some of the advanced pieces of the website (admin panels) while I work on it, so you shouldn't have any more crashes due to that.

We are currently testing balanced games, which will replace "normal" game mode (possibly? or should we make a new game mode?). These will be random chosen roles, but with a strength balancing system to make sure teams are properly balanced out.

Example:

Total Village strength: 51
Total Enemy strength: 47

Village team:
GuardianAngel
Detective
Cursed
Gunner
Fool
Beholder
CultistHunter
Mason
Doppelgänger
Cupid
Hunter

Enemy teams:
Wolf
Wolf
Cultist
SerialKiller



This new mode is NOT on bot 1 or bot 2 yet. It is in beta only right now.

Woohoo! Werewolf is in Georgia this week at the Microsoft Ignite conference! If you're here, swing by @werewolfsupport or ping Para and let us know!

@werewolfiibot is experiancing some technical difficulties. Our technicians are trying to resolve them and will hopefully get it up and running asap.

While you guys wait go to spacex.com/mars to watch the Mars announcement live.