Beta - Major BUG #1

As the lead developer of Cotopia back-end I am responsible for the game server. This is usually a pleasant duty since we went through quite a bit of testing before launching this Beta. However every once in a while you run into an issue that the tests didn't cover.

This major bug was caused by a MySQL (a most excellent database) setting which closes unused database connections after a few hours. The database connection pool on our server (GlassFish) wasn't configured to check for closed connections and thus a bug was born. This caused us a few hours downtime earlier today.

Sorry about the inconvenience this caused but we're back, so game on! :)