Why Servers Crashing is a Good Thing  AirMech Logo  If you've
been playing (or trying to play) AirMech the past week and
weekend you probably noticed we've had a lot of server downtime
and restarts. As a gamer, when that happens to me with a game I
want to play nothing makes me more upset. So I totally
understand why people are either mad or frustrated with the game
lately. But I want to take a minute to explain why this is
actually a good thing.  As a super small development team, we
built the backend systems for AirMech "as needed". Our
programmers have experience working on everything from small
projects to massive MMOs, and the plan from the start was to
build things in a way to get them up and working, even if you
know it might fail as it scales up. Everything fails as it
scales up in fact, but the more grand your plans the more time
it takes to build, and as devs we've had the experience of
building grand things which never end up getting used. So
AirMech was very purpose built from the start, which is