At the risk of breaking the de facto embargo on posting content from the Developer+ section of the Shroud of the Avatar forums, I’m going to quote a bit from Starr Long’s recent announcement therein:

Our last test gave us a lot of data and highlighted issues we needed to fix. We believe most of those have been resolved so we need your help again to make sure!

We would like for the Dev Plus group to patch up and join us for “Happy Hour with SotA”. Wednesday, 5 – 6PM CST, we will open up the Live servers for 1 hour to do a limited load test. In honor of this test and to truly make it a happy hour you can now equip your pint of ale for true toasting!

A short test, in other words, but it will be interesting to see just what sort of sustained traffic the game’s servers see during that time. If you can spare the time, and if you’re a Developer-level backer (or higher) of Shroud of the Avatar, consider updating your game client and getting ready for this brief test!