The Second Age of Hyde's Tower

As many of you are undoubtably already aware, 1.6 has launched. The server has been upgraded, and the Portal-0 has been established as the prime Nether Portal.

A few observations from the New World:

• The Hyde's Tower Rail Depot and Government Center Station are, indeed, off-line. Manually launching a cart on the golden rails from Hyde's Tower will get you to GCS, but the line to Arcology was never electrified. That must be walked.
• The server is exhibiting some very strange network behavior. Message to the server arrive immediately, but it seems to be spending a long time before sending messages back to the client, creating some kind of artificial lag. I experienced this while Awells, who was logged on at the same time, did not. I expect the netcode needs a bit of tightening up.
• I've been to the Nether and back. Portal-0 (Hyde's Tower), Portal-1 (Arcology) and Portal-3 (Wells' Inn) at least all link to the same portal netherside, and that Portal takes you back to Portal-0. So getting to Hyde's Tower is easier than ever. Getting elsewhere might be a problem, especially with large swaths of the rail system offline

That said, the server is up. Go nuts. I expect patches to deal with the netcode soon. When I patched the server at 0800 ET this morning, we were already up to 1.6.2.