Maybe I will repeat some post made by other players before me, but I got to the point where I just want to write it all down. I hope Sean & Brian will read this as this is dedicated to them. You guys should seriously stop killing the game, maybe we can understand you are not so good at programing but it's sad when the game you played for 8+ years owners are making fun of themselves. If you can't do the job - say so, take your time, try fixing it, ask for help, damn it your company bought this game from mehul with all people who spent a lot of their time playing this game, and it seems that you think we are just a bunch of dumb-downed no-lifers.
"From looking at the trends in the traffic it appears that much of these requests are coming from automated scripts."
What on earth are you talking about?! Mehul had 3 game servers running with 150K+ players and somehow it worked, now you have 11k and you can't setup a server to work for that?! In my poor country I can setup a server for 3$ which would hold 11k people flow. Hacker attacks, YEAH, like when Utopia came to 11k players suddenly it became the favourite page for all hackers to beat on!
Now the thing that really made me mad is you god damn "Server down temporarily.
Server will be down until at least..."
Imagine there are people who are waiting until that hour just because they have to hit out or train or do some stuff with their provs, and then they get another msg saying server will be down for another 2 hours, then of course 2 hours more, and it goes all day so you don't even want to check it anymore if it works. If you can't do your job for time being - Write in msg that you don't know what is going on, and it will take time to fix the problem, do not beat players around like in Kindergarten. I've been playing uto for more than 8 years and even though I'm not big programmer myself I can see you guys absolutely don't have any competence for running a game with dedicated players, and you are still trying to prove us you are a victim of hackers/scripters/old mehul code and damn Crab people are probably at fault for this too.