In response to an incident that occurred at 6:28 PM Eastern today, the server has been taken down. The server will be down for approximately 1.5-3 hours and have a 1 hour and 20 minute rollback.
The incident was the result of us turning off a parameter that stopped worker ration consumption. Unexpectedly, the workers had been counting all of their missed meals while they were not allowed to go on strike, and decided that since they could eat again, they would eat all of their missed meals as well. This event occurred due to the parameter being left in an enabled state for a long period of time and was missed during its testing phase.
We are currently working to fix the issue, but when the server comes back up it will be reset to its save state as of 6:00 pm Eastern. This will result in the ration event to be completely reverted and any stations to be in the state they were in before we enabled worker ration consumption.
We apologize for the oversight that allowed this bug to slip to live, and will be enabling double build speed and colony growth rate for two days in recognition of this inconvenience. As an added silver lining, the unexpected downtime will result in the fix to superlasers going live at the time the server is brought up again.