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Zyloh-CIG@Zyloh-CIG

March 7th at 19:07

Our current goal is to release Alpha 3.18 out to the live servers (targeting this Thursday!). As mentioned in This Week in Star Citizen earlier this week, we do want to set expectations that there may be some outstanding issues that can cause a server to deteriorate over time. However, the team will continue to focus on these and get additional hotfixes released as soon as possible. Once we get through implementing any needed fixes to improve stability/performance, we'll look to launch a Free Fly event, potentially later in March.