Leandro

Leveling pacts are handled by the statserver, which is crashing pretty much constantly. They also have some database queries which need to be run in a specific order, but the order is not guaranteed; this is called a "race condition" and results in lots of errors, especially when the servers are as overloaded as they are right now. So fix we need to figure out why the statserver keeps crashing, then we need to solve the race condition, then we can enable leveling pacts again. It's not intended to be permanent, but I can't give a time estimate because of everything else that's going on.

Zone and mission maps for all servers run all together in the same hardware (the ones described as "mapserver hosts"); so there's no such thing as running AE for "just one server" without affecting the rest. The AE farms trigger a lot of ambushes or AI-enabled patrols which use a lot of CPU power and cause increase lag and instability for everyone. The goal here is to get the servers to a point where they don't need a restart every few hours.

If you got to a Merit vendor, you'll find some Conversions to turn 50 Reward Merits into a single Hero Merit, and vice versa. This was added explicitly to allow you to send 50 merits at a time using global email. Similarly you can convert 50 Empyrean Merits into a Transcendent Merit and back.