Would there be a way for me to write a simple script to test the status of the game server? Maybe, try to ping to game servers, or telnet to a specific port? Perhaps you devs don't want to give out information on this, which is fine. I'm just curious.

-rc

ping majikthise.guildsoftware.com would tell you if the physical server was up (garbage truck problem notification), but wouldn't tell you if the software server died...

One option is to look at the Active Players page and note the most recent 'last login' time.

Oh ho! Creative workarounds does the sleepy programmer come up with. :p

-rc

OT:
congrats to the 18000 post , RC ;)

overall though, mtr makes for a nice status check :)