I agree, increasing mapgen ratio in the pool sounds like an easy way out without needing to change much

using it in daily work for ~ a year, I used it for ~4 years and got certification, so we use the tools we know

This makes sense, thanks for the explanation

If you're in Russia then it might be RKN. I've heard few players from Russia couldn't connect to faf server without VPN recently. Your Internet provider might be blocking IP ranges that FAF falls into. Try with mobile Internet and see if something changes. If you can connect on one provider but can't on the other - then it's KGB blocking the access and you will have to play with vpn until it's resolved

Thanks for the postmortem, really appreciate it! Any reason you guys decided to go with k8s at all? I have to deal with it a lot at work and it's a tough bitch to manage, I'm surprised that such a small infrastructure as faf needs it. So wonder if there was anything besides it being a docker-compose alternative or whatnot