Constant maintenances

This game must be the most maintenance intensive game I ever played.

My problem is I can play mostly in the morning and alm,ost never on the weekends. I can't play this game. One morning out of two is wasted. I played CoH a few years ago and came back to it recently, but I remember now it was also a major source of inconvenience for my particular shcedule at the time. I got worse, much worse.

I'm no expert, but WoW was not like that, Tabula Rasa was not like that, Guild Wars is not like that.

Thursday 8th, Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th (I do not know about Monday, I assumed it was on regular maintenance, so I planned something else). And the week before double XP, it was patch time over additional maintenance.

They tell you maintenance is comming, normally the day before in the afternoon. I can't plan anything with so short a notice.

I'm so disappointed, I like the game, but I'm kept out of it most of my personal time.

I need to find some new game to play, but it is absolutely not what I want to do. I'm sad, I just love my toons.

I see nothing to do but endure or move, great. Maybe I'm missing something, but multiple maintenance a week on live server does not seem professional to me? Once a week, quite fine. Take your time. Twice a week? Oh well, the game is good so go ahead. Three or four times a week? Well... that's a lot of maintenances... does not look right to me.

I suspect very difficult architecture because the alternative would be that they don't give a damn and I do not think it's the case. I mean, they certainly don't give a damn about me personnaly, but I like to beleive they are prisonner of the architecture of the game database or something like that.

I might never know, anyway it does not change anything. I would just prefer to be able to play, if I had a choice.

Of course I'm a kind of newbie and I can hardly beleive it's the first time someone express the same view as I do, so I expect the beating I'll receive in the following posts. I was unable to create a new tread elsewhere. I know it's futile, but I want to do 'something' instead of loading a new game on my hard drive. Push back the inevitable.

Have a great day, playing just a little bit latter, somethign I would very much like to do.

Same here, I normaly play a lot around the time the maintenances are done ...

But it's just necesary evil. Cause it's what is needed to keep the game running and giving us new stuff to play with from time to time ...

So sure it can be a pain , but it is worth it

Ps: there's always testserver

It's at most two hours a day. Generally twice a week, but hardly ever more than three times. Quit complaining, it's not that bad.

I've heard EVE has maintenance every day.

I remember playing WoW, which had the same if not more maintenance.

It is a necessary evil. They need to apply patches to fix bugs. They need to clear the cache and whatever else they do during routine maintenance. If you don't have those times, the game never changes and then breaks entirely.

I understand if this is not good from a central perspective, but I would appreciate if the west coast and east coast servers did not have maintenance at the same time, so there are always servers that are up

Over the three-day Double Exp weekend, I had a few instances of the "mission door is underneath the Founders Falls AE Building bug," including one that made a Task Force impossible to complete. We wound up quitting the TF and lost several people when we re-formed.

It's frustrating to have to quit a TF for technical reasons and it's somewwhat more frustrating to waste a lot of time on 2xp weekend.

Today's maintenance should patch that bug. It's an extra day of maintenance, but (I assume) that's because they're uploading the new patches (this one and this one, if I understand correctly.)

Aside from keeping the hamsters fit and trim, maintenance periods can introduce vital patches.

Sorry about the impact to your available playtime.

Normally, and we're talking the norm, what happens all the time, the servers are down 2.4% of the time in the space of a week for maintenance.

This week, the week of a patch update, which happens, normally, about once a month, the down time is 5% of the week.

Next week, it will go back to 2.4%.

So... let's cut out all this talk of "Zomg! why is it *ALWAYS* down!!!!!11!111???"

Other MMOs do indeed have as much, if not more downtime than CoH. So, let's not say things which are demonstrably untrue.

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Originally Posted by Snapspine My problem is I can play mostly in the morning and alm,ost never on the weekends.

Well, there's you're problem. Maintenance and patching must be done. And thus, a time must be picked for it to be done. And so, the time that is picked is when there is the least amount of people playing. For people like you who play in the morning (in the US) or for people on the other side of the globe, this maintenance period is their prime play time, and that's unfortunate. But it's a choice they must make: inconvenience 5% of the player base or 80% of the player base. It's really a no-brainer.


Paragon Studios does care about the inconvenience of the downtime and they try to minimize it's impact as much as possible. This past weekend the usually Friday and Monday maintenance was changed to Thursday and Tuesday so that it wouldn't interfere with Double Experience Weekend, or the Monday holiday (US). And they gave those who can't play weekends, like you, two weekdays for 2XP.

Wow, I can't believe no one's done this yet:

this what happened in the last game i played hackers ruined it for everyone dupin rares and gold and just anything to cheat there no extened maintenance there trying to catch the hacker and we pay for it so unless people don't let GM'S know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it and there we not be a COH IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!

If you just came back, as I did, you've got the i16 change. Then there was a redownload the next day for something. Then they needed to put power visuals back in PvP. Then there was 2x weekend.

They'll have to fix the AE door bug. Lots of other stuff will get upgraded and installed prior to the Halloween stuff.

I'm cool with it. I give them props for always having the green dot on my servers. Only on 2x weekend did I see Freedom get to 2 yellow dots. Liberty is always green.

1) The increased number of maintenances lately is to fix stuff from recent upgrades to the game (i.e. Issue 16).

2) Maintenance downtime is LESS than it used to be in the past.

3) According to Ghost Falcon, they will be trying out a new maintenance schedule with even less downtime.

Seems to me like the overall maintenance situation has improved and continues to get better.

Well due to 2xp/reactivation weekend Fri/Mon maintenance went to Thur/Tue. And because of the Monday Holiday in the US, patch day Tuesday got bumped to Wednesday.

Next week starts maintenance Thursday instead of the usual Friday/Monday schedule. But that still doesn't preclude servers down due to patching or server calamities.