Wednesday Maintenance/publish?


Black_Mute

 

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I thought this cr*p was over with? Tuesdays for publish, Thursday maint. Now we have a Wednesday one, screwing up the Aussie players at -9pm- local. SHEESH.

And the amount of warning? Less than 24 hours, so no plans could be made.

Just a little observance by the Admins to -warn- people of odd timings of publish/maint would be SO very useful.

You did GREAT with the reduction of maint to one day a week, but I bet you anything that this publish is in -addition- to maintenance on Thursday.

Please think about having a more cohesive announcment plan rather than 'oh, yeah, today we're having special super-duper-urgent-gotta-fix-a-hack maintenance'.

It would be hugely beneficial to the fragmented audience this game has left. (thinking about Graal, 69 month Vet Award guy, who left this week ... he was one of the truly good guys)


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Probably fixing another AE exploit.


 

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Originally Posted by Black_Mute View Post
Probably fixing another AE exploit.
I believe it's the BotZ nerf that Castle mentioned a little while back.

Fury


 

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Nope, different AE exploit, but patches have been on Weds as often as Tues for a while now, and exploit patches go on whenever they're ready.

I'm thinking that the Aussie community is going to be screwed in the Northern hemisphere summer unless they move maint later, and even though I'm a Brit, will be PMing Avatea about this.


It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba

 

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They kinda promised to stop the 'random weekday patches' and limit such publish sessions to Tuesdays.

Tonight is maintenance 'as usual' even though they shut the servers down last nigth for 2.5 hours. I can't work out why they cannot do both things at the same time, in order to reduce their downtime.

TheOcho made some announcement in Announcements that regular Thursday maintenance was definitely on. Which was, admittedly, nice of him, because of the expectation/hope that people had of not having two down-nights in a row, now we have confirmation and can do other stuff.

(Life, don't talk to me about life!)

Angry of Mayfair


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Exploits need to be fixed immediately, I can't imagine the devs' in this game finding a fix and then waiting, at most, a whole week for the maintenance window. They kind of have to be fixed.

I am the same as you, I find these random downtimes quite irritating and in my schedule but I guess must is must.

Fury


 

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Exploits need to be fixed immediately, I can't imagine the devs' in this game finding a fix and then waiting, at most, a whole week for the maintenance window. They kind of have to be fixed.

I am the same as you, I find these random downtimes quite irritating and in my schedule but I guess must is must.

Fury
TBF, this exploit has been around and widely known since before AE came out of beta, so publishing the fix the day it's ready is not really an issue.

What I don't understand is why when the EU/US servers' maint was combined, it was moved 2 hours earlier. I have PMd Avatea and pointed out the issues this is causing, particularly with US/UK and Aus shifting the hour in opposite directions thus putting maint in the middle of prime time during the northern hemisphere summer.


It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba

 

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Minotaur, not sure if you were reading the forum when the change was first announced, but if not, you might want to look for a thread here called "Ridiculous Extra Maintenance" or similar.


 

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Originally Posted by Part_Troll View Post
Tonight is maintenance 'as usual' even though they shut the servers down last nigth for 2.5 hours. I can't work out why they cannot do both things at the same time, in order to reduce their downtime.
They have already previously responded to that bit. Due to the defragmenting and other routines they need to run during maintenance they cannot roll out patches at the same time.

And while I agree the patching should have stuck to their previously announced nights I reckon we should wait to see if this is just an isolated incident before making a fuss. They bent over backwards for us and changed their global maintenance shedule when we let them know how much it was affecting us last time so I think we owe them a little patience.


 

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Originally Posted by Liliaceae View Post
Minotaur, not sure if you were reading the forum when the change was first announced, but if not, you might want to look for a thread here called "Ridiculous Extra Maintenance" or similar.
I read and indeed posted in that thread several times.

They never explained why when they combined the maintenance, they shifted it 2 hours earlier, which is what's really screwing up Aussie prime time.


It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba