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Discussion: North American Server Unavailability - July 27th to July 29th, 2010

3dent

By 3dent,
Posted on: 2010-07-26 24:25 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by DogTags View Post
I was hoping it was server mergers ...cause I think it would be nice that they get nice new hardware up and pile us on to a few servers...
and tick off a lot of people since names are unique to the server it's made on and not all across

 

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They could see if they could combine the global name with the character name, sort of what CO did.

And otherwise, server mergers of the lesser populated servers into a bigger one wont be much of a deal imho. Even necessary. Also, merging Euro servers with US servers, even just the same server list would be nice. Euro servers have been getting less and less populated...

Oh, and a name purge has to be done. Characters which have been inactive for 12 months or longer should have their names freed up. If they reactivate and no one took the name, they can keep it. If someone else took the name, they get a free name change.

Inactive characters are taking up too much names imho. There's bound to be tens of thousands of level 1 alts with all the cool names because the original player wanted to reserve them, but he hasn;t played in years.

 

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There's been at least two name purges, and they don't have to announce beforehand that they're doing one, so there's probably been more than that.

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Originally Posted by Dispari View Post
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

 

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name purges on low level characters (lvl10 and lower I think) that have been inactive for 90 days or more IIRC

 

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Originally Posted by Emberly View Post
I was wondering if it was just me, seeing as there was still 400+ people logged in. I guess they were Euro people, maybe?
Probably.

I figured it was related to the announced change, but I opened a support ticket anyway. The response confirmed that it was related.

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I still can't log in, 3 hours after the maintenance window.

Was there an IP address change that has to propagate through DNS or something? My client times out when trying to connect to the login server.

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There's plenty of people online, including me, sitting at Wents on Triumph. Didn't seem to be any difference, no update of the updater, no patch, etc. It's something between you and the game, not the game itself. Hmmmmmm.

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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

 

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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
I'm trying to figure out what explanation is worse...
  • That they didn't know that it would take the forums with it...
  • Or that it didn't occur to anyone to mention it.
They're both equally stupid responses. The freaking "server unavailability" also knocked out portions of the knowledge base, parts of the support website, and large portions of the PlayNC Account Management page.

It borked ANYTHING involving your account name or login. I'm betting equal parts ignorance, and apathy. Bad show, people.

Good thing we got a twitter post several hours through it amounting to, "Are the forums down?"

*sigh*

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Bummer, got all of 5 minutes of play time to move one of my chars from one dayjob to the other, went to switch, and now the login server is borked.....

 

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Anyone tried an ITF yet?
I had virtually no lag and load times have improved greatly, was the same with the team. Almost broke the speed record, was awesome.


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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
I still can't log in, 3 hours after the maintenance window.

Was there an IP address change that has to propagate through DNS or something? My client times out when trying to connect to the login server.
Same problem here.

 

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Originally Posted by Sanguis_NA View Post
They could see if they could combine the global name with the character name, sort of what CO did.

And otherwise, server mergers of the lesser populated servers into a bigger one wont be much of a deal imho. Even necessary. Also, merging Euro servers with US servers, even just the same server list would be nice. Euro servers have been getting less and less populated...

Oh, and a name purge has to be done. Characters which have been inactive for 12 months or longer should have their names freed up. If they reactivate and no one took the name, they can keep it. If someone else took the name, they get a free name change.

Inactive characters are taking up too much names imho. There's bound to be tens of thousands of level 1 alts with all the cool names because the original player wanted to reserve them, but he hasn;t played in years.
Wrong. Search the forums for the response on this.

I do not want the system the competitor instituted for showing ones global.

I do not want to have to rename my toons.

I do not want to lose toons due to the server limit of 36 characters.

I DO NOT WANT to be on your crowded <bleep> server just because you feel the population is dying, (Which is wrong) or you can't find a group.

All these have been said many times.

 

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What gets me after the 12 hours on Thurs is on Fri we lost access to WW/BM, mail, and parts of AE now that is g.argbe