Scheduled server downtimes are posted in the News And Announcements section. They state they are publishing a patch this morning, expected downtime 2 hours.
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I heard rumors yesterday that the rare and very rare might be coming out today. I think it was total speculation, though.
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I heard they were nerfing regen and/or accuracy with this patch...
In the announcement it clearly states that the downtime for EST will be ALL DAY.. 6am to 9pm. I'm really hoping this was a typo because if not.. WTF
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Originally Posted by OmniSurge
In the announcement it clearly states that the downtime for EST will be ALL DAY.. 6am to 9pm. I'm really hoping this was a typo because if not.. WTF
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Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
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This is the announcement. Please read it again and check the beginning and end of the downtime for all other listed timezones:|
Originally Posted by OmniSurge
In the announcement it clearly states that the downtime for EST will be ALL DAY.. 6am to 9pm. I'm really hoping this was a typo because if not.. WTF
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| Please be aware that there will be a publish for all live servers on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 starting at 4:00 a.m. Pacific / 7:00 a.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. GMT / 13:00 Central European Time for a scheduled end at 6:00 a.m. Pacific / 9:00 p.m. Eastern / 2:00 p.m. GMT / 15:00 Central European Time. |
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
Lets hope so. Since every place I've seen that announcement..it said the same thing.
Clearly they're trying to waste as much time as possible before the release of the second respec for all the procastinators so they'll be forced to buy respecs from the NCSoft store!
... nah, not a Nemesis plot. Too obvious.
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Yes, because in every other part of the world the maintenance will take 2 hours, whereas somehow only in the Eastern Standard timezone it will take 14 hours. |
Originally Posted by OmniSurge
Lets hope so. Since every place I've seen that announcement..it said the same thing.
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I'm honestly not trying to be rude or condescending, but come on ... you can't honestly believe that in the slightest, can you?
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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I heard that they're nerfing the accuracy of regen powers.
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Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
I heard they were nerfing regen and/or accuracy with this patch...
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@Roderick
Ooo look my server is up that was a fast 14 hrs.....I kid,I kid...
Now now people. Just because it would only take one person 5 minutes to actually post in what these patches actually are, that's no reason to expect any one of them to skip stuffing their faces with doughnuts long enough to do so. Besides, why would you want to know anyway? isn't it much more fun to guess?
What's that you say? Put up the post *before* actually uploading the patch? Blasphemy!!! That would mean someone.. anyone... on the development team would actually know what they were going to do, before they did it. Talk about unreasonable expectations.
Just wait a week or two, and the patch notes will be in Wikileaks.
Oh yes, because there couldn't possibly be ANYTHING going on that you don't know about which might be more important than pasting up patch notes right away. They must be eating donuts and talking about what was on TV last night. There is no other possible explanation.
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How about you stop calling people lazy if you have absolutely no idea what's going on behind the scenes, ok?
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I agree. More than likely, the people responsible for installing the patch update are not the same people who update the website. Therefore, we don't even know if those people even started working yet, so there is no reason to call anybody lazy if they are not even on the clock yet. lol
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Originally Posted by Frost
How about you stop calling people lazy if you have absolutely no idea what's going on behind the scenes, ok?
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Not to mention that even if they did have a list of everything in the patch, it doesn't mean everything actually made it Live. I imagine there would be more Nerdrage about X being in the Prepatch Notes and X not making it to Live in that patch.
Comic and Hero/Villain Culture
Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
Those Who Lived It Will Remember Long after your Ban Hammer Crumbles and the servers flicker dead.
We Will Remember This One Moment In Time! ~ Shadow Ravenwolf
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It goes the other way too. If there's any exploits they aren't listed in the test patch notes but will be listed in the live notes.
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Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf
Not to mention that even if they did have a list of everything in the patch, it doesn't mean everything actually made it Live. I imagine there would be more Nerdrage about X being in the Prepatch Notes and X not making it to Live in that patch.
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Yes, we all have heard these same old excuses dozens of times before. Don't you get tired of repeating yourselves? And just what makes you so certain the reason the notes are *always* late or non-existant isn't because of sheer laziness? Do you have some sort of inside information? Doubtful. Before you start defending people who have made a habit of needing to be defended, mabey you should come up with some new excuses. These old ones have worn thin.
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not necessarily picking on you Ravenwolf, but do any of you actually work with development and promotion of code into a production system? if you don't know exactly what is in the final version of the release, patch, promotion before you go live with it, you have way more problems than the timing of when those notes get posted to the forums.|
Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf
Not to mention that even if they did have a list of everything in the patch, it doesn't mean everything actually made it Live. I imagine there would be more Nerdrage about X being in the Prepatch Notes and X not making it to Live in that patch.
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I have no idea why they insist on waiting so long before posting the release notes but they should be available any time at or after the patch goes live
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Oooh, the East Coast gets its own Ourobos time travel maintenance mission!
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Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
Yes, because in every other part of the world the maintenance will take 2 hours, whereas somehow only in the Eastern Standard timezone it will take 14 hours.
I'm honestly not trying to be rude or condescending, but come on ... you can't honestly believe that in the slightest, can you? |
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On the other hand we've seen these same old whiny posts about the servers being down for maintenance time and again which serve no purpose.|
Originally Posted by Omnium_Alpha
Yes, we all have heard these same old excuses dozens of times before. Don't you get tired of repeating yourselves? And just what makes you so certain the reason the notes are *always* late or non-existant isn't because of sheer laziness? Do you have some sort of inside information? Doubtful. Before you start defending people who have made a habit of needing to be defended, mabey you should come up with some new excuses. These old ones have worn thin.
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So what's your excuse?
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
Meh, personally I agree that Patch Notes should be presented at the time of patch downtime. A long time ago, this was the case.
I'm not going to say the Devs, Community Staff, or anyone else at Paragon Studios is lazy because we just don't know what's going on.
No, I do not have experience with development and promotion of code into a production system. I don't need it to play a different angle of the same old argument. Sometimes, rarely, stuff is in the Test Server notes and doesn't make it to Live. In a way, Alpha Slot fits in this scenario. I was just poking fun at the whining sobs of tearfull tantrum pitching insolent dipdops that would be gnashing their teeth at that.
What I find funny is that it will be 4:30pm Eastern and the patch notes won't be up. There won't be any posts by Avatea or theOcho about them. Then out of nowhere a thread will pop up that's timestamped 12:51pm and have the Patch Notes. That tells me that the post is already made and just not moved to a forum where we can see it til later. So maybe they have to have it proofread and approved before it gets published to a publicly viewable forum here.
Or we could have Option G: I'm bat*&%*&% crazy and all of this is asome dream brought about by psychoactive drugs I was given while sipping frozen fruity drinks on a beach in the Caribbean.
(I'm really bored right now, so I may go on a WTFWazzat Spree. You've been warned.)
Comic and Hero/Villain Culture
Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
Those Who Lived It Will Remember Long after your Ban Hammer Crumbles and the servers flicker dead.
We Will Remember This One Moment In Time! ~ Shadow Ravenwolf
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Originally Posted by Omnium_Alpha
Now now people. Just because it would only take one person 5 minutes to actually post in what these patches actually are, that's no reason to expect any one of them to skip stuffing their faces with doughnuts long enough to do so. Besides, why would you want to know anyway? isn't it much more fun to guess?
What's that you say? Put up the post *before* actually uploading the patch? Blasphemy!!! That would mean someone.. anyone... on the development team would actually know what they were going to do, before they did it. Talk about unreasonable expectations. Just wait a week or two, and the patch notes will be in Wikileaks. |
Seriously though, there are a good number of reasons not to post the patch notes before the patch happens. Most of that involves some rather obsessive care on our parts since we want to make 100% sure nothing goes wrong with a patch before we release the contents of the patch. No matter how much anyone tests theres always a possibility of some bizarre critical failure and we do our best to rule those out before we post the notes.
Now that we are in the office and things appear to be going rather smooth (*crosses fingers*) the patch notes are up now.
Thanks,
OMIGOD!!! Is it i20 rollout?
Considering how loudly some players scream when patch notes are incomplete or inaccurate, I don't blame PS for taking a bit to confirm they are correct.
Was there maintenance again this morning? I thought it was done on thursdays? All servers are down this morning.