Is it unreasonable for me to....
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Big_SOB,
Posted on: 2011-02-02 16:41 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Sorry, but I love my brain very much and I wouldn't do that to it.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Zero
calm down. obviously something was messed up royally that they are fixing. It happens. Its not like this is an every day occurrence. So just breathe and read up on some builds or jabber on your home server's forums. Or kill some brain cells by watching American Idol. lol
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They probably didn't read those posts because it was suggested by one of the PvP'ers! :O|
Originally Posted by Big_SOB
The Server Rats! Damn them! How many times have there been posts to use squirrels?
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LOL Sorry. I felt like burning someone/something.
We'll see....
Me thinks Castle and Ocho was feeding the rats some bad cheese before their departure to greif us.
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Ok here's my thing. I've been playing this game since 2004 and it seems that when ever a new issue comes out, a couple of days after there is always a patch to fix it. My question is do they test to see of it will be a problem when they go live with the issue? Seems like it's never the case.
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Originally Posted by Flameshot
The hotfix? Or the extended down time?
The hotfix resolves a crashing issue with the Alpha slot which apparently would cause map server disconnects during TF's and take away all rewards. The extended down time seems to be because one of the server rats passed out  |
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They're absolutely tested. This one in particular was not tested very well, but even the ones that are tested for stupidly long periods of time can have issues.|
Originally Posted by The_Truth
Ok here's my thing. I've been playing this game since 2004 and it seems that when ever a new issue comes out, a couple of days after there is always a patch to fix it. My question is do they test to see of it will be a problem when they go live with the issue? Seems like it's never the case.
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Test Server != Live Server. What works perfectly fine on Test can work disastrously on Live. That's been proven time and time again.
We'll see....
I'm in!
You know, I'm just glad they had the wisdom to wait until 1/3 of the country was stuck at home with time to actually play task forces before they took the game down with 30 minutes notice in the early afternoon. That way, they not only irritated those who were playing the strike forces, but also people who'd planned to use the late afternoon to get one in before the wife came home.
Seriously, does anyone look at server load before they decide on an emergency fix that only effects people playing at a level where they ought to KNOW to read the "URGENT" messages?
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Squirrels --no ferrets on meth much better and faster and cheaper
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Originally Posted by Big_SOB
The Server Rats! Damn them! How many times have there been posts to use squirrels?
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Ummm... does the "TEST SERVER" not imply they test things?|
Originally Posted by The_Truth
Ok here's my thing. I've been playing this game since 2004 and it seems that when ever a new issue comes out, a couple of days after there is always a patch to fix it. My question is do they test to see of it will be a problem when they go live with the issue? Seems like it's never the case.
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As being in a relationship with an IT guy, i know first hand from the stress that things that are tested perfectly, don't always pan out perfectly when it goes "live".
Its the nature of modifying code. Sometimes something embeded in the code doesnt agree with the new code and creates havoc
Yay! It's back. 
We'll see....
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*comes to pick u up in the wambulance*
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Originally Posted by Doctor_Spectrum
You know, I'm just glad they had the wisdom to wait until 1/3 of the country was stuck at home with time to actually play task forces before they took the game down with 30 minutes notice in the early afternoon. That way, they not only irritated those who were playing the strike forces, but also people who'd planned to use the late afternoon to get one in before the wife came home.
Seriously, does anyone look at server load before they decide on an emergency fix that only effects people playing at a level where they ought to KNOW to read the "URGENT" messages? |
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It doesn't matter what time of the day it is, nor who is on. Hence the emergency part of the maintenance. It was a hotfix that needed to be applied immediately.
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Originally Posted by Doctor_Spectrum
You know, I'm just glad they had the wisdom to wait until 1/3 of the country was stuck at home with time to actually play task forces before they took the game down with 30 minutes notice in the early afternoon. That way, they not only irritated those who were playing the strike forces, but also people who'd planned to use the late afternoon to get one in before the wife came home.
Seriously, does anyone look at server load before they decide on an emergency fix that only effects people playing at a level where they ought to KNOW to read the "URGENT" messages? |
We'll see....
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There are still some unknown's up there...
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Originally Posted by Flameshot
Yay! It's back.
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That means nothing. That page is only updated every 15 minutes. The servers are all up and green |
Originally Posted by Big_SOB
There are still some unknown's up there...
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We'll see....
You know, I'm just glad they had the wisdom to wait until 1/3 of the country was stuck at home with time to actually play task forces before they took the game down with 30 minutes notice in the early afternoon. That way, they not only irritated those who were playing the strike targets, but also people who'd planned to use the late afternoon to get one in before the wife came home.
Seriously, does anyone look at server load before they decide on an emergency fix that only effects people playing at a level where they ought to KNOW to read the "URGENT" messages?
Can you tell I'd just started the final Statesman mission when they sent their "oh, by the way..." message? It's nice that there's no snow in Austin, but you people do get NEWS, don't you?
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whoop whoop! |
Originally Posted by Flameshot
That means nothing. That page is only updated every 15 minutes. The servers are all up and green
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Well, I'm headed to bed. It was nice chatting with everyone O_o.
The hotfix resolves a crashing issue with the Alpha slot which apparently would cause map server disconnects during TF's and take away all rewards.
The extended down time seems to be because one of the server rats passed out