Discussion: Weekly Stress Tests on the Training Room


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In anticipation of the influx of new players with City of Heroes Freedom™'s launch, we will be running weekly stress tests on the Training Room beginning tomorrow, August 3, up to the launch of City of Heroes Freedom. These tests will be held either Monday or Wednesday each week, from 11:00 a.m PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. BST / 8:00 p.m. CEST) to 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 p.m. BST / 10:00 p.m. CEST), and again at 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST / 2:00 a.m. CEST) to 7:00 p.m. PDT (10:00 p.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. BST / 4:00 a.m. CEST).

These stability tests will include running Incarnate Trials, TFs, and other missions. The Paragon Community Team will be present at each event to participate and randomly give away costume codes to a few lucky players, so come and join us each week! We'll keep you informed on the dates!


 

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Coolness. I will try to make it to the later one tomorrow. I'll be at work during the first.


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Might be a good idea to test the ability to join ongoing trials as well (either through and invite or the LFG tool). I have never heard of either working (on my server at least).


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Would it be possible to get one of you to post a global admin message throughout the day on the live servers to remind players of this? Only for the initial run so people know about this in such short notice.


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What costume codes will be given out?


 

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I'll try to be there as much as I can...doubtful though with my work schedule.


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Awesome. Not sure if I'll be able to make that time in most cases (considering my work schedule), but I'll try!


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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
Theory: the Training Room will become the VIP server once Freedom hits, and that is why it's being stressed to see how many players it can handle.
I think it's more to do with the optimization codes they're adding to the last couple of training room patches.

Build 2060.201107291426.1
Additional code changes have been implemented to optimize map performance.

Build 2060.201108020354.1
Additional code changes have been implemented to optimize map performance.

Code changes have been implemented to optimize power customization so that customized powers may run more smoothly.


 

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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
Theory: the Training Room will become the VIP server once Freedom hits, and that is why it's being stressed to see how many players it can handle.
Christ my poor TR-Test natives /sob


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One wonders why exactly they schedule this mid-way through Zwillinger's Ustream...


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i'm so ecited to play with you guiz.


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Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
One wonders why exactly they schedule this mid-way through Zwillinger's Ustream...
For the European players.




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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
Theory: the Training Room will become the VIP server once Freedom hits, and that is why it's being stressed to see how many players it can handle.
Why? There are going to be fewer people who pay the subscription than free people. And the servers that have free will also have VIP.


 

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My guess would be they are running some new code or hardware configuration on test during these times to see how they may need to tweak the live servers for the incoming horde of new/returning players.

It turns out that's what the live stress tests were about, now it's time they take the info they gathered from that and applied it to the game to watch things blow up!

I mean, NOT blow up.

And if by some fluke it does go BOOM!, no one (aside from the tech team) gets hurt.

/theory


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[Backus] Oh Look Lovey, they scheduled another event on west-coast time. Dear me, I wish they would use a more standard time zone as the cardinal rule for such schedules: FORT KNOX. I mean after all, what do they think I am a Yale man? [/Backus]


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Originally Posted by Psylenz View Post
Oh Look Lovey, they scheduled another event on west-coast time.
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the studios are in California. Yeah, that is just crazy-talk, I'm sure.




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Eleven AM on a Wednesday is scheduled for westcoasters?


 

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I rather be on live and hang out with my Gang at the Eternal Flame on Virtue, but I see if I can swing by and check up on you guys.


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Originally Posted by Taiyanna View Post
Eleven AM on a Wednesday is scheduled for westcoasters?
No, for EU players. The PM version is for NA players.




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Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the studios are in California. Yeah, that is just crazy-talk, I'm sure.
Heh, it was a lame stab at humor. When Thurston Howell III was discussing with the professor and the skipper how to give directions to the island they were marooned on, everything revolved around Ft. Knox to Thurston Howell; indeed the pacific times are listed because the studios are in the granola state, the land of fruits flakes and nuts.

So many were discussing why during the European peak hours? Why NOT during the workday when more people are at the studios to assess the activity? I am quite sure many devs, mods and GMs work at various hours. From my dusty chair, the hours selected made sense to the people that run the game, so I am with them.

People who live in glass snowglobes... probably know a lot about crazy talk.


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Well, if you didn't see the facebook announcement:

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The 11 am PDT event on the Training Room has been cancelled. We'll keep you posted for the later event!




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Ah - I was wondering where everyone was when I logged on just now!