Server downtime on 5 minutes notice?

I've alway's imagined it like a big piece of duck tape!...for the sever's...

It's just a small patch/update to the code.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Someone needs to rewrite that for old school players of CoH to impress the Freeps coming in!

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...I forgot what experience means.

That's not far off. In MMOs it usually refers to a fix that is made on the game servers, thus no patch. It's also come to be associated with 'emergency fix'.

Tonight at Eleven.

Originally Posted by Dispari 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.

Generally it's a piece of hastily crafted programming from a code monkey to fix something

That only worked on the american servers...

I imagine the server farms were localized at that time. But if the Euro servers ever experienced that oddball rollback, then on-hand character inventory very well could have been duped via transferring to market or e-mail storage.

... Challenge accepted:

Scene opens on four veteran heroes leading a new player through paper mission content, flaunting their Incarnate powers as they go

Veteran 1: Doing well here.

Veteran 2: That we are, going at quite a pace!

Veteran 3: Thank God for these Destiny powers overlapping one another!

Veteran 4: It's a far cry from what it once was!

Veteran 1: Who'da thought, back in issue 1, that we'd be blasting through level 54 content like nothing?

Veteran 2: In them days we'd have been lucky to have even survived level 54s, let alone breeze through them like we are!

Veteran 3: Barely survive.

Veteran 4: With quite a few teamwipes.

Veteran 1: Even whilst using every inspiration in the tray!

Veteran 2: Even at softcap positional defence, too!

Veteran 3: Even at every stat hitting the cap!

Veteran 4: Or even beyond.

Veteran 1: But we were happy in them days, even if level 54 content was too hard.

Veteran 2: Because level 54 content was too hard! Our powers used to mean something back then. I used to say the difficulty taught us things.

Veteran 3: Aye that it did.

Veteran 4: Aye.

Veteran 1: And even them powers was harder back then. Remember defiance didn't used to buff damage?

Veteran 2: Buff damage? You were lucky it didn't decrease damage like Fury once did!

Veteran 3: Decrease it? Pah! Scrappers' critical strikes used to deal the critical strike damage to the scrapper!

Veteran 4: Is that all? Back in them days Defender's inherent Vigilance used to remove 5 endurance per second for each player on the team and increase recharge time and decrease damage for all powers.

Veteran 1: Of course, when I say it didn't increase damage, I mean beyond the -9999% damage buff that was permanently applied to blaster archtypes.

Veteran 2: -9999%? You were lucky back then. We brutes used to have -9999% and lose a power every two levels.

Veteran 3: You were lucky to lose a power! Scrappers used to have their powers replaced at random for self-destruct buttons that dealt damage to the team! Each time a new mission started it'd scramble the power so that it came when least expected!

Veteran 4: You were lucky to be left with some functional powers at all! Defenders used to lose four powers for every level, have -9999% damage, have all their powers turn into self-destruct buttons and every time they self destructed it'd delete their character.

Veteran 1:... Just one character? I'd have killed to have just one character deleted. Each time Blasters moved it deleted every character on their account.

Veteran 2: Sounds like you were one of the lucky ones. Each time a brute even logged on it'd delete their entire account details and ban their IP from ever forming a new one.

Veteran 3: Just ban their IP?! Each time a Scrapper even thought about logging into their account it'd delete all the characters, delete their account, ban their IP and continue billing their account every month.

Veteran 4: But you try telling this to these new free players and they wouldn't believe you.

Veteran 1: Not a chance!

Veteran 2: But we had something back then.

Veteran 3: Aye, that we did. We knew about difficulty.

Veteran 4: And we worked for our rewards.

That sound you hear high in the sky...

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

I meant duping rares only works if you've gone to the americans

Ten months of the year, it is only once a week.

Six months or there abouts, typical maint starts at around 10:30pm aus time, much more bearable than the 8:30pm.

For about 6-8 weeks a year, its just about impossible to get on in Aus evenings - before and after big issue releases etc.

And there's always going to be emergency situations.

Also, welcome to the game.

Normally it would be a patch applied to an already running application/server, so the fact that they brought down the servers to do it makes it seem like a bit of a misnomer.

Bringing down the servers to do it kind of takes the hot part away.

First is the worst

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

At the very least!

And let's not forget to release the fully customizable Cat/Kitten models, a height slider that goes down to 1', and a chest slider which goes about a meter to the LEFT!

Unfortunately, due to this being a super hero game, such a thing can and will never happen. A fundamental aspect of the super hero genre is super unrealistic breasts that defy gravity.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Only one person at the Cap Au Diable black market -- just seems weird.

Obviously you've never been to Protector... Only one person on Villains at any given time!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!