Server downtime on 5 minutes notice?

Originally Posted by excimer

Looks like we're good to go -for the moment.

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

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

Originally Posted by Organica

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

Originally Posted by SpikyShane

What is a hotfix?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I'm sure they'll log off soon, and you'll be back to normal all on your own red side

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

Of course they can be! Look, I just did so right here!:

Originally Posted by Freitag

Hello everyone!

The servers should all be up and available once again. We would like to thank you for your patience and understanding, and we apologize for the inconvenience!

~Freitag

Originally Posted by Freitag

Hello everyone!

The servers should all be up and available once again. We would like to thank you for your patience and understanding, and we apologize for the inconvenience!

~Freitag

Originally Posted by Garielle

Some of the posts here (particularly the calendar) remind me of one of the numerous reasons I am glad I am on FIOS now instead of my old ISP. I was in the midst of updating some stuff on a remote webserver. Yes, I DID own (or at least lease) the remote server. I wasn't trying to hack someone silly. Anyway, that's not the point...back to what I was saying...

Anyway, I am updating this web server content. Trying to get it done so I can get to bed and wake up for work in the morning and tell the boss it's all taken care of. BAM! No internet. So I call my ISP to report an outage. After sitting on the phone for 20 minutes or so waiting, I finally get to talk to someone. The conversation went something like this....

Moron: Thank you for calling Crappy Cable, how can I assist you this evening?
Me: Yes, I would like to report an outage.
Moron: Hold on one moment. Can you give your last name, phone number, location, blood type, social security number, mother's maiden name, name of your first pet, the name of the school you first attended, and a promise of the soul of your first born child?
Me: Done!
Moron: Oh, I see that there is scheduled maintenance in your area.
Me: Scheduled? Well, how come you don't notify your customers of these "scheduled" maintenance times? You know.. the people like me.. the ones who PAY you?
Moron: Oh, well sometimes we schedule them like 15 minutes before we shut everything down, so we don't have time.
Me: 15 minutes!?!?!?
Moron: Well, sometimes it's more like 5.
Me: FIVE MINUTES!?!?!?!
Moron: No, seconds.
Me: (( Click ))

I kid you not.

This is NOT a bust on NC Soft or Paragon Studios at all. I know tonight's maintenance was an emergency thing and not scheduled. This morning's was scheduled, and they did actually announce it yesterday.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

And then I went to bed because once it's started you can't really just...stop maintenance and turn everything back on. Well, I mean, you CAN...but weird things happen if you do.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

and I was like "do you have NO NERDS AT ALL on your team because WTF TIMING MAN, THE RAEG IS OVERWHELMING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

Originally Posted by Aneurysmo

... 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.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

Comcast scheduled maintenance in my area to coincide with the 800lb Gorilla's last midnight launch for their last expansion. I called them and was like "WTF NO INTERWEBS" and they were like "MAINTENANCE HA HA HA HA" and I was like "do you have NO NERDS AT ALL on your team because WTF TIMING MAN, THE RAEG IS OVERWHELMING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

And then I went to bed because once it's started you can't really just...stop maintenance and turn everything back on. Well, I mean, you CAN...but weird things happen if you do.

Originally Posted by Indiramourning

Since no one commented on this awesomeness, I just hate to quote it! Now you awe me a new keyboard, Aneurysmo.