Discussion: Live Server Maintenance - 9/17/11
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Posted on: 2011-09-16 18:53 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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You're supposed to take steps up to that. Try looking out a window first, then, when you are ready, open the window. From there you can open the door but not go out until you are comfortable. |
Originally Posted by Rapthorne
but... but but.... what am I supposed to do with my day? Do you suggest something totally outlandish, like... step outside? Screw that, man, I'm just not ready.
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But then come back in and check the server status.
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
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Hey I wanted to extend it to the French, and German one but like you said the language barrier. We would like to extended it to there. We just need some help from ppl that play there to help with translation. I can speak little German, and no French|
Originally Posted by TriAngel_EU
Errrr.... zooming....
.... So.... you mean all but those where you don't know how to call it such that they understand you, right? |
. Even though I have tanks there.
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Originally Posted by LSK
I think we all need compensation for all the bugs they are working out. Not something small like oh here is a costume code for a certain costume but only for a few ppl like last time. But something else entirely that will affect all the VIPs that is on at this time.
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Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
Woohoo, more unexpected downtime. Blah.
It's disappointing to have such a fantastic amount of content in this update but have it depreciated due to the instability and unexpected downtime of 4 hours on a Saturday.
I'm happy they are taking the time to fix it so the majority of the weekend is more stable but I'm disappointed it came to this in the first place.
To repeat, happy they are being patched...not happy that it is during the middle of the day on Saturday.
Back to football.
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That's silly. It'd ruin any plans for the home game, "Champions vrs. City at the 2016 Paragon City Olympics."|
Originally Posted by dougnukem
Hey, it could be worse...they could have announced a merge with CO.
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Unless I'm the only one hoping for that.
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So you expect DCUO gone by then already? |
Originally Posted by joshdex
That's silly. It'd ruin any plans for the home game, "Champions vrs. City at the 2016 Paragon City Olympics."
Unless I'm the only one hoping for that. J |
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True. And Saturday afternoon is as much of a prime time as Friday night. That's why it should have been Saturday early morning.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
And asking the people who would be patching it, who've already been at work 12+ hours, to sit on their thumbs for another 4-6 hours then come back in the middle of the night is unconscionable.
And dropping the servers for anything but THE most severe bugs during prime time is ridiculous. |
As for the rest of it... I assume that you've never been any sort of work environment where the words "mission critical" mean "I don't care who you are or how long it takes"? It's standard operating procedure in many fields, and far from the "unconscionable" that you make it sound.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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Annoying but no doubt necessary -although I can't say I've had any stability issues this week; lots of minor bugs here and there with things like Fog of War and the Globals dropping out on zoning (though that was happening before the i21 publish).
Ultimately, if all your servers have to be worked on at once and your players are all around the world (as they are in this case) then you're going to have to upset some of them and the "best" option is the one that affects the fewest whilst not being impractical (such as doing all the patching at 3am on a Monday morning).
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Well I don't know about you but in my experience that sorta stuff stops the launch...
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Originally Posted by Siolfir
As for the rest of it... I assume that you've never been any sort of work environment where the words "mission critical" mean "I don't care who you are or how long it takes"? It's standard operating procedure in many fields, and far from the "unconscionable" that you make it sound.
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It's also wise not to upset the same people over and over again, spreading the love around a little bit stops the peeps from getting jealous.|
Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Annoying but no doubt necessary -although I can't say I've had any stability issues this week; lots of minor bugs here and there with things like Fog of War and the Globals dropping out on zoning (though that was happening before the i21 publish).
Ultimately, if all your servers have to be worked on at once and your players are all around the world (as they are in this case) then you're going to have to upset some of them and the "best" option is the one that affects the fewest whilst not being impractical (such as doing all the patching at 3am on a Monday morning). |
I dare say the constant EU primetime downtimes are doing no favours to a already dwindling population.
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<-- has spent probably hundreds of hours 'sitting on thumbs' for builds or waiting for hardware or waiting for the router guy to show up or...
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Originally Posted by Siolfir
True. And Saturday afternoon is as much of a prime time as Friday night. That's why it should have been Saturday early morning.
As for the rest of it... I assume that you've never been any sort of work environment where the words "mission critical" mean "I don't care who you are or how long it takes"? It's standard operating procedure in many fields, and far from the "unconscionable" that you make it sound. |
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Servers up!
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I didn't think it was ready to go live, but as has been pointed out in the thread - some things aren't going to happen exactly the same way on different loads, usage, and environments. But the beta server wasn't exactly stable either.
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Originally Posted by Global_DJB
Well I don't know about you but in my experience that sorta stuff stops the launch...
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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It's back up. Next topic?
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Not all the servers
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Originally Posted by Silvertron
Servers up!
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Time to find something else to complain about! Damn! Ok, can revive the MARTy!!
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Originally Posted by MrDead
It's back up. Next topic?
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Hm... I'd suggest the dearth of redside content, but it's kindof old and there was a lot of love shown this past issue.|
Originally Posted by MrDead
It's back up. Next topic?
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How about "when is Street Justice going live?" and whether or not it will have Rib Cracker to replace the tier 2 combo builder for Stalkers?
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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How about /AH being useless? -sad face-
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Originally Posted by CFer_Chill
Time to find something else to complain about! Damn! Ok, can revive the MARTy!!
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Maintenance complete as of 11 AM PDT/ 1 PM EDT/6 PM BST/19.00 CEST. All servers are online!
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
OK now back to Tanker Tuesday Tour on defiant.
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I have 2 characters just taking up slots for Titan...
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Originally Posted by Siolfir
Hm... I'd suggest the dearth of redside content, but it's kindof old and there was a lot of love shown this past issue.
How about "when is Street Justice going live?" and whether or not it will have Rib Cracker to replace the tier 2 combo builder for Stalkers? |
Apparently I'm to stupid right now to make an awesome link with a picture and stuff but neverthelss sign the petition! [u]http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes[u]
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Cool, only two hours. I'm pleasantly surprised.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Maintenance complete as of 11 AM PDT/ 1 PM EDT/6 PM BST/19.00 CEST. All servers are online!
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Duo MoITF - 26:06 | Duo MoKahn - 25:50 | Duo MoLGTF - 29:34 |
I've been having an unusually difficult time staying connected while playing the game. I always assumed it was my crappy ISP. I noticed some outages over the last few weeks, both on and away from the game. But that wasn't nearly as bad as it was last night while playing the game. I was online for a bit, joined a team about to do a sewers trial and lost connection to the mapserver. I immediately re-connected after I was sent to the log-in screen and logged on to the same character. I rejoined the team... only to see I was getting disconnected again. This happened at least 4 times before I finally just told them to go on without me.
I, for one, will be glad they did this fix if it does improve my stability. If not... I guess I'll have to call up Time Warner and give them a piece of my mind... again...
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Thank you subset of devs?
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Originally Posted by B_Nix
Also not everyone is working today so saying oh thank you devs for doing this is a funny joke at best. The programmers and engineers may be there but everyone who works on new stuff, community relations, translating, and q&a among other things are enjoying a day off.
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