Downtime

Log in and make a new toon just in time for servers to boot me. Do we really need servers to come down every single day?

Honestly, daily downtime doesn't bother me too much (as long as they vary times every now and then so as not to always hit the same group of players). I'd just prefer that they announced the fact that maint was going to be daily from x date, rather than me (personally) assuming it's going to be daily from now on from the wording on the GM's announcement

Edit: the server status page needs to be updated to reflect daily maint, rather than weekly.

Yay! Runs off to do stuff and hopes they fix the lag!

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Technically it's not actually been every day, this is only the 2nd? downtime this week, it just feels like it's been every day for the last while.

Unfortunately downtime is just a fact of life, but in the scheme of things 2hrs beats the 8 and 12hr monsters we've had lately, and I'd much prefer my downtime at this time of the afternoon (my time) compared to running it into late evening/night.

Saying that I was just tampering with a cossie so was a little surprised when I got kicked (I hadn't seen the announcement), I'm hoping the save I made just before took.

I.
Want.
To.
Play.

This game seems to have more down time than any other mmorpg I have played in my long long history of gaming.

I hope issues are fixed soon otherwise my return will be short lived not to mention I am EU based and these down times seem far worse timing wise for us.

People need to realize that some of the recent downtimes were for server upgrades to handle the amount of new and returning players Freedom would bring. Frustrating yes. Necessary yes. They have always given us notice beforehand and an expected downtime that is usually longer than they actually took. It is more than likely they are still ironing out issues from the upgrades. They are also doing a lot of bug fixing. I thoroughly expect the amount of downtimes to diminish the longer Freedom is live until we get back to our normal schedule.

It is getting old. I was going to log in and buy more points, and the servers were down...

Yeah, annoying. I also hope this is not going to become a daily thing.

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We ALWAYS get a lot of downtime after a new issue... with the amount of downtime being roughly proportional to the degree of game-changing mechanics introduced.

The stated reason for THIS downtime was for a new publish with patchnotes. Since they're pushing that through on a Friday, my guess it that they've quashed one or more bugs they feel are important enough to do a publish just before the weekend instead of waiting until next week to move them live.

That said, the quantity of downtimes always winds down as the major bugs are worked out of the system. Remember that during the months leading up to the launch of Freedom the live servers had very little downtime. Even the scheduled server maintenances took less than the allotted time.

We'll get back to that again (only to have the cycle begin again when we get the next big issue)... but there are still some non-trivial bugs out there to be quashed (for example, I still can't transfer one of my main toons to another server because they have an apostrophe in the name).