Servers down, June 5, 12.30pm BST?
By
afocks,
Posted on: 2012-06-05 04:49 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
It's intentional downtime.
The game tends to come down at 6am CT every Tuesday and Thursday. It's best to just expect it and be happy when they decide not to bring the servers down on either of those two mornings every week.
Yes, they go for weeks without downtime, some weeks, but they still are likely to take the servers down on one of both of those days within each and every week.
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Yeah, it can suck.
It never used to be so often, but the game never used to have as much stuff on the servers such that the servers needed a breather or as many bugs and quirks as it does now.
It's probably going to eventually become much more common to see the servers down, eventually.
Servers coming back up now. 8))
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Ah, thought it was just Thursdays. Good to know though. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
It's intentional downtime.
The game tends to come down at 6am CT every Tuesday and Thursday. It's best to just expect it and be happy when they decide not to bring the servers down on either of those two mornings every week. Yes, they go for weeks without downtime, some weeks, but they still are likely to take the servers down on one of both of those days within each and every week. |
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er, no. It's normally only Thursdays and that's scheduled maintenance which happens every week. They do NOT go for weeks without downtime.|
Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
The game tends to come down at 6am CT every Tuesday and Thursday. It's best to just expect it and be happy when they decide not to bring the servers down on either of those two mornings every week.
Yes, they go for weeks without downtime, some weeks, but they still are likely to take the servers down on one of both of those days within each and every week. |
Tuesday downtime is only occasionally and when there is a patch. Sometimes, like long weekends, holiday periods, etc the schedule gets moved around.
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Originally Posted by Blue_Blaze
Ah, thought it was just Thursdays. Good to know though. Thanks!
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1) Downtime is usually Tuesday for the market update and the Weekly Strike Target change.
Thursdays are usually patches if they have downtime on Thursday at all.
2) Yes, the message and "standard downtime listing" does say Thursday, but it has not been Thursday regularly for at least a year.
(They're really bad at changing any message, as the red warning in game before downtime often shows. They just copy paste, or leave it as the default that hasn't changed for months/years, rather than actually type out a correct message.)
3) Yes, they have gone weeks without downtime, in the morning at the regular time at least. I am usually up and on the game at that time so I notice.
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Most market updates do not require downtime.|
Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
1) Downtime is usually Tuesday for the market update and the Weekly Strike Target change.
Thursdays are usually patches if they have downtime on Thursday at all. |
The WST change absolutely does not require downtime.
Patches are usually on Tuesday.
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Yes, they still take the servers down on Tuesday, probably because it is after a weekend of likely more busy servers that need to be refreshed(like giving a computer a break after you have used it heavily which clears RAM, a cold boot), most often.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
Most market updates do not require downtime.
The WST change absolutely does not require downtime. Patches are usually on Tuesday. |
Also, yes Tuesdays tend to be patch days. My point was that "if they take the servers down on Thursday, it is almost always for a patch, rarely ever just maintenance".
I did not exclude anything you said.
Ironblade, does my text look like an SAT word puzzle to you? You seem to be missing what I think is obvious a lot lately. Are you not the old Ironblade that used to understand things?
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What? Thursday is weekly maintenance day, and has been ever since they made it weekly rather than twice weekly. It's in the afternoon, here, so I notice it fairly often. The servers are usually down for a while, even if not the full two hours, on exactly the time that it says in the FAQ.
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Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Also, yes Tuesdays tend to be patch days. My point was that "if they take the servers down on Thursday, it is almost always for a patch, rarely ever just maintenance".
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I was apparently wrong. It is Thursday, at least if this week is anything to go by.
They just have downtime on Tuesday far too often. It confused me.
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Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Ironblade, does my text look like an SAT word puzzle to you? You seem to be missing what I think is obvious a lot lately. Are you not the old Ironblade that used to understand things?
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Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
I was apparently wrong. It is Thursday, at least if this week is anything to go by.
They just have downtime on Tuesday far too often. It confused me. |
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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I just want to point out that this is pretty much entirely reversed. Thursday is almost never patch day. When patches happen any other day than Tuesday, it's remarked far and wide in-game and on the forums - it's totally abnormal. Thursday is maintenance day (as seen in the knowledge base article). Maintenance happens almost every Thursday - even if it's only for like 10 minutes to restart everything. It very rarely does not happen.|
Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Also, yes Tuesdays tend to be patch days. My point was that "if they take the servers down on Thursday, it is almost always for a patch, rarely ever just maintenance".
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For instance, I23 dropping on Thursday was totally out of left field. It's the first time an Issue has dropped on something other than Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday since **2005**. (And Monday hasn't happened since I18's joint release with the preorder access to Going Rogue.)
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