Was there actually no downtime tonight? [Archive]

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09-18-2009, 12:30 AM

Hey all,
At work right now, just checked the main page... DId they actually not take the servers down tonight? Usually they say on the main page that they are... Was just wondering because i know they said that they would stop taking it down at that time (was in another thread somewhere). Have a good one! ^^

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09-18-2009, 12:34 AM

It hasn't gone down every night...

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09-18-2009, 12:36 AM

It hasn't gone down every night...

Right not everynight. Just recently is all I ment. I come into work and check out the page and usually see that its been going down alot... Not a big deal was just curious is all.

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09-18-2009, 12:36 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

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09-18-2009, 12:37 AM

There was no patch tonight, but I love the frequency they are patching at. And like they said, it's only temporary while they smooth out server crashes and other bugs... it's nice to see such rapid progress, if you ask me, even if a few people don't like it, oh well!

Edit: Just saw coderanger's post... maybe there still will be? Whatever! Good either way :o

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09-18-2009, 12:42 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

LOL, that is 6pm my time, and I am a non US player, talk about right smack bang in primetime for me.

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09-18-2009, 12:42 AM

Ya I dont mind it at all (mainly cuz i cant play at work ><). But ya if patching/downtime is gonna make the game better than it already is... Patch away!

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09-18-2009, 12:52 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Yeah, the basic framework of the downtime threads was this.

West Coast American or Australian complains about the downtimes. The thread picks up a little 'me too' steam. THE REST OF THE WORLD ARRIVES AND TELLS THEM TO SHOVE IT.

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09-18-2009, 01:41 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

seems more like this was to favor the US players who complained that 1am was too early. Starting at 3am will go right through my lunch break when I 'd usually pop on for a nemesis mission. I'm glad I'm not australian

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09-18-2009, 01:50 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

That surely isn't to accommodate non-US players since that pushes it even further into PM hours.
But I realize it's hard to please everyone when you stubbornly cling to your one-server-for-everyone crap.

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09-18-2009, 01:50 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

I as a non-US player (Europe) have to say that this is much worse than before. Your 1-3am was 10am-1pm, now you are going to do maintenance from 1pm to 3pm? Ouch...

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09-18-2009, 01:52 AM

I as a non-US player (Europe) have to say that this is much worse than before. Your 1-3am was 10am-1pm, now you are going to do maintenance from 1pm to 3pm? Ouch...

That is so much better!

/sarcasm

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09-18-2009, 01:55 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Are you kidding? 3AM-5AM PDT Is 8-10PM aussie time. You can't get more prime than that.

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09-18-2009, 01:56 AM

Great, so now maintenance is happening on the Australian East Coast from 8PM-10PM, instead of 6PM-8PM .. oh yes, this is so much better .. sigh

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09-18-2009, 01:57 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.
Yeah, seriously... is this some sort of joke? Exactly which non-US time zones are better accomodated by this? It's Australian peak time and European lunch break.

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09-18-2009, 01:58 AM

This time is even worse!!! Especially with no warning!

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09-18-2009, 01:58 AM

Yeah, seriously... is this some sort of joke? Exactly which non-US time zones are better accomodated by this? It's Australian peak time and European lunch break.

bah! the previous downtime was so good for me.

I wake up early (now) every day to squeeze in an hour before work ... no more on patch days i guess.

The patch timing was one of the best things about this game.

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09-18-2009, 02:00 AM

If you wanted to accomodate for non-US players you should have moved the maintenance in the other direction ;)

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09-18-2009, 02:01 AM

The previous downtime sucked for me, but I can deal with it. I understand, it's late. It's not good if it hoses other folks elsewhere in the world.

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09-18-2009, 02:02 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Umm, weren't sort of the only people who complained about the 1-3am bracket insomniac West Coast players? :confused:

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09-18-2009, 02:02 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

i think thats a fallacy 1AM PDT is 9am BST which is WAY better than 3AM PDT which is 11am, 9-11 am is fine as its breakfast time etc, but 11am -1 pm is over lunchtime when people may be free to play a bit.

its seems its to suit the yanks again , go cryptic.

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09-18-2009, 02:03 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Well that hurts. This was the ideal time for me (6am Eastern) to jump on and do some things before work while the zone population was low and competition for certain limited mobs and quest nodes was not as fierce.

And, did I miss an announcement on this?

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09-18-2009, 02:04 AM

seems everytime I want to play the servers down!

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09-18-2009, 02:04 AM

I guess the americans cried the loudest once again.

Personally I preferred 1am-3am.

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09-18-2009, 02:04 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Cool. However, some improvement on informing players could be done. The notice for this wasnt put up until the last minute on the site.. And I didnt receive any warning in game except 5 minutes to the downtime. At least I didnt notice anything.

Also devs should adjust the system so, that a notice comes automatically if one logs into the game after a notice is given and before the servers go down. Currently its apparently given manually and it doesnt repeat, so if you log in after the notice you get no notice. Do it like Eve, where the notice is given first time 1 hour before downtime. Then half hour, then 15 minutes, then 10 and 5 minutes.

It would be ok if the devs rotated the downtime a bit, this is arguably slightly better for me, hitting afternoon instead of morning for me, and I like to play a bit in the mornings before I get to work.

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09-18-2009, 02:04 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

You know what would really help? Getting it down to less than two hours :P

Seriously, I find it hard to believe that you guys can't get this done any faster. Something in need of optimising?

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09-18-2009, 02:06 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Well, with only one server you're never going to please everybody all of the time but this hardly favours anybody except for the few US night owls who were complaining about it.

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09-18-2009, 02:07 AM

You know what would really help? Getting it down to less than two hours :P

Sometimes its been down to less than 2, and Daeke even posted on forums that "hey, servers up". Howevere its bit erratic at the moment, particularly the announcing of it.

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09-18-2009, 02:07 AM

We will be bringing down Champions Online on Friday the 18th of September from 3am PST to 5am PST, in order to perform maintenance, and apply a new patch.

When I got home at 12am the first thing I did was check the CO web site,this was not posted..When was it posted 5min before down time?
Hey dont get me wrong 3am is beter than 1 but how about up dateing the posts .

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09-18-2009, 02:08 AM

Well, with only one server you're never going to please everybody all of the time but this hardly favours anybody except for the few US night owls who were complaining about it.

Maybe it favors those in Australia who had the downtime smack dab middle of their 'primetime'. No matter what time it is, it always affects somebody. Its more noticeable when theres only one global server.

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09-18-2009, 02:09 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Which.. means folk in east Asia are screwed. Honestly I think are going to get some customers SOMEWHERE in the world that won't be happy with maintenance times. This goes back to something I posted on the old boadrs a while ago, I hope we don't end up with a daily/semi daily maintenance schedule.

Yes, this is shortly after launch and there are a lot of quick fixes needed. But please take a page out of Blizzard's playbook and have one day out of the week for an extended period of server downtime. I'd rather have one night of no access on a regular schedule, than a possible downtime during peak hours. every day of the week.

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09-18-2009, 02:10 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

I would say that worse. In the UK that means It smake bang at lunch time (11am-1pm) which makes it 12-2pm in central europe.

Seems kinda nasty as people may log in at their lunch times for a quick shot. Think i prefer the earlier morning times

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not sure the AUS time this makes it. But if it really is to make it better for them then you should maybe think of having it a different time on different days so everyone gets afffect by it :p (ok im not really serious here - but think more thought needs to go in).

The only time i can group is during the day so I normall play 12-5 for grouping purposes. This gonna cut my group time right down as hard enough to get one as is for something interesting until the issue with the grouping mechinism having high packet issues is sorted :(

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09-18-2009, 02:11 AM

I guess the americans cried the loudest once again.

Personally I preferred 1am-3am.

It being a game from America, yeah, kind of makes sense. Americans would probably expect something similar with a game from another area of the world.

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09-18-2009, 02:12 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

lolwut?????

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09-18-2009, 02:14 AM

Why 2 hours just for two little fixes. How about just doing this once a week and compiling ALL THE CHANGES. It isnt even worth taking it down for 2 hours just to change one or two bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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09-18-2009, 02:14 AM

Good News for me, I'm on the East coast of the states too. Alas I work nights, and I am up at ungodly hours of the night/morning.

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09-18-2009, 02:14 AM

But please take a page out of Blizzard's playbook and have one day out of the week for an extended period of server downtime. I'd rather have one night of no access on a regular schedule, than a possible downtime during peak hours. every day of the week.

Brilliant idea. I think I rather have a big update on a Wednesday night than a 2 hour drop each night.

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09-18-2009, 02:15 AM

eheh funny stuff
i know having a single server will always cause a lot of problems to ppl, and i agree a single server is the best option, and last i also understand that given they'r in the states and most of the customers r americans the "best" option is not to mess up with their gametime.
only fun stuff is that :
1 they could have warned a bit ahead of time
2 pls do not go around sayin it was meant to answer non-US players whinings, 'cause like someone already told, u had to get the DT earlier to accomplish that, not later :)
just fyi atm the DT is during lunch time in most of europe, and during prime time in most of australia and other eastern countries
cya

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09-18-2009, 02:16 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Accommodate non-US players by moving it into lunch and prime-time slots for Europe and Australia?

LoL should have saved that one for April 1st.

I don't mind too much personally but it's a shame that a few people don't seem to understand that 1am downtime is actually a reasonable time and that Cryptic have catered for them at the expense of others who were already affected by the downtime but are even more so now.

Ah well ... c'est la vie in everywhere outside the US.

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09-18-2009, 02:19 AM

im just kinda bumped about the fact that its a "scheduled" maintenance when nobody else (maybe except for the devs) know about it until 10 mins before INGAME, and 5 mins later the post came up, so much about freaking "scheduled". If its an emergency, say emergency, if its not, give us an earlier heads up.

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09-18-2009, 02:21 AM

For those that saying have 1 day a week I explian why they doing it daily.

SERVER STABILITIY.

Currently, like all new MMO's really, the server stability gets worse the longer it goes without some maintainence. This means be bringing the server down on a daily bases you minimise the chance of a serious server crash because you removing the issues each night that build up as you go along.
Expect this to change when they get everything stable, but for now that wont happen. Though i seriously dont like this new time selected for downtime :(

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09-18-2009, 02:21 AM

Nice work. The new downtime is 8 - 10 pm for the whole Australia East coast. Thank you very much, cant wait til next mmo comes out, since I cant play this one

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09-18-2009, 02:21 AM

Sucks to have downtime regardless. I'm sure they wont bring it down like this to much longer. I know there is a post out there somewhere that states they wont be bringing it down like this to much longer.

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09-18-2009, 02:22 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

It doesn't accomadate non US players. Plenty of Aussies playing and 3am PDT is 6pm for me, 1am was 4pm while it all effects me being a retired old fart it didn't effect many friends since most blokes have a job or school.

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09-18-2009, 02:22 AM

The new schedule isn't too nice, landing in 11h-13h for the UK, 12h-14h in France, and 13h-14h in Greece.
That's bound to be lunchtime for a lot of people in Europe, when they could actually have some free time to hop in and do a couple of quests.

I believe the previous times (9h-11h UK, 10h-12h France, 11h-13h Greece) were more forgiving, seeing as to how many people are busy at work during that time anyway.

Is there any chance we could reconsider switching back to the old patching hours?

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09-18-2009, 02:22 AM

Accommodate non-US players by moving it into lunch for Europe?.

That is so you can actually do what lunch time is for, you know... Have LUNCH ;)

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09-18-2009, 02:23 AM

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09-18-2009, 02:23 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Wow this is real crap now. You know what that means for european players now? Downtime at 1 PM.

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09-18-2009, 02:23 AM

Having spent almost every night since release with 2 hours of downtime during my prime playing time, I'm glad they've moved it for at least one night. I don't want them to move it permanently anywhere. Everyone should have to take their turn in the barrel.

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09-18-2009, 02:23 AM

Nice work. The new downtime is 8 - 10 pm for the whole Australia East coast. Thank you very much, cant wait til next mmo comes out, since I cant play this one

oh my, Austrailia was the only "non us" i could see this helping. Figured it had to fit in the "just outside/end of peak time AUS". Guess they fit it in just after dinner time.

Cryptic. I think you need to reasses this again, for everyone about from those that stay up to 3am in US it seemed to be better at that earlier time :s

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09-18-2009, 02:24 AM

Umm, weren't sort of the only people who complained about the 1-3am bracket insomniac West Coast players? :confused:

Woohoo, insomniac West Coast players FTW. Tonight anyway. Thanks for moving it back, Cryptic. :D

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09-18-2009, 02:25 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

hmm no i think you will find that makes it mid morning/lunch in europe and smack bang in prime for australasia

so no its not for non-us.

we are doomed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li11ZQqZHQM -proof that australia needs to hide

the video is in good humor please dont get all mad and stuff

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09-18-2009, 02:29 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Lol, now you tell me! Just when I'd gotten used to playing 3-5PST. ;)

Might I suggest 6-8PST instead?

Or getting multiple servers that run on different downtime schedules (hard to find any single downtime that works for a 24 hour clock).

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09-18-2009, 02:31 AM

You play computer games during your lunch? I tend to... you know... eat.

Yeh, sometimes I manage to finish lunch in about half an hour, and have spare time for a quick game.
If I were playing computer games during work hours, It'd be worse. :p

*runs off before you figure out Derangement's posting on the forums during work hours*

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09-18-2009, 02:34 AM

They really couldn't have picked a worse time for Australian players. 8-10 is just Ridiculous

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09-18-2009, 02:36 AM

Yeh, sometimes I manage to finish lunch in about half an hour, and have spare time for a quick game.
If I were playing computer games during work hours, It'd be worse. :p

*runs off before you figure out Derangement's posting on the forums during work hours*

Be awesome to jump on for a little bit at work...Stupid patrolling manager...

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09-18-2009, 02:38 AM

They really couldn't have picked a worse time for Australian players. 8-10 is just Ridiculous

Well the guy in charge probabla still belives ine the world as a flat platform and there are no other timezones than the US based ones.

I mean... this really didn't help and serves Non-US players. In fact i am not able to play this game now any longer aside Weekend.

Means: One less Subscriber for Cryptic after mine has run out. Good job.

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09-18-2009, 02:45 AM

edit:nvrmnd

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09-18-2009, 02:47 AM

edit:nvrmnd

just as well, you just said that cryptic would favor customers by race, not a good idea to promote

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09-18-2009, 02:49 AM

That is so you can actually do what lunch time is for, you know... Have LUNCH ;)

You mean I now have to eat during lunch? ... I'm not sure how that will wash with my breakfast but hell, I'm reasonable so I'll give it a try :p

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09-18-2009, 02:49 AM

They really couldn't have picked a worse time for Australian players. 8-10 is just Ridiculous

Somebody already complained about the previous time so I was under impression this is better..

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09-18-2009, 02:52 AM

Somebody already complained about the previous time so I was under impression this is better..

Yeah, going from 6-8pm to 8-10 pm. Much better ... :confused::mad:

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09-18-2009, 03:10 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

That Stupid if it to be move for this reason moving the other way to 11PM-1AM would be better.

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09-18-2009, 03:12 AM

hehe wait until they change it once to 1am Australian time to see it really hit the fan on here :p

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09-18-2009, 03:12 AM

That Stupid if it to be move for this reason moving the other way to 11PM-1AM would be better.

Indeed.

10char

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09-18-2009, 03:22 AM

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09-18-2009, 03:29 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

I think you guys just had an accident while thinking...

Which "non-US" players are you referring to? Didn't you actually mean "better accommodate US players."?

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09-18-2009, 03:33 AM

rolling times would be the best idea overall - each downtime happening a couple of hours later than the previous. should make everyone happy because then most people might make it a week or so without being affected at all (except for the extended ones of course).

i agree

6-8pm wasn't so bad, we would just get all of our RL stuff out of the way then play from 8pm onwards
now its 8-10pm possibly the WORST timeslot available...... possible.... EVER

this is NOT catering to 'non-US' players. I totally understand that you cant please everyone.... but denying us from basically playing EVERY single day has to stop. Please have rolling patches... that means that everyone only gets affected once every 6 patches or so, rather than excluding a small number of us every single time!!!

Please..... i only want to play your game.... i bought it, just let me log on.

Disgruntled Aussie

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09-18-2009, 03:33 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

The statement should of read,

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate some non-US players, while also making access to the game for other players worse.

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09-18-2009, 03:33 AM

You would think they would be trying to keep their playerbase. With **** coming out this week.
O know that thats where I am spending my money....

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09-18-2009, 03:35 AM

You would think they would be trying to keep their playerbase. With **** coming out this week.
O know that thats where I am spending my money....

Don't you mean "that's where I'll be grinding for money..."?

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09-18-2009, 03:36 AM

Don't you mean "that's where I'll be grinding for money..."?

That is what you do in MMOS, grind. No different from CO

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09-18-2009, 03:36 AM

/Agreed

Non US player here and yeah that's a worse time slot.

If you wanted to help us, you should have moved it in the other direction.

Maybe you got the whole time zone thing mixed up perhaps, and that's what you actually meant to do?

huh? huh?

^_^

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09-18-2009, 03:39 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

And to screw over those of us who played in the early hours because we didn't scream as much on the boards.

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09-18-2009, 03:41 AM

3am to better accomadate non-US players, yeah right, lands right on 8pm here, at leaste at 1am(6pm) it was dinner time, now its cutting into gaming time, Australia here..
i wish they could have let me know this was gonna happen before i bought the lifetime membership for a game i can play for only an hour or 2 after work each day

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09-18-2009, 03:42 AM

Here it's now from 12:00 AM to 2:00 PM - before it was much better (but still sucks ^^), especially on the weekends ... :(

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09-18-2009, 03:42 AM

You know.. I wouldn't have cared this much if Daeke didn't post that.

It's a big fat lie.

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09-18-2009, 03:43 AM

And to screw over those of us who played in the early hours because we didn't scream as much on the boards.

This game needs 4 downtimes/day. One in each quarter to make sure that everyone gets an equal amount of it.

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09-18-2009, 03:45 AM

Like everyone else has said the previous time was better for alot of people. I too am Australian and this makes the game unplayable. I really hope this is just a once off and that times go back to what they used to be

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09-18-2009, 03:47 AM

And thus the single server experiment failed.

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09-18-2009, 03:52 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

With all due respect Coderanger, which part of the non-US playerbase is this better accommodating? :confused:

Apologies, I might have missed it somewhere but is this a permanent change or just a short notice 'scheduled' maintenance session tonight ?

As an Australian player I'd be peeved if this was a permanent change to scheduled maintenance but from what I've read it doesn't seem to be?

I know that Daeke mentioned in the following posts here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1057931&postcount=126) and here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1058306&postcount=128) that the window would not change (1:00am - 3:00am PST) and it would not matter anyway as they're apparently looking to transition to weekly maintenance soon, possibly by the end of the week. With the sheer volume of issues that seem to need resolution at this point of the game's life I find that surprising.

I love the idea of a rolling maintenance schedule even if maintenance is set to occur on a weekly basis.

It seems to me that non-US MMO players have traditionally (generally speaking) been been inconvenienved with maintenance schedules set to accommodate the US player-base - I could be wrong, but that's my perception. For a global game, ideally there should be inconvenience to all regions at some point - not the same region repeatedly.

If a rotating maintenance schedule were implemented & communicated well, I'm sure all players globally would be able to accept an occasional hit to their prime-time play slot.

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09-18-2009, 03:53 AM

You know.. I wouldn't have cared this much if Daeke didn't post that.

It's a big fat lie.

Daeke didnt post it. he be at home in bed.
It was coderanger that posted it, but Code is a nice guy from what I seen previously.

I think it was a mistake to make the comment unless they actually wanted feedback on the matter. Which clearly goes to say "return to the original time if you can not go back further then that".

Ok maybe they are trying to find a better time to do it, but it really wasnt well thought out change if it going under the "accomodate non-US people" as could see right away this would be more problematic. Well the AUS was the one area I wasnt sure off because didnt know if they would eat before 8pm but figured would but didnt want to make assumption :D

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09-18-2009, 03:56 AM

Daeke didnt post it. he be at home in bed.
It was coderanger that posted it, but Code is a nice guy from what I seen previously.

Oh, doh! My mistake!

Sooo... this means Daeke is still pure and untainted by lies?
:D:o:D

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09-18-2009, 04:04 AM

Probably a clever plot on their part.

Non-US players complain about server downtime before.

Response: Make it even worse.

Reaction: Complain even more.

Response: Move it back to the old time.

Reaction: Everyone is now happy(er) with the time and quit complaing because it could be worse...

Response: Devs drink cookies and milk and pat each other on the backs.

***Shakes fist at your clever cookies and milk!***

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09-18-2009, 04:09 AM

I love reading this thread about how some players are upset about how this downtime cuts into thier LUNCH TIME PLAY. If you are playing games on the company computer which you do not own you should be FIRED ON THE SPOT.:mad: Or if you are running home to play and taking more then an hour lunch then you are not being fair to your co-works and you should still be FIRE ON THE SPOT.:mad:

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Its bad for some people and even worse for others and funnily enough, American players who play normal prime time online gaming hours remain seemingly unaffected.

The point is that everybody has a right to complain, you just have to remember that each person will be complaining due to the changes that have been made to what they have gotten used to these past couple of weeks since launch of the game.

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09-18-2009, 04:10 AM

Well, with only one server you're never going to please everybody all of the time but this hardly favours anybody except for the few US night owls who were complaining about it.

Sadly this........ I am one of the US night owls and the only complaint I posted about the down time was that it was every night. Fixing it like this isn't the way to fix it. Put it back the way it was if its going to effect others prime time.

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09-18-2009, 04:21 AM

For those that saying have 1 day a week I explian why they doing it daily.

SERVER STABILITIY.... Though i seriously dont like this new time selected for downtime :(

I'm with you. I understand completely. But things under Cryptic's old MMO ran on a similar scheme that I hope they don't repeat.

Cryptic, once things settle down in the next month or so, please don't fall back into the old habit of having semi-daily server downtimes for maintenance. You have an international playerbase. Push for once a week for an extended (6-8 hour) downtime please.

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09-18-2009, 04:29 AM

Downtime complaints from Aussies?

Did I suddenly log onto the WoW forums? /boggle

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09-18-2009, 04:38 AM

The high pitched whining screech produced by this epic fail thread actually woke me up before my alarm this morning. They have said they are going to drastically reduce and standardized how often and when they patch. You don't like this time frame say so but just leave the useless whining moaning crying hissyfits at the door people. I deal with 4yr olds that react better.

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09-18-2009, 05:19 AM

:( 3AM PST is exactly when I get home after working 10 hour shifts. I go to bed 3-4 hours later. I hate 3AM downtimes. I am a West Coast player for whom the 1AM DT was perfect. When WoW went down at 3AM, it was a day I couldn't play it. Dismayed at the change.

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09-18-2009, 05:42 AM

Downtime was moved to 3AM last I heard to try and better accommodate non-US players.

Ah, 3am PST would be around 9pm in GMT+10. If we're going to have near nightly patching from 9pm - 11pm then there's no point in Australia, Japan, Korea or Singapore playing.

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09-18-2009, 07:06 AM

seems more like this was to favor the US players who complained that 1am was too early. Starting at 3am will go right through my lunch break when I 'd usually pop on for a nemesis mission. I'm glad I'm not australian

As a US player I hope they did not do this.

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09-18-2009, 07:31 AM

Yeah, 3-5am is definitely worse from an Australian perspective, and my countrymen are the main source of the previous complaints about maintenance times as far as I've seen. My experience in other games is that 8-10pm is always busier than 6-8pm for Aussie players. Of course, even if they stick to the old times it will be 8-10pm here in a couple of months when daylight saving changes happen at both ends, but moving it back by two hours would mean that a lot of people would be affected by the outage year-round, instead of having a break during the US summer months or vice versa.

I have no problem with outages, but there's no point in making a change that's supposed to improve things if it's actually going to make things worse.

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09-18-2009, 07:43 AM

post respectfully removed by poster. thank you.

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09-18-2009, 07:49 AM

Yeah, I don't think anyone's making the argument that you're apparently trying to cleverly refute. This is purely a reaction to a dev statement that appears to be at odds with the reality of the situation.

Of course, it would be useful if more people realised that the downtime isn't going to happen every night for much longer. I can understand why someone would be peeved if they thought the game was going to be down during their prime playtime five nights a week.