EVE General Discussion

I could understand this a year or two ago, with hour-long downtimes. Nowadays? Really? It's 10 minutes or less most days. Go grab a beer or something. I play around downtime quite often too, and it has never been bothering me.

Confirming not being able to log on and change my skill que when I wake up at 10AM is a pain

European with a rare free day here and i would LOVE such a change indeed . Delay downtime to 1800 eve time please CCP so i can enjoy fresh spawns after work.

Downtime is a lot less than it used to be when I started, though 10 minutes is still too much time for me to not be shooting rocks and stuff.

Fortunately, this is something CCP is already working on, there was a blog post about it couple years back. Problem is, things take time, and I imagine CCP to be an elite athlete - the first 90% is easier to accomplish than the last 10%.

I'd give them a little more time, I'm sure we'll all be basking in zero downtime goodness soon™, which I'd say is a better scenario than a rolling downtime.

Yup. I remember reading about the zero DT as well.

With the current system, I don't see how that is possible without a 2nd server. Which of course brings up the idea of ......

SHARDS !

I didn't really say that did I ?

This is the best quote I've made all year.

That's his point though.

CCP should change the way that exploration sites work. Either make them more persistant so they aren't being consumed within a few hours of the server coming up, or have new sites spawn later in the day.

I don't think that CCP needs to change when they do downtime. I'm sure, like most MMO's the downtime is based on when it effects the least number of people, and doesn't require CCP to work odd hours just to run the game.

I don't think that people who aren't able to log into the game until 8 hours after downtime should be restricted from content because they live in a TZ that that either has them sleeping or working. If you're not playing right after downtime it can be an incredible chore to actually find exploration sites because they're consumed so quickly. I'm sure people are able to find some though, just not nearly as many as there are within the first hour that the server comes back up.



I would think that exploration sites that had enough content in them to last a good portion of the day would actualy create more conflict between high sec players. Make them last longer and make them function like low or null sec so people can shoot each other to clear the sites for themselves.

I left a tooth under my pillow for the tooth fairy to leave me a quarter. I expect to see the OP anytime...

It seems everyone is disregarding what the OP is really complaining about.

It's not really the downtime. It's that consumable content is consumed shortly after downtime because that's when it's refreshed, and a lot of people aren't able to participate in that content because it's gone when they're able to play.

His 30 hour idea, while not good, was just his idea of how to allow a fairer chance for people who are either asleep or working for those hours shortly after downtime to be able allowed a chance to also participate in that content.

No downtime wouldn't fix the issue because one would assume that that content would just refresh at around the same time every day, regardless of whether or not the server has to be restarted or not.


Does every asteroid belt have to respawn with downtime? Do all exploration sites have to respawn during downtime?
Would it be possible to one day see belts that don't spawn after downtime but instead respawn like 8 hours after; same with explorations sites and other consumable content?

Guys living in the US west coast TZ are at huge disadvantage as compared to say someone in the Aussie TZ, or me on the US east coast and is retired.

Imagine if something like lvl 4 missions were only doable by a single person; once done it's not available to another person until after the next downtime. The only people with access to lvl 4 missions would be those of us not sleeping or working when the server comes up.



Seems like one of the most reasonable things to complain about if you ask me. It's better than 99% of the other stuff people ***** abut around here.

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NA (without a sense of entitlement).