EVE General Discussion

Here's an Idea, - Take some of that 300,000 X $20 = $6 MILLION bucks p/mo, and get a backup server. Raid them together, and when changing things around, leave one of them alone, so us clients can use it while you find out if the changes work or not..
It would save you having to tell us we get no compensation for your more than once per year failures. :D

Oh, and alternate the down-times, so the other half of the world can get good resources without having to play at 4 in the morning..

Yup users are free gerbils and lab rats. But FYI CCP should be able to connect their own in-house test network to their outbound link. That way they can see the whole round trip to know if its problem on their end or generic Internet.

I suspect bringing servers up had lots more to do with upper management wishful thinking that problem might just die away on its own or better yet lost program bits on server were responsible and everything would be fixed by reboot.

Considering the typical time for real debug efforts -- attempting to fix it by reboot is where you typically start. At most you waste 15-30 minutes and eliminate problem being memory bits temporarily flipped by radiation etc. ECC memory only takes care of so many flipped bits per word.

Resource fairness? You are way behind on Odyssey news. No alternating DT is needed. Ice belts to anomalies includes distributing daily resources spawned throughout whole day. You can be sure ore will follow as soon as CCP is sure how to keep amount of resources tuned between hi, lo and null sec.

Exactly how long do you wait between patches? How big do you allow next accumulated patch to grow?

Problems:

(1) issues with patches do not always show up on day 1 or show only in presence of later pieces of total change placed in later patches. So a few days wait between patches is good but longer maybe only delaying discovery.

(2) The more you hold onto unchanged copy of software...the longer it takes to fix current bug list.

On the whole CCP does a extremely good job pushing out patches in small manageable chunks without holding back overall rate of fixes and progress - Although I occasionally question the wisdom of particular patches being passed out without extra care (especially ones with which need to evolve full in game impacts) .

I sort of got my fingers crossed about Odyssey: not so much from code standpoint as much as from viewpoint of how the in game player dynamics will resolve. CCP may well have misestimated how players will react. More fortunes could be gained and closed than expected and more POS closed. Should be exciting and after all shouldn't CCP get some thrills from the economic-political resolution as well?

P.S. CCP has not had to do it in a while but they can reload EVE to a prior day's software and data in about 6 hours if nothing else goes wrong hardware-wise. So its more a question of when things have gone so terribly wrong that fail back is required. RAID/backup sites do nothing until critical error is detected.

You really have no idea how server clusters work do you ?
You're picturing a PC box in a room somewhere, aren't you ?

AU prime killed again.

Looking at the latest comments, it seems to me like people can now log in to the game. But my launcher still launches in offline mode, as it has done since I got out of bed almost four hours ago. All my other internet related things are still working fine, so this is a bit of a puzzler. Are people logged in to the game now, or am I misunderstanding something?

Im logged in fine, try running ur repair tool?

I logged in just fine. Thanks CCP for getting it back up as soon as you could.

Apparently I just had to restart the launcher enough times for it to figure out that there was an update or something.