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Death to Downtime !

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Ten Bulls
Sons of Olsagard
#1 - 2011-11-07 21:04:02 UTC
CCP looks to have well and truly found their path, lots of long called for improvements, YAY !!!

There is one major annoyance that breaks immersion, annoys many timezones, and is a technical embarrassment for CCP; downtime.

There is a year old dev blog, death to downtime that states "It is our goal that sometime in the not too distant future, EVE Online will have no daily downtime."

Any update on that ?

(im hopeful)
Satav
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-11-07 21:16:52 UTC
"technical embarrassment"?

lol.

dude have you ever played any other pc game........ ever?

almost all mmo's have some sort of downtime/ update interval........ planned or not planned.

It's how the cookie crumbles...... get used to it.

Stop whining its only 30 min. which isn't a big deal at all. Unless eve is your life.............
Wilhelm Riley
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-11-07 21:21:05 UTC
Satav wrote:


Unless eve is your life.............


Haven't you heard? EVE is real! Shocked
Kehro Urgus
Dark Nebula Academy
O X I D E
#4 - 2011-11-07 21:22:06 UTC
I'd love that. I play mostly afterwork but the first hour or two is just staring blankly, eating etc. while I unwind. By the time I get going downtime is 2 hours away. Now with that DayLight Saving piece of garbage in effect I lose an hour and playing after downtime isn't really an option bcause it's around my bedtime.

Failing the elimination of downtime I wish there was some way to stagger the maintenance times for instance, have it start one half hour each day or something to spread out the pain rather than punishing people who live in a certain time zone or with a certain work schedule.

Until DST goes away in spring EVE will be barely worth playing for me. Weekends might be ok but I often work 6 day weeks. Sad

Yeeee! 
David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-07 21:24:45 UTC  |  Edited by: David Grogan
notice how short down times have gotten since incarna got ditched?



Kehro Urgus wrote:
I'd love that. I play mostly afterwork but the first hour or two is just staring blankly, eating etc. while I unwind. By the time I get going downtime is 2 hours away. Now with that DayLight Saving piece of garbage in effect I lose an hour and playing after downtime isn't really an option bcause it's around my bedtime.

Failing the elimination of downtime I wish there was some way to stagger the maintenance times for instance, have it start one half hour each day or something to spread out the pain rather than punishing people who live in a certain time zone or with a certain work schedule.

Until DST goes away in spring EVE will be barely worth playing for me. Weekends might be ok but I often work 6 day weeks. Sad



they do downtime in their optimal time.....as TQ is in London UK it makes sense to do a downtime during UK business hours.

Everytime you buy something that says "made in china" you are helping the rising unemployment in your own country unless you are from china, Buy locally produced goods and help create more jobs.
Mr Fenris
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-07 23:11:09 UTC
Have played at least half a dozen MMO's, starting back in '96 (god I'm getting old). Eve is the only one I've played that has daily DT, most others have none except scheduled or unsheduled once in a while. DDO is the only other regular one, once a week I think from memory. Am very glad it's down to less than 30mins now, most annoying having it fall right in the middle of your own prime gaming time.

Has long been one of my pet peev's so would be glad to see it go.
T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2011-11-07 23:13:49 UTC
Mr Fenris wrote:
Have played at least half a dozen MMO's, starting back in '96 (god I'm getting old). Eve is the only one I've played that has daily DT, most others have none except scheduled or unsheduled once in a while. DDO is the only other regular one, once a week I think from memory. Am very glad it's down to less than 30mins now, most annoying having it fall right in the middle of your own prime gaming time.

Has long been one of my pet peev's so would be glad to see it go.

Eve is also probably the mmo you've ever played with one "instance". Things are bound to be different, get over it.

~Badposter since FOOOOREEEEEVAAAAAR~ I come back after 2 years to THIS? ~Now 4 years apparently
Jenshae Chiroptera
#8 - 2011-11-07 23:16:05 UTC
I like down time. It gives me a quiet period afterwards when only some people are online.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Mr Fenris
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-11-08 03:14:12 UTC
T' Elk wrote:
Eve is also probably the mmo you've ever played with one "instance". Things are bound to be different, get over it.


Actually it's not but I can tell by your attitude there's no point discussing it.
Dbars Grinding
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#10 - 2011-11-08 03:19:23 UTC
all i see is, "i dont wanna have to reset my bots."

I have more space likes than you. 
Stan Smith
State War Academy
Caldari State
#11 - 2011-11-08 03:20:30 UTC
would you rather the server go down for 30 minutes at a regularly scheduled time, or have it crash at an noppertune for 2 or 3 hours at a time, and have it still be finnecky for another 3 or 4 hours?

☻/ /▌ / \ This is Bob, post him into your forum sig and help him conquer the forums.
Mr Fenris
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2011-11-08 03:37:16 UTC
I'd rather DT was during your prime time, how about that?

Lol
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#13 - 2011-11-08 04:43:54 UTC
Right now, for stability, DT needs to happen. I don't care when it is, 30M a day is better than 6 hours and lost data at any point in time.

I wouldn't care even if it was during my regular playtime... except I would be concerned for CCP employees working so late.
Written Word
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2011-11-08 04:46:14 UTC
If that is your prime time, just kill everybody's haulers right after downtime just like everybody else.
Ten Bulls
Sons of Olsagard
#15 - 2011-11-08 05:16:12 UTC
Point is CCP have stated they want to get rid of downtime, so no need to make excuses in defense of downtime.

With all the big changes going on, perhaps downtime is being looked at ?
shellree
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2011-11-08 07:30:19 UTC
in all fairness yes dt sucks... however it gives the game time to refresh systems, roids,rats,plexs. etc. also usually the dt is only like 15 mins, thats time to smoke,fap,drink,bio whatever, many years back dt was 1 hr easy usually more so i can say this whole heartedly it is working as intended.
shellree
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2011-11-08 07:32:00 UTC
Mr Fenris wrote:
I'd rather DT was during your prime time, how about that?

Lol


dt is based on major player times. not on times like lets say australia or nz. but i have a idea for you.. move off that island your on and go to a better country
Masamune Dekoro
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#18 - 2011-11-08 07:48:25 UTC
shellree wrote:
Mr Fenris wrote:
I'd rather DT was during your prime time, how about that?

Lol


dt is based on major player times. not on times like lets say australia or nz. but i have a idea for you.. move off that island your on and go to a better country


Silly bobcut child Australia is the Greatest Country on Earth.
Ai Shun
#19 - 2011-11-08 09:27:37 UTC
Mr Fenris wrote:
I'd rather DT was during your prime time, how about that?


Yeah, the timing is perfect for me. Just around midnight NZ time, so it's a good signal to step away from the PC and get to bed for work the next day. Otherwise I might never make it in Big smile
Jenshae Chiroptera
#20 - 2011-11-08 21:17:52 UTC
Mr Fenris wrote:
I'd rather DT was during your prime time, how about that?

Lol


Going to go out on a limb here and say that down time is good as it is because Europe is working, America is sleeping and they will probably always make up more of the player base alone than Australia will ever manage.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
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