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Unscheduled Extended Server Downtime 2013-11-27

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Acentian
Evedustry International
#181 - 2013-11-27 12:15:09 UTC
Claudius Holden wrote:
Account Expires
18 April 2014 - 12:00 am (in 141 days)


I have time.



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sarah jane fibbonachie
DE TEMPLOR CRISTI
#182 - 2013-11-27 12:15:12 UTC
ringusworm wrote:
Grace Ishukone wrote:
Come on people, this is becoming simply ridiculous for Australian time zone players.

We have crossed the Rubicon, and apparently there is no going back. To when EVE actually worked and the sounds of engines going to warp and out of warp couldn't crash the server when 1200 players were all using drone assist and someone landed.

Seriously.

Fix,

The,

Game.

I love the new ships. But the graphical glitches in the new bubbles (they can turn into interesting triangles rather than rendering as spheres), persistent glitch with Amarr stations in null (which on jumping into station can look like they are snapped in half and drawn on a 45% plane), really annoying metallic whining sound when using ab, mwd, or warping, and general loss in performance in fleet battles is simply not acceptable.

Overall, lovely ship, massive step backwards in nullsec gameplay. It used to take 5,000 players to crash the server, now you don't even need half that. Welcome to the other side of the river

...now either fix the damn game so that night after night Australian TZ corps are not being forced to cancel roams and fun AGAIN because of YET ANOTHER failure in the server and/or code. Go on, surprize us. Make downtime variable each day, rather than prime time every day for AU tz.


This is meant to be a whole new era in EVE. Not just a new error.


So agree, we are all equal , but AU TZ DT Blows goats




when you login clear your cash repair and log back in all done smile :)
Prince Damien
#183 - 2013-11-27 12:15:17 UTC
And now to watch this thread die out. Because now everyone's happy.

Edit: For now...
Jayson Ravencraft
Jarlhettur's Drop
United Federation of Conifers
#184 - 2013-11-27 12:15:36 UTC
While we wait for restart is there an honest Isk Doubler that will well double my isk?
ghostbear Antollare
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#185 - 2013-11-27 12:15:54 UTC
Sarai Cayne wrote:
CCP Logibro wrote:

UPDATE - Downtime has now been extended to 12:30UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCmMorr7a4


Thanks for the good laugh there, it (almost) helps me with the waiting Blink
Lord Parallax
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#186 - 2013-11-27 12:16:29 UTC
Gooosebumps wrote:
Lord Parallax wrote:
can any of the devs enlighten us on what the actual problem is?
I would rather know why we are waiting on than sit here in the dark getting updates every 30 mins saying "Nope still broke but we are pushing stuff with a stick"



He told you what it is. It's apparantly startup-problems.

Wouldn't help you the slightest to know exactly what is wrong with the server. And it would take time from them to actually fix it



It would probably help me more than most to know in a more specific manner what they are facing, rather than a generic response that hides the truth. Sure start up problems. It could be a small error in code, a complex task of having corrupted files, hardware malfunctions, I mean some of us do have knowledge of how networks and computers work.

SO yes a more detailed response to why the downtime issues are occurring might let ppl "that would understand it" know if waiting is in their best interest or just go do something else the rest of the day
Violet Aeon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#187 - 2013-11-27 12:16:45 UTC
Just chill. You could be in New Eden and dead. In which case someone would probably already found your frozen corpse and donated it too me ;)

http://violetaeon.blogspot.com/
xttz
GSF Logistics and Posting Reserves
Goonswarm Federation
#188 - 2013-11-27 12:16:52 UTC
Grace Ishukone wrote:

Look at the timing of downtime, then look at the time in Sydney, Auckland, Singapore, Brisbane, Melbourne, etc etc.

EVE is like going to a really fun movie at the cinema with your friends after dinner, only every night the cinema randomly closes for not just a brief intermission but hours so that all your friends have to go because they have work tomorrow and no-one actually has any friggin idea any more when the cinema will be open, only that it will take 40 minutes to get to anything fun anyway.


You're right. We should have random unplanned downtime in other timezones to make it fair!

Grace Ishukone wrote:
This is the 21st century, server issues and frequent massive errors in patch code means only one thing - wholly inadequate per-deployment testing. That such sloppy work has been acceptable for 10 years is no basis to expect customers will accept it going forward, and the critical factor is credible competition in the game-space..'


How do you know the issue is with a patch? Maybe the server caught fire. Maybe the datacentre exploded, leaving a small crater in the middle of London. Perhaps the database became self-aware, read the million terrible posts on here and killed itself.
Zhang Eyrou
Lone Star Warriors
Brave Collective
#189 - 2013-11-27 12:16:56 UTC
Oh and if the servers cannot handle the player load I have a terribly simple concept, that 90% of games already use. If you have been idle for more than 15 minutes in the game world, you get logged out. How hard would that be, huh?

Well then how would guys in SB's sit around in a system all night then ***** about miners? Yeah I'm mad, this 1 1/2 hour down time happens all the time. I'm on west coast US work nights, People all over the world have different schedules, this one happens to be mine, and it's annoying. I pay for this game I want to play it. I love it and all, but man, whats the point if I can't play it? Rolling downtimes, an hour later each day.
Heira Andedare
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#190 - 2013-11-27 12:16:59 UTC
What the heck? I am finally allowed to log in and I DON'T have millions of free isk and tens of thousands of free SP waiting for me to soothe me of my inconvenience?

OMG something shiny! *runs off*
Sarai Cayne
CaleFaction Inc.
#191 - 2013-11-27 12:17:19 UTC
ghostbear Antollare wrote:
Sarai Cayne wrote:
CCP Logibro wrote:

UPDATE - Downtime has now been extended to 12:30UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCmMorr7a4


Thanks for the good laugh there, it (almost) helps me with the waiting Blink


yw :)
Uno Testicular
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#192 - 2013-11-27 12:17:24 UTC
Jayson Ravencraft wrote:
While we wait for restart is there an honest Isk Doubler that will well double my isk?


yeah send me some and i'll double it :)
Brendan Anneto
Gladiators of Rage
Fraternity.
#193 - 2013-11-27 12:18:13 UTC
Davionia Vanshel wrote:
Grace Ishukone wrote:
Simply Silent wrote:
[quote=Grace Ishukone] in the server and/or code. Go on, surprize us. Make downtime variable each day, rather than prime time every day for AU tz.


This is meant to be a whole new era in EVE. Not just a new error.


Downtime is right in the middle of GMT day time and you dont see us complaining!

Look at the timing of downtime, then look at the time in Sydney, Auckland, Singapore, Brisbane, Melbourne, etc etc.

My prediction : if EVE does not move to an in-game shop model rather than pay to play, it has a 60% chance of crashing when Star Citizen opens.

Oh and another half an hour? To quiote one of my friends in teamspeak "Yeaaaaaahhh ... maybe no EVE tonight.'




I am right now sitting in my Hornet in Star Citizen the hangar: canopy opens, canopy closes, canopy opens .... more exciting than Eve right now.



Sounds a lot like ship spinning. Which is what 90% of the eve community does when they are "playing" .

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.   Proverbs 1:26-27
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#194 - 2013-11-27 12:19:04 UTC
Da da da dum.
Sarai Cayne
CaleFaction Inc.
#195 - 2013-11-27 12:19:48 UTC
Brendan Anneto wrote:



Sounds a lot like ship spinning. Which is what 90% of the eve community does when they are "playing" .

CCP should add global spin counter. To show how many times all ships were spun to this day.
Refinery Rat
Clone Vat Inc.
#196 - 2013-11-27 12:19:49 UTC
Voaraghamanthar Umangiar
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#197 - 2013-11-27 12:19:50 UTC
The Amarrian Empire does not honor your "downtime". We are elitists far above such trivial antics.
Bart Gibson
Tillicumin Cider Brewing Corperation
#198 - 2013-11-27 12:20:48 UTC
ging gang goolie goolie
Ran Dimaloun
Order and Prosperity
#199 - 2013-11-27 12:22:58 UTC
Oh come on.. We had a chance to stop this thread's posts at 200. Now we have to make it to 300 to make the numbers look even. -.-
Grace Ishukone
Ishukone Advanced Research
#200 - 2013-11-27 12:23:41 UTC
Zhang Eyrou wrote:
CCP just needs to hire a few more guys who know what they are doing, i know they got my money, blew a lot on this game



They have people who know what they are doing. They are all working on World of Darkness it seems.

We have crossed the Rubicon. Does that really mean the game is now in the red, and no longer being supported with the best people CCP has, but has slipped to 'Game 2' status? I can't help but feel the red is very symbolic, with DUST being widely ignored or actively ridiculed, Valkyrie looking fun but too expensive for most (assuming it needs the VR display), and Valkyrie also looking like a snap reaction to the growing threat posed by Star Citizen.

As a gamer, I want both games to thrive. But honestly I don't like how badly tested a lot of this content was. How could they not know that people would use Yurts to mess up highsec freighters, that people would NOT use siphons because they give up a killmail even though a mobile warp disruptor (etc) do not, that changing the bubble graphic was beautiful but the kiss of death to poorly supported nullsec battles that were already randomly crashing the server cluster *before* the changes?

Not impressed. Go on EVE, make me stop regretting buying my collectors edition. I haven't used the codes yet because I am considering trading it for a ship with LTI on Star Citizen. Not even kidding, which as a long term EVE fan is a really sad place to find myself in. I have the commemorative edition, from when I could put missles on ships because I wanted to, rather than conforming to pattern fittings, from when Cruise missles got uber nerfed, unnerfed, and torpedoes stopped being able to hit targets inside your own point range. Through mining in an iteron 1, all the way to watching bot fleets dance to and from their towers in null at the slightest change in local (me).

We've crossed the Rubicon. Now make me believe you didn't just sell us down the river.