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Typical downtime on expansion day is...

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Belisario Lionheart
Pro Synergy
#21 - 2012-11-15 11:06:40 UTC
Hello guys,

Is today patch day? I had no idea, the server seems to be offline
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#22 - 2012-11-15 11:11:18 UTC
Belisario Lionheart wrote:
Hello guys,

Is today patch day? I had no idea, the server seems to be offline


Doh!
Just Another NPC
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-11-15 11:12:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Just Another NPC
Vera Algaert wrote:
You don't know how broken Retribution will be on release. If we are lucky it's just T3s flying backwards and POSes shooting blues, if we are unlucky(*) CCP will release the new Crimewatch in a completely broken state and high-sec will either be Free For All or Total Concordokken Helldeath.

(*) inb4 "I am a special snowflake and would consider this an improvement to the game"....



I vote for Total Concordokken HelldeathTwisted

CCP Eterne: Silly player, ALL devs are evil.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#24 - 2012-11-15 11:16:17 UTC
I usually keep the old "patch day no play" adage and set a very long skill on my characters, profit to do something else for a day or two where usually I would be online for 2h average, and then get cookies at the first log in: "downloading patch (fix)...)"

brb
First Main
Main's Moon Mining
#25 - 2012-11-15 11:20:26 UTC
How long are the forums usually down for during patch day. Ive played through the last 4-5 patches from, but was never really into the whole forum stuff back then.

Any idea?

A dev response on this would be nice. Im sure they must have some rough schedule or timeline somewhere
Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-11-15 11:28:51 UTC
I joined the game just after Apocrypha came out and my first expansion was Dominion. So this will be my sixth I think. Budget for half a day but plan contingency for as long as is practicable. A good time for that battlecruisers 5 skill if you don't have it. For both filling time and in preparation for tiericide. Two birds, one stone so to speak.

I drain ducks of their moisture for sustenance.
Anosha de'Cavemann
Perkone
#27 - 2012-11-15 11:30:47 UTC
ThisIsntMyMain wrote:
Honestly mate, Patch day is probably the WORST day to take off work. While CCP have got much much better at rolling out upgrades, mistakes can and do happen. Your typical patch day is characterized by endless posts from CCP saying "SOON" followed by a bunch of frustrating game breaking bugs that need to be patched the next day. Set a long skill queue of at least a week and forget about Eve for the day.

Seriously, take the NEXT day off work, you will appreciate it much more.


Thanks for all the info, it's this advice I think I'm going to take...

EvE, it's all about tear managment.
Daquaris
Aegis Victorium
The Initiative.
#28 - 2012-11-15 14:53:46 UTC
http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/eve_releases.php

^^ That should answer your question.
Hoarr
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#29 - 2012-11-15 15:36:45 UTC
Just Another NPC wrote:
Vera Algaert wrote:
You don't know how broken Retribution will be on release. If we are lucky it's just T3s flying backwards and POSes shooting blues, if we are unlucky(*) CCP will release the new Crimewatch in a completely broken state and high-sec will either be Free For All or Total Concordokken Helldeath.

(*) inb4 "I am a special snowflake and would consider this an improvement to the game"....



I vote for Total Concordokken HelldeathTwisted


This was by far my favorite feature on Duality a few weeks ago. No where in High Sec was safe. It was glorious.
CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#30 - 2012-11-15 17:55:34 UTC
We used to have up to 24 hour expansion deployment DTs, in the distant, distant past. Most recently then the expansion deployments have been 4-6 hours and point releases 1-3 hours.

Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Senior Development Director | EVE Online // CCP Games | @CCP_Explorer
Melvin Coulter
Tactical Feed.
Pandemic Horde
#31 - 2012-11-15 17:57:50 UTC
Wait patch day!Shocked DEAR GOD my skills....

Oh well devs can we beg you not to have concord go insane forcing everyone to flea to null or lowsec?Straight

Move along!
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#32 - 2012-11-15 21:18:21 UTC
Are we talking the initial downtime? Or are you including "restarts" .......Cool


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LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2012-11-15 21:27:17 UTC
Which upgrade was it that it was down for so long that CCP handed us a bunch of skill points to make it up to us?

If I recall, that one, they ran a DB clean up tool that started running through the inventory database an making random changes to item numbers, and they had to restore the old DB and fix the clean up code... took... if I recall.. more than 24 hours to get the server back up and running.

flakeys
Doomheim
#34 - 2012-11-15 22:30:18 UTC  |  Edited by: flakeys
CCP will say servers will be down till X hour.


Offcourse as usuall they won't be and that's when the fun starts every time.One thread after the other about complaints that servers are still down wich funnily enough often is from/with vets who really should know better by now , CCP now saying servers will be up an hour later wich they won't , even more whines and threads about thiss.Finally the server goes up ......... and will go down again a few hours later and we repeat the above again.


Best thing to do on patchday -and i use this for patchweek tbh - just think you won't be able to play at all.That way any time you actually CAN play during that day/week is a nice bonus :)

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Mire Stoude
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2012-11-15 23:18:33 UTC
Boot.ini
Matalino
#36 - 2012-11-15 23:35:55 UTC
Mire Stoude wrote:
Boot.ini

Best patch ever Lol
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#37 - 2012-11-16 03:17:09 UTC
Matalino wrote:
Mire Stoude wrote:
Boot.ini

Best patch ever Lol



Careful what you say, they may try to outdo themselves this time.....Cool


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TriadSte
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2012-11-16 09:09:29 UTC
Basic rule of thumbs and this isnt a troll.

CCP although they strive for excellence they are uber poor, the worst worst guys at actually predicting when tranquility will be online. If they say its a 4 hour downtime expect to not log on for 9-10 hours.

Theyre also very poor and actually horribley slow at updating the community during such a downtime. It mostly gets put on twitter first. Why twitter? I dont know. You'd have thought it would be HERE first on the forums but uhm no...

I paint a bad picture? I do but also I am a realist and I speak the truth & dislike bigging something up which is bad.

In my 5 years of playing, on big patch/update day I've never once thought "good job" guys in reference to keeping up with expected time frames for downtimes. Also for your information they always and I do mean "always" blame database issues..

I am pretty sure they have a saved doc on their local intranet which they copy paste to us.
Aprudena Gist
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#39 - 2012-11-16 20:06:02 UTC
depends on how bad they **** up the worst was a about 5 days so far so plan for that
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