Never ceases to amaze me the number of people who still get surprised by maintenance happening at exactly the same time every Thursday. Do they not own a calendar or something?
How about some unexpected/unscheduled maintenances sometimes, combined with a dose of some game crashes (specially at beholder encounter) and with weekly normal maintenances ? Would you love the term "maintenance" anymore specially when takes longer than 2 hours ?
open beta player of some PWE games - north america launched versions:
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013 Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
One would expect a fix to the refining issue, since the ability to use wards drives revenue for PWE.
RE: Inventory space - the entire concept is broken. The same "Very Large Chest of Goods" that has 4 rank3 runestones can also have 2 catapults? And those four runestones take up 4 spaces, assuming they're different types - four times the space as two catapults. Then there are the lair keys, because apparently nobody has invented they key ring, yet. Gond's worshippers are too busy creatin doohickeys.
It would be awesome to have a keyring, scroll case, quest items bag. doing daily's are overflowing my bags all the time and I have Dragon horde bag and bags of holding. All the bags slots u can get but still haveing problems cos of quest items, rings and enchants.
Well you can buy stuff with them...picked up a few pinata's this morning and my 2nd dropped an ancient curio...turn that in for the belt of xvim (account bound). Pig mount, horse, costumes etc...all stuff you can buy.
Ingesting petals leads you to feeling that everything is okay, the code bugs don't bother you at all, and that Cryptic loves you (not just your wallet).
open beta player of some PWE games - north america launched versions:
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013 Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
How dare you take longer than you originally said you would. Dont you know we have habits to feed!? (seriously though, ive been bobbing my knee the whole time the server has been down>)
We'll be performing maintenance tomorrow 9/4 at 7am PDT (Pacific). We will also be performing account server maintenance, which means the estimated downtime is 3 hours and may be extended due to unforeseen circumstances.
As part of the account server maintenance we will be canceling all orders from the Astral Diamond Exchange. Head here for more details about this.
Thanks,
Dwight
Update 1 (7:08 AM PDT) Maintenance has begun. Patch notes posted.
Update 2 (9:12 AM PDT) Maintenance is on going. Account server maintenance has completed and we will begin normal maintenance soon. We'll let you know if we have to extend maintenance
Update 3 (9:55 AM PDT) Running a few final checks, if all goes well the servers should be back soon. We'll let you know if anything changes.
Really??? Seriously??? DwightMC's first post on this matter yesterday, and still remaining the same stated estimated downtime would be 3 hours. Downtime is always an estimate, it is nothing set in stone, ever.
Never ceases to amaze me the number of people who still get surprised by maintenance happening at exactly the same time every Thursday. Do they not own a calendar or something?
It would help if Cryptic/PWE were actually documenting all this so that we don't have to be flipping out about it, but oh well.
Yes, downtime IS an estimate - sometimes it takess less time, sometimes more, and you don't know till it is completed.
Fizbad: Cryptic does "document - the maintenance post was amde last night and has been updated frequently since maintenance began. Read a little. And don't ever, on any network (unless you are the CIO) expect a detailed message of everything that was accomplished during the maintenance. They will tell you what you need to play your game, and you do not need to know more than that.
Received about 20-24 mb / patched 103 mb , starting game to select characters, ..."The server is unavailble at this time" , i guess its almost completed.
open beta player of some PWE games - north america launched versions:
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013 Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
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How about some unexpected/unscheduled maintenances sometimes, combined with a dose of some game crashes (specially at beholder encounter) and with weekly normal maintenances ? Would you love the term "maintenance" anymore specially when takes longer than 2 hours ?
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013
Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
It would be awesome to have a keyring, scroll case, quest items bag. doing daily's are overflowing my bags all the time and I have Dragon horde bag and bags of holding. All the bags slots u can get but still haveing problems cos of quest items, rings and enchants.
"estimated downtime is 3 hours"
On launcher:
from 7-9.30 AM Pacific (2.5 Hrs)
then
(1500-1700 UTC)
I all the time travel in an inferior Delorian is making Dwight wibbly-wobbly; should have gone for a TARDIS. XD
*waits impatiently for maintenance to end*
Well you can buy stuff with them...picked up a few pinata's this morning and my 2nd dropped an ancient curio...turn that in for the belt of xvim (account bound). Pig mount, horse, costumes etc...all stuff you can buy.
If I can call you a <removed> for it
lool ,u made my day , i needed a laugh dose
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013
Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
+1 Sword and +2 Sword = +3 Sword
Really??? Seriously??? DwightMC's first post on this matter yesterday, and still remaining the same stated estimated downtime would be 3 hours. Downtime is always an estimate, it is nothing set in stone, ever.
I dunno.. I patched before they completed the account server maint. Mine says NW.25.20140820a.7.
Roland Mac Sheonin GF | Tarron Direheart SW |
Had to restart the launcher, working now.
Fizbad: Cryptic does "document - the maintenance post was amde last night and has been updated frequently since maintenance began. Read a little. And don't ever, on any network (unless you are the CIO) expect a detailed message of everything that was accomplished during the maintenance. They will tell you what you need to play your game, and you do not need to know more than that.
- PWI - November, 2008 (2 months after North-America-West Coast open beta)
- Forsaken World - open beta
- BOI - open beta
- Star Trek Online - ftp January, 2012 and rank 14 STO Wiki contributor
- Neverwinter open beta June, 2013
Daily Foundry "Canyon of the Dead" ( NW-DBPJYKMRE ) - dungeon
^^^^^^^^^^