Scheduled Server Maintenance [12/13/2016 - 11 PM PST]

will the thursday night fights npc get fixed?

yay

kalystconquerer#0876 wrote: »

Tonight's Maintenance Question - What is your favorite in-game event in PWI and why?

1. The current Pinguin-ShopKeeper Event.
   Because its easy, it has good exp ( 1,2m ) and you get 2 Primal Bloods per day.
2. The Event (i dont know the name) where you had to go to the Zoologist in south east Archo, enter an instance and spawn a monkey and wait 10 minutes. The reward was indirectly choseable and awsome.
3. Tiger-Event
   Because its fast and easy (unfortunately somtiems to fast to even reach the 4k contribution points (under 10 minutes)), Reward is fair for the Event-Duration.
4. Nation-Wars
   Because it make it massivley easier to be able to farm certain material like uncanny crystals or rapture crystals and ofc warsoul weapons.
   I dislike the Balance in Nation-Wars and the Duration, its to long :P
5. Morai-Weekly Event (all three: Wraithmissive, Mayhem-Event and the one at same time as Mayhem-Event)
   Because it make Morai much eaiser and shorter by also increasing exp.
6. I dislike all the other Events from Tuesday to Thursday (i find them not worth it compared to the reward)

kalystconquerer#0876 wrote: »

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CN will do their thing, then NPC's will be spawned.
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Also, asked engineers to do their server side fix for TNF and they said they did. Yay!

Excuse me.
What npc?
What is TNF?

clyknight wrote: »

they changed from saying 3 to 4 hour maintenance so they are covered when they forget to actually reboot them - Maintenance should be an hour or so thing at most unless there is a major patch - other games update live but this is PWI - they do whatever we please with no regard or respect for the player base and btw lets gouge as much money as possible - sad really - as for the "experts" that will spam me saying I don't know jack about server reboots - I won't brag about my job and how many servers i am responsible for I'll just say they back up and are updated live and when the time comes they do need to be booted its a 15 minute process tops

Really?

Ok so the game is to old to be updated live. Do the backups live. The Software is old as well as the Engine and requires a reboot to refresh some of the settings. Also Sync the instance and XServer. PWCN also confirm other tests such as being able to log in create a new character etc.

NPCs like the snowman need to be manually spawned as part of the event as some will close due to the server shutdown. Keep in mind this need to be done on each server as well.

Lastly they had to Spawn MANUALY the Card into peoples Inventory. Doing This Manually rather than by script or search and replace function is and im sure ur agree slow. But the game is to old and does not have this function.

Grated you may know servers but from what you have just said you dont know the Server Software or Server Engine.​​

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I wouldnt mind another Login-Event. They've been always great and made people look forward to logging in more.

Nation wars and cross server tw. Hopefully we see a revival of ctoss server nation wars as that was fun! Alot of fun even if you play in Etherblade xD

clyknight wrote: »

they changed from saying 3 to 4 hour maintenance so they are covered when they forget to actually reboot them - Maintenance should be an hour or so thing at most unless there is a major patch - other games update live but this is PWI - they do whatever we please with no regard or respect for the player base and btw lets gouge as much money as possible - sad really - as for the "experts" that will spam me saying I don't know jack about server reboots - I won't brag about my job and how many servers i am responsible for I'll just say they back up and are updated live and when the time comes they do need to be booted its a 15 minute process tops

This has been discussed before, (see the news page for previous questions to the devs). Because of the multitude of servers that make up one "server", and other QA tasks taken after they are back up, it takes quite a while.

keeperofkeys: What do you do during the 3 hour maintenance window every week?

Kaisy: We have a checklist that we have to run. We have to make sure the auto patch system is working and updates correctly, we also spawn NPCs that are required for specific times, check whether you can log in/out, create characters, kill monsters with normal damage, mail items to other players, etc. Its a pretty
big checklist and sometimes it may take longer to finish than others.

If you'd like I can go into a bit more detail on the actual server-side mechanics of it. As you should know, just testing sending an item via mail will take one hour minimum.