This is my first time playing a Cryptic game - but it's SO like SOE and the Everquest series so far. Hopefully they will be a bit more accurate with their times. Unlike SOE who couldn't understand timezones OR estimate how long a patch was really going to take.
Under promise and over deliver like Mr. Scott Always multiply your repair (patch) estimates by a factor if 4 to protect your repuation as a miricle worker!
This is my first time playing a Cryptic game - but it's SO like SOE and the Everquest series so far. Hopefully they will be a bit more accurate with their times. Unlike SOE who couldn't understand timezones OR estimate how long a patch was really going to take.
Under promise and over deliver like Mr. Scott Always multiply your repair (patch) estimates by a factor if 4 to protect your repuation as a miricle worker!
Cyptic are really good for their patch times/ maintainance etc.
Comming from the City of Heroes games when then owned them all those years ago.
This is my first time playing a Cryptic game - but it's SO like SOE and the Everquest series so far. Hopefully they will be a bit more accurate with their times. Unlike SOE who couldn't understand timezones OR estimate how long a patch was really going to take.
Under promise and over deliver like Mr. Scott Always multiply your repair (patch) estimates by a factor if 4 to protect your repuation as a miricle worker!
with PM (project management), we always add at minimum ~20%, sometimes 40% on top of any quotes or estimates... just to be safe and not go over budget. Should be standard practice with everything.
The main problem i think is that fx steam didnt list that the game wont be open till a specifc time, only the date!
So LOTS of people expected that it was as a unilaterel time standard GMT zone.. As did i untill i started browsing like mad searching for that error message..
It's also a pretty poor error message, "You are not allowed to log in at this time" implies an issue with me or my account only, rather than a maintenance period.
It's also a pretty poor error message, "You are not allowed to log in at this time" implies an issue with me or my account only, rather than a maintenance period.
Sorry but it says what it says "You (the user) are not allowed to log in AT THIS TIME" It does not say there is a problem with your account or that your username or password is incorrect. Doesn't take much searching since every second thread..... you know what, **** it.
The main problem i think is that fx steam didnt list that the game wont be open till a specifc time, only the date!
So LOTS of people expected that it was as a unilaterel time standard GMT zone.. As did i untill i started browsing like mad searching for that error message..
So lots of people should really, really learn to use the search function more effectively.
Sorry but it says what it says "You (the user) are not allowed to log in AT THIS TIME" It does not say there is a problem with your account or that your username or password is incorrect. Doesn't take much searching since every second thread..... you know what, **** it.
That is all, have a nice day.
The avatar says it all.
The literal meaning is not in question, the problem is the sheer amount of things that could go wrong to present such a generic error message.
Most major MMOs list scheduled maintenance times on the log-in screen for a very good reason.
I know full well how to search and found the issue immediately, but there are a good number of people who do not have such an attention span and are quite content to spam a forum with the same question.
The fact is that for something as common as a maintenance period, not being able to simply tell the user what the case is does not bode well. Especially, as has already been pointed out, the Steam page promises the open beta starts on the 12th. If that was 12th 00:00am PST then fine, but 10:00am is such a bizarrely late time when it's not obvious to the end user.
If you really can't see the problem with this then I don't know what to tell you.
Erm, I would like to point out that in the OPEN BETA POST BY THE DEVELOPERS it clearly states that the Open beta starts at 10am PST.
How hard is that to understand, I really cant understand how people thing because there is a maintainence period that the servers will be up and ready to play before the allotted start time for this has occured.
I mean come on..... READ the Important information section of the forum, its there for a good reason.
The literal meaning is not in question, the problem is the sheer amount of things that could go wrong to present such a generic error message.
Most major MMOs list scheduled maintenance times on the log-in screen for a very good reason.
I know full well how to search and found the issue immediately, but there are a good number of people who do not have such an attention span and are quite content to spam a forum with the same question.
The fact is that for something as common as a maintenance period, not being able to simply tell the user what the case is does not bode well. Especially, as has already been pointed out, the Steam page promises the open beta starts on the 12th. If that was 12th 00:00am PST then fine, but 10:00am is such a bizarrely late time when it's not obvious to the end user.
If you really can't see the problem with this then I don't know what to tell you.
Erm, I would like to point out that in the OPEN BETA POST BY THE DEVELOPERS it clearly states that the Open beta starts at 10am PST.
How hard is that to understand, I really cant understand how people thing because there is a maintainence period that the servers will be up and ready to play before the allotted start time for this has occured.
I mean come on..... READ the Important information section of the forum, its there for a good reason.
i live in the uk when can i log in because i am still gettin the msg **you are not allowed to access this server at this time**
What uk time can i log in???
things like this really don't make us brits look too smart do they?, sometimes i think i am the only person in the UK who knows how to tell time, read website notices and convert PST to GMT, honestly it is not that hard.........
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Under promise and over deliver like Mr. Scott
Cyptic are really good for their patch times/ maintainance etc.
Comming from the City of Heroes games when then owned them all those years ago.
and lets face it SOE are just terrible.
with PM (project management), we always add at minimum ~20%, sometimes 40% on top of any quotes or estimates... just to be safe and not go over budget. Should be standard practice with everything.
They have experience in this type of thing, after all.
Darn, the guy above me decides that today he is gonna replace his flooring... blasted sob. Hopefully my headphones drown out the noise.
I have a pair of those quiet comfort 15s - absolutely amazing bought them to drown out the wife!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is all.
So LOTS of people expected that it was as a unilaterel time standard GMT zone.. As did i untill i started browsing like mad searching for that error message..
Sorry but it says what it says "You (the user) are not allowed to log in AT THIS TIME" It does not say there is a problem with your account or that your username or password is incorrect. Doesn't take much searching since every second thread..... you know what, **** it.
That is all, have a nice day.
The avatar says it all.
So lots of people should really, really learn to use the search function more effectively.
The literal meaning is not in question, the problem is the sheer amount of things that could go wrong to present such a generic error message.
Most major MMOs list scheduled maintenance times on the log-in screen for a very good reason.
I know full well how to search and found the issue immediately, but there are a good number of people who do not have such an attention span and are quite content to spam a forum with the same question.
The fact is that for something as common as a maintenance period, not being able to simply tell the user what the case is does not bode well. Especially, as has already been pointed out, the Steam page promises the open beta starts on the 12th. If that was 12th 00:00am PST then fine, but 10:00am is such a bizarrely late time when it's not obvious to the end user.
If you really can't see the problem with this then I don't know what to tell you.
No it isn't.
How hard is that to understand, I really cant understand how people thing because there is a maintainence period that the servers will be up and ready to play before the allotted start time for this has occured.
I mean come on..... READ the Important information section of the forum, its there for a good reason.
And i don't know what to tell you... so i won't.
Have a nice day.
Hmmm... I like this guy. He gets it at least.
Click the link below to determine what time it is in PST.
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java
Time to stop replying to forum posts and I have achieved my goal in life lol..
10 AM PST - American East Cost
6 PM GMT - UK and Most of Western Europe
7 PM CET - Central and Eastern Europe
Untill these time the servers will NOT BE ONLINE, AS A RESULT YOU CANNOT PLAY YET.
10 AM PST DOES NOT MEAN WHEN IT TURNS 10AM IN ENGLAND THAT ITS 10AM IN AMERICA
For those that dont know when it is 10AM where you live it DOES NOT MEAN 10AM EVERYWARE IN THE WORLD.
if this dosent solve this issue nothing will lol.
Yea i might of been a little cinical lol
things like this really don't make us brits look too smart do they?, sometimes i think i am the only person in the UK who knows how to tell time, read website notices and convert PST to GMT, honestly it is not that hard.........