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voivodje
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Now, I come to see, that maintenance takes the server down each week for multiple hours in European playing time.
Albeit that I understand there are a few more players on the American side, we Europeans are discriminated by this.
We pay the very same amount of money, but get far less playing time seen over a month, 8 hours, yearly this adds to 416 hours roughly, or 17.3'ish days less gaming time.
Why not implement a rotating time for the maintenances?
I, as an European, find the current form not that friendly to us, your allies...
Thoughts?
Remarks?
Do share them, but keep it decent.
Thank you.
Albeit that I understand there are a few more players on the American side, we Europeans are discriminated by this.
We pay the very same amount of money, but get far less playing time seen over a month, 8 hours, yearly this adds to 416 hours roughly, or 17.3'ish days less gaming time.
Why not implement a rotating time for the maintenances?
I, as an European, find the current form not that friendly to us, your allies...
Thoughts?
Remarks?
Do share them, but keep it decent.
Thank you.
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I'm in the UK, and while it sucks, it's just the way it is, and unless you expect people to work out of hours, it's not likely to change
"Where we are is the front."
Thoughts: I'll keep to myself because they aren't nice.
Remarks: This again?? Every week same TRIBBLE, isn't this in the FCT sticky yet?
and everytime it's an european
Let the stupid suffer
That's life...
though i cant speak for anyone else, Thursdays are my only day off of work so I am being discriminated against
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
Obviously? Of course the people actually being affected by it are going to be the ones to complain.
Anyway, it's not gonna happen OP, just find something else to do in the meantime. Read a book, play another game, watch TV, do some gardening I don't know.
Not to mention everyone who works nights and plays for a few hours before heading to bed in the morning...yet somehow we don't see them here complaining.
The game cannot be responsible for sub-fraction of players who do not live/work normal hours. The people who work nights, or do not work, simply need to cope with maintenance interrupting their lives.
Get over it! It's only about two and a half to three hours a week most weeks. That's a minor inconvenience at best.
If that happens to be the only time off you have to play the game all week, well I'm sorry, but that isn't cryptic's fault.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
Obviously cryptic is doing this because they hate Europeans, and walk around chanting "Long live the American Empire" while maintenance is underway.
Remarks? This again?
Nightshifters know day-walkers will never understand their plight and just get on with their life.
Maybe the next time a certain country gets too big for its britches we should stay on our side of the pond.
i wasn't actually complaining i was making a joke, after playing mmo's for years i am used to having to deal with American's and their downtime.
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
Oh no! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were complaining, and I got the joke
Because a rotating time would mean that there would be days where they would basicaly intentionally affect more players than if they kept their current time.
It's not about regions, it is about player numbers. The least players are affected in the time frame the maintanance happens.
Aside from that, rotating schedules are messy for everyone involved, since every week will require a different work schedule, taking into account possible night times to possible day time maintanances.
"Oh no, we can't have that meeting in 4 weeks on Friday, 10:00, because on the day before, several team members will have done a night shift for maintanance work."
...in order to appease those playing during the lowest in-game player volume times."
You forgot that part.
im in the uk, and i will ask you this simple question; what is the perfect time to take the server down, please keep in mind othertime zones, their prime times and so on?
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Of course, if the system screws up something during the automated maintenance...
A possible way could have been to shift 6hours each time, giving each country the same downtime each month.
Then, I was just thinking out loud.
As to some of you: I noticed the remarks being cynical and sarcastic: let me tell you this: I am crippled, that's OK, I have 5 kids (medical side effect to being cripple) of which 4 go to high school.
This costs quite a bit.
300 Euro might be pocket money to you, but it isn't to me.
So, that I have a remark on having 17 days less gaming time per year...
Yes, to ME this is an issue.
Not a life threatening one, but still an issue.
Not everyone is as gifted, financially spoken.
Including Cryptic/PWE, hence why they conduct maintenance during the time that will effect the smallest number of their customers and without having to pay any employees overtime.
Everyone is always so quick to claim they are being discriminated or under more hardships than others and often in doing so they discriminate against others in the same fashion and fail to understand other people have hardships as well. Amazing.
if steam is right about relative numbers, it would be around european morning. i have some doubts about european prime time being the least busy time on day. steam numbers do not support it and waiting time on pve queues does not support it either.
I guess european prime time is just the best trade off between player numbers and work shifts for devs.
While I know you're asking the OP, I figured what the heck I'll give you my own response anyway.
I am in the US. I run my business from my home so I can take care of the last two of five kids who aren't in school yet. As far as I'm concerned, and this will be in no way popular, the server can come down at any point in the day or night. I always have something else to do. Whether it's work, or kid stuff, or another game to pass the time.
Blasphemy! j/k
Well, I'm sorry that you have a medical condition (genuinely), but it is not relevant here, and it is not cryptic's responsibility to cater to it.
As for the 300 Euro cost, I do agree that that is a serious chunk of change, but it is also a completely optional chunk of change. The augment that "I have payed, so my needs must be met" will never fly here. bringing money into the equation will just make you look entitled.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy