Server Restart 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) Thursday, February 25th

[Cordovan]

The DDO game servers will be brought down at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) to prepare the worlds for our 10th anniversary events. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

[Baron]

The DDO game servers will be brought down at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) to prepare the worlds for our 10th anniversary events. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

10 at 10....

News at 11....

[Cordovan]

The basic reason for this restart is so that people don't get stuck in the ice....

[Gleep_Wurp]

The DDO game servers will be brought down at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) to prepare the worlds for our 10th anniversary events. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

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[UurlockYgmeov]

The basic reason for this restart is so that people don't get stuck in the ice....

let em! they should know better than swim in the harbor! who knows what Kobold put in that water! :P

[Cordovan]

This is tomorrow - the 25th. Corrected date in title.

[OrodelaSol]

What is typical down time for restart? Not being at all tech savvy...what all does it entail? Go technoids!

[Ykt]

What is typical down time for restart? Not being at all tech savvy...what all does it entail? Go technoids!

It shouldn't be more than a couple hours. Also after a restart we used to have ship amenities not showing up right away (takes about an hours to fully load), not sure if that's still an issue.

[LivusWyren]

Nevermind. Already answered.

[Rendron]

What does it mean you are doing a restart. It would be nice if you would tell us how long this would take. Since when does a restart takes nealy 1 hour?

[skorpeon]

What does it mean you are doing a restart. It would be nice if you would tell us how long this would take. Since when does a restart takes nealy 1 hour?

Ohh rats and Kobolds, just when I wanted to get a quick run in before the family gets home!

Still then my problem is there will be too many things that I want to do! and others....so many choices

[XIXIXI]

......................HELP! Im stuck in the ice:/

[Ykt]

What does it mean you are doing a restart. It would be nice if you would tell us how long this would take. Since when does a restart takes nealy 1 hour?

Since the servers are not running on a single desktop computer.

It's the same difference between a hand drill and a factory. You just plug the drill and push a button to start the drill. It's more complicated for the factory.

[Cordovan]

We're currently in the process of checking the bonuses on all of the servers. We'll keep you updated.

[Rendron]

Since the servers are not running on a single desktop computer.

It's the same difference between a hand drill and a factory. You just plug the drill and push a button to start the drill. It's more complicated for the factory.


i know that it would take longer but to be honest if they are comming with an update or any maintance there was always a notice what we have to expect.

In other words is a restart going to be 1 hour, 2 hour or the whole evening....

[Rendron]

we're currently in the process of checking the bonuses on all of the servers. We'll keep you updated.

thx

[Ykt]

i know that it would take longer but to be honest if they are comming with an update or any maintance there was always a notice what we have to expect.

In other words is a restart going to be 1 hour, 2 hour or the whole evening....

I don't recall them telling us about 1 or 2 hour downtimes. So when they say "restart at 10:00" I assume it's not gonna take as long as a usual update or maintenance downtime (4-8 hours). I already thought it would take between 30-120 mins so I'm not getting upset like you are.

[turkeymoon]

What is typical down time for restart? Not being at all tech savvy...what all does it entail? Go technoids!

Reboot is a either a cold boot or a warm boot. Cold being a complete loss of power and a warm being partial. Either is indicative of a shorter time span than what we are experiencing now.

[Ykt]

a shorter time span than what we are experiencing now.

He's asking about DDO.

MMORPG server restart is not just about turning hardware off and on. You have to make sure everything is working properly, from the authentication servers to the ingame payment transaction processes.

[Nyata]

I don't recall them telling us about 1 or 2 hour downtimes. So when they say "restart at 10:00" I assume it's not gonna take as long as a usual update or maintenance downtime (4-8 hours). I already thought it would take between 30-120 mins so I'm not getting upset like you are.

I think of late they pretty much stopped giving guestimates even, because whenever they go over the guestimate like 5 minutes some people will start complaining. Even beats the Scottie method :)

[Cordovan]

Typically we'd have reopened the servers by now, but this one's taking a bit longer than usual due to the scope of work and the number of bonuses to check on all of the servers.

[Gurei23]

Typically we'd have reopened the servers by now, but this one's taking a bit longer than usual due to the scope of work and the number of bonuses to check on all of the servers.

That's understandable. Will the magma fiendlings return to the store, or not quite yet?

[cru121]

Typically we'd have reopened the servers by now, but this one's taking a bit longer than usual due to the scope of work and the number of bonuses to check on all of the servers.

If you accidentally enable +500% buddy bonus, that's ok as well. TY :)

[turkeymoon]

He's asking about DDO.

MMORPG server restart is not just about turning hardware off and on. You have to make sure everything is working properly, from the authentication servers to the ingame payment transaction processes.

Thanks for the clarification on what a restart entails for a MMORPG. I am sure the poster appreciates your input.

[Cordovan]

The worlds are open, and the bonuses and events are live! We'll see you in the game.

[Yamato-San]

Something went wrong.
Servers open but nothing to patch, no free character slot, no anniversary token (tried it only on Wayfinder, after nothing was patched)

[Krelar]

Something went wrong.
Servers open but nothing to patch, no free character slot, no anniversary token (tried it only on Wayfinder, after nothing was patched)

That's not until the update on Monday, this was just to enable all the events and bonuses.

[XIXIXI]

Shhhh.. you are gonna ruin my plan to lure more peoples into my ice trap :/

[GuntherBovine]

I'm running out of space because I'm holding on to all of my new loot gen items. When will I be able to deconstruct them?

[Loromir]

Something went wrong.
Servers open but nothing to patch, no free character slot, no anniversary token (tried it only on Wayfinder, after nothing was patched)

Don't think it was a patch...they just wanted to turn on all thew bonuses. My guess is they wanted to see if turning on all bonuses and most festival events would break the server.

[cdbd3rd]

I'm running out of space because I'm holding on to all of my new loot gen items. When will I be able to deconstruct them?

When U30 goes live.

This wasn't it.


I've got characters buried in junk loots waiting to offload it all into the cruncher, too. ;)