Just a friendly reminder/advice to the community to not take tomorrow off from work to play DDO. In fact, I also recommend not taking Thursday or Friday off, either, in case there is a hotfix or something catastrophic happens.
As evidenced in the past, patch day and the subsequent days tend to be extremely chaotic so you don't want to "waste" a vacation day just because the patch took longer than normal or a problem made the game unplayable. Just be patient and wait for the weekend.
Disclaimer: If your normal weekend is Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, disregard this message.
Edited to add: Every patch there is someone that takes the day off of work to play as soon as the patch is released and complains that the patch/server isn't up. This is just an anticipatory post to try to reduce the number of people that make that mistake.
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10-19-2010, 09:30 AM #1Founder
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Friendly Community Reminder: Don't take Patch Day off from work!
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10-19-2010, 09:36 AM #2Community Member
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Not that i'd ever take a day off just to play ddo. *whistles and tries to look innocent* But thanks for the public service announcement.
I better call my boss and ...well, you know...Owner of ..Chopstix, Colleena Bloodcup, and various other "level 7's"
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10-19-2010, 09:39 AM #3Community Member
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let me guess, the phone call will be something like this:
Originally Posted by Lordress
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10-19-2010, 09:39 AM #4Community Member
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Being the pessimist I am I also took a backup of my DDO folder in case the updater goes wrong and I need to reinstall
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10-19-2010, 09:48 AM #5
Fine, fine, I'll come in tomorrow.
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10-19-2010, 09:52 AM #6Community Member
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Something I have always wondered about when the worlds go down... does the raid timer stop and then resume or does it carry on counting down when the worlds are down.
And yeh I will be the first person back on Khyber when the world opens tomorrow.
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10-19-2010, 09:53 AM #7Community Member
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I will be home from work and ready to play at 1530 EST, so that is as long as you may have to get it working. That is all
(and TY)
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10-19-2010, 09:56 AM #8Community Member
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Some of us (not me!) play DDO AT work, so...
In case you didn't already notice, my posts that end with must NEVER EVER, under any circumstances, be taken seriously.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?p=3012617
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10-19-2010, 09:57 AM #9
Actually you go home for lunch on patch day. When it goes live, you get like 30 minutes to play before it goes down again.
Also, when you leave for work in the morning, remember to try to log in. Since the server is down, it will try to log in repeatedly during the day and will update when the server comes back on line, so you are ready to play when you get home.
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10-19-2010, 09:57 AM #10Community Member
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LOL! you had better. Originally Posted by Tarrant
besides can't you play at the office tomorrow and call it play testing, bug tracking or patch analysis, QA or something?Move along , Nothing to see here
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10-19-2010, 10:02 AM #11Hero
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Manny!
I didn't realize you played ddo. I will be at work on Wednesday, I don't see a reason for this post. I've never taken off work to play a silly game. 6 months ago I did have a cold. 5 months ago my dog did die. 4 months ago I did strain my back. 3 months ago I did lose my other grandma (found her a week later). 2 months ago I did have gout. Last month I did have an emergency meeting with my son's principal.
So, I assure you, boss, I will be present and accounted for <sniffle>.
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10-19-2010, 10:02 AM #12Community Member
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Time to play something else tomorrow night (local time) for me...maybe minesweeper or solitaire or something.
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10-19-2010, 10:02 AM #13Community Member
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Sure...He'll have plenty fo time to play in between answering/locking posts by the whining forum community about why xyz is broke and between listening to the whining devs complain about how thier production environment is different from the pre-production environment and thus thier code doesn't work. Originally Posted by t0r012
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10-19-2010, 10:05 AM #14Founder
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Good idea. Originally Posted by DelScorcho
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10-19-2010, 10:07 AM #15Founder
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A prestaged DOOOOooOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!11!!!!! message? Really? Originally Posted by Alavatar
Just a friendly reminder/advice to the community to not take tomorrow off from work to play DDO. In fact, I also recommend not taking Thursday or Friday off, either, in case there is a hotfix or something catastrophic happens.
As evidenced in the past, patch day and the subsequent days tend to be extremely chaotic so you don't want to "waste" a vacation day just because the patch took longer than normal or a problem made the game unplayable. Just be patient and wait for the weekend.
Disclaimer: If your normal weekend is Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, disregard this message.
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10-19-2010, 10:10 AM #16Community Member
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Forget it, the aces are all overpowered and the jacks have been nerfed. Originally Posted by asphodeli
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10-19-2010, 10:14 AM #17Community Member
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Teh DRAMAH LLAMAH looks forward to tomorrow in anticipation....
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10-19-2010, 10:16 AM #18Community Member
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Office pool:
How many minutes after the end of scheduled downtime will the first thread about how the patch isnt on schedule appear?
Tie breaker question:
How many times will "prorated" be used by the fifth page?
Go outside on Wednesday. That will be all. Originally Posted by Teh_Troll
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10-19-2010, 10:18 AM #19Community Member
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Hell not I am going to remote into my home computer, and install the update ready for when I get home, day off! WHAT then I can't buy DDO points and power play *twitch*
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10-19-2010, 10:22 AM #20Community Member
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I'm glad I'm a Premium player and can wait for those eager VIPs to discover all of the new-update bugs and such so that they can get patched before I get access to things...
Seriously, though.. looking forward to this!
