Downtime Notice: 8:00 - 10:00 AM Eastern Thursday, July 14th

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened! We thank you for your patience, and we'll see you in the game.

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a restart on Thursday, July 14th starting at 8:00 AM Eastern. We'll let you know when the worlds have reopened. This is being done to promote the general health of the game environment. Thanks!

[Ebondevil]

Thursday, 14 July 2016, 08:00:00 EDT GMT-4 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 07:00:00 CDT GMT-5 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 06:00:00 MDT GMT-6 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 05:00:00 PDT GMT-7 hours

Thursday, 14 July 2016, 12:00:00 UTC GMT
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 13:00:00 BST GMT+1 hour
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 14:00:00 CEST GMT+2 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 15:00:00 EEST GMT+3 hours

Thursday, 14 July 2016, 20:45:00 ACWST GMT+8:45 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 21:30:00 ACST GMT+9:30 hours
Thursday, 14 July 2016, 22:00:00 AEST GMT+10 hours

[LrdSlvrhnd]

And airship amenities will take up to an hour to repopulate when the worlds are back up.

[Nonesuch2008]

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a restart on Thursday, July 14th starting at 8:00 AM Eastern. We'll let you know when the worlds have reopened. This is being done to promote the general health of the game environment. Thanks!

Thank you, we appreciate this!

[Livmo]

Tyvm!

[Steve_Howe]

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a restart on Thursday, July 14th starting at 8:00 AM Eastern. We'll let you know when the worlds have reopened. This is being done to promote the general health of the game environment. Thanks!

You guys really should schedule this regularly (every two weeks or so) until you've figured out why (and then fix) game performance on the servers degrade so consistently.

[AnEvenNewerNoob]

You guys really should schedule this regularly (every two weeks or so) until you've figured out why (and then fix) game performance on the servers degrade so consistently.

THIS. Thank you for doing this one, how about making it a regular (every week, every other week) thing?

PLENTY of anecdotal evidence that a restart dramatically improves mob ai, pathing, etc.

[Half-Elf]

Do you have any idea how long the servers will be down Cordovan? Similar to an update release I'm assuming 4-6 hours?

[Malleable]

Do you have any idea how long the servers will be down Cordovan? Similar to an update release I'm assuming 4-6 hours?

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[Half-Elf]

Got it, thanks. I don't know how I missed that in the title of the thread. "We'll let you know when the worlds have reopened" is all it says on client launcher and that scared me.

[Cordovan]

You guys really should schedule this regularly (every two weeks or so) until you've figured out why (and then fix) game performance on the servers degrade so consistently.

This is something we are actively looking into, and may well be doing in the near future. The current target is a possible memory leak with our AI pathing system, which seems likely given recent reports of pathing issues.

[AnEvenNewerNoob]

This is something we are actively looking into, and may well be doing in the near future. The current target is a possible memory leak with our AI pathing system, which seems likely given recent reports of pathing issues.

This is VERY GOOD TO HEAR!

[slarden]

This is something we are actively looking into, and may well be doing in the near future. The current target is a possible memory leak with our AI pathing system, which seems likely given recent reports of pathing issues.

I am not a cove hater but seems to have degraded a lot since cove started.

[Phoenix-daBard]

I am not a cove hater but seems to have degraded a lot since cove started.

Which is a heavy user of the pathing AI.

[AnEvenNewerNoob]

Which is a heavy user of the pathing AI.

Aye, I think cove kobold pathing being wonky was a symptom of the problem.
Pathing gets bad cove or no cove a long way out from a restart.

[Steve_Howe]

This is something we are actively looking into, and may well be doing in the near future. The current target is a possible memory leak with our AI pathing system, which seems likely given recent reports of pathing issues.

Awesome. Thanks!

[Silverleafeon]

This is something we are actively looking into, and may well be doing in the near future. The current target is a possible memory leak with our AI pathing system, which seems likely given recent reports of pathing issues.

I still recommend weekly restarts of the DDO as I have for years, however bi-monthly would probably work just as well, and would be less white glove inspection time for the staff.

[PNP]

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a restart on Thursday, July 14th starting at 8:00 AM Eastern. We'll let you know when the worlds have reopened. This is being done to promote the general health of the game environment. Thanks!

Schedule a downtime on heads chopping day?...

[minorpenthes]

Schedule a downtime on heads chopping day?...

Nah, the Terror came later on.
The storming of the Bastille was just a regular old riot.

[Tremes]

I am hoping this will fix all the lag that came with the last patch.....before it I had very little lag