Downtime Notice: Tuesday, June 20th 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened. Thank you.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Tuesday, June 20th. This small game update will address an exploit. No further information will be released. Thank you for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon.

[Garix]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Tuesday, June 20th. This small game update will address an exploit. No further information will be released. Thank you for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon.

Is this covering the weekly restart as well? Or taking servers back down on Wednesday as well?

[Cordovan]

Is this covering the weekly restart as well? Or taking servers back down on Wednesday as well?

Correct, we will not be doing our weekly restart on Wednesday this week.

[Garix]

Correct, we will not be doing our weekly restart on Wednesday this week.

Cool. Thanks for the confirmation

[SirValentine]

...9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Tuesday, June 20th.

Eastern, or -5 GMT? They are different by an hour this time of year. I'm pretty sure the Boston area, like most of the rest of the eastern US at this time of year, is on -4 GMT (Eastern).

-5 GMT is Eastern Standard Time, but that's for the winter.

[FranOhmsford]

Eastern, or -5 GMT? They are different by an hour this time of year. I'm pretty sure the Boston area, like most of the rest of the eastern US at this time of year, is on -4 GMT (Eastern).

-5 GMT is Eastern Standard Time, but that's for the winter.

You realise GMT right now is BST right and that apart from maybe 1 week in between when UK swaps over and US swaps over it's still -5!

[JOTMON]

Eastern, or -5 GMT? They are different by an hour this time of year. I'm pretty sure the Boston area, like most of the rest of the eastern US at this time of year, is on -4 GMT (Eastern).

-5 GMT is Eastern Standard Time, but that's for the winter.

9am Cordovan time..
..for the guy with the button it doesn't matter what time it is anywhere else...

[Earthbound Misfit]

You realise GMT right now is BST right and that apart from maybe 1 week in between when UK swaps over and US swaps over it's still -5!

GMT is always GMT ... we are on BST which is GMT+1. It is still 5 hrs between us, but eastern is -4 GMT and we are +1GMT.

By never changing it, they are only wrong for 6 months per year ... a bit like the clock in my car

[GlassCannon]

When will Reaper be properly renamed to Librarian and the Wraiths no longer egregiously offend the actual Reapers of Souls by misrepresentation?

Besides, it's a lot neater to think that you're going up against the Codex itself when you go in on Librarian.

That way the players get the sense that the Codex is trying to murder them, not some psychopath eating all their pizza.

[Beelzebjorn]

This small game update will address an exploit. No further information will be released.

Oooo that sounds mysterious

Anyway, while you guys are at it, you might want to look into what might be a new issue (to me, at least). There have been some issues with doors not opening the way they should in Chains of Flame (even when grabbing all available keys, some doors acts as if key hasn't been picked up) and A Cry for Help (drawbridges won't lower even when both levers are pulled properly). I tried resetting and re-running a few times, and got the same result.

Just a heads up.

[FranOhmsford]

GMT is always GMT ... we are on BST which is GMT+1. It is still 5 hrs between us, but eastern is -4 GMT and we are +1GMT.

By never changing it, they are only wrong for 6 months per year ... a bit like the clock in my car

This is an issue of context and in context saying -5 GMT is correct because the UK is -5 from the US right now - If Cordovan had wrote -4 GMT as would be strictly correct people would be even more confused as we'd be looking at our clocks in England forgetting about BST and expecting the game back up at the wrong time!

Cordovan also doesn't say Eastern Standard Time because the East Coast of the US isn't on Eastern Standard Time for half the year and the rest of the US isn't EVER on Eastern Standard Time - He just says Eastern because that's the ACTUAL time in Boston right now.

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened.

[Cordovan]

Righto on GMT offset. We are currently GMT-4, and I wrote it incorrectly. Will endeavor to keep it more accurate moving forward. For our UK folks, it's important to remember that "British Time" is not actually the same as GMT. GMT never changes, British Time does.

[pumagirl418]

So no store fix for the MotU?
any ETA?

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened. Thank you.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Tuesday, June 20th. This small game update will address an exploit. No further information will be released. Thank you for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

And as always, please remember that guild amenities may take up to an hour to repopulate.

[Steve_Howe]

And as always, please remember that guild amenities may take up to an hour to repopulate.

It's sad that this has to keep being said.

[Tlorrd]

It's sad that this has to keep being said.

a new player may find this info helpful.

[Nissebror]

Just after the update - Aussircaex lvl 26, 80234 hp - was in lvl4 quest Irestone Inlet. Is that a bug - or just a random angry dragon?

[cru121]

Just after the update - Aussircaex lvl 26, 80234 hp - was in lvl4 quest Irestone Inlet. Is that a bug - or just a random angry dragon?

sounds like fun. any screen shots?

[Folker]

a new player may find this info helpful.

If they fixed it, it would not have to be said again or ever.