Downtime Notice: 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Wednesday, January 31st

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened. Thank you!

The DDO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, January 31st from 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for maintenance and an update to the game. Since the change will only correct an exploit, there are no release notes. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

[Gratch]

If only there was something that could entertain us during the downtime. Some words from Sev on his feelings of the recent past and future of DDO. Maybe formalized a bit given the monologue nature of the forums.


A letter to DDO players of sorts.



From the Producer.


Cool thanks. I should have asked earlier. Letter-from-Executive-Producer-Rob-Ciccolini-January-2018

[Mindos]

Since the change will only correct an exploit, there are no release notes. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

I can't wait for the TWO second swapping delay!

[HuneyMunster]

I can't wait for the TWO second swapping delay!

I can't wait either as swapping to scrolls doesn't feel clunky enough yet since last patch.

Also since the last patch noticing my spells not doing anything when casting fast after a previous spell cast. This is especially noticeable when casting crushing despair followed by mass hold monster on my sorcerer.

[Erokir]

I can't wait for the TWO second swapping delay!

Is the current delay permanent?

That would seriously suck.

It's super annoying and has no upside in terms of enjoying the game.

[Memnir]

[cmecu]

Is the current delay permanent?

That would seriously suck.

It's super annoying and has no upside in terms of enjoying the game.

The delay would seem realistic to me.. I mean how fast does a person think they would put away one item in their hand, then hurry and grab another item from their backpack, put it in their hand, cast it.. then put it back away, then get your original hand item back in your hand.. Two second delay seems quite fine

[OfElectricMen]

Hi!

The delay would seem realistic to me..

If "realism" or something being "realistic" is your benchmark, you're playing the wrong game.

That said, retrieving a stored item is a Move Action that provokes an AoO, so, in my estimation, that should take about 3 seconds.

Of course, a Trip is a standard action, so that should only have a cooldown of about 3 seconds also. Since that's not the case, there's a well-established precedent for ignoring the normal time frame for actions, ergo, no actual cooldown between switching items.

[OrodelaSol]

What was exploit? just curious since i never use them out of some warped sense of fair play... since it's gone np discussing it right?

[Captain_Wizbang]

What was exploit? just curious since i never use them out of some warped sense of fair play... since it's gone np discussing it right?

very rarely are exploits discussed here.

I for one dont want to know of ANY of them.

There are many of us that dont need or want to cheat.

It's a fraking game thats meant to be fun and challenging.

[Silvamoon70]

Always fixing exploits, never fixing the game breaking issues. Fix Blitz and Adrenaline issues pls. Your making New dungeons, with the same problems, who does that? VIP for 9 years and still Same Stuff Different Dungeon. Seriously with all the downtime bs you guys owe me a free freaking year by now. PLEASE FOCUS ON THE GAME, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T CHEAT!

[mons]

very rarely are exploits discussed here.

They should be. The community would then be better informed on the do's and don'ts.

I for one don't want to know of ANY of them.

I agree and disagree. I don't look for them nor use them to the best of my knowledge but again, publically acknowledging what they are and correcting them immediately is imho the best deterrent.

There are many of us that dont need or want to cheat.

Agree 100%. I put too much time and money in this game.

It's a fraking game thats meant to be fun and challenging.

You said the magic words. It's just a game, not top secret material that would doom the world. Is it an exploit if the Developers leave it be in the game for days/months/years on end?
Not trying to rub you the wrong way Lagin nor am I trying to **** off SSG. Just saying there is a gray area when it comes to these in game features that would be better served if publically admitted and immediately corrected.

You still on Thelanis btw?

[HungarianRhapsody]

very rarely are exploits discussed here.

I for one dont want to know of ANY of them.

There are many of us that dont need or want to cheat.

It's a fraking game thats meant to be fun and challenging.

I'm losing about 10% of my XP to a bug with optionals keeping their XP ransack even though it's supposed to be cleared. I'd be fine with using an exploit that gives me an extra 10% XP. I don't want to cheat, but I'd be fine with using something that makes up for a broken feature.

[OrodelaSol]

Always fixing exploits, never fixing the game breaking issues. Fix Blitz and Adrenaline issues pls. Your making New dungeons, with the same problems, who does that? VIP for 9 years and still Same Stuff Different Dungeon. Seriously with all the downtime bs you guys owe me a free freaking year by now. PLEASE FOCUS ON THE GAME, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T CHEAT!

yes! if the exploits r causing performance issues they should b a top priority but if all they do is clutter the ah with stacks of 1000 whatever unbound piece of junk or help toons who are on their 100th warlock driven life to get massive amounts of xp in little time who cares!? (that's rhetorical...)

[Treok]

The DDO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, January 31st from 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for maintenance and an update to the game. Since the change will only correct an exploit, there are no release notes. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

The development is practicing security through obscurity. Found a great definition here,"Security Through Obscurity (STO) is the belief that a system of any sort can be secure so long as nobody outside of its implementation group is allowed to find out anything about its internal mechanisms. ... Once the secret gets out, that is the end of your security." It looks like the development team doesn't have a lot of confidence they fixed the exploit, and they are trying to hide what it is. If they release what the exploit is and they failed to fix it with the patch, the door is open. Last week, they attempted to fix this problem and it looks like they failed. Here is a quote from last week's Thursday downtime:

Notes: This downtime will be for extended OS and server maintenance, in addition to a small game update. The update will include a fix to an issue that was causing degraded game client performance, in addition to several exploit fixes, which we will not be providing further information about. !

Every game, application, operating system etc has exploits and vulnerabilities. I'm cool with that. Why even communicate you are patching an exploit if you aren't going to expose the exploit? Sure, ddo is buying time if the patch doesn't fix the exploit. Why not just announce there is a server restart? The downtime announcement frustrates people you're giving a half answer when they see other problems in the game. Maybe announcing you are trying to fix an exploit encourages, not discourages people to look for them.

[HungarianRhapsody]

Why even communicate you are patching an exploit if you aren't going to expose the exploit?

Because they usually put out some form of release notes. This patch will not have release notes. We would keep bugging Cordovan for release notes if he didn't actively say that there were no release notes because it's to fix an exploit.

[Captain_Wizbang]

You still on Thelanis btw?

Aye, A PROUD member of a very storied guild "Madborn". GREAT people, vast knowledge base and a big ship w/ lots of shiny stuff.

[mons]

Aye, A PROUD member of a very storied guild "Madborn". GREAT people, vast knowledge base and a big ship w/ lots of shiny stuff.

I never see ya on, I'm on everyday.

[sudzz]

This time last week we wer4e back in game, still no update coming through, you running on time or over? If over an updated ETA would be nice.

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened. Thank you!