Downtime Notice: Wednesdays, 9:00 AM Eastern

[Arkat]

This is currently planned to be the only weekly restart going forward. We believe work done before the holidays will have allowed us to reduce back to a single weekly restart without endangering server performance back to unacceptable levels. We will monitor the effect this has over the next few weeks.

Sorry dude, but if the lag I saw in PN at 9:00 AM MST yesterday (Khyber) is any indicator, you should probably reboot the servers DAILY.

[Fallout47]

Sorry dude, but if the lag I saw in PN at 9:00 AM MST yesterday (Khyber) is any indicator, you should probably reboot the servers DAILY.

Yeah, I mustered all of my self control not to post regarding the hellatious lag from the weekend. This is really gonna be horrid. The game is already bleeding end-gamers and raid related peeps due to the lag. While a group might recover in an EE run after a 20 sec full group lag lock, it's a complete wipe in higher skulls and many raids.

Cordo, have the devs considered 'pimping' out Lamania for groups/guilds to rent for raiding, high skull questing? Might be a possible cash cow if the main servers continue in their current condition. We joke all the time now about a Gland 'sign-up' sheet for peeps to reserve raid times to not cause lag for one another. The servers can't handle more than one raid group at a time without a noticeable loss in performance and that's with the 2 starts/week.

[Mindos]

you should probably reboot the servers DAILY.

This. Do it every day. Put it on a 20 hour timer, so it rotates around.

[FURYous]

I couldn't take it anymore,

Cancelled DDO and started up a ESO subscription.

Give me a call if you get your act together enough so I can actually play the game.

[Justicesfury]

I couldn't take it anymore,

Cancelled DDO and started up a ESO subscription.

Give me a call if you get your act together enough so I can actually play the game.

Yeah I did the same thing after hardcore. Its like they just make it up as they go along. Until there is a serious change in game lag being fixed this game has to be free to play for me as well.

Try doing the Too Hot Too Handle Raid on anything other than norm and the whole raid crashes no matter how fast you kill stuff.

[Looting_Bin]

I couldn't take it anymore,

Cancelled DDO and started up a ESO subscription.

Give me a call if you get your act together enough so I can actually play the game.

Wow, you really want them to do better by removing the funds necessary to achieve the ORDER you are giving them...

[Justicesfury]

Wow, you really want them to do better by removing the funds necessary to achieve the ORDER you are giving them...

Dropping on June 22 is DnD Dark Alliance.

[jetster11]

Wow, you really want them to do better by removing the funds necessary to achieve the ORDER you are giving them...

Well , as a counter do you pay your contractors extra to do a poor job then. Although I don't advocate cancelling a subscription, I do advocate not paying a lot of money for poor execution. I did drop my VIP last November so i could control when I paid for something according to the quality of the game's execution and the direction being taken.

[OPJvid]

I couldn't take it anymore,

Cancelled DDO and started up a ESO subscription.

Give me a call if you get your act together enough so I can actually play the game.

I went to ESO last July and cancelled my DDO VIP. Many of my now 10 years DDO friends did stop or are considering stopping VIP.
Too many signs that the game is heading at the wall. Ok some of you will say we are negative. Face it.
And if I voice my concerns, this is not to bash or be discourteous with SS. I wish they did the right thing to save DDO.
I placed a ticket in November to address the consequences of a way the reincarnations work, only lightly identified in forums and in a short WIKI recap page, burning some of my resources and I am grateful to have received exceptional compensation from SS for the loss. Only, this was resolved 12 weeks after the ticket was placed.
FYI I now have the experience of other MMO's with ticket turnarounds of 24 hours max and few min time responses to in game tickets.
I like the specifics of DDO, and I am nostalgic of the time we were offered creative content.
Too much to do apparently to fix playability issues and software obsolescence. I like DC casting. This area probably has taken one of the strongest hit from the last updates. Mob targeting issues, spells not landing in lag circumstances, spell resistance in specific quests being completely out of wack. The practical examples of misfits are still very numerous.
Too bad, I'll continue watching and playing DDO now and then with my friends, but it will take a real major change for me to endorse this game again.
I bless the efforts of SS to make progress and I unfortunately doubt the pace of the current attempts to adjust the shortcomings will make any substantial difference.

[Ringoblood]

I went to ESO last July and cancelled my DDO VIP. Many of my now 10 years DDO friends did stop or are considering stopping VIP.
Too many signs that the game is heading at the wall. Ok some of you will say we are negative. Face it.
And if I voice my concerns, this is not to bash or be discourteous with SS. I wish they did the right thing to save DDO.
I placed a ticket in November to address the consequences of a way the reincarnations work, only lightly identified in forums and in a short WIKI recap page, burning some of my resources and I am grateful to have received exceptional compensation from SS for the loss. Only, this was resolved 12 weeks after the ticket was placed.
FYI I now have the experience of other MMO's with ticket turnarounds of 24 hours max and few min time responses to in game tickets.
I like the specifics of DDO, and I am nostalgic of the time we were offered creative content.
Too much to do apparently to fix playability issues and software obsolescence. I like DC casting. This area probably has taken one of the strongest hit from the last updates. Mob targeting issues, spells not landing in lag circumstances, spell resistance in specific quests being completely out of wack. The practical examples of misfits are still very numerous.
Too bad, I'll continue watching and playing DDO now and then with my friends, but it will take a real major change for me to endorse this game again.
I bless the efforts of SS to make progress and I unfortunately doubt the pace of the current attempts to adjust the shortcomings will make any substantial difference.

Dude i put a ticket in 15 weeks ago, still waiting; their CS at SS, sucks.

[Moonfalcon]

I couldn't take it anymore,

Cancelled DDO and started up a ESO subscription.

Give me a call if you get your act together enough so I can actually play the game.

ESO has nice graphics but what broke it for me is that Balmora looks nothing like it did in TES III: Morrowind.

I really liked that town, it was a nice hub for quests and I would have loved to relive it in an MMORPG but it was not to be.

Balmora in ESO looks nothing like Balmora in TES III: Morrowind... it's a pale substitute.

[Hexokinase]

ESO has nice graphics but what broke it for me is that Balmora looks nothing like it did in TES III: Morrowind.

I really liked that town, it was a nice hub for quests and I would have loved to relive it in an MMORPG but it was not to be.

Balmora in ESO looks nothing like Balmora in TES III: Morrowind... it's a pale substitute.

Holy **** it looks so much better. My ESO remembrance is "looks great with meh mechanics."

Nothing beats "d20" mechanics - also ESO really limited the character versatility that makes the single player elder scrolls so fun (and broken). DDO is the only one I've seen come close to having some truly fun apparently functional character versatility. I will make whirling steel work if it's the last thing I do!

Anyway, It's my first server downtime since I haven't played in years and it's now over an hour the servers have been down which is disappointing cause I saw this thread and was like "oh sweet, only an hour downtime."

EDIT: oh, I see the "update until 1pm" Sept 14th notice now, that sucks.

[Zess-wolf]

Sorry dude, but if the lag I saw in PN at 9:00 AM MST yesterday (Khyber) is any indicator, you should probably reboot the servers DAILY.

If i recall correctly, there wasnt a restart last week...So it kinda of held well for 2 weeks

[Arkat]

If i recall correctly, there wasnt a restart last week...So it kinda of held well for 2 weeks

There was one on Friday.

[Cordovan]

Reminder that the first Wednesday restart takes place tomorrow (the 8th) starting at 9:00 AM Eastern.

[Arkat]

So Wednesdays look to be raid nights from now on.

Raid at your own risk on any other night.

[Kutalp]

Thank you very much for the announcement and the details dear Cordovan and Cocomajobo.

I hope all goes well.

[ChicagoChris]

Reminder that the first Wednesday restart takes place tomorrow (the 8th) starting at 9:00 AM Eastern.

So now that we know that the weekly restarts are now permanent, can one of your QOL passes deal with the Guild Airship reload? Its kind of insult to injury that not only do the servers have to be restarted, but the ships still take hours to repopulate...

[lifestaker]

QoL issues like airship aside, I just wish they put it closer to the weekend. Wednesday might help Friday raids, but I don't think they will last for Saturday night unless the changes are new to this week. Friday shutdowns the last 2 weeks lasted till Sunday/Monday. Lets hope they review this soon.
Personally if only 1 shutdown then I think it best Thursday or Friday just to keep weekend raids going, or Mondays so by close of business Thursday they would know if another is required to get through the weekend. Middle of the week makes them out of office when the lag hits, and by the time they get back it is almost time to do it again so why bother doing it early. I have not clue what goes into it on their end, but I just feel they may have picked a less then ideal day if the lag only stays away for 2-3 days.

Maybe they will keep this thread open, or have some set place for us to post when the lag starts hitting. My money is on Saturday night, based off shutdown last Friday lasting 48-72 hours prior to lag being a problem. Prove me wrong.

[lifestaker]

Maybe they will keep this thread open, or have some set place for us to post when the lag starts hitting. My money is on Saturday night, based off shutdown last Friday lasting 48-72 hours prior to lag being a problem. Prove me wrong.

So Saturday Night is here, so is the lag. Wow I am so surprised. Is only someone had said something about this earlier...

Well see you all Wednesday night for raids.... oh wait I work during the week and can't stay up all night... Well I guess I will raid again SOON™...

Anyone know any games that will take my money for allowing me to play them how I want, when I want? Oh right, EVERY other game out there does that, guess that is where DDO is special.