Downtime Notice: Wednesdays, 9:00 AM Eastern

[mmchoc]

NOTE: There will not be a weekly restart on Wednesday as we are working to release a small patch for Thursday.

why is ithe game down then? i get connecting to patch server, 33% then times out. no notification it will not be available today

[OfElectricMen]

why is ithe game down then? i get connecting to patch server, 33% then times out. no notification it will not be available today

Because that was last Wednesday, not today?

The question today is what happened, since the restarts don't usually take this long?

[Justicesfury]

Aren't Restarts Supposed to be an Hour.

They must be do another patch to something that they aren't letting the community know about.

[Greeka]

Got to login, but after logging in shows all servers closed.

[mmchoc]

i can actually log on now but the worlds show red (closed) so perhaps its getting there

[OhMy]

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a weekly restart every Wednesday starting at 9:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT). The downtime typically lasts for less than an hour.

"less than an hour"

2 hours and 19 minutes later, still down.

[arminius]

"less than an hour"

2 hours and 19 minutes later, still down.

you missed the more relevant quote, "typically"

[Justicesfury]

you missed the more relevant quote, "typically"

Maybe it will be down for days.

[arminius]

Maybe it will be down for days.

Maybe it will live on in our hearts, forever

[OhMy]

you missed the more relevant quote, "typically"

It would actually be more relevant to re-write the original post and put "downtime typically lasts no more than a few hours"

The scales seem to have tipped from less than an hour, to more than a few hours. Or have they ever been able to do a server restart in under an hour? I am pretty new to this game, so my knowledge base of their service downtime accuracy is quite small. So far I am unimpressed.

[mmchoc]

all worlds showing green

[minorpenthes]

It would actually be more relevant to re-write the original post and put "downtime typically lasts no more than a few hours"

The scales seem to have tipped from less than an hour, to more than a few hours. Or have they ever been able to do a server restart in under an hour? I am pretty new to this game, so my knowledge base of their service downtime accuracy is quite small. So far I am unimpressed.

Well, to be fair, they are not always this bad.

I'd say one of the bigger problems is that they do not always communicate very well with players.

For instance, sometimes there are no updates or explanations whatsoever about why there are delays.

Other times, there are- but not here. I seldom go on Facebook, but it is reported that at times, updates have been posted there (but not in the forums).

I'm not trying to suggest that players need to have their hands held at all times, but it would be nice to have a head's up, now and then.

[DoctorOfLiterature]

Maybe the server ran into a Mimic in HCL? Hope it manages to avoid real death and comes back online soon...

[puberdade]

Any news on server coming back up?

[Kalem]

The DDO game worlds will be brought down for a weekly restart every Wednesday starting at 9:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT). The downtime typically lasts for less than an hour.

You screwed up the game again. Good job devs

[Mister-shadow]

Any news on server coming back up?

Well once more a short fix has stretched painfully on and on. Thinking off coming off vip as we get no joy, no value and no respect.

[Cordovan]

Any news on server coming back up?

We are currently tracking the downtime here rather than in our weekly restart thread, but the worlds will remain unavailable overnight while we investigate and work on a game update. We currently intend to release the game update tomorrow morning.

[Mister-shadow]

We are currently tracking the downtime here rather than in our weekly restart thread, but the worlds will remain unavailable overnight while we investigate and work on a game update. We currently intend to release the game update tomorrow morning.

I live in Australia, overnight means nothing with different time zones a minimum of....hours would be a lot more helpful!@

[Mindos]

I live in Australia, overnight means nothing with different time zones a minimum of....hours would be a lot more helpful!@

Roughly 12 hours from now, with a downtime maybe of a few hours starting then, so projecting game up and running 16 hours from now...ish....

[fatherpirate]

We are currently tracking the downtime here rather than in our weekly restart thread, but the worlds will remain unavailable overnight while we investigate and work on a game update. We currently intend to release the game update tomorrow morning.

There is one thing I still do not understand.
Why do you even bother to turn off the LAM test server?

Now if you dropping a new build on it, well of course you do a wipe but there
is no downside to keeping the server up otherwise.

It would give you a LOT more feedback on whatever the current build is.
More info should be better.

It just doesn't make sense.