Downtime Notice: Thursday, March 31st 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 31st from 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for extended maintenance work. We will let you know when the worlds reopen. This maintenance is in place of the regular weekly restart held on Wednesdays.

[Arkat]

Getting ready for the next Update/Expansion, huh?

Always good to defrag the databases and make a backup before making major changes like that.

[fatherpirate]

or they found a dead animal in one of the servers

[Handsome_Potato_86]

So how long is this gonna be, for us who use a 24h format? ~6 hours?
12:00am and 12:00pm always confuse me...

[DYWYPI]

Cordovan's 12.00pm, means 12pm noon - middle of the day - on Thursday 31 March for Boston, Massachusetts, USA. However, last week the servers were set one hour ahead than they should have been. Presumably they have now been corrected and synchronised.

[gravisrs]

Cordovan's 12.00pm, means 12pm noon - middle of the day - on Thursday 31 March for Boston, Massachusetts, USA. However, last week the servers were set one hour ahead than they should have been. Presumably they have now been corrected and synchronised.

You sure you didn't switched to/out of DST in the meantime?

[DYWYPI]

I was using Zulu last week, and there is no clock change in "Zulu" Military Time.

Actual downtime: 2022-03-23T12:00:00Z. Clearly the servers aren't observing the same time.

The servers were still an hour fast, if they were supposedly using Boston local time?, as a reference last week. That would have been 8am in Boston, 23 March 2022 and not 9am as stated.

[Urklore]

TWO 6-hour maintenance windows this week! Ug!

[Michaelaz2]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 31st from 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for extended maintenance work. We will let you know when the worlds reopen. This maintenance is in place of the regular weekly restart held on Wednesdays.

Let me guess? Another generic announcement about how you made significant performance issues creating lag? I can tell you performance has actually DECREASED and we now have more lag. It may seem like everything is great on a local machine but trust me, it continues to get worse via the net.

[Arkat]

TWO 6-hour maintenance windows this week! Ug!

When is/was the other?

As far as I've seen, tomorrow's downtime will be the only one this week.

[Qlumsee]

The worst thing about this game is the secrecy of the devs. In fact it's the only bad thing. We are all intelligent and know way before when the stuff is hitting the fans.

Introducing stuff without QA is OK if you let us know before.

[NemesisAlien]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Thursday, March 31st from 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for extended maintenance work. We will let you know when the worlds reopen. This maintenance is in place of the regular weekly restart held on Wednesdays.

You guys getting paid overtime?

[sago]

Let me guess? Another generic announcement about how you made significant performance issues creating lag? I can tell you performance has actually DECREASED and we now have more lag. It may seem like everything is great on a local machine but trust me, it continues to get worse via the net.

The lag for me has been gone for most part frame rate at 75+ and MS below 75 (good for me... before MS was at 85+) Lag showed up a little on 3/30/2022.

[jskinner937]

The lag for me has been gone for most part frame rate at 75+ and MS below 75 (good for me... before MS was at 85+) Lag showed up a little on 3/30/2022.

Don't worry. They are upgrading the lag program to increase scaling difficulty. :P

[Ykt]

Shroud lags whether you have a 12-man party for a Legendary run or a 3-man team for a quick Elite run.
Hasn't improved in 10 years. Dunno who you pay to consult about performance issues.

[Urklore]

12:02pm EST and the servers are not up. No word on forums, Twitter or YouTube.

We have been having more than 2-6 hour down time once a week now

[Azoyhn]

12:02pm EST and the servers are not up. No word on forums, Twitter or YouTube.

We have been having more than 2-6 hour down time once a week now

I actually condone frequent restarts. I'm a personal believer that atleast Tuesdays and Fridays should be restart days to help fluctuate the problems with the system and their engine. I haven't necessarily worked with the engines, but server-wise (from a server standpoint) i've noticed a change for leaving the server up for a long period of time vs. frequent restarts. and it's massive. I would really push for daily restarts if I could. But Tuesdays and Fridays would actually be my go-to if there was a voting option.

[Cordovan]

The downtime has been extended until 2:00pm Eastern (-4 GMT).

[sago]

12:02pm EST and the servers are not up. No word on forums, Twitter or YouTube.

We have been having more than 2-6 hour down time once a week now

Maybe it is something new and cool.

[Katanauser]

Lag seems more "quality of service" related imho... Is it more important to show a spell and effect trans or hear a kobold quack??? Those are the game decisions causing lag. You can almost hear the game "think" when you initiate an action... and if it's also inventory related, it's time for a "bio"...

there is NO performance tuning going on imho... just more flailing around...