Worlds Unavailable: Thursday, September 22nd

[RTN]

Thanks for all the updates, Cordo. Appreciate them!

[DungeonGamer]

The flight planning software on the Navy and Air Force jets I produce is doing fine, as evidenced by the fact that jets are not raining down out of the sky and crashing on your house currently.

Recalling your salary is taxpayer-funded and you are legally required to adhere to strict standards to ensure those jets aren't raining down etc etc

[MistaMagic]

Demonstrate, don't explicate.

The time has come for a super XP bonus weekend.

And how do you get the said bonus when the game is down ?????

[Wanker]

I know much of this is with the bank system, but I have a question someone might know.

I thought maybe why cant they make the Shared bank account have a huge capacity.. obviously one that we would have to buy to expand how big it got. To the point of like 5000 capacity and then with us being able to make tabs we could organize everything into those tabs.. like Pots tab, level 5 gear tab, level 10 gear tab .. cosmetics tab etc.. Would it help with server load of they just got rid of the TR cache? This would require making everything in game bound to account probably. Everything needs to be in your shared bank before you TR. but I guess that wont work incase people just dont have enough shared bank space.

Im just trying to think if there was a huge Shared bank capacity, then we could delete our 15 mules full of items they keep creating , then we can delete all those mules from the server.. would that free up server load? and people constantly logging in and out going from mule to mule looking for stuff?

Love this; simplifies a lot of things even if it removes some incentives from individual character play.

[Sylvado]

The flight planning software on the Navy and Air Force jets I produce is doing fine, as evidenced by the fact that jets are not raining down out of the sky and crashing on your house currently.

I have worked in Pharma IT for decades, millions are spent releasing new software and still when you put it into production with thousands of users there are problems. Aircraft systems are managed by redundancy.

I will also add that the software is not F2P.

[Dandonk]

Are we there yet?

[grohgredin]

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This is where I place blame on all of SSG. Its unacceptable to me that they don't spend the very few hours of simple testing to insure that the basic changed functionality works before releasing it.

So true..you know its even a joke for many players after each update : " What did they break with the new update ? " " do you know what is broken with new update ? No ? What ? that : X. OMG ! Lol they sucks "

Why not testing your releases ??!!!??

Problem is always the same : MONEY. Have the minimum team for maximum profits : leave workers overwhelmed with tonns of things to do... Orders : work on new expansions because it brings money. Leave old bugs where they are cause it takes too much time to fix it. And time is money...Always the same story.

Even if it seems better last months/years : bugs fixed, new/fixed features. Sometimes it is after years of wait for it...( the mail box comes to my mind right now but there are so many )

Often i and friends/guildies dont understand SSG strategy, it seems so wierd, to not say stupid. Often we d like a feature ( new or fixed ) or think at something obvious ( that wont unbalance the game, keeping it fair ) we 'd like and we could spend money on ( how many years for mounts, decent cosmetics etc...people would have spend thousands in that since ) but instead they introduce a stupid mechanic/feature...So many things to tell about the shop, choices, prices...Then you end : " well if they dont want my money, their choice ". Sometimes i think at the commercial team's choices and all i have in mouth is : bah they dont want to earn money ...they r stu..d...So many things to say about that...

I love this game, i play it since the start, i have a VIP year sub, i buy expansions, on sales most of the time, and i try to stay away from shop. You dont deserve extra money, sorry...

PS1 : Your reaper fragment system is ********. It will take years for some people to craft one enchant. And even if you run several R10 big sagas/day its still ********, such a low rate..
PS2 : Remnants system is ******** : they should go directly in inventory. It breaks quest pace to collect it.
PS3 : Named reapers items drops in high reapers is too low. Especially for raids : really a shame that players who spend hours/days in builds, gameplay, strategy and in those raids ( its not a 10 min LH completion ) are so bad rewarded. I am not one of them, i pushed raids only a few times. People completing a 2 hours high end high skulls raid should be all rewarded with a reaper raid item...Your system really encourage mediocrity and stupid runes farming. Lh brutal completions skipping mechanics is just garbage...and boring. If you dont reward people they wont go for higher challenge for better loots. So then they will bored and will log in less etc...In one of my guild they r already bored of the new raid, ofc they run it only in LH. Incentive to run it R1 is too low !!!! So its no brain runs, strategy is : noone, oh wait " ROOOAR , ROAAAR plateform "
PS4 : That TR cache is a pain in the a..Time, lag, bugs. We r all asking for more space for years. Solve the problem : remove TR cache and give space..I have 6 active toons for 24 mules...Stupid..again..

[DungeonGamer]

So true..you know its even a joke for many players after each update : " What did they break with the new update ? " " do you know what is broken with new update ? No ? What ? that : X. OMG ! Lol they sucks "

Problem is always the same : MONEY. Have the minimum team for maximum profits

If they planned smaller targeted releases the downtime should be reduced

[DungeonGamer]

Are we there yet?

You should plan for a non-DDO weekend

[helpfulguy1234]

I have worked in Pharma IT for decades, millions are spent releasing new software and still when you put it into production with thousands of users there are problems. Aircraft systems are managed by redundancy.

I will also add that the software is not F2P.

I'm sure then you're familiar with BASIC TESTING. Like, hmmmm, can I move an item from the main tab directly to another tab.

It's not rocket science (am qualified to state that).

It's not that there ARE bugs that is upsetting people, it's that it's so PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that they don't even make a token effort to test ANYTHING.

But keep defending the shoddy work they continue to put out update after update. You are enabling them to do so. Thanks for that.

[Ijiwaru]

You should plan for a non-DDO weekend

Please don't say that. Then i will doom scroll and then i will read about the further disasters esp. In eastern europe black sea area. That will make me "depresseder"

[HuhaNoob]

For someone who has to work way too much and has limited time to play this downtime hits hard. i am with the majority of players who are asking for some type of offer to say "thanks for being patient,". But also I hope the developers will consider offering the otto's boxes and double points for sale in the store for the weekend. I don't mind spending money on this game to help keep it going. The boxes help me in that I can make up for not having enough real life time to devote to the game I love. Still so much I want to do and accomplish in the game.

I wish free

[1420Guy]

We have brought down the game worlds while we investigate an issue with items going missing from Reincarnation Caches. We will have more information as soon as we can.

I feel a swag bag coming on.

[mjbowker99]

I'm sure then you're familiar with BASIC TESTING. Like, hmmmm, can I move an item from the main tab directly to another tab.

It's not rocket science (am qualified to state that).

It's not that there ARE bugs that is upsetting people, it's that it's so PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that they don't even make a token effort to test ANYTHING.

But keep defending the shoddy work they continue to put out update after update. You are enabling them to do so. Thanks for that.

I don't think it's that at all. I think they don't do USER testing. They probably do code review testing. I am a software tester myself... and I've found more software companies do code review and just make sure the code will do what the scope/design intended and they don't test it from the users perspective to make sure it doesn't have any unintended consequences... OR they do user testing but once again just to make sure it does what the scope/design intended and don't validate it doesn't break something else.

[Enferno]

Hey guys, out of curiosity: Is this game notoriously known for this insanely downtime?

I just started playing this past week and ended up buying a 3 month subscription and now the game has been down for 24 hours?!

If it was this last update breaking stuff, why didn't they just revert back to the patch before this one until they actually figured out what the problem was?

I surely hope they give me another day (or more if they're down longer) on my subscription. I would not have bought one if I'd known this game was down like this.

[Madja]

The Reincarnation Cache has caused problems for players for years, wasting untold hours of game time just emptying the damned thing. Now it seems it's also causing problems for the Devs so, simple(r) solution, get rid of it.

This would require the Coin Lords and House K favor rewards be replaced with something else.

It would also require everybody's inventory space and bank space be increasing by 40 each and a requirement that you can only begin the TR process when naked.
All items would remain where they were so no need for any code at all.

Players would benefit by no longer having to waste hours of gametime with bank management prior to a TR and Devs would benefit by being able to go home at night after their shift ends. Seems like a win-win.

Edit: Forgot about House K.

Definitely would like to see this. I do wonder if, now that bank space is more easily expanded, the TR cache is still necessary? It wouldn't surprise me if there some weird code that makes it the only way to transfer the items to a true reincarnated character.

[T-Town_Titan]

Should be available when the worlds come up, and I'll post them afterwards in the usual places.



I don't have good answers for these questions, but they are good ones. In general I know the item was unique in the way it was constructed, thus causing the Reincarnation Cache issue to begin with, and the reasoning to dissipate them is to keep this from happening in addition to potentially having this happen again in a future unexpected halo. I would expect to see some of the unique functionality of this item not be available in the future, not because we hate fun but because being the one outlier causing issues means making it less of an outlier is a better long-term solution.

You might want to extend it to any enhancement formed item....say conjured bolts under Inqis example.

[tervalas]

It's not that there ARE bugs that is upsetting people, it's that it's so PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that they don't even make a token effort to test ANYTHING.

You'd be amazed at what happens when more and more people start using something you put out. In pharma, for example, you can test for years and when you finally release your product, some random person manages to get a side effect that you didn't see in the tens of thousands of test cases you ran. In software, you can have thousands of people test something, 'fix' all the issues, then when ten thousand more use it they manage to find another way to cause the bug that no one before had tried.

Yes, IN THIS INSTANCE, this is something that should have been easily checked before moving it live. But don't assume that nothing is ever tested.

[DungeonGamer]

Hey guys, out of curiosity: Is this game notoriously known for this insanely downtime?

I just started playing this past week and ended up buying a 3 month subscription and now the game has been down for 24 hours?!

If it was this last update breaking stuff, why didn't they just revert back to the patch before this one until they actually figured out what the problem was?

I surely hope they give me another day (or more if they're down longer) on my subscription. I would not have bought one if I'd known this game was down like this.

A weekend downtime has occured in the past. You should negotiate extra time on your subscription to compensate for lost hours

[Ijiwaru]

Hey guys, out of curiosity: Is this game notoriously known for this insanely downtime?

I just started playing this past week and ended up buying a 3 month subscription and now the game has been down for 24 hours?!

If it was this last update breaking stuff, why didn't they just revert back to the patch before this one until they actually figured out what the problem was?

I surely hope they give me another day (or more if they're down longer) on my subscription. I would not have bought one if I'd known this game was down like this.

I have been playing for about 3 years. This is the first time that i have experienced a downtime this long. Usually once a week for up to 6 hrs (usually 3 hrs). These are scheduled reboots backups or something.