The Official Downtime's A' Comin' Thread

[Ghozt]

I would shut up if we could get a timer like new years maybe have a ball drop.... omg no ballz comments please.... Then we can have a new AO server party woot. Sorry just trying to find a reason to drink at 10am

[vapor357]

anyone know anything about patch size?

if its a big one, ppl gonna get real butt-hurt when ao goes live, and they're unable to download...

[Talien]

I would shut up if we could get a timer like new years maybe have a ball drop.... omg no ballz comments please.... Then we can have a new AO server party woot. Sorry just trying to find a reason to drink at 10am

If you are watching the president as you said you were (As I am) then you should need no other reason to start drinking

[Talien]

anyone know anything about patch size?

if its a big one, ppl gonna get real butt-hurt when ao goes live, and they're unable to download...

LE expansion *cough patch* all over again? Hope not...but to answer. I don't believe the patch itself is a big one. The time it's taking is due to the server switch, with my little computer knowlege, shouldn't require any extra downloads or patches.

[Ghozt]

If you are watching the president as you said you were (As I am) then you should need no other reason to start drinking

LOL You know I am a marine and I love a president who gives me reason to shoot my M-16 but hes starting to get on my last nerve. If I was president I would say booo hooo he died from friendly fire. He signed the contract. More people die from accidents on a 96 then they do overseas in war. No one crys for them like this...but no need to get into this

[Syphae]

That would require a lot more waisted time on your dumb comment when reading it was a big enough waist of time.

guess you shouldn't have wasted time using the wrong waist err.. waste? *waits for the excuse* Mmmhm....

[Talien]

LOL You know I am a marine and I love a president who gives me reason to shoot my M-16 but hes starting to get on my last nerve. If I was president I would say booo hooo he died from friendly fire. He signed the contract. More people die from accidents on a 96 then they do overseas in war. No one crys for them like this...but no need to get into this

Bottoms up then

[Grafter]

give the tech peeps a break.
it's not 'order a Dell, unpack, plug and play'.

jeeze.

it'll be up when it's up.

[Talien]

guess you shouldn't have wasted time using the wrong waist err.. waste? *waits for the excuse* Mmmhm....

Other then me being a bad speller *go figure im a journalism major* and me going without sleep and it being 10 a.m(not because of AO) I have no excuse. I also...don't care.

[lunarsolace]

http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=502931

[vapor357]

damn, coffee is experiencing some "unforseen" downtime as well ... forgot to put the coffee in the filter and got a piping hot cup of water....nerf

[Surfs]

Funny how a lot of people here are showing withdrawal symptoms :
p
As always, keep up the good work FC!

/me hands the tech guys at FC some coffee and cookies.

Surfs.

[Ghozt]

http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=502931

umm thanks?

[meitemark]

ok - unmounting old hardware, unpacking the new servers, mounting them in a rack and *then* installing software and data to see if they're running.

if thats the way it's done overseas i now understand the 60+ hrs

o.O mental note to self. do not make long lists before dinner

I put in this edit in my post:

*list may be a bit faulty, the logical way would be to put in new hardware, put in old software, get it to work, test test and test again, get out the old hardware. That ofc depends on how much places they have in their server house.*


I also get a feeling that this may take more than just *one* rack. I would also guess on an upgrade on the network part. Still, if they get it up and working with no flaws that require taking the whole game offline again in UNDER 60H Im impressed.

*Just hope for the love of Aban that the logo "Dell" aint on any of the servers. In that case the game is wasted.*

Also; Funcom guys; If you ever read this; here is an advice: Get someone to take a few photos of the acctual work beeing done, so the endlusers may comprehend the difference between changing server hardware and plugging the new gaming rig they got prebuildt in the mail to an electrical outlet.

[Scarlet134]

Sooooooooo ... any chance of an 'afternoon update'? *smiles sweetly and flutters her eyelashes*

Still on schedule etc etc etc?

[vapor357]

you guys are forgetting...as an IT guy myself, your forgetting that we are hopelessly lazy. Its morning so the majority of us are hungover and coffee buzzin. I'm fairly sure something needs fixed here....Am i caring? not so much

hoping boss ain't surfing ao forumz atm

[landdog]

...

Stop with the patronizing bull****. We're unhappy that they:

1) didn't anticipate, as usual, how long this would take, if something did go wrong in the transition
2) not even Sil seems to know exactly what's wrong, so the 12 more hours to solve it look like another amateurish down time extension

[Talien]

Stop with the patronizing bull****. We're unhappy that they:

1) didn't anticipate, as usual, how long this would take, if something did go wrong in the transition
2) not even Sil seems to know exactly what's wrong, so the 12 more hours to solve it look like another amateurish down time extension

And as Sil said himself, he doesn't need to know exactly whats wrong just like we dont need to know. The only people who need to know are the people working on it. And as far as them not knowing how long it was going to take, you said yourself "as usual". And you want them to give you a guestimated time on how long it will take if it goes smoothly AS WELL as a guestimated time it will take if it doesn't go smoothly? Lol

[vapor357]

Stop with the patronizing bull****. We're unhappy that they:

1) didn't anticipate, as usual, how long this would take, if something did go wrong in the transition
2) not even Sil seems to know exactly what's wrong, so the 12 more hours to solve it look like another amateurish down time extension

would you have been happier if they would have said, "downtime between 2-7 days"

and i'm quite sure sil knows exactly whats wrong, is he going to tell j00? ofc not

[landdog]

And you want them to give you a guestimated time on how long it will take if it goes smoothly AS WELL as a guestimated time it will take if it doesn't go smoothly? Lol

Yes, I believe that you can anticipate how long a software/hardware problem will take to rectify, in case it appears. Second of all, that "guestimation" should've been included in the "48 hours" they first announced. I doubt there would've been much discontent if the down time would've been only 36 hours if everything would've worked fine first try.

would you have been happier if they would have said, "downtime between 2-7 days"

and i'm quite sure sil knows exactly whats wrong, is he going to tell j00? ofc not

If for a 2 day planned job you need another 5 day period to solve the problems you created, that tells a lot. But yeah, I would preffer they give a "maximum down-time period" to that they keep extending some optimistic, feel good prediction.

If you'd read his recent posts I think you'd be less sure.