Today I was on my way to my friends wedding out in Broken Shores. We were all dressed in the finest of Miir fashion. Half my guild was there to honor my friend and his bride. Then we got the call over the airways that there is an attack on Athens! Oh no! I said 'sorry' to my friend and his wife-to-be and issued orders to the guild to meet in Athens to defend it, even to the death. Then the real fun began! We ALL crashed! We didn't even get to see what was attacking Athens! "Oh my gosh!" I said to my blank screen, "This is sooo much fun! I wish Funcom would always stage events!" And the I rebooted my computer a whole bunch, tried to get on the game I paid for, but couldn't, and decided to read a book. YAY! Funcom events are fun! Stage more events that your servers can't handle FC. I have an idea, run RK1 on a Tandy! That way you can save more money! You can make even more money if you keep paying PC Gamer to give you awards! That way the unsuspecting gamer will sign up and you will have new customers. And you can keep these customers, they aren't going anywhere, they are LAGGED TO BAD TO MOVE, much less sit down and log out. I understand when servers go down for the occassional reboot or patch. That's ok, your sysadmins can plan for that kind of stuff and you can let us know before hand so we don't plan our own events, or try to do a mision, or try to kill something. But seriously, planning an event in a large city, that you KNOW tons of people are going to respond to and not being able to handle it on your end is really poor planning. Did you tell the sysadmins that you were going to bog down Athens? Do the event planners know how many CPU's your servers have and how much traffic they can handle? Do they know what a CPU is? Your sysadmins should at least have a logged baseline of traffic/RAM usage/CPU load. There are third party web sites that have your traffic logged! Ask them for a baseline for your systems! But I have a better idea, go run a flower stand, that way you only have to operate a calculator. That kind of technology shouldn't be too far over your heads.
-- Oh yeah, I have outsmarted your evil plans to loose my posts when I hit 'Submit New Thread'. Ctrl+C saves me yet again.
-- On a side note -- I do love Rubi-Ka and my little guys that I get to grow, when the server gods permit.
-- Funcom! Putting the FU back in fun!