A actual webpage like most MMO's have. With the live online status of servers.
Maybe colours like ->
Green = Up and functioning well
Orange = Up but having lag/major load
Red = Dead server
Printable View
What would it say?
THE SERVER IS UP
THE SERVER IS DOWN
There's not a great deal more it CAN say... At the moment they're working on it, do any of us expect a message saying:
IT'S BORKED! THE SERVER IS BORKED!!!
OH GOD! OH GOD! THERE'S SMOKE EVERYWHERE! HAS ANYONE SEEN THE OFFICE CAT???
would be great yes.
a few years ago we had a 3rd party tool to check servers status, but just a link somewhere on launcher + FC website would be great.
something like http://www.blackstaruo.com/plugins/a...ver_status.php
Code:AO Server Stats Version
is unlocked. (Servers Up.)
Zone Server is Down.
Logon Server is Down.
Chat Server is Down.
Lol, I'm sure people think that about both our posts, and yet we both posted them anyway...Quote:
Snakebite, you assume a lot. I wasn't interested in your irrelevant ideas though.
I never said that. However it took an hour to actually have an official not of 'issues and looking into it'
I respect the team working on the game, I am just saying some communication extra might not hurt (do read it is a suggestion).
Next to that a dedicated server online page could be automatically showing changes in status, without anyone having at FC having to update the status manually. This way if things go down, you will know about it and you can report it so i can be fixed.
It is merely a tool to help the community and the team working on the game :)
Next to that I doubt there aren't systems monitoring the server status already for the tech team.
Most likely yes.
And about On/Off -> heavy load should be pretty possible too, since I guess the connection or serverload itself grow too big due to some issue (whatever it is or will be) and be shown on the list as well. But even On/Off would be a nice feature.
If you're just talking about a simple 'It's up' or 'It's down', then that's probably doable.
But the problem is, like now, it being 'up' doesn't take into account horrid lag problems, or, remember, there's not just ONE server... There's actually several servers (including I'm told virtual ones (ie. the chat server)).
So it would have to be a string of ON/OFF lights...
Login server UP
Chat server DOWN
Old Athen UP
Borialis UP
Rome DOWN (sorry omni, couldn't resist it ;))
And so on...
I'd expect somewhat grown up people being able to troubleshoot this on their own without some silly tool needed.
1. Does AO launcher work and can you log in, if yes Servers are up, if no Proceed to step 2
2. Open your browser and check if you can open a random webpage i.e www.google.com, if yes Servers are down, if no It's your internet connection.
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=604368
Vhab posted on the server notices section, its all the copy/paste stuff we wanted to hear, go back to doing dishes or laundry or something and check back in 4 hours.
Next person to post a non-ao-forums link of any kind in this thread gets a two day vacation from the forums.
Getting as little carried away...
banning peeps from forum won't change anything, we're paying customers and we only got that forum to talk about our frustration as we CAN'T play...
some players can only play on week ends... and week ends like this one weren't really good ones...
except some messages from ARKs/moderators, we only got a short apology message from vhab, and have no real idea of what's going on, or when we can expect game back.
now, good luck on fixing problems, but stop shooting on your customers !
I came here to complain.