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I am really hoping that all the people who are simply writing 'no' realise that the vote is at the top of the screen and that typing it down here does not count
BB want feedback and not a simple NO remark, but point taken you dont have to post here:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kit_
I am voting No as im not sure if it will affect my barrack's troop rebuilding. Sounds like it will be a complete shutdown. I am usually at work during maintenace so i do a lot of long searches, book building, etc while i am afk. expect that would fall by wayside too :(
No
Offer a do it yourself pause button, might be received better, BB switching my island off does not inspire my trust.
hi i think the option of stopping for each maintenance would be a better option
I voted no. On the front page I read it as individual pause/no-pause.
I could see the smart thing in an option, where you independant of others, could decide whether you want pause or not for your own island. It can always be changed in options. Probably harder to implement. As a global pause/no-pause, I'd prefer no-pause.
I often lose quite some stuff, because I haven't noticed maintenance (I don't always see the front page daily), and then I might have started things with valuable resources (saltpetre fx.), and it runs for 10h unbuffed (maintenance+work hours), which is annoying. It is just a game however.
I was of the idea that this game was about us managing our islands. We try and plan it so that our fields, wells, quarries and mines run out at a time when we can log in to replace them, the same goes for buffs. This idea would disrupt our schedules. It also means that time critical quests like the guild quests would be harder due to production being turned off and this applies to more than just the production ones as it also means we would have less usable items for the trade ones or adventure quests.
For those who are more than a few hours time difference from GMT this could be even more of a problem.
No, I want my home island to remain active during regular maintenances
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From what I'm reading on here the only time people would say yes is due to buff's expiring and mines depleting. So why not have 2 global options
1st ) Stop production when buff expires
2nd) Stop production before exhaustion
Both options (settings) would be in effect at all times
The reasons people seem to point for saying yes seem wierd to say the least... maintenance is usually annouced 1 week ahead... more then enough time to plan.
A good option though might be sending a in-game mail 1 or 2 days before the maintenance starts to remind people that don't see the main page. Simple but more then suficient.
No :)
NO dumb idea, whats the reasoning behind this idea please explain?
No
please don't
Voted NO- keep the island running.
In addition to the front page news , maybe a " mail/announcement " sent in game , informing the players , that a maintenance is scheduled in the next 24h , giving everyone a chance to plan accordingly ?
Then, it's up to the individual players to stop or keep running mines , buildings (industry) during these times. A stop button is available on every building and to everyone ,regardless of player level. ( if you do not want your fields to run out , stop your farms, etc). Yes , it's not ideal , but at least, it is a choice.
I think the problems and complaints , arise, when there are unscheduled maintenances ( hot fixes, etc), which often run in addition to the normal maintenance and we do not have the chance to plan ahead and log into the game .
lol very annoying when you are in a different time zone and due to maintenances + unscheduled maintenance + RL , you are not able to log in for 24- 36 h , and BB recompense if any , is inadequate , but it's just a game, after all.
No.
The source of this idea seems fairly straightforward; for years players have been freaking out (in various levels of civility) when Maint runs over or comes suddenly, about things running unbuffed, running out and crashing, running on and using rare/expensive resources. Demands for compensation, piles of "!!!!!!!" and :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: have been frequent, both in the forum and on Facebook, along with more than a few comments comparing BB staff (also known as humans) unfavourably to .... things better not repeated. Why *now*, I can't guess, why *now* for the addition of some other basic conveniences could also be asked, but why this should come up At All seems pretty clear.
Why anyone would want this also seems clear; while personally I have reached a stage where my biggest reaction to noticing I've left my Lv6 Powderhut* running unbuffed for two days is no more than "Dangit. *click*" I still remember clearly sharing the costs of a Lv3 Goldmine** with a friend, and we babysat the heck out of that thing. I remember counting Every Single Pumpkin from the Cemeteries for Halloween. I can see the perks to this idea, both for players and for Backstage.
No *ALERT* will ever be perfect, but people who have noted the communication difficulties, and the problems with 'Surprise! HOTFIX! :D' make good points. "Hotfixes" may be unavoidable, and while communication is improving it is still a work in progress. Those who have expressed concerns about the 'fix' causing more problems than it solves also seem to speak not only from experience, but from an experience I have shared.
I am choosing to believe the question refers to downtime in general, and not just "regular maintenances" since we no longer have those as such: Mainte-no-nance If this is a mistake feel free to correct. (And expect to be asked to explain.)
TL;DR Very well done BB for acting on player feedback and doing it in an open and transparent way (Truly, wow. This degree of open discussion and visible voting is rare, and should be much more common. Keep it up.) Voting "No freeze", though if this had come up three years ago I may well have voted for "Freeeeze it aaaaall!!" though even now I have no difficulty seeing why lower levels and/or people who don't look in once or twice a day to see what's doing might well oppose my "No freeze" vote.
* 36 Saltpetre every 18 min 32 sec. Not cheap even these days.
** 1.400 HWP, 1.400 Marble, 3.000 Tools. For a long time this was hugely expensive and if it crashed ~ Sadness! (To say the least. o.O)
no way
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no
if regular maintenance is ongoing, i prefer my production stay online.
if unexpected maintenance happening, i think its not to bad if production line being stopped. because in some case we wasn't ready to let our production keep going with its normal condition (ex: a powderhut is ongoing with 1 hour buff left, but then unexpected maintenance is going for 2 hours or more, so its a good idea if the production stopped, at least until we logged in)
:)
As Iolanthe says, it is not hard to discern the motivation behind this idea. However, this sort of solution is just a sticking plaster over the symptoms rather than a solution to the real causes of the problem, namely the seemingly constant stream of improperly tested updates that are rushed onto live servers resulting in the need for downtime extensions and/or 'hot fixes' announced with little or no warning to prepare. I honestly cannot remember the last time a planned update went smoothly.
As far as the problems that prompted this vote go, it would help to start by introducing a policy of no downtime without at least 24 hours notice, particularly for 'hot fixes', preferably including an in game mail. You can send out mails with dubious stories and free gifts by way of a backhanded apology after things go wrong and yet a simple mail with downtime details sent out 24-48 hours before it happens seems to be too much to ask? All we ever seem to get in game is a pop-up message shortly before shutdown (if we're lucky!) which hardly suffices as sufficient notice when you're sitting playing the game, minding your own business and suddenly you find out there's a 'hot fix' coming in quarter of an hour and we have buffs in the game that could have been placed up to four days previously!
But what you really should be doing is paying much closer attention to the bug reports on the test server and making the effort to actually fix them before implementing updates. I have seriously lost count of the number of times I have seen bugs that were discovered on tsotesting hitting live servers.
So, stop wasting development time and effort on window dressing and work the real problems instead... A big, fat NO! from me.
No.
For regular maintenance I have voted no for the many reasons already listed
.... however, for those emergency maints where we get very little if any notice I think this would be a good feature
I have voted no. And as Kit said some pages back, please remember to use the vote button at the top of the page. I agree with most of the comments associated with a negative vote. The only time I get annoyed is when there is barely any notice given. I am 8 hours ahead of UK time so there are times when the notice given has not given me enough time to sort things. But again as someone said earlier, it is just a matter of rebuilding and a few clicks.
I appreciate you giving us a chance to have our say but a really big NO from me.
Maintenance lasts for couple of hours. It has to be a good reason to stop production during maintenance and I do not see any. I would like people who voted "yes" to come forward and explain why they voted "yes". Thanks!
Frankly, there is a better idea. I want to be able to disable the chat regardless if there is a maintenance or not. Getting rid of the game chat is a brighter idea because it will speed up travelling between zones and loading the game.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
No.
who ever thought this was a good option? NO
No.
my island doesn't turn off when I log from the game...why should it turn off for maintenance?
i am not in favor as i am a shift worker and have a set time when i wake ready for my night shift, it is then when i send my minions out item hunting and replenish my isles buffs usually 24 or 48 hr ones and the isle stopping production will totally naff my timings for the replenishment of my buffs and could really be a total pain.
this would be useless for planned downtimes however for unintentional downtimes it maybe a good idea. but buffs doing buff stuff is a problem.
and would you be stopping even time also?
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No.
No. Please no. It would effect buff timings and production chains.
For me, it would be far more useful to have a countdown on the front page (like we have for events ending or gem sales) to maintenance so I know instantly when it is happening, and then I would simply plan around it - rather like I plan around sleep, work, family. Overfill mines, stop mines - whatever; it's part of the game planning around the times we cannot get online.
Yes
No