Maintenance

[Sharpielein]

Lol whatever floats your boat. Seriously though would you prefer to play a game full of extra glitches? Been down that road wasnt impressed... quit the game and joined TSO.. yes the odd problems but nothing really for me to rather get annoyed about. Oh and yes im a very Odd person

Again, taking the vaxing metaphor:
Just because you go to a doctor who doesn't know what vaxing is doesn't mean that dying from smallpox is still normal in the 21st century.
Just because you play a game developed by a company who doesn't know what "engineering practices" are doesn't mean that X-hour-downtimes every week are still normal for IT products.

[EctoRune]

Lol whatever floats your boat. Seriously though would you prefer to play a game full of extra glitches? Been down that road wasnt impressed... quit the game and joined TSO.. yes the odd problems but nothing really for me to rather get annoyed about. Oh and yes im a very Odd person

No, I absolutely wouldn't prefer a game full of even more glitches (TSO is already riddled with them) - my point is that that's not en excuse. They could do much, much worse. But what they're doing still isn't good enough by a long shot. There's no reason to be extremely uncommunicative about the issue. There's no good reason to not set an ETA.

Under normal circumstances, I can understand that maintenance can take some time, and that it's not always possible to fit within the expected schedule. But in the case of TSO, this doesn't really work either. What on earth are they doing to the servers that takes all night? As Sharpelein mentioned, modern deployment can be done with barely any downtime. And no matter what system they're using, there's no good reason for it to take six hours, let alone six hours and then a couple more. It doesn't help that going over the scheduled maintenance time happens all too regularly.

The way BB are handling this maintenance is really lousy. Saying "it could be worse" is technically true, but also meaningless. It could always be worse. It still isn't anywhere near acceptable.

[Latina_Savannah]

im reading these msgs & it beggars belief....
its a game people, that is run via technology....
if there are glitches, they must be ironed out before it goes back on to mainstream....
or all your whiny ass's will be on here again complaining....
p.s. when the game is down for maintenance, the game is stopped in real time, and resumes when the servers are back up.... so you loose nothing....

[freddiethefox]

perhaps BB should adopt Scotties attitude to maintenance from Star Trek quote a time 2-4 hours longer then when they finish early they look good lol

[Nihilista]

p.s. when the game is down for maintenance, the game is stopped in real time, and resumes when the servers are back up.... so you loose nothing....

Ehh? The game is still running when there's a maintenance.

[freddiethefox]

im reading these msgs & it beggars belief....
its a game people, that is run via technology....
if there are glitches, they must be ironed out before it goes back on to mainstream....
or all your whiny ass's will be on here again complaining....
p.s. when the game is down for maintenance, the game is stopped in real time, and resumes when the servers are back up.... so you loose nothing....

well said

[Latina_Savannah]

Ehh? The game is still running when there's a maintenance. Why do you think people complaining about buildings running out of buffs or mines being depleted?

err... yes

[Sharpielein]

p.s. when the game is down for maintenance, the game is stopped in real time, and resumes when the servers are back up.... so you loose nothing....

Assuming everyone is available 24/7 to jump to the login as soon as servers open again.
Some people actually have something called a "Real Life" to which they must subject their potential online time. And these people actually lose a lot (in terms of game progress) when their online windows get blocked unexpectedly.
To suggest that these people subject their "Real Life" to progress in the game outside the usual game spans is the truly nerdy and absurd statement because it implies taking "Real Life" loss in order to proceed in a game.

Absurd.

[Philos]

we just misunderstood the concept of easter event

[Latina_Savannah]

lol... just made a discovery.....
some people actually set their clocks to wake them up when BB say servers will be back on line....
IT'S A FREAKING GAME lol......
and a browser game at that......
gotta love peoples real lives.....