All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

[LyonheartLakshmi]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Frankly, there is no point talking to Americans about it, because you will always reply as you will.

Way to wave the broad brush of generalization. Cuz Americans are never inconvenienced by these maintenances. Every American works during the day, and none of them play during this maintenance period.

[Jarre]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

I think the poitn kristeena and all us EU's are putting accross is that having maintenance periods which fall 95% of the time accross the weekday times that we play means that are levelling slows down. If were in a static, have missions to do we either don't go to bed and have to pull a sickie (which to be honest is pretty lame for someone to do) or we fall behind. Once in a month is ok, twice is just about copable but 4-5 times, while the NA's and JP's carry on levlling getting exp and shooting past us, we are handicapped by the fact we can't get on due to this maintenance to prepare, craft etc. for the events we want to do. I'm levelling dancer and trying to get it up quickly, a party in valkrum was organised for this evening. Now I have been told that they want to do 3 hours straight minimum starting after maintenance. Maintenance doesn't finish till 9pm earliest, so the party time ahs been set at 10pm my time, I work for a living so can't play till 1am. So this maintenance has screwed up me being able to level quickly and I have lost a party. You wont understand until it keeps fucking up your schedule everytime you want to do something. THAT IS THE ISSUE!!

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

When S-E can and must, it only take down a few zone servers instead of an entire World or all Worlds; the Devs are clearly trying to minimize overall impact.

However, I do agree that it's not nice to always hit the same customers over and over with maintenance, however. As an NA player, I am willing to share the pain with EU players and JP players. (Well, the JP players part is just theoretical, but yeah...)

S-E, if you're actually reading this, there's at least one NA player who would like you to rotate time slots for maintenance so it won't keep hitting our EU friends, even if it costs us some prime time occasionally--especially when you have multiple update/maintenance after another within a few weeks.

[Kirsteena]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Thank you Itazura. Believe me, I understand why it is always EU time. I'm just fed up of losing events all the time (there is no point in going into Dynamis at 8pm/9pm CEuT - unfair on members for a 3 hour event) because of pathetic little 2 hour maintenances. If I was brash yesterday - well I had an amazingly shite day at work (watching colleagues being told they are being made redundant isn't fun fyi), and I wouldn't normally make generalisations like I did. Jarre pretty much hit the nail on the head about the frustrations though.

One thing though - Omni

At the following time, we will be performing FINAL FANTASY XI maintenance on all worlds. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience.

* The client software will also be updated at this time. Once this maintenance is completed, the client update will start automatically after logging back into FINAL FANTASY XI. Please follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

* The World Transfer Service will be unavailable starting 30 minutes before the maintenance. Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign will also become unavailable once the maintenance begins. Please wait until after the maintenance is completed before attempting to use these services.

[Date & Time]
Nov. 28, 2007 from 17:00 to 19:00 (GMT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

Please tell me where is says what they are fixing. My eye sight is bad, but not that bad. All I would like to know is what they are resolving. Too much to ask? Maybe.

[Tsrwedge]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

It was posted right under it on the SE sites. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if they fixed the SCH charge thing too.

Since the implementation of the latest version update on Nov. 26, 2007, we have confirmed the following issue. Investigation and recovery work is currently underway.

- The NPC is not present under some circumstances for the following quests:
Escort for Hire (San d'Oria)
Escort for Hire (Bastok)
Escort for Hire (Windurst)
* This issue has been addressed during the Nov. 27, 2007 3:00(PST) update.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[Feba]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

it just doesn't make sense to take servers offline at any time but offpeak.

yes, it sucks for people that play during that time. Your options are to get more people to play then, or play some other time.

There is no rational solution SE could take.

[Kirsteena]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

- The NPC is not present under some circumstances for the following quests:
Escort for Hire (San d'Oria)
Escort for Hire (Bastok)
Escort for Hire (Windurst)
* This issue has been addressed during the Nov. 27, 2007 3:00(PST) update

Nope, sorry. This is already sorted.

And I know Feba, I'm just shrugging my shoulders today. Logistically it does make sense, still is bloody annoying as hell. Though off peak always makes me lol (in the nicest possible way). 2.5k on Bahamut off peak, compared to 1.2k on Kujata at peak time.

[Tsrwedge]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Oops. I'm still willing to bet they're fixing the Scholar charge issue on this one.

[BurningPanther]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

I'm hoping they adjust the drop rates from expansion mobs. I certainly hope the awful rates aren't intentional, unless it's just me...

[WishMaster3K]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

The Gnole claw drop rate sucks ass. But we're price gouging it, so I might as well spend the day farming and get some good profit off it until they adjust it..

[Omni]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Thank you Itazura. Believe me, I understand why it is always EU time. I'm just fed up of losing events all the time (there is no point in going into Dynamis at 8pm/9pm CEuT - unfair on members for a 3 hour event) because of pathetic little 2 hour maintenances. If I was brash yesterday - well I had an amazingly shite day at work (watching colleagues being told they are being made redundant isn't fun fyi), and I wouldn't normally make generalisations like I did. Jarre pretty much hit the nail on the head about the frustrations though.
One thing though - Omni
Please tell me where is says what they are fixing. My eye sight is bad, but not that bad. All I would like to know is what they are resolving. Too much to ask? Maybe.

I think that is one of their general monthly maintenances. It is the end of the month you know?

But if you look a little harder and read some of the posts under that top one on the front page, you'll see all the different things they said they are fixing.

For your poor eye sight:

At the following time, we performed a version update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Affected Period]
Nov. 26, 2007 11:00 (PST)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]

- Preventive measure has been implemented to address the fire elemental appearing in certain areas.

- The location of a ??? that appears in Jugner Forest [S] has been partly fixed.

- The following NPCs will now appear during Campaign Battles:
The Eldieme Necropolis [S] - Erik / Layton
Crawlers' Nest [S] - Naiko-Paneiko
Garlaige Citadel [S] - Rarcasmeault

- Calculation of performance assessment by Campaign Arbiters has been adjusted.

- The price of Scholar spells has been adjusted.

- The following items are now being sold in the following areas:
Southern San d'Oria [S] - Hatchet
Bastok Markets [S] - Pickaxe / Sickle
Windurst Waters [S] - Sickle

Reposted from PlayOnline
Nov. 21, 2007 11:10 [PST] From: FINAL FANTASY XI

FINAL FANTASY XI Update (Nov. 21)

At the following time, we performed a version update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Affected Period]
Nov. 21, 2007 11:00 (PST)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]

Following issues have been addressed:

- An issue where the player who is invited into a Mog House would become stuck if the player who invited the player leaves the Mog House at the same time.

- Abitlies of some monsters were not working properly.

- The calculation of how much players contribute in Besieged, which determines the experience points and Imperial Standing credits players can gain, has been adjusted temporarily.

Because of this:

Current Known Issues (Nov. 20)

Since the implementation of the latest version update on Nov. 19, 2007, we have confirmed the following issues. Investigation and recovery work is currently underway.

- Effect of Reraise wears off when a player is KO'd in level-restricted areas.

- FINAL FANTASY XI may slow down when USB keyboard or USB mouse is connected(Windows only).

We apologize for the inconvenience.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews11914.shtml

we are getting this

At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

Maintenance operations will delete any reservations for Pankration matches. Players who are scheduled to participate in Pankration matches, those who will enter Assault, Salvage or Einherjar areas, or those who will participate in Dynamis or Limbus at the time of the maintenance, we ask that you please wait until maintenance is complete before engaging in these activities. Please note that we cannot replace items that are lost during the maintenance process.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Jarre/Kirsteena: I know its frustrating. It's not that I am not sympathizing with you. You say you get the logic wise but it just fucks with YOUR schedule. You are blaming SE for making the most reasonable and most viable solution they can. And like Lyonheart says, it affects NOT JUST you too. There are still quite a good amount of people at 9PST/12EST that play from North America, so it sucks for them too. You arent the only ones being 'targeted'. Oh, how many ppl play at 12est? Quite a bunch, theres about 1700 on right now for my server. WOE IS THEM.

[Ziero]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

I remember when they scheduled a major all day maintenance on a national holiday where most people in the US had the day off. Thing ran from like 12 to 12 or something...now THAT sucked.

2 hour maintenaces are easy. Sucks yea, but it's not like these things happen every day/every week. For like 1-3 days after a big update every 3 months or so.

[Omniblast]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Hi Omniblast!!

Yeah, I'm reactivating myself when I get home from work tonight. No Best Buy in LA seems to have the darn expack so I might be a little ghetto until I can find it.

See you tonight! :D

Haha it's ok, I've been disconnecting and connecting like crazy lol. Still havn't narrowed down my problem on that. It seems like my cable company doesn't like me, it gives me the typical, "unplug this, wait 30 seconds, restart computer" spew. And I know I'm talking to some girl in India fixing my problem.

[Kirsteena]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Edit: forget it

[Jarre]

Re: All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 28)

Edit: forget it

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