What's Up with the lengthy server-specific downtimes?

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#1 Jun 25 2016 at 5:26 PM Rating: Excellent

snailish

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Sure, it could just be a normal maintenance thing...

Roshen at Offical Boards wrote:

We'll be doing extended maintenance on Vulak`Aerr, Fippy Darkpaw, Lockjaw and Ragefire servers. We'll be doing one of these a day, and during this maintenance each server will be unavailable for approximately 24 hours.

These are scheduled for:
Vulak`Aerr - Down Monday, June 27, 2016, starting at 10AM PDT*
Fippy Darkpaw - Down Tuesday, June 28, 2016, starting at 10AM PDT*
Lockjaw - Down Wednesday, June 29, 2016, starting at 10AM PDT*
Ragefire - Down Thursday, June 30, 2016, starting at 10AM PDT*

...but it just seems suspicious that it is only paired (creation time) progression servers [Vulak is almost zero population, Fippy still progressing. Ragefire has > population than Lockjaw, but both are very viable in contrast to Vulak].

Conspiracy theorists suggest mergers incoming. Anyone hear anything official (i.e., buried in some other thread) or have a different conspiracy? Or is it just boring maintenance as Roshen says. Can you trust an ogre?

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#2 Jun 26 2016 at 4:50 AM Rating: Excellent

Taninger

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I should save them some time and just delete the monk I have on Vulak. When I log on I'm usually the only person on the server - which is both scary and interesting at the same time. I have even called out my pulls in general chat "incoming a walrus!" for fun since there's no one listening.

I find it more disconcerting that DBG lets this kind of situation persist. Surely a vacant server cries out for something/anything to be done?

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#3 Jun 26 2016 at 5:22 AM Rating: Excellent

snailish

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Taninger wrote:

I should save them some time and just delete the monk I have on Vulak. When I log on I'm usually the only person on the server - which is both scary and interesting at the same time. I have even called out my pulls in general chat "incoming a walrus!" for fun since there's no one listening.

I find it more disconcerting that DBG lets this kind of situation persist. Surely a vacant server cries out for something/anything to be done?

There was 6 others on Vulak when I logged in yesterday. I remain astounded that the server is up.

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#4 Jun 26 2016 at 3:25 PM Rating: Excellent

tatankaseventh

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snailish wrote:

There was 6 others on Vulak when I logged in yesterday. I remain astounded that the server is up.

If they are using modern tech for the zone hosts, where it just spins up what's needed, the overhead of maintaining a very-low-pop server may not be very large at all.

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#5 Jun 26 2016 at 5:17 PM Rating: Excellent

snailish

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tatankaseventh wrote:

snailish wrote:

There was 6 others on Vulak when I logged in yesterday. I remain astounded that the server is up.

If they are using modern tech for the zone hosts, where it just spins up what's needed, the overhead of maintaining a very-low-pop server may not be very large at all.

^ I concur.

I just find the optics of it strange: let a TLP server dry out on the vine when you could relaunch the server as something new. Example: antique loot live in-era, full boxing, FV lootcode, load balance + instances, progression based on 1 week unlocks after open world targets are completed for an expac. Mergers from or to FV allowed when it is caught up in progression. Premium membership to play.

I doubt 20 accounts exclusively pay to play on Vulak. I'd be surprised if there was more than a couple of people paying to box 3-6 accounts there as the only place they play.

Whereas my racing-unlock-liberal loot server proposal (while likely attracting at least one or two toxic guilds based on official board lurking the past few years and probably not a place I would play myself) could easily be one of the most populated servers including into it's live content era.

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#6 Jun 27 2016 at 7:02 AM Rating: Good

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I don't know about any of that, but I can't log in at all this morning. Tried two different accounts, "There's something wrong with your request" type error message in nice red letters.

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#7 Jun 27 2016 at 8:05 AM Rating: Decent

Bana

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I am having the same problem unable to log in -- on 2 accounts keep getting "there was an error completing your request" -- and there is nothing on the Everquest Forums and when you try to log into the forums -- daybreak notice "We are currently undergoing maintenance" so unable to post about log in problems

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#8 Jul 03 2016 at 5:05 PM Rating: Excellent

missjackie

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Zek and AB were down for an extended amount of time as well, not just the TLP servers.

Edit:

"We'll be doing extended maintenance on Zek, Antonius Bayle and The Rathe servers. During this week we'll be doing one of these a day, and during this maintenance it's estimated that each server will be unavailable for up to 24 hours."

Edited, Jul 3rd 2016 7:06pm by missjackie

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#9 Jul 07 2016 at 6:48 PM Rating: Excellent

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Today, The Rather server , is down for the lengthy server maintenance. That is where I play now.

Does anyone know exactly what is done during the nearly day long maintenance ? I am curious.

It just seems so odd, though, we just had a patch a little over a day ago, and now down for a full day. Why couldnt they consolidate that for some of the servers ?

Thank you for reading this.

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