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Athalwolf,
Posted on: 2009-05-12 09:33 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Brilliant timing!
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what again they really need to do something about these US maintenance times I would have thought the entire point of having a EU division was so that you could better schedule things.
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what again they really need to do something about these US maintenance times I would have thought the entire point of having a EU division was so that you could better schedule things.
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I concur.
It is one thing to have patches like this but I am playing on a EU server and I expect EU friendly maintenance times. If they cna tgive us that, then I want to have the US benefits. More people, more servers, a forum that devs read etc.
well aslong as i can get on when i finnish work for my new vet reward i dont mind.
Well if its the latest patch on test hitting live then it's all MA changes - so would need to be applied at the same time EU and US.
IF it is... then this is it:
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Release Notes for 18.20090422.5T
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Mission Architect
<ul type="square">[*]The maximum number of tickets awarded per player per mission has been reduced to 1,500 tickets. Because you cannot get a partial reward for defeating an enemy, you may end up with slightly less. [*]It is no longer possible to unpublish an arc that has been banned, though it may be resubmitted. [*]You may now either unpublish, or resubmit an invalidated arc. [*]If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission. [*]It is no longer possible to have the Mission Completion ticket reward be greater than the total number of tickets gained before mission completion. [*]The chicken tug animation is no longer selectable for critters through the Mission Architect UI[/list]
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But it's still poor that they can't give prior warning of a non-standard EU maintenance period, given that the decision wasn't made at 12:30 UK time when the in-game announcement was made.
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it sure was. I was in the middle of a respec attwempt. It now is a fail, snif. No shiny badge
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If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission.
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What do they mean with that?
If you are being exemplared then no tickets?
if you are being lackeyed then no tickets?
yes i just love these down times that are the morning so i log in in the afternoon, to enter a Timed mayhem to be forced off the server right after i enter
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it sure was. I was in the middle of a respec attwempt. It now is a fail, snif. No shiny badge
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If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission.
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What do they mean with that?
If you are being exemplared then no tickets?
if you are being lackeyed then no tickets?
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I think it's this. That if they Con Grey to you then you won't get tickets for killing them (they're holograms, it's Ok to kill).
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it sure was. I was in the middle of a respec attwempt. It now is a fail, snif. No shiny badge
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If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission.
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What do they mean with that?
If you are being exemplared then no tickets?
if you are being lackeyed then no tickets?
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I think it's this. That if they Con Grey to you then you won't get tickets for killing them (they're holograms, it's Ok to kill).
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You mean you got drops from grey mobs in the MA? That sounds like a bug. Good thing if they removed that problem.
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it sure was. I was in the middle of a respec attwempt. It now is a fail, snif. No shiny badge
btw.[ QUOTE ]
If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission.
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What do they mean with that?
If you are being exemplared then no tickets?
if you are being lackeyed then no tickets?
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I think it's this. That if they Con Grey to you then you won't get tickets for killing them (they're holograms, it's Ok to kill).
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You mean you got drops from grey mobs in the MA? That sounds like a bug. Good thing if they removed that problem.
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It sounds like an idiotic bug. Never had the chance to prove my theory but since you do make Inf when Exemped down it's all I could think of.
We will know more in a few hours time.
The servers aren't back up but the patch is available on the servers and it is 18.20090422.5T that went on Test last week:
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Release Notes for 18.20090422.5T
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Mission Architect
<ul type="square">[*]The maximum number of tickets awarded per player per mission has been reduced to 1,500 tickets. Because you cannot get a partial reward for defeating an enemy, you may end up with slightly less. [*]It is no longer possible to unpublish an arc that has been banned, though it may be resubmitted. [*]You may now either unpublish, or resubmit an invalidated arc. [*]If your character is not eligible for any xp/influence/debt reduction rewards in a Mission Architect mission, you will no longer be awarded any tickets for that mission. [*]It is no longer possible to have the Mission Completion ticket reward be greater than the total number of tickets gained before mission completion. [*]The chicken tug animation is no longer selectable for critters through the Mission Architect UI[/list]
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I'm guessing that this is very possibly the last one before I15 hits test for a week to 10 days...
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I was just about to start a TF when we got the big red warning of impending doom...
*sits hitting login button*
should be going again in baout 15-20 mins right?
Paws crossed!
I don't mind the downtimes as much as I mind the lack of notification about them. By now they really should have gotten a proper process with the posting of notifications in place.
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I don't mind the downtimes as much as I mind the lack of notification about them. By now they really should have gotten a proper process with the posting of notifications in place.
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with any game they always plan downtime on my day off thou :P
but ye i agree downtime aint that bad :P juz knowing 30 mins in advance is what sucks
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Attention! In 30 minutes, City of Heroes and City of Villains will go down for daily server maintenance.
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There is also a 2-hour outage window for simultaneous maintenance to the North American and European Mission Architect server reserved between 1pm-3pm (U.K. Time) daily . These Mission Architect maintenances will also affect access to the game servers.
Please note: while we are reserving these daily two-hour periods for maintenance updates, they will not necessarily require the entire two hours and additional updates may be scheduled outside this time-period as needed. We may also perform maintenance on additional servers, such as the web servers, message boards, or login servers.
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Maybe i'm reading all this wrong, or maybe daily means something else in the US, but for me, daily means daily, like every day!?
That can't be right can it? maint patch from 1-3pm every day?
Well Ive just managed to log in - looks like they are back up
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What it means basically is it covers their [censored] if they fancy taking a downtime. Therefore you cannot complain because they stated that they would have it daily, and you cant say nothing about that (:
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I did notice that MA downtime was listed, I would assume the daily means the MA Server going offline for them to process the MA arc's needing adjustment etc...
This specific one probably included bringing the test fixes to live at the same time...
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what again they really need to do something about these US maintenance times I would have thought the entire point of having a EU division was so that you could better schedule things.
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Short answer: lolzEU
Long one: Avatea has already said, more than once, that any patching involving the MA servers has to be done on those time slots because the MA servers are States side and are the same for both communities. No point whining about it as it won't change.
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Missed any announcement about this, but just announced ingame:
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Attention! In 30 minutes, City of Heroes and City of Villains will go down for daily server maintenance. The âdowntimeâ window is two hours long but maintenance may or may not take that entire time. We will have the game back up as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!
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So it looks like 13:00-15:00 UK - i.e. another US-timed maintenance...
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