Guild Wars 2

Ok so downtime in EU.. massive rush by our enemy(on a Wednesday when that countrys schools are out :P) early in the morning where they have always been strong landed them with 700 points per tick, and downtime hits, all players kicked.

We come back and they got 10.000 more points and our entire lead is gone and there was nothing we could to do fight back during that time..

Why dont you pause the point ticks during downtimes?!

This is a valid point. Extended down times can hit certain servers pretty hard on the scoreboard if the servers happen to go down during one of their weak spots in coverage. I’ll admit though, that mad dash to defend or acquire holdings just before the servers go down for extended maintenance can be a serious rush of adrenaline. Last night in the BGvKNvTC was nuts.

Still, fun or not, it’s not exactly fair.

These kinda things make me laugh. Downtime according to who?

In NA alone timezones span between UTC – 5 and UTC – 10 …. a 5 hours diff. (not including Alaska… )
European timezones span 5 hours as well. UTC – 0 and UTC – 4
Then you have to accommodate 3rd shift NA players. Why should they not get to play WvW?
What if your active time happens to fall into the official server downtime? If you are raging now, i imagine it would be worse if this happened.

The idea of shutting WvW down at X time needs to just die already….

Downtime as in SERVER DOWN FOR PATCH…

Voradors.5381:

These kinda things make me laugh. Downtime according to who?

In NA alone timezones span between UTC – 5 and UTC – 10 …. a 5 hours diff. (not including Alaska… )
Then you have to accommodate 3rd shift NA players. Why should they not get to play WvW?
What if your active time happens to fall into the official server downtime? If you are raging now, i imagine it would be worse if this happened.

The idea of shutting WvW down at X time needs to just die already….

He’s talking about the downtime this morning EU time where all ANet services were down.
Site, servers, you name it it was down. It was scheduled maintenance.

On one hand, it kinda makes me laugh that happened, on the other hand it’s kinda like “…they didn’t freeze stuff? really?”

Genev.2450:

Voradors.5381:

These kinda things make me laugh. Downtime according to who?

In NA alone timezones span between UTC – 5 and UTC – 10 …. a 5 hours diff. (not including Alaska… )
Then you have to accommodate 3rd shift NA players. Why should they not get to play WvW?
What if your active time happens to fall into the official server downtime? If you are raging now, i imagine it would be worse if this happened.

The idea of shutting WvW down at X time needs to just die already….

He’s talking about the downtime this morning EU time where all ANet services were down.
Site, servers, you name it it was down. It was scheduled maintenance.

On one hand, it kinda makes me laugh that happened, on the other hand it’s kinda like “…they didn’t freeze stuff? really?”

Ahhh, my bad. I thought it was another rant about 3rd shift people taking control of the map while others sleep.
I keep seeing that come up over and over again, and it is ridiculous.

Ya, i cant understand why they wouldnt freeze scores for maintenance.

Here’s a guess.

1. Server is taken offline — all data is saved to disk.
2. Server is restarted and daemons come online and calculate current state of game — ((mins since last tick/15)*current point tick)+current total points

Since it’s automated it will update the score accordingly as soon as it comes back online. I don’t think they have any exception tables or rules and it would be too tedious to have a dba go in and change all of the scores back.

well have it NOT do the calculation :/

yeah thats pretty lame, 4 hours of free points

Just to get the numbers right, we were ticking at 565 when the maintenance started, and we got from -11k to -7k at the end of it. Which makes 8 or 9 ticks (about 2 hours).

Obviously it doesn’t change the fact this was absurd and needs to be changed.