HCS, will you give an official green light?
Things seem ok, just want to avoid bumps.
Posted 20 February 2018 - 19:12
HCS, will you give an official green light?
Things seem ok, just want to avoid bumps.
Posted 20 February 2018 - 19:14
Aye this is part of the planned downtime - hopefully not too much longer now!
All good now, Thank you!
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Posted 20 February 2018 - 19:25
Cows?
Posted 20 February 2018 - 20:10
Edited by EpicPiety, 20 February 2018 - 20:11.
Posted 20 February 2018 - 21:16
Posted 20 February 2018 - 22:04
It always cracks me up every time they tell everybody they're going to have down time. Everybody buffs up and then complains that their Buffs are going to waste. I don't know how it is for everybody else but as soon as I log on the first page it comes up is the homepage with the announcement. If you see an announcement talking about downtime. Why are you going to spend time and gold trying to do something. Knowing the game will be down???
Let's just hope that with all these updates and server maintenance coming up that we don't have another incident like before...
Good luck, Cows
Cucu... don't think your post was directed at me, but...
First, not everybody watches the home page and no, that's not what comes up for me. I happened to be on when the announcement came out. However, there WAS unannounced down time.
Regardless, if I actually worked for HCS, I definitely believe that they should have massed that post to all FS players.
I think it's great that they pre-announced maintenance... as it should be. I thought the Tuesday advisory came a bit late, personally.
The reason I reminded Hoof about that above (geez, did I put in the buffs on that? Thought it was just the mailbox, but did think about buffs, then thought I left it out) is because a lot of peeps, or at least myself, plan stuff.
I'm not in that boat anymore,,, I WAS able to remanage my hunt today based on the announcement. My bp wasn't affected, blah, blah, blah.
I've always been ambivalent about the buffs. You lose them, you're screwed.
My opinion:
Unexpected downtime deserves some consideration:
Buffs, I don't think anyone will be happy, but an extension on it would be good. Again, I don't care nor did that affect my buffs... in my case. But if people are planning for their ladder, what have you... well... think you could get the picture. Peeps organize and are on more than the limited staff at HCS.
Item mailbox... that needs to be extended for any unexpected downtime. Period. Again, not my case. But it's clear. Losing Epics because of HCS? Seriously...
That said, personally, I think the Tuesday heads up was way too short-lived for a world-wide game. Wednesday seemed good to me and next week, especially good. 24 hour notice just makes logical sense.
IF, the quoted post was directed at me, let me give you some feedback:
As stated in the Global Chat, I actually used pots after the unannounced downtime happened. I did that prior to the announced time, knowing, according to the HCS announcement how much time I had left.
I used that to do my DQ and to get items for a guildie for their own DQ. I was well aware that everything was going down and that I could do it in the timeframe.
IF that was directed at me because I had major buffs on... here's the deal: I was ninja buffed by an ally. I believe they tend to hit me with around 36 buffs.
I have zero knowledge when that will happen and all of my prior posts happened before they just happened to come on. Oddly enough, happened to come on and assume they buff the crud out of all their allies.
And, oddly enough, I hunted today (something that will shock most that know me)... had to deactivate tons of those, lmao.
So, now that it's clear:
Only thing I'd argue for is an extension on items in mailbox on unannounced downtime or a short-term notice. I think that's most damaging.
Buffs, I'm ambivalent about. I DO think they should be extended, but I'm not sure how much that would really "help".
Most peeps only get screwed with Epic pot usage. Cancellation and replacement? I don't know... will still be taken advantage of.
Posted 21 February 2018 - 21:15
Could we get an update? I'm pretty confused.
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