Based on maintenance times who should get priority

rentalman UK

Eu normally day time
NA normally early hours of morning EG well before 8am

Inquisitor_Wind

EU Servers

obviously EU will get all votes , since all NA folks are playing the game , not waiting for the damn servers to come online

Turelus

NA Servers

NA Severs (as an EU player).

They're already up at 4am to do it as to best avoid messing with us as it is, I have plenty of other games and things to do once a week.

SilverWF

None of them. Maintenance time must be different for the every region, started from 4:00 of local time (UTC or EDT) and continues not more than 4 hours.

rentalman UK

EU Servers

Inquisitor_Wind wrote: »

obviously EU will get all votes , since all NA folks are playing the game , not waiting for the damn servers to come online

Looking at times more eg na 4am UK 10am

Nemesis7884

youre asking the wrong question - maintenance times should be based around (respectively away from) the priority game times for each zone.... the problem is, if you have full day maintenances you can't really do that - unless for example you run em from 1 at night to 1 pm for each individual zone - but Pete is sleeping then or mocking people on twitter about TES6, so thats no option

LadyLavina

NA Servers

lol OP this thread is going to incite flaming and arguments more than anything.

Neither server should get "priority" over the other because all that would do is divide us further and create more animosity and even unwarranted feelings of superiority.

Browiseth

why does it have to be one or the other? the reality is it should be both

speaking as an EU player playing on NA, for reference

rentalman UK

EU Servers

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

youre asking the wrong question - maintenance times should be based around (respectively away from) the priority game times for each zone.... the problem is, if you have full day maintenances you can't really do that - unless for example you run em from 1 at night to 1 pm for each individual zone - but Pete is sleeping down or mocking people on twitter, so thats no option

Yes I agree but NA starts at 4am. Probably less players on than at 8am so to speak but for UK it is 10am when many have time to play without distractions. Just my thoughts though

MNsnowtaTy

NA Servers

Turelus wrote: »

NA Severs (as an EU player).

They're already up at 4am to do it as to best avoid messing with us as it is, I have plenty of other games and things to do once a week.

Finally a logical post about there are other things anyone can do during this time.

I'm in NA and if they want to alternate them, so be it. If it interrupts when I would play, I've got other games and other things I could be doing instead.

So thank you for that post.

Kodrac

Nemesis7884

rentalman UK wrote: »

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

youre asking the wrong question - maintenance times should be based around (respectively away from) the priority game times for each zone.... the problem is, if you have full day maintenances you can't really do that - unless for example you run em from 1 at night to 1 pm for each individual zone - but Pete is sleeping down or mocking people on twitter, so thats no option

Yes I agree but NA starts at 4am. Probably less players on than at 8am so to speak but for UK it is 10am when many have time to play without distractions. Just my thoughts though

but uk play on the eu server no? so do eu server maintenance during eu night time and us server maintenance during na night time - whats so difficult?? its outsourced anyway??

Dreepa

This is one of the most idiotic threads I have seen in quite a while.
Someone lock this nonsense.

bennysbeastb16_ESO2

EU Servers

i don't see why they don't take EU down at 4am BST and then do the same at 4am EDT , that way if everything ran smooth on UK, NA shouldn't be issue, Yes were test dummies, but i can see why its an irritation during EU peek hours..

* im just happy they didn't take it down yesterday on a BANK Holiday

LadyLavina

NA Servers

Dreepa wrote: »

This is one of the most idiotic threads I have seen in quite a while.
Someone lock this nonsense.

indeed.

@ZOS_JohanaB @ZOS_BillE

Ground team requesting Thread Lock ordinance drop.

Nemesis7884

Turelus wrote: »

NA Severs (as an EU player).

They're already up at 4am to do it as to best avoid messing with us as it is, I have plenty of other games and things to do once a week.

agree and disagree at the same time - you might have plenty of other things to do and you might have plenty of other times to play it - not everyone has that luxury and has very scarce playtime and when maintenance falls exactly into the scarce game time you have...

Gruffysb16_ESO

EU Servers

Perhaps it would be best then to keep both NA and EU servers down until both were ready.

I'm sure this solution would speed up how fast both servers get fixed.

Sanita

EU Servers

Voted for EU but should be neither. Each region should get the maintenance by their own time zone. We're 2 hours ahead of most of the EU in where i live so its 20.00 in here whit the local time. And still waiting for servers to come up...

Eu should have its own maintenance time and Us got its own.

rentalman UK

EU Servers

Dreepa wrote: »

This is one of the most idiotic threads I have seen in quite a while.
Someone lock this nonsense.

You do not have to partake if you do not agree with the question free will and that

Unfug122

this is why we can't have nice things..

if you don't see the flaw in the question asked, then you probably should stop launching discussions in public and thus stop embarrassing yourself.

"prioritise my needs over others, because i say so!" that's how segregation of the worst kind starts btw.

would somebody please have the courtesy to close that abomination

rentalman UK

EU Servers

Unfug122 wrote: »

this is why we can't have nice things..

if you don't see the flaw in the question asked, then you probably should stop launching discussions in public and thus stop embarrassing yourself.

"prioritise my needs over others, because i say so!" that's how segregation of the worst kind starts btw.

would somebody please have the courtesy to close that abomination

How is that so the Na server commences at 4am there time. And on the European Server it starts at 10am GMT time yet different maintenance staff . Different server locations why not have the same time 4am Na and 4am Eu. Why same time but different locations surley common sence prevails as if 4am on one why not the other. Both staff get overtime

drakhan2002_ESO

NA Servers

rentalman UK wrote: »

Eu normally day time
NA normally early hours of morning EG well before 8am

NA servers; the people that run the servers live in the U.S. - they work during "normal business hours" which is typically 9 AM to 5 PM in their respective time zone.

Should they have separate maintenance for the EU servers? Probably...but at this point in time, they do not.

Jitterbug

Whatever sends the maintenance workers home early.

MCBIZZLE300

It should all start at 2am for every server then only small minority would experience downtime (altho in this case its coming close to 10 hours of maintenance on eu). I dont think one deserves priority over the other and to be fair, they did change the time maintenance starts in eu.

bennysbeastb16_ESO2

EU Servers

why not get up 4am BST; thats 11pm EST, do EU server, for the 4 to 6 hours, which means its back up by 10am BST, and while that process has ran its course, its now roughly 4am EDT(which is usual NA maintenance time), taking them through to 10am EDT, ....
the overall effect is 10-12 hours through what they call a NIGHT shift, there plenty of job roles that actually do work nights,
in the working world they have a thing called a Rota, its something that you can place people to work on a rotation, so nobody end up getting all sh* shifts..

Turelus

NA Servers

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

NA Severs (as an EU player).

They're already up at 4am to do it as to best avoid messing with us as it is, I have plenty of other games and things to do once a week.

agree and disagree at the same time - you might have plenty of other things to do and you might have plenty of other times to play it - not everyone has that luxury and has very scarce playtime and when maintenance falls exactly into the scarce game time you have...

I will come off like a jerk but yeah, it happens and it sucks but you have to deal with it.

The game is never going to be up 100% of the time for every player, welcome to life when things are not always what we want. You just need to find a way to deal with it that works for you.

Mainman99

Did the NA PC/MAC server even have maintenance today?

The problem is that it seems like the EU servers very often runs into some extra problems and more time is needed

taiji2078

If you're an adult paying your subscription, ask for a game time refund. Stop whatever you're doing here on forums and send an E-mail to ZOS right now to Support.
This situation must stop. My wife is a lawyer and we have customer rights in Europe too. Maybe they don't believe it. We'll fix it.

drakhan2002_ESO

NA Servers

taiji2078 wrote: »

If you're an adult paying your subscription, ask for a game time refund. Stop whatever you're doing here on forums and send an E-mail to ZOS right now to Support.
This situation must stop. My wife is a lawyer and we have customer rights in Europe too. Maybe they don't believe it. We'll fix it.

Good luck with that! LOL.

theher0not

EU Servers

EU servers should have it during moring or night GMT or CET. US should have it when it is moring or night there.

ohaphazardo

EU Servers

Cannot they understand the hate they are generating by repeatedly treating Europeans this way...