Another 8 hours of maintainance?

Nifty2g · October 2016

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Look at it as another 8 hours of forums .

Forums are usually worse

wenchmore420b14_ESO · October 2016

Tandor wrote: »

Or instead of basing an assumption on your glass being half-empty, you could regard it as half-full and assume that the initial maintenance is either the routine stuff they do most weeks to ensure that the servers are in good shape for the major update on Wednesday (something many developers do before adding a major update), or top up the glass a bit more and assume that they're anticipating additional players after One Tamriel launches and are therefore using Monday's maintenance to switch in additional hardware - up-sizing as opposed to down-sizing.

The short answer is that we don't know !

Agreed! Thank you @Tandor for this voice of reason.
Have any of you looked at the patch notes for Tamriel One? Seen how many pages of changes are coming? They are re-writing TON'S of coding. Every corner of Tamriel is going to be affected. Watch the "Tavern Discussion in Germany" vids and they told us what a bold undertaking OT will be. Coding in new gear (46 new sets), changing Alliance borders, pledge and dungeon changes, etc. The Monday maintenance is probably to prepare for Wed Up-Date.
I am not a game developer. I am not a programmer or coder. But, I know people who are. Server maintenance is necessary.
They could fore go Monday maintenance, drop Up-Date 12 Wed, and TOTALY break the game for days, or we can thank Zos for preparing for the biggest and most in depth changes the game has seen to date.
There! My two Reman's...
Huzzah!

raglau · October 2016

Considering the amount of change in the 1T patch, I think we'll be lucky if that's all the maintenence they do. The chances of a support team as incompetent as ZOS' cleanly landing a patch the size of 1T, are near zero IMO.

MidknightWolf · October 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

You're silly. ESO is not in Maintenance Mode nor are they down sizing. They are actually hiring lots more people. There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

These maintenance's we are experiencing are required for growth and development, not downsizing.

elvenmad · October 2016

MidknightWolf wrote: »

There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

Yeah............Crown Crates............nuff said

MidknightWolf · October 2016

elvenmad wrote: »

MidknightWolf wrote: »

There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

Yeah............Crown Crates............nuff said

You're being pessimistic and unrealistic. Crown Crates are just one of many things available to those of us who would like to spend real money to get something.

elvenmad · October 2016

MidknightWolf wrote: »

elvenmad wrote: »

MidknightWolf wrote: »

There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

Yeah............Crown Crates............nuff said

You're being pessimistic and unrealistic. Crown Crates are just one of many things available to those of us who would like to spend real money to get something.

Erm NO, you spend real money to GAMBLE for something and never know what you're actually gambling for and thats fact no misinformation,

Bandit1215 · October 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Without any form of improvement... ??? Haven't you noticed the improvement in Cyro ?
Still not perfect, but very noticeable.

As to the maintenance, I assume that One Tamriel "merging" the three alliances in PvE zones implies some stuff being wired differently. I'm not techie in those things though :-)

No. Every time I cap a keep it boots me to home screen before the ap tick. I can still crit rush people and land in a loading screen. No Cyro is still crap.

I dont think this as as common as an issue as people make it sound.
I don't know anyone that it's happened to and it's certainly never happened to me but maybe I play at different times than you when it might be less laggy.

Waseem · October 2016

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Without any form of improvement... ??? Haven't you noticed the improvement in Cyro ?
Still not perfect, but very noticeable.

As to the maintenance, I assume that One Tamriel "merging" the three alliances in PvE zones implies some stuff being wired differently. I'm not techie in those things though :-)

Dude, Cyrodiil is 100% cheeks in regards to performance. It still feels horrible, and the lag and inconsistency of skills reliabily working still exists to this very day. As @DRXHarbinger mentioned, gap-closers are STILL broken. Bruh, it's October of 2016. Meanwhile you can still gap-close into a loading screen, and or across the map? WTF? It's ridiculous. And if you're curious about that, I have videos on top of videos of me gap-closing into some bs. In fact, last week or the week before that I uploaded a thread and video of me gap-closing from Faregyl to Aleswell. I still don't even understand how I managed to do that. ESO is going down the drain, and at an alarming rate. Or as @Rohamad_Ali loves to put it, "ESO is vomiting its guts out regularly."

Video for Proof:
https://youtu.be/MoKiYkfIpB4

this is so bad.

Funkopotamus · October 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

hehe..

wenchmore420b14_ESO · October 2016

Waseem wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Without any form of improvement... ??? Haven't you noticed the improvement in Cyro ?
Still not perfect, but very noticeable.

As to the maintenance, I assume that One Tamriel "merging" the three alliances in PvE zones implies some stuff being wired differently. I'm not techie in those things though :-)

Dude, Cyrodiil is 100% cheeks in regards to performance. It still feels horrible, and the lag and inconsistency of skills reliabily working still exists to this very day. As @DRXHarbinger mentioned, gap-closers are STILL broken. Bruh, it's October of 2016. Meanwhile you can still gap-close into a loading screen, and or across the map? WTF? It's ridiculous. And if you're curious about that, I have videos on top of videos of me gap-closing into some bs. In fact, last week or the week before that I uploaded a thread and video of me gap-closing from Faregyl to Aleswell. I still don't even understand how I managed to do that. ESO is going down the drain, and at an alarming rate. Or as @Rohamad_Ali loves to put it, "ESO is vomiting its guts out regularly."

Video for Proof:
https://youtu.be/MoKiYkfIpB4

this is so bad.

Well, I feel for you folks on console. On PC, yes we have some lag and such sometimes, but the performance in Cyrodiil on PC/NA has improved greatly. No, ESO is defiantly not going down the drain.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · October 2016

Don't forget another 2-3 hours of downtime when the login servers decide to hiccup for no apparent reason.

Should happen 4-6 hours after maintenance, if the past is any reliable guide.

Mojmir · October 2016

MidknightWolf wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

You're silly. ESO is not in Maintenance Mode nor are they down sizing. They are actually hiring lots more people. There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

These maintenance's we are experiencing are required for growth and development, not downsizing.

proof,and don't post job openings.

neville_bart0s · October 2016

MidknightWolf wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

You're silly. ESO is not in Maintenance Mode nor are they down sizing. They are actually hiring lots more people. There are going to be many great things coming to ESO and people that posts things like this are just misinformed and uneducated on the facts of where we stand with ESO.

These maintenance's we are experiencing are required for growth and development, not downsizing.

where did you hear that??

you talk about education and facts, so where did you hear that ZOS would be hiring more staff??

Ruggsy9 · October 2016

hopefully to fix The Bal foyen error. Daggerfall toons game crashes when they travel there.

Wolfshead · October 2016

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Look at it as another 8 hours of forums .

You do know there is something call real world outside your room

have you try it i hear is ok place to be in sometime

Honest people why are you whine ZoS is not only MMO Company do thing like this when there are big update come out Blizzard all of them do samething this is not something new it have go on for years trust me.

Beardimus · October 2016

It's cool the dev tracker is updated, but why not just say what they are up to? Downtime is Downtime I get that, it has to happen but ESO has alot of it, maybe challenges with their vendor / provider SLA's / contracts, or maybe just fixing a load of stuff that's very difficult but either way why not admit it, and the reasons.

I.e. We have had extra downtime due to this / that, and bring some good feeling back. Otherwise all I fear is that downtime will increase as the game ages and become less profitable for them surely we are at peak population on Console now, and the motivation to make things better will only decrease as we pass peak.

Again I'm not moaning about Downtime, its needed, I work in IT and get it. BUT why not some open and honnest comms about it all..and a continual service improvement plan

SublimeSparo · October 2016

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Without any form of improvement... ??? Haven't you noticed the improvement in Cyro ?
Still not perfect, but very noticeable.

As to the maintenance, I assume that One Tamriel "merging" the three alliances in PvE zones implies some stuff being wired differently. I'm not techie in those things though :-)

Dude, Cyrodiil is 100% cheeks in regards to performance. It still feels horrible, and the lag and inconsistency of skills reliabily working still exists to this very day. As @DRXHarbinger mentioned, gap-closers are STILL broken. Bruh, it's October of 2016. Meanwhile you can still gap-close into a loading screen, and or across the map? WTF? It's ridiculous. And if you're curious about that, I have videos on top of videos of me gap-closing into some bs. In fact, last week or the week before that I uploaded a thread and video of me gap-closing from Faregyl to Aleswell. I still don't even understand how I managed to do that. ESO is going down the drain, and at an alarming rate. Or as @Rohamad_Ali loves to put it, "ESO is vomiting its guts out regularly."

Video for Proof:
https://youtu.be/MoKiYkfIpB4

Lmao crit rush OP. Plz nerf

wenchmore420b14_ESO · October 2016

I'm pretty sure it is to get ready for all the changes coming on Wed with Update 12 and One Tamriel.

Passifest · October 2016

Hopefully they do something to address the disconnects

MasterSpatula · October 2016

Tandor wrote: »

Or instead of basing an assumption on your glass being half-empty, you could regard it as half-full and assume that the initial maintenance is either the routine stuff they do most weeks to ensure that the servers are in good shape for the major update on Wednesday (something many developers do before adding a major update), or top up the glass a bit more and assume that they're anticipating additional players after One Tamriel launches and are therefore using Monday's maintenance to switch in additional hardware - up-sizing as opposed to down-sizing.

The short answer is that we don't know !

Neither of those scenarios tells me why they did maintenance two hours early twice in less than a week, cutting hours out of my gameplay. The regular maintenance time is bad enough.

burglar · October 2016

The game will be back eventually, and I doubt they take the servers down unless they really need to. I agree this game has it's issues, but most games these days do, I think it might be the scale of them, maybe? Then again, the only times I really have problems is with lag on sat/sun. I could be left playing a game I don't want to be playing, so I'm just glad that ESO exists and it will be there for me to play at some point; I never want to go back to playing FFXIV again.

SteveCampsOut · October 2016

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Without any form of improvement... ??? Haven't you noticed the improvement in Cyro ?
Still not perfect, but very noticeable.

As to the maintenance, I assume that One Tamriel "merging" the three alliances in PvE zones implies some stuff being wired differently. I'm not techie in those things though :-)

I've noticed Puncturing Sweeps still completely freezes me up in Cyrodil, that hasn't changed in over a year.

SantieClaws · October 2016

Khajiit she recalls reading somewhere that this was work at the datacentre itself. Something that had to be done. Probably something largely out of the control of the ZOS.

Khajiit has not read anything anywhere that the downtime might have been caused by a sugar happy khajiit trying to see if the redguard dance is possible in a confined space with many many brightly coloured wires.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Bobby_V_Rockit · October 2016

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

16 hrs in less than a week. Awesome.

Mandatory maintenence + one Tamriel = beginning of zos down sizing operation (which is what this is all about) no data centre in the developed world goes offline for maintenence without any form on continuity as much as zos....esp without any form of improvement.

Actually I noticed a huge improvement in lag reduction since last maintenance. In cyrodiil, trials, vet dungeons and other heavy pop areas. Keep up the good work ZOS!