hi, i'm a player from the east coast of Australia who plays on the Oceania DC. it's an incredibly long shot, but i'd like to see maintenance windows staggered to 5am-10am Local Time (or tailored to an even lower time of activity) instead of simultaneous worldwide.
This way:
- Oce-based players aren't the same players consistently getting expedited maintenance stopping play during their peak login times.
- Downtime could be more tailored for even quieter server hours on each Physical Data Centre for even lower impacts.
- Subscriptions get more value if the game isn't down for maintenance when players are typically logging in on a given day.
- The smaller DCs (Oce again) could even be used to pilot more rapid hotfix rollouts before they're applied to the larger DCs. Or alternatively be left for last so care and attention can be given to the more populous servers.
If approved, I could imagine voyaging being suspended for a time until all Data Centers were caught up, or perhaps players being locked to a specific Physical Data Centre / Region until all were back to parity until it's their 'turn' for a client update.
I get the merits of the current system and it's familiarity to the staff carrying out the changes (let alone that Fridays and Saturdays are typically avoided for these changes and ample notice is given), yet it's incredibly frustrating that this consistently occurs during our local peak times to the same population of players.
Change itself is also slow, but maybe this is something we could see come the 8.x or 9.x series??
((7.x's higher need for expedited maintenance windows does exasperate this issue; maaaaybe we could get extra time or some other compensation for all this lost productivity as a thanks for keeping with us? XD))
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This way:
- Oce-based players aren't the same players consistently getting expedited maintenance stopping play during their peak login times.
- Downtime could be more tailored for even quieter server hours on each Physical Data Centre for even lower impacts.
- Subscriptions get more value if the game isn't down for maintenance when players are typically logging in on a given day.
- The smaller DCs (Oce again) could even be used to pilot more rapid hotfix rollouts before they're applied to the larger DCs. Or alternatively be left for last so care and attention can be given to the more populous servers.
If approved, I could imagine voyaging being suspended for a time until all Data Centers were caught up, or perhaps players being locked to a specific Physical Data Centre / Region until all were back to parity until it's their 'turn' for a client update.
I get the merits of the current system and it's familiarity to the staff carrying out the changes (let alone that Fridays and Saturdays are typically avoided for these changes and ample notice is given), yet it's incredibly frustrating that this consistently occurs during our local peak times to the same population of players.
Change itself is also slow, but maybe this is something we could see come the 8.x or 9.x series??
((7.x's higher need for expedited maintenance windows does exasperate this issue; maaaaybe we could get extra time or some other compensation for all this lost productivity as a thanks for keeping with us? XD))
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