All Worlds Maintenance (Aug. 3)

[Toksyuryel]

Please note that we cannot replace items that are lost during the maintenance process.

Am I the only one who noticed this line? I've never seen that in a maintenance notice before. What the HELL are they up to...

[Laude]

Pretty sure that's been there, at least recently. I checked the past few maintenances in this section and that line was there.

[SephYuyX]

ITT people who think they know how SEs servers and system are set up and they can do a better job.

Christ sake, stop the bitching about the maints. OMG FFXI IS DOWN TWO HOURS WHAT WILL I DO.

Consider it a break and do other shit, you know, like bathe, clean your filthy rooms/houses, or oh man, interact with people on the outside.

Would you rather they left shit broken? "Oh, but why cant they be right in the first place" Because it's impossible to test everything, and when you apply it to 20 servers and millions of people playing, shit doesnt go the way it's planned usually.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

ITT people who think they know how SEs servers and system are set up and they can do a better job.

Christ sake, stop the bitching about the maints. OMG FFXI IS DOWN TWO HOURS WHAT WILL I DO.

Consider it a break and do other shit, you know, like bathe, clean your filthy rooms/houses, or oh man, interact with people on the outside.

Would you rather they left shit broken? "Oh, but why cant they be right in the first place" Because it's impossible to test everything, and when you apply it to 20 servers and millions of people playing, shit doesnt go the way it's planned usually.

What?

[SephYuyX]

Fine, thousands of dwindling players.

[Rocl]

I mean it might be 1.5-2m you could argue that is close enough for a pluralization, for serious

[Megas]

Am I the only one who noticed this line? I've never seen that in a maintenance notice before. What the HELL are they up to...

I've noticed that line for the past year or two (or something like that), but I've never heard of anyone actually losing an item during a maintenance, so I really don't know what SE is going on about.

[Shade]

I've noticed that line for the past year or two (or something like that), but I've never heard of anyone actually losing an item during a maintenance, so I really don't know what SE is going on about.

I think its for if you're foolish enough to be doing something important while Maintenance is imminent, and say, a Kraken Club drops, but Maint. begins before the item pool can be distributed.

[ringthree]

In the middle of the night till morning. It's not that bad.

Ummm, no. It's not. And that doesn't count other normal rolling restarts.

Every Tuesday until about 3PM they are down.

[Xanthe]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/79351...h-no-boss.html

Pretty sure that's the reason for the maintenance.

[TaruMortis]

Basically it's them saying "Sorry, but if you are retarded enough to attempt Dynamis, Einherjar, KS run, BS run, etc. you're shit out of luck and we will not compensate you for any of these things lost if you are doing them as maint. is about to begin." Orbs, lamps, glasses, items, etc.

[Hex]

This was announced before the Einherjar glitch. Unless there were other reports before but who knows. There's still things not working the same as before. Ixion still isn't the same. Cerberus was different yesterday for us as well. I really wish they'd announce why there is a maint at the same time they announce there is going to be one. Waiting til after it's over sucks.

[TaruMortis]

Ixion still isn't the same. Cerberus was different yesterday for us as well.

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[Gergall]

I really wish they'd announce why there is a maint at the same time they announce there is going to be one. Waiting til after it's over sucks.

Sometimes they tell us about known issues, but in the case of potential exploits, you usually won't hear about it until it's fixed. For example, SE did not tell us about the curry bun prices being too high (until it was fixed), because more people would have taken advantage of that.

They did tell us about things like the glitches in these threads:
http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/78718...-jul-22-a.html
http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/78992...-jul-27-a.html

Also, sometimes an issue doesn't sound like a potential exploit, but SE plays it safe. For example, the einherjar boss thing sounds pretty random, but if people figured out how to do it on purpose they could set up "mule groups" to go on fake runs so that the real group can beat tier 3 runs with no boss.

[ramp]

Wow

Except they come back online at a not-so-fucking-over european prime time, even if you happen(ed) to play on US servers. (Which many EU did due to the game launching months earlier). Add to that it meant a reset of the raid instances, giving you something to do again the moment servers were done with maint.

[Gergall]

Add to that it meant a reset of the raid instances, giving you something to do again the moment servers were done with maint.

And FFXI resets all the NM timers, causing almost everything to pop. What were we talking about again?

[Klaatu]

SE's game management always reminded me of this...

http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/w...hac-a-mole.jpg

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Anyone have a glitch where their Play button isn't greyed out?

[evilpaul]

Good and grey here, sorry!

[Gatsby]

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

A version update of FINAL FANTASY XI was performed at the following time.

[Date & Time]
Aug. 3, 2009 at 12:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]
The following issues have been addressed:

- During the quest "Succor to the Sidhe," rewards sometimes could not be obtained when attempting the quest as part of an alliance.

- During the quest "Succor to the Sidhe," players could obtain rewards with augments that did not match the augments that were originally confirmed.

- Within mazes created using the "Actualization Team" Maze Voucher, NPC "Chaperix" and monsters would not battle if a pet was summoned (Beastmaster's summoned pets, Dragoon's wyverns, Summoner's avatars and Automatons).

The following change has been made to gardening:

- The amount of items that can be gathered from each gardening attempt are limited to 1 for any characters that were created less than 90 days previous.