Server Downtime - August 6, 2014 - Halls of Power Part I

also für den EU Server heißt das wir etwa um 18:00 wieder spielen können
super ganzer nachmittag versaut

bummer had a nice day of leveling planned

you know this is another 12h shutdown day.

Well the game went down an hour early, happens. now lemme see 4:30 am + sony's 6 hours = 2:30 pm Yep I should be out of work by then.

2 Days in a row?!..Seriously Guys you need to manage this a bit wiser.

figures...

Why the hell U write 5:30 am, when U shut down waaay ealier than that, it makes no sence. !?!?? Stick to the times U given us or edit the damn post !!!!!

It's funny how every update and dlc anoncement thread became a complain thread!!!

"NO NO NO! don't bring the new content, so i can do my duos!!!"

people complain when there is no new conrtent released fast enough, then they complain when the game is taken down to add the new content, lol. Never change DCU!

I understand the need for server shutdowns for updates and maintenance, but I have to agree about the irritation of the server shutting down an hour and a half earlier than posted, with no updates on the forum. Overall, I love this game, and have enjoyed playing it for several years, and am usually irritated by the complaints I see about the servers having to shut down, even though they always seem to happen on one of my days off work when I have the free time to play. This time, however, I am on the side of those complaining. Why was the server shutdown early, without any notice given before hand?

You do know that there are many notifications in game(chat window), starting 30 minutes before server shut down, right?

Always love new things so woot woot.

I take it all of these server shutdowns happen at US friendly times. It's early evening here is Australia and I don't get a chance to play too often. This is a deal breaker for me.

Ready for ACTION..

I'll take 10 hours if it means new content to run.

and you know they said it would shut down at 5:30 and not 4:00, right?

So the time right now is 05:06 am PDT right? Meaning around 03:00 pm PDT will the servers be back up or have I found wrong information?
(European)

Look, i understand everyone position in here, but as IT Professional i cant understand those downtimes.

I mean, when working on critical environments, we dont have the option of interrupt the systems for hours like DCUO does.

SOE should have ways to update content without stop the services, in most business environments, we have 3 levels of servers to ensure the 24/7 services running.

DEV (Development) Environment:

Is a where the devs works, they can changed whatever they wants, reboot anytime, do changes and apply new stuff to check the system behavior.

QA (Quality) Environment:

Here only cosolidate changes can be applied, only finished updates will run on QA, but changes and reboots can be done to check possible fix for bugs, as long this stills the exacly copy of the production server for testing purposes.

PRD (Production) Environment:

Here is where costumers are, only quality approved changes can be applied, no reboots, this environment needs power, airflow, hardware and software redundacy to ensure the better uptime of services, also VMWare VMotion kind of stuff can be very useful to prevent problems.

So following this guidelines, with solid infraestructure and planned devel, no need to have so much downtime to updated content, i mean if you have a QA Environment, EXACLY equal to the PRD, theres no reason to believe in failure on PRD, if goes well on QA.

Something like that.

at this point any possible downtime is pure speculation, just get ready for 12 hours just in case.