Damn ... Phinny down AGAIN??

Something needs to be done about Phinny's lag/crashes -- I have lost count of the number of rollbacks. Now once again, it crashes while my group is in Juggs, that's going to be hours of exp down the tubes.

PLEASE DO SOMETHING!

Sounds like a good time for a break.

Yeah pretty ridiculous they can't keep the server up. Not only do you lose the exp but it is back to LFGing when no one logs back in. Ruins my night, basically. Shouldn't this be stable by now? The server isn't exactly new at this point.

TLP's are the potato clocks of EverQuest. Sure, they work, but they're ugly, cobbled together from spare parts and prone to failure.

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I wonder how close to full capacity Phinny is at night.Could u imagine queue at logins.

Sounds like someone might be crashing the server on purpose, if it's that frequent.

Remember how often ragefire was crashing when the population was high.Could be samething here.
There is so much they can do if that the case.Now would be a good idea to have somebody checking at prime time to see how many people playing on phinny.

I'd recommend camping out at regular intervals (akin to saving a document i guess) just to be sure your progress is saved. What else could we do until they correct this issue?

I played from about 6:30ish central to 9:00 PM central with no lag or crashes. I guess I got lucky.

CLIPPY!!

When this happened on RF, the chat channels were first to go, is this the case here too?

Isn't everyone rolled back to the same point in time, whether they had camped every minute or not at all?

Depends on the way it is done. A manual Rollback is rolled to a specific server image (those are probably done like daily) A crash/resulting roll back, will roll back characters to the last point they were written to disk, which seems to be upon zoning/camping out.

Someone said that dropping something on the ground saves your character, which is why it works for key zones - when you click on the zone the first time, it won't let you in, but if you zone or camp, or drop an item on the ground, it works. I wonder if this would work too?

I was playing four at the time of the crash. Two of the four were in one location, the other two were in separate locations a short distance away. Apparently it is something along the lines of "roll back to the last save before this time..."

From previous rollback it seems not everybody is roll for the same length of time so could be that they revert each character to last time it was save.