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It's really not that big of a deal. We could all use a few days off from EQ.
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havent really played much due to the downtimes lately. life becomes a different meaning again. I even went shopping again
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These things happen. It isn't their fault. We are talking about SOE. They have some of the most expensive and top-notch servers out there. All servers have problems, even SOE's.
I do not agree. he who has a "single point of entry" server structure must be stoopid. seriously - instead of making the colors brighter and the sky nicer to look at - they should have revamped the login system. it's clearly outdated and not customer friendly.
until about 5 years ago we had massive problems in our company with downtimes and login probs.
then we found ways of updating our systems without downtimes. secret to is is called rotation...
take a set of supervisor servers who distribute the login queries to the available login servers. and if one login server is "out of rotation" i.e. being upgraded, then the supervisor knows and directs to other login servers instead. fairly easy.
yes, the company I work for is no small one, them servers do hold millions of simultanious sessions.
granted, that due to the various server structure (e.g Tarew Marr, Stromm, FV etc) there will be downtimes. but lads, the login should not be affected at all...