Server Downtime daily at 10am EST?Follow

It no longer happens EVERY day... just whenever thay have a patch or an update to push to correct a problem. This usually does work out to "every day" for about a week following each live update. And yes, it normally happens at 10AM Eastern... which translates to 7AM Pacific (location of the server farms is San Diego, Ca.)

But, this morning's downtime was listed as server maintenence and not a patch so it could have been for anything...

Over the Christmas Holidays (starting a few days after LU18), there was a stretch of about ten days running where they never brought the servers down once!

As far as a published schedule, if you check THIS page, on the right hand side - near the top you will see a box of announcments. It usually lists the next schedueled downtime.


Edited, Sat Jan 7 14:18:30 2006 by OldBlueDragon

They don't always give a countdown. It happened a few times and the sony forums blew up about it. People crafting with rares and the servers came down in the middle of it. I was crafting two of the days but thankfully with just ash lumber.

Seems to me they are taking them down for moronic reasons. Few days ago they did it to take canine saliva out of the tradeskill uses it had. Nothing game breaking to take down live servers every day. No idea why they are doing it.

I have always gotten notice, (when I have been playing before a shutdown). They come at 1 hour before, half hour before, 15 minutes before, then every 5 minutes, and always begin with "attention citizens of Norrath...". In addition, there is a "bell" sound that signals the server wide notification message. Once you hear that bell and identify it with the server messages, like Pavlov's dogs, you will be forever trained!

It is possible that you didn't see the warning notification messages go by since if you were in group and fighting at the time they would have scrolled by quickly. Try listening for the bell sound next time you're on between 6 & 7AM.