xQuicksilverx Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) "corrected a meaningless issue that could have easily waited for regular weekly maintenance". for those that aren't sure what i mean, our last 'unschedualed maintenance' was for "General Addressed an issue that could prevent characters from being deleted. Made improvements to the CS ticketing system." If your memory is short, the downtime for this "EMERGENCY" came friday night, and lasted all day.. eventually bioware came back and gave everyone 24 hours of gametime in compensation. Im waiting for these patch notes to show up,.. and while there is speculation that this is ranked warzones or something else, im anticipating that the only thing we will get out of this will be something mundane that could easily have waited for the Tuesday maintenence. I guess i can only hope to be wrong Edited April 27, 2012 by xQuicksilverx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatebomb Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Probably an exploit they are fixing. Or a nerf to ops/scoundrels lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bation Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 "corrected a meaningless issue that could have easily waited for regular weekly maintenance". for those that aren't sure what i mean, our last 'unschedualed maintenance' was for "General Addressed an issue that could prevent characters from being deleted. Made improvements to the CS ticketing system." If your memory is short, the downtime for this "EMERGENCY" came friday night, and lasted all day.. eventually bioware came back and gave everyone 24 hours of gametime in compensation. Im waiting for these patch notes to show up, but if they finally come up.. and while there is speculation that this is ranked warzones or something else, im anticipating that the only thing we will get out of this will be something mundane that could easily have waited for the Tuesday maintenence. I guess i can only hope to be wrong we can always hope but i bet its just them cleaning up the rest of the rakghoul plague Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuinteX Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Probably an exploit they are fixing. Or a nerf to ops/scoundrels lol. Oh one more nerf for them? Well, thats what we wanted, they have only had like 200 nerfs since release lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grymtusk Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I guarantee you it will be something stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignicity Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Probably an exploit they are fixing. Or a nerf to ops/scoundrels lol. I heard they were nerfing Merc's. Apparently they have it too easy when it comes to heat management. Edited April 27, 2012 by Ignicity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoebe Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 If they told us before the servers went down what the patch was for there wouldnt be all this drama surrounding what the downtime was for. Only reason I could find for not saying why is an exploit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xQuicksilverx Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 10 meg patch.. definately nothing worthwhile.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAnguish Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 It's most likely dealing with the frequent CTD issues a large portion of the player base has been experiencing since Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weaksauce Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 just as long as they dont revert the client to a pre 1.2 build on accident, AGAIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamboatgeorge Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Good im glad i cant play for more then a few hours without a CTD. THANKS BIOWARE I HOPE YOU FIX THIS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuzz Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 had 2 CTDs since release. Sounds like the problem is with your setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogol Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) we can always hope but i bet its just them cleaning up the rest of the rakghoul plague If these people REALLY think that cleaning up the rest of the plague is worth 4 hour downtime ON A FRIDAY, they got NO CLUE about what is important to players. Sure, the mandatory plague event is very, very annoying but cutting into friday-morning playtime is a guaranteed way to upset people like me. I heard they were nerfing Merc's. Apparently they have it too easy when it comes to heat management. The same for this. This is no reason to bring servers down for hours. The more I see these people mess up with this game, the more I think that Lucas Arts should not have given the Star Wars MMO merchandise to a company that has zero experience with MMOs. Their complete lack of knowledge about how to treat online customers is taking it's toll, even with loooooooooong-time Star Wars fan like me. Edited April 27, 2012 by Yogol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignicity Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) had 2 CTDs since release. Sounds like the problem is with your setup. Wrong. A lot of customers have only seen CTD's since 1.2. Our setup's were fine before that. Next assumption? Edited April 27, 2012 by Ignicity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuphoricAnguish Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 had 2 CTDs since release. Sounds like the problem is with your setup. Go look in the support forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bation Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 If these people REALLY think that cleaning up the rest of the plague is worth 4 hour downtime ON A FRIDAY, they got NO CLUE about what is important to players. Sure, the mandatory plague event is very, very annoying but cutting into friday-morning playtime is a guaranteed way to upset people like me. The more I see these people mess up with this game, the more I think that Lucas Arts should not have given the Star Wars MMO merchandise to a company that has zero experience with MMOs. Their complete lack of knowledge about how to treat online customers is taking it's toll, even with loooooooooong-time Star Wars fan like me. Dont worry in a couple months blizz will buy swtor from EA/bioware just to run its future success in their face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamboatgeorge Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 had 2 CTDs since release. Sounds like the problem is with your setup. I've had ZERO until last Tuesday. Including beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leggomy Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 The downtime is to fix a credit exploit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bation Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 The downtime is to fix a credit exploit. Which takes 4 hours very sad i mean are they manually typing the code up on every server or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leggomy Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Which takes 4 hours very sad i mean are they manually typing the code up on every server or something Go outside. Get something to eat. Watch TV. Lots of stuff to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatebomb Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Which takes 4 hours very sad i mean are they manually typing the code up on every server or something Up to 4 hours. may come back up sooner. Imagine the nerdrage if they said an hour and it got extended lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheous Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 If these people REALLY think that cleaning up the rest of the plague is worth 4 hour downtime ON A FRIDAY, they got NO CLUE about what is important to players. Sure, the mandatory plague event is very, very annoying but cutting into friday-morning playtime is a guaranteed way to upset people like me. The same for this. This is no reason to bring servers down for hours. The more I see these people mess up with this game, the more I think that Lucas Arts should not have given the Star Wars MMO merchandise to a company that has zero experience with MMOs. Their complete lack of knowledge about how to treat online customers is taking it's toll, even with loooooooooong-time Star Wars fan like me. And what? Give it to Blizzard who is doing oh so well at not mangling their own product as of late? No thanks, I'd rather not have 6 point talent trees, and Pandas with light sabers. Or hey they could give it off to SoE right? Oh wait SoE couldn't care less about their customers. With SoE you would be lucky to get a patch ... ever. So please tell me what other company would you have preferred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurax Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 And what? Give it to Blizzard who is doing oh so well at not mangling their own product as of late? No thanks, I'd rather not have 6 point talent trees, and Pandas with light sabers. Or hey they could give it off to SoE right? Oh wait SoE couldn't care less about their customers. With SoE you would be lucky to get a patch ... ever. So please tell me what other company would you have preferred? Lego? ... too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViridisDraco Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Which takes 4 hours very sad i mean are they manually typing the code up on every server or something restart a server is a complicated and potentially dangerous thing, and i know what i'm saying because i work as server engineer for a worldwide ICT company. deploying a patch is potentially dangerous (as we have already seen) so 4 hour to don't screw all the hardware/software is worth of the "oh my god 4h unplanned downtime!" QQ have a nice day Edited April 27, 2012 by ViridisDraco typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warultima Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 According to our internal and contracted testers as well as our metrics we made the following change to rebalance Sorcerers. Sith Inquisitors: General: Fixed some tooltip errors. Sorcerer: Dark Infusion: is now has a base 4.0 seconds activation time. Crushing Darkness: Slightly functionality changed. Crushing Darkness no longer has a direct damage component. It will now deal its total damage over 13 seconds (can be talented to 15 seconds to match its cool down due to popular demand). Total Damage is roughly unchanged. Death Mark: Slightly functionality change. Death Mark now only increase Affliction damage by 20%, 10 stacks. Creeping Terror: No longer roots the victim in place. Now has 15 second cooldown, deals damage over 30 seconds. Total Damage is unchanged. Disintegration: Now increase the critical chance of Force Lightning and Lightning Strike by 1% per point. Calcify: Now increase damage dealt by Shock, Force Lightning and Affliction by 1% per point. Chain Shock: When you activate Shock you have (10/20/30)% chance to activate a second Shock dealing (10/20/30)% of the normal damage. Force Lightning: Now deals same damage over 6-second channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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