CourtneyWoods Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 (edited) On Tuesday August 13th,2013 we will be performing scheduled maintenance for consolidation of APAC into West Coast North American servers. There will not be a patch to download during this downtime. Details are as follows: APAC and NA-West Coast Servers will be unavailable from August 12th 10PM PDT (August 13th 5AM UTC; 3PM EST-AU) until August 13th 10AM PDT (5PM UTC; August 14th 3AM EST-AU). To minimize downtime for other services, NA-East Coast and European Servers, SWTOR.com, and the game launcher will remain available for several more hours. We anticipate they will come down on August 13th between 12 AM and 4 AM PDT and will remain unavailable until 10AM PDT (5PM UTC). During maintenance, updates and additional information will be posted on our Twitter account. Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Edited August 13, 2013 by AmberGreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnewton Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 You'd better have your tech guys on standby. I estimate a 90% chance Harbinger will crash that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidichIorian Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 How about opening up trans-atlantic transfers while you're at it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RButchie Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Your frequent updates are tiresome!! Some of us play at that time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veyl Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 As long as you don't merge the east coast servers again and I lose all of my names...again...when i've been here since beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpayday Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 (edited) 1. What happens if I have too many characters on a server after the merge? 2. How does this effect the bounty hunter event start time? It's starting about that time isn't it? ok so European servers are going down 2-6 hours after? Edited August 10, 2013 by mrpayday reread message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire-breath Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 (edited) On Tuesday August 13th,2013 we will be performing scheduled maintenance for consolidation of APAC into West Coast North American servers. There will not be a patch to download during this downtime. Details are as follows: APAC and NA-West Coast Servers will be unavailable from August 12th 10PM PDT (August 13th 5AM UTC) until August 13th 10AM PDT (5PM UTC). This timeframe makes sense . The following for NA-East and Europe doesn't To minimize downtime for other services, NA-East Coast and European Servers, SWTOR.com, and the game launcher will remain available for several more hours. We anticipate they will come down on August 13th between 12 AM and 4 AM PDT and will remain unavailable until 10AM PDT (5PM UTC) What I read here is that the servers may go down on 12 AM PDT. They will come online again 2 hours EARLIER on 10 AM PDT. Something in there must be a mistype. Can you please elaborate more about the downtime courtney? (PS: don't forget to post the UTC-times for our convenience ;-)) EDIT: Yesterday had a thought about it and besides the missing UTC times the times are correct indeed. Since I never use the 12 hours AM/PM system I forgot that time goes from 11 PM to 12 AM. Feel like a noob now The converted downtime to UTC would be from 7 AM UTC / 11 AM UTC till 5 PM UTC. Edited August 11, 2013 by fire-breath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fractal_Eye Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 This timeframe makes sense . The following for NA-East and Europe doesn't What I read here is that the servers may go down on 12 AM PDT. They will come online again 2 hours EARLIER on 10 AM PDT. Something in there must be a mistype. Can you please elaborate more about the downtime courtney? (PS: don't forget to post the UTC-times for our convenience ;-)) Actually, if it was supposed to be online 2 hours earlier, then it would be 10 PM PDT (on the 12th, too), not 10 AM PDT. The times listed are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master-Nala Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Will people already on the West coast servers have the potential for losing their character names? If so, why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowoz Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Will people already on the West coast servers have the potential for losing their character names? If so, why? No, when a transferred characters name is already taken on the server , the transferred character has to be renamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tahyri Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 No, when a transferred characters name is already taken on the server , the transferred character has to be renamed. The problem is, they are referring to this as a Consolidation, not a Transfer. Much like when the old servers were Consolidated into the new super servers. It's a legitimate question then. Are the APAC characters merely being transferred to the West Coast servers, thereby making it so the APAC characters are renamed, or is it essentially creating new West Coast servers with the same renaming policy as the prior Consolidation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaEkotte Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 As if the servers wernt full enough already, first you "consolidate" from around 20+ servers down to 10 and THEN you go free to play, now we are going down to even FEWER servers!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leweegibo Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 As if the servers wernt full enough already, first you "consolidate" from around 20+ servers down to 10 and THEN you go free to play, now we are going down to even FEWER servers!?! 99% of APAC players are already on the U.S servers and have been for many weeks. The APAC servers are literally ghost towns, pic is from a few weeks back: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/630785219539707691/DB3B0A4BBBC2B083969BFE340F2F12AE42879F0D/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnewton Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 As if the servers wernt full enough already, first you "consolidate" from around 20+ servers down to 10 and THEN you go free to play, now we are going down to even FEWER servers!?! Considering they're force-consolidating an entire region away, my guess is it wasn't a simple "oh we don't need those servers anymore", it's probably an issue of them being unable to host servers in the APAC region in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zandilar Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Considering they're force-consolidating an entire region away, my guess is it wasn't a simple "oh we don't need those servers anymore", it's probably an issue of them being unable to host servers in the APAC region in the future. Actually it is because the APAC servers didn't have enough of a population to sustain them, and people were complaining. (There's a long running thread in this very forum that will attest to that.) (Opinion: Bioware/EA may not have had these population issues on the APAC servers had they released them at launch in December 2011.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec_Fortescue Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Your frequent updates are tiresome!! Some of us play at that time!! Hey, ever tried Star Trek Online and their patching? No? Try it and you won't complain. :] At least here they are on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliensorigin Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Can you fix lag spiking while your at it! It's not our Internet connection because so many people are getting it more frequently and everything outside this game works perfectly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driveinns Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Downtimes will happen. Complaining about them is asinine (at best) and pointless. It will happen regardless of how many complain, because they have to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPryde Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 No, when a transferred characters name is already taken on the server , the transferred character has to be renamed. During the first server consolidation, the two german RP-servers were joined. I was on Vanjervalis Chain from the start and I still am on that server (so the other server was the one joining us)... and I still lost one charname due to the transfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screaming_Ziva Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Are we getting a patch too? Bounty Hunt event? New Cartel Packs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryler Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 What is the patch for? DX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverend_shawn Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 It is for Server Consoidation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyKohastFel Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 No, when a transferred characters name is already taken on the server , the transferred character has to be renamed. They should of had a 50-50 chance of that in the case of forced transfer like this, because it is not like the APAC players are moving their characters over on a whim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortuona Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 My concern is how they will be handling name conflicts when people have purchased name changes from the cartel market. Do those people still risk losing the name? And if so, will they be refunded for the cash they paid to obtain it in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leweegibo Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Like how it doesn't have oceanic time zone on maintenance anymore, BW must be glad to finally wipe us from their radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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