PLEASE - Try to think when scheduling maintenance, please! :)

[IBHalliwell]

Hello,

NOTE: This thread is not about emergency maintenance, but maintenance planned weeks / months in advance.

Tonight's (March 27, 2017) maintenance is from 17:00 PDT to 00:00 PDT. This period is both:

1. During several monthly events and
2. Covers 100% of today's "Gain XP" RoE Limited Time Challenage (20:00 to 00:00 PDT).

It would be WONDERFUL for SE to look at the game and not schedule planned maintenance during popular events, such as "Gain XP," Voidwatch, etc.

After all, scheduling new / replacement hardware has had to be in the works for weeks - most likely MONTHS. Choosing the next day (in this case) would showing consideration to the customers and NOT AT ALL DIFFICULT, say 1 to 2 months ago! Right? Right!

SUGGESTION: Right now all monthly events start on or around the 11th and terminate at the end of the month. Limited Time Challenges are on a set schedule. So, why not:

1) Schedule all non-monthly planned maintenance (such as server upgrades) during the time between the 1st and the 10th?
2) Look at the RoE LTC and avoid "Gain XP," as much as is humanly possible! I'm just saying avoid, if at all possible "Gain XP." If this isn't possible, well, OK, but at least let us know you tried, please.

Honestly, avoiding monthly events and "Gain XP" is NOT difficult, at all, WHEN you do it from the start of the planning!

In this case, the persons scheduling this maintenance, obviously, started months ago (e.g. ordering hardware). Choosing a time between say April 1 and 10 and avoiding "Gain XP" should be simple, when done at the beginning (weeks / months ago).


Thank you.