12 Hour Countdown

Yeah we know, but the main point is

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extend the suspension until Mar. 22, 2011 (JST).

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Meaning that the current planis for them to be turned on, but of course it is up for re-evaluation.

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I certainly do not expect anything to happen at Japanese midnight.

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No person here does, it is just a milestone to be in the actual day for a minimum a new update of the situation.

The issue hasn't been a lack of people working or anything weird like that, it's just that they turned them off to ration power. The earthquake disrupted their power grid quite a bit. Many power plants (other than the Fukushima plants) were automatically shut down when the earthquake struck. They likely needed to inspect everything and make repairs, if necessary, to both power plants and the grid before they can start those plants back up. The original estimates were that power rationing was going to last 3-4 weeks or more, although a few days afterwards it seemed that people were rationing well and it wasn't as big of a problem as they thought. I read about a few plants coming back into operation yesterday, but it's otherwise been difficult to find information about it. I'm a bit hopeful considering that they said the reevaluation was only going to be three days after the last one. That's a very short amount of time, all things considered. Either way, they're definitely not going to switch them on at JP midnight, just expect to hear an announcement later today. They may say they're booting them up later today or in the near future, or they may put it off again for reevaluation.

crossing fingers!

FFXI Will be up on the 22nd or 22rd! You know why? Square Enix loves me and knows what I want and won't hesitate to give it to me!

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Originally Posted by Juri_Licious

FFXI Will be up on the 22nd or 22rd! You know why? Square Enix loves me and knows what I want and won't hesitate to give it to me!

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Can we get a countdown to the 22rd? :D

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Originally Posted by Anela

From the main SE page, you will be able to see the server status. It continues to show "Partial Maintenance" which I believe means they never shut them off completely, so no Boot-up required. Probably similar to "hibernation/standby mode on a PC. Conserves power, but ready to get back to full power rapidly.

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They always show "Partial Maintenance" even when they turn them off and unplug them to move them. It's just the wording they use to say "You can't log in".

One thing to keep in mind is that Tepco has split Tokyo into 5 groups, and I believe SE falls into Group 5. If power rationing continues, groups 4-5 are set to be left out of the blackouts if at all possible as they are the business wards for Tokyo. Getting 4 and 5 power 24/7 is necessary for a faster economic recovery.

Today was also a national holiday over there as well, so there likely wouldn't be anyone there to make the call at midnight JST anyway.

And for the curious, here's a pic of their building and a map of the area where it stands. If you click the link to"Map This", it flips the map to full screen and you can zoom in/out and see the Police Station, government offices, schools, hospitals, and universities nearby (one is also a medical university):

http://www.tokyoarchitecture.info/Bu...unka-Quint.php

If you put the view in Hybrid mode, you get handy icons to mark the hospitals, and the red lines look like the mass transit routes that run through the area--there is also train hub just a few miles to the east and a little north (near junction of highways 414 and 20--thier building looks to be just off of hwy 20).

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Originally Posted by Vivivivi

Can we get a countdown to the 22rd? :D

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IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

*doo, doo, dee, doo. doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. do, deh, doo!*

You people need to go play another game today. I've put in a bunch of Civilization V hours the last week.

As I pointed out earlier, you will probably have to wait until 4-5am EST on the 22nd before they announce something.

They're not likely to be at work at midnight in Japan.

Although, I do understand why you guys are hoping they will be.

Also, the notes about what TEPCO has been saying and the MSG servers makes things look up in terms of the game coming back online shortly.

Arc! where did you find your XI character profile image in your signature. I like it a lot! :)