Abyssea Stones

[CaelThunderwing]

With the Servers off of course the game is paused at the Time the servers Shutdown the software that Runs the Game server software. and stored a time and date to the last second when it happened. when the servers do come back online, (and if they do we habe no idea How close or far the server farm is from the damaged plant.) they will likely take a tad to fully come online as the servers will update stuff like stones AH items that will all expire, plants etc.

we have simply no idea How the Servers run in this aspect. the game could simply littlerraly be in an "Suspended state" (thing a emulators save state) they could do an update and recalculate stuff like abyssea stones. etc but think. if the radioation disaster worsens .. and the server farm is too close and teh area's sealed. then we've unwittingly seen the Last of FFXI and teh early demise to XIV.

All we can do is hope and wait

[RAIST]

I'm guessing the game's time is bound to sysclock. Otherwise, when servers were down in the past for big updates and such, the vanadiel clock products would get out of synch with the game time. With some of the changes they've made in the past, core services have had to be taken down for the game, so there would have been some slight time slips over the years, which I have yet to see happen.

Once the servers come up and the sysclock is updated with the BIOS and/or Atomic Clock synchronization (guessing the OS synchs to something like the Naval Observatory or something--if it's a Windows Server it's programmed to do that), then the vanadiel calender will be back in synch and when you check stones it will recalculate and you will get your extras.

Raist

[SheKicksHigh]

vana time is based off earth time and that hasnt stopped
Vanatime = (UTCEpoch + 91270800) * 25;

[Ezikiel]

i hope they are still acruing so those people who were out will now have like 50 stones. i was at 251 n main and 421 a mule when it went down

[Izzybella]

I'm guessing the game's time is bound to sysclock. Otherwise, when servers were down in the past for big updates and such, the vanadiel clock products would get out of synch with the game time. With some of the changes they've made in the past, core services have had to be taken down for the game, so there would have been some slight time slips over the years, which I have yet to see happen.

Once the servers come up and the sysclock is updated with the BIOS and/or Atomic Clock synchronization (guessing the OS synchs to something like the Naval Observatory or something--if it's a Windows Server it's programmed to do that), then the vanadiel calender will be back in synch and when you check stones it will recalculate and you will get your extras.

Raist

Damn Raist you're too smart :P LOL

[Samunai]

anyone know if while we are on this extended vacation lol whether or not our Traverser Stone stock will increase or not? i was thinking yes seeing as how we arent playing, but then if the servers are shut down then there will be no activity...idk just a thought thats eating at me, let me know what you guys think...

thats what my boyfriend said too i hope they rise _(._.)_

[Samunai]

I didn't even think about my plants!!! D:

totally agree! i would rather have 21 stones (per week) plus than some plants who yield with me every now and then 5 stack of shell bugs !_!

but my plants will keep their selves alive for about a month so im good =)

[slakyak]

If you clock up a load of stones cos of the servers being off spare a thought for me... My four day old Chocobo chick will have gone from capped affection to hating the very ground I tread!!!

[Randwolf]

Pretty certain too that S/E may decide, and certainly can decide to make it as though time stopped when the servers went down. They haven't done that in the past. But this is so drastic that they may decide that is the best route to go. I don't know how hard that is. But, bending 'reality' is certainly a choice you have in the virtual world. It would also, most likely, ruin all the app's that are based off the Vana'Diel clock.

[GERM]

Its being considered partial maintenance so I would assume that time is still going on and when you get on everything in the AH will be in your MH your plants will be dead but you will have more stones..