Abyssea Stones

[Kavik]

I would imagine that the stones are accumulating because when we had that really long (12ish hr?) maint that we could not log onto POL at all (just like now) i logged back in and had more stones then i had the previous day. Also i'm sure they can reset your chocobo chick if you're really that desperate, just like they do if they for some reason have to recover your account.

[CaelThunderwing]

I would imagine that the stones are accumulating because when we had that really long (12ish hr?) maint that we could not log onto POL at all (just like now) i logged back in and had more stones then i had the previous day. Also i'm sure they can reset your chocobo chick if you're really that desperate, just like they do if they for some reason have to recover your account.

the servers whent Physically Offline (No Power) they were in Maintice mode (Logins disabled and the world software undergoing changes, ) here the servers are Powered Off.

[annewandering]

hmm so besieged is stalled out or continued?

[Randwolf]

hmm so besieged is stalled out or continued?

Besieged is halted, I believe during maint. I know that the mobs progress is slowed when the servers come back up, also.

[LordTrey]

Like the server being on or off matter? I am sure its all just a time/date check and math. Its not like the game increases a counter for you every X hours. That is a huge waste.

[Swords]

Hard to say to be honest. When SE does maintence, they don't "shut down" the servers perse unless they're fixing a hardware issue. Most of the time maintence would be fixing ingame issues like bugs or resetting or rolling back the servers which the servers are not officially turned off, so the servers intenral clock is pretty much always running. However the servers are completely shut down now and depending on how the servers and the game is built and configured, time in vanadiel may have totally froze.

[Megatron]

FFXI AND FFXIV date and time are related to RL they cant stop time. they can shut down ther servers . but when the servers are repowerd up they will read the curret date and time and set final fantasy acordingly. your going to lose your plants. and your ah items will return to you. no big deal. and youll have X amount of stone acumlaated. time waits for no man not even SE. it wont be the first time the servers have been down or moved or repaired or replaced and yet time still passed. SE dont care if u have 1 item or 3 million items on the AH.

[Mazerati]

yo how do you make those banners?

[Gaspee]

Perhaps a Game Master or Moderator could shed some light on this?

/summons GM

[RAIST]

They have made several changes in the past that would REQUIRE a system reboot, and there was no time slip (networking changes for example--in the past year, I have come a cross a new subnet in the mix). So it is likely that it is in fact bound to the CMOS clock ultimately.

So much of this "game" is likely a database with a front end that collects data, runs calculations, then spits data back out. With all that going on, I seriously doubt they have a routine that increments a seperate clock when they can just query the sysclock at will with a simple statement, than apply the previoulsy posted formula to the result. It's a helluva lot easier to basically get time from the OS when needed then to set up a seperate program to increment a value in the database every second for them to fetch when needed.

Raist

Edit: and I doubt a GM could answer that question. This is something at the core of the programming-- something they don't have access too, and I expect few have much (if any) real knowledge of. They basically only work within a limited scope of tools for moderating gameplay in real-time. Everything else is forwarded to another department.