emergency world maintenace already...........

[Alistria]

well I don't know what Code type SE uses, but generaly in this kind of situation it takes loads of "Debugging" just to find the bug. Alot of False to True statements, there's just alot that can affect something "Small" like this. For most people that think it's an easy fix, go try your hand at game programming, skim through hundreds of thousands of lines of code to find one out of place ; or something.

A rollback would make sense, assuming it's not in the main code, or that it's not something that they aren't sure won't happen again later. They're best solution to this kind of thing, as has been said a thousand times now, is a test server so that the code can be tested first, then put in production environment later. . .

Oh yeah and as far as the damage cap, I doubt we'll ever see that, as is fairly evident when you watch a DRK or DRG Brew a monster lol

[Tsukino_Kaji]

A rollback would make sense

It would actualy humor me to see them retract an update completely.

[wildsprite]

It would actualy humor me to see them retract an update completely.

yes but they wont, they would rather add more work to their workload than rollback and fix the update on the test server

[Chrisstreb]

I think part of the reason for this error may have something to do with the PLD update to Divine Emblem, that might've been one of the reason since they did make changes to that. I'm glad I didn't get involved with the whole hey I can one-shot stuff with a Lv.1 Alt., Hopefully they'll fix it right, least we know the damage cap now lol xD

[Alistria]

Come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen them do it... I wonder if they don't have the capibility

[wildsprite]

yeah might be something to do with the original code that prevents them from doing that, had not thought of that

[Alistria]

If they can't do it it's likely due to lack of Software to do it with, either that or they don't keep regular backups of the DB's

[Nawesemo]

not every developer writes code the same way as each other so a different person having to work with someone elses' code to make his work may look at it and go "huh?!!!!"

I lol'd @ this ;p

[geekgirl101]

I lol'd @ this ;p

My husband does it all the time when he works at home, hehe. He also invents a few new profanity words which maybe one day could end up in the Oxford Dictionary.

[Tagrineth]

It's very possible that during the first maintenance, they tried just fixing the error, and when that didn't work, it became

"Well fuck, four hours isn't long enough for this, we have to rollback and rewrite the update code..."

or something to that effect. Wouldn't surprise me one bit, and it's something that can very easily happen with any codebase, especially one as haphazard as most SE code seems to be.