Server instability isn't a fault--it's a feature! (sarcasm)

Where is John McClane when we need him?

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Originally Posted by Enla

To expand upon this, I'd welcome anyone who is upset with what's happening right now to take a look at this site:
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#ani...17826&view=map

https://i.imgur.com/t2aNukP.png

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Crap. Is that my home?

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Originally Posted by Enla

To expand upon this, I'd welcome anyone who is upset with what's happening right now to take a look at this site:
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#ani...17826&view=map

https://i.imgur.com/t2aNukP.png

That's what's happening right now. There are mass world wide DDOS attacks on various parts of the internet's infrastructure right now and SE has absolutely no control over it. Yes, their servers often aren't the best and there's a lot we can and should criticize them for. But this isn't one of those instances. They can do /nothing/.

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*looks at the maps pretty lines* hmmm, so we need to nuke Norway first?

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

*looks at the maps pretty lines* hmmm, so we need to nuke Norway first?

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http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:f...1424350591.gif

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Originally Posted by Enla

http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:f...1424350591.gif

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*nods*

*draws up launch orders, places McDonalds lunch order on top of it and asks for the sign off*

It'll be done shortly.

so when you zoom in, you see the biggest target is not francfort, more scandinavian countries (forgot which is who sorry)

So could see other services getting matter from this ddos no?

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Originally Posted by Aerlana

so when you zoom in, you see the biggest target is not francfort, more scandinavian countries (forgot which is who sorry)

So could see other services getting matter from this ddos no?

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Yeah, it was affecting FFXI and Assassin's Creed Odyssey as well. Other services are likely impacted, but depending on the service, it can be tough to determine how affected they are. In services like youtube or netflix, their media is duplicated accross multiple physical locations to be served to users using a Content Delivery Network. This ensures that if one server goes down, another can just pick up the slack to server that static media. For a game server, that's not an option because our data is constantly changing and can't be duplicated without significant overhead.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

They love RNG so much that they wanted to implement it into our server connections. That's why some are connecting to the servers and playing just fine while others are struggling just to load their inventory.

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Logged in just so I could throw that a like. ^^

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Originally Posted by Enla

To expand upon this, I'd welcome anyone who is upset with what's happening right now to take a look at this site:
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#ani...17826&view=map

https://i.imgur.com/t2aNukP.png

That's what's happening right now. There are mass world wide DDOS attacks on various parts of the internet's infrastructure right now and SE has absolutely no control over it. Yes, their servers often aren't the best and there's a lot we can and should criticize them for. But this isn't one of those instances. They can do /nothing/.

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Actually, they can temporarily suspend the housing demolition timer until this is resolved and/or improved. Keeping it up while some people can't log in when they get home (and not due to their own fault) is like saying "we don't care, but keep paying please". And no, I'm not affected by the timer myself, but I still think that it would be a good idea to do that, especially when this is not an issue that has been happening for a couple of days.

Of course, they are under no obligation to do that, but showing that you value your customers is always a good idea. 2013's SE would understand/care about this.

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Originally Posted by Yshnal

Actually, they can temporarily suspend the housing demolition timer until this is resolved and/or improved.

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You mean like this?! Sure, the reason stated is different and it happened after some chunk of days, but hey. It was possible to log in for a brief time here or there. Stopping auto demolition should not be impossible even for people with little time. So if the biggest attacks with most effect happened only after they did already stop the auto-demolition for a different reason, they wouldn't really add a notice about that, would they?!