Maintenance should not be on Weekly Reset night.

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Originally Posted by Laurima

pissing about maintenances...

oh the irony ><

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Grow up guy

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Originally Posted by Laurima

pissing about maintenances...

oh the irony ><

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There are better ways to voice an opinion. No need to be overly mean about it. The OP is doing this out of genuine concern.

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Originally Posted by Sparktacus

I have actually explained most of this pretty thoroughly throughout the thread,

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Seeing most ppl disagree with you gave me a bit of faith in the community back tho.

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Originally Posted by TiaHariberux3

Seeing most ppl disagree with you gave me a bit of faith in the community back tho.

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You do know I was doing this on others behalf not mine, so I am glad that slamming someone for wanting to help others makes you feel good about yourself.

Where would you put it then? Before reset is probably just something they have decided to consistently do since sometimes patches add new tomestones and implementing right before the reset keeps it fair for everyone since throwing it out in the middle of a week would just make people miss an entire cap if they don't finish in time. Obviously this time there probably isn't a tome refresh but it just keeps things consistent. They also do crafting/gathering patches on thursday because that is when the scrips reset.

A lot of raid groups run at the beginning of the week so any day in there would probably cause disruption anyways.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it. Spark has an opinion, and regardless of whether you like it or not, it is his.

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I've seen you disrespecting other player's opinions multiple times. Calling people "salty" just because they don't share your opinion for example. Ring a bell?

If you aren't going to exemplify what you are preaching you might want to sit back down.


Changing Maintenance won't change anything. It will just be a different set of players losing game time. Someone will always lose out when it comes to Maintenance.

It really doesn't matter what day they do maint people will find a reason to get upset. Make it a Friday people would complain it's a weekend. Do it on a Sunday people would complain. Do it during the day people would be upset.

They can't win without some group of people getting upset by it. At least they update the game often. Shaking that MMO cane but I remember some MMOs like the XI that they RARELY updated. Not to say they didn't but the updates weren't half as often and when they were it's only when the game hella broke or it was a seasonal event.

Oh no, I have to take 3-5 hours out of my day once or twice a month for people to make the game better. It's awful. Not saying it to be bitter saying it as no matter what we do someone's going to find fault in it.

I do understand where you are coming from, Spark, but the masses are right in that it wouldn't make any difference if they shifted the time/day. They do it during very low population hours on a very low population day. The only reason that there might be a bump in the population at that point is that they are trying to rush for reset. However, maintenance is designed to coincide with the reset because SE don't want people to feel "cheated" by changes that are made during that time that would have benefited or otherwise people who have spent currency earned for that week already.

Also, they can move maintenance to any time throughout the week and this issue would persist for people who wish to be online at that time.

In the end, I feel that they have done everything in a reasonable way, even if it can be seen as a pain to some people. I think they have done it as fairly and reasonably as possible.

I think it's also fair to say that the majority of people feel the timing is just fine as it is, even if they might be saying it in more or less polite ways than others.

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Originally Posted by Sparktacus

Not just about capping tomestones..
Also everyone in here that is griping seems to forget THERE IS MORE TO CAPPING THAN TOMESTONES,

Alex Normal and Savage are also something to be discussed and take up a lot of time and add in rng.

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Makes more sense to purchase gear with tomes and cap tomes at the start of week to help clear the content.

You do realise that tuesdays are also always patch days right? It also makes sense for SE to line up new stuff like patches with resets.

Also I'm sorry but they do wait till pretty late to do the maintenance anyway, it was 1:00 A.M. for me.

There's never a good time.

Ever

Seriously? I mean seriously? Did even bother think a bit of what you write before you write it? Complaining about maintenances which are fixing issues and are vital for the health of the servers and the game? And like people already wrote they even nerfed the tomestones even more so you actually need a day less? And you complain about maintenance? And you have all the rest of WEEK to cap them? I I I don't .....I.....ugh forget it. Here take a Twix you must be hungry.

I think "front loading" maintenance would affect (here comes some Fox News percentage) 172% of this game community! Lol but to look at this realistically, that small group you are standing up for is just that, a very small group of people.

On Hyperion, Monday's have the least amount of engaging pf content and df estimated times for primal jump from being less than 5 minutes for a DPS to 11 - 15 minutes on Monday. Savage raid groups could use Monday as a raid day but most, like my group run Tuesday-Thursday and potential Sunday and / or Monday if we are bored.

Front loading would only cause a stir because unlike the mindset of the minority that procrastinates, this community actually has quite the driven casual player base that caps at the very least tomestones and Alex N lockouts by Friday.

There are "WeekendSoldiers" out there but they normally get capped by Sunday.

Think about it this way: If we assume that the servers are based on the same PDT time zone, they're doing maintenance in the middle of the night during ungodly hours for anyone to be working in.

In short, they're working during the shittiest hours of the day to inconvenience the least amount of people. If anything they should be commended on that and not dropping the servers during heavy load times.

Seriously is there need for a thread everytime they have maintenance?
Go watch movies, play other games, etc..

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Originally Posted by Colorful

They made capping tomes a day quicker and yet these threads still come up, you can never win. Don't leave it to the last minute next time.

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To be fair, a LOT of us were at Fanfest for the bulk of last week. I was away from home from Tuesday through Sunday.

But I consider "not capping tomes in exchange for going to Fan Fest and riding a real life Fat Chocobo" to be reasonable.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

There's never a good time.

Ever

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This sums it up. There is never a good night to cut time short. Out of all of it, the time before the reset seems to have less impact on users, most people are usually capped by then. You could make it Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday but you're going to cut short just as many people.

We are given X amount of time to get this done, whether that extra time is on a Monday or any other day won't make much of a difference. Except Fridays and weekends, that would do the most damage.

I understand what the OP was saying, because I was cut short by..5 tomes, which is nothing in my world, but I had all week and life still goes on...and on...

I guess outside of tomes, such as sending out retainers / squadrons / getting in the last few challenges. It's bound to happen. As one of those who do get cut off early Tuesday trying to squeeze things in, it's okay. My Roe will go on!

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Originally Posted by Sparktacus

Yah and ironically this has nothing to do with me, I was posting on the behalf of others.

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Never do that again.



Im fine with the schedules personally.

Reset day is the best time to do Maintenance. By then people should have already capped their tomestones and completed all their dailies/weeklies. Doing it any other day doesn't make sense and would actually inconvenience much more people because you are interrupting them in the middle of their progress. If people choose to procrastinate and wait until the last minute to complete said tasks, that is entirely on them.

If maintenance were done any other time, and for whatever reason it needed to be extended by couple of days, you'd be adversely affecting everyone. In the end, a lot more people may not be able to complete their tasks by the time reset comes along.

See you next maintenance!