Please "rotate" the Emergency Maintenances (unable to play)

While I support this in spirit, I think they choose their hours for -emergency- maintenance because it's convenient for their workers.

Now this whole idea about how they are supposed to provide a service is all well and good, but what is most important? Providing a smoothly working service as often as possible, or providing one that's always available but ultimately unusable due to various issues (like the horrible lag some have been experimenting)?

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Originally Posted by Alexb150

Hmm not really. The only change they`d need to make is from doing it from first thing in the work day to mid/late afternoon.

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But they did it already
4 pm - 6 pm japan time

I entirely support OP in this. There have been far too many "emergency" maintenances this month, and I am getting sick of it.

In fact, I'm posting this right now during maintenance...gee...

Totally feel you here, also playing from Australia. However as much as i would like them to consider their times more, i dont see it happening. Im pretty sure they will go by the times when the least amount of people are playing and unfortunately we are in that minority.

Althought it cuts the playtimes it hasnt bothered me that much, i just do other things instead in that time. Even in relation to the game, i sometimes use that time to read strategies, watch videos and how to further and improve my gameplay, and before i know it bang games back up. Sometimes it even has helped me cause i got a plan set when i go back on.

But yes i hope these emergency maintenances are eliminated or are reconsidered.

I support the rotation of maintenance periods, tired of getting cut short because maintenance.

This should happen,

Rotate the times after the 1st maintenance for the week. Lets all share the burden of down times.

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Originally Posted by Aegis

As an EU player I distinctly remember being told to suck it up in XI because literally every maintenance was in EU prime time. When we get to 10 years of maintenances all in your prime time you can complain how it isn't fair.

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The fact is life isnt fair, and everyone needs to deal with it. I have had to deal with servers going down during my prime time but I dont come and moan and groan on the forums that I cant play. Go do something else, watch a movie, play another game, there are other things you/me and everyone else can do but no you would rather complain instead of doing something else for a few hours.

If you were working for SE would you want to be the guy working every random hour of the day because they started doing every maintenance at a different time?

SE please change your Maintenance scheduled times for NA/EU. This is getting overboard & I would like to play a game when I get home from work at times then having to wait to 3-4am in the morning in order to play.

It's not hard to rotate them after every emergency, the people flaming in this thread don't want to share the burden, that's all there is to it.

Selfish players.

Rotate? Why not just add scheduled maintenance? Win-win for both SE and players.

Another one of these? Here we go again... I said it before but with the way servers are populated it will always be someone's primetime.
That being said, I'd support the notion of rotating maintenance times just for the heck of seeing what people would complain about then. And they will complain.
My personal problem with all these emergency maintenances is that they're not. They are just unscheduled maintenance happening on an unforeseen schedule.
If they can keep the game running for hours or even days after they find a bug what's stopping them from keeping the game running until the next scheduled maintenance?
If there's a real emergency that needs fixing, be it gamebreaking bug or something messing with the server economy, these downtimes tend to hit minutes after the developer becomes aware of the issue if the rest of the industry is any indication to go by. It's far more common to see a "shutdown in 15 minutes" alert than a "hey, there seems to be something we need to fix with an emergency maintenance. we'll bring the servers down in about a day or so" notification. Heck if it's something messing with the economy on a large enough scale it's not unheard of to just take servers down right away and roll everything back to a few minutes before it even happened.

But now I'm just ranting. What I wanted to make a point of was:
Less unscheduled maintenance, if it can be put off just consolidate the fixes into the scheduled maintenance. Extend that if need be*.
Just do real emergency maintenance whenever.
Rotate times for maintenance you can schedule**.

*Yes I mean it. There will be complaints that the game was down for half a day once a week but if you think about it it beats the game being down several hours per day.
**And rotate them on a predictable pattern, like always shifting the time by x hours so people can plan ahead.