1.21a patch note

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Originally Posted by Rydin

Does that depend on how much data?

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It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

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Originally Posted by illriginalized

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

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oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

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Originally Posted by illriginalized

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

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which brings us to the question...
Could something be broken?

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Originally Posted by Aion

oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

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Many times on Linux/Unix based servers and quite a few times with Windows 2000 to 2003 to 2005 to 2008. And most of the time involving new equipment.

Have done it with much more data than this game has in totality.

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Originally Posted by Rydin

which brings us to the question...
Could something be broken?

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If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

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Originally Posted by illriginalized

If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

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its not like they know the server structure they worked with for a year now, they must really suck at their job
thank you random person with no insight into the details of the internal structure of the project whatsoever
you surely laid their incompetent asses bare...

no offense but i hate it when random people think they are better than a team that works on it for a living for over a year now

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...685492352c8e17

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Yes, but if they actually did it, it should be in the patch notes, and it's not.

Edit add: Yes, the Ul'dah inn works again, yay! That kind of change *does* go into the patch notes, though.

I can't believe nobody's commented on this one:

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[dev1346] Action icons on the action bar will now blink if activation conditions are fulfilled for the following actions:

Haymaker / War Drum / Phalanx / Fracture / Overpower / Feint / Full Thrust

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Yes, you can now see when you can fire off your conditional weaponskills!

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Originally Posted by Conradus

I can't believe nobody's commented on this one:



Yes, you can now see when you can fire off your conditional weaponskills!

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i did... T.T

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It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

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How much would the individual character transfers (especially in the case of Ragnarok) and then the implementation of 1.21a add to the downtime? I get the feeling those cases would have a larger downtime to data transfer ratio than just a flat out merge. I would hope they had the foresight to at least have Ragnarok prepared for data before hand, but they would have had to wait until servers went down to transfer the most up to date data.

Edit: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...a840f21fa3f409 _._

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Originally Posted by KiraAmane

Not sure if anyone mentioned this. But it may be worth mentioning for tab-whores like myself: [dev1356] Players will no longer target KO’d enemies when subtargeting is toggled off.

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I know!!!!! CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY!!!!

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Originally Posted by illriginalized

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

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It really depends on the amount of files, 200GB worth of a whole lot of small files would take longer than 200GB worth of 10 files. This is coming from another server admin. If you want to experience this yourself do the following, pick the FFXIV game folder on your pc and copy it to another hard drive it is around 11GB + and 117,686 files on it, now transfer the same amount of data with mp3's and the time it will take transfer should be different, even though the total of data is the same the amount of time to complete will not be.

This is coming from a humble Server Admin.

Where'd /tell notification went? D:

nvm, found it

Thank you so much for giving us stackable materia!

Is it just me or is the casting time longer than usual?

Did anyone else lose all of their macros after the merge? I didn't see anything about that in the "Precautions for the World Merge" article. It's odd, since macros are saved locally, not on the server.

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Originally Posted by Recluse

Did anyone else lose all of their macros after the merge? I didn't see anything about that in the "Precautions for the World Merge" article. It's odd, since macros are saved locally, not on the server.

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It's because the world name changed and the user folder where your settings are kept is partly named after the world. Check the latest lodestone post.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...dc74ad88435b71

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It's because the world name changed and the user folder where your settings are kept is partly named after the world. Check the latest lodestone post.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...dc74ad88435b71

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Ah, I missed that one. Thank you!