Silly question: Why NA servers will go into a big maint if only europe will move?

As the tittle. Any idea?

I would expect that they need to connect EU servers to US ones.

Also after moving the EU servers they might as well do a little bit of clean up.

Might be because currently all that data is on the NA servers, and need to move it off. Usually to move information from one sever to another it requires the files to not be in use, IE. disconnect the server then move the files.

If you on the chaos data center it will be

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Oct. 18, 2015 5:00 p.m. to Oct. 20, 2015 3:00 a.m. (PDT) (34 hours)

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If you on other worlds it will only be

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Oct. 19, 2015 5:00 p.m. to Oct. 20, 2015 3:00 a.m. (PDT) (10 hours)

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They have to disconnect the servers because NA is getting new servers and EU is getting the old crappy ones.

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As previously announced in Topics, in order to accompany transfer of the Chaos Data Center to Europe and improvements to the World Transfer system for all Worlds, maintenance will be performed during the time below. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.

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My guess is it's 1) to move data off the current servers and 2) to implement the improvements to the transfer system.

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Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

They have to disconnect the servers because NA is getting new servers and EU is getting the old crappy ones.

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A little bit jelly of our brand new servers aren't you? :P

They are probably from the second hand store anyway >.> /jk :)

We also haven't had a mainteance in what now, over a month? Not the biggest deal if we get a somewhat long one. Japanese servers are also going down for maint. even though they're not transferring any data from them.

Well I mean the alternative was taking the whole game off for 34 hours instead of the NA servers getting only ten down.
So
yeah

Is 3.08 going in with this?

I'm pretty sure the initial announcement for the extended maintenance mentioned improvements to the World Transfer system, which require all of the servers to be offline. They're more than likely doing these at the same time for expediency's sake.

It's not even NA, it's ALL SERVERS. Most likely all servers are going down to implement the world transfer alterations they been working on since they pulled that service down, hence the 10hr maint.

Then of course for the EU servers they are going down longer cause the amount of data moving from point A to point B is more than just character data, it's the whole infrastructure of data, FC, housing, linkshells, friendlist, aka all the data on server is being moved to a new server. Whereas the 10hr maint is just a prep phase to have the newly altered World Transfer implementation ready for all servers.

They might be turning on the Halloween event too, though I don't recall seeing any announcements about that yet.

Well, like others have said. Probably making sure that everything works well together after the change, as well as cleaning up things - y'know, general maintenance stuff. They probably figured they might as well do it - not a bad idea, considering the changes, either.

I do wonder what "improvements to the World Transfer system" implies though. Dunno how much of that can be improved from the technical side (it's essentially a Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V), soooo... let's hope they maybe increase that ridiculous gil cap?

EU servers (Chaos) have a 34 hours maintenance. It makes sense cause they move the servers.
Other data centers have a maintenance of 10 hours. I guess it is the opportunity to implement Hallowe'en event stuffs (and maybe a part of 3.1?). Kinda 3.08 yes.

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

And no, its not a copy paste.

If its anything like WoWs recent...ish AU server move, they pulled the blades and moved them physically and will be transferring it that way.

Well, as NA/EU share a Infrastructure, guess for a clean migration, this is just needed.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

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East Coasters would love you for that ^^

I wouldn't.

It's also because we run on weekly lockouts of tomes, loot and so on. Having Maint for NA as well ensures that all servers are still equal in terms of all this stuff

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Originally Posted by Whocareswhatmynameis

They have to disconnect the servers because NA is getting new servers and EU is getting the old crappy ones.

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Cool New servers for us!

*As if they'll ship servers overseas..

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

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You want them to move to to west coast cause you live on west coast or you just want them to play monkey see, monkey do?

I am not really sure about the idea of adding new NA servers with this transfer. What I'd rather see is that this means more server space for the current ones. Which means other cool things. Like more inventory space...

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Originally Posted by Kaela

Like more inventory space...

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PS3 Limitations.

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Originally Posted by Houston009

PS3 Limitations.

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*throws your limitations out the window* <_<;

Perhaps because they are physically removing some hardware and sending it by courier to be installed in Europe? Hard drives on an aircraft are still the highest-bandwidth method of moving large amount of data around.

Plus they are probably going to use the power-off opportunity to vacuum the servers to remove accumulated dust and tent caterpillars, and maybe replace the tired old hamsters with fresh ones who still think they will get cake if they run fast enough. But the cake is a lie ...

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

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I dont understand why this isn't a thing anymore, companies choose places like chicago or texas calling it the midwest when it's still closer to the east than anything. Considering i see east coast players with 30 and west coast with 80-100 on a good day

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Originally Posted by dank1

I dont understand why this isn't a thing anymore, companies choose places like chicago or texas calling it the midwest when it's still closer to the east than anything. Considering i see east coast players with 30 and west coast with 80-100 on a good day

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Complaining about 80-100 ping... ;-;