Quote Originally Posted by Jacob View Post
It might be the case, but still even if they delayed the patch for 2 weeks that doesnt mean they will delay the operation of the servers as well since its not related

I hope they pass their tragedy soon
I do think it's related. Why would they let SE offices run with electricity, and not let them fire up their servers?

Quote Originally Posted by Kaboushi View Post
next week it's back. Monday.
Nope.

Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
Why can't they fire up a new server in the EU or US? It's a roomful of computers how much can something like that cost to SE?
Hauling the hard drives from their current location to an airport and flying them out of the country to then set them up in a foreign server farm is expensive and impractical.

Quote Originally Posted by Abraxai View Post
All your replies are in this format! It's delightful!

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I don't think it's gonna be as long as the pessimists think. Once they get the Nuclear Reactors under control they should be alright to roll back in with the servers.. TO my knowledge Tokyo wasn't that massively hit that they're even being affected by blackouts.. They're just re-routing the conserved energy elsewhere? So.. By that logic as soon as they get some temporary substitute in order we should be back in business. Which I doubt will be too long. Japans stock exchange is falling, they're losing work time, money, etc.. It's another crisis coupled with what's already occuring so I'd have thought they'd want Tokyo back up and running ASAP.

So long as the people fleeing like a WHM1 from a HNM come back
The financial sector is bleeding, and they need their businesses to function, or they will be facing a financial meltdown as well, within a few months.

But the temporary substitution is what worries me, as it will take a long time for them to sort that out. Loading a reactor (e.g. one of the reactors that was offline for maintenance) takes weeks.