1 More Day till SERVER "Restart"

[Vesper]

Vesper and cair.. just grow the ef up.

sorry your posts are getting annoying. Currently japan atm looks like a third world country. A whole town was washed away incase you didn't see. And add the fact radioactive food was found over this week.

First of all, if my posts are annoying you. Put me on ignore and move on. That's what the feature is for. But you won't. You seem to think your the forum champion popping into anything you don't like and posting 'tactless and tacky' over and over again and reporting people for opinions that don't even violate the rules here. You grow up.

Just because japan isn't a third world country don't me you need to repeat the "life goes on"

Sorry but life does go on. Deal with it. The situation in Japan sucks. I have done what I could, donating what I could spare to charities. But the truth here is the only reason the majority of people here are even posting so many topics about the situation in Japan is because the game is down so they have nothing else to do. I realize there are those here who genuinly care about what happened, I count myself amoing them. I just don't feel the need to start Japan Tragedy threads when there are already more than enough around here, nor do I feel the need to post in every single one of them.

No one posts here about those people in Libya being massacred by their government... Oh yeah I forgot, people dying in Libya don't effect the status of the servers for this game. Had this earthquake happened anywhere else on the same scale with the same tragic results, there would be a fraction of the topics here about.

Many of us prob lost japanese friends and are in mourning.

I lost my friends so i'm in mourning of their passing.

Many of US DID lose friends and that sad truth is there will be players we used to play with or at least see in passing that will never log in again, it's very sad to think about.

I have a few LS mate I know are in Japan, I am worried about them. I have two real life friends in Japan, one I know is ok, the other I have no news of. I lost family in 9/11 and guess what, within a few days I was back to work, because as much as it crushed me my emotions were not going to pay the rent or put food on my plate.

You can mourn and work, you can remember family and friends and work it does not make you less of a person, it does not make you heartless, in fact the work can help you cope and hasten the healing process. The unfortunate truth is the world does not go on pause because of tragedy. Bills need to be paid, deadlines need to be met.

Sorry its too soion for the "life goes on" speaches. Wait 3 mnths.

Again the events were tragic, but life does go on whether its it's 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months or 3 years. Maybe you don't agree, its your right. But it's also my right to say it.

[Elkwood]

very well said Vespre, much respect for the way you aired that out

[Eekiki]

Wow... A/C uses up 8.8%..............

Yeah. You never think about it, but climate control systems require an extraordinary amount of power to operate.

[God]

Well said Vesper but you give too much credit to that troll kitty. Just do what I do and report his posts especially after he calls you out.


I'm disappointed that the servers aren't up today like previously mentioned but at least we have a more solid date. My patience to play a game that still needs a lot of work is growing very thin to say the least.

[Betelgeuzah]

I'm disappointed that the servers aren't up today like previously mentioned

but they promised!!11

(no they didn't.)

[Vesper]

Well said Vesper but you give too much credit to that troll kitty. Just do what I do and report his posts especially after he calls you out.


I'm disappointed that the servers aren't up today like previously mentioned but at least we have a more solid date. My patience to play a game that still needs a lot of work is growing very thin to say the least.

Servers were not set to come back online today, all they said was they were going to re-evaluate the situations and update us on it.

[God]

I never said they were coming back on today. They mentioned they were looking to evaluate for today. Hence my disappointment that they did not turn them on today.

[Eekiki]

I didn't expect them to go back on today, but I was expecting them to give us a date when they would be back up, and they did. So I'm not complaining other than to say I think it was a stupid decision to bring them down in the first place.

[jlwelch]

I guess its bad luck on my part that these servers went down and right when I just bought the game yesterday. I figured I'd have time now that my thesis is down but the earthquake... Guess I don't have much choice now but to go outside and make conversation with real world girls eh?

[Ayerc]

It's good to hear that service is resuming on the 25th.

As far as power consumption goes, and as Abriael pointed out, Air Conditioning is the biggest energy consumer in most buildings. Air Conditioning and Ventilation (typically handled in the same HVAC system) makes up 37% of the energy use of buildings in the US, the next biggest culprit being lighting at around 18%. (Source: US Dept of Energy)

This is one of the main reasons why we have such a huge push for natural lighting and passive heating and cooling in the Architectural Design industry right now.

That auto translation is a bit dodgy. They need to conserve 11.6% of their power usage to justify turning the servers back on. Saving 8.8% by shutting down their AC and then picking up the other 2.8% in other areas (probably mostly lighting) balanced the equation.