Tokyo - Rolling Blackouts through Summer

[Micrll]

Ok, as a Computer Science Student about to graduate in a month let me add a few comments.

First off, as for the blackouts affecting the servers. Most fill blown data centers should be able to handle a few hours of scheduled blackout no problem, they are generally fed by battery power (or flywheel in some "green" data centers) and run off of the power that comes out of that rather than the power from the grid (tends to be cleaner energy anyways as you don't have to worry about short spikes / shortages). Most data centers will also have generators to keep the power going as the battery can only power the place for a short while.
Picture of the setup
http://eetdnews.lbl.gov/nl12/images/data-center.gif

In addition many of these data centers can remove themselves from the grid "on demand", a company I interned with had a deal with the power company that they could switch to generator power in times of peak demand by other users. I suspect that this would be the case with the our servers / data centers. As the power outages are scheduled they should be able to handle the switch-off fairly well.


Also I will point out that it IS possible to have created the game with "regional" servers that all communicate between each other. The idea being that US players connect to a US server 'node' which is the one communicating with the JPN and other regional servers on a dedicated line. Of course while this would speed up lag for stuff like UI and responsiveness it would slow down communications and interaction between servers on different nodes. This sort of setup similar to what IRC chat uses.
Of course while it IS possible to do this its something that would have had to have been designed at the very beginning to support it and I HIGHLY doubt we will see it happen ever with XIV.

[Kaedan]

Ok, as a Computer Science Student about to graduate in a month let me add a few comments.

First off, as for the blackouts affecting the servers. Most fill blown data centers should be able to handle a few hours of scheduled blackout no problem, they are generally fed by battery power (or flywheel in some "green" data centers) and run off of the power that comes out of that rather than the power from the grid (tends to be cleaner energy anyways as you don't have to worry about short spikes / shortages). Most data centers will also have generators to keep the power going as the battery can only power the place for a short while.
Picture of the setup
http://eetdnews.lbl.gov/nl12/images/data-center.gif

In addition many of these data centers can remove themselves from the grid "on demand", a company I interned with had a deal with the power company that they could switch to generator power in times of peak demand by other users. I suspect that this would be the case with the our servers / data centers. As the power outages are scheduled they should be able to handle the switch-off fairly well.

While I appreciate your attempt to educate people, it's unnecessary. The simple fact is that the servers are not in a blackout zone. So the whole point is moot.