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    "Patience and Cooperation" re: 24-hour maintenance on ONE CONDITION

    DO NOT BRING THE SERVERS BACK UP AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

    At least not with the usual 5 minutes' notice. It sucks for people who don't have the free time to constantly reload their client to see if they can get in yet. People with jobs, kids, things like that.

    I say that as someone who had the free time to constantly reload my client waiting to see if I could get in yet because I don't have an hourly job, and was rewarded with being able to grab the cheapest plot when 2.38 launched. I'm not bashing anybody, just saying how it is.

    I have a lot of friends who didn't get the chance to grab any personal housing because of its limited availability. I realize that doubling the housing capacity is probably going to give everybody a chance to get what they want on most servers, but I honestly can't say for sure what's going to happen on higher-pop servers like mine. I know one thing: a lot of my friends will be upset if they can't get a nice house where they'd like.
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    It's not just about personal housing, either. Whenever a major patch launches, there's invariably big grabs for items relevant to new content and stuff like that. Again, it sucks for someone who manages their time thinking that the starting gun will go off at this time, only to find out that the race started an hour before they showed up. And again, I say that as one of the first people out of the gates a lot of the time.

    It's not hard to understand that you'd want to return service to your players as soon as possible, but at the very least, give a reasonable amount of time's notice. Half-hour, hour, something like that. It's never going to be completely fair but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try your best to make it as fair as possible.
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    Player Alukah's Avatar
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    They should set a notice at least one or two hours before servers go up.
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  4. 10-24-2014 04:12 AM

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    Player Skyl1n3's Avatar
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    Sky Lionheart
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    I do kind of agree with this, when I got back from work after the last major patch I knew it hadn't reached the scheduled completion time yet so by the time I got home there was only 25-30 minutes until it was 'supposedly' meant to go live, so I thought I'd get my login info punched in ready and.... "oh... the servers are already live? How long have they been live?!!"
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    just a quick note, they extended the maintenance time by 1hour to be in line with weekly resets.
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    You people on Excalibur crack me up. You guys got the Apakaullulu emperor and his empire to thank for your mess. But I seriously doubt they are going be able to buy up all the cheap lots this time around, there will be simply too many.
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    Last edited by NyarukoW; 10-24-2014 at 04:23 AM.

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    Sarnai Dotharl
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    Well if we are being honest, you're friends probably wont get what they want because on every major population server, almost if not all small and medium plots, are bought up the first 30 minutes the server is up. Large plots being usually day or more. It will take longer but it is still going to happen quickly.

    Player housing will improve over time, most likely with the arrival of 3.0 or later if not, but generally, the system only favor's those who have the time and the gil available to actually get one when more spots come out.

    Is it fair? No, but the current system in the game only favors the elite.

    Best thing I would recommend for you're friends, on the day of the patch release, they should just take a day or two off of work and camp at the client till the update is out. That would be their only real chance at getting a plot. Nevermind good spots at that point because they will be the first to be bought up.
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    Isn't this post a little (OK: a lot) self-centered?

    You won't be able to log in before the scheduled up-time, so no one else should be able to log in either?
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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveVoltage View Post
    ... almost if not all small and medium plots, are bought up the first 30 minutes the server is up. Large plots being usually day or more. It will take longer but it is still going to happen quickly.
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    That means SE set the price too low. But as far as I know, there are still plenty of medium and practically all the large lots still available and just checked last night. And this is the week before 2.4 goes live.
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    Doctor Pepper
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    Just chiming in here.. my response might be a little selfish but so is this OP in my opinion. I for one am grateful when servers come back up ahead of schedule, the amount of time I have to play is somewhat limited when it comes to these late night patch completion times. When the servers come up early it gives me additional time to play before having to go to sleep for work the next day.

    While I agree that it sucks that some people don't get the housing they want, it also sucks that some people have to go to work the next day and essentially need to wait 15-20 hours before they get to play at all due to the late patch times, thus also missing out on housing for the opposite reason posted by the OP.
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