Turn on the patch server already

[Chessala]

Well, they'll have done a lot of the testing already on their sandbox servers, in regards to merging alliances in zones and such. The time to fix major problems with that was weeks ago.

Ideally, they'll fire it up and it'll work as intended. If it doesn't work as intended, it means they forgot to load another component from the merged build or someone dropped the ball horribly during alpha testing last month and would likely get fired.

Yes, the main testing should definitely done and they should know everything is working on the test/sandbox server.

However, patches are unpredictable. Believe me when I say, a part of the patch not applying properly can literally mean hours of lost time. Ideally, it should work. Realistically, something will always go wrong.

[Wade]

Ah but every patch is incremental - so let everyone download GB's of data then if there's a bug download MB's (or KB's) of data to fix it. As people say - zero excuse to not put the patch up early: servers are down.

[LionFranco]

The patch has to be applied to the live servers before we can download it, and that won't be until the maint is done...it isn't rocket science.

[LionFranco]

Believe what you would like. But the patch won't be up for download until they are ready to put it up.

[LionFranco]

Except for Boris, who is new, I don't know why people are upset. This happens during every single major patch. They take the severs down for 24 hours before a new patch is to be implemented. If the servers come back early, great. If not, deal. I pay for the game too, and I also want to be able to play ASAP, but whining about it doesn't make it go faster.

[Warlyx]

Ya, infrastructure is definitely gonna cause patch to come later.

This is my guess as to what they need to do.

"work on Infrastructure"

"Implement patch"

"Test Island Exploration with 9 groups entering at different times"

thats why internal servers exists , i doubt SE test things on live servers like that :/

[Moonleg]

It's been 11 hours since game servers went down.

If SE is not 100% certain that the patch they're about to deploy works like a charm (internal testlive server tests for the past week to make sure no errors happen), why would they even take the servers down in the first place? I swear, if they're running their "Does this work?" tests on the live servers they are REALLY doing things wrong.

[LionFranco]

They do server maintenance at the same time as the patch...what part of that do you people not get? They can't do server maint is the servers are being hammered with patch download requests...

[Moonleg]

They do server maintenance at the same time as the patch...what part of that do you people not get? They can't do server maint is the servers are being hammered with patch download requests...

Ideally the patch server should be sitting completely separate from the game servers; anything else is bad infrastructure. That way they can do maintenance on the patch server, make sure it's in mint condition, turn off the game, and do maintenance on the game servers while everyone hammers the patch server to get their clients up to date.