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[Rowde]

They freeze time during server downtime. Your onions should* be fine

Fairly certain this is incorrect.

That being said, if my understanding of gardening is correct, A plant has to wither 3 times before it dies, and it wither once every 24 hours it isn't watered.

As long as maintenance is only for 24 hours, and depending on when the last time you tended them was, they would accrue a maximum of 1 or 2 withers... so you'd just have to be super diligent with them for the rest of their growth cycle.

[Drkdays]

Because there were announcements on lodestone, purple text in the chat, and on the launcher. You would actually have to not pay attention to those at all and clickclickclick gotta log in, no time to pause and look at anything else to not see them.

This is not a new concept for mmos either.

Neither are the ppl who love to say, "I told you so," for no reason.

[Shougun]

I feel they do pretty good noting people about maintenance info in advance.. with that whole page you have to click ok through to login.

Wonder if there would be any increase in info view/retention if you had to interact in game lol. Login, prompt tells you about what's going on and then gives you three chocobo responses (correct response is in the prompt). Pick the right one and you get free teleports or extra exp for the day, pick the wrong one and a sad moogle trumpet plays :3.

Maybe major maintenance (longer than a few hours) should be in the sliding news panel though, first one in the panel then it can switch to current in-game events and mogshop stuff. Not sure there is much they can do beyond maybe creating an email list people can subscribe to that updates them on maintenance info (when, early completion, etc).

For a general bit unrelated comment though I wish every time there was maintenance that they would water all the plants lol.

[Drkdays]

I feel they do pretty good noting people about maintenance info in advance.. with that whole page you have to click ok through to login.

Wonder if there would be any increase in info view/retention if you had to interact in game lol. Login, prompt tells you about what's going on and then gives you three chocobo responses (correct response is in the prompt). Pick the right one and you get free teleports or extra exp for the day, pick the wrong one and a sad moogle trumpet plays :3.

Maybe major maintenance (longer than a few hours) should be in the sliding news panel though, first one in the panel then it can switch to current in-game events and mogshop stuff. Not sure there is much they can do beyond maybe creating an email list people can subscribe to that updates them on maintenance info (when, early completion, etc).

For a general bit unrelated comment though I wish every time there was maintenance that they would water all the plants lol.

In WoW, they have current updates and info in a window that you see even before you log in. You can't miss it. Yes, they do give you all the info you need, but they could do it better. Simple steps could have easily prevented this thread's existence.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

In WoW, they have current updates and info in a window that you see even before you log in. You can't miss it. Yes, they do give you all the info you need, but they could do it better. Simple steps could have easily prevented this thread's existence.

The maint notices were on the launcher as well, before and after you log in.

[Gula]

In WoW, they have current updates and info in a window that you see even before you log in. You can't miss it. Yes, they do give you all the info you need, but they could do it better. Simple steps could have easily prevented this thread's existence.

It's unfortunate a western tailored player base has to have its hand held because they can't function without rattling in front of them. Because that's what you've essentially just described.

I wonder if the east has this problems during times like these. Probably not.

[Drkdays]

The maint notices were on the launcher as well, before and after you log in.

lol the links?

[Tharne]

In WoW, they have current updates and info in a window that you see even before you log in. You can't miss it. Yes, they do give you all the info you need, but they could do it better. Simple steps could have easily prevented this thread's existence.

Am I the only one who has to go through this after hitting play in the launcher since a couple of days ?


I don't think so.

This is even better than what WoW does because you need to hit "OK" to make it disappear, if people don't read this, it is completely their fault.

[Thamorian]

In WoW, they have current updates and info in a window that you see even before you log in. You can't miss it. Yes, they do give you all the info you need, but they could do it better. Simple steps could have easily prevented this thread's existence.

No it would not of prevented this. There will always be people who don't read updates and notifications no matter what you do. The fault lies squarely on the people who don't read the updates.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

lol the links?

Even putting it in your face doesn't help. There is always a screen with maint info that pops up on login that you have to interact with to continue to the game and people still complain about not knowing about maintenance.