WARNING!!!

[Molly_Millions]

Where is the official post? I see the lodestone note about it, which says they announced this on the forums, but I don't see the post on the forums.

Also.. seriously SE? I know people are grabbing their torches and pitchforks about getting the patch ASAP, but this seems like a pretty big bug to just close your eyes and cover your ears while pressing the "update now?" button.

how do you think they would fix that bug? a patch of course, either way we have the same problem.

[Enyyx]

how do you think they would fix that bug? a patch of course, either way we have the same problem.

I would assume, depending on how the DB is structured, that they could query for materia'd gear pre patch, perform the maintenance, then do a post update query and make sure it matches. If not, restore player inventory from backup before allowing people back on, or at least generate a note to the affected players that it will be restored shortly.

Handling it through GM calls just seems messy.

[Molly_Millions]

I would assume, depending on how the DB is structured, that they could query for materia'd gear pre patch, perform the maintenance, then do a post update query and make sure it matches. If not, restore player inventory from backup before allowing people back on, or at least generate a note to the affected players that it will be restored shortly.

Handling it through GM calls just seems messy.

That could be a HUGE query, reloading all that data could take a very long time. Maybe they've determined that this is the best route to take. Or maybe they ARE doing that, but wanted to warn the players first so that they don't have to do as much restoration of the meld data.

[Delsus]

how do you think they would fix that bug? a patch of course, either way we have the same problem.

Only with a server side patch because its a server issue, rather than a client issue because its only a problem after server maintanance, if it was a client issue we would loose materia everytime we logged out.

About them handling it through GM calls perhaps its a bigger issue than they thought, and it couldnt be fixed before everyone threw thier PCs out the windows in a rage. I believe it will be fixed in 1.21a, b or c depending on how hard it is to fix.

[Felis]

I believe it will be fixed in 1.21a, b or c depending on how hard it is to fix.

Fix is coming with 1.21

This problem will be fixed with patch 1.21 and will not reoccur in subsequent server takedowns.