I really don't ask for much here...Follow

And I whiteknight the hell out of this game 99% of the time. But seriously, I pay a monthly fee, the least that SE could do is get their servers working. Every Monday night without fail this sh*t crashes.

That's all I have. Get your sh*t together please SE. It's been like 6 months. This isn't 2001.

Edit: no for those who want to be contrarian I'm not talking about the scheduled maintainence, I'm talking about 90k/10105 or whatever errors due to congestion that occur every Monday night.

Edited, Jan 20th 2014 10:30pm by Onionthiefx

Scheduled maintenance tonight. Just saying.

So, this wasn't the servers crashing. This was the little purple message they've had on the screen when you log in for the last week or two.

Multiple groups running Coil lost their loot to 90k tonight an entire hour or more before maintenance. My group got hit also, though thankfully we didn't 90k (multiple times) until after our drops were distributed. It isn't a first, either. Maintenance actually makes issues like this worse, as people rush to complete their runs before servers go down, and pack even more groups into a smaller window of time when they may not schedule then ordinarily. Count yourself lucky if you haven't seen it.

Maybe it depends on the server cluster or whatever. I'm on Excalibur using the Canadian data center and without fail it's happened the last 3 Mondays in a row. We lost our coil drops this week on account of it.

The servers always get unstable around maintenance time, especially long maintenance. So many groups running Labyrinth of the Ancients in party finder and Coil. Tons of d/c happens as well, across dungeons and primal fights alike.

And a bit of extra lag. I got hit by a plume in Titan HM during phase 3, and I never get plumed anymore. It was simply a true, genuine, honest to goodness lag moment. I was standing outside of that plume for so long. Staring at it, mesmerized by the translucent puddle of plume. Watching the casting bar complete its charge. It felt like hours, even weeks. Maybe I should wash some dishes whilst this weight of the land blossoms into the death flower that was destined to miss me entirely. To die out having never achieved its sole purpose to exist. Its raison d'être consequently raison d'enied.

Then BAM. Plumed.

They should change the myth tome and CT item reset from being at the same time , to different parts of the week, would help alleviate server stress as everyone wants to run everything on a Monday.

SE always gave us a caveat in FFXI NOT to start any big runs in the few hours before maintenance, because they're doing prep work before the servers get unplugged and stuff can always go wrong. (Specifically, they always warned people not to enter Dynamis or Limbus, because you'd lose your chance for the week if maintenance started in the middle of the run.)

I think a rolling 6.5 day lockout would work better. That way, people could schedule the run on a specific day, but not necessarily on Monday.

Word-of-the-Day Calendar? That's not a contrarian.

I think that's why Catwho suggested 6.5 days.

And it would still have the same issues, the range is now simply 7 to 14 days, which still very likely means you won't get a CT drop once every 7 days on any consistent basis.

I'm not a big fan of the Limbus style lock out from XI (the 72 hour lockout). If you wanted to run Limbus twice a week, there was only a small amount of flexibility on when you could do and still fit in both runs. You could plan the 2nd run exactly 3 nights after the first. And if for some reason you can't make it happen that night, you could do it the next night. But if you missed the 2nd night, you wind up losing a run if you want to get back on schedule.

In essence, that style of lock out forces you to play according to the game's schedule. The current reset schedule for CT, Coil and Myths at least gives players the flexibility to stretch when they want to do an activity over the course of a whole week, and players aren't punished if they choose to do something later in the week rather than getting it all done up front.

I want fewer game mechanics that force me to play according to the game's schedule, not more.