I don't give two farts if boosters or food gets frozen for maintenance. I see a damning popup that says the server will be shutting down. I'm in the middle of setting up a pvp hit and I end up using autofill because of it... I may be sleeping after its done and that may lead to starvation. Enough with this bull carp! GGS Should make in game alert timers that are tucked away at the corner of the screen that only come up when a maintenance session approaches, maybe an hour in advance, that would REALLY be helpful. Maybe it can even be fifteen minutes but SURELY not one! The test server has a little sign on the top right of the screen branding it as the test server, that would be a really good spot for such a timer. This tool would help many players do what they need to do BEFORE the game closes for an unprecedented amount of time!
:):) maybe they will listen now but don't get your hopes up 1 minute is enough
I really can't imagine why you need a 1 hour advance timer, you get a post on the forum giving an estimated time, so you shouldn't really be doing your big projects heaps of attention on update day/night.
First of all we got a post on the forums the second downtime started, not helpful
Secondly I proceeded to mention that maybe even fifteen minute warnings may be good enough, as long as the player has time to properly prepare for downtime.
This is one of the bigger reasons that such small warning time is giving, to minimize exploitation. We will make an effort to post future downtimes on the forum in a more timely manner.Fastidious (BG1) said:And if 1 hour advance is given ... then you receive at least 10 attacks for the time when you can't enter the game.
1 minute is enough
Temprance
@Crom Cruach THIS is a fair compromise. A message in-game that mirrors the one on the Forum for the shut down within 24 hours. NO Specific Time given, of course...…….bernhardt (US1) said:I would suggest an in game message the day before a planned shutdown occurs. Most people don't frequent the forums and those that do not all do it everyday. If they can spam us with offers sent at the same time with different prices for the exact same stuff they can send a planned shutdown message. No excuse not to.
If one of the reasons would be the launch of attacks arriving in the downtime which is not unlikely as we know there are people surely taking advantage of it, there would be an option to freeze marching troops like food consumption and production is frozen too, Make that work and all problems are solved.Temprance said:This is one of the bigger reasons that such small warning time is giving, to minimize exploitation. We will make an effort to post future downtimes on the forum in a more timely manner.Fastidious (BG1) said:And if 1 hour advance is given ... then you receive at least 10 attacks for the time when you can't enter the game.
1 minute is enough
Temprance
Sleep is for the weak.blueninja691 (US1) said:. I may be sleeping after its done