GOA Router - 14th Feb 2006

Takitothemacs · Post by **Takitothemacs** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:36 am

technically speaking there should be failover systems and backups... (but we know what the situation is with backups...) its all about redundancy... and personally if my technical staff dealt with the problems the way I see these issues dealth with... there would be some redundancies alright!

I recall saying to someone... check that the CPU fans are working... I was told to mind my own business and thet the techies knew what they were doing... turns out... there was an issue with CPU coolers not working... dare I say it? I told you so.

Disclaimer: But please dont read this as a flame at GOA. I would put much more venom into one if I wanted to.

Post by **Xest** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:30 am

Sharkith wrote:not that old chestnut! Its the same in any game Ghan.

It's not even close, I've never seen a game before with even 1/5th the unscheduled downtime/connection issues of GOA.

Cromcruaich · Post by **Cromcruaich** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:38 am

Thanks for the info Req, much appreciated. What you're gf say about you being on pryd.net on Valentines night though eh?

Khylrion · Post by **Khylrion** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:42 am

Cromcruaich wrote:Thanks for the info Req, much appreciated. What you're gf say about you being on pryd.net on Valentines night though eh?

hah, Valentine is such a commercially forced day.

grouphugs for all ... every day of the year!

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:24 am

Xest wrote:It's not even close, I've never seen a game before with even 1/5th the unscheduled downtime/connection issues of GOA.

I have seen several as bad and some worse - WoW servers were really flaky when I was playing it and the eve Tranquility cluster is so bad they are having to rush in new hardware to try and cope. In Eve you can come to a gate to jump to a new node and if that node is not active you have to sit there waiting until the server loads it. Imagine that - you rush past a pirate to a gate and you get the message - give us a second while we load your destination into memory

?

Meanwhile the pirate rips your ship a new ass.

Thandruil · Post by **Thandruil** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:20 am

Sharkith wrote:I have seen several as bad and some worse - WoW servers were really flaky when I was playing it and the eve Tranquility cluster is so bad they are having to rush in new hardware to try and cope. In Eve you can come to a gate to jump to a new node and if that node is not active you have to sit there waiting until the server loads it. Imagine that - you rush past a pirate to a gate and you get the message - give us a second while we load your destination into memory ?

Meanwhile the pirate rips your ship a new ass.

Be the pirate then

Satyn · Post by **Satyn** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:03 pm

Cromcruaich wrote:Thanks for the info Req, much appreciated. What you're gf say about you being on pryd.net on Valentines night though eh?

here here!

and i really wouldnt wana be his girlfriend that guy works way to much!

Grymligast · Post by **Grymligast** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:12 pm

Xest wrote:It's not even close, I've never seen a game before with even 1/5th the unscheduled downtime/connection issues of GOA.

Lineage 2. They have schedueled DT everyday instead

Post by **Xest** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:30 pm

Sharkith wrote:I have seen several as bad and some worse - WoW servers were really flaky when I was playing it and the eve Tranquility cluster is so bad they are having to rush in new hardware to try and cope. In Eve you can come to a gate to jump to a new node and if that node is not active you have to sit there waiting until the server loads it. Imagine that - you rush past a pirate to a gate and you get the message - give us a second while we load your destination into memory ?

Meanwhile the pirate rips your ship a new ass.

Never had any downtime problems in WoW for the time I played, didn't play Eve for long enough to judge though. EQ2, UO, Planetside, SWG, US DAoC don't suffer anywhere near the problems of Euro DAoC.

Grymligast wrote:Lineage 2. They have schedueled DT everyday instead

UO did also, but scheduled downtime is fine because a) It's usually at a time where you're sleeping or at work anyway and b) Because you can plan around it, i.e. if you know there's scheduled downtime at 5am each morning you don't plan a raid for 5am, whereas with unscheduled downtime it's a major problem in that you could lose something you've wasted hours doing or you could've put something off to play only to have unscheduled downtime and find you'd wasted your time.

Grymligast · Post by **Grymligast** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:05 pm

Xest wrote: UO did also, but scheduled downtime is fine because a) It's usually at a time where you're sleeping or at work anyway and b) Because you can plan around it, i.e. if you know there's scheduled downtime at 5am each morning you don't plan a raid for 5am, whereas with unscheduled downtime it's a major problem in that you could lose something you've wasted hours doing or you could've put something off to play only to have unscheduled downtime and find you'd wasted your time.

Exacly. I rather have a reboot of the system everyday at 07.00AM and stable for the rest of the time then unstable every now and then.

Think SWG have daily maintanence aswell.