Prydwen-down (discussion thread NO FLAMES)

[Quinlan]

I think when working in IT business, unexpected weekend work is something you have to take into account.

Yes when it is critically needed weekend work is necessary. When they service still is available no need to work in the weekend. People can play on Excal. And yes i agree it is fucking annoying since i have only 50-ies on Pryd but understandable.

But in my project if 1 lets-say-SAP server was down and people could still work via the others, i wouldnt make them work the weekend.

[Nedo]

that and all nighters from time to time... mind you the last one of them I pulled I did have a bottle of irish whiskey to keep me company.... nerf slow restore times of DLT's.. but then that was a couple of years ago

Hehe, same thing with SLOW database server and 30gb oracle database for me change the whiskey to about 5l coffe and few beers though.

[Gandelf]

I'm sure things will be up and running soon. Yes, it has been inconvenient and somewhat annoying, but we'll get over it.

I can't help thinking about our fellow DAoC players in New Orleans. They've got much more to worry about than server downtime.

My thoughts are with them.

[Satyn]

I'm sure things will be up and running soon. Yes, it has been inconvenient and somewhat annoying, but we'll get over it.

I can't help thinking about our fellow DAoC players in New Orleans. They've got much more to worry about than server downtime.

My thoughts are with them.

aye its on the news non-stop over here

[Ankh Morpork]

My thoughts are with them.

Personally my thoughts are with the people and children that dies every second that could have been saved if they only had food or medicin that cost almost nothing..

/Ankh

[pikeh]

Personally my thoughts are with the people and children that dies every second that could have been saved if they only had food or medicin that cost almost nothing..

/Ankh

cost less than £8 a month...
puts it all into perspective really.

[Jupi]

your going to reap just what you sow.............

[Ovi]

[Quote=Requiel]
Not the most informative post I know but we will have more definite information for you tomorrow. Expect to see an announcement regarding the reopening and compensation for players.[/Quote]

Since I can't access the home page atm, any announcement yet? It must be getting close to clocking off time in France

[Radu]

Since I can't access the home page atm, any announcement yet? It must be getting close to clocking off time in France

Nothing atm.

[OohhoO]

From http://daoc.goa.com/en/

Return of Prydwen and the English server clustering
As the Prydwen server is experiencing a problem related to corrupted files, it had to be shut down for more than one week in order to allow us to identify the cause of this unprecedented bug and implement the corrections necessary. The major part of both Mythic's and Goa's teams exclusively dedicated their work to it, and thus we are happy to announce that the server will reopen on Monday. In order to avoid any bug propagation risk, we had to delete one or several objects in the inventories of a number of characters. We will naturally do the best we can to restore as many items as possible. If you notice the disappearance of any non-tradeable object you won through a quest or an item needed to continue a quest, please contact our technical support so that they can restore it after checking that you had it before. Equally for artifacts, if one is missing, contact us and it will be restored at level 10, whatever its initial level. Finally, for those who lost objects other from the kind of objects described above, the character concerned will be given money to compensate.

Furthermore, in order to compensate the disturbance inflicted to the players who were deprived of their server during this period, GOA will offer a free subscription corresponding to the actual duration of server shutdown to every player owning an active account on the English servers at the date of Prydwen's shutdown. And in order to make up for the "wasted time" inflicted, all Prydwen's Realms will benefit from the maximum help granted to under-populated realms until Friday the 16th of September. This means the following bonuses :

Days for a free level : 2
Camp Bonus : 120%
RvR Bonus : 10%
Hookpoints Purchase : 50% reduction

Due to this problem, the Excalibur-Prydwen clustering could not be carried out as announced initially but it is still on the program. However, the date will only be set once Prydwen is re-opened.