Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
Once again, I never said it was a terrible thing. If you're going to argue with someone, at least take the time to read and comprehend their posts rather than making up what you want to see. What I AM SAYING is that skill point bugs need to be fixed and server restarts are a reasonable enough way to do it until they come up with a permanent fix. This is not because skill points are necessary but rather because it eliminates an entire portion of the game (exploration). New patches, however small they may be, reset things like spawns and quest NPCs. This fixes issues that many people are currently having. Check the official forums for verification.
I'm truly not trying to be hostile here and I'm honestly sorry if that's how I'm coming off. The things you have been posting on this board have been great and quite fun to read because I enjoy the game with just as much passion as you seem to. However, this is the only significant negative I've encountered so far (only because it puts a roadblock on 100% world completion) and I would like as many opportunities as possible for myself and others to finish these. If that means the slightly more occasional restart, I'm for it.
borrowing thread ideas from reddit I see...
I would take more downtime if I could ditch the damn zoning... zoning, that is so like ten years ago
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Mages are basically "warlocks for girls" - Kerrath
Loading screens are starting to piss me off, too.
However, my girlfriend just bought herself a new PC a few days before launch, pre-built at Best Buy even, and... it's 64-bit, with 10GBs of RAM, and a really decent quad-core processor.
She gets no loading screens ever. So it's definitely a hardware thing.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
Very very little downtime, but still a lot of bugs to work out. I do love how little downtime there's been though. Big kudus to ANet for somehow finding a way to be able to avoid normal maintenance. I can't imagine how they managed that technical feat. Most MMOs just become bogged down and broken the longer the game is left up without a cold server reboot, which is why maintenance is generally necessary. Perhaps it has something to do with the instanced nature of the zones?
I have no insider insight this is just speculation but I imagine they have redundancy servers/blades on which they load a new build then, tell players to restart the client, and once you do, you zone into the new server (best and fastest way to push a new build with minimal downtime, imo).
Well yes, and I honestly don't know much about gaming server infrastructure as I only worked in a service/public environment but we did have redundant servers for things we needed to have as close as possible to 100% uptime. For instance, we housed the servers for a nation-wide repository of academic information (papers, thesis, research) that had dual redundancy with frequent backups that ALSO had redundancy (we're talking about 800 TB of information, if memory doesn't fail me). It was expensive but it was the best way to assure there would be as little down-time as possible and what we did was in the vein of what I suggest earlier: Whenever a new software build was pushed in, we compiled it into the dormant server, get everything ready, brought the active down, and the service started on the other -previously dormant- server.
[The previous value of 1.2 PB was for a sum of a bunch of different backups, disregard that]
70% of the player base? What are you smoking man? Even if that had been true, there would be no possible way you would know that unless you were an Anet employee at that time. And THAT many people leaving because they fixed what was basically an exploit of the skills currently in the game? Lol. If you leave for that reason alone, you REALLY need an attitude adjustment. Guild Wars actually only got bigger with each expansion, both in content and player base. They didn't really start losing out on people in huge droves until after EotN and that was because any further MAJOR content was cancelled to give them more resources to start working on GW2.
But keep talking like you even have a clue.
Getting a patch is as easy as closing and opening my game client. Don't know how they do it but it's effing brilliant.
Did you think we had forgotten? Did you think we had forgiven?