Oh Noez!! Another Downtime!!

[Eckenbrand]

Run! Flee! It's two downtimes in one month! Woe is to us!

[Yula_the_Mighty]

It is about six week before Rise of Isengard begins its take roll. Turbine got to start doing maintenance to prepare for the launch. Some of this maintenance is going to be changing the server clusters in order to the configuration required to run Isengard.

[Silchas]

I think there is a holiday on that day.

[whheydt]

I see I'm not the only one to think of a pre-emptive strike...

So...for out European friends...remember to adjust the times based on the official announcement.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[Silchas]

Odoacer was proclaimed Rex Italiae on August 22 in 476 AD.

Mourn or rejoice as suits you.

[CoranisDoJ]

August 22nd is
The birthday of the Cadillac (1901)
National Punctuation Day (no one here will celebrate that)
Peppermint Patty's Birthday
Be an Angel Day
National Tooth Fairy Day

Take your pick and practice your rant for Monday.

[Ironcrown]

August 22nd is
The birthday of the Cadillac (1901)
National Punctuation Day (no one here will celebrate that)
Peppermint Patty's Birthday
Be an Angel Day
National Tooth Fairy Day

Take your pick and practice your rant for Monday.

How DARE Turbine be down for Peppermint Patty's Birthday!!! This is an outrage!

[Celestrata]

You guys know it's just the myaccount site that's going down, and not the game... right?

[djheydt]

Odoacer was proclaimed Rex Italiae on August 22 in 476 AD.

Mourn or rejoice as suits you.

And on February 2, 493, Theodorik the Great signed a treaty with Odovacer, making the two of them co-rulers. There was a great celebratory banquet, at which Theodorik assassinated Odovacer with his own hands.

Moral: Don't get into politics.

[Arbalister]

You guys know it's just the myaccount site that's going down, and not the game... right?

Wait, what??? I won't be able to read my account version history on Peppermint Patty Day, from my laptop inside my 1901 Cadillac, while punctuating the tooth fairy???

[Ailedra]

while punctuating the tooth fairy???

There's a dirty joke here someplace....

[Crell_1]

You guys know it's just the myaccount site that's going down, and not the game... right?

[.sarcasm] You mean you wont take my money, GTC or RoI Code? *gasp*. You'd think they want to make money right? Right?... [./sarcasm]

I'm sure it'll be back up in working order as soon as possible, hopefully this is enough notice to minimize its impact on anyone.

Honestly, I hope that one of these days I'll hear the billing system supports Non-VIPs in Palantir finally.

[the_blah]

There's a dirty joke here someplace....

Dirty tooth fairies are punctual.

[Flatfoot789]

You mean you wont take my money, GTC or RoI Code? *gasp*. You'd think they want to make money right? Right?...

I don´t see much of a difference anyway, judging from the user complaints in the EU/German boards and here.

The damn thing works probably only with Palantirs.

Maybe they´re upgrading it to work with messaging moths now too?

[oldbadgerbrock]

I think there is a holiday on that day.

ROFL!

Odoacer was proclaimed Rex Italiae on August 22 in 476 AD.

Lucky for us Turbine is US-focused. They wouldn't dare have a downtime on the anniversary of jazz trumpeter Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong's birth!*


*During his lifetime Louis Armstrong claimed July 4th, aka 'Independence Day', as the date of his birth.

[whheydt]

I don't see how those marking various things that fall on 22 August could have missed... The death of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[Ironcrown]

I don't see how those marking various things that fall on 22 August could have missed... The death of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

In their defense, he WAS a very forgettable king.

[Harbut]

MUCH more importantly its MY Birthday!
22/8/1973

and the first person to make and old man remarks will be hung up by their gonads from the nearest eucalypt!
old fart is acceptable

[A.B.]

You guys know it's just the myaccount site that's going down, and not the game... right?

That's even worse!! I DEMAND a refund for one day's lack of useability of my account functions!

[whheydt]

In their defense, he WAS a very forgettable king.

In some ways, perhaps. He was the one responsible for getting Parliament to pass the right to a Writ of Habeus Corpus, which is an underlying principle to a lot of US law. And, of course, Shakespeare wrote a play about him.

He may not have ruled very long, but he was far from unimportant....and his replacement--Henry Tudor--was a real SOB.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[oldbadgerbrock]

MUCH more importantly its MY Birthday!
22/8/1973

and the first person to make and old man remarks will be hung up by their gonads from the nearest eucalypt!
old fart is acceptable

My genitals are safe. I have nearly 12 years on you. (Do you realize that you were born less than two weeks before Tolkien's death?)

[Beorthnoth]

In some ways, perhaps. He was the one responsible for getting Parliament to pass the right to a Writ of Habeus Corpus, which is an underlying principle to a lot of US law. And, of course, Shakespeare wrote a play about him.

He may not have ruled very long, but he was far from unimportant....and his replacement--Henry Tudor--was a real SOB.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

Make sure you aren't mixing up your Henrys. Henry VII (who was Yorkist leader at Bosworth, where Richard was killed) was the first Tudor king. He was something of a hard case (and tightfisted with it), but he was having to do some fairly fast talking and dirty politicking to substantiate what was actually a fairly flimsy claim to the throne. His younger son, Henry VIII, is the one with the multiple spouses and an unhealthy liking for the headsman's axe, whom everyone has heard of.

[jacobt29]

I'm sorry but this down time is unacceptable. It is a slap in the face from Turbine

[whheydt]

Make sure you aren't mixing up your Henrys. Henry VII (who was Yorkist leader at Bosworth, where Richard was killed) was the first Tudor king. He was something of a hard case (and tightfisted with it), but he was having to do some fairly fast talking and dirty politicking to substantiate what was actually a fairly flimsy claim to the throne. His younger son, Henry VIII, is the one with the multiple spouses and an unhealthy liking for the headsman's axe, whom everyone has heard of.

It's Henry VII I'm thinking of. In contrast with Richard III's pushing the right to the writ of habeus corpus (a judicial proceeding in which the state has to show cause or let the accused go), Henry VII invented the Star Chamber...the classic method of judicial murder--secret trial on trumped up charges with a previously determined outcome.

So...yes, I do think Henry VII was an SOB.

--W. H. Heydt

Old Used Programmer

[Fantoma]

They usually have a downtime every other Monday.

I think they took the summer off from that.