The Servers are up! But why?

[Darlgon]

You mean I'm not supposed to nibble on the cables when I get hungry?

Thats what the squirrels do at my transformer.

[Alotlost]

You mean I'm not supposed to nibble on the cables when I get hungry?

On the cables ... yes, .... on the hamsters.. NO!

Good luck all, and remember to eat something, but not the hamsters please.

[Amberjack]

You mean I'm not supposed to nibble on the cables when I get hungry?

I KNEW the Turbine data center ran on hamster power, AND NOW I HAVE PROOF.

Back on your wheel, yo.

[RockX]

Thats what the squirrels do at my transformer.

Yeah, squirrels are nasty little buggers like that. My family makes maple syrup, and there's consistently issues with the lines getting gnawed by squirrels.

[MrWarg]

RockX do you have any information on the likelihood of Helm's Deep launching today?

[KemperBoyd]

Yeah, squirrels are nasty little buggers like that. My family makes maple syrup, and there's consistently issues with the lines getting gnawed by squirrels.

Thanks for the fun, but some Information on HD release would be appreciated/expected!

[Roufneck]

I hope im wrong but my guess is tomorrow will be the day. Engineers have been working all day to recover from the blackout. There are just some things you can't control. Nature is one of them.

[Alotlost]

Thanks for the fun, but some Information on HD release would be appreciated/expected!

I guess at this moment, they have no idea when HD will be as they still need to fix this unexpected problem. So, they will be thinking, its best to wait until there is accurate info to give to us, rather than guess work.

Edit: Btw, not all servers are back up and working as yet. Snowy is still down.

[GrandCru]

And in the meantime, he fools around on the forum...
We shall expect a flawless update then.

[Strider3x3]

Yeah, squirrels are nasty little buggers like that. My family makes maple syrup, and there's consistently issues with the lines getting gnawed by squirrels.

I like squirrels...^^

I am staying away for couple of days until all the ruckus is fixed.

Ditto.

Just relax and calm down everyone. I think we might survive...
(Except the Serveradmins - get some cookies please!)

[Belnavar]

The servers are up, but travelling from one zone to another (even just entering an AH) either takes forever or results in a game crash. The problems are clearly not fully resolved.

-Bel

[Dittany]

Alright seems we won't be getting HD today so time to get some sleep and see you all on wednesday

[RockX]

And in the meantime, he fools around on the forum...
We shall expect a flawless update then.

There's periods of time when I'm making bug-fixes where I'm waiting for files to process. That's usually when I'm fooling around on the forums.

[moebius2778]

There's periods of time when I'm making bug-fixes where I'm waiting for files to process. That's usually when I'm fooling around on the forums.

Compiling!

[rosey21]

There's periods of time when I'm making bug-fixes where I'm waiting for files to process. That's usually when I'm fooling around on the forums.

Rock don't ya know, noone at Turbine is allowed to fool around or have any fun. You all must be serious at all times.

[Bel-Astarte]

There's periods of time when I'm making bug-fixes where I'm waiting for files to process. That's usually when I'm fooling around on the forums.

I don't know ANYONE ELSE who does such a thing.

*glances surreptitiously around for boss*

[Stever1388]

Compiling!

Beat me to it.

[Darlgon]

And in the meantime, he fools around on the forum...
We shall expect a flawless update then.

DUUUDE.. Its a DEV in the forums. Shhhhh... Play nice or he will go hide. I LIKE that he fools around in the forums.

[RockX]

Compiling!

XKCD is always correct. Though we don't have sword-fights in-office (usually). That's what larping is for.

[djheydt]

You mean I'm not supposed to nibble on the cables when I get hungry?

Oh, RockX, I feel your pain. (I've pulled all-nighters myself, but usually writing papers, not
fixing computers). I send you lots of virtual chocolate and doughnuts and the caffeine-delivery
system of your choice.

/hug

[FittyBolger]

There's periods of time when I'm making bug-fixes where I'm waiting for files to process. That's usually when I'm fooling around on the forums.

But do the compiles suffer from lag?
Is the lag most noticeable during smoke / coffee break times?

Edit: And then it's always fun when you are compiling a big program that takes a long time (and you are in a hurry) so you kick all the "users" off claiming this program requires a "dedicated system" so you have all the compu-powa to yourself.

[Yulin-Gladden]

XKCD is always correct. Though we don't have sword-fights in-office (usually). That's what larping is for.

We use nerf guns in our office. The THUNK of hitting your boss in the chest is much more satisfying.

[Duke_Darkwood]

Why are the servers up without the HD patch having been completed??

When everything crashed yesterday my thought was -- you know what turbine don't work on trying to get them back online. Just start working on the patch. I mean why go through all the trouble of getting things up to bring them down and do it all over again.

Because, as others have pointed out, it might be smart to make sure the servers are working, fine and dandy, no issues with loading up, with login screens, with anything else... BEFORE rolling the patch out.

Otherwise, we put the patch on servers that might not be stable, or even working.

"So why not just keep it down through all the fixes AND the patching?"

Because it's hard to measure server stability in a closed environment. It can be working just fine in-house, then collapse under the weight of thousands of players.

The Bounder's Bounty thing is entirely incidental, although a nice peace offering to keep the masses placated during the two-day delay. The delay would have to happen, one way or the other - and Turbine COULD have terminated the Bounty and XP bonus right on time if they wanted to, assuming that most people would have gotten enough rewards from the months this has been active, including most of that last day. But since it doesn't actually require effort to not take them out, they left them in, so the last-hour-ers can be happy. As I said - a placation.

[djheydt]

"So why not just keep it down through all the fixes AND the patching?"

Because it's hard to measure server stability in a closed environment. It can be working just fine in-house, then collapse under the weight of thousands of players.

Oh, this is SO true. Consider that any patch is tested first on Turbine's in-house servers, by the devs and
other Turbine staff; and then on Palantir by a select few; and then on Bullroarer by a larger sample ----
and then when it goes live you may still get bugs in need of fixing, because they didn't scale, and didn't
show up on the smaller servers.