Servers Down - No Notice - Network Status - Poor Service

[Frijoles]

<p>My characters are on the Oasis server. </p><p>It's after 3:00am (on the US east coast) on September 1st and I still can't play. I haven't been able to since early Friday morning. I've cleaned the dirty dishes, watched some TV, taken a nap, and done little else except lurk here and poke around the house all day (and half the night). </p><p>I'll live.</p><p>I don't know what went wrong, or where, or how, but I can't do anything about it.</p><p>It occurred to me that, somewhere at this very moment, there's a group of people working hard, spending part of their Labor Day weekend (literally 'burning the midnight oil'<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> fixing whatever's wrong.</p><p>I want to thank those folks - and Gnobrin and Kirstie for staying on top of the update posts.</p><p>Good night, SoE - you guys enjoy what's left of your holiday weekend and stay safe.</p><p>And thanks again.</p><p><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Jalu]

Are they even working on the Mistmoore server...all others servers were locked with in 15 minutes of other coming up. I have noticed that the last 2 servers on the server status page (Mistmoore and Oasis) are just down.

[Galavant]

Don't forget the EU servers, idk where to even find their status...=(

[Meinen]

<p>some answers here..check the last page and entry...i have no idea when those times started since her post does not reflect the time it was written.  i guess i am tired and didn't noticed the time there in the corner...me bad.  at least there is some idea now...but tack on about an extra 2hrs to that time and thats more likely when it will go up.  </p><p> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=15&topic_id=379959" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379959</a></p>

[Psiloc]

I think they turned the lights out and locked up.

[Jalu]

LOL so its been approximatley 2 hours.  I believe they gone home........

[Jalu]

<p>Her last post was like 5 minutes ago...</p><p>latest news from the front lines is about 90 minutes for Mistmoore and Oasis.Runnyeye and Sebilis etas haven't changed.- K</p>

[Psiloc]

Yep, just saw that.

[Catwalkk]

Yeah, the time posted is shown in Pacific time for most of us, if we haven't changed the timezone in our options.  So the projected time for them to be up is around 5:30 am Eastern, 4:30 am Central.  Bummer.

[Psiloc]

Slightly off, but how do you change the time zone?  I've never been able to find that option for this board.

[Catwalkk]

Sorry 'bout that... most forums allow you to change the displayed time zone in your Profile.  Apparently this one doesn't.  I never tried to change mine cause I automatically assumed Pacific time and adjusted in my mind.

[Jalu]

<p>And this issue all over a card game (even if SOE says it wasn't). Because everything was up and running fine this morning before the patch.......</p><p>Informational update!</p><ul><li>The present issue was caused due to a recent hotfix meant to assist in the issues of a very few players, hence the odd circumstances now.</li><li>The gremlins that caused this issue have nothing to do with Legends of Norrath.</li></ul><p>There's still no present ETA for the fix's completion.  The team's working feverishly on getting the troubles ironed out.  If I hear anything more, I'll update this post!</p><p>Until later,~Gnobrin!</p><p>Which makes me more annoyed sue to the fact I will probably never play the card game.</p>

[Arcani]

Thank you for writing a nice, sane post! It's a refreshing change from all the screaming that's going on elsewhere. For once someone understands that when things go wrong -- and it's not like anyone wants anything to go wrong -- the people involved can't just automatically fix the problem with a snap of the fingers. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Psiloc]

I think the card game looks kinda cool, but they shouldn't be using live servers as testing grounds IMO.

[Eshaac]

ok. no news, no login, no nothing.   have they said forget it and left for the holiday?  This is getting to be a bit much.  What is up with Splitpaw server login?

[Frijoles]

According to the last update I saw, we're should see something soon.

[Zerebro]

@Splitpaw still not able to login...And yes, it would have been nice if the current forum time was at least displayed at the top or somewhere visible...  

[Zerebro]

Odd linking to US-servers. The servers themselves should be up, but unable to login <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Have been trying for 3 hours now.Out of boredom I made a char on the test server. Made me think about the test method they use <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />   

[two0fus]

<p>I have kept quiet because i realize these things happens sometimes and since this hasnt happened in awhile it didnt bother me..........until i awoke this morning and saw RE was STILL down. Now im ticked./rant off =p</p><p>I guess i can look at it this way....Least my toons are getting some much needed vit =p</p><p>ALTHOUGH extra vit for the servers that have been down so long would be nice also =)</p>

[Pikard]

<cite>Zhiitake@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Odd linking to US-servers. The servers themselves should be up, but unable to login <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /> Have been trying for 3 hours now.Out of boredom I made a char on the test server. Made me think about the test method they use <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" />    </blockquote><p>This new Patch proves they don't pretest these patches. these kind of problems would have shown up in a normal test run.</p><p>Greg</p>

[anth]

does any1 possibly know why i cant login? lastnight i zoned into tenebrous triangle, nd my game crashed, and ive been trying for hours too log back in, ive tried all my charcters, or where u go onto character select, but nothing will work, it just keeps saying that i should retry in a couple of minutes? can anyone help me?

[Oakleafe]

<a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=15&topic_id=379959" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379959</a>

[AJoS]

Server is up but login server is down.  No issues on Splitpaw - something to do with a botched hotfix on US based servers and the Splitpaw login server being tied to RE server.ETA is 1200 BST

[Lightfoot]

In short.  If you read the thread that has now reached 106 pages, you'll see the problem.  It will give you something to read while you wait for the servers to come back up. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[anth]

so basically only new players can login and we cant until RE is up?

[anth]

<cite>LightfootII wrote:</cite><blockquote>In short.  If you read the thread that has now reached 106 pages, you'll see the problem.  It will give you something to read while you wait for the servers to come back up. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>lol i read a bit, somet aboud sum1 sayin there AA was doubling nd all that, then i jst gave up on reading it hehe

[Jalu]

<cite>Drash wrote:</cite><blockquote>According to the last update I saw, we're should see something soon.</blockquote>lol,,, when was the last update ( at 1254 PST) and they said that the Mistmoore server would be up in 90 minutes. The servers have not been even test yet,  you would know this by the servers bing LOCKED, which has not happened all night.

[Shotneedle]

<cite>two0fus wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have kept quiet because i realize these things happens sometimes and since this hasnt happened in awhile it didnt bother me..........until i awoke this morning and saw RE was STILL down. Now im ticked./rant off =p</p><p>I guess i can look at it this way....Least my toons are getting some much needed vit =p</p><p>ALTHOUGH extra vit for the servers that have been down so long would be nice also =)</p></blockquote>They prolly turned off awarding vit just to [Removed for Content] us off more

[Frijoles]

<p>Yeah, it's a little more than 35 minutes past that time according to my reckoning. MM has been up/locked a couple times in the last few minutes. We'll see something soon, I hope.</p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Edited for spelling.)</span></p>

[Shotneedle]

<cite>Isouli@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Drash wrote:</cite><blockquote>According to the last update I saw, we're should see something soon.</blockquote>lol,,, when was the last update ( at 1254 PST) and they said that the Mistmoore server would be up in 90 minutes. The servers have not been even test yet,  you would know this by the servers bing LOCKED, which has not happened all night.</blockquote>Actually, Mistmoore was just locked like 5 minutes ago for an entire...minute or so.

[Oakleafe]

An update:<a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=15&topic_id=379959" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379959</a>

[ironheartthefirst]

been offline for like 14 hours for"aparoxamtly 1 hour"update <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[lmhotep]

<p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [Removed for Content] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p>

[Jalu]

Sure thing,  lol, they still are not even locked....SOE thanks for making everyone feel sorry for you.. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[two0fus]

i dont know but hope its soon....im starting to shake...think that the first withdrawl symptom <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[shirka]

<p>oh wait... you mean... there are people in Europe playing EQ2 as well? and there are actually WHOLE servers dedicated to players from Europe?</p><p>What's a Europe?</p>

[Shotneedle]

It will be up before Oasis...SOE hates meh!

[baca'jow]

<p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=380055" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=380055</a></p><p>Last update was hours and hours ago though so I wouldn't put much faith in it.</p>

[Jal]

Ive put playdough points on my ears picked up a guitar and am running round hitting things weakly, i am not addicted!

[Oakleafe]

<cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [I cannot control my vocabulary] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p></blockquote>The Oasis, Mistmoore, Splitpaw and Runnyeye servers are all connected.  Oasis and Mistmoore need to be fixed/patched/whatever.  If they attempted to bring up the Euro servers we would end up being up and down like a tart's knickers all day while they attempted to sort out the Oasis/Mistmoore issue.  As soon as Oasis and Mistmoore are up and confirmed fixed we will see the EU servers being brought up - or at least have a new estimate.  The dependency between the servers, coupled with which servers need fixing, means that they have to be done in a set order.  Sad but true I'm afraid.

[lmhotep]

<p>Oh hahaha i just had to laugh checking this: <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/network_status.vm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...twork_status.vm</a></p><p>All servers are up except forMistmoore (is locked) Oasis (is locked)  </p><p>Obviously Runnyeye and splitpaw dont even exist!</p><p>AFTER 3 FRIGIN YEARS YOU STILL HAVENT MANAGED TO ACTUALY PUT THE EU SERVERS IN THERE.</p><p>Oh oopsie my capslock just got stuck....</p>

[Shotneedle]

<cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [I cannot control my vocabulary] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p></blockquote>Hey...you'd be suprised how many people are up at 3:30 (6:30 EST) in the morning in america.

[Shotneedle]

<cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Oh hahaha i just had to laugh checking this: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/network_status.vm" target="_blank">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...twork_status.vm</a></p><p>All servers are up except forMistmoore (is locked) Oasis (is locked)  </p><p>Obviously Runnyeye and splitpaw dont even exist!</p><p>AFTER 3 FRIGIN YEARS YOU STILL HAVENT MANAGED TO ACTUALY PUT THE EU SERVERS IN THERE.</p><p>Oh oopsie my capslock just got stuck....</p></blockquote>Oasis and Mistmoore still aren't locked.

[shirka]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ive put playdough points on my ears picked up a guitar and am running round hitting things weakly, i am not addicted!</blockquote>LOL! this image actually made me laugh. A bright spot in these gloomy threads!

[Jalu]

<cite>Oakleafe wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [I cannot control my vocabulary] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p></blockquote>The Oasis, Mistmoore, Splitpaw and Runnyeye servers are all connected.  Oasis and Mistmoore need to be fixed/patched/whatever.  If they attempted to bring up the Euro servers we would end up being up and down like a tart's knickers all day while they attempted to sort out the Oasis/Mistmoore issue.  As soon as Oasis and Mistmoore are up and confirmed fixed we will see the EU servers being brought up - or at least have a new estimate.  The dependency between the servers, coupled with which servers need fixing, means that they have to be done in a set order.  Sad but true I'm afraid.</blockquote>Whats so funny is they should have said "Mistmoore and Oasis server have an ETA of 6 hours and the EU server will have an ETA of 12. Instead of jst passifying us with 90 minutes for US and whatever time they estimated for EU.

[lmhotep]

<p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/network_status.vm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...twork_status.vm</a></p><p>All servers are up except forMistmoore (is locked) Oasis (is locked) </p><p>The server of wich you are speaking does not exist, dont believe the logingscreen where you clicked on the runnyeye server it was all a fraud and we just imagined playing there!</p>

[Mirdo]

<cite>Shotneedle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [I cannot control my vocabulary] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p></blockquote>Hey...you'd be suprised how many people are up at 3:30 (6:30 EST) in the morning in america.</blockquote>Possibly, but it's not their weekend prime-time yet, it is in the EU. It's approaching midday in the UK and 1 PM CET.

[ironheartthefirst]

whats more anoying is i cant even get on to charactor select...i like playing round making new people even if i cant play them <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />why did it mess up anyway?i heard somthing about capes...

[lmhotep]

<cite>Shotneedle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"Very early good morning to you all,We are attemptng to bring up Oasis and Mistmoore right now but running into a few snags.  We should have them ironed out shortly and have the servers back open son.- K"</p><p>Why the [I cannot control my vocabulary] bring those up whole half of america is still asleep????</p><p>Bring the frigin euro servers up thats what you should focus on!</p><p>Oh wait IF were lucky and they would actualy MENTION anythign related to Runnyeye and Splitpaw we should be up and running again somewhere next week!</p></blockquote>Hey...you'd be suprised how many people are up at 3:30 (6:30 EST) in the morning in america.</blockquote>Hence i said <b>half</b> of america<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Illuminati]

<cite>Ronja@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>oh wait... you mean... there are people in Europe playing EQ2 as well? and there are actually WHOLE servers dedicated to players from Europe?</p><p>What's a Europe?</p></blockquote>It's the spot in your sophisticated maps where it says "Here be Dragons", you know the cradle of civilization and science.

[Shotneedle]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ive put playdough points on my ears picked up a guitar and am running round hitting things weakly, i am not addicted!</blockquote>Strapping on a belt with pouches for hammers, running into a bar and throwing em around, then running out screaming MONKS PWNED J00!... <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[ironheartthefirst]

bit like british airways now..your flight/server is late/going to be shut down for one hour*14 hours later*your flight/server never took off/was even createdThank you*ding*:@

[ironheartthefirst]

Aparently every server cept 1 is workinso why cant i log in?

[Kroogur]

Oasis is up

[shirka]

<cite>Illuminati wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Ronja@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>oh wait... you mean... there are people in Europe playing EQ2 as well? and there are actually WHOLE servers dedicated to players from Europe?</p><p>What's a Europe?</p></blockquote>It's the spot in your sophisticated maps where it says "Here be Dragons", you know the cradle of civilization and science.</blockquote><p>I'm living where there are Dragons?? eep!</p><p>/runs off to re-read Tolkien</p>

[Lightfoot]

<cite>Finilie@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Obviously Runnyeye and splitpaw dont even exist!</p></blockquote><p>As I already said in the other thread (the 100+ pages one), Runnyeye and Splitpaw are in stealth mode so the nasty evil patch can't find us.</p><p>The downside is, they've forgotten we are here.</p>

[Pogball]

Dont worry guys, the patch that screwed up the US servers is schedule to hit us once Splitpaw and RE destealth :p

[Kilatha]

On page <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/network_status.vm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...twork_status.vm</a> it says "All Servers Are Up". Yet Runnyeye is still down (tried to log in just before I wrote this). Friends has told me that Runnyeye never shows up on that page. Why is that so?SoE, please correct this.

[OldWolfBelgarath]

As far as im aware only the important servers show on the network status list such as the US servers!!Our EU servers aren't important and therefore aren't even acknowledged as exsisting <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> at least thats the impression i get which is a real shame cus i love EQ2 and wouldn't mind a little love back :pPlease correct this

[baca'jow]

<p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=380145" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=380145</a></p><p>Dev reply to the issue in that post. Doesn't help us too much atm rhough unfortunately.</p>

[Pogball]

Plausible deniability is a political doctrine originally developed in the United States of America in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly formed Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Plausible deniability involves the creation of power structures and chains of command loose and informal enough to be denied if necessary. The idea was that the CIA (and, later, other bodies) could be given controversial instructions by powerful figures -- up to and including the president himself -- but that the existence and true source of those instructions could be denied if necessary; if, for example, an operation went disastrously wrong and it was necessary for the administration to disclaim responsibility.Runnyeye and Splitpaw who?

[AJoS]

Gnobrin seems to be the only admin who actually listens to EU players - as can be seen by the total lack of update when he is not on after it has gone past the original ETA

[Jal]

Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.

[Lightfoot]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote><p>Ooh, that's just plain nasty!</p>

[Aenielle]

But Runnyeye is pacefull, they have no weapons at all!*Death star laser engages*BOOOOM!

[Pogball]

<cite>LightfootII wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote><p>Ooh, that's just plain nasty!</p></blockquote>Its all a conspiracy by SoE, let Splitpaw and RE destroy each other - Mutual Assured Destruction. No more EU servers, no more worries.

[Snowdonia]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote>Them's fightin' words!*puts up her dukes*

[Jal]

<cite>Fizzletop@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>But Runnyeye is pacefull, they have no weapons at all!*Death star laser engages*BOOOOM!</blockquote>*wipetear*  It sounds so appealing.

[BowB4Me]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote>Nasty but at least that way some people on the EU servers could get some gameplay time.As a person who has 5/6 toons on Runneyeye I would see this as actually being the most fair thing to do right now; yes keep working on the RE issues but munge the log in protocols (don't flame me I am a herbalist not a geek) for Splitpaw to allow some Euros playtime.Pleasexxx

[Pogball]

<cite>Fizzletop@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>But Runnyeye is pacefull, they have no weapons at all!*Death star laser engages*BOOOOM!</blockquote>Ahh but dont forget we have ninjas!

[Jal]

<cite>Snowdonia@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote>Them's fightin' words!*puts up her dukes*</blockquote>I have a lute and im not afraid to sing!

[Aenielle]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Snowdonia@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote>Them's fightin' words!*puts up her dukes*</blockquote>I have a lute and im not afraid to sing!</blockquote>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!They will surrender! They will surrender!<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[espy]

<p>Well since servers are down I started to roll another toon on Vox just to pass the time, I got to think</p><p>Qeynos Starter island 1-10, +3 noobie zones 3-12</p><p>Freeport Starter island 1-10, +5noobie zones</p><p>G Feydark 1-20</p><p>Darklight Wood 1-20</p><p>RoK 1-20</p><p>That is a hell of a lot of starter zones. Choices are good, lore is good, low server population + twinks power leveling through zones + new starters not so good.</p><p>At low peak, you are not going to see anyone for 20 levels, especially if u pick 1 of the less popular old zones. IMO this is a very bad way to start a new starter off in any MMO.</p><p>Perhaps it would be worth directing new starters away from Q and FP where starter zones are fragmented, and into new zones where a lot of existing players are rolling a new race.</p><p>It would be a shame for new starters to get the impression that a server way dead simply because the where in an old zone when RoK launched.</p>

[Snowdonia]

<cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Snowdonia@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Asarla@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Right i say we nuke runnyeye and let us splitpaw types on.</blockquote>Them's fightin' words!*puts up her dukes*</blockquote>I have a lute and im not afraid to sing!</blockquote>I have a <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=377847" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stage and beholder back up singers</a>. Don't make me get nasty!

[Ardnahoy]

<p>Due to last night's server fiasco, our guild ended up rolling new toons on one of the few servers that was up. We all created toons and hit the newbie island.</p><p>By 7:00 PM Eastern, there were two instances of Queen's Colony, with about 40 toons in each. Looks like we weren't the only ones with the same idea. By 9:00 PM, we had enough money to create a new guild. By 9:30 PM, we hit guild level 2 and actually got some random player recruits. By 10:00 PM, I hit level 10, and was a level 8 crafter. At 10:30 PM, I soloed my first heroic and looted my first legendary item and achieved my first AA.</p><p>It was the most fun we've had in a long time.</p>

[Spyderbite]

<cite>espy wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>At low peak, you are not going to see anyone for 20 levels, especially if u pick 1 of the less popular old zones. IMO this is a very bad way to start a new starter off in any MMO.</p></blockquote>Seems to me that it would be more efficient to simply merge the server rather than reprogramming starter scenario for a situation that doesn't exist on the other more populated servers. Especially when levels 1-20 are usually zipped through in a matter of days by the more enthusiastic new players.

[Oakleafe]

<cite>espy wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Well since servers are down I started to roll another toon on Vox just to pass the time, I got to think</p><p>Qeynos Starter island 1-10, +3 noobie zones 3-12</p><p>Freeport Starter island 1-10, +5noobie zones</p><p>G Feydark 1-20</p><p>Darklight Wood 1-20</p><p>RoK 1-20</p><p>That is a hell of a lot of starter zones. Choices are good, lore is good, low server population + twinks power leveling through zones + new starters not so good.</p><p>At low peak, you are not going to see anyone for 20 levels, especially if u pick 1 of the less popular old zones. IMO this is a very bad way to start a new starter off in any MMO.</p><p>Perhaps it would be worth directing new starters away from Q and FP where starter zones are fragmented, and into new zones where a lot of existing players are rolling a new race.</p><p>It would be a shame for new starters to get the impression that a server way dead simply because the where in an old zone when RoK launched.</p></blockquote>As I can't see a logical way for characters to then get from Gfay, DW and RoK to Q & FP, I'd suggest you do it the other way around.  At least from the Q & FP training isles you have the logical possibility of taking a boat anywhere.  There's also the fact that now instances of the starter isles must be fairly easy to do but wouldn't instances of the starter areas mean the whole zones would be instances, thus making the 8-20 area less populated?BTW, until fairly recently I had an alt on Q training isle for tinkering supplies, and on Runnyeye there were always enough players to group into a few groups.  In fact on some days there were too many players meaning resources and mobs were highly contested.  You really do not want those zones packed with players.Having rolled a few baby alts recently (just to try out the areas and do a little harvesting) I'd have to say that Q, FP, Gfay and DW (on the Runnyeye server) had plenty of players for the types of tasks they need to do DURING peak times (i.e. groups of more than 3 aren't worth it as most stuff can be solo'd).Obviously that's just my view on just one server, but I thought I'd share it with you. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Think11]

<p>4 hours no response.</p><p>Did Engineer of SOE already go home?</p><p>Please response!</p>

[Nienye]

<p>We Japanese player can not play over than 20hrs without infomation lol</p><p>SoE did nothing about not only heavy lag in Sebilis server but also server infomation.</p><p>Last update of Japanese server status is currently 7/25 </p><p>What do you think about your foreign Customer? </p>

[Otho]

<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;color: #cc0000;">its very stressful just waiting and wasting my holyday!!!!!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;color: #cc0000;">GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!</span></p>

[Zevi]

It got tired of waiting. Please return valuable holiday.

[Shinsu]

<p><span style="font-size: small;color: #0000ff;"><b>Please announce at least. </b></span><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Vatec]

And yes, I know the problems aren't related to Legends of Norrath in any way, shape, or form.  I mean, it's purely coincidental that downtime has increased since LoN was added to the mix and yesterday's hotfix was completely unrelated to the LoN patch earlier in the day.Since I'm in a sassy mood, I'll put it this way:plz beta lon on test not on live kthxbyeEven if the problems =are= unrelated, it would help convince the skeptics ;^)

[Frijoles]

<p>I just logged to the character select screen and noticed 2 of 6 charaters missing. Then I was abruptly disconnected. I logged back in, but the character select screen was as far as I got (2 toons still missing) before getting dropped to the desktop again.</p><p>Is anyone else having similar difficulty?</p>

[Zard]

Hmm, that's strange. I'm on Oasis <b>now</b> and have been on for over an hour without a problem. . .  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Frijoles]

<p>Yeah I just started a separate thread (oops).</p><p>I hope my toons are okay. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Vatec]

<cite>Auric@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm, that's strange. I'm on Oasis <b>now</b> and have been on for over an hour without a problem. . .  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote>Log out and try logging back in ;^)

[Zard]

Maybe it's the login servers then? I'm able to zone and switch characters (through /camp) but haven't tried re-logging.

[djcinder]

Experienced very long zone load times and several times the game has hung on "receiving zone information" on both of my accounts.

[Frijoles]

<cite>Auric@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>Maybe it's the login servers then? I'm able to zone and switch characters (through /camp) but haven't tried re-logging.</blockquote><p>Egad - I smell a rollback. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>(I sure hope not, though.)</p>

[Dasein]

LoN has it's own servers, it doesn't reside on the EQ/EQ2 game servers so far as I know.

[Zard]

<cite>djcinder wrote:</cite><blockquote>Experienced very long zone load times and several times the game has hung on "receiving zone information" on both of my accounts.</blockquote><p>That could be the dreaded "crash while zoning" bug. It have seen it once today, on Oasis, but only once and it recovered (after about 1 minute) without disconnecting me.</p>

[Vatec]

<cite>Auric@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>Maybe it's the login servers then? I'm able to zone and switch characters (through /camp) but haven't tried re-logging.</blockquote>When I zoned from tradeskill instance to Nettleville it took almost five minutes.  And when I tried "/camp Vatec" it dropped me to character select with only my base account characters available (Station Access ones gone) and all the names in red with "Oasis server down" under them.  Every now and then they'll change colors and it claims the server is up, but if I try to log in, it fails.Take it as friendly advice, but don't do anything in-game right now that you're not willing to lose to a rollback ;^)

[Zard]

I just exited completely (to desktop), re-launched and re-logged in without a problem. Maybe it's a local issue?

[Vonotar]

<cite>Dasein wrote:</cite><blockquote>LoN has it's own servers, it doesn't reside on the EQ/EQ2 game servers so far as I know. </blockquote>There is still LoN code in EQ2... otherwise you wouldn't be able to launch it in-game or cash in on loot cards, claim booster packs won on mobs etc etc.It doesn't sit in a bubble ya know!

[Vatec]

<cite>Dasein wrote:</cite><blockquote>LoN has it's own servers, it doesn't reside on the EQ/EQ2 game servers so far as I know. </blockquote>True.  But it does use login servers and I'd be very surprised if they weren't the same ones they use for EQ2 (and the forums and Vanguard and just about everything else, as far as I can tell).  And the current issues (and yesterday's issues) do appear to be related to the login servers.I used to be a network administrator, but that was a long time ago and involved totally different operating systems.  So I can only offer an educated guess, at best.

[Vatec]

<cite>Auric@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>I just exited completely (to desktop), re-launched and re-logged in without a problem. Maybe it's a local issue?</blockquote>Possibly.  I'm in South Florida, for anyone who's curious.In any case, I'll be taking my own advice and, if I do manage to get back in, not doing anything that I'm not willing to lose to a rollback ;^)

[Think11]

<p><span style="font-size: medium;color: #ffff00;">OMG Server Hamster die again. </span></p><p>And Sebilis has been forgotten. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/2e207fad049d4d292f60607f80f05768.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Zard]

<p>I didn't do anything today I wouldn't mind repeating and will probably wait until tonight before doing anything serious.</p><p>Lucky for me, I did not log in at all yesterday and was not affected by the rollback. I feel for the peeps that lost time and stuff.  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/c30b4198e0907b23b8246bdd52aa1c3c.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>Whomever's idea it was to install a patch just before a holiday weekend should take some time to re-evaluate their career. . .</p>

[Vatec]

Yep, seems to be back up at the moment.  Still, I'll just say that my confidence level isn't going to be too high for a while :^P

[Vatec]

<cite>Auric@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I didn't do anything today I wouldn't mind repeating and will probably wait until tonight before doing anything serious.</p><p>Lucky for me, I did not log in at all yesterday and was not affected by the rollback. I feel for the peeps that lost time and stuff.  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/c30b4198e0907b23b8246bdd52aa1c3c.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>Whomever's idea it was to install a patch just before a holiday weekend should take some time to re-evaluate their career. . .</p></blockquote>Their co-workers may just help them with that ;^)Then again, it may have been imposed upon them from much further up the food chain.  Having worked in corporate America I have met my fair share of senior executives who really do consider employees to be "human resources" to be used and abused because "that's what I'm paying them for."My sympathies to the players who were affected and to the SOE employees who had to fix it....

[Frijoles]

<p><b><i>Update:</i></b></p><p>After several more attempts (4 or 5) I was able to log back in and find all my toons where they belong.</p><p>(That was an <b><i>ugly</i></b> hiccup.)</p><p>I finished my 'inventory maintanance' with the previously missing characters,  but I noticed in the process that zoning times are somewhat longer than normal.</p><p>I'm going to bed.</p><p>(Sorry if I raised a false alarm, yo.)</p><p><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Tidusin]

This is another thread on same old topic hoping that SOE will realise we are the people paying their wages.....I DO NOT PAY to be kicked and rolled back, to have my server status not updated after hours of downtime and to have issues unresolved for over a year and nothing said, not even a sorry.Please just register ur general unrest below..........

[Tanan]

<cite>Tidusin wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is another thread on same old topic hoping that SOE will realise we are the people paying their wages.....</blockquote>Mods delete this thread for the obvious reasons.

[Frijoles]

What server(s) do you play on, Tidusin?

[Josgar]

the servers are up right now...Newtwork status page does suck: <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=380145�" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...45�</a>and we were informed all night on what was happening:  <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=379959" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379959</a>

[Kaalenarc]

<p><span style="color: #ffff00;">It was an emergency problem that caused the down time. They posted a notice in the stickied thread located here:</span></p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=379959" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379959</a></p><p><span style="color: #ffff00;">And provided updates all evening as each server was repaired. WHenver theres an issue there are tow places to go for info - the General Announcements forum at the very top of the forums list or click on chat from the launcher and go into the general room.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffff00;"> The roll back was needed because people were getting multiple AA dings on some servers every time they zoned.</span></p>

[melaine_dvarvensplitter]

/laughs at the OP I complain but I know SoE has been busting there tails to get the game back up and going and I appreciate all there hard work. And Mods as someone stated.. delete this post. We already have 300 I am mad posts <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Frijoles]

<cite>Vatec wrote:</cite><blockquote>(...) I'm in South Florida, for anyone who's curious. (...)</blockquote><p>I'm in Gainesville.</p><p>Coincidence?</p><p><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/1cfd6e2a9a2c0cf8e74b49b35e2e46c7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[MOJOPHREAKY]

<p>Oh Noes! The sky is falling!</p><p>We demand chocolate chip cookies and we demand them now!</p><p>And beer. Lots of beer.</p><p>You pay for a service that does not agree to have a 100% up time. If you get rolled back, it's for a reason. You don't have to like it, but you agree to it every time you click the "I Agree" button that lets you start up this game.</p><p>Sorry those are the rules. Not just for this game but for every MMO out there. Go look at WoW, they have the same issues and they even shut down access to the servers one morning a week for usually 6 hours of maintenence. </p><p>Every system has a chance to suffer data corruption. Every system will eventually fail. There are people trying to fix it that are probably very tired and far more irritated than you at the moment. You can't log in, they can't leave work to enjoy the holiday weekend. You can get up and do something else for a while, they are stuck working on this mess while you all complain about it.</p><p>Get over it. It's a game. </p><p>And yes I have become the official posterboy for don't pick on the engineers, they are dealing with enough right now because of some production manager's inability to remove his thumb from his [I cannot control my vocabulary] long enough to notice this was a bad time for a patch.</p>

[Tidusin]

AHAHAHA to all ur replys...my friend remained in game whilst I did not, I play on Runnyeye.Please delete this post as it shows the sheer incompetency of SOE. I am a patient guy generally but after having waited 1 yr for one issue to be resolved (can SOE even track what that is after all this time? if so plz let me know and and I'll retract my comments) I get a lil upset. This aint no freebie Guild Wars, I pay to play and don't mind downtime if its necessary I just don't like being told my servers up after 3 hrs of trying to log in. I expect to be told it's down, after a reasonable time (3 hrs is more than reasonable) and if they are not sure of how long fine, say so...but I find being told "All Servers Up" when they are not is a lil too much when some of my friends and myself could be doing other things so we can fit EQ2 in around RL.Edit...Realise the issue isn't the servers r down but the general lack of respect for their customers thru lack of information after 3 hrs

[Vatec]

<cite>Tidusin wrote:</cite><blockquote>AHAHAHA to all ur replys...my friend remained in game whilst I did not, I play on Runnyeye.Please delete this post as it shows the sheer incompetency of SOE. I am a patient guy generally but after having waited 1 yr for one issue to be resolved (can SOE even track what that is after all this time? if so plz let me know and and I'll retract my comments) I get a lil upset. This aint no freebie Guild Wars, I pay to play and don't mind downtime if its necessary I just don't like being told my servers up after 3 hrs of trying to log in. I expect to be told it's down, after a reasonable time (3 hrs is more than reasonable) and if they are not sure of how long fine, say so...but I find being told "All Servers Up" when they are not is a lil too much when some of my friends and myself could be doing other things so we can fit EQ2 in around RL.</blockquote>To the naysayers:  Look at the TIME the OP posted this.  You may choose to believe this or not, but a fair number of players just experienced the same issue on Oasis LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO.Reading comprehension:  it's not just for school anymore....

[Tidusin]

Thank goodness some1 understands!I'd like to know what countries the knockers come from as from my understanding the Americans get treated a hell of a lot better than the EU's...NOT CONFIRMED by self.

[Vatec]

<cite>Tidusin wrote:</cite><blockquote>Thank goodness some1 understands!I'd like to know what countries the knockers come from as from my understanding the Americans get treated a hell of a lot better than the EU's...NOT CONFIRMED by self.</blockquote>Not much better as far as I can tell.  Network Status page is frequently incorrect, scheduled patches frequently aren't announced anywhere except an obscure forum post, etc.  SOE just isn't very good at communications, unfortunately....  (If I had to guess, it's probably because, in the name of efficiency, they overburden the people who are responsible for such communications with tons of other unrelated chores.  But that's just a guess based on my personal experiences with corporate America.)

[Vatec]

<cite>Drash wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Vatec wrote:</cite><blockquote>(...) I'm in South Florida, for anyone who's curious. (...)</blockquote><p>I'm in Gainesville.</p><p>Coincidence?</p><p><img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/1cfd6e2a9a2c0cf8e74b49b35e2e46c7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p></blockquote>If we can find a third person who had the same problems and is also from the Southeastern US, I'll be fairly convinced it wasn't coincidence ;^)Until then I'll continue irrationally blaming Legends of Norrath as a matter of principle :^P

[kuwappa]

<p>sebilis server is still down</p><p>saturday AM04 ～ sunday AM11:50 (NOW!!)</p><p><b>31 hours,</b> omg</p>

[Lyshade]

<p>Only Sebilis (International Server JP) is still down.</p><p>SOE, pls remember us!<img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/2e207fad049d4d292f60607f80f05768.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Veland]

A very long day and night,Finally, seblis comes back again!Thank you, Gnborin, Kirstie and all Devs for very long hard working.We appreciate your effort. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />