So 5 hours? What's going on?

[Anneguish]

Hey there,I'm just curious as I sometimes (ok - most times) just log on to EQ2 to craft stuff while I'm at work, since I came back to the game.  I've been greeted most mornings with some form of Update or another and the one today didn't really surprise me.  Even when it said that AB, Bazaar and Sith(?) will be down 3 hours instead of 1 for all others.  But now I see that it's changed to 5 HOURS!  Now I would like to know what is going on that those 3 servers will need an additional 4 hours of downtime.  What is going wrong on those 3 that isnt happening on the others. As far as I can tell, the 3 servers have nothing in common (LG, PVP, RP, etc) but i could be wrong.I dont mind things being fixed. But I'm one of those kinds of people that likes to know 'why'. Especially when the problem "I" (meaning the server I happen to play on) have is bigger than everyone else's.Thanks for the info and for your time.Oh....and keep adding the great content.  You beat out every other MMO out there (though LoTRO is still great, just kinda slow til expansion). So keep up the great work <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[TSR-TrevorG]

Couldn't tell you myself unfortunatley. I do not get all of the nitty gritty, although Id love to know myself :p.

[Anneguish]

Well, thanks anyway.  An answer of "I dunno" is much better than no answer at all. Nothing to it but to wait it out. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Thanks

[Zenith]

Heh a lot of us would love to know, AB is almost always first down, last up. There's always something that makes it extended. Hell today we were lucky they even bothered to update the network status page. This isn't the first time AB's been the special server who got to sit the day out in the corner, I wish they'd just fix it and bring it on par with the others.

[Detor]

<cite>TSR-TrevorG wrote:</cite><blockquote>Couldn't tell you myself unfortunatley. I do not get all of the nitty gritty, although Id love to know myself :p.</blockquote>Guessing by others comments on AB I'm guessing they are taking parts out of The Bazaar (memory, maybe the bazaar has more processing power, who knows) and putting them in Antonica Bayle to help AB cope with a larger server population. OR they might be upgrading both who knows.  On the bazaar at least I know that when you go to do things like use the broker it pauses for up to a minute for each item where it says you have a broker transaction in progress but nothing happens.  (that happens if you're buying items, or putting items up for sale when you add them to your sales container and it takes a minute for an item to go from being in your inventory to showing up and letting you set a price on them.)  Used to be a lot worse - you could sit at the broker window waiting 5 minutes for a buy command of 1 item to go through - and I just kind of figured it was like that for all servers.

[Zenith]

Going on 6hrs now, yes this last hour counts because while AB is "up" there's no zones running. Good way to fake out the network status page though.