Please put useful information in the launcher, and working server status

Zehl_Ice-Fire · 08-23-2012, 12:09 PM

Telling me a server is low does not tell me if it is up or down. My friend has now told me that it is in fact up, but the launchpad shows low on all of the servers still. Yes I realize it will take time for people to log back in. I have been playing this game since '04.

Why is it out of the realms of developers who can match webcam movement to 3D character's facial movement to put the words server offline or server online and have them actually connected to the status? I don't care that there is a website I can go to separately, I don't want to check the web before I can play my game, I want to click launch and see server is up, click play, or server is not up, go do the dishes/work/whatever.

Wingrider01 · 08-23-2012, 12:13 PM

Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote:

Telling me a server is low does not tell me if it is up or down. My friend has now told me that it is in fact up, but the launchpad shows low on all of the servers still. Yes I realize it will take time for people to log back in. I have been playing this game since '04.
Why is it out of the realms of developers who can match webcam movement to 3D character's facial movement to put the words server offline or server online and have them actually connected to the status? I don't care that there is a website I can go to separately, I don't want to check the web before I can play my game, I want to click launch and see server is up, click play, or server is not up, go do the dishes/work/whatever.

low equates to the population - at least on the http://www.soe.com/status/ page, up or down is referenced by the arrow on the left side under the heading Status, up arrow is the server is up, down arrow is the server is down

I always check that one, was not even aware that there was one on the launch pad, will look when I get back in country, but suspect it uses the same definitions

08-23-2012, 12:09 PM	#1
Zehl_Ice-Fire Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NJ / Unrest Posts: 1,858	Telling me a server is low does not tell me if it is up or down. My friend has now told me that it is in fact up, but the launchpad shows low on all of the servers still. Yes I realize it will take time for people to log back in. I have been playing this game since '04. Why is it out of the realms of developers who can match webcam movement to 3D character's facial movement to put the words server offline or server online and have them actually connected to the status? I don't care that there is a website I can go to separately, I don't want to check the web before I can play my game, I want to click launch and see server is up, click play, or server is not up, go do the dishes/work/whatever. __________________ Zehl of Unrest SK DE/Provisioner/Transmuter/Tinkerer, Fashion Police Chief of Norrath & quest freak Deyala: 1/2 Elf brig/Carp/Tinker backstabbing vixen Katayira: DE Inquisitor/Alchemist/Tinker Musette: Evil Pixie Dirge/tailor also max woodworker, jeweler, and armorer ask me for FB

08-23-2012, 12:13 PM	#2
Wingrider01 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,999	Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote: Telling me a server is low does not tell me if it is up or down. My friend has now told me that it is in fact up, but the launchpad shows low on all of the servers still. Yes I realize it will take time for people to log back in. I have been playing this game since '04. Why is it out of the realms of developers who can match webcam movement to 3D character's facial movement to put the words server offline or server online and have them actually connected to the status? I don't care that there is a website I can go to separately, I don't want to check the web before I can play my game, I want to click launch and see server is up, click play, or server is not up, go do the dishes/work/whatever. low equates to the population - at least on the http://www.soe.com/status/ page, up or down is referenced by the arrow on the left side under the heading Status, up arrow is the server is up, down arrow is the server is down I always check that one, was not even aware that there was one on the launch pad, will look when I get back in country, but suspect it uses the same definitions __________________ Fixing computer issues, one SOC7 at a time. Yes Jim, the user has experienced the dreaded PICNIC error