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Post an extra two hours to estimated downtime.

Lucca Kitty
Connie Dobbs' Incarnation
Join date: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 60
02-01-2005 12:12
I've noticed that the downtime tends to be invariably around two hours longer than predicted. My suggestion is for LL to take the time for what they think it's going to take and tack on an extra couple hours. This will compensate for the excessive and almost unwavering underestimation of downtime...
Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
02-01-2005 12:20
yeah but they should do it gradualy so that we don't pickup on this trend of overestimation. Adding a half hour each time. Bad PR to overestimate downtime.

Anyway i'm using the time to catchup on comics.
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Konigmann Lippmann
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Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 40
02-01-2005 12:23
They were actually overestimating by about an hour during the patches last summer... Maybe they need to put the pesimist back in charge of the outage estimages ;)
Lucca Kitty
Connie Dobbs' Incarnation
Join date: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 60
02-01-2005 12:26
From: Strife Onizuka
yeah but they should do it gradualy so that we don't pickup on this trend of overestimation. Adding a half hour each time. Bad PR to overestimate downtime.

Anyway i'm using the time to catchup on comics.


Bad PR to underestimate too :P it's a fine art

I used the time to create a ton of animated textures for myself and catalog a bunch of sound effects from my sound effects CDs... but i ran out of stuff to do 3 hours ago lol
Paradigm Brodsky
Hmmm, How do I set this?
Join date: 28 Apr 2004
Posts: 206
02-01-2005 12:29
From: Strife Onizuka
yeah but they should do it gradualy so that we don't pickup on this trend of overestimation. Adding a half hour each time. Bad PR to overestimate downtime.

Anyway i'm using the time to catchup on comics.



Bad PR?? LOL, if only there were such a thing. We wouldn't have to keep seeing Amerosa and the She-Bang guy!
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