So much for the grid being back up on time

Others deal with this by having separate server maintenance schedules (like I understand Blizzard does) for Europe and North America. Others that have a worldwide server (like CCP) do it by being located in the middle, rather than at one of the ends, in terms of the time zone spread.

Well I said "dodgy" not "down"... SLX, eBay and Amazon are on my list of "do not enter when tipsy" sites...

Definately feel for you psi, I know I would be more than a little annoyed if it was during my usual playtime as well.

This must be the times where they have seen their network traffic to be at it's lowest, or maybe it's just when everyone strolls into the office and gets one or two cups of coffee in them before going to work. Either way, hang in there

I came home and (optomistically) tried logging on at 12:00 p.m. SL time -- and got a message that it was closed for maintenance, open to employees only, etc.

Tried logging on again just now but got a different message that an Unexpected Error occurred and I should check on-line to see if there's some big problem (or words to that effect). It didn't shut down my sign up board but it sounded ominous.

Or is that to be expected?

Oh it's not based on traffic, it's clearly based on Pacific Time work hours -- everything you see Linden doing reflects that really. That's fine in theory, it's just very hard to do it that way when you are running a worldwide server.

the blog should read

[10.00] We fixed it ... back online in a tick

[10.47] er .. no we didn't, sorry about that - it'll just be a few more mins honest

[11.34] ok .. the Tea Lady has arrived so just give us 10 more as we've been working sooo hard

[15.20] ooops Spanky Linden spilt his tea all over the servers .. im sure we'll have that mopped up in 15 honest

[15.40] We've posted something else of no use to anyone to take your mind off it


Random movie titles for Second Life ...
Honey We Broke The Server
Crash !

I'm not a typical LL basher, but this really puzzles me. I figured out in my first couple of weeks that SL rarely gets back online within the time given. Hasn't LL realized that?

I'm not complaining about how long they're down.....Please LL take your time to get it right! I just don't understand why at this point they don't automatically add an extra hour or two to their expected time. It would really save a lot of bitching. Well, not really, but it'd save a lot of bitching about this.

Well concidering LL has it home office and its coders in California.. um ya they will be working normal hours based on THIER location lol ya know where they have thier crappy coders at man eurotrash is so spoiled

I think that the paid members should be reimbursed in some way for all the lost time that they have paid for with all this down time . .. just my opinion

Problem is they dont get it right, every update or new client introduces new useless components to SL rather than focusing on the many bugs we've had to live with for ages. I'd like to see many script functions... function, rather than get a fancy realistic sky. I'd rather have working alpha textures than a voice chat that one can use skype, teamspeak and other programs to acomplish far more ealisy. And lastly, I'd like to be able to be able to get ON when they say they will be done with an update, rather than wait an additional two hours and expect exactly the same issues as when I was on yesterday.

Yes, I totally back up the European rant. I understand that americans aren't that bothered by it and for them it's just oh-la-la-so-f-what.
I am a truly patient person but suddenly the game I used to play seems so tempting and troublefree. Maybe because their downtime lasted for 10 seconds each while it restarted? Live updates, less pissed people. And yes, I am sane and I do realize that this here needs to be taken down for maintenance but oh dear lord why the hell won't they just take it down for a few days and fix the whole bloody mess instead of wiping away the few hours of europeans gametime. Lucky for me, I decided to wait and see before going premium and buying land. And yea, haven't been in this game for long but problems come often. Too often. There was actually a period with no relaxed game sessions. So yeah, bright side, it's now theoretically possible to get through one day of playing without issues.

End of rant.

I do apologize for snapping out like that. I've had a very rough day through which I looked forward to getting home, putting kid to sleep and finally tinker on with my prim project. No luck, have waited here for two hours and an hour until bed

*sigh* well, have a cookie, guys.. Might get hungry waiting.

Dude, where's my island?

The Grid, the bad and the ugly?

The Linden always wrecks twice?

or just...

Halloween

The one thing about all the bitching is that usually the ones who come to use the forums, and voice their opinions, are in actuality a small percentage of the player population. Which is one reason why nothing ever seems to get taken too seriously by the game provider.

I'm well aware of that Covisha (sigh). I can read it in the 100,000 other posts mentioning this. It wasn't the point of my post.

At least any bugs that's popping up are doing it while the grid's being service. If I was a tech that was working on the thing, I would put an estimated time a lot later then what was posted. If things got done sooner, the grid would be opened sooner.

if LL didn't have such an abysmal record in keeping to their own deadlines we would all be in game and happy!

this is hardly a one off

Let me guess... another problem?

I'd just like to get a little e-mail message when they're back...so I'd stop obsessively hanging out here.

Then again, maybe I wouldn't stop hanging out here since I have RW stuff I'm avoiding (house-cleaning, laundry, lawn-mowing).

I confess, I don't even know how all the server networking stuff happens - it's just a sort of voodoo to me. I pays my money, and I assume LL sacrifice the requisite chickens

But it can't be impossible to schedule these things at different times of the day. This happened last Wednesday at the same time, it happened the week before that, one evening (might have been Wednesday - I wasn't keeping count,) at the same time.

This is a bad time of day for me. I know I'm a small cog in the machine, but there are a lot of other small cogs who find it a bad time. If this field needs manuring (and I have little conception of the the technical whys and wherefores,) it would be more equitable all round to spread the s**t a bit while doing it.

Even with a limited understanding of server technology, I know that these events could be easily rescheduled to spread the inconvenience instead of dumping it on everyone in my timezone.

Weirdest thing is, I do not know why I still play this game. Or as a matter of fact, why I spend the only few hours of my day that are completely mine, sitting here trying to not get annoyed. Watching the clock seeing doom come in shape of bedtime, meaning another long day of things I do not want to do and night when maybe, just *maybe*, I'd get in. Or sit here again watching the time pass. Eh. I feel old.

LOL! How about...

E.T. The Endless Teleport

Gorean Holiday

To Catch a Linden

Arsenic and Old Landmarks

A Fistful of Lindens

I'd have gone with The Hud, The Lag and the Fugly <g>

actually just realised the blog doesn't say on which day they're opening back up

I think maybe its because Linden like to keep to "normal" office hours in their TZ.

Not that its a 24/7 always online virtual reality system of course.

I dont blame them if thats how they want to do it, but it does seem like its more of a game for them than it is for us!

ohnonononononooooooo
it is still down ohmg what am i gonna do NOW??????????