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Zonax Delorean
Registered User
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 767
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03-15-2006 13:04
Being an European, the update time 6 AM - 12 PM (and today, extended to 3 PM) game time translates to Central European time: 3 PM - 9 PM (and today, extended to midnight). Since Wednesday is a workday, and most ppl. work during the day, the upgrade outages seriously shorten their window of SL gaming time. And today, since the game will be offline for at least midnight European time, that means a whole today out  I know Lindens probably don't care much, but in the worst case, this means at most 4 wednesdays in a month (with upgrades) with limited or no service in the European timezone. PS: If no compensation, could you at least post the percentage of European users in the reply? I heard 10-20%, but I'm not sure that's right data and would be interested! |
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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03-16-2006 00:24
I was just reading a related thread... I am sorry the updates inconvenience you so. I am not European but I sometimes sleep "Euro hours". It sometimes makes me wish everyone in the world was in the time zone--but then I think, where would all that cultural diversity go? We do have a downtime policy detailed in the Terms of Service but it's for unscheduled outages, not planned improvements to Second Life: From: someone 3.8 Service Credit for Unscheduled Downtime. You will be eligible to receive Service Credit toward recurring service fees (e.g. monthly account fees, 90 Day account fees, annual account fees, and land use fees) for Unscheduled Downtime. "Unscheduled Downtime" is an unplanned or unscheduled interruption in Service availability for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours during which you are unable to access the Service. Unscheduled Downtime is measured from the time the Service is 100% unreachable for a period of at least twenty- four (24) hours until Service is once again restored. The following are excluded from the calculation of Unscheduled Downtime: (i) scheduled maintenance downtime; (ii) problems outside of our Service (upstream providers, or your inbound connection) not affecting 100% loss to our Service; (iii) interruptions or failure of Service caused by you or your representatives (including inaccurate configuration, third-party software, abuse or over-utilization of resources, hacked servers, attacks, exploits, or server hardware failures); and (iv) causes beyond Linden's reasonable control and occurring without Linden's fault or negligence, including natural disasters, wars, terrorist acts, riots or other violent upheaval, governmental restrictions and actions, and performance failures of a third party outside Linden's control. The amount of any Service Credit will be based on the pro rata percentage of Unscheduled Downtime during your billing cycle (e.g., if there is 1 day of Unscheduled Downtime in a 30-day month for your monthly account, you will receive a Service Credit for 1/30th of your recurring service fees). Any Service Credit will be credited to you during your next billing cycle. I don't know what % of Resis are Europeans, but should I find out, I'll let you know.  |