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Players are reporting in the chatroom that Splitpaw has been down for approximately 30 minutes.
Day: December 8, 2010
Keeping in mind that dates and servers listed are ASSUMING nothing goes wrong, check out the preliminary list of server merges from Rothgar: We should be able to give more notice for the upcoming mergers. This first one was a special situation where we wanted to start it ASAP and just got the final green light from QA yesterday. If we had then given 48 hours notice and delayed the merger, we wouldn’t have been able to do it Thursday due to a conflicting network maintenance so the next opportunity would have been the following Tuesday, putting us a...
From Rothgar: The merge process is still truckin’ along on schedule with no major issues. I hope that we will be able to have the servers up earlier than planned but that will depend on whether or not we find any merge problems after all the data has been moved. We’ll update you again in a few hours.
Beyond the initial announcement that cross-server chat channels and in-game mail would be affected during the 24-hour long Server Merger process, players are reporting problems with all public chat channels, even server-specific ones like 1-9 and 80-90 (some would insist it’s a feature that these channels are rendered inaccessible), and Friends lists. We’ll try to find out if we can expect this behavior on all servers during each of these Server Merges.
We’re a bit late on this, but the last update from SOE Headquarters in San Diego on the Blackburrow -> Everfrost Merge was as follows from Rothgar: It’s 4am and the merge process is going smoothly so far with no surprises. A few steps are running faster than expected, so that’s good news. and: I haven’t been to sleep yet, but going to try to catch a cat nap in the next few hours so I can deal with any post-merge issues. We have a group of very dedicated people from different departments all working together to make sure...
Originally announced as a 2 hour update, then revised to an 8 hour update, Splitpaw and Runnyeye are finally coming up after 11 hours, 30 minutes of downtime. Apparently the TSA wanted to pat down McScroogle himself before allowing this export of Frostfell goodness to Europe. Rothgar‘s comments when queried about the long update: I’m not sure why the downtime estimate was 8h. It should be publishing the hotfix which shouldn’t take nearly that long. I just checked with our operations department and apparently there were some networking issues that caused the file transfers to take much longer than...
Latest update on the Server Merge from Amnerys: Good morning (or afternoon)! Hope everyone’s finding something to keep you busy during the downtime. 🙂 I also wanted to remind you that you can always log in to Test server if you start twitching too much. If all goes according to plan, you probably won’t be hearing too much from us today, so don’t worry if you don’t see red names for a while. Back-end teams are hard at work on the merge, and the dev team is still doing all the pre-expansion launch stuff, so they have a full...
The Blackburrow to Everfrost Server Merge has commenced. From the EQ2 Forums: The Blackburrow and Everfrost servers will be merging on Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Both servers will be offline for an estimated 24 hours, beginning at 12:00 am on Wednesday, December 8. The merged Everfrost server is scheduled to come back online around 12:00 am on Thursday, December 9. The following services will be affected for all EQII servers during this downtime and may experience interruptions: Cross-server chat In-game mail Friends Lists Please feel free to join in the discussion in the Blackburrow to Everfrost Server Merge Discussion...
Niami Denmother over at EQTraders has posted a new article about new Hua Mein furniture added with yesterday’s Hotfix. Today, one new furniture item was added to the hua’mein faction vendor in the Sundered Frontier (the hua mein artisan). In addition, however, 12 furniture items were added to the Stonebrunt Mountains pandas, the Disciples of Circling Destiny. Check out the screenshots and faction details on them here! images courtesy EQTraders