Server Maintenance / Public Test - Hyperpulse Transmitted
#61
Posted 27 August 2014 - 11:38 AM
#62
Posted 27 August 2014 - 11:57 AM
#64
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:15 PM
sad panda
Cimarb, on 27 August 2014 - 12:03 PM, said:
HA! awesome, I'll have 2^8 days banked then.
Edited by focuspark, 27 August 2014 - 12:15 PM.
#65
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:19 PM
Heffay, on 27 August 2014 - 07:08 AM, said:
You get a day of premium time if you log into the test server. So if you try to play on the one day they aren't available, you get that day back. If you weren't going to play that day anyway, you're not really losing a day of premium time.
Thanks for the clarification Heffay. If I would have read the whole post instead of skimmed it, they explain it at the bottom.
#66
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:40 PM
Any word on if they are going to infuse C-bills, MC and GXP like they did on the last public test?
Without it, it is going to be very hard to take advantage of this time to actually test anything. I only have about 950 MC and 37 million C-bills and maybe 1000 GXP right now. That will only buy me about 2 clan mechs which I will have to grind XP for to even unlock basics, let alone test mastery.
Anyway, if you don't know, I hope you can at least pass the word on that it would be really nice if PGI did this for us.
Thanks.
#67
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:43 PM
#68
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:59 PM
focuspark, on 27 August 2014 - 12:15 PM, said:
Not if you got the seven days from the last challenge. That started all banked premium time as soon as you got it.
Gremlich Johns, on 27 August 2014 - 12:43 PM, said:
No. You will get 24-hours of PT to reimburse the time that ticks down during the maintenance.
#69
Posted 27 August 2014 - 01:20 PM
Cimarb, on 27 August 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:
It did not start the banked premium time for me. I still have 90 days that I can activate and the current remaining time is the time I got from the challenge minus the time of that free gift already spend.
#70
Posted 27 August 2014 - 01:50 PM
#71
Posted 27 August 2014 - 01:56 PM
Training Instructor, on 27 August 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:
10am Pacific time still means on Friday evening there will be European players, many of whom have spent money on this game, who won't be able to log in. And that's only if you're transfer goes perfect. Maybe wake up early for once and start your transfer at 5 or 6am PST, to make sure you don't leave paying European customers blacked out of the game during prime time.
Given the history of extended patches/maintenance, the fact that you don't bother to account for how you might potentially be locking out a not insignificant portion of your player base on a Friday night is a bit frightening from a customer service perspective. It means you're frightfully unaware, or that you know you'll probably be hosing paying customers and you simply don't care.
We help pay your generous salaries, so for once try waking up early to do actions that might take longer than normal. Or is that against the labor laws in Vancouver?
Dude, they have to do their work when they have people available to do it. Given it's a 24 hour period, someone's going to get hit with the prime time night stick.
Beyond that, there's significantly fewer players outside of NA, so they need to deal with a time when that doesn't impact them as much.
Either way, the world doesn't revolve around EU players. In this case, it revolves around the company that's doing the work, that happens to be in NA.
focuspark, on 27 August 2014 - 12:15 PM, said:
It won't be banked. Players with PT running will get a day added on (Likely redeemed when they log in).
Cimarb, on 27 August 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:
It doesn't start all banked time, just time you just earned.
#72
Posted 27 August 2014 - 02:28 PM
Yup Finally saw it at the bottom of the initial post.
Edited by Bmetranger, 27 August 2014 - 02:39 PM.
#73
Posted 27 August 2014 - 02:33 PM
Bmetranger, on 27 August 2014 - 02:28 PM, said:
It is in the announcement post itself. You can save time if like and read the last paragraph, quoted below for your convenience.
"We recognize that this is an unusually long maintenance window. As such, we will also be providing all players with active premium time during the maintenance/test an additional 24 hours on their live account after the maintenance has completed."
How much more official do you need it to be?
#74
Posted 27 August 2014 - 03:14 PM
Kudos PGI/IGP, well played.
#75
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:16 PM
Bregor Edain, on 27 August 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:
It did not start the banked premium time for me. I still have 90 days that I can activate and the current remaining time is the time I got from the challenge minus the time of that free gift already spend.
Interesting. I saw numerous reports of it starting banked time, which means the sources were full of crap and just trying to get something out of it (as usual, lol)
#76
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:26 PM
Edited by Mystere, 27 August 2014 - 04:27 PM.
#77
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:31 PM
Test server it is I guess
Training Instructor, on 27 August 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:
10am Pacific time still means on Friday evening there will be European players, many of whom have spent money on this game, who won't be able to log in. And that's only if you're transfer goes perfect. Maybe wake up early for once and start your transfer at 5 or 6am PST, to make sure you don't leave paying European customers blacked out of the game during prime time.
Given the history of extended patches/maintenance, the fact that you don't bother to account for how you might potentially be locking out a not insignificant portion of your player base on a Friday night is a bit frightening from a customer service perspective. It means you're frightfully unaware, or that you know you'll probably be hosing paying customers and you simply don't care.
We help pay your generous salaries, so for once try waking up early to do actions that might take longer than normal. Or is that against the labor laws in Vancouver?
edit: I tried to be funny but.. I just can't. He's over 9000 people.
I've seen a lot of posts on these forums. You may have just taken first prize.
Edited by cSand, 27 August 2014 - 04:34 PM.
#78
Posted 27 August 2014 - 04:57 PM
#79
Posted 27 August 2014 - 06:00 PM
Training Instructor, on 27 August 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:
10am Pacific time still means on Friday evening there will be European players, many of whom have spent money on this game, who won't be able to log in. And that's only if you're transfer goes perfect. Maybe wake up early for once and start your transfer at 5 or 6am PST, to make sure you don't leave paying European customers blacked out of the game during prime time.
Given the history of extended patches/maintenance, the fact that you don't bother to account for how you might potentially be locking out a not insignificant portion of your player base on a Friday night is a bit frightening from a customer service perspective. It means you're frightfully unaware, or that you know you'll probably be hosing paying customers and you simply don't care.
We help pay your generous salaries, so for once try waking up early to do actions that might take longer than normal. Or is that against the labor laws in Vancouver?
It's a global game. It's going to block someone out somewhere and unfortunately for you it would seem this is the best time for them. I'm sure it's not intentional.
#80
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:17 PM
Friday / Saturday are dead days anyways for my unit because people like.... go out an do stuff on those days....
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