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[JC Daxion]

I was thinking about this the other day with Russ saying FW was being taken down for a bit and it makes sense to me. But i also wonder if it is worth taking down QP too. I'm not talking for a month or anything.. But a few days or so to stress test the game mode seams like it could be a good idea.

They could also use the time to do server maintenance and other things they don't normally have time in a typical down time.


Thoughts?

[FupDup]

Please no.

[r4zen]

SOLARIS WEEK

Let's do it. Why should we give players a choice as to what they want to drop? Let's make sure Solaris launch is 100%!

Or make it a gate - win 10 Solaris matches to regain access to QP!

[Racerxintegra2k]

Practice Test Server ?

[Magnus Santini]

I sort of assumed they had to take down FP to use those servers for solaris. If they are going to take down anything it should be that new Oceanic server, which I have put on a time out after a game where the average ping was 300. EDIT: for Maintenance, not forever, I mean.

Edited by Magnus Santini, 08 March 2018 - 12:41 PM.

[Brain Cancer]

JC Daxion, on 08 March 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

I was thinking about this the other day with Russ saying FW was being taken down for a bit and it makes sense to me. But i also wonder if it is worth taking down QP too. I'm not talking for a month or anything.. But a few days or so to stress test the game mode seams like it could be a good idea.

They could also use the time to do server maintenance and other things they don't normally have time in a typical down time.

Thoughts?

I have no desire to play Solaris regardless. Forcing me to only have Solaris as a play option will result in me not playing at all.

[Scyther]

Sure, go for it. Mostly because it will be funny when Solaris turns out to not work at all/endless queueing/some other catastrophic bug, and then when people try to QP or CW they find out those also don't work...

Edited by MadBadger, 08 March 2018 - 12:51 PM.

[K O Z A K]

r4zen, on 08 March 2018 - 12:29 PM, said:

Or make it a gate - win 10 Solaris matches to regain access to QP!

3/4 of the player base never to be seen again outside of solaris, lol

[r4zen]

Magnus Santini, on 08 March 2018 - 12:40 PM, said:

I sort of assumed they had to take down FP to use those servers for solaris.

This was my original theory as well, since all FP matches are locked to NA servers, if they did the same for Solaris then if their projections were huge for Solaris it would make sense. But instead they said the reason was so FP drops wouldn't take forever to find a match (implying that everyone would be trying Solaris), so now I don't know wtf to think. Either they're lying or there's an assumption that we're mostly stupid...which, okay, they might have us there.

[Y E O N N E]

Riot.

[Khobai]

pgi should shut down solaris to make sure solaris is successful

[Nema Nabojiv]

there is unannounced contest of dumb ideas or is it just spring?

[Peter2k]

Magnus Santini, on 08 March 2018 - 12:40 PM, said:

I sort of assumed they had to take down FP to use those servers for solaris

r4zen, on 08 March 2018 - 12:53 PM, said:

This was my original theory as well, since all FP matches are locked to NA servers

FP is tied to NA servers because PGI hasn't figured out how to roll the changes to the galaxy map from 3 Server regions into one unifying result

If we're talking Server capacity I don't think FP registers as at all

JC Daxion, on 08 March 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

FW was being taken down for a bit and it makes sense to me. ?

Why does it makes sense?

It's not like FP received all this non stop ever evolving development / dev resources and now all of a sudden FP isn't getting any love for 2 months or so?
Please

PGI thinks Solaris is going to be a hit and player numbers might dwindle even more in FP as a result

Or they might switch it off and claim afterwards that "numbers show players kept on playing and FP isn't needed any more"

Edited by Peter2k, 08 March 2018 - 02:24 PM.

[JC Daxion]

Nema Nabojiv, on 08 March 2018 - 01:30 PM, said:

there is unannounced contest of dumb ideas or is it just spring?

guess you never heard of a stress test? Funny as much as people complain just about everything on these forums, 2 days for a test is to much to bear..

[LordNothing]

i think they would have server issues. like the ones they had when scouting came out. all those low population lobbies, each one needing its own server instance, unable to allocate server errors aplenty. now were doing 1v1 and 2v2 lobbies, more strain on the servers.

[Bud Crue]

Khobai, on 08 March 2018 - 01:19 PM, said:

pgi should shut down solaris to make sure solaris is successful

This I could get behind.

[GBxGhostRyder]

JC Daxion, on 08 March 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

I was thinking about this the other day with Russ saying FW was being taken down for a bit and it makes sense to me. But i also wonder if it is worth taking down QP too. I'm not talking for a month or anything.. But a few days or so to stress test the game mode seams like it could be a good idea.

They could also use the time to do server maintenance and other things they don't normally have time in a typical down time.


Thoughts?

Dang and I just came back to play FP after like 4 years and I thought it was making a comeback? WTF? I think Some one at PGI has finally lost there minds?

As far as servers I told them not to buy those terrible Blade servers at TigerDirect and try to run the servers out of there offices with a masked IP.

[justcallme A S H]

JC Daxion, on 08 March 2018 - 12:11 PM, said:

They could also use the time to do server maintenance and other things they don't normally have time in a typical down time.

What maintenance exactly?

When it's on a hosted server/array (PGI don't actually own them...)... Short of the entire data centre crashing/being blown up there is no downtime needed for any maintenance as any parts that fail you just replace that gives you zero down time.

[Asym]

Maintenance? I'm not sure it is exactly "maintenance".

I suspect PGI is worried about numbers and having to report those numbers to their creditors to prove their business case....
So, in typical Canadian corporation fashion, they are hedging their bets to insure the sample size meets minimum numbers they may be compelled to report.

They can't take both FP and QP down at the same time: the threat of the player base abandoning MWO is not an imagined existencial risk and PGI must have Solaris up, running and being populated by the business case forcasts of the number of players.....

[Relishcakes]

I would rather they didnt, because then its easy for them to just say "we felt it was in the best interest of the game to just leave it as solaris." and unless they have a massive free for all mode...i wouldnt play it..i have no interest in small team conflict. 1v1 2v2 3v3 mean nothing to me.