Emergency Maintenance - 4 - 26 - 2012

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All game servers will be down for emergency maintenance on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 1pm PDT / 3pm CDT / 4pm EDT / 8pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Emergency+Maintenanc e&iso=20120426T13&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 1 hour.

With this maintenance:


The geodata issue is fixed. (This issue involved characters getting stuck or blocked by invisible obstacles while moving across terrain, especially when close by to a visible obstacle.)
Let's hope so \0/
All game servers will be down for emergency maintenance on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 1pm PDT / 3pm CDT / 4pm EDT / 8pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Emergency+Maintenanc e&iso=20120426T13&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 1 hour.

With this maintenance:


The geodata issue is fixed. (This issue involved characters getting stuck or blocked by invisible obstacles while moving across terrain, especially when close by to a visible obstacle.)



May I make a suggestion that you give an hour advance notice in the game about when a server is being brought down?

Some of us play in important parts of the game such as Kartia or doing some raids. 30 minutes doesn't seem enough time to finish whatever we were doing before we could safely log out.
Great !

Should I expect a patch from the NCSoft launcher ? I doubt so since it's a server issue but who knows
Shame, I will miss moving across open ground and stopped by unseen forces. :D

This patch is appreciated.
kartia is done in less than 30 min..

but i agree there should be a longer warning
Great !

Should I expect a patch from the NCSoft launcher ? I doubt so since it's a server issue but who knows
The change is server-side so you will not need to do any additional updating in the Launcher.
This will work fine like old potential fix or is only a simple test?

If this fix remove geobugs, this fix is not simple fix! Rename it to a potential fix too!
May I make a suggestion that you give an hour advance notice in the game about when a server is being brought down?

Some of us play in important parts of the game such as Kartia or doing some raids. 30 minutes doesn't seem enough time to finish whatever we were doing before we could safely log out.


Agree with the hour warning, but if you are in Kartia more than 30 minutes, something is very wrong.

Went in with a group to Kartia, as SOON as we got ported through the instance, server announcement came up. *Aw crap, rite?*

Nevertheless, everyone put their forces up, Level 3 Solidarity, and hit through Stages 1-7 as fast as possible, no talking to each other. *less talk, more DD*. 2nd room, IMMEDIATELY find the dimensional watcher. Kill him, Othell rogue and Yul archer Immediately find your half kills and land them.. Wynn summoner land all marks you have, if 4 land, use mark retriever. Just like that, Dimensional watcher is down before some DD's can even make it to the boss. Third room opens, repeat process of first room, Kill boss.

At the end, we had enough time to port back to Aden and slap each other on the back for what a good time we had, Even drop some stuff off in warehouse and rebuff.
Cool, but i'm still gonna need to buy another mouse =)

Thx geodata for that hehe. Wish it works, fingers crossed.
With this maintenance:


The geodata issue is fixed. (This issue involved characters getting stuck or blocked by invisible obstacles while moving across terrain, especially when close by to a visible obstacle.)


ok this fix is worth it! :) I hate when you take down the servers for silly little bugs and especially store items when those could wait til normal maintenance :p hope geo fix works and doesn't mess up other things lol :o
Come on realy i was inside Fortuna....Yuo just spamd server going down for 1h now jsut because off you i got save'd and i only done 3 boss.... i wana my CD for fortuna Take'd off
omg! servr not up yet !! !!
read the first sentence of your signature to cover for the proper reply here :D
For this fix it's worth it. Died a few times thanks to those geobugs screwing up a kite.
its a big chance it wont do anything but screw up more ^^
Sace, you need to announce those emergency maintanances 1 hour in advance. Instances like Istina and Fortuna usually take 40 minutes to finish. To some parties up to 1 hour. Otherwise you make ppl angry.

Thanks!
how much longer????
1h 27min and counting, there goes the octavis raid we was going to do
1h 27min and counting, there goes the octavis raid we was going to do

stop crying msa! server is up!
Sace, you need to announce those emergency maintanances 1 hour in advance. Instances like Istina and Fortuna usually take 40 minutes to finish. To some parties up to 1 hour. Otherwise you make ppl angry.

Thanks!
Funny thing is that I've read the announcement 1:20 h before the actual maintenance.
The only smart thing would have been writing the in-game announcement around the same time to avoid issues.
No offense and I'm not looking to troll/complain, qq or whatever ppl like to say... was it really an emergency?

As is, the login server malfunctioned for a good 3 hours yesterday during peak periods of event, now an unneccessary update that could wait until wednesday?

Do you really need to do an update during event week that already had mishaps where players couldn't log on for "rock tripping" and "lag looping"?

Really?

Just so the trolls know, I do pay for things to support server and yes paying for stuff benefits the player but it does also pay NCSoft employees and run the server, everyone should try to spend something in game to keep it running or there's no way free2play would work.

Free2play works on the basis of making a choice of WHAT you pay, not just playing for free. It has to come out of SOMEBODY's pocket. :)
Funny thing is that I've read the announcement 1:20 h before the actual maintenance.
The only smart thing would have been writing the in-game announcement around the same time to avoid issues.
So you recommend me to refresh forums every 5-15 minutes every time Im playing?
I guess not. Everyone is talking about ingame announcement. 80% of the servers never visited forums.
No offense and I'm not looking to troll/complain, qq or whatever ppl like to say... was it really an emergency?

As is, the login server malfunctioned for a good 3 hours yesterday during peak periods of event, now an unneccessary update that could wait until wednesday?

Do you really need to do an update during event week that already had mishaps where players couldn't log on for "rock tripping" and "lag looping"?

Really?
Do you realize we have had more than a week of corners blocking your character, blades of grass blocking your character, dust on the floor blocking your character, doorways blocking your character?
And that sometimes we were forced to restart to be able to move again, to not SoE in town?
And that you could be stuck forever between 2 columns?

And you call it not an emergency?
So you recommend me to refresh forums every 5-15 minutes every time Im playing?
I guess not. Everyone is talking about ingame announcement. 80% of the servers never visited forums.
Okay, I guess I've not expressed myself properly.
I was merely reinstating your point. I was saying that the funny thing is that the forum announcement came waaaay before the in-game announcement, and that NC could have published the in-game announcement at the same time as the forum announcement to avoid issues for the players, and repeat it every half an hour.
This issue is annoying as effin hell and it's been ongoing for too long..YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IT WAS AN EMERGENCY!!!
This issue is annoying as effin hell and it's been ongoing for too long..YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IT WAS AN EMERGENCY!!!
And the geodata in Teredor instance was annoying enough without the screw up, guess what had become after that.
Yes.
By the way, it solved the "My teleport" problem too. I was able to add locations and use scrolls to tp to locations
So you recommend me to refresh forums every 5-15 minutes every time Im playing?
I guess not. Everyone is talking about ingame announcement. 80% of the servers never visited forums.

Considering that you can't even read her message properly I'm not sure that an in-game message would help you all that much.
Thanks... we needed this fix!
WTF u forgot to put Dual Swords in s80 weapon pack, come on guys!!!:(
Characters do not have auto pathing that I know. Pets and mobs do, but not characters. You can run yourself right into a wall. Or your wolf can run away when you tell it to attack a mob that it cannot reach.
Okay, I guess I've not expressed myself properly.
I was merely reinstating your point. I was saying that the funny thing is that the forum announcement came waaaay before the in-game announcement, and that NC could have published the in-game announcement at the same time as the forum announcement to avoid issues for the players, and repeat it every half an hour.

sorry

Considering that you can't even read her message properly I'm not sure that an in-game message would help you all that much.
Elrohir:

http://i.qkme.me/357i9w.jpg
Characters do not have auto pathing that I know. Pets and mobs do, but not characters. You can run yourself right into a wall.
They didnt had auto pathing when you request to use skills on a target, but on moving they always had, by disabling the pathing the chars get stuck everywhere coz for example if u pass through a hill and you click other side, geodata see it as if you are trying to move directly through the ground to the point of reach so it stuck.
like this!
http://uploadpic.org/storage/2011/6KyLPfmkQzS8VwjSITH0gyq5u.jpg
WTF u forgot to put Dual Swords in s80 weapon pack, come on guys!!!:(

Already been posted. However, if you petition for them, you'll eventually get +0 S grade (not S80 grade) duals. Good luck!
Already been posted. However, if you petition for them, you'll eventually get +0 S grade (not S80 grade) duals. Good luck!

wtf so one can come and pvp me with a s80 weapon while i have to fightback with a 76 weapon? tsk... ridiculous
the Issue isnt solved!, the issue is that the auto pathnodes creation is disabled, this image describe it!

We've been on the servers moving around and it appears the geodata issue has been fixed. If you're seeing an issue suggesting it isn't, please send a support ticket (https://lineage2.custhelp.com/app/ask/) with the /loc coordinates of an example spot.
Yes it was an emergency, did you not see the complaints?
Sace, you need to announce those emergency maintanances 1 hour in advance. Instances like Istina and Fortuna usually take 40 minutes to finish. To some parties up to 1 hour. Otherwise you make ppl angry.

Thanks!

Istina is not a 40minute to 1 hour raid, you are clearly doing something wrong
Istina is not a 40minute to 1 hour raid, you are clearly doing something wrong
Maybe its because we have 3 DDs (PvP setup), and two of them are only 92 and 93?

Comments on our killing speed without knowing what setup and levels we ave is "cleraly something wrong".

And it was "up to 1 hour for some parties".
was it really an emergency?
Yes it was.
Anyone else notice the difference in 85 kartia?

Tanks holds aggro better and Zellaka fears less.

Took my saved prisoners about 2 mins to kill it.

I did heal them a bit though, is that still allowed?

PS. Might have buffed them too, someone gonna smack me now?
servers is allready on?
2 teredor runs and 1 solo kartia says ya.
w00t, go geodata :cool:
Very Good !! But did you oversee ?!? Because of your emergency to the characters who were online before maintenance , now at gmt +2 the instances now have +2 h bonus , SOA cannot be completed and who knows...
Fix Shilen server please.
Daily quest renew at 10:30AM (GMT +1)

It is no more a GMT +0 Server.
The fix work fine.
Thanks laby to advice about my teleport fix!

Hey sace! This is potential fix!
Rename the "fix" (like little fix, irrelevant fix, aden picture fix, npc chat fix): "potential fix - 168hp!"

This is a example of potential fix (01-23-2012):
http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=230892
Fix Shilen server please.
Daily quest renew at 10:30AM (GMT +1)

It is no more a GMT +0 Server.

After mainenence time zone of Shilen changed ...
hope it will go back to gmt+0
After mainenence time zone of Shilen changed ...
hope it will go back to gmt+0
The Magmeld and Shilen server timezones got switched; this is a known issue and we'll fix it as soon as possible. We'll also post reminders about this issue to Magmeld, so they're informed of it in preparation for their Territory Wars and Castle Sieges this weekend.
All game servers will be down for emergency maintenance on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 1pm PDT / 3pm CDT / 4pm EDT / 8pm UTC/GMT (see other time zones (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lineage+II+Emergency+Maintenanc e&iso=20120426T13&p1=234)). Estimated downtime is approximately 1 hour.

With this maintenance:


The geodata issue is fixed. (This issue involved characters getting stuck or blocked by invisible obstacles while moving across terrain, especially when close by to a visible obstacle.)



Hello ,
It seems that after this emergency maintenance one bug is fixed but more bugs pop up . The minus 2 hours login announcement seems not to be valid for TW (on Magmeld server ) and another problem is that I exit from almost 1 hour Freya instance and is "" still in use"" so players from that instance cant go any other instance becoze of this.
Any ideea what is really happening ?
I can confirm that @ Magmeld the TW did not started 2h earlier as it was announced.

Ninja fix or? :D
When you guys fix the time zones can you please bring them back to the way they where before?
Magmeld was GMT -2 until 3 weeks ago but now its GMT-3 reason of this being that Europe added 1 more hour cause of the:

"Like most states in Europe, Summer (Daylight-Saving) Time is observed in CET: Central European Time, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour; 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (http://wwp.GreenwichMeanTime.com) (GMT+2 (http://wwp.gmt2.net/)).
After the Summer months the time in CET: Central European Time is shifted back by 1 hour to Central European Time (http://wwp.central-european-time.com) (CET) or (GMT+1 (http://wwp.gmt1.com/)) "



Any way that could happen until Europe shifts back by 1 hour?