Downtime

[Rogean]

Around 8 AM Eastern, All EQEmulator and Project 1999 services (Forums, Loginserver, IRC, Game servers) Will be coming down for maintenance. This is not expected to last longer than 1 hour.

[phacemeltar]

TEAMS IS COMING! haha jk.. no really tho

[Sirken]

Rogean is balls deep in NYC traffic, start of downtime will be delayed, still estimated 60 min downtime

[harnold]

this is fucking BULL SHIT

[Swifty]

this is fucking BULL SHIT

Yes, i do not care for this one bit.

[Rhambuk]

Rogean is balls deep in NYC traffic, start of downtime will be delayed, still estimated 60 min downtime

Devestating! snowed in and no p99,

safe travels ro its a mess out there!

were already at 18inches in central maine what a blizz

[Mezzmur]

Rogean is balls deep in NYC traffic, start of downtime will be delayed, still estimated 60 min downtime

This makes me think of Nuts in Butts.

[Callon]

Rogean if you still in NYC later we can get balls deep in some strippers...Just saying.

Thanks for everything ya do! Keep on trucking homie

[Rogean]

Game servers won't be back for another hour or two. A bunch of settings got reset on one of the servers that I need to redo.

[Lanzellot]

Game servers won't be back for another hour or two. A bunch of settings got reset on one of the servers that I need to redo.

that is so classic :p

thx big man

[Maneras]

Can you guys just not post an estimated downtime because it is always wrong. Just tell us to forget playing for the next 12 hours so that we won't be disappointed next time.

[dax]

but but but ah damn nm gl

[Dragonsblood1987]

Dat p99 hour.




Forums are up now, so the servers should be coming soon. praz

[Lanzellot]

maneras this is classic or told you Verant anything how long they need.i dont remember any downtime by verant,run smooth ,they allways needet more time .
greets

[dax]

Can you guys just not post an estimated downtime because it is always wrong. Just tell us to forget playing for the next 12 hours so that we won't be disappointed next time.

Worst idea ever in the history of the planet.......

[Daldaen]

Enjoy your free gaming everyone.

[Otur]

https://31.media.tumblr.com/e5f741bcfdb4cff22d4aea14df81d549/tumblr_inline_n1uiriUpot1qjjzql.gif

[Maneras]

maneras this is classic or told you Verant anything how long they need.i dont remember any downtime by verant,run smooth ,they allways needet more time .
greets

Ummmm....I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but I'd rather just hear there is a 8 hour downtime and it being 1 hour only versus the other way around.

[kylok]

maneras this is classic or told you Verant anything how long they need.i dont remember any downtime by verant,run smooth ,they allways needet more time .
greets

[mreynert]

Ummmm....I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but I'd rather just hear there is a 8 hour downtime and it being 1 hour only versus the other way around.

I'll attempt to translate what Lanz said:

Maneras this is classic. Verant told you how long they need but I don't remember any downtime by Verant that was smooth, they always needed more time.

[chugaboochu]

What type of servers are the game servers?

[Lanzellot]

is my english really so shitty?:confused:
ok future and past forms i think are my problem but there is more .
what exact make i wrong,lol and my GF study english ogod,english have to many words thats is:)

[Maneras]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Derubael
While constructive criticism will always be welcomed, speaking poorly about the staff or the server from this point forward will get your forum account and possibly your in-game account banned, suspended or in-game chat privileges revoked.This includes, but is not limited to, telling people not to play here, telling people the server is bad, criticizing staff decisions or staff themselves, and 'talking shit' about the box in general.
Bant!

Good thing I'm giving constructive criticism or I may have gotten my account banned. Thanks for giving me a heads up!

[Maneras]

I'll attempt to translate what Lanz said:

Maneras this is classic. Verant told you how long they need but I don't remember any downtime by Verant that was smooth, they always needed more time.

Thanks for the translation, now it makes sense! This is true and it was worse then than this is now. As I didn't have access to internet in my barracks in Korea so I had to go to the PC bar and spend hours waiting and paying per hour of course. Of course in those day they would take a whole day or more sometimes. Somehow our accounts never got credited with the lost game time due to their incompetence. Either way this is a step up, so I'm not angry. I just would rather be told the worst and be pleasantly surprised it is up earlier. This way I can not sit here pressing the refresh button lol. Anyway back to CISSP until the servers come up!

[jonesy215]

I will wait patiently and check frequently. Hopefully I can be one of the first on so I can kill seafurries before the island gets too crowded.

[Dragonsblood1987]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Derubael
While constructive criticism will always be welcomed, speaking poorly about the staff or the server from this point forward will get your forum account and possibly your in-game account banned, suspended or in-game chat privileges revoked.This includes, but is not limited to, telling people not to play here, telling people the server is bad, criticizing staff decisions or staff themselves, and 'talking shit' about the box in general.
Bant!

Good thing I'm giving constructive criticism or I may have gotten my account banned. Thanks for giving me a heads up!

Imagine criticizing anyone else trying to help you..

"you fucking idiot, whats taking so long, you said it was an hour long procedure! jesus christ! how did you fucking make it through med school??"


"whoops, nicked and artery. do you have an advanced directive?"

[Maneras]

Imagine criticizing anyone else trying to help you..

"you fucking idiot, whats taking so long, you said it was an hour long procedure! jesus christ! how did you fucking make it through med school??"


"whoops, nicked and artery. do you have an advanced directive?"

Well I'm glad I didn't personally attack anyone because that would be douchey.

[Awwalike]

long live rogean for ten thousand years

[Koota]

Can you guys just not post an estimated downtime because it is always wrong. Just tell us to forget playing for the next 12 hours so that we won't be disappointed next time.

Maximum jimmies rustled

[Quineloe]

maneras this is classic or told you Verant anything how long they need.i dont remember any downtime by verant,run smooth ,they allways needet more time .
greets

Back then, servers were always up and there was almost no downtime besides patch day, and you could pretty much always play late on patch day again.

[Dragonsblood1987]

Well I'm glad I didn't personally attack anyone because that would be douchey.

Indeed.

[cries4hardcore]

I move to nyc from los angeles so I never had to sit in traffic again... try the subway man, its great.

[jonesy215]

Thank you very much p1999 staff for all your hard work. I know things don't always go the way they are planned. I just want to commend you all for all your hard work and look forward to when the servers are back up.

[cries4hardcore]

Thank you very much p1999 staff for all your hard work. I know things don't always go the way they are planned. I just want to commend you all for all your hard work and look forward to when the servers are back up.

kiss ass... :) but i agree keep up the good work.

[shwally]

Back then, servers were always up and there was almost no downtime besides patch day, and you could pretty much always play late on patch day again.

I think you might have played a different game. Patch days were always horrible and you could pretty much count on them not meeting the predicted downtime.

[HawkMasterson1999]

i remember a patch every 2 weeks or so in classic along with 12 hour downtimes. Can't complain too much about the state of things here especially when we play for free. Though, I will have to agree I'd rather be told an overestimated downtime than an underestimated downtime. We only complain because we love the server so much and can't stand to be away from it. Thank you to all the devs~

[cries4hardcore]

verant downtime sucked, anyone remember downloading the update files on a 56k or worse modem? jesus that took another day. Whoever said they would spend time in the tutorial just to get a bit of their fix i laughed out loud to that... totally relate, did the same thing.

[rokjaw]

In the classic era I played on Rallos Zek server.

NeverQuest, for us, was a daily roll of the dice. At any time we tried to log on the server might be down. No warning, no expedience on the part of admin.

We who played there, referred to it as the Test Server...this was actually quite accurate, since many patches were applied to us first. This also meant that in times the server *was* up, things were broken left and right. RZ was the only pvp server at the time and none of us wanted to play anywhere else, so the comparison is complete...

The time I spent playing on RZ in the early days makes extended p99 downtime look like a 10-minute reboot.

Rogean and co. do their best, love this game and their peeps and it's more than adequate for me. Free or not.

...2cp

[nagmarr]

Yeah let's complain about needed downtime at the one place we get to play eq classic for free!

No.


Way better than the old days. Servers were always down for 3-12 hours. It was years before they even got it down to just every week or two. It used to be all the time. - Remember the emergency maintenance?

Just stop.

Go play your RL char, and poop in a toilet instead of a sock for once. :)

[Frug]

I think you might have played a different game. Patch days were always horrible and you could pretty much count on them not meeting the predicted downtime.

+1

I wonder what is this magical game he remembers, because it sure wasn't Kunark era EQ!

[shwally]

verant downtime sucked, anyone remember downloading the update files on a 56k or worse modem? jesus that took another day. Whoever said they would spend time in the tutorial just to get a bit of their fix i laughed out loud to that... totally relate, did the same thing.

I remember this very well, it pissed me off so bad that I took my tower to the local computer store to download the updates. The first time I when I expected to pay a huge fee to download it, but I found out everyone that worked there played EQ too and on the same server. That's about the time I got really into EQ since I actually knew some RL people who played.

[Ulwyn]

I hope the servers come back up before you degenerates start looking for one anthers' addresses

[schnickusaurus]

As a new player (ie with some first impressions) I would say staff could probably improve this server downtime info quite easily without much effort. There r 2 things:

- inform what the patch will improve during or before patch (details i mean) so that ppl can read about them during patch (appologize if this is actually already done and i missed it)
- post frequent updates to the patch message, say every 3d hour. If you post updates every hour people would probably think "omg how can they give such good service without getting salary?! im lucky!" :D

PS. WTB drixy queen wings, Lady Chromoire never spawns :S even rolling ranger to track her arse! :D paying 1 copper ;P

[cries4hardcore]

I get that there can be improvements. there always can be. But these guys do great work that no one pays for. Really nothing to complain about.

[dax]

Dude Rogean give us like 50% exp boost for the rest of the day only :) Me love you long time..

[schnickusaurus]

However, I am talking about improvements that dont really require much effort. Such improvements i believe are worth taking into account by the staff. Its a win win situation both for staff and "customers" ;)

[odiecat99]

penis?

[hastehands]

I get that there can be improvements. there always can be. But these guys do great work that no one pays for. Really nothing to complain about.

this.

[Scrubosaur]

I have no complaints about the down time what-so-ever. Since I have started playing this is only the second down time that I have encountered as opposed to FFXIV, Eq Live, and numerous other games that have long periods of down time every week. If I was running shit I would keep the servers offline for every negative/bitchy remark in this thread. But I am a vindictive bastard.

[Quineloe]

verant downtime sucked, anyone remember downloading the update files on a 56k or worse modem? jesus that took another day. Whoever said they would spend time in the tutorial just to get a bit of their fix i laughed out loud to that... totally relate, did the same thing.

Was it really Verants fault you were 10 years behind on tech?

[cries4hardcore]

i was ten years behind on tech? im talking about back in 99 2000

[Quineloe]

I had 768kbit ADSL then.

[agemyth]

Thanks for P1999. Take your time.

[cries4hardcore]

you had dsl in 99? power to you. I didnt get until early 2000, then again i was living with my parents and that upgrade took some serious convincing. Also, blaming verant? More like reminiscing.

[odiecat99]

i was rocking 56k also..

sorry i was 14 fucking years old you fucking geezer

[Sirelk]

Dial-up is so mid 90's. I had a cable modem for $70 a month in 98.

[Akain]

I'm thinking that this really adds to the feeling of being true verrant now.
It is good though; we do need to eat and shower sometime.

[Elendae]

I haven't eaten since I reinstalled p99.



Just a few more page refreshes, than I'll go do that.

(PS: Donate)

[hastehands]

All I know is that whenever my mom got a call and I got booted off AOL, or whenever the servers went down, I was playing the tutorial. THAT is how awesome this game was (is again thanks to p99). In fact, I think I am going to boot up that old tutorial now.

[sonicjoose]

Time for me to get out

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[cries4hardcore]

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-03/enhanced/webdr04/13/8/anigif_enhanced-31902-1394713520-7.gif

thats the funniest gif i have ever fukn seen

[chief]

velious is being released, praise b rogean

[Sickle]

ITS UP, GOGOGO

[Faerie]

I hope red server is back on legends list lol.

[dbouya]

I'm going to say I find p99 to be much more stable than verant ever was.... day1 release the game wasn't even playable at all by like anyone for like a month.

[sonicjoose]

I went outside and turned into this

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-03/enhanced/webdr07/13/8/anigif_enhanced-26914-1394714349-4.gif

[Faerie]

I hope red server is back on legends list lol.

Jeez, it's not :(

What's up with this, Rogean? The neighbors are starting to talk.

[Quineloe]

only 212 players online so far.

[odiecat99]

Jeez, it's not :(

What's up with this, Rogean? The neighbors are starting to talk.

Because its turrrrrrible maybe

[Letsgo]

Anyone else getting the message

"The server is currently unavailable. Please check the Everquest webpage for current server status and try again later."

I just assume it's because everyone iss trying to log in at once?

[Quineloe]

Anyone else getting the message

"The server is currently unavailable. Please check the Everquest webpage for current server status and try again later."

I just assume it's because everyone iss trying to log in at once?

400 people online now, so basically everyone is already logged in.

[Lyrith]

thats the funniest gif i have ever fukn seen

Agreed

[fishingme]

I'm going to say I find p99 to be much more stable than verant ever was.... day1 release the game wasn't even playable at all by like anyone for like a month.

I don't want to sound rude or anything, but you do realize that computer hardware has improved vastly since 1999 right? Along with, the devs that originally did everquest built the game from scratch.

[Frug]

400 people online now, so basically everyone is already logged in.

I just got the message too when I chose the "quick connect" option, but the "Play Everquest" option worked.

[Clark]

Appreciated the heads up on this btw thanks.