Improve server reset announcement and scheduling ...

[zenga]

Hi Jeff,

In this thread you have stated that the level cap is there because it's important for you to guage how far beyond their level players will be able to kill creatures.

A few weeks ago I took a hit on the lvl 66 elite boss from the desert plats. This was a solo fight that took a little bit more than 90 minutes. As my stats improved since that day, I plan on hitting other/higher bosses. Some brief tests showed me it should be doable to survive, hitting them is something else. Anyhow it will probably be very long fights. I will go for it, but ...

... imagine I have a lvl 69 boss down half way after 40 minutes fighting and I see your fancy 'server will be reloaded shortly' message. Which can appear any time of the day

So my suggestion cq question: can't server reloads (due to updates) be announced 1-2 hours in advance? Or is there no way to improve things with giving a daily timeframe wherein reloads might happen? For example "reloads happen usually between 13h00 and 18h00 CET, so don't start any long fights between those hours'.

So long
Z

sometimes jeff finds a bug he needs to remove right away i would assume this would be an acceptable time to interrupt one of zenga's fights? :P

Zenga has nipples and they are sexy to the point of death....

On another note slightly more serious. I doubt it will happen if there is a bug that is found and needs to quickly be fixed. I don't see him doing this just for one person, but it would suck hard that's for sure.

For updates that Jeff knows when he will get them done it would be a nice touch if there are certain set times he will do them.

[zenga]

a/ I'm not talking about urgent bugs, it's totally valid to fix those asap. But new gems for example are not urgent tmho.
b/ You make it look like I'm the only one involved, but there are more players who have complained about the short notice resets. Take average boss fight for any level, and 1-2 minutes ain't enough to finish those.

Besides, it where jeff his own words that he wanted to see how far we could go ...

[Valiumandritalin]

I suggest bagels, coffee and a "coffin nail".

i was agreeing with u zenga :P

Get the lvl58 epic arms +2% to hit!! <-- should cut down those boss fights and black mob fights quite nicely