Server Maintenance - (10/19/16)

David [Hi-Fi] Moore
David [Hi-Fi] Moore Posts: 2,872 Site Admin
edited October 2016 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Hello, everyone.

In order to bring you the 1.7.1 update we will be performing scheduled server maintenance tomorrow, October 19, 2016 at 2 PM UTC (10 AM EDT/7 AM PDT).

During the maintenance period the game will be unavailable. Downtime is expected to last approximately 4 hours.

Thank you.

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  • David [Hi-Fi] Moore
    David [Hi-Fi] Moore Posts: 2,872 Site Admin
    *Update (10/19/16):

    Hi everyone,

    Looks like the devs were able to shift things around so no events should be affected by the maintenance. Apologies for a bit of a false alarm in yesterday's message.

    ***

    (10/18/16)

    Unfortunately, due to the approval process (not completely under our control) we were unable to schedule maintenance for today (Tuesday). We realize the maintenance will affect the upcoming event and apologize for the inconvenience.

    Because everyone should be affected by the downtime equally, no compensation is currently planned. However, if an extreme discrepancy occurs between mobile formats (which we do not expect) compensation will be offered to affected players.

    Thank you.
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    There currently aren't any events scheduled. Do you mean the one that's normally scheduled on Wednesday mornings but currently isn't appearing (Nodes of Power), or is it that Emrakul will start immediately after maintenance?
  • nexus13
    nexus13 Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    You realize that with the way tiebreakers work any delay for one OS over the other is an extreme disadvantage. In recent events 5 minutes start time is the difference between top 5 or not.
  • Corn_Noodles
    Corn_Noodles Posts: 477 Mover and Shaker
    Will the event that is coming tomorrow be the new Emakrul's Corruption event, or a repeat of a previous event such as Nodes or Terrors?
  • Plastic
    Plastic Posts: 762 Critical Contributor
    Corn Noodles wrote:
    Will the event that is coming tomorrow be the new Emakrul's Corruption event, or a repeat of a previous event such as Nodes or Terrors?

    I'm assuming(hoping) there's no event tomorrow since we have nothing to join in advance like we usually do.

    Dropping events right after a patch/long maintenance never worked out so far.
  • Corn_Noodles
    Corn_Noodles Posts: 477 Mover and Shaker
    Plastic wrote:
    I'm assuming(hoping) there's no event tomorrow since we have nothing to join in advance like we usually do.

    Dropping events right after a patch/long maintenance never worked out so far.
    Doesn't mean they won't do it. Look at what was written.
    Hi-Fi wrote:
    We realize the maintenance will affect the upcoming event and apologize for the inconvenience.

    You tell me what's more likely, no event tomorrow or event tomorrow?

    Remember Avacyn's Madness? Most thought they wouldn't start the first one middle of the week and guess what? They did.
  • Plastic
    Plastic Posts: 762 Critical Contributor
    I honestly didn't read the second post. Poor execution IMO. Just cancel all events on a day of a patch. How hard can that be?
  • nexus13
    nexus13 Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    Devs,
    If you start an event tomorrow then save us both a bunch of headaches and don't have it start as soon as maintenance completes. Give everyone a window after maintenance to update, get some cards from the new set and prepare. Also that way you can run the event for a number of hours that is evenly divisible by 4 so everyone has an equal number of plays. Really if you give some notice and run it in a way that is reasonably balanced for people who aren't checking the app every five minutes it will help cut down on the noise and complaints you'll get by quite a bit.
  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    nexus13 wrote:
    Devs,
    If you start an event tomorrow then save us both a bunch of headaches and don't have it start as soon as maintenance completes. Give everyone a window after maintenance to update, get some cards from the new set and prepare. Also that way you can run the event for a number of hours that is evenly divisible by 4 so everyone has an equal number of plays. Really if you give some notice and run it in a way that is reasonably balanced for people who aren't checking the app every five minutes it will help cut down on the noise and complaints you'll get by quite a bit.

    They really should run Nodes tomorrow and save the EM event for the weekend. This way any significant card bugs can be worked out.
  • Hesturk
    Hesturk Posts: 73 Match Maker
    Since the events usually starts at 1600 UTC, and that nodes refresh every 4 hours, if the maintenance ends after 1600 UTC then start the event at 2000 UTC and should the maintenance ends after 2000 then delay the event for another 4 hours.
  • Morphis
    Morphis Posts: 975 Critical Contributor
    Plastic wrote:
    Corn Noodles wrote:
    Will the event that is coming tomorrow be the new Emakrul's Corruption event, or a repeat of a previous event such as Nodes or Terrors?

    I'm assuming(hoping) there's no event tomorrow since we have nothing to join in advance like we usually do.

    Dropping events right after a patch/long maintenance never worked out so far.
    Then why should they change it since it's not working so far? icon_lol.gif
  • Morphis
    Morphis Posts: 975 Critical Contributor
    bken1234 wrote:
    nexus13 wrote:
    Devs,
    If you start an event tomorrow then save us both a bunch of headaches and don't have it start as soon as maintenance completes. Give everyone a window after maintenance to update, get some cards from the new set and prepare. Also that way you can run the event for a number of hours that is evenly divisible by 4 so everyone has an equal number of plays. Really if you give some notice and run it in a way that is reasonably balanced for people who aren't checking the app every five minutes it will help cut down on the noise and complaints you'll get by quite a bit.

    They really should run Nodes tomorrow and save the EM event for the weekend. This way any significant card bugs can be worked out.
    This sentence may become true only if you swap "the weekend" with "the next year".
  • shteev
    shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
    You're all being so negative! I'm sure everything will be fine.
  • jimilinho_
    jimilinho_ Posts: 292
    shteev wrote:
    You're all being so negative! I'm sure everything will be fine.

    I love that the most positive post here is also the most sarcastic icon_lol.gificon_lol.gif
  • David [Hi-Fi] Moore
    David [Hi-Fi] Moore Posts: 2,872 Site Admin
    Hi everyone,

    Looks like the devs were able to shift things around so no events should be affected by the maintenance. Apologies for a bit of a false alarm in yesterday's message.
  • HomeRn
    HomeRn Posts: 330 Mover and Shaker
    "David wrote:
    Moore"]Hi everyone,

    Looks like the devs were able to shift things around so no events should be affected by the maintenance. Apologies for a bit of a false alarm in yesterday's message.
    We were saying... "WHAT EVENT?"

    Nice to see that the developers are at least beginning to catch on to our comments regarding events. Now about these nodes being fully charged at the onset of events...
  • Corn_Noodles
    Corn_Noodles Posts: 477 Mover and Shaker
    "David wrote:
    Moore"]Looks like the devs were able to shift things around so no events should be affected by the maintenance. Apologies for a bit of a false alarm in yesterday's message.
    I appreciate the communication, but I would like to point out that we have been getting events on Wednesdays so "no events should be affected by the maintenance" doesn't totally clear things up. Does your post mean that we will have no events until Saturday? Does it mean we'll have an event tomorrow that will end the following day in order to keep the Saturday scheduled event? If you'd post an event calendar, that would be very helpful.
  • MaxMagic420
    MaxMagic420 Posts: 126 Tile Toppler
    I second the event calendar. Players can plan ahead a little and maximize their playing time. All for that.
  • SellerSloan
    SellerSloan Posts: 4
    This is not cool that android already has over 30 minutes of gameplay with the update before IOS. I'm currently in 1st for QB, but the guy in 2nd could be closing on me because the updates are not rolled out at the same time.

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