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Unread 13 Mar 2009, 17:30   #1
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Reviewing Downtime Procedures
After another epic mishap in the journey that has been Planetarion so far this round maybe it's time to review the procedure in place.


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Scheduled downtimes

The community will be informed in advance via the portal, forums, topic of #planetarion and the MOTD. The game will be left as it is, no fleet recall, no donations, no rollbacks, etc. The game will restart at the same time it was taken down. In the event of extended downtime the round may be extended at the discretion of PATeam.
Can't see anything wrong here.

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Unscheduled downtimes

If only one tick or less is affected there will be no rollback.
So if the game goes down 10 minutes before the tick and comes back up ten minutes after there'd be no rollback? Very questionable at best.

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If the game is down for two ticks or more there will be a rollback to the last accessible tick, and there will be a full fleet recall. Ticks will restart 24 hours after the time of the last good backup to ensure all players in all timezones have a fair chance. The game will be inaccessible during the 24 hour period.
Rolling back seems fair here. Fleet recall is a horrific ad hoc deletion of the user created content that makes the game. Game inaccessible for 24 hours is okay with fleets recall, if no fleets recalled then access to cancel/send fleet missions would be required.

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Announcement of Unscheduled Downtime

In the event of any unscheduled downtime affecting two ticks or more a member of PATeam will make an announcement detailing when the game will restart and if possible explain the reasons for the downtime.

NetGamers Downtime

In the event of an extended period of downtime with the NetGamers service the PATeam may take the decision to halt ticks and close the game until NetGamers comes back online.
Rest of it seems fair.


I WOULD URGE YOU ALL TO DECIDE UPON A NEW DOWNTIME PROCEDURE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE GIVEN THE STAGGERINGLY HIGH LIKELIHOOD OF THE GAME DYING ON ITS ASS AGAIN WITHIN A FEW DAYS.

Also at this rate you're going to be serious damage to your paying playerbase for next round.
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